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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 03:52 PM) I almost expect them to go into Minnesota and sweep them because that's the type of s*** they do. Sweeping the Twins or taking 2/3 is something they will never do.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) Perhaps all those proposed moves (specifically Williams and Guillen) are inevitable at the end of this season, but I'd rather not take a chance. If their future is tied to the success of this current team, I am rooting for failure. Unlike 2007 when I was rooting for failure for the opportunity to draft higher, our current failures this year will do more for shaping our future than any potential 1st round bust. I'd rather take the chance of an abysmal second half leading to the firing of Williams and Guillen than the chance this team pulls together a miracle, makes the playoffs, and wins the World Series. Don't need anything, even our own success (however slim) prolonging the careers of those two with this organization. People assume winning a division in professional sports is some type of job security. I think only a World Series or the championship series will save them. If they win this division it will be because they didn't win it, just some other team lost it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 02:13 PM) If ARod came out for a season and hit .160 while seemingly being completely healthy, and Granderson fell apart and hit .200 with no power and was dogging it constantly on the field...the Yankees would be changing coaching staff members pretty quick. No they wouldn't. No one will ever hit .160 on the Yankees. There's 1000s of reasons for that. One is they are surrounded by talent that will make them perform better. They are just as patient as any other organization when it comes to coaches. Their fan base surely thought that with Torre and now Girardi. Failure has a different meanig in New York. They have a great cash flow so a bad contract doesn't hurt them. It's rare for them to have a bad one. Players come to the Sox to have career setbacks. Comparing anything the Yankees would do vs. the Sox organization is really an apple and oranges comparison. One sucks the other doesn't.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 02:14 PM) IIRC he chose to defer the money to future years. Instead of paying him like $20 million in one season, they were allowed to pay him most of it in future years, making him much more tradeable to other teams. They are probably defaulting on those payments now with their bankruptcy issues. Either way, I think he still was set to receive the entire contract. That just allows the owners to spend more foolishly and toss that mistake on to the consumer. It also inflates the value of free agency.

How much more can we contribute when anything and everything sucks about this organization? Your are really going to have to take a bigger responsibility and really gut out this organization. You need a new GM. The coaching staff needs to go. Maybe save Cooper. Scouting and development needs to improve. Is there a philosophy that is consistent through the whole organization? If I had to guess, they think baseball is an offensive sport. What I see is no concept of fundamentals and extremely poor plate discipline. Within the past few years I've seen players from other teams come here only to have the worst seasons of their careers. What is up with that? Only you Mr. Chairman can fix this mess. All coaches,managers, and scouts in this organization needs to be heavily reviewed. As a fan of this team, my interest has now become only casual. This is a dull and lifeless product. Pleas don't use the excuse that if more fans show the product will improve. No one has ever bought that theory. I can't imagine the American auto industry using that theory. So please fix my team. This current group isn't working.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) I'm missing something here. Somebody blasted me for telling Mrs. Teahen she looked good instead of the way Oney described her. Then somebody said looks had nothing to do with it even though most of her post was about looks. She thanked me for the compliment in one of her ensuing posts. What am I missing here? Where did I become evil again? Kill this post if it takes the thread in a weird direction but what is goin on ? It's just BigSqwert using another opportunity to insult a member of this forum.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 02:53 AM) Nobody hates Dunn the person, seems like a nice guy, we hate that he got a huge contract and is producing what I basically could've given the White Sox at a much cheaper price. That's one of Kenny's weaknesses. He likes to abuse resources at the DH position. He probably could have gotten Thome for less with that trade. Thome's final year was with the Sox was $14M. (another reason why I hate the DH) Having him sign elsewhere was an ethical decision. It doesn't look good to sign the same player for about $10M less.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 10:29 AM) I am sure they would too And that's not saying anything bad about unions, but maybe a different contract approach is something teams should consider. MLBPA is the prefect reason that make unions bad.

Good players often make any manager look good. IF you manage the Yankees and win the Series you are assumed a good manager. Good players are more dependent on your GM.

That was an excellent article. It wasn't bashing him at all. It's something the Dunn haters need to read.

We gotten to the point of making things like Twitter and Facebook to significant in our lively hoods.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) I just have this disgusting feeling in my stomach that Ozzie isn't going to be fired this offseason. Maybe Kenny is afraid of the backlash that would come from Oney/Ozzie/whatever the hell other idiot family members he has? I hope I'm wrong. If Larussa become manager next year, that's because Reinsdorf decided to take charge and fire a lot of people and that includes Kenny.

I assumed a loss. A 3-2 loss surprised me. I was thinking like 7-1 loss.

I didn't see the game but the good thing is they got 7 inning out of Peavy.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 1, 2011 -> 12:00 PM) My point here is that calling for Kenny's head here for making 3 good on-paper moves that have turned out bad is irrational. It's far more than that. Sometimes those are escalated by a bad farm system. Look at many of the farm system failures. The at one time highly regarded prospects are such failures that they are practically out of organized baseball. That responsibility falls under the GM because they are in charge of scouting and development.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 1, 2011 -> 12:00 PM) Rios was a great move on paper at the time. It really wasn't. It only looked good on paper because the team was in a desperate need of a CF.

It hard to view this as a potential victory. Even if Peavy can make it to 5, the pen is showing signs of the typical mental midget syndrome. I don't expect any offense if PK is sitting.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 11:36 PM) There's nothing wrong with going in the cage and messing around with it." I wonder how many guys actually go out of their way to work in the cages. Back in 2005 towards the end of the season Rowand got up early and spent a great deal of time in the cages.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 10:00 PM) Alexei and Rios really have regressed defensively, compared to last year. Pierre, we all know about. Players come here and regress. Swisher Teahen Rios Dunn Peavy It's a mystery as to why.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) One pitch pitchers (even a 95-97 MPH fastball) in their mid 30's making over $5 million a season (going forward with the extension) aren't in as huge a demand as we thought. That isn't as near as bad making him the closer opening day. That's like 3 or 4 games wasted there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 07:18 PM) Trading Jackson for a righty reliever did wonders for us this weekend! It is so infuriating how many bad decisions this organization has made the last three years. There is no excuse for Thornton to still be on this team. Of course, trading for Jackson was unnecessary.

I'll be going to some Diamondback games in Sept. I can enjoy baseball when I don't care who wins.

Can we add Walker to the list?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 10:34 PM) Was KW "on point" too? "I love to watch Lance/Ray Ray/Sugar Ray (or KW) run." Hawk Harrelson Oh, to have a good CFer again. Those were the days. He was my favorite player back then. Funny how he was always around .300 every season and always swinging at the first pitch.

That statue could probably put up some better number than this lineup. They should activate it.