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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 12:06 PM) I agree with you about Don Cooper. I like his honesty and candor, seems everyone really admires and respects him a lot in the organization. The Larry Dierker type of pick. Although I think he came directly from the broadcast booth to the dugout, correct? I'm ready to go with Steve Stone as GM depending on where we stand on April 1st, 2012. I'm giving KW these two years....that's the extent of my patience to fix this mess. Coop's greatest talent is being a pitching coach. I think it would be easier to replace a manager than a pitching coach. Stone has no desire to move beyond the booth. The Sox tried that before and it was a bad, bad, idea. KW should be allowed to have a bad season like this once in awhile.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 10:14 AM) Yes, but Zambrano is not going to fix the entire bullpen. He's going to pitch 1 or 2 innings per appearance. And then it will take a while to stretch him back out when they inevitably need him back in the starting rotation. He was fine in his last start - 6 innings, 2 runs. You do not take a good starter and halve his innings. That is not a good baseball move. I think he threw 122 pitches in those 6 innings. He might be better as a closer. I would think this move is only temporary. It seems like Lou is pushing the panic button. To me that's like the Sox puttin Peavy in the pen.

I tend to disagree when people say that. He wanted a certain mold for the team but I doubt he wanted guys like Pierre or Jones. Wanting a certain type of player with financial limitations is what I see. High hopes that aging players will find the fountain of youth. I'm not surprised things have turned out this way so far. The way this organization does things i the off season, we should expect inconsistency every year when it comes to wins. I would like to see them model what the Rays and Twin have done. I have no problem dealing with a team having a losing season or two with a promising youth movement. I'm baffled at how they can take players from other organization and make them improve more than the home grown talent.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 01:29 AM) We should have resigned podsednik. FKW. It's too early to make that assumption. The reason why they didn't is because of health issues.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 06:20 PM) Why do year in and year out our hitters do this? Players come and go but this problem fo trying to kill the ball instead of making contact and using the whole field is there every season. I'm told that Greg Walkier has nothing to do with it, and that he's reofly a good hitting coach. The ball park itself may have something to do with it.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 10:16 PM) Well there is no way we are going to hit in the .220's for the entire season, its just not gonna happen.. It makes me wonder if there is something to do with the city. The other Chicago team pretty much displays the same hitting or lack of habits. I guess that really good hitting coach from Texas hasn't made an impact. The better teams seem to have a good #3 and 4 hitter. This is what the Sox are definitely lacking, like really, really good guys that are All Stars. There's no bat in the lineup that can carry a team or make the other hitters better. Quentin was that guy 2 years ago. They need a Pujols type player.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 09:19 AM) To each his own, but I certainly don't see this place as a backup plan to WSI. Same here.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 10:03 AM) I was permanently banned within days of first signing up, allegedly for having multiple user names. Not true. That happened to me. They fixed it when I asked them to show me the evidence.

I think they are going to get their ass handed to them tonight. Stop with the penalties already.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 06:45 PM) I got banned 3 or 4 times during 2007. It started getting old after a while because it wasn't like I was flagrantly breaking the rules and never once did a mod actually tell me what rule I was breaking/give me a chance to stop first. I would just log in and see that I was banned. No warnings or delete posts either. It's seems moderation is very inconsistent. I was banned for 6 months recently and I consider this forum as home now.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 06:23 PM) I enjoy WSI, just in a different way than I enjoy Soxtalk. Apples and oranges. Definitely. I get tired of reading the fire Ozzie threads. People seem more rational here.

Aye, aye, aye. I think I'm done with that place. I mentioned the word "politics" in the Roadhouse and got banned for a political post. I wonder if moderators are bots.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 06:46 PM) ahh, great. Once in our existence and none with any semblance of our current group of players. Reassuring. but kenny can just see what the problem is and readjust midway through! That's a great idea! these games don't matter! I don't think that's possible. All it will be is a band aid to keep from going bad to extremely bad. Mid season trades seem to help teams who are still in it like first place in it. I don't think a guy like Gonzalez would put this team over the top unless they are in first place or a half game out. I'm not sure he can pull off a Peavy like deal where it will cost you someone not currently contributing. Gonzalez may cost them good pitching. Then you have to weigh the costs of that.

I think some organizations go wrong when they draft athletes instead of baseball players. There is a difference. When guys going into the draft have certain deficits, I would think those aren't going to go away since most players started the game at a very young age. I look at guys like Josh Fields who couldn't catch a baseball. When exactly was that suppose to get better? In Little League and High School a player can get away with doing a lot of things bad except for it's hitting. All of those weaknesses show up in the big leagues. If they aren't fixed before entering some form of professional baseball, chances are it will never change. Kerry Wood is another example of that.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 12:27 PM) One World Series is indicative of great success (Borat voice) of one year whereas multiple playoff appearances is indicative of consistent success. While you can never take away the Sox 2005 WS, sustained success is always the goal because it gives you more opportunities for World Series. I think 90% of people here would agree the Twins have the more successful franchise the past decade. Excellent post. If the Twins had the resources like the Yankees, they would have won a lot more. If baseball went to a salary cap, I would think the Twins would be a power house.

Not so much this year. This organization seems to have a philosophy of trying to catch lightning in a bottle. It paid off in 2005, but it that way of trying to win is never consistent.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:43 AM) Why is this an issue today or for the Sox at all? That's the way the Chicago sports media runs. They are into "girly soap opera" stuff.

I didn't view the shirt as racist. Usually in the sports world the word "mow" refers to dominance.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:13 AM) I know, but it was as if no research was done on the guy at all. I'm not saying that was the case, but some of the at-bats looked so pathetic that thought came to me several times throughout the game. It doesn't matter. Good stuff still gets guys out. Everyone knew what Maddux and Clemens threw but it still didn't help.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:55 AM) The reason Ozzie will never get fired is that great picture in the dugout when he hugged Mark Buehrle after his second win, the game in which Buehrle gutted out the victory w/out his best stuff. Players appear to love Ozzie; Ozzie is great. A lot of people second guess this pitching move or that pinch hit move or this bunt or whatever. His decisions you may not agree with in hindsight but they are the decisions of a good baseball mind. You watch a baseball game, any game, and you can find s*** to second guess if your team loses. That's a fact. This year, Oz can't win, cause if the team sucks on a given night, the critics will simply say, 'Those are the players Oz wanted. It's his fault if the team didn't score enough to win.' That's a copout. KW puts the team together with input from Ozzie. It's his team. I think Oz's rotating DH idea is stupid, and I think we are a big bat short, but I still love Ozzie. Great post. Outside of the Sox world Ozzie is viewed as a good manager.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:03 AM) Honestly, yeah, he probably should have toned that down a little bit, but I don't see it as that big of a deal. His overall point of course will be lost but he is absolutely right. And of course since this is Ozzie the media will probably make a bigger deal out of it than it needs to be. It wouldn't be news if the team was undefeated.

The only thing I see is the same pattern in hitting or lack of the past 3 years. The only thing has changed is the roster to some extent. I can see that as grounds for firing Walker but I think you wouldn't see much of a change.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 10:28 PM) That's true. I felt a lot more calm watching the game today. For whatever reason, my expectations for the team have been lowered greatly with our play in that first homestand. My expectations were lowered in the off season by who they obtained. Sure they can move around the bases better but this team will not be able to match up against Boston or New York in the post season.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 04:32 PM) Kenny needs to take a Louisville Slugger into Ozzie's offense and remind him: This is the American League -- before we're a dozen games out. Ozzie is the perfect scapegoat this year. Kenny and Jerry need to either develop the farm system or spend money.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:27 AM) Can this story die already? I want to read stories about the team, not the coach's son being a brat. And props to Cowley for his award winning reporting on TwitterGate. Ugh. So tired of it. Chicago media lives for this stuff.