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QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jun 11, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) Coats DH today. Surely he has to be better than Garcia defensively, no? I think anyone is better than Garcia in RF. Coats never really had any special standout tool, but is supposedly average across the board.

YES! Go f*** yourselves KC!

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 10:03 PM) Garcia is a stunning 51% career base stealer. Great call to have him go there!!! Especially against Perez. No way Avi had the green light...

Nice play by Lawrie. 4 more to go...

PUTNUM!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) How many more days does Avi Garcia have left remaining on the White Sox roster? I think the Sox trade him at some point this year for a relief option. One of those I'll take your underachiever for my underachiever type of moves.

Latos has been toast the last month so I'm not sad to see him leave. But this does put the Sox in a little bit of a weird position regarding the 6th starter again. Beck seems to have been moved to the pen, so does that leave Renaldo as the emergency starter? I'm not overly confident Gonzalez is going to be able to last the rest of the season in the 5 spot.

Worth noting Davidson is still above the .250 mark. Doubt he'd be able to contribute anything to the Sox, but it's nice to see him at least performing now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 09:56 PM) Rick Hahn sure has a horrible track record in terms of signing free agents. This whole organization needs to be turned upside down. I don't think Hahn is any worse than any other GM. Problem is this organization is always desperate for a particular players and the Sox have to jump at less than ideal options when they are available. Sox haven't had a good LHP out of the pen since Thornton.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 08:45 PM) The best thing that I can say about him is that he doesn't abuse the pitching staff and that he's done a decent job of managing/calming/motivating the not-so-smart contingent of the clubhouse that went wacko back in March. I would argue completely differently. Do you think that level of outburst would have happened with a manager like Maddon, Bochy, or Showalter? The way that clubhouse reacted goes to show you the complete LACK of control Robin has in that clubhouse.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jun 5, 2016 -> 06:01 PM) Each day they let this continue is another day they lose more fans. This is pathetic baseball and has been for the last several seasons. Now, with the Cubs playing championship level baseball on the Northside, is not the time to dick around and try not to hurt poor Robin's feelings. We don't need to see how this next homestand goes, we have 6 years of putrid history to gauge Robin's abilities. I've never really been one to consider JR an awful owner. I think he's always done a decent job balancing the business side of his franchises with investing in payroll to at least be somewhat competitive. With that said, what is going on now with Robin Ventura and Gar Forman is really making me second guess how good of an owner he is. He's old and more than likely should not be making business decisions for either team at this point. Look at what happened once the Cubs got new ownership a few year back. The same thing needs to happen with the Sox. They need to clean house in the FO and get the right people in place to right the ship. JR, KW, and Robin should all be gone. I'd be willing to give Hahn another shot, because I feel like KW micromanages the crap out of him.

Safe to say Phillippe Aumont's baseball career is over. Guy is just downright brutal.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 09:23 PM) John Jay is not what we need. What we need is what a lot of teams could use - more home runs. Nice to see Saladino take one out to win a ball game. One shot like that can turn a game around and change the attitude of the team after a long losing streak. Shields? I don't want a guy like who has been guaranteed millions and is now on cruise control. The Padres are right. This guy is emblematic of what is wrong with giving players large multi-million dollar Contracts. (John Danks agrees). Jon Jay would be a welcome upgrade to the Sox. They lack a quality backup OF'er who can play CF. He also bats lefty, which might allow you to play the match-ups with Jackson. I'm not advocating the Sox rush out and make a deal like this but he would bring something the Sox could use.

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ May 30, 2016 -> 04:23 PM) Exactly! This organization and team needs a complete makeover. Step one is firing Ventura. Step 2 is starting to dismantle the team once they are 7-8 games out in Mid-July. Trading Sale, Q, Rodon, Frazier, Eaton, Abreu, Lawrie, Robertson, and Melky will bring a ton of prospects. The haul from all the trades plus 3-4 years of top 3 draft picks should make this team a force to be reckoned with come 2021 or so! Step 1 should be getting new FO management. The Sox overhauling the system with the same people in place is only bound to fail yet again.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 30, 2016 -> 02:48 PM) And that falls 100% on Robin. A good leader would have gotten the team past that game. I agree with this. Too many times Robin fails to stop the bleeding. He can't even bandage it.

QUOTE (aryzner @ May 27, 2016 -> 11:02 PM) Yea, I think that describes this place perfectly over the last week and a half, hahaha.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2016 -> 10:27 PM) Why would he do that? He's not going to get MORE money on the open market...unless he just had a tremendous season this year and led the White Sox to the playoffs and went into next year's FA market, but what exactly are the odds of that happening? Yea, I cannot possibly see a 35 year old pitcher forfeit $42M to take a chance on a weak FA market. He's be nuts to do that.

I think the way the Sox have handled the slump shows what Robin brings to the table. He has no ability to light a fire under his players when it's needed most. He's easily one of the worst managers in baseball. Give Renteria a shot. The Sox brought him in as Ventura's replacement anyways.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 27, 2016 -> 09:19 PM) The 4 straight hr game http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=280814104 Thome, Konerko, Uribe, Alexei Weird, I was at that game too. Maybe I need to start going to more games!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2016 -> 09:09 PM) Must have been 2004-2005. Perhaps first 3-4 months of 2006. 2005 Box Had to look that up, was driving me nuts. Back-2-back-2-back by Iguchi, Rowand, and Konerko. Man what a fun game to be at... I'll stop hijacking the thread now

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:44 PM) Didn't they go back to back to back in that game? Was it Dye, Paulie and Rowand? Something like that. I wanna say Dye for sure. I can't even remember what year that was though, haha.

QUOTE (Blackout Friday @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:40 PM) I remember Randy Johnson having a similar game to this when he was with the Yankees. I was at that game. Was really something else, was like a light switch and the Sox lit him up after being no-hit for majority of the game.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) Daniel Fields dropped from 40-man. Outrighted to Charlotte. And released as well.

Absolutely terrible from Avi.

Thinking he'll end up with 21.