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QUOTE (GreenSox @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:50 PM) What's he saving his pen for? The offseason? This was Putnam's 3rd appearance in August. Ventura and Cooper have been saving the pen all season. Hahn made some savvy deals in the winter of 2013. Last year, he or Williams or both decided to go all in for "proven veterans" and it was, predictably, a disaster. Unknown to Hahn/Williams, apparently, career years are rarely repeated and players get worse in their 30s. And watch them do some extreme hero-worshiping this offseason...they'll go after some guy who made the NL All Start team - a real hero...the board will be gaga....and he'll be mediocre. Oh you are preaching to the quire with me... I love Robin as some kind of coach but he has been way over his head from day one. He never wanted the job to begin with... now he doesn't want to fail and I don't blame him.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:57 PM) No way, they hyped him up. They definitely didn't offer him ace money. They weren't offering anyone that kind of money. They were in the destroy and rebuild phase.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) Only person to ever view him as an ace was Billy Beane And the cubs two years...

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) Dude, there is no chance of this happening. Scouts love the arm, someone will give up the pick for him a multi-year deal. Eh? Love the Arm. His fastball is 93 ish and his offspeed pitches are floaters. There is no arm at the moment.

I will give Dick Allen some props on this he pointed out earlier that Shark was somewhat fools gold.. really only had one good year.

at this point he is 44-55 with a 4.00 ERA in his career. That's not Ace material for sure...

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:45 PM) He's likely to recover to some extent, but while I normally see things pretty optimistically, I really hated the trade we made for him. Not sure how much he could recover from a 5.00 ERA this late in the year... and it's been going up and up.

Danks x5 the pitcher at the moment..

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:38 PM) Samardija and LaRoche turned out to be especially bad signings. Hahn does not have a very good track record for judging/bringing in talent so far. I cant really blame Hahn for Shark... everyone thought that guy had balls of iron.. really he just has a bad haircut. LaRocher however...

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 06:36 PM) Another subpar effort from Ventura/Cooper. Madden uses his pen. Ventura/Cooper make damn sure that starter gets 6 and 100+ Ventura loves to leave the starter in to get his brains bashed in. He is trying to save the bullpen... but at what cost.

Thought it might be cathartic for us let our feelings know about this guy. What meat ball tossing fraud... he had myself and many people fooled. If you look at his track history its not all that great. Wow did I have this guy wrong. Get the F*** out of dodge please.

Adam Eaton needs to lay of the F****** pitch down and in. FFS dude But glad we sacrificed for two .230 hitters with running in scoring position.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Aug 14, 2015 -> 12:00 AM) HE FOUND IT HE FOUND IT HE FOUND IT HE FOUND IT I loved that.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 11:13 PM) "Mercy." lol

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 11:05 PM) The Royals bullpen is finally human!!! I hope it continues, their rotation can't carry them. Actually we don't want their bullpen to falter... we want them to beat the Angels. Now we are 5 back instead of 4.5... not that we really have a chance but its nice to pretend.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 10:45 PM) Cool, pretty sure a jackass Sportscenter anchor parroting Hawk's tired catchphrases in no way increases my enjoyment of watching a Sox game but that's good to know. The argument that Hawk's stupid f***ing shtick makes the Sox relevant on a national scale is played out and false, the Sox are an afterthought and any quick-hit highlight package references to the doddering old man in the Sox booth are simply ironic at this point. Hawk Harrelson does not move the scale, he simply weighs us down with narcissistic bullls***. Wow I don't dislike anyone on the whitesox as much as some of you dislike Hawk. The other point is the old doddering man historically has been the only thing they paid attention to because the team sucked. But in the end this is kind of funny.. I mean I never really ever cared about announcers that much. The anger and pain is a little comical. Now you guys are going to tell me Harry Carrey was better...

People want to Hate on Hawk... I get it. He says a lot of things that make me roll my eyes. But I know so many people that identify Hawkisms that couldn't tell you 1 player on the White Sox. Espn guys saying "You can put it on the Board!" Hawk is full of *hit is so many ways but I will always love his raw emotion.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 09:42 PM) I just wish Hawk would utilize the pause more. He used to be a very good announcer. Now...really bad. Really? Having listened to him for over 20 years he seems the same to me.

I heard hawk say it... it made me lol a bit about the KC talent level... But I couldn't have really given two craps... I also despise the world of fear mongering/politically correct "no balls" talking which we live in now.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 08:05 PM) Stone forever, Hawk never. LOL What is go great about Stone? Don't get it... I get why people don't like Hawk,,, but Stone?

Never realized how many white sox fans don't like Hawk until I got to this message board. I love Hawk... sure sometimes I want to strangle him... but he is on my side until all the way. Another thing that's funny is people think Stone is go great or Hawk's victim... Stone is a way bigger arse then Hawk.. I've heard this from more than a few people who have met both of them.

That article is pure garbage... hosmer better than Abreu? lololol. It's funny though.. Hawk is an opinionated guy. If you act like a nice milk warm person then you are safe from criticism. People (including this board) love to "Bash" (I never use that word but I will since its a popular one) Hawk. Hawk is Hawk but this article .... please.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 11:07 AM) Next time you give him props, try to spell his name correctly. Well it was fixed.. Never noticed it was Albers instead of Aalbers. I've seen the name Aalbers many times in my life (including my high school quarterback). Never knew any ALBERS. I apologize.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 02:58 PM) I didn't get to see the game so I wondered what happened because Robertson is making his way on my mental midget list. He wasn't great but yeah if Abreu doesn't screw up he likely gets the save. The first man that reached he threw a meatball on 1-2 count. Then on a hit and run he gave up a bullet.. so two hits - first and 3rd 1 out. Gives up a line shot for the 3rd out. But he likely should have escaped.

He really did a good job of keeping the ball down and in.