So we lost again

[hi8is]

5 is a lonely number indeed... But, it ain't over yet fellas.

We can still win this division.

 

Time to nut up.

[The Ginger Kid]

i hate joe cowley but he's right - one hot week and we're back in it.

 

and lets face it, this team is streaky.

[hi8is]

hmmmmm.....

 

Danks

Floyd

Jackson

Buehrle

SALE?!?!?

 

Not bad.

Give me Peavy over Buehrle please.

[kitekrazy]

If it wasn't for the NL cherry picking, we would of been long gone a while back. The first two months of doing nothing and our inability to beat our division and bad teams outside of the NL is why we are here. We basically have handed this over without a whimper or a fight.

 

Beating teams you are suppose to is part of the formula for winning the division in most sports. So often the Sox don't get that memo.

 

[NorthSideSox72]

i hate joe cowley but he's right - one hot week and we're back in it.

 

and lets face it, this team is streaky.

For that matter, so are the Twins. They have gone something like 25-8 recently, eerily similar to the Sox run. Neither run is sustainable for much longer.

 

Win tonight, and its not over yet.

 

[Milkman delivers]

2005 feels like centuries ago.

[Milkman delivers]

I was happy to see the take out at the knees of the shortstop to break up a double play. That was nasty. It was totally an intent to injure move.

 

I did enjoy that, but at the same time it seemed like it might have also just been an attempt by Quentin to not injure himself by sliding.

[BigSqwert]

2005 feels like centuries ago.

It's like Ditka and the 1990 team. Although we won't win the division.

Edited August 19, 2010 by BigSqwert

[clyons]

5 is a lonely number indeed... But, it ain't over yet fellas.

We can still win this division.

 

Time to nut up.

 

True, 5 back in mid-August is nothing; especially with 4 still left against them. Hell, the Twins gained the 5 games in less than one week (one really, really bad, s***ty week). Its the difference in current momentum that makes things feel worse than they objectively are.

 

In '08, the Sox went 3-9 over a 12 game stretch beginning September 15th (including the infamous 3 game sweep in the Dome) and still won the division.

 

We can definitely still win it.

[elrockinMT]

We are 4-10 against the Twins. Our awful manager is going off the deep-end and wants us all to f*** off. We play with no effort and refuse to take any sort retaliation or do anything of note against our archrivals. Things are going just great.

 

 

It's tough being a Sox fan right now, but this too will pass

[witesoxfan]

True, 5 back in mid-August is nothing; especially with 4 still left against them. Hell, the Twins gained the 5 games in less than one week (one really, really bad, s***ty week). Its the difference in current momentum that makes things feel worse than they objectively are.

 

In '08, the Sox went 3-9 over a 12 game stretch beginning September 15th (including the infamous 3 game sweep in the Dome) and still won the division.

 

We can definitely still win it.

 

It's hard for me to classify that as the Sox winning it as opposed to the Twins losing it. The Sox lost 2 of 3 against the Indians at home. All the Twins had to do to clinch the division was beat KC in 2 out of 3 in the Dome when they had all the momentum in the world. Instead, it seems as though they celebrated their division title early, and they choked. It's like the only time in the last 9 years when I can think of the Twins choking down the stretch.

 

Game 163 was still sweet as hell.

 

 

[caulfield12]

It's hard for me to classify that as the Sox winning it as opposed to the Twins losing it. The Sox lost 2 of 3 against the Indians at home. All the Twins had to do to clinch the division was beat KC in 2 out of 3 in the Dome when they had all the momentum in the world. Instead, it seems as though they celebrated their division title early, and they choked. It's like the only time in the last 9 years when I can think of the Twins choking down the stretch.

 

Game 163 was still sweet as hell.

 

 

The closest is the 2001 team, and that squad was competing for the very first time and suffered through numerous second half injuries.

 

Nobody expected them to beat the Indians, as that was their first appearance at the top of the division in almost a decade.

 

 

About the only thing you can say is that it would suck even worse to be a Tigers' fan, because they were chased down twice by the Twins from behind in the last days, whereas we gave it up in 2006, 2009 and 2010 much earlier from a "fan pain" standpoint. Then they botched the World Series and went into America's worst economic slide.

[greg775]

True, 5 back in mid-August is nothing; especially with 4 still left against them.

 

We have to play them three more after tonight? So even if we got back into it somehow the Thomes again would knock us back to earth. Amazing.

[LittleHurt05]

We have to play them three more after tonight? So even if we got back into it somehow the Thomes again would knock us back to earth. Amazing.

 

For someone who gets so mad when people talk negatively about ex-players, you sure as hell are super negative about the current members of the team.

[Balta1701]

We have to play them three more after tonight? So even if we got back into it somehow the Thomes again would knock us back to earth. Amazing.

If we could tie them, we'd have 4 more left against them.

[BigSqwert]

For someone who gets so mad when people talk negatively about ex-players, you sure as hell are super negative about the current members of the team.

Don't worry. He won't be posting after today since he stated that the naysayers would just start following the Bears after we got swept tonight.

[witesoxfan]

The closest is the 2001 team, and that squad was competing for the very first time and suffered through numerous second half injuries.

 

Nobody expected them to beat the Indians, as that was their first appearance at the top of the division in almost a decade.

 

 

About the only thing you can say is that it would suck even worse to be a Tigers' fan, because they were chased down twice by the Twins from behind in the last days, whereas we gave it up in 2006, 2009 and 2010 much earlier from a "fan pain" standpoint. Then they botched the World Series and went into America's worst economic slide.

 

That 2001 team was hurt by Tom Kelly's stubbornness. LaTroy Hawkins was brutal all season, and he remained the closer pretty much all season. That team's pitching staff was pretty terrible overall, and then they traded Matt Lawton, who was having a great year, for Rick Reed. Reed was surprisingly good for them the next season, but you don't trade outfielders who have that kind of production for 36 year old starting pitchers. They tanked hard in the second half.