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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 03:34 PM) For a little perspective, if we went .500 for the rest of the season, we would end up at 89-73. Who would have taken 89 wins going into this season? I don't think many people had expectations above that number. That's a good point. I'd be willing to bet that there were a number of posts before the season started saying that the divsion could be won with around 85 wins. The Sox shoud have no problem playing .500 ball the rest of the way. The trouble is that playing .500 ball the rest of the way probably won't win the division. I for one did not think it would take 92-93 wins to win the AL Central. That many wins is good baseball.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) You disagree that we are a mediocre to decent team? What are we then? I criticize the team as well. I don't like Kotsay. I don't harp on it day after day after day. He's in the lineup against righties. That's how it is. I'm still not crazy about Pierre. I despise Teahen, etc. I also hated Randy WIlliams and despise Linebrink and still am not crazy about guys like Pena. Yes Kotsay sucks. Yes AJ is having a bad season offensively. Yes Bobby has blown some saves. We get it. I just don't see how anybody would take the energy to write more about Kotsay on here. We know. He sucks. I feel we're a mediocre to slightly above average team that is contending for a division title and I'm enjoying the baseball. What are you saying here?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 12:51 PM) Lillibridge via twitter: Lillibomb with the attitude!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 12:18 PM) When is this 4th game whence you speak of? Did...did you say "whence"?

Edwin!

Interesting, small sample size stat: AJ - 6 HR and 33 RBI in 327 AB Castro - 6 HR and 15 RBI in 72 AB

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 11:25 PM) If Teahen can wait until Aug 16, then they can 15 day-DL Kotsay with "bat problems." Fixed

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 01:54 AM) "You've got to win" doesn't make sense in baseball. Too many games. Too much s*** happens. It ain't like the Bears wetting the bed in an 18 game season or whatever they play in the NFL. s*** happens in baseball. We are a mediocre to decent team. We don't win all the games "we're supposed to win." There are no, "you've got to win" games this season regarding the Chicago White Sox. The team is what it is. A nice little team, nothing more, nothing too much less. Are you really surprised Baltimore on its home field is giving our team fits? I'm not. Sorry, I ususally don't do this, but worst...post...ever. Kidding a bit, but there are plenty of must win games in a season where you are playing for a division win against a team that wins and loses just as often as you do. I disagree that this is a mediocre to decent team. This team is better than mediocre, and the way they have been playing lately has shown that. Why wouldn't you be pissed off by these loses to an inferior Baltimore team when winning a series like this is so important? The Sox had a few chances as of late to gain a game or two on the Twins, and they failed to capitalize on it...because they lost bad games to a bad team.

Thanks guys!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) The Quotable Ozzie Guillen from The Onion The colorful White Sox manager is in the spotlight for comments about supposed favoritism toward Asian players, but it isn't the first time he's had something to say. * 2006: "I very much love the people and the fans of Chicago, because they pay me very much to play a baseball manager in Chicago, even though I very much hate the people and fans in Chicago" * 2006: "I don't give s*** about the home-field advantages for the World Series. You know what I care about? Where the f*** is the Smash Mouth? Why aren't they here for singing the 'All Star' song? I love that s***" * 2007: "I love Dustin Pedroia. He is very good hitter. And he has a strong back, so he could be climbed up on and I sit on his shoulders and ride around on him like riding a little horse that loves me and eats apples and I have to pitch around because he is a good hitter" * 2008: "I never say one bad thing about those stupid f***ing Cubs fans. Not a single word about those mother-s***ting pieces of f***" * 2008: "If we win the World Series, I will quit baseball and run for mayor mostly on a campaign platform of minimizing the city's budget, while still raising revenues with strategic tax plan for Chicago businesses" * 2009: "Wrigley Field makes me puke. When I eat a little bit of the ivy on the wall it make me puke barf everywhere" * 2010: It's not the fair for Japanese players have the interpreter. I want the interpreter so I can understand what the f*** it is I am talk about"

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 09:21 AM) Every closer in baseball is not sharp every time out. If Bobby had two bad outings, we'd overlook it. Three, half the board jumps ship. Four, everyone is overboard. I'm not saying I disagree with removing him, but the margin of error here is nada at this point. You're right, and I alluded to that saying that every closer will blow saves. I suppose I should have worded it differently. The closer is expected to be one of the sharpest pitchers on your staff because of the nature of their task. One inning (usually) not giving up hits, walks, or runs. Hits and walks happen...no one will get around that, but it's the runs that are the most important. Bobby's biggest issue is his pattern of failures. He has two or three miserable outings, he gets "dropped" from the closer role, he pitches well and gets his job back, closes a couple games well, and then blows it again. That is what is so frustrating.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 6, 2010 -> 08:33 AM) There are a lot more telling stats besides blown saves that tell the full picture. A truer statement may not have uttered in this thread. Bobby has had some great outings, but so has Linebrink, Threets, and even Williams. The big difference there is that Bobby's job is to close games. It's a high pressure situation, and the closer has to be sharp every time out. Every closer in the game will blow saves. Bobby isn't sharp...a lot. A team should have a lot of confidence in their closer, and aside from Ozzie's misleading statements, I think he's the only one who has confidence in him. Bobby has a big ERA (and I don't care what Steve Stone says, it DOES matter) and his WHIP is quite chunky, too. Those numbers do not belong to a great or even good closer.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) He can give me a billion, I'll buy the Sox and donate it to Soxtalk Every member would be part owner, with me the chairman of the board. Then we can start wheeling and dealing and make a superteam. And then sign Kotsay to a long extension...to sit in the clubhouse and be the "chemistry guy".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 03:39 PM) The sequence today will be: Ozzie will declare the closer's spot open again The Sox will either win big tomorrow or lose, Sale will get his first outing in relief, everyone will be excited about that. There will be no need for a closer. Sometime over the weekend, a closer will be needed. Both Thornton and Putz will be used in the 7th-8th, Jenks will come out again to close. Announcers and sportswriters will pretend that Ozzie never said anything about the Closer's spot today. Wait, that's happened before, right? I mean, it's like deja vu...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) Bobby is the goat. Literally with that lame ass beard. Sto-o-o-o-p being me-e-e-ean!

Hey hey it's Kotsay!

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I can't see or hear the game. Maybe that's a good thing?

Kotsay > Jenks

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 03:19 PM) I wonder if we could put Jenks back in again here, if he would blow it again... Yes, and Kotsay would save the day again.

Holy s***

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 03:04 PM) Took out Konerko for a baserunner and somehow made our offense more potent... Stranger things have happened. Kotsay hit a HR Jenks blew a save Ooops

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) Put Jenks on waivers PLEASE. Nobody would claim his dumpy ass.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) Ahem Can you make predictions about Kotsay getting 2 or 3 hits every game?