fathom Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (iguchi=dank @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 05:33 AM) laziest game ever over those last 9 innings... PLEASE DO SOMETHING kenny, we just need to change things for change sakes, i'm not saying it has to be viciedo, but just anything.. wow.. ozzie at least better blast that effort. wow Not allowed to use hyperboles anymore That really was disappointing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iguchi=dank Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 watching the replay.. lilly singlehandily made me forget everything good he's done this year.. what a craptastic effort, head no where near in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (DonkeyKongerko @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 05:34 AM) Wow, haven't seen the video yet, but sounds like this play pretty sums up our whole season. It's really bad. Good thing Lillibridge has earned some brownie points with us this year. If it was Rios, this board would have melted down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulokis Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Ozzie benched Rios for not hustling and replaced with Brigde who did not hustle. Time to blow this team up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Saw this on another site, but it's so true: Lillibridge half-assed an earlier play where a runner almost tried to go to second on a flare to CF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin city sox fan Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Walker has got to go. A decent hitting coach would have us leading the division by 5 games instead of being 5 back. We've got hitters that aren't hitting (especially in key situations) and when prolonged slumps like this continue, a hitting coach has to take the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:31 PM) Bloop single fell in front of Lillibridge he took his sweet asstime, rockies coach sent runner lilly throw late and offline.........SOX LOSE! I'm not a Lillibridge guy, but he never has struck me as a guy with an effort problem. I will blame this on lack of experience and taking something for granted. Its still bad, and apparently typical for this team. I am dying to see if Ozzie really pulled Rios for lack of effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 And the mods wonder why this place has been a pure hyperbole, hating fest lately.. The sox play is bringing it out in alot of fans and I don't blame them. Something as horrid as Lillibridge's play there can really piss off a sox fan base. Thank god for 2005, cause I firmly believe about 50-60 posters at least would of been banned from this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanne Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 This game is exactly why I'm not...nor have been even remotely excited about his team this year (besides after the very first two games of the year). Simply awful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:37 PM) I'm not a Lillibridge guy, but he never has struck me as a guy with an effort problem. I will blame this on lack of experience and taking something for granted. Its still bad, and apparently typical for this team. I am dying to see if Ozzie really pulled Rios for lack of effort. I think that was definitely an isolated incident for The Bridge. I've always noticed he was one of the few guys who always hustled and gave it his all. I think he just took the runner for granted and got lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfest Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (iguchi=dank @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:33 PM) laziest game ever over those last 9 innings... PLEASE DO SOMETHING kenny, we just need to change things for change sakes, i'm not saying it has to be viciedo, but just anything.. wow.. ozzie at least better blast that effort. wow He says his hands are tied OG wants no changes.............BS excuse of a sub .500 GM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I'm so done with this team until WHOLESALE changes are made. I understand Ozzie won't be fired midseason, I get that, but at the very least Walker needs to go. Pierre is a no brainer. Maybe The Rios situation will explode and they have no choice but to get rid of him Changes MUST BE MADE AND MADE NOW. This cannot be stressed enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I'm for one anxious to see what Oz has to say about this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ginger Kid Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 wow, just watched that replay and for the life of me i have no idea what ANY professional player would be thinking in that moment, pulling up like BL did and just sort of trotting to pick up the ball. Even then, if he makes a decent throw to home he's out. just so unacceptable. what a weird culture there is in that clubhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:44 PM) Maybe The Rios situation will explode and they have no choice but to get rid of him Yea good luck with that. I think me and Dick Allen were the only two who wanted to move him in the off-season since his value was high after his season. Got some hate towards it (cuz of his defense mostly and WAR at the time) so I didn't argue as much as Dick did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgrad70 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) i guess..this team just sucks that's it in a nutshell....they can analyze and scrutinize all they want....at the end of this day, this is just a horrid, overpaid baseball team. this team will not win a division and even if they did so what? they're not getting to the series with this team. reinsdorf has a lot of fans buying into the notion that winning a division is a successful season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsox Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 There was a similar play in middle of game when Rios was in; he jogged over and lobbed the ball to second, baserunner could have scored easily. He went from first to third, coach could have waved him in. I was at the game, Rios looked liked he was on muscle relaxers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsox Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 For what it's worth Dunn hit some bombs at batting practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) Changes MUST BE MADE AND MADE NOW. This cannot be stressed enough. Ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 It has been very clear in their games against the DBacks, Nationals and now the Rockies that the other teams hustled more, busted it down the line much more frequently and also took the extra bases against the White Sox. We're always seemingly on our heels, part of it is that we don't hold runners or throw anyone out or even succeed on pitchouts. That's part of the 4-8 extra innings record. We just don't have the ability to manufacture runs and there's been a consistent lack of hitting with RISP. We've been stuck between 2-5 games under .500 for weeks now. Someone described that as climbing but I really don't see it when you have such an emotionless, limp response to lackadaisical baseball and offense from the manager. Perhaps this latest Rios controversy will light a fire under the team and clubhouse, but it's not going to help us go from first to third (or home) or 2nd to home on singles. We've lost that multidimensionality and athleticism from our offense compared to when Alexei, Rios and Pierre were all running more frequently and being much more aggressive on the basepaths. This team is just kind of lost and has been searching for some kind of an identity all season. They're the slight below average, good pitching, lousy offense "boring" Sox this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max power Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 12:14 AM) For what it's worth Dunn hit some bombs at batting practice. Floyd hit a bomb during batting practice. To be honest, I think I could hit a bomb during ML batting practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max power Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Not to criticize. I know you said "for what its worth". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) i have no idea what ANY professional player would be thinking in that moment To me it seemed that Lilli wanted to incite a play at the plate in order to get the out at home and be the hero. It made me let out many four letter words as the play transpired. Epic fail - the antithesis of his New York heroics. Sad Panda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) I'm for one anxious to see what Oz has to say about this game. If Ozzie doesn't want any changes to take place STILL... Wow, just... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 (edited) “We played like (bleep), you go home like (bleep),” said manager Ozzie Guillen, who pulled center fielder Alex Rios in the bottom of the seventh inning for not running hard. “What else you guys want to know?” “I don’t think we should feel bad because we earned it to lose this game,” Guillen said. “We deserved to lose. I think the way we played from the first inning, I don’t think we should have won this game at all. We had opportunities. The only thing about this game, we pitched well. Everything else was pretty bad. “I don’t know why those guys hang their heads over there when they played like that. Usually they get dressed and leave right away because I don’t think we, for one second, deserved to win this game. The game finished the way it started – very bad. It’s nobody’s fault. If they’re going to blame anybody, they should blame everyone – counting myself.” As for Rios, “(he) don’t run the bases,” Guillen said. “That’s why I got him out of the game. It’s not the (first time) it’s happened.” Rios was 0-for-3 and dropped a fly for an error in the fifth. "They don’t run the bases, they don’t want to play or tired or hurt, that reputation comes with me and I have a great reputation in this (bleeping) game to do (the right) way," Guillen said. "They don’t run the bases, they’re out of the game. I don’t give a (bleep) if it’s (Paul) Konerko or Adam Dunn or anyone. "If you don’t play the game right, you’re out of the game.” mark gonzales/tribunesports.com Edited June 29, 2011 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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