The Critic

THANK YOU JOEY!!!!!

2-out double by Pablo. C'mon, Tadahito, cash in!

Nice catch by Brown. Does that run count as Ozzie Ball?

LUCKY that Odalis balked on throwing to third base.

Good start to the inning by Brian. Leadoff double. GO Brian!

QUOTE(SoxnGiants @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 07:38 PM) 3 runs over 6 innings isn't a bad start - and should be PLENTY against Odalis Perez and the Royals. The thing is, sometimes you need your starters to do more than that, and this Sox rotation (minus most of Garland's starts) hasn't put the team on their shoulders in a LONG time. The offense has had to outslug what the rotation allows for two months now, and it's just not going to happen consistently for that long.

3-2 Royals. Shealy doubles to left. Ugh.

Crappy little dribbler to 3rd ties the game. 1 out, runner on 3rd.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) So Kelly was managing that team for what, one year? You can follow an organization closely but it does not compare to following the team every day, like I'm sure you do with the Sox. My point is that most of the problems we have with Ozzie (stuff about favorites, Mackowiak in CF, sticking with Pods) are things that are evident only from watching the Sox on a daily basis. I'm sure if you ask Twins fans, they'll have a list of peeves with Kelly as well. It's also common knowledge that 2002-present Twins players didn't like Kelly all that much and began winning only after Gardenhire took over. I remember hearing Twins fans say that Kelly quit on that club in his last season there. Don't know how true it is, but if fans are saying it, it's gotta be true....

Eyechart has been a real pain in the ass.

Brian showing why he should be out there every single goddamn day. Beautiful cutoff slide and throw to hold DeJesus to a single.

QUOTE(G&T @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 06:51 PM) But we both know that's a very rare way for this team. Yeah, I know it really is. Just messin with ya.

QUOTE(G&T @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 06:44 PM) I can't imagine any other way of getting those runners in. That would be another way.

QUOTE(Al Lopez @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 10:11 AM) In for the wild card; Minny's pitching is in shambles, except for Cy Santana. That fact only adds to my frustration at the Sox's inability to put any distance between themselves and Minnesota. If and when they get Liriano back, that makes them more dangerous, and if the Sox haven't put any space between themselves and the Twinks, I'm not very optimistic about the Wild Card. I'm not "out", but I can't go "all in", either. The Sox are not playing like a team desperate to get to the postseason. Pessimistically hopeful is the way I'd have to put it right now.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 2, 2006 -> 12:34 AM) I hear Chicago has been having crappy weather since we left. I keep saying it's in mourning because I'm gone. Then what explains the SUPER-WIDE smiles on everyone's faces, and the random fireworks going off, and the free all-you-can-eat-and-drink "LMB Is Gone Fest" at Grant Park this weekend? Oh, and I totally agree about the "dry heat" thing. When I visited Phoenix a couple years ago, it was 105 to 110 every day, but I sweated more when I came home to 85 degree heat than I did the entire time in Arizona.

My brother was/is a huge Star Trek/Star Wars geek. I never got the appeal. But I was a huge metal/punk/pro rasslin' geek, so is that any better?

QUOTE(GasHeGone @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 11:56 PM) ...we won the World Series last year. That was awesome. If you're pissed about tonight's game against KC, watch 1) Konerko slam 2) Pod's walk-off 3) Uribe crowd catch and 4) final out. It makes me so happy. Just fast-forward past Podsednik's pathetic helium-balloon throw to home to allow the tying run to score, setting up his walk-off. Sorry, I know I'm pissing on the parade, but I'm just SO down on Podsednik right now...

QUOTE($I Need Money$ @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 11:58 PM) If we had frank thomas we'd be in first. Sweet, but wrong. Frank got off to a HORRIBLE start and Thome was white-hot early. If anything, the Sox would be further out of first without Thome's incredible April and May.

Sad little popup. Great chance gone to waste.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 09:45 PM) I'm pretty sick of those. Me too. There are no "moral playoffs" for moral victories.

You know, this is starting to look like one of those "well, we fought back hard" kind of games. I hope that's not the case, but it looks that way right now to me.

Oh, yeah, Sweeney. Whew.

Who's playing CF next inning? Pods, with G-Load in left? Ozuna? Oh boy.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 09:39 PM) A HUGE DEVELOPMENT: JOEY CORA ACTUALLY HELD JD AT THIRD, HE COULD HAVE JOINED THE LONG LIST OF WHITE SOX RUNNERS THROWN OUT BY 40 FEET AT HOME PLATE THIS SEASON. As soon as I saw the ball go through, I assumed Joey was sending JD and I just kept thinking "bobble the ball out there, pleeeeeease" - and then I saw him stop someone and my jaw dropped. And now Joe flied out for out number 2. Crap.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) and if thome wants to win a ring he better start playing like it. If Thome can't run at all (and judging from that tip-toe double play tonight, he can't), I'd almost prefer Mack at DH and Brian in CF for a few games to let the leg heal a little more.