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I have read this paragraph a number of times and it still makes no sense to me. Is Walker a KW guy or a JM guy? "If you're keeping score at home, this means Gary Ward, Manuel's good friend, is out and Greg Walker, Williams' guy from Class AAA Charlotte, is in. (And Walt Hriniak is still available by telephone, whenever Frank Thomas needs him.) And, according to Manuel, there was no second choice. Not Harold Baines, not anyone else. Walker, a former Sox first baseman, was Manuel's guy." And I thought Ward was a KW guy and one of his clubhouse spies. Slezak column

t is obviously inner office warfare being waged through the media - and that is not a good sign.

Oh that can't be true. I have faith you'll pull it out - think of yourselves as experienced, crafty and wise...

thanks for sharing this - curious timing. I suspect we have a little war between KW and JM and their supporters - and it is being waged through sources. Last two weeks it was KW get blasted, now it is JM - and KW apparently is communicating with JM via the leaked sources in the newspaper.

KT, keep in touch and let us know how the trip goes and safe travel be yours -

The hiring of Bobby Valentine would be a diaster and might be the one action that would most anger me in my entire life. The man's record is worse than Manuel's in every way and he has never won a thing. As well, consider what he did to the Mets. f*** no to Bobby Valentine. Please for those who support his guy who happens to be available because he was fired for destroying the Mets and is nothing more than a colorful if un-insightful meida personality - look up his total managerial record. It sucks big time. A panic move to shake up an underperforming team that is 4 games under and not out of anything will indeed shake things up as we plunge in the standings with the upheaval and disarray that he would bring. Criticism of Manuel for what happened to the Sox since 2000 is sheer hypocrasy if one touts Valentine given what happened to the Mets following 2000 with Valentine as manager. If we need to make a managerial change - still an if with me, I prefer the GM to go - lets get someone with a future, someone new, think outside the box, get someone other than retread and a has been and a good old boy who is a real chuckle as a tv guru. We might as well get Paula Abdul as Bobby Valentine - she also is good on tv and at least she has never f***ed up a number of teams as Valentine has. If we need a new manager, Wally Backman deserves to be the choice. He is a winner and knows the players, and they have performed for him.

I haven't seen the second, new Matrix yet but a note on the first one - the hotel that it all took place at more or less was Heart of Chicago - the movie located it downtoiwn but that was the story's sake - the actual Heart of Chicago is at 5990 N Ridge in Chicago - stayed there one weekend - as well the Matrix authors stayed there a lot before they got rich - I think the wreote some of the screenplay there and used the name very intenionally as an homage to their favorite hotel -

taking your thread title into account, you are so very young - this is a team goingin to today's game at only 3 under, maybe soon to be 4 -but "worst"? Beginning with 1970 - go back and check out the records of most Sox teams from the 20s, 30s, and 40s - skip ahead to 69 and look at some years in the 70s and 80s - a whole of lot of teams that have played a whole lot worse than this one. This team can't touch some of our bad teams of the past no matter how hard they try. This is s very disappointing season thus far to be sure. And yet we end today maybe 4 games under. Look around the current standings and you will find many teams paying worse, some far worse, than us. That does not take away that this team needs to get its ass in gear and start performing at the levels that they are capable of. But to proclaim this "worst baseball" is a young person's overstated emotion and not factual. I suspect a whole lot of you would have have the (1) heart, or (2) guts, or (3) testacles, or (4) commitment to have last the 70 season. That was a team with no hope. None. If someone wants to say tonight's performance is pathetic, I would surely agree. As well as two of our last four have been pathetic and two have been ones that were winnable had we played better.

We finally agree about a SS on the Sox. It took me a while to get off the JosE-6 band wagon though. RPS, there are many SS we can agree on: Aparicio, best BeBe Richard and Luis Alvarado, worst (Royce could only be at best penultimate worst - if you never saw BeBe and Alvarado play, trust me on that) great minds like yours and mind always come around to agreement in time!

Are you talking about the stadium club? That would be that. The Stadium Club is where (once you have your ticket that someone paid for) you have access to the buffet and can eat yourself sick. The Club level does not have free food although they keep wheeling that damned dessert around to make you givce in and buy something! The Club level is great - no lines for anything, great view, very classy and I'd sit there anytime. You pay extra for the great view, no lines, and all the class. That is what they are selling with those expensive tickets. If I could afford it, I'd live at Club level.

this has been for sale before - I guess he has never received his minimum bid

what follows is the official WS press release CHICAGO - The Chicago White Sox have named former first baseman Greg Walker to replace Gary Ward as the team’s hitting coach. Walker, 43, spent the past two seasons as hitting coach for the White Sox Class AAA affiliate in Charlotte. Under his guidance, the Knights batted .262 (1,608-6,133) with 173 home runs and 704 RBI in 185 games. The Knights currently lead the International League in home runs (42) and rank second in average (.285) and hits (388). Two of his players currently rank among the IL Top 10 in average. Walker spent his nine-year major-league career with the White Sox (1982-90) and Baltimore (1990), batting .260 (746-2,864) with 113 home runs and 444 RBI. He ranks fifth on the White Sox all-time list in slugging percentage (.453) and 10th in home runs. Walker hit 20-plus home runs in a season three times with the White Sox and twice drove in more than 90 runs. He appeared in 118 games as a rookie in 1983, batting .270 with 10 home runs and 55 RBI for the American League West division champions. Walker hit a career-high .294 with 24 home runs and 75 RBI in 1984 and followed with 24 homers and 92 RBI in 1985. He established career highs of 27 home runs and 94 RBI in 1987. Originally signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1977, Walker was left unprotected and later signed by the White Sox in the December 1979 minor league draft. He led the White Sox Class AA Glen Falls affiliate to the Eastern League championship in 1981, while leading the league in hits (163), runs (117), total bases (266) and doubles (33). Ward, 49, served two seasons as White Sox hitting coach (2001-03).

Frank

Singleton, Fordyce, and Abbot were not, are not, bums

I do. I am tired of the apologists for St JosE6. Get rid of his ass now. He costs us games. He cost us today. We have so many posts that say "the Sox are doing terrible." And then some people keep saying "Jose is a leader." A leader in what? Losing games on a terrible team? Enough is enough is enough. He is leading us nowhere. Get rid of him.

and that is that we lose a sweep for all the f***heads who wished bad on the Sox so someone would get fired, watch no one get fired and thanks to all who were pulling for the Sox to lose :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou

lets be clear, StJosE6 had the error that cost us this game -- glad to see Graf out to pinch hit - let's go Tony!

if D Lo ever wants us to like him, this is his moment

sitting by the phone awaiting the call, and I've got your bail covered - I'll always take care of my beloved HSC - I'll even get you a lawyer, how's that?

No one has to - but my candidate would be Valentin

f*** on the St JosE6 throw to PK - letting AJ be safe, Mohr scores - cost us our lead - official error charged to St JosE6 to let the lead run score :fyou :fyou :fyou JV :fyou :fyou :fyou

did the tying run score on a passed ball or a wild pitch?

I bid adieu to Royce in September 2002 and was glad to see him go and wanted JV aka StJoseE6 gone with him. I was very clear in numerous posts that in my opinion the time for both was gone.

not sure about Keating -

It was that charm that allowed him to rip off a bunch of people, go to jail, get out, and convince some companies that he was an ok guy so he could rip off all their pension funds and everything else. I here that Richard Speck could be real amusing and Charles Keating was a stitch. It's called a "con job" for a reason. He left a bunch of working class people in the Thumb desititute, all their life savings gone, their pensions gone forever, the places they worked, bankrupt. He could work the charm - one of the best traits of a confidence man.