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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 02:47 AM) There's just no way you can say Pierre is a better hitter than Alexei Ramirez. Not just because of a couple of points on his BA. I'm still waiting for Lexi to get hot. He was 6-for-32 entering tonight's game. He's been s***ty.

Nice to win with three lousy hits. Thanks AJP. Great pitching ... again. It truly is amazing to me this team is .500 considering the plethora of lousy at bats night in and night out. I think it's a minor miracle. it would be nice to see this team do two things now that we've wisely benched Rios: add Viciedo and make a trade for another bat (maybe a 3B or 2B who can hit) and actually make a run at winning the division and one playoff series this season). I think we blew it not dealing Edwin for a bat. Would the Cubbies have sent us Ramirez for Edwin and some minor leaguer?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 09:39 PM) I saw this while stuck in traffic this morning. Absolutely awesome. Phenomenal cartoon. And KW thought it wise to pick up this guy and his salary a few years ago.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 11:11 PM) Too bad that Ozzie's irrationally married to the idea of Pierre leading off. Quentin in LF, Viciedo in RF, and a platoon of Pierre and Rios in CF is probably the best option at this point. PIerre arguably is the third or fourth best hitter on this team. Why is it so irrational to play him? Paulie, CQ, AJ, Pierre.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 03:28 AM) Beachy was dominant tonight. Sucks that the Braves are so unwilling to part with any of their 40 stud pitching 'spects for CQ. You moan about our lousy offense and want to trade CQ, one of the two guys on our team that can hit? Confusing to me. 3 hits tonight and we win. We'll obviously take it, but wow, our offense is abysmal.

This is one of those outings that a.) make you hate the fact you are a diehard Sox fan. and b.) realize why we are still a sub-.500 team. What a sleepy outing thus far on our home turf.

This really is pathetic. My god.

Sox are playing like chumps. Wakefield has put 'em to sleep. That little pop up sucked.

Is this oldtimer going to no-hit us tonight?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) It's f***ing awful. My wife went in a few months back to get this thing on her fingernail checked. The doctor spent approximately 5 minutes with her (after she waited 40 minutes past her scheduled appt) and said "oh i think it's X, do A, B, and C." My wife had the audacity to ask what X was and the doctor told her to google it and then left the room. Luckily my wife works at the hospital in philanthropy and knows the board members and president and other higherups and was able to make a very high level complaint. Hopefully that doctor got canned. Oh, and she was charged like 180 for the visit, 40 dollar copay. For 5 minutes. My god. Please check into it and let us know if that doctor got reprimanded. Google it?? What a joke. The doctor couldn't even tell your wife WTF was wrong with her finger?? And 180 bucks?? To not even get a prescription or anything? Just 'i think it's this; do this and that.' Did the problem even clear up for wife?? It is interesting if you are like me, and for 20 years, didn't even go to the doctor once, to now be going and observing what the system is like. I had to get some heart tests done after being dehydrated a few years ago and I had to wear a monitor for 3 days or something. It was a pain in the ass wearing it. The heart guy never even called to tell me the results. I assume they were OK. Never heard what they were. I figured if they didn't call, I must have checked out OK. I think I asked my regular doc about it and he said I was ok or something like that. I've noticed absolutely NO concern from a doctor to follow up and see if you are ok after they prescribe something or do a procedure. I guess they figure, 'he'll call' if he's not OK. I mean, cmon on. I've never had a doctor give me an e-mail addy. They could f***ing email and take a followup question from customers, but none I've been to, go that route. I guess they are too important and too busy for their 180 bucks for five minutes, to be willing to do a follow up via email. I also had some replacement doctor tell me a specific diagnosis of an Xray a few years ago, and said, 'scary, isn't it?' I got all worked up and was calling family and telling them of my problem and after some other specialist looked at the Xray and did a few neurological tests, it was deemed I was fine. Thanks, doctor No. 1, for those words of wisdom. I think I even had tears well up in my eyes one day concentrating on his words, 'scary isn't it?' And they wonder why people get emotional illnesses when they pull s*** like that. He never even said 'it might be nothing' which, knock on wood, it was. Also in waiting in the waiting rooms I've observed some wild s*** involving payment. Some lady was asked, 'do you have insurance?' She said sadly, 'no. it's what happens when your husband changes careers mid-life.' The payment lady didn't even smile. I am not a big fan of what I've seen in the medical profession. I have found the care in ER has been quite acceptable though. oh, p.s. just thought of something. there's a sign in one of the offices, 'if you have to wait more than 15 minutes for your scheduled appointment, that is unacceptable' or something. I had to wait 25 and didn't say anything; not worth it. I could see somebody else b****ing about that, however. I know there are probably a lot of 'doctor apologists' out there who probably say, 'you don't know what pressure they are under.' 'you don't know what they go through trying to get payment' and all that. Well, a lot of professionals are under duress but these doctors should at least make their nurses available to field questions in a timely manner. If you wanna know something, you gotta call in, and good luck getting an answer w/out making an apptment and dragging your ass back to see the doc. Tell me if I'm outta line, folks. It's just become a peeve of mine. In the quick information age, they don't seem interested in handing out information in a precise, timely manner. But they are efficient in getting your payment information. That is a fact, jack.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 08:14 PM) I believe sometimes High BP can be purely genetic as well. You might be healthy in all other areas, but still have high blood pressure. You also will want to check your blood pressure pretty regularly as you get on the medicine to get a better read. When I had my last physical, my doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure (140/85). Obviously that isn't ridiculously high, but it was high. I went home and took a reading and I was 115/75, which is pretty darn normal. Never took the medication as the more I checked myself, the more I realized my high BP has to do with my massive fear of hospitals/doctors/etc. I step foot into one of those places and my heart just races. Doctor than checked me at my next physical, but waited till the end, when I had calmed down, and got a pretty normal reading. But it is important to make sure you take the appropriate medication and stay on top of it because high blood pressure can be a very serious problem, but it also seems to be something that a huge amount of the population has. That's about where mine was 140/85 range. Sometimes a little over 90. But at the doc my last trip it was 170/105 or something wacky. So he finally gave me the pills. I bought one of those machines and my reading was never as high at 170/105. I guess I feared doctors/hospitals as well until the last couple years where I've been to the doc more often. I usually try to strike up a conversation with the doc about sports and that has made me think of them more as non scary individuals. I will say after visiting doctors the past couple years for some 'minor' things (knock on wood) that I think the medical profession is screwed up. They take way too many patients a day and I'm just not impressed with the level of service u receive.

QUOTE (since56 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 07:45 PM) Just when Dunn has reached fun bad status we trade him? Who else gives us so many laughs? I watch most every game and have started laughing out loud at his at bats. Its even more fun when he gets the occasional hit. On another note, maybe I'm kicking a dead horse but we have had a hole in center field since we traded Rowand. How many years now 5? Don't u dare mention the name Rowand around here. I've done it before and gotten eaten alive.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 08:43 PM) Why wouldn't he? The worst that happens is that no one wants him and nothing changes. Yup, might as well trade to trade the big ox. Can't blame Kenny for trying.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 01:28 PM) You are feeling the normal aftereffects of lowered BP. People with high blood pressure sometime explain a near feeling of vibration throughout their bodies due to how high their BP is, what they're feeling is the rush of blood through their systems. They think this sensation is normal, but it's not. When your BP is then lowered, and there is less blood rushing through your system because it's rushing at a slower rate, this is where the feint feeling comes in. Your body, your brain in specific, is used to the high rate of oxygen it was getting from the massive amount of blood rushing through it...when your pressure is brought down, less oxygen is flowing -- however, it's also the proper amount of oxygen, you just have to re-acclimate to the lowered/normal amount. High BP is not an "in your head" problem, it's an actual physical problem...and yes, not only can it "f*** you up", so much so that it can kill you. The higher the BP in your system is, the more duress the blood vessels are throughout your body, if they burst, depending on where they burst, it can cause debilitating injury or even instant death. Example, if a blood vessel under pressure bursts in your brain, high chance of saying bye bye forever...either that, or some permanent brain damage. Over time, they will either raise or lower the amount of medication you are on to get your BP back to normal levels, then you will maintain. You can assist this process by eating healthy. And less salt. This is the one time where salt can make BP worse...if you have high BP, salt is bad, which is a pretty common misconception people have about salt. Salt does not cause high BP, but if you have high BP, salt will make it worse. The drug you are on, and I haven't heard of that specific version, is probably just a statin derivative, as most BP drugs are. Edit: No, I do not have high BP. My father, however, did...I had to take him to the emergency room when he had a nosebleed that gushed for hours. Turns out his BP was 290/180...needless to say, they instantly admitted him into the ER and he had a 5 day stay at the hospital due to the extreme rate of BP, they had to lower it in a controlled manner or he would have died from a precipitous fall of BP. Thank u very much. 290??/180? Wow. Was he overweight? I'm actually not overweight tho I prolly should lose 5-10 pds to get to a perfect weight for my 6-2 height. I prolly am lucky I'm on the medicine cause I had a throbbing on the side of my temple and maybe something was about to burst. Thank u sir.

After being ever so healthy most of my life (knock on wood) I got diagnosed with high blood pressure. After eating way better and monitoring it for 2 months (I haven't even had a beer all summer), it's still too high so they have put me on Bystolic. Have any of u taken this stuff? Did it lower your blood pressure? Does high blood pressure just exist in the body as a deep dark secret, or can it cause symptoms? For instance since getting on this stuff I feel like some pressure/numbness I felt in my temple, which brought me to the doc in the first place, has reduced. And lately I haven't felt as if I am close to fainting, which also brought me to the doc in the first place. Is this all psychosematic (sp?) or can high blood pressure f*** u up so to speak?? Thank u. I figured somebody on here must have hi blood pressure.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 05:51 AM) I don't expect Viciedo to necessarily light the world on fire, but I do expect him to be good, and I do expect him to drive in some runs. I'll put it this way: if the Sox don't trade Q, I won't be pissed about it. If the Sox do trade Q, and they pick up a couple (or 3) very good-looking young players, and at least one of them is going to contribute right now in addition to Viciedo, then I won't be pissed about it. If the Sox trade Q and get back a future #4 starter and a couple toolsy projects with an ETA of 2014 then I will be f***ing irate. Prospects means they ain't done it yet. As Pittsburg realizes with Alvarez. p.s. Is Brett Lawrie still ticketed for stardom? I always wanted that guy.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 06:37 AM) Not butt heads with GMs That's a fair criticism. Somebody should be axed just over the Dayan mess. But he was talking about in-game decisions.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 06:01 AM) I follow baseball closer than I do any other sport except college football. I wouldn't feel as strongly about Ozzie as I do in relationship to other managers if I didn't see so much of them. What do these other managers do that are so much better than Ozzie?

If we lose Mark, Danks and Floyd, our pitching will be as bad as our hitting and it'll be a 55-win team.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 05:07 AM) It's general because it doesn't need to be specific. Ozzie makes blatant managerial errors on pretty much an everyday basis, and they're obvious for all to see. If you think he's as good an in-game manager as anybody, I mean you have the right to think that but I'm not sure how you could possibly come to that conclusion. I challenge you to follow any other team closely and, believe me, you'll have the same concerns about the manager in any games that team loses. People that get mad when we "leave a pitcher in too long" slay me. If a guy has it rolling through five innings and gets rocked in the sixth, it's not the manager's fault for "not having anybody ready." A starter needs to be able to f***ing pitch six innings. My god. It's fine to second-guess or first-guess or whatever you want. I'm just saying if you follow any team closely chances are you'll find a million things wrong with that manager, too. Ozzie is fine with me.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 29, 2011 -> 12:46 AM) Exactly. I really can't understand how Ozzie has defenders left. To a degree, I get the people who still defend Kenny even though I don't at all. Ozzie is just such an amazingly poor game manager though. And there's nothing he can do in any other aspect to overcome that. This is such a general criticism of Ozzie. I think he's as good an in-game manager as anybody and Florida is lucky to get him. If Kenny trades Quentin, I'd love to be done with the Sox, but it's in my blood and I can't be. This year has been a total joke. All of a sudden they are going to make all these bizarre moves just cause it's the trading deadline? Uh, they could have called up Viciedo before we lost 3 of 4 to Minnie and got faceplaned 4 of 6 to KC. but nooooooo we couldn't do that and try to improve the offense. What a failure of a GM we have.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) Lets just pray that Quentin doesn't get injured. All I'm worried about at this point. QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) To me it seems like Quentin could still be somewhat of a bargain if he was making $7 to $9 million next year (as someone speculated). I realize the Sox may be slowly slashing payroll, but I'm not a huge fan of getting rid of Quentin to do so. It's too bad Rios' contract is so bad. 1.) I hope you are ready for a long rebuild. Are you going to follow the Sox if they get rid of everybody and suck like the Royals for 5-6 years? Quentin is our second best hitter. 2.) This. CQ should be part of our future plans. Too bad our GM can't make creative trades or steal players of value once in a while. Trading Quentin leaves a gaping hole in the lineup for some time to come.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:43 PM) Out. The GM has no clue on how to trade. QUOTE (since56 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 09:59 PM) Once out, wouldn't getting back in be jumping on the band wagon? So if the Sox make a run this season, no one who is out will get on board? QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 10:01 PM) Add "indifferent". 1.) His lousy trades are growing old, real old. Man he is underwhelming. 2.) No. Most of us follow the team every day. Who cares if we don't believe at the present time? 3.) Great post. I still am indifferent as well. No Dayan has made me that way. If Dunn somehow gets hot and Beckham and Lexi start raking and Rios stays on the bench and DeAza excels, maybe I'll believe. We're not taking advantage of a pretty good offensive season from AJP, that's for sure.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 28, 2011 -> 03:02 PM) Then you and I have watched a different Philip Humber. He's been just as good the last few games as he's been for most of the season, save for the actual bad outing against the Twins. He just has a manager who refuses to believe that he burns out at 90-95 pitches. How can a young kid burn out at 90 pitches? So he's a five-inning guy? Six max?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 10:29 PM) Lotta strikeouts, lotta movement on his pitches, inconsistent strikezone One inning he faced 5 guys, no one put the ball in play. 2 BB, 3 K's. Interesting. I like Danks.