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And yet 300 wins is a staple to get into the Hall of Fame. Good luck setting new standards for Hall admission now that wins don't matter at all.

Look I'm allowed to fight back once in a while. It's not trolling it's being pxxxxd off. I noticed what Stone said after each of the three home runs and they were citing stats most of you deem inconsequential.

B.S. I'm not trolling anybody. I'm giving opinions, You might hate my political opinions as well if we were allowed to post them any more. Some people on this board will never accept the fact there are people with DIFFERERING OPINIONS. Guess what. I love Jose had a friend in town today from Chicago and he wasn;'t shocked by any of my Sox points. And he said everybody he knows likes Abreu. He is a HUGE Sox fan BTW.

I just couldn't take him seriously ever because with the stress he put on that arm with that ridiculous motion he was going to get hurt, just a matter of when.

So tell me Ron, who on the team is a fun hitter right now? What White Sox hitters does Ron give his seal of approval to? Name them now. I'm thinking there are uh, none.

Great post vile. I love Abreu and am chanting "2 more years; two more years" right now with a team option for year three! Love me some Jose!

Nice win, watched the highlights. Eloy and Timmy go deep along with Leury's grand slam. Nice job Lopez. Now quit reading if you hate me or are easily offended. I have to call it like I see it. Listen to the home run calls on the 3 homers. Stoney's only color is to IMMEDIATELY tell the viewer how many homers and RBIs the hitter now has. Hmmm. ... shouldn't you advanced stat people flood the network with emails and tweets telling Stoney to get with it and quit announcing RBIs for gosh sakes. And by gosh, quit giving pitchers' records. Quit talking about that during the intro to the game. Those categories mean nothing and need to quit being mentioned.

One thing about companies ... I love (not really) the way when a new person is hired, HR has them a.) fill out a million forms. b.) make them watch dumb videos on various things. c.) give them all these passwords and ridiculous hurdles to climb just to log into systems. Etc. But ... when a person quits or is fired, as long as they turn in their company equipment, that's it. No contact with HR; just assume you'll get your W2 form sometime in January.

Wow. That is awesome you cut him off. If you'd have disciplined him would his mommy have complained though, as VP?

How was she after that? Reliable or not?

To be fair to RR, they are probably homers who always criticize the opponent but never the Phils strategy. I'm guessing that's the case. That's why I loved Hawk and Stone. Hawk would rip the Sox for dumb decisions too. Most announcing crews only criticize the opponent. The Royals do that all the time regarding the Sox. Denny Matthews the Hall of Famer will mock the Sox; never mock the Royals.

I agree with you in theory. But I think his whole approach will always be home run or nothing. I mean the stat people can't have it both ways. It's been stressed that's a smart way to hit now by the experts. Try to hit a home run every at bat and strikeouts aren't that bad. That's baseball right now and maybe for a long time to come. In the old days it was OK to hit gappers and it was OK for instance to have the leadoff man get on and the second hitter of the game hit and run him to third. Now no running and u better develop a swing that accounts for many homers. Cheers.

Yes sir: the unwritten rule: "Tie at home; win on the road. WTF?" Time to fire him, just let him go. Bring up Omar.

To tell u the truth, he should be fired (again) for the squeeze. You don't squeeze Eloy the gazillion dollar man when the team is buried in the standings. Eloy could get hurt on the squeeze which was unnecessary. I know you don't play scared, but even if I was tempted to squeeze I'd stop myself with slow/valuable Eloy on third.

Pretty good fastball there. I thought he coulda hit the next to last pitch in the sequence. Oh well we have no business beating the Phils anyway.

I was thinking we might squeeze but not with Eloy on third and risk of him getting hurt. Not crazy about the bunt there; not crazy about Yolmer's chances of lofting a deep nuff fly ball either. Bummer.

Even Greg, critical of Detweiler, agrees and says, "Nice outing, sir."

It was not one of my best. To summize: Timmy (good defender according to greg); Abreu below average.

I tend to give guys like Timmy and Abreu a break on defense cause of the focus you suggest. Don't forget. We have a lousy slow working pitching staff which doesn't help the infielders any. And we have a gawd-awful team, which I pointed out recently could be part of the reason Jose and others sometimes look pathetic at the plate, giving away at bats so to speak in this homerun, strikeout or nothing era. I do think Timmy is an elite offensive and defensive SS of the future and do concede Jose is below average defensively focus or not. I do also note that I've seen worse defenders than Jose.

Thanks gusguyman. Very interesting. Thanks for filling me in. I did not check his college stats; I assume he was a stud though; that's a good baseball school.

Stoney and Jason do a nice job; this joking about the hot dog cannon and pizza cannon vs chili cannon is OK humor. I don't mind it since Stoney is obviously close to Jason. Can you imagine Hawk? Though I like Hawk a lot still he'd be very unreceptive to talking about such drivel.

I just read a little about Zavala. Still a youngster, 25. San Diego State. 12th rounder which isn't very special. My ? is ... is he any good? has he been thought of as a good prospect or just another guy? Thank u.

Probably considering an outfielder was pitching. He hit a cannon to third though that should have been in the corner for a double. Calling up Covey though really is a fireable offense by whomever did it.

I watched Fulmer busting butt down the line hustling his butt off trying to beat it out and I was impressed with him. I thought that's what sports is all about. Great effort. This is even though financially it makes no sense for him to hustle and possibly (probably since he did) get hurt and according to many fans who want to lose and continue tanking certainly makes no sense trying to beat it out in a game we were so close to losing and helping our draft position. In conclusion I applaud Fulmer for caring when nobody would have blamed him for loafing down the basepaths and staying healthy for a team going nowhere. His loafing could have been explained away that he's not used to running the basepaths and had trouble getting out of the box, etc. Kudos to Fulmer for trying to win when so many want the tank to cause L after L. TWTW really shows in a segment like that.

He turns 29 in December which in this day and age is eons younger than Jose's 33. They have almost identical (traditional) stats. I don't mind Puig. He's a good hitter. He's really going to help Cleveland maybe win it all finally.