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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 06:14 AM) Congrats to Rick Hahn for providing Robin Ventura one of the worst bullpens (minus the back end of Jones and Robertson) in recent Sox memory...at least back to 2007. 2014, if you want to go there...but nothing was expected of that team, at all. Jones is OK, but even he has sucked on occasion. Not flaming him, he's acceptable so far with potential to be really good they tell me. QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 02:30 PM) Yeah, at the beginning of the year the pen was on fire. Then Petricka went down. Then Albers lost it. Then Putnam went down. Kinda hard to come through that unscathed. This is where I disagree. I never liked any of those 3. Albers had one of the great stretches ever but then almost single handedly blew our great 23-10 start. Putnam reeks. Petricka stinks.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 1, 2016 -> 08:11 PM) Where is Greg to assume now that Hillary's going down with the AG officially stepping out of the way...? I'm so fed up with politics and the corruption. So the AG meets with Bill Clinton on the tarmac? "Wink wink she's not going to be indicted is she, AG?" It's all so crooked and there are no options for an upstanding individual being President this time with Hillary and Trump the candidates. Wheelin and dealin. My ultimate goal would be to indict Hillary and get her out of the way; promote Bernie to candidate; have Trump get passed by at the convention by Kasisch, McCain or somebody and have Bernie or McCain win. We can deal with Bernie's socialist side later. He seems the one candidate who is not a crook.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 1, 2016 -> 05:32 PM) "keeps it up" has to be at least 1.5 full seasons. Yes, there's just no way of telling if he's going to be great or not. So far he's been great except for the walks. Once he hits a slump, that's not going to help any.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 03:43 PM) I agree with this. Real world experience is so much more valuable than classroom experience. When I got my first IT job I learned more in my first 6 months there than I ever did in any of my classes. I'm sure a lot of other careers are similair. It's just not possible to duplicate the real world in a classroom setting. I understand what many of you like ptatc is saying. So it costs the hospitals money? Well don't have interns then. I know I'm inflexible on my opinion here, but I think a place of business that expects interns to report for duty and do actual work should pay the interns some money. It doesn't have to be more than minimum wage by a dollar or two, but don't have an internship program if you don't pay anything. The fact you get a handful of credit hours is worth something, yes it is. I just think in a great country like America everybody who does work for a company that actually benefits the company should make a few cents doing it. I mean I worked for a golf course several summers as a high school and college kid. They could have refused to pay me and instead given me all the free golf and swimming my heart desired. If I loved golf I guess I probably would do it, but it would be wrong of the golf course even though that's worth a lot of money in green fees. What free golf is is a nice perk for employees but thankfully they paid me and I got to keep my tips, too.

No offense to Robin, but I consider Francona and Maddon special managers who can make a difference. Look at the Indians and the Cubs. I also considered Leyland special and remember how Detroit dominated under him. Now Yost and Ventura are the buffoons in the division so to speak. Minnie just has no talent at all. You have to admit it'd be neat to at least try with a genius of a manager and see if that would change things for the Sox. I loved Ozzie but even he was unproven. How bout our next manager be a proven genius! How bout the Yankee manager. He should be about ready to move on. He's been there too long in this day and age of what have you done for me lately?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 09:56 PM) A lisfranc fracture is a really bad one. It's in the metatarsals near the ankle. I would doubt it's that from the description but it's possible. Does this mean his foot would have soon been injured with use? Had he stayed in the minors was the injury imminent?

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 01:53 PM) Get rid of Lawrie? What in the actual f***? LOL#HotTake I just want Saladino in the lineup. I don't despise Lawrie, but Saladino can't play outfield. Frazier or Davidson at third, the other one DH; Anderson at short, Saladino at second and Abreu at first. QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) This move is a bit of desperation .. Davidson at his best will come up at hit ...240 and provide some power. Any extended stay and he'll be absolutely Hopefully h'll hit like 3 dingers this week.. much rather see May .240 isn't bad nowadays. Isn't baseball just full of .240 to .260 hitters in the post steroid era?

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Jun 13, 2016 -> 03:34 PM) Well I was at the game yesterday and had a clear view into the broadcast booth and something I saw there was very telling. If you've ever seen it, when it's Hawk and Stone... they are literally sitting at opposite ends of the booth. They literally could not be farther apart physically. I found that so odd the first time I saw it, because I thought broadcast teams sit somewhat close to each other. When I looked in the booth yesterday with Jason/Stone, I was shocked to see them pretty much sitting right next to each other. They were even talking and laughing between innings. I think that says a lot. Wow that is huge if true. I've noticed Hawk and Stoney are as far apart as possible as you said.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 06:12 AM) Reminiscent of the infamous Jose Paniagua game against the Twins in 2003. (That was the last game that particular season we beat them, if memory serves correctly.) I really thought former Sox prospect Escobar (who kills us usually) was going to drill a line drive just barely over the fence and tie it up...well, just because we lived through the same or similar outcomes in Texas and against the Royals that three game set with 3 blown leads, including the HUGE lead in the 9th. Actually, pretty sure 90% of Sox fans had already moved on to other things and were shocked to see how close it came to actually being a tie game there in the 9th despite a 9-1 lead. When Jennings hit that batter on a crap breaking ball all bets were off and I thought we might lose. Fans were standing cheering for the final out and little did they know it almost never came. Disgraceful ending.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 08:16 PM) They are interns man, how did a manager not say to them once "hey you know what, I hear what you are saying but we have our dress code because we are client facing and feel it's important to always be business professional [or whatever reason]. For the rest of the summer I want you to focus on x, y, and z. If you really feel passionate about this, come up with a 5 minute presentation on why we should change and be ready to present in front of me and a few colleagues, if we deem it good enough we may move it up the corporate ladder. But this work should be done only after x, y and z are completed or unaffected." Sounds like a terrible company from top to bottom, elitist, entitled managers who agreed to take on interns but didnt put in the effort to help lead them to success and decided to take the lazy way out by just firing them, hurting their company image for future interns. I normally would cut the interns some slack, but again, I do not like the petition and the signing of it by people. This is pretty strong insubordination. They didn't even ask around enough to know the person with the flats had no fricking leg. I remember once some busybody worker tried to get a petition going and I not only did not sign it I warned people I liked at the company to NOT go there. Signing these petitions doesn't work cause eventually the petition which is easy to write up and pass around turns into a MEETING with real people and real voices not a piece of paper. No boss is gonna grab the petition and go, "Great idea! Pepole we will implement your suggestions now." No ... they wanna talk to the ringleaders of the petition! I just think these interns deserved the boot. Now had they gone person to person to a manager to discuss a "concern" or a "policy" I'd have more respect for the Millenial.

OK get rid of Lawrie and it'll be Davidson at third, Anderson at short, Saladino at second and Frazier DH. That's a start. Saladino and Davidson and Anderson have a fighting chance.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 03:31 AM) I read an article yesterday that said quite the opposite. Shuck said that the early April energy is back and players are as loose as they were then Man I don't see it in their play. Shields pitching better will probably help in that regard a bit, but ...

our team mindset is not a good one. We definitely lost all swagger that we had early early early on.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 04:22 AM) Been saying it for awhile. Just rebuild and get great young impact prospects. Even many of our victories conclude with a "what the f*** was that?" walk to the car.

That was kind of embarrassing ninth inning. Please folks, it's time to sell. I've seen what contenders look like. Soxtalk.com people ... This is no contender.

Plouffe is a Sox killer as I recall.

Last year was crazy. After acting like a contender at the deadline, the team promptly went in the tank, as if on cue. Nothing like a hit batsman with the fans on their feet cheering for the final out. Horrible pitch.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 03:00 AM) At 2 1/2 out you don't give up I think you have to give up cause we're not a playoff team. I'd at least get rid of Lawrie soon so Saladino can play every day. Call up Davidson see what he's got.

I wonder if that had an effect on the Over in Vegas?

Sox are .500 again. If it wasn't for the weird way they've gotten there (23-10 followed by 10-23) Robin would be beloved.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 03:52 AM) Lol they pulled purse after 2 batters. And that's the last you'll ever see of him. Purse must be purged from the roster asap.

Saladino is an MLB caliber hitter. Time to play him EVERYDAY! Look at the spark he gives the team.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 09:04 PM) Not really. If you don't want to take an unpaid internship in exchange for real world work experience which looks nice on a resume...there is this insane idea I have: DON'T TAKE IT. I'm surprised you don't see anything wrong with putting people to work, benefitting from them and not paying them anything. A lot of companies used to expect to pay 1-2 interns a summer, but then jumped for joy when colleges came up with this plan to give a couple hours credit for work. To me, it's just more of what America has become. Not many opportunities to make $$$ for the little guy.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 08:49 PM) The petition was most certainly the wrong call. They obviously made a mistake but I definitely think the company probably should have explained to them why it was inappropriate rather than firing them. They are f***ing kids FFS. Thing is the petition thing is pretty juvenile. Again ... those things never work. Every once in a while somebody thinks it's a good idea to pass around a protest and have everybody sign it, then you deliver it to management and wait for the bombs to fall. It's like "you had time to organize this protest when you could have been working?" Etc. This did scream entitlement though, the workers comparing one person's footwear to another. All in all probably a good idea to get rid of them all.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 08:55 PM) I still disagree. Why should the company lose money to take college students on internships? From our view, many of the hospitals couldn't afford to take them if they had to pay them as well. The company should lose money because it is putting them to work. If it's just the interns observing, fine, college credit is OK. But many companies have them doing work. It's really not classy to make people work for free even if they get a couple credit hours. I remember summer jobs were important to me when I was in school. It was a way to make spending money at college and gas money, etc., since my parents paid the big three - tuition, books and room and board. I also had internships in which I did get paid. One summer I stayed in my campus town and worked for a company 20 minutes away in my field but got paid.