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Is this a wraparound four game series where we can get swept? Or just three losses? Aren't we getting close to season-worst in terms of games below .500?? Good job Robin. Good job Coop. Good job hitting coach; I won't dignify using your name cause I forgot it.

Geez, what is Sanchez doing there? Guessing fastball and waving at two balls in the dirt? Ridiculously bad at bat. Sox lose again. Wretched baseball team. Horrid season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 03:51 AM) Eaton walked to bring tying run to the plate and you would have never known by his tone Fair nuff. But he went wild on Saladino's hit.

Nice hit Abreu! Not to be an utter dick, but the rally stops here, right now. (good job, Abreu though).

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 03:44 AM) Feel free to show the slightest bit of excitement Chuck. How come u guys don't like Swirsk? Glad Saladino got that hit. He'd been struggling.

Eaton got lucky there. The ump should have rung him on that letters high strike. It wasn't a ball. Sox need some heroics like a rare long ball.

QUOTE (TRU @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 01:20 AM) When someone tries to sell me that a child getting murdered was "gods plan" for them, that's about enough for me to turn my head at that nonsense. Whoever says that has an incorrect stance on the matter. Nobody ever says that. God is the rock that helps people through those tragedies. He's going nowhere except to be a steadfast rock for people. Someone has told you a death of a kid is God's plan? When? Where? QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 01:33 AM) Religion has simply been an attempt to control the middle class and poor throughout history and keep them relatively passive/obedient. I don't know about that. Like I was saying, some ultra intelligent people (JIMMY CARTER) believe in the whole entire shebang. God as master of the universe; sitting on a throne, etc. You can't deny some INTELLIGENT people believe and are not believing to be controlled.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) Please just stop. The police officer had 2 young kids and a wife. Yes I'm upset.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 08:45 PM) If anyone on this team is a "big-time problem", it's John Danks, not Melky. Cmon. I can start listing guys WAY worse than Danks on this team. Danks has at least competed and given effort start in and out. Some of these everyday players are stealing money (again) this season.

QUOTE (harkness @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 01:36 AM) Chuck is a nice guy.. But all those people earlier this year praising his skill.. I'm not sure what you are smoking but its some good stuff. Some of you guys expect a lot out of your announcers. I like Swirsk tonight. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) Stone does seem awfully sarcastic Just now he seemed to be enjoying telling that story to Swirsk. Seemed like he was OK with him. QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 03:26 AM) No he won't. Mark Robin seems like an outstanding guy. He has to know the team has no chance with him in charge. If he is manager in April and loses the first 3 vs. KC again (which will happen, unless it's Detroit or Cleveland or Minnie we open with this time and lose 3 to them) it'll be the same ol s***ty season starting all over again. I think he'll agree to step down. He knows his teams are disgracefully bad and have no chance again vs. the Central Division teams.

Robin has pride. He'll resign after this season. You can't save your job directing a team this s***ty. Bye Robin. You tried but the team is one of the worst in baseball again with a relatively decent payroll. Bye bye.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 09:28 PM) It's all ridiculous mantras and pointless rituals given way too much supernatural qualities. Catholics believe Jesus is actually present in the communion wafer and the wine, instead of just treating it as symbolism like it should be. But we make a big deal out of the fact it is real, not symbolism. In fact it is the whole reason we have Catholicism and Mass.

On a police related note, some lowlife piece of s*** gunned down a police officer Friday night while he was walking out of a gas station's convenience store in Texas. This is unacceptable as a society ... again. I would think we are going to look back at 2015 as the year things started to spiral out of control violence wise and never ever get better. The poor kids being brought into this violent pathetic world. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/29/us/texas-she...tion/index.html

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 07:01 PM) I don't think anybody on this Earth has any actual concept of God. So I doubt any form of religion would even come close to getting it right, if there is a God. Christians, especially in the south, basically go against the basic tenets of their religious beliefs by the way they treat people who aren't like them. Jesus would accept everyone, southern Christians wouldn't dare. Living down here, you'd think Obama, Caitlyn Jenner and any openly gay person were the most evil people on the planet. It makes me sick. I was raised Catholic, I realized it was a joke when I was 13. I work at a global Catholic television network, good job security. Why did you realize it was a "joke" at 13. I don't think it's a joke at all. I believe in Communion and most things in the Catholic faith.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) I find Jimmy John's boring...there is really nothing unique about their sandwiches at all. You can go to ANY grocery store and make a Jimmy John's sub. Potbelly, Snarf's, places like that...you can't just replicate their food at home without really trying. I agree. Jimmy John's is not a great sandwich.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 04:53 PM) Vegas certainly isn't buying into this Cubs team. Odds to win the series are worse now than they were before the season started. That's good news then. Think of all the Chicagoans out in Vegas betting 1000 or so bucks on the Cubs winning it all. Vegas knows so I'm glad we're safe this first postseason of their upcoming dominance. No Cub title this year!

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 05:10 PM) Someone wil be glad to take Laroche. He has a good hitting history before 2015 and has a gold glove defense. We took a chance on him and I am sure someone else would too. Now saying that if we keep him that's fine with me too No team will take on LaRoche, elrockin. There's age to consider and it's obvious he's done. There's no reason to give him 500 at bats and get about 10 home runs. QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) Going to be lots of disappointed people in here. Do you know what team you root for? They aren't doing a full rebuild. Not happening. They will add somehow in the offseason, roll with great pitching, and try to win in 2016. Just the way this org does things. Afraid you are right. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) I'm really surprised by the size of the Melky Cabrera apologist society. He didn't strike me as the type of player so many would make excuses for. Excellent post. Melky is a big-time problem. Got to somehow get rid of him.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 07:07 PM) In general, I try to stay pretty level headed on this board, but I Gotta get this off my chest..... . If you root for the sox and also like to watch the Cubs, that's cool. Certainly not gonna criticize anyone for that. I get that they are exciting and good and are a Chicago team. I have tons of friends and in-laws that are Cubs fans, and plenty who root for both. Not everyone gets caught up in the Cubs vs sox stuff, and I get that. However, for a select segment of sox fans, rooting against the Cubs is part of being a sox fan. Growing up in the SW burbs, I fall into this category. And I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna catch flack for hating on the Cubs. Do the Cubs have great young talent and a super bright future with a great front office? Of course they do. But why do I have to all of a sudden change my feelings for that team based on their success? Rooting against them is part of my identity as a sports fan, just as they have fans who will root against the sox for their lifetime. If you wanna hate on me and b**** at me for that, I guess that's your right. You can think it's childish, but it's my opinion (and part of my sports ethos) that rivalries in sports are a great thing. And I would never expect a Michigan man to root for the Buckeyes, an Midshipman to root for the Cadets, etc. Cubs vs sox may not be as big of a rivalry as those others, but if you don't think the rivalry exists, you clearly didn't grow up in the same neighborhoods as I did. And when it comes to me hating on the Cubs, I'm gonna keep watching and hoping they lose every single goddamn day. I am getting sick and tired of people (and not just on this board) trying to tell me who I can and can't root for and why. Great post. It sucks that we blew our 10 year window. Sox should have built on the WS title not sucked after winning it all. Now the Cubs finally have caught the sox and it could get really ugly the next 10 years. Sox appear to be all pitching, nothing else. Cubs look like they are going to dominate in the Bryant era. Very very sad. f*** the Cubs but they are probably gonna win 2-3 WS and we have a lot of work to do to be a WC contender again. Sox seem very far off. f*** the Cubs though. Hope they lose early in playoffs. QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 08:57 PM) Because the White Sox are really, really bad. The Cubs are over 20 games over .500. What team are you watching?! Yep. They are way way better. I think their manager has helped them, too. QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 11:14 PM) The national media thinks of us as a bunch of Cub hating, umpire attacking losers who become relevant once a decade. That probably is true. The White Sox are recognized more for wearing shorts in 76 and attacking the ump than the 05 title. That turned out to be a glorious fluke if you will. So glad Oz and the boys took advantage that year and won it all. If they "only" made the ALDS or the WS only to lose that woulda sucked as it turned out. Cause now the Cubs appear primed to steal a couple WS minimum.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 04:43 AM) Ugh being a sox fan sucks right now. Just keep losing. Sorry to piss off a lot here with that but it's best thing for us. Devil's advocate ... they'll just draft a great college pitcher. Do you have the confidence they'll make the right trades of pitchers for everyday stars? We can't win with great pitching alone and there's no doubt the sox will take another great pitcher. Big deal. We have great pitching now and horrific everyday hitters.

Did anyone see the compiled list of quotes out of one of Trump's books? Hilarious. I wonder if Kelly will bring up some of his comments in the debates vs. Hilly. One was tweeted, then deleted: "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?” He said while his bride was walking down the aisle he thought, "What am I doing here? She's not good enough for me." He also talked about how he can get any woman, just a list of crazy comments. He said, "If I were running The View, I'd fire Rosie. I mean, I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.' We're all a little chubby, but Rosie's just worse than most of us." He said: "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." http://theweek.com/articles/569725/123-thi...p-actually-said America is crazy at this point in time. People love the fact Trump is non PC and saying all this crazy stuff. Yet they are the first to be outraged at any non PC comment by anybody else. So America do you want to be PC all the time or not? If not ... elect Mr. Trump. He's nuts (in a good, cocky way).

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 01:38 AM) Pull Danks this is so predictable. What was predictable? That he'd have another good outing as he did?

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 03:14 AM) No s***. Field a good team for f***ing once. Jeez Good business would have been to have somebody go through the crowd with box seats in hand and give out some free tickets for a game in mid September. This team is one of the worst hitting teams in modern Sox history. I said "modern."

This is why the Sox pretty much have to start over in terms of putting a team on the field every day. The pitching is fine. It's wildcard worthy. But the hitting is so bad that no way this team will contend for a wild card next year without a total overhaul. Can Hahn pull it off?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) My mom could barely walk by her early 60s and she was just a teacher. If she didn't have a solid pension to fall back on she'd probably have been teaching for 5 years from a chair. It's asinine to make people work until they are 69. There will be lots of stories like your mom's. You work til you are 69, according to stats, you'll likely have five years of freedom til you die in mid 70s.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 10:40 PM) These are the costs of the freedoms we refuse to live without We have to hope we're never in the wrong place at the wrong time. So many people are getting killed/ambushed by cowards.