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QUOTE (spiderman @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) They get the Yankees again at home, or do you mean Boston? I think the nice weather generally helps as well. Weekend games, even with the team out of contention will get them at least 25, and sometimes around 30K if fireworks are in play. This weekend, they should do 100K for the Cubs series. Do you think if they continue to get clobbered in games leading to the Cub series they might only average about 25,000 to 28,000 per game? I'd think there definitely will be more Cub fans than Sox fans.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 01:26 AM) Man greg, for someone who calls Danks a good a** pitcher it sure is silly to say Shark is MAYBE an above average pitcher. Most hear know I love Danks too, so don't get me twisted. Danks is good 66% of the time whereas Shark is good 75% of time (just throwing random numbers out there). If you think Jeff is maybe slightly above average then there's no way you should think Danks is anything more than average. Your obsession with Melky's clown like behavior is also silly to me. Look at the teams like KC, San Fran, the Boston team that won the WS, Detroit with Miggy others. They all had fun and "Acted like clowns". That's huge to me, baseball is a longgggg grind, if you're not having fun out there, you're doing it wrong. Gimme a manager who is gonna keep players loose. That's all I care about. Let the hitting coach deal with the hitting and the pitching coach deal with the pitching. The only gripe i have with Robin is the long rope he has given LaRoach. I kinda get it because if he ever gets hot he can carry a team but it just doesn't look like its gonna happen Thanks. Great post! You are probably right about my comments. I guess I'd say Danks is an average pitcher and Shark an above average pitcher. OK, in today's market I'd say he's worth more like 13-15 million a year over 5 years (I sure hope the Sox don't sign him) than the 20-25 million a year he's going to get. That's just stupid. Granted, he pitched very well at times and may just be in a little funk. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 01:43 AM) It's a new generation of baseball. These guys chat and have fun. I don't have an issue as long as he's producing. I'll probably get off my angry kick now that the Sox are done getting whipped by the Royals again (damn I made the smart call in turning down those free tickets Sat and Sunday though Sat's tickets were REALLY good ones and free; and it was a perfect night for ball; i just couldnt stand the though of being with 3 royals fans and me the lone sox fan; you see I KNEW 100 percent we were gonna get swept). As far as the Melk-ster ... I don't remember Melky being this clown-ish before the Royals series. Maybe he was yukking it up with his former teammates more than usual. But it did piss me off. It seems like you need to concentrate more. Maybe he is concentrating since he did lash the game-tying hit. Maybe he concentrates at the plate then acts buffoon-ish only when he is safely on first or second or third. I'll probably get over that, but since the Royals announcers brought it up (I had to listen to them on radio since I had some work to do) as clownish it even made me more mad than normal.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 03:20 PM) And while I'm on a roll...the "get a single, look at the dugout, stir it up, blow it up, blow it out your ass" thing they're doing is stupid too. Great post QUOTE (lord chas @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 03:25 PM) I agree with this. Sick of the all the grab assing and antics. Maybe can start playing around when you are over .500 for once Great post. I said this in the game thread, but Melky jumping all over the Royals players and high fiving them after getting on base is hilarious (in a bad way of course). Melky is like the kid who plays for the 0-10 Little League team who gets on base against the 10-0 dominant team and tries to interact with the big bad opponent. Slap hands, hug 'em. The big bad opponent looks at him like, whatever dude, I'll slap your hand then continue to kick your ass. KC undefeated vs. Sox in Kauffman this season. LOL. Next time try to kiss one of the Royals, Melky. It's really a clown look.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 09:32 PM) Any real emotion for this team went out the window for me when McEwing sent Alexei home last week. That was the nail in the coffin. Exactly. At that moment I gave up for good. QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 11:21 PM) Glass half full: the Sox were in every game. It's just typical of the season so far, finding ways to lose rather than finding ways to win. Royals find a way to win because they believe they are good enough to win a WS. Again, I'll take a .500 season. Get Sale and Shark back on track (do your f***ing job, Cooper) and there's a very good chance of that happening. Needle would be pointing up heading into next season. The most enjoyable part of this 2nd half so far has been the notion that Jeff Samardzija would somehow of brought a king's ransom in return for a trade. I do enjoy reading the lamentations of ST posters convinced that our farm system would somehow have been STOCKED by that trade to (?). Sox gambled and possibly lost. That's what they do, they roll the dice. But if they don't find a way to start winning in the next few weeks, it won't be a debilitating loss. Glass half empty here. First of all, you are wrong about Shark's trade value. If we would have traded him when I was calling for it (during one of those horrific streaks the team had in May or June, I forget) we'd have gotten a LOT for Shark. He was pitching well at one point. Teams were scouting him and he was doing well. Sox waited and now he's a total hack and worthless. If anybody pays him over 8 mill a year for 3-4 years they are nutso. He's just another body. Maybe a slightly above average pitcher ... maybe. Good luck getting your .500 season. I think Melky's clownlike behavior proves Sox heads are not in the game (Soto's baserunning). How come the Bulls can get rid of a great coach like thibs and the Sox can't pull the trigger on a lousy coaching staff and get rid of Robin?? Makes no sense. GIMME GARDY. GIMME A VETERAN MANAGER.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 08:05 PM) Cabrera giving Hosmer a high five? Harrelson must be ready to have a coronary...that whole modern day fraternization thing on the field drives him nuts. Melky is a clown disgracing the game of baseball. Please, White Sox, get rid of him. He's like the guy on the lousy team trying to get the players on the good team to notice him. Meanwhile the guys on the good team continue to stomp on the lousy players like Melky. He is a buffoon and this series has made a mockery of COMPETITION. Get rid of him!!

Trump is so funny. He went on all the Sunday shows and refused to apologize. And he turned it around perfectly in saying only a "deviant" would think he was referring to Kelly having her period. He said he was going to say blood out the nose or ears. He's the best. He's in the midst of his 15 minutes of fame (regarding the presidential election; I realize he's had way more than 15 minutes of fame in real life). People are going to tire of him and he is going to fall obviously. You know, if he was truly smart he'd drop out the moment another Republican candidate starts to creep up to him in the polls. Drop out before the inevitable fall. I guess it's possible those other candidates are so bad, so boring, so ordinary that he gets the nomination. But my gut is telling me people are LOVING somebody speaking his mind and not acting like a politician but ULTIMATELY Trump and his wild hairdo will start to bore a populace that likes to move on to the next great thing. As far as today ... I think it's great he won again. He won't apologize and has turned the Kelly controversy around perfectly saying if you think he meant Kelly having a period you are "deviant" Brilliant!

Medlen stinks so the Sox may not be completely buried yet.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) Had their chances. Hopefully when the Sox get good again they learn how to sweep bad teams like the Royals are doing again to the Sox. One of the problems in the Oz era and Robin era was we'd win two and lose the Sunday game. I hope when the Sox get good again they learn how to sweep people.

QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 07:56 PM) 1) Doesn't surprise me. All it means is that Sox hitters may be physically talented, but they are also having problems in selfish attitude, coachability and/or lacking in smarts or the attention-span, to implement Steverson's sage advice in practice. 3) It still means Steverson is responsible for his part of overall failure. Re. 1) Also a lot of our players are not that talented. 3. I tend to blame players more than coaches but I do think Steverson is no better than Walker and Walker was the devil to many fans.

Our bad baseball team is so predictable (except for the 7-1 road trip). Sox are a bad bad baseball team that a struggling Royals team swept with ease. Now that it doesn't matter we'll probably hit a Royals batter when we should have hit one in the opener.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 07:46 PM) Team is bad yet Hahn to dumb to see it. Once Cub series is over I hope the cell is ghost town the brass deserves nothing less. I don't think Hahn is dumb. They just made the easy, wrong decision about a White Flag sale. The Sox thought they were in the wild card race but these players showed their true colors right after the trade deadline. Granted it's now a fireable offense NOW to not have known 7-1 vs Cleveland and Boston meant nothing. Hahn also should be fired for the Melky/LaRoche acquisitions in the offseason, but they are not necessarily "dumb." Some people liked the acquisitions. We also really didn't need Robertson. Could have done closer by committee again.

QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 07:32 PM) Those 3-2 hacks are WAY too big. Just dumb baseball 101. Yes but most hitters today are taking the same hacks on 3-2 as any count. Again, it's not just Eaton, whom I'm not a big fan of, but it's a disease in baseball today. Many (most) hitters swing from their heels with two strikes. Pete Rose was talking about that. It's macho s***.

QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 07:25 PM) 1) That's because Coop has always had so much sheer TALENT to work with. Vazquez, Buerhle, Garland, Freddy, Colon, Contreras, Edwin Jackson, Liriano, Sale, Samardja, Quintana, Danks, Javy Vazquez, 2005 version of Brandon McCarthy just to name a few off the top of head... are you effin' kidding me! And also because he once upon a time was probably a decent coach, with some strengths, no doubt. Just not the demigodly guru that he is to most Sox fans/commentators. 2) Sale is not necessarily hurt, though he is high risk for it obviously. It's just that as most other Don Cooper proteges, Chris Sale doesn't do well under big pressure. He will overwhelm you with sheer velocity and late movement, but if his back is under a wall, his focus will occasionally wane, his mechanics go out of whack, his breaking ball hangs inside, his change-up is tipped off.... you get the point. It's also why the whole "double-digit strike-out streak" was so friggin' stupid. WHO CARES! All it did was cause Sale to overthrow and over-stress his arm. Even the big innings like the 4th in Minnesota or the 6th in Boston happen because of the usueless trivia pressure to K batters. Fans and even managers care about trivia nonsense way too much IMO. Toronto is not the team Sox are chasing for final WC spot. It's the declining Angels since Pujols juice revival can only take him so far. Trout, too, Cmon. Your Coop criticism is a little out of hand. He's not the devil. I may not like him much, personality wise, but you are acting like he's Bevington. The pitchers deserve some of the scorn, most of the scorn.

I didn't want to start a negative thread so I'll bring it up here about Robin/Melky/LaRoche. Should Robin or Jerry talk to Melky about not being a clown and LaRoche about shaving? LaRoche looks like an idiot with that shaggy beard IMO. He did hit a bomb on Friday but aside from that has been an utter failure as a Sox. Melky gets on base and bear-hugs the first baseman; then he goes to second and bear-hugs the second baseman. He starts yapping into the Sox dugout and does it a long time. Just for getting a hit. I mean if LaRoche has to have the beard, fine. But Melky is disrespecting the game. He's saying "look at me" all the time. I mean, Melky, the reason they are paying you zillions of dollars is they thought you'd help win games and get the team in the playoffs. The clown behavior has to stop at some point. It reflects poorly on Robin. We need a tighter ship, folks and that means Gardenhire!

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 05:29 AM) There are some smaller bright spots for me at least. Carlos looks like he's going to lock down 2B for the future. May not be an all-star but is awesome defensively. The pen is improved. I still have high hopes for this staff (Sale, Q, Rodon). Quintana is going nowhere now for me at least. He must stay. Only type of player I'd move him for is Puig. Anderson is doing well in the minors and should be ready in the next year or two. Alexis can hold down SS until he's ready (though he can have some crazy bad moments then flip that stud fielding switch). Saladino can play 3B soundly. I'd roll with hi. Next season unless we can upgrade it (Davidson is a flop). My hope for the top of the order is Eaton, Sanchez, Melky, Abreu, Puig, Garcia. Then figure out 7-9. I'm hoping we move Garcia to 1B and Adam is gone. Jose is special, but some of the other guys you mention are OK but can't hit. Saladino won't hit for much in the bigs and Sanchez isn't a big league hitter. It'd be nice to get rid of Lexi and use his salary on other needs. Rodon is good but has a long long way to go to be consistent IMO. We need to bring up Johnson and see what he's got. Might as well rest Sale the rest of the season and put Johnson in there IMO. Or give Sale one start every 2 weeks and pitch Johnson a lot more. I truly think Saladino and Sanchez are not the answer. Good gloves, though.

The family members of the victims were crying after the verdict, I just read. So now I wish he did get the death penalty. They want the guy dead and their wishes should be granted.

He's really good. Second year in a row he's basically the only bright spot along with Sale.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 04:19 AM) Sox couldn't beat the Royals with regularity when they were good and Kansas City was trash. No reason to think they can beat them now that K.C. is good. Mark Yeah, you could pencil in a sweep this weekend. Royals will be bored and hot Sunday but should have enough to complete the sweep. Duffy and Q have both been pitching well. Sox gave Saturday's game away when Soto got picked off. They'll probably play just dumb enough to lose again Sunday.

QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:17 AM) So a Don Cooper starter who is cruising..... is suddenly having all sorts of problems pitching out of the stretch??? Under pennant race pressure late in the season? Shocking, LOL. Who knew that a whiny fat-man with a fragile ego like whom who snaps at any semi-difficult questions... would somehow infect his pitching staff. Then again, Coop is untouchable. Did 2005 really happen? I kind of like your posts. Who are u? QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:20 AM) This team has done exactly what I thought it would do once trade deadline was over. Can't put lipstick on a pig. I'll give Soxfest and others credit for knowing this. I had no clue. I thought our White Sox were gonna contend for WC the final seven weeks. I saw no way the s***tiness would return. QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:26 AM) Fire this manager immediately after season ends. Entire team plays like idiots The Royals announcers, who suck, were ripping the Sox mercilessly. They said they always seem to do something baseball stupid. They really got on Melky for acting like a clown on the basepaths. They said they don't remember him being like that when he played in KC. They said they liked him but he's an embarrassment to the game and city of Chicago acting like such a clown during games. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:40 AM) White Sox continue to beat themselves. Not sure why Melky Cabrera is clowning around so much on the basepaths and talking to the Sox dugout...almost got thrown out running past second. Just not the necessary level of focus and concentration. Soto has no business getting thrown out since he's not going anywhere with Abreu at the plate. Royals lead all of baseball in tallying runs in the next half-inning after their opponents have scored. Sloppy. Were u listening to the Royals' broadcast? Similar thoughts to their announcers. QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:46 AM) Jeff will probably attribute this year to trying to "pitch through something since we were in the hunt but it was really bothering him" and some one will buy the hype for 5/90 or something Excellent post. I do agree this will happen! GMs are THAT dumb. Shark will get 20 million plus. LOL. QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 02:10 AM) Fathom, White Sox have possibly pro sports' worst fans, plus a few other impediments so they can never afford to truly REBUILD properly since another win-less decade might completely decimate the fanbase. Our fans do suck. But the ones on this board are loyal. I wish Trump would buy the team and frankly I want a new stadium, one so amazing people HAVE to go there. QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 02:21 AM) Can't field or stay healthy. Actually wouldn't mind giving him a chance at DH Semien is hitting now; he'd have been better long term than Micah possibly. QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 02:53 AM) What is with that awful swing Saladino takes on high pitches? Great post! I've noticed that as well. It's sickening.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 10:26 PM) why do you always want our team to hit opposing players? Only when I feel it'll help the Sox win. Packed stadium, hot night, struggling KC team wanting to feast on Chicago to get well, inconsistent pitcher who could be taken deep by Hosmer and Morales ... I wanna win

Why did Q own me? I said Paulie got hit in the face. It's diffrent. We do need to hit a Royal. It knocks 'em off their game.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) [quote name='Quinarvy' date='Aug 8, 2015 -> 03:06 PM' post='321840ally, you're advocating this s*** again? The best part is him calling Samardzija "good not great" but then blows Danks every start. Shark is good, not great. Anybody dispute that? I stand up for Danks because I can't believe the negativity on this site regarding a starter who also has been GOOD this season. I don't know what people expect out of Danks. I personally think he's giving his all and his all has been good IMO. For some reason they don't like the fact he's being overpaid when 95 percent of baseball players, OK, 80 percent, are probly overpaid.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) That's a great plan if you want Samardzija suspended for a few weeks and Abreu out for the season after taking a fastball to the face. I didn't advocate hurting Cain, just hitting him. Our team needs to wake up ... again. This would incite their sellout crowd. They won't hit Abreu in the face. They've already started fights with various other teams. My wrath about Paulie was them hitting him in the face. It's OK to plunk a guy on the butt or back him off the plate. Why sit back and not try to fight the sweep?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) Isn't the GOP nominee obviously Bush though? Seems that way to me. He'll stay more conservative than he actually is to appease the base and win the nomination and then he'll go more to the middle for the general election. Just a matter of time. Yes. It'll be Bush vs. Clinton. Good call. This is a no brainer. This Trump campaign is his way of getting more publicity (duh). He's a businessman through and through and lover of $$$ through and through. He's been trained that way; his mind is conditioned only that way. When it starts hitting his pocketbook TOO hard he gawn. Yes of course he'd run for President if Trump-mania continued and he got the nomination. Overall he's going to ride this as long as he can keep getting pub for himself and then drop out. It's good publicity for him being a bad-ass, speaking his mind, but he knows there will be a time to put it to rest and return to making $$$. Women don't like him much to begin with. They think he's slimy and don't like the hair. And even Trump knows you can't go around insulting women and win their vote. It's a matter of time. I hope he stays in for a while longer, cause he's funny, but it looks like Meghan is the journalist who got him. He could survive this but may not if debate organizers keep him out for the reasons given for keeping him out of this conservative conference today. We do know he'll go down fighting. p.s. The reason I could never actually vote for the entertaining Donald is his position on his ties being made in Japan not the USA. He said it's horrible he makes his ties there but as a businessman he has to do it. He said he'd change the laws and bring those jobs here. Well, that shows what a rich prick he really is. Instead of taking a stand and making the ties in the USA and maybe, uh, encouraging other businessmen to do the same, he says he has to make them in Japan cause he's a businessman. Well, f*** u, Don. Make your ties here and be a good example for all businessmen. By the way, that's another reason our country is ruined. We've let most all our products and clothing, etc, be made overseas. It's proof we are NOT the great nation we think we are. Al l this s*** should be made in the USA baby!!!! I know why it's not, but it's sad and it's ruined our country and our way of life. Sad.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 17, 2015 -> 04:39 PM) In the world I run, I'd make it much more than that, though. I don't like the idea of letting them off easily, but I also don't like the idea of letting them live. I'd have that 10 gauge hooked up to a machine/computer and have both a video/audio countdown letting the prisoner know exactly when it was going to fire, only when it hits 0, nothing would happen. Then the countdown would reset/repeat and the same thing would happen over and over again until randomly generated time expires and it actually fired. I'd make scum like this live their last moments over and over again until it finally happened on a random number other than 0. I lack sympathy for those like this...I don't care about them, I don't care if they suffer, I just don't care. He ruined countless lives, for nothing. That's a pretty good post. A mass murderer in the USA really doesn't have to worry about much. He either gets killed by the cops while committing his crime (which makes him famous thanks to the way we cover these stories in America) or gets life in prison (pretty cushy life unless inmates get to him) or is humanely thrust into the afterlife. Blowing a guy's head off or hanging him would be pretty scary and might deter some of this. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 08:08 AM) Fwiw, that guy in Norway (Anders something) who killed 69 on that summer youth camp island only got a 21 year sentence... Good luck to the people over there if they let him out. I'd make him wear a tracking device at all times so they know where he is and what he's doing.