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QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:50 PM) You would want the government shut down - leaving millions without paychecks (you know, those that work for the feds) and millions more without access to services over a heavily edited video regarding Planned Parenthood? That's not governing, no matter your stance on Planned Parenthood. As for Hillary Clinton, Greg, what is your biggest concern with a Hillary Clinton presidency that would cause you to move to Canada for 8 years? That she's egotistical (as opposed to both Trump and Cruz whose I don't give a crap attitudes you love)? Her specific policies? If so, which policies do you oppose and why? My biggest issue with Hillary Clinton is that, for 20 of the last 28 years, we've had a President named Clinton or Bush. I don't love the idea of another 4-8 years of a presidency from either of those two families because of dynastic issues. I don't have a problem with Hillary's policies or personality, but I do think familial presidential dynasties are problematic. I will, however, almost definitely vote for Hillary if nominated, largely because the Rs are unlikely to run a candidate who either isn't dangerously far to the right or named Bush (see my earlier complaint about Presidential dynasties and Hillary's policies are much more in line with mine than Bush). I've linked to at least 2 articles that point out why I despise her. I tell you one thing that is interesting, though. The media has to be torn at least a little bit. They always want the liberal Democratic candidate to beat the stodgy out of touch Republican. Well, this time the media is being treated like crap by Hilly's people. They put up these ropes herding them around like sheep/cattle. I would think it would be hard for a media member to sing Hilly's praises like they do when deep down they have to know Hillary considers media scum, if that's the right word.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 11:04 PM) Everyone's arguing that Bush (by simply being reasonable and articulate) has been helped the most by Trump...and I've never met a single person who wanted Cruz to actually be president. In the end, would want Walker because that's the classic argument of these times....labor unions vs. outsourcing, DC vs. states' right, the protection of the 1% (Koch, etc.) and corporations to the disadvantage of the middle class and poor, wealth gap widening, rejection of Federal Aid at the cost to weakest and most vulnerable and implicit desire to push those people out of state. You've now known one. I currently want Cruz.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:16 AM) Missed this game, what was up with Sale? Did he look like Boston with good stuff just not great control? I hope they give him a little rest and give EJ his next start or something. His pitches were screaming, "hit me" again at inopportune times.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:13 AM) Only the hapless Braves and White Sox below 24,000 tonight in attendance.... White Sox with 18,499 (bump up by 2000 from last night partly due to Sale/Archer?) Atlanta 18411 Would the attendance really be worse if we'd dealt Samardzija? Det 35039 Pitt 34993 Phil 28733 Cincy 25969 Wash 26112 (that's disappointing for them in a close playoff race) Nyy 48522 Tor 26504 Miami 23822 Only way attendance would grow is if Sox built on that 7-1 road trip and were smoking through this current homestand instead of going 1-4. We should have traded Shark back when I was chirping about trading him. When the team was really sucking in May or June when I was calling for us to trade all the guys we acquired last offseason. I hope the fans boo tomorrow if we suck again. Boo them out of town.

QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:02 AM) Well that'll be the last HR of the year for Garcia No offense to Avi, but boy, that was the definition of a meaningless home run. With the score, 11-2. I don't know how he went down and golfed that into the stands. I miss the lift and pull days when we had a lot of guys hit home runs. I don't miss the double plays, though. Those sucked.

Sox get clobbered, 11-3. Thanks White Sox for going 7-1 on that road trip, then immediately sucking. You players convinced everybody you were in the WC hunt to stay, so Sox didn't trade Shark and some other guys they should have dealt. Now the team will have to do all its trading in the wintertime and will just get some dumb compensation pick for Shark. Ugh. Thank you White Sox for nothing. How you guys won all four from Cleveland and three of four from Boston is one of life's great mysteries. I know those teams suck but it still makes no sense you'd go 7-1 right before the trade deadline.

QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:58 AM) If they cant take back what they dish out too bad. Well that's kind of a cheap shot saying he should write about how lousy Robin is doing now. It doesn't make much sense to write that Robin blows a few days after praising him.

I'm pretty sure Hawk knows Robin is a lousy manager. He doesn't praise Robin incessantly like he always did Beckham. I bet u when Robin gets canned or resigns after the season, Hawk's schtick next year will be how Robin is a great guy but the organization is really looking forward to play under the new manager.

QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:51 AM) Yeah I am. That's two Chicago writers for me. Michael C Wright got mad when I talked to two Jets writers about something he reported. Showed him he was wrong and he blocked me. Turned out I was right. The Bears did have enough money to sign a guard(he said we didnt) and the person he said we had no interest in was wrong. David Haugh said "Dumb comment, but I'm sure you amused yourself. Congrats." All I asked is why is he quiet on Robin's job now that we are on a losing streak. Apparently only when we're winning is it a good time to comment. What thin skin some of these guys have. Why send snide remarks to writers? Nine of 10 times they'll do what those 2 guys did. Block you. Those guys are paid poorly, work in a dying industry, have bosses that are complete assholes and they don't get paid overtime. They take 6 a.m. flights to save their dying companies money. Ballplayers for the most part hate them. Fans hate them. I read somewhere sportswriting ranked 200th of the 200 worst jobs in America. Last year it was 199, one better than lumberjack. Give those guys a break IMO. They know they have wretched jobs.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:45 AM) Offspeed pitch to Mahtook from Robertson last night pretty much ended the season...and the disastrous bottom of the 9th. You are right. The season did officially end last night. Good post. Thanks, McEwing. That did make it official IMO. QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:46 AM) shut down Sale for 15 days please Yep. Good call, big Hurt. No reason to keep trotting Sale out there. DL time. Save him for next season when we try again with a great pitching staff and little else. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:49 AM) Sale's ERA gone from 2.85 to 3.46 in the last 2 games. I trust your figures, but that is really amazing how quickly it can skyrocket. 3.46 is pretty un-spectacular. 2.85 is great. QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:56 AM) We'll never know, but without getting to 49-50, I'd be interested to know who wouldn't be on this team right now, if anyone. Robin Ventura's managerial career is over in two months. I think u are right. Although the times we creep to within a game or two of .500 it seems like he's as good as any manager. The ups and downs of this team suggest he really should be shown the door, though. I'd still like Leyland or LaRussa. If they won't do it, Piniella. Of course I'd love Ozzie, but his mouth ruined possibilities of that. QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) Give Thompson an AB so he doesn't have to think about tomorrow all night. He should play every day the next seven weeks. Why not? Give him a tryout. QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 02:31 AM) 3 years ago I said as long as KW is still with the Sox, I am not going to a game. I used to go to 15 to 20 a year. That's pretty cool. You actually were right to blame him. You may be the smartest Sox fan alive. I didn't realize KW was that bad, but in reality he is.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:15 AM) You had no idea, last home stand against good teams told the story to me. .500 is a distant memory again. I got fooled. It's not easy to win on the road and we were murdering those teams. We were getting great pitching and the hitting, led by Melky, looked like it was on fire. At least now, mentally, I'm back to realizing Sox just don't have it this year. No reason to get mad. The team just reeks.

Tampa just has a better team than we do, folks. 3-1 lead. Lots of losing is coming up cause no way we can beat the Royals more than 1 of 3 (slight chance of that) this weekend. To those of you who knew we were about to go in the tank after the 7-1 road trip, congrats. I had no idea we'd stink this soon again.

I can't believe how much I oppose Hillary. When she wins I may have to move to Canada for eight years. Her statements on Planned Parenthood today are insensitive, but nobody cares. I love Trump saying he'd shut down the government before funding them after this scandal. I wish Hillary supporters would tell me what they see in her, besides the fact she's democrat and you hate Republicans. I mean I voted for Obama last time and I'm Republican.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 06:48 PM) Pile on Avi time! There are 159 qualifying hitters in MLB. Avisail Garcia is 152nd in Zone%, or percentage of pitches thrown to him that are in the strike zone. He is 2nd in Swing%, or percentage of pitches thrown to him that he swings at. Not a good combination. Nobody throws him strikes because he'll just hack away at anything. He had actually started to show progress on that last year, but it's completely fallen apart. That can't be corrected in the big leagues. Send him down for the rest of this year and all of next season

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:24 AM) McEwing didn't really cost them the game. The next 3 guys could have popped out or struck out. It was stupid and the wrong decision but I blame Duke and Robertson more than a damn coach. Stop blaming coaches for the entire season. It's really lazy. It's not lazy tonight. Yes the relievers sucked big time. But the Sox were going to win that game. McEwing single handedly ruined that with his unforgivable blunder. He just went braindead or got caught up in emotion. Lexi had no chance. First and third nobody out would have been nice. It would have been a big come from behind win. Woulda been the third time the team battled back, finally to win. Now ... I look for a sweep; definitely 2 of 3 Tampa minimum.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:37 AM) This White Sox team is 50-50 since their 0-4 start. So the 0-4 start prevents the team from ever getting over .500. Cause this team has zero chance of climbing over .500. Just can't do it. QUOTE (South Sider @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 06:13 AM) McEwing has been an awesome 3B coach this year. Not his fault this team is in a must-win position right now. I'm not entirely saying he's not to blame here, but the lynch mob should take a step back and realize no one is perfect, and the team as a whole has made more costly mistakes this year then this one call by Joe McEwing. Thanks. I don't think it's true he's been a great 3B coach. I do know tonight's mistake was unacceptable. Boneheaded move of all time. He admits he saw Lexi start slowly and still sends him against that arm?? If Eaton was in center, maybe. The fact it cost the Sox such a crucial game is mind boggling.

McEwing took ownership, but he was a clown tonight. Cost the White Sox a game. And it's the game that assures them of not contending for .500 and a wild card. The dream is dead. Thanks, Joe.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:33 AM) This one. Never getting to .500. Not happening. There have been so many bad losses, but yes, this is the killer. Sox won't get to .500. You are correct. The funny thing is this weekend in KC may be the final nail that most of us thought was coming last road trip. Losing 3 to KC after this homestand should catapault the Sox toward the bottom and a top five draft pick.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:49 AM) Rongey trying to rationalize McEwing making that decision... Nobody out! Done! That's the only factor McEwing needed to know. Period! Just heard the McEwing interview. Said it was a "terrible decision" and he'll take "full responsibility." Nice sentiments. He f***ed up and knows it. I guess there's no reason for a lynch mob. Just an unfortunate thing. Geezus, Joe. Get your head out of your ass and concentrate next time. He was asked a followup and Joe even said Lexi "froze" on contact. So Joe even sent him knowing he initially "froze." Not good, Joe. Please learn how to coach third base so when we have a good team this does not happen again! Thank you.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:38 AM) I was at that game, he originally sent Eaton right when Eaton was touching 3rd, then put the stop sign up to late because McEwing wasn't that far down the line where Eaton could react in time. Then he's a complete idiot. Good thing we don't make the playoffs. He'd probably do something ultra-bizarre to cost us in the one-game wildcard. If you made the gravity of a mistake McEwing just made at your workplace, you'd be cautiously updating your e-mail every few minutes to see when the owner was going to rip you a new one. The "baseball book" probably doesn't even allow anybody to say anything to McEwing. We should let somebody like Pods coach third until he proves he can't do it, either. Thanks McEwing for ruining that game.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:34 AM) Of course he'll be starting tomorrow. He's Hahn's pride and joy - Avi the "untouchable." Even though he got the double, he needs the two-day LaRoche time off minimum. You'd think at some point the Sox season would play a different tune. Instead it's the same song. Everytime they get near .500 they play some of the worst baseball you've ever seen. It's just bizarre. Last week during the road trip they were murdering teams and looked like picks to click in the playoffs. Now they look like the bungling buffoons they've resembled many times this season.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:31 AM) I think he tried to hold Eaton last week and Eaton literally blew him off and ran right to home That was probably in the back of McEwing's mind ... ugh. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:33 AM) The thing is....it's just laziness on McEwing's part and/or lack of scouting. If Kiermaier didn't play for the Rays, he'd be in the Gold Glove conversation. He can really do it all defensively. The Rays' announcing team was simply incredulous he was being sent there. It's not laziness, it's stupidity. Being baseball stupid. Not even thinking about the situation. If Lexi ran through a stop sign, let me know and I'll re-direct my anger.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:29 AM) Don't get me wrong, I know it was a terrible move and I think he should be fired, not just for this but for all of his horrendous decisions this year. But we're the White Sox. We won't fire him. I hear you, brother. I'm so mad at McEwing. Like somebody said, a good Little League coach would know better. McEwing has to be ready to make an educated call. He probably never even considered the fact there were NO outs. He got caught up in it. Pretty idiotic. I think it's baseball etiquette to not interview McEwing after the game, so the writers can't grill him about it. Probably unnecessary anyway. But it was a send that cost the Sox a game. QUOTE (Real @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:30 AM) it's been common knowledge for years now that the Sox cannot win games when there are expectations set upon them, hell even Rongey admits it and he waves the damn pom poms every night. it's like they're scared as f*** when pressure is on Never thought of that, but you are right. They'll start playing good ball again when they are 8 under .500 probably. Web gems. Big hits. Key bullpen performances. And then they'll get to one under .500 and reek again. Sickening.

Can you imagine if you screwed up at work as badly as McEwing just screwed up there? You'd get raked over the coals and depending on your reaction to the chewing out, you'd be fired or at least DEEP in the doghouse. Will anybody even say anything to McEwing? The Sox have a bad enough team ... they don't need coaches making the players' jobs even more difficult. Thanks, McEwing. We'd have probably hit into a DP and tied the game, but noooooo.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:20 AM) Let's be real... McEwing won't/shouldnt' be fired over this. He just cost the White Sox any chance of getting the wild card. He MUST be fired. I mean if he uses 1/10th of his brainpower he does not send Lexi there. He just has to go. QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:20 AM) Choke fest all the way around on this one. Terrible managing and coaching. Sox now lose 4 of 5 since the 7 game win streak. Total choke. I was fooled by the road trip. I thought we'd steal a WC. Buffoon-ball. QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 03:20 AM) Absolutely the game where you know it ain't happening this season. Terrible. If McEwing sent him all the way, worst call I've ever seen. There's never been a worse send. I mean get your head out of your ass. You are a coach. You don't let emotions get to you. You cannot let the runner try to score with nobody out. The White Sox would have tied the game minimum. They've completely tanked since winning seven in a row. Just unbelievable.