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QUOTE (fathom @ May 11, 2014 -> 03:11 AM) Ugh, Reed made so many bad pitches that inning. Nice effort in the 9th, hopefully this keeps showing Ventura, Cooper and company to manage with a little more urgency in the 7th and 8th. Paulie had at least 2 cookies. He should have bashed the first pitch for a hit and also the one Hawk commented on. He hasn't played enough to have the timing/confidence whatever you want to call it to smash a key hit right there. Sad.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 11, 2014 -> 03:10 AM) Because Rick Hahn is a smart GM I like Hahn, but didn't he also acquire Keppinger? I just think he could have gotten way more for Reed if he had to trade him. I also think he should have made sure he had a closer before dealing a good one.

How could we trade Reed for an unknown third baseman who isn't in the bigs? I want REED! Much better than our closers.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 11, 2014 -> 02:48 AM) I'm pretty confident we'll get to Reed. I never was a big fan of him anyway. Just got to hold them here. Reed is gonna be SO pumped to blow our hitters away. Our only hope is he's overstressed and wild. How bout two walks.

How come we can't beat this s*** NL team tonight? I want a W.

I wonder if the hitting coach does matter. Our guys seem to have that nice uppercut this year to their swings preventing stupid double play grounders. Lots of the home runs are mammoth shots.

Is Lindstrom getting good?

What's going to happen? Would our government ever send her over there to be thrown in the slammer? Would our govtment cooperate?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 9, 2014 -> 11:08 PM) I understand the frustration and I wish I had a better answer after working as a teacher for five years. BTW, tenure doesn't guarantee someone a job, it guarantees a proper review before they can be fired. And now that teachers who buck that system and are new an innovative can be fired, what will be left? Will the system reward risk takers, or the teachers who strictly follow the curriculum and do what has always been done? Will it be the ones who cozy up to the administration and ones who try something different, ignoring what has been done forever? If the school has a strict policy against cell phones and a teacher actually has the students using them in class, thus breaking the rule, will they be chopped or rewarded? I don't have the answers. I went from Sales Management with a very easy accountability system to teaching. I can't give you a better system besides allowing subjective ratings based on educators that have watched the teacher in the classroom. But our society wants objective ratings. I have a student that brags how he can stay up all night playing video games. He gets about an hour of sleep, then sleeps through my class. If I wake him up he starts to smart off and disrupt the class. His mom will tell you straight to your face that her son sleeping in class is my fault and that she knows he is sleeping because she goes to bed at 10:00 and she doesn't hear him. There are a whole lot of factors at play, students, teachers, administration, parents, and society, yet we are trying to judge one piece of the puzzle. How do you compare my performance as a 8th grade ELA course with 35% English Language Learners (ELL), close to 50% English as a second language (ESL), and 60% reading below their grade level with a class in a richer, anglo, area with zero ESLs and ELLs? Once they start using test scores, I'm bailing for a school district where a greater percentage of the parents graduated from high school and college, which is the #1 most reliable indicator of a kid's success in school. I was wondering, what happens when a kid sleeps through your class every day? Is the kid getting an F? Or are you not allowed to give F's? What's the procedure these days regarding teachers giving kids F's? Here's my guess: You have to alert the kid and the parents at the first sign he/she is strugglng and my guess is it's very difficult to give a kid an F or D. Am I correct? Back in the day, if you sucked in a class or pulled the sleep routine, uh, you were getting a big, fat F. Also, it's hilarious thinking about what would happen today, but if you were sleeping in a class taught by a crusty old brother at Brother Rice, he would definitely either throw an eraser at you and it would connect or he might even blast you a slap in your face. You'd definitely get 'roughed up' a bit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2014 -> 10:32 PM) We have two guys on this team who can put up Kepps numbers at a fraction of the price. Exactly. Acquiring Kepp was a huge mistake by the Sox brass. My guess is they simply loved the fact he draws some walks and they completely bombed on evaluating Kepp the overall hitter/player since the Sox had so many free swingers and needed some plate discipline which he did not bring.

So Jerry gets all that income as well? There's no reason the Sox aren't huge spenders in this s*** division. Let's face it, there are some Jerry apologists on here. He got us a WS title so I like him for that and all the Bulls titles, but let's face it, he is not a "good" baseball owner. He's just not. I won't go into all the rea$ons but it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Kansas took away tenure for teachers now. Weird state.

Sounds good. Didn't MTV have a series Road Rules? How are you going to make sure you guys do anything interesting to the world? You drive from Seattle to Sacramento and pull out the tent after eating at the diner, not so interesting. You go to a strip club and get in a fight or go to a local landmark and do something crazy like protest something and the cops show up, maybe interesting.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 9, 2014 -> 05:34 PM) Gimme a break are we trying to win games or what... Sadly, no. Team would be thrilled with .500 IMO. And my opinion is we'll finish about 10 below still.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 9, 2014 -> 04:07 AM) Would Jerry cut him with 1.5 seasons left? I don't see him working up much trade value and he is blocking some younger guys. Cut him, please!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 9, 2014 -> 04:32 AM) This is insane...not like the Sox haven't shown they could rally at the end of games. He's conceded games before like the infamous run out of pitcher game.

Chris Getz, kidding. I'll ride the Beckham train.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2014 -> 06:37 AM) Caulfield, you say there's nothing they can do. There is something they can do, and it's really easy - lower prices. We covered this last year, but the tickets prices are insane for a series that has basically no hype around it anymore and 2 rebuilding teams. $79 to sit in the bleachers? When Friday vs Arizona it's $23. LOL. OMG.Nobody in their right mind will pay 79 dollars to sit in the outfield??? 79 dollars, lol. Can't even call it 80.

This is like last year only the opposite. Really nice to be three games up on the Cubs three games into the series. As depressing as it was last year, this is awesome. Maybe Robin is one of those guys who will be manager of the year one year, s*** the next, then manager of the year again.

Maybe Coop really is a magician. Our bullpen is getting good.

Poor DeAza, ain't what he used to be.

Could Paul Konerko hit .310 with 25 homers if he was on an NL team ... this season? Serious question.

Semien another RBI hit; 17 RBIs in five weeks. I like it. Sierra looking good.

Paul Konerko turned on that meatball! Way to go, Paulie. You still have it!!! Sox up by four.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2014 -> 09:09 PM) Couched in an absurd statement, any question is ruined. I don't know what's so absurd about saying it would be one of my saddest days as a White Sox fan if he is sent down after bashing four game-winning hits in a month and a week. It's how I feel.