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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 06:52 AM) You have no idea how terrible an idea this is. Please just let Paulie retire. Paulie is too proud to hit .195 or something. Don't worry. If he after 2 months is hitting like that, believe me, he'll retire. I am almost sure he's going to try it again. I have vibes he feels like he can still play. I'd give him a one-year deal for 4 million with a team option for the second year. So two years, 8 mill, but only one year guaranteed. If he doesn't like that, he moves onto the Orioles or somewhere. BTW I'd also offer AJP the same deal. One year 4 mill.

Can Abreu play LF? I'd rather have Paulie at first and Abreu in LF (if he is OK out there) and trade Dayan. How bout a Dayan/Beckham package to somebody for a 3B and set up man. If Abreu can't play left then have him split time between DH and first and give Paulie and Dunn breaks.

What's going on with this story these days? Is she going on trial soon? Etc.

How's the dating, pick-up scene in college these days? Are the women easy to pick-up if that's your thing? Or are we in a generation of more responsible behavior, i.e., not as much sex?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 07:34 PM) I always thought that winning the WS was the best and worst thing that could happen for Ozzie. Best: Obviously bringing Chicago a WS title as manager Worst: It inflated his already huge ego to epic proportions and he suddenly thought he was the best manager in the world and refused to hear it any other way. Which also spread to his next of kin. That ego got in the way of baseball and helped lead the Sox into major underachievement. Good post IMO until the final sentence. From reading the Ventura comments this season, I thought most on here agreed managers have very little effect on games. Hmmm Ozzie led the Sox into underachievement cause of his ego? Maybe the players let him down as the did Robin? QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 07:40 PM) I know. Yay. Eminor gives Greg a vote of confidence of sorts a few days before Halloween.

QUOTE (KG#1 @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 02:17 PM) Like I'm sure many on here, I have been re-watching my '05 World Series DVDs. Man, watching Ozzie in the dugout during those games makes me miss him as the manager - he was fun, laid back (well, other than screaming at umps), hilarious in '05. That being said, from '06 till the end, he thought he was the best manager in the world and should get paid like he is... As said above, that is when he was too much and needed to go. Doesn't change the fact that in '05 he helped make that the best year of baseball for Sox fans. That is a fair post. Darn good post. I don't think he necessarily needed to go, though. I've given Kenny credit many times for winning the war. He beat Oz mano vs. mano. Knocked him out in the battle for Jerry's love/approval. QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 28, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) Right, this is dumb. We're all bickering with one another over something we weren't even mad about until greg came in here and started spouting Ozzie garbage about changing the game and the best ever and all. Eminor, I am not the devil.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 27, 2013 -> 02:02 PM) BTW, I have no doubt that Ozzie would be better respected (ok I need a better word than respect) and his accomplishments seen in a more favorable light, if not for the efforts of Mr. Greg. The more Greg seeks to elevate the man, the further down we collectively push. Like everyone else associated with the team, he had good years and bad. His last year was bad and that is how we remember him best. That's just not correct. Most of my posts are meant to give Ozzie his due. When I see a slight like this headline I feel like I have to react. His signaling for Jenks in the bullpen is what baseball is supposed to be about, fun. Instead of signaling for a righty, he does the hulk maneuver. That's out of a movie, hilarious. Ozzie was fun. And of course we know my feelings on 05.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 26, 2013 -> 05:36 PM) Too be fair, they were better than any announcing team that didn't include Vin Scully. During the Yankees game Harry spent the first three innings talking about who's at the game, who could blame him the Sox were terrible. His "I think Schueler's the pitching coach this week" was pretty funny. Part of Harry's schtick was reading the names of anybody at the game who would send up a note to the booth. Did you hear him say in the second inning of the Yankee game, 'don't you guys ever tire of sending up your names? You must come to every game.' And Piersall said, 'Harry you have to read it or their wives will get suspicious." Another thing I noticed was lack of instant replay, and of course no mention of pitch counts. Kravek threw a ton of pitches those first few innings. Pitch counts did not matter. I also noticed the sounds of the ballbark. People actually cheered when something happened and there way way more background noise through the game. Tony LaRussa should have gotten a lifetime contract after leading that team to a 27-27 record to finish the year. That 79 team was horrible. I guess it was the remnants of the 77 Hitmen with Veeck having absolutely no money.

I watched the first two innings of that Yankee game. So cool to hear Jimmy rip Chet Lemon for diving into first base and harping on it, begging young kids to not do that; and Harry getting on Claudell Washington for being lousy and striking out all the time. Boy that was a weak Sox team. Some very bad or washed up players on that squad. Piersall also ripped the Sox for having so many different lineups. Harry and Jimmy certainly told it like it is. That was just the first two innings. Love Harry.

Great plays by Uribe on the last 2 outs. That was so much fun. Wow.

Good luck to Todd. Great opportunity in front of him. If the Sox hit next year and finally draw some walks, he'll be a fricking hero, a savior, a godsend. If we continue to swing at everything and suck, well, he'll be another dog.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 25, 2013 -> 10:11 PM) He just doesn't click links. If you put the table in a post that shows the incredibly overwhelming evidence that pitchers are less effective every time through the order, I think it might sink in. Are u also second guessing his managing in the 05 postseason? If so, now I've seen everything. Yeah maybe if he'd abided by the book we'd have won every single game in that postseason instead of losing one.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 25, 2013 -> 09:54 PM) No, he put his pitchers at risk and gave the opposition greater opportunities to score because they'd seen the guys more often, and overall he was lucky that they didn't score more. You do not understand a lot of very basic concepts. With all due respect in your role as a mod, are you and others actually b****ing about the move that helped us storm through the 05 postseason? One of the best postseason runs in history?? Risk?? I'll take one postseason loss total against all those victories over risk any day of any week!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 25, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) This is relevant to our previous discussion http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mike-mathen...usly-slow-hook/ In other words, Ozzie was not smart to keep his starters out that long, he was lucky they were pitching as well as they were I don't get your point. In other words, Ozzie did something outside the box and it worked. That constitutes smart managing, genius managing, right?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 01:39 AM) Ventura? No funny anecdotes or quips, getting too much rope from the fanbase as a former Sox favorite, etc. Pretty much every starter with the exception of Konerko (in that, he and Marty have something in common). I don't get on Robin. To be fair, though, here are last year's starters who deserved to be criticized/blasted IMO: Kepp, Lexi, Beckham, Paulie (if he wasn't hurt), Flowers, DeAza, Viciedo, Rios, Dunn. Does everybody agree on that? All of them were that bad or lazy or mentally deficient at times.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 25, 2013 -> 02:00 PM) Incredibly pathetic really. Why are people discussing this if it's not true and has never been true? I've never exhibited such tendencies that I'd do that.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 11:35 PM) That would be sad beyond words if it is. Give the mods more credit. They would know if for some insane reason I tried to be two people. This thread exploded but I don't think it's my fault.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:35 PM) Ozzie invented the complete game. Post of the f***ing year. I can't win. Though I try. I wish an objective debate coach could come in here and deem me the winner.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 10:06 PM) You are aware that reliever usage has steadily increased over the years, right? That hundreds of managers had been letting their pitchers pitch even deeper into games than Ozzie Guillen for DECADES? That even IF Ozzie Guillen had actually been doing something different than his contemporaries by "boldly" letting his starters flirt with 120 pitches, it would be a call back to the norms that had dominated baseball for OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS, thus representing something similar to the absolute antithesis of the word "revolutionary"? Maybe revolutionary was a questionable word. It was different, though; managers had gone to the lefty/righty thing in 05. QUOTE (ron883 @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 10:06 PM) greg be trolling Ugh. QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 10:07 PM) The Sox had as many complete games in that series as all post season teams combined in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Thank you!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:56 PM) Alfred E Newmann is 'what me worry?' See to those who again think I am despicably stupid, I even know trivia.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:53 PM) I give the other guys on base as much credit. Including Dye who got hit in the bat hand by a pitch before Konerko came up. I meant I give Paulie all the credit for actually making contact, elevating and homering. I would always praise Dye, etc., as well.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:52 PM) No doubt in my mind. Hmmm ... Ozzie has the biggest mouth in the world. Ozzie is at World Series. Reporters ask; Ozzie answers. He'll do a story a day if the media wants to make him a story. Who's he gonna turn down? Nobody. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:53 PM) In game 2, Mark Buehrle threw 99 pitches in 9 innings. He was going back out for a 10th if necessary. He was incredibly efficient. In game 3, Garland threw 118 pitches in 9 innings. That's perfectly within reason, especially when he was pitching so well. In game 4, Garcia threw 116 pitches in 9 innings. Again, same story as Garland. In game 5, Contreras threw 114 pitches in 9 innings. When the guys are pitching as well as they are, it's not ridiculous to just keep them out there. It IS ridiculous to suggest that it's ground breaking to let them pitch that deep. Can somebody give me play by play? Any matchups where various managers would start to play the lefty/righty game even with workable pitch counts?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) Did you know that if it weren't for Ozzie Guillen believing and praying and swearing, Paul Konerko would not have hit that grand slam in game 2? I'll give Paulie ALL the credit for the blast.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:39 PM) Revolutionized big game baseball by letting his pitchers do their thing? ENGINEERED A PROGRAM that allowed his players to believe they can win? You've got to be kidding. You're trying to tell us that Ozzie Guillen INVENTED the concept of starters pitching deep into games and of trying to keep his players thinking positive about winning. Do you remember HOW DEEP those Sox starters went? Managers don't have the balls to do that and even in 2005 there was situational lefty-righty crap going on all the time. Am I the only one who remembers how proud to be of a fan that played defense like our Sox did in 05? I didn't take it for granted at the time.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 24, 2013 -> 09:32 PM) Lol, greg, wtf universe do you live in? I don't see how you can go through that post point by point and not at least agree about the Oz in 2005 that I describe.