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QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 05:17 PM) I used to have Cub hatred just because it was the proper thing to do as a Sox fan. When I took a step back and contemplated why, the only answer I could think of is "just because". Eventually, I managed to come up with "Go Cubs Go", the assclown Fukodome t-shirts and bandannas, and the combined effort of the fan base and media in managing to turn Bartman's foul ball into a significant historical event that places somewhere between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Neil Armstrong's moon landing. Wrigley Field, and also the ability to watch NL baseball if ever the urge arises absolve a good portion of that, so I'm quite alright with them- at least until they become contenders again. I'm not going out of my way to root for them, but I'm not going out of my way to root against them either. I won't make this a Bartman discussion, but kudos to the rare fan who does not stick his mitts into the face of his team's player who is trying to catch a foul ball or stick his hand down and interfere with a ball in play hit by the home team. If you have great seats you have to use your brain or you become Bartman if the game is important.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 06:19 AM) So do I, it means a easier victory for Obama. Romney won't win Fla now I don't like Romney at all, but do you actually think Obama is a good president? I disagree.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 04:07 AM) McCarthy tried hitting him once, missed, so he threw at him again, hitting him in the elbow. Yet that one game our pitcher gets ejected immediately.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:39 AM) It is much easier from the other side of the plate. I can see that. The ball just comes flipping in daring you to pummel it as Danks did.

How could the good people of the state of Illinois elect this guy? I'd think his hairdo would have made most people think he was a dweeb to begin with. He turned out to be a cartoonish imbecile.

Do you think Sarah Palin is the worst government official in your lifetime? After hearing her say the word "maverick" ... do you wish the word was expunged from the dictionary so you never have to hear it again?

Read this column by the Washington Post today. It makes a good case for Obama being one of the worst Presidents ever. Read paragraphs two and three at least, and tell me you are not scared for the next four years. Obama is truly a very very bad President, yet Romney is a horrible campaigner. Can we survive four more years of Obama? I think our country is on track for a DEPRESSION with four more years of Obama. Do you agree? And what do you think of the first few paragraphs at least of this story??? How can Obama survive what he told the small business owners?? Romney should focus on ideology By Charles Krauthammer August 10, 2012 WASHINGTON — There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas. The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of another $5 trillion of accumulated debt. The ideological case is also simple. Just play in toto (and therefore in context) Obama’s Roanoke riff telling small business owners: “You didn’t build that.” Real credit for your success belongs not to you — you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat? he asked mockingly — but to government that built the infrastructure without which you would have nothing. Play it. Then ask: Is that the governing philosophy you want for this nation? Mitt Romney’s preferred argument, however, is stewardship. Are you better off today than you were $5 trillion ago? Look at the wreckage around you. This presidency is a failure. I’m a successful businessman. I know how to fix things. Elect me, etc. etc. Easy peasy, but highly risky. If you run against Obama’s performance in contrast to your own competence, you stake your case on persona. Is that how you want to compete against an opponent who is not just more likable and immeasurably cooler, but spending millions to paint you as an unfeeling, out-of-touch, job-killing, private-equity plutocrat? The ideological case, on the other hand, is not just appealing to a center-right country with twice as many conservatives as liberals, it is also explanatory. It underpins the stewardship argument. Obama’s ideology — and the program that followed — explains the failure of these four years. What program? Obama laid it out boldly early in his presidency. The roots of the nation’s crisis, he declared, were systemic. Fundamental change was required. He had come to deliver it. Hence his signature legislation: First, the $831 billion stimulus that was going to “reinvest” in America and bring unemployment below 6 percent. We know about the unemployment. And the investment? Obama loves to cite great federal projects such as the Hoover Dam and the interstate highway system. Fine. Name one thing of any note created by Obama’s Niagara of borrowed money. A modernized electric grid? Ports dredged to receive the larger ships soon to traverse a widened Panama Canal? Nothing of the sort. Solyndra, anyone? Second, radical reform of health care that would reduce its ruinously accelerating cost: “Put simply,” he said, “our health care problem is our deficit problem” — a financial hemorrhage drowning us in debt. Except that the CBO reports that Obamacare will cost $1.68 trillion of new spending in its first decade. To say nothing of the price of the uncertainty introduced by an impossibly complex remaking of one-sixth of the economy — discouraging hiring and expansion as trillions of investable private-sector dollars remain sidelined. The third part of Obama’s promised transformation was energy. His cap-and-trade federal takeover was rejected by his own Democratic Senate. So the war on fossil fuels has been conducted unilaterally by bureaucratic fiat. Regulations that will kill coal. A no-brainer pipeline (Keystone) rejected lest Canadian oil sands be burned. (China will burn them instead.) A drilling moratorium in the Gulf that a federal judge severely criticized as illegal. That was the program — now so unpopular that Obama barely mentions it. Obamacare got exactly two lines in this year’s State of the Union address. Seen any ads touting the stimulus? The drilling moratorium? Keystone? Ideas matter. The 2010 election, the most ideological since 1980, saw the voters resoundingly reject a Democratic Party that was relentlessly expanding the power, spending, scope and reach of government. It’s worse now. Those who have struggled to create a family business, a corner restaurant, a medical practice won’t take kindly to being told that their success is a result of government-built roads and bridges. In 1988, Michael Dukakis famously said, “This election is not about ideology; it’s about competence.” He lost. If Republicans want to win, Obama’s deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn’t-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but to what’s in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it. Four years of that and this is what you get. Make the case and you win the White House. — Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

Soxtalk is big on twitter, who'd a thunk it?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:11 AM) Sometimes it's great to see a lefty facing a submarine righty! Very happy for him Nice to see the Sox beat one of those gimmicky submariners. I mean if it was an effective way to pitch, tons of pitchers would do it. Nice to see the Sox beat one of those guys! I'd love to see an Elias stat on Sox against submariners not counting the late Dan Quisenberry.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 11:52 PM) You don't know if the owners care? They spent $100 million on Reyes, close to $30M on Bell, close to $60M on Buehrle, and made Ozzie a high paid manager. They're also paying Josh Johnson a lot of money. What more do you want them to do? Yeah but they dumped a lot of salary already. I did read a comical column on the Miami Herald Website today. The president David somebody (Samson?) assessed blame. First to himself (he's the owner's adopted son, he's obviously staying), then to the next 2 top execs, the GM or whomever. They asked the owner's son if the manager or any coaches would be let go and he said that it was up to Loria who was "very upset." The column did mention that Loria deserves a lot of blame cause he personally wanted Heath Bell badly and that was very stupid. I'm assuming he didn't gain all that weight right after signing, but maybe he did. What an overweight dog Heath Bell turned out to be. Like I said in an earlier thread, Ozzie had it great in Chicago compared to Miami even considering his hatred of Kenny and vice versa. How great is it for a manager to not have to have meetings with the owner or GM? And Oz had no meetings with those guys in Chicago or maybe one a year. He and Kenny couldn't be in the same room and Jerry doesn't butt in much from what the media tells us. Now Ozzie has meddlers. Too bad. He's a big boy and makes a lot more money in Miami but it's all nickles and dimes. I'd rather have the noninterference from management and make a few bucks less. Those of you who have rare jobs where you are left alone by the higher-ups know what I mean. I'm thinking Ozzie has been tempted to kick his dog a lot more in Miami than Chicago and it has nothing to do with the loss/win record.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:20 AM) I don't care what comes out of their mouths, but can we get these reporter girls to wear skimpier outfits? Please. That's all I ask for. MLB.com cut away. Sometimes they show the interview. Is the new girl hot?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 03:09 AM) Reddick didn't even look back. He just started walking back to the dugout. I wish i noticed that. I love when that happens.

Tank swings so hard and hit a solo homer tonight. Danks swings so fluidly and easily and hits a solo home run tonight. Nice bombs. It is amazing how our victory formula never changes. Home runs and decent pitching when we win. Floyd gave up the three early but made it a good enough start and the pen was good tonight.

Danks just timed that perfectly and crushed it. Sox needed that victory and got it. Every series is big the rest of the season and a win in the opener of this one was HUGE. It would be nice to somehow sweep these guys cause winning more than one in Toronto might be tough.

Welcome to the big leagues, Danks. He proves he belongs and gives the Sox a very nice win. Four solo homers. Wowsie.

Lexi got blown away. Had no chance. Geez. One out.

He'll be trying to hit a homer here. I'd prefer a walk or single.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 02:57 AM) When we walk them off here it's another "finish" to a game by Myers. Isn't he getting close to that 10M option kicking in? He's have to be closer for that to kick in. I think he needs double digit closings.

All right, come on Lexi, get on base. The whole key is this leadoff man.

Doesn't the other Weeks wear his hair the same way?

So we slug three one-run homers tonight. Don't like our chances after the leadoff walk.

Good god. A walk.

Sox in another close game at home. Team could use a win, tonight. Not good to lose the opener against the pesky A's. Just Win Baby.

Got to win this game in the 8th or 9th. No extra inning bulls*** cause we know what happens to Sox in extras. Lift and pull only we don't hit our bases empty homer in extras, we pop up. Got to hit the fourth homer of this game in the eighth or ninth, White Sox. Extras equal heartbreak.

QUOTE (Mr. Showtime @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 02:37 AM) Whenever Morel gets back it wouldn't shock me if they use that as a chance to get him healthy for a post season run. Is Morel's back actually feeling better on a consistent basis? Seems impossible.