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Oh my goodness. This game is so boring that I'm watching a JonBenet Ramsey made for TV movie on Lifetime. I demand somebody to beat the hell out of me.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) Great farm system and some great young talent. I enjoy watching the Jays play, but the dome brings me down. AA is quickly becoming one of my favorite GMs as well. Yeah, it's the same thing with the Rays. Really exciting team. But you have to have a really good attention span to watch either team when they're playing at home.

Remember when Gordon was supposed to be the next great 2B of the upcoming decade?

I would say it's time to pull Humber, but Bruney f***ed that up.

So they're still some $800 million or so per year apart? Well, at least LeBron will have to wait until 2013 to get that elusive ring.

lol@this gamethread. I may as well go watch this porn I rented with this Sally Field look alike.

Kipnis >> Beckham Ackley >>>>> Beckham

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 07:43 PM) Jays called up stud prospect Brett Lawrie. The Jays are definitely a team I'm going to follow from here on out.

That was productive.

Progress!

Why is Cano so good?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:45 PM) Better look closer or edit your post... I guess I should've said girl. The one next to the old lady in the Mariners jersey. Plus I was checking out the ones a couple seats away from her.

This is excellent, fathom.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) Change may be imminent, but seriously, we are not playing with the house's money any more like we were after 2005. This team could be in for a long long rebuilding road. This season may be our best season in a long time. I don't think any White Sox fans are ready for that pain. Let's say we have 4-6 straight seasons of sub .500 baseball. Ugh. I'm just saying the change you want may result in a way worse pitching staff. Coupled with our rich underachieving offense that may result in us being the worst team in baseball for a long time. I used to kid around about the MPD. But now I'm starting to wonder. Greg, how many times have you in the second or third inning of a game in which we're down 2-3 runs say something like, "Fire everybody! This team sucks. No changes at all? Rios? Dunn? Oh my. They're cheating the fans. Start over. Sorry, I'm leaving. I can't watch anymore"? MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!! Who cares what Sox fans are ready for. We have a fickle fan base in which we have to win the World Series to consistently fill the park. Those f***ers can kiss my ass. But for the loyal fans, how could you not call for a change in organizational philosophy at some point? KW/Ozzie got their 4-5 year free pass due to '05. That's it. Enough is enough.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) whitesox Chicago White Sox Don't miss our specially-priced Patio Party & Lower Reserved tickets 4 #WhiteSox games vs Royals, Indians & Rangers! http://atmlb.com/pbeOT7 It's sad and scary that it's come to this. I had such high hopes for 2011, and we all know KW and Co. did, too. JR opened the pocket books and on-paper (as usual), the team looked so f***ing legit. Sad face. I'm not as upset as I thought I'd be. No question this season to this point has been a colossal failure, considering the resources that were pumped into this product and the lack of anything even remotely resembling a powerhouse team in this division. But there is some finality that, if you look at it how I'm looking at it, could be a good thing for this organization in the long run. Let's face facts: 2005 was a fluke. Were the White Sox the unquestioned best team that season? Yes! But that was not the beginning or the genesis of this new-age era of White Sox baseball, a time in which we were going to go on this sustained run of excellence over a 5-6 year period. We had a ton go right that year. Yes, I know you (not you, speaking general terms) could make the counter claim that any team that wins the World Series benefits froma super-sized amount of good fortune. And that would be true. But we, IMO, had an abnormal amount of good fortune/luck that year. Even 2008 could be classified as a fluke to some degree. Again, let's face facts: those last two games of the regular season against the Indians and Tigers were 'gimme' games. Neither team gave a s*** whether they won or lost. They just had to show up and pretend they cared. We beat Bryan Bullington and Armando Gallaraga. And in an act of mercy from a baseball god somewhere high in the sky, we won a coin flip a few weeks earlier in which we got a home game against the team that's owned us the way Michael owned the Cavs. That essentially saved the season. Because we all know what happens if we have to go to the Dome for #163. With this year's failure, there's no longer any justification for continuing with the status quo. Whether KW or Jerry like it or not, they're going to HAVE to change how they run this thing. And that's a big positive for me. I'm not going to get into who should be fired, sent to the minors, traded, designated for assignment, etc. But change is imminent. And I'm looking forward to it.

Those girls next to him are f***ing hot.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) Fun-bad? I don't think so. More like Boring-bad. I hardly watch games any more. The White Sox are flat out boring as hell. To my way of thinking fun-bad is when there are players who are fun to watch even though the team is bad. Dunn falls into that category for me. I like to watch his at bats just to see if he does something besides strikeout. This. For a payroll such as ours, it's amazing to me the number of guys on this roster you couldn't pay me to watch if I weren't a White Sox fan. Even the late 90's teams were more fun to watch.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 10:32 AM) I want to point out in no way does Soxtalk speak on that behalf. We allow posters to speak there minds but there has always been a line drawn in the sand and our posters 99.9% of the time respect that. If people want to email Mr. Greenberg, you can do so. But if you do, be respectful and civil. I personally just reached out to him. As the owner of this site I can flat out say if I saw that sort of post or comment, the post would have been removed and the member suspended or banned. I expect Brandofan to attempt comeback #123 within the next 24 hours.

Alexei shouldn't be untouchable. But the SS landscape in baseball makes him pretty much untouchable.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 03:46 PM) Casey McGehee >>>>> Edwin Jackson I was at Cardinals Clubhouse and they already hate Jackson. "This guy's been traded 5 times for a reason, fellas" was repeated by multiple posters.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 02:37 PM) The Peavy deal gets done 100 out of 100 times. Gio made sense at the time, since Swisher looked like he was going to be really, really good player. Just there was no "personality scouting report" Hudson deal is the only one I never understood. But lets think of it this way, Has kept Konerko, twice, in FA. Got Danks for McCarthy. Got Floyd for Freddy, who had 1 win in a Phils uniform. Built that 2005 team, so obviously he knows how to build a winner. He generally always builds a good BP (Jenks, Thornton, Crain, Putz, Santos we're all steals). Humber gets a spot here. Ramon Castro for the corpse of Lance Broadway. The Gio deal was fine the first time. The second one was inexcusable. When has a GM traded a stud pitching prospect TWICE before he's ever pitched for the big league team? Only KW.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) Ozzie? s*** I could do that. Not to mention play smarter defense. I demand you be suspended for at least 3 days for excessive hyperbole.

This is great. Thanks, brothers. I didn't think I was worthy of a B-day thread this year. I'll try not to drink. NOTTTTTTTTTTTT!

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) I recall a quote along the lines of "mark my words, this will be the biggest bust in White Sox history" type of thing. I could be wrong, but I remember a statement along those lines. You're probably right. But there's no way to know what thread in which Randy totally let it go. I assumed it was the original Adam Dunn thread.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 02:04 PM) A bad day at the ballpark is better than a good day just about anywhere else. I agree with 2k5 here. Even if I can just drink 15 beers and hit on hot latinas, that's enough for me.