hogan873

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2011 -> 07:28 PM) Fire both now. This is big boy land, the major leagues. Both have single-handedly cost the Sox zillions of dollars in revenue the rest of the year. It's tough to be out of the race after five weeks. The Sox have accomplished that. Kenny and Ozzie should both be shown the door today. Who cares at this point if Ozzie goes on to win many WS titles with another team (which he'll do). It's hexed up right now in Chicago. I think Ozzie will have success somewhere else; Kenny I think is done. He'll be a scout like Jerry Krause. I doubt that. He's not a great manager. As far as firing someone, I'm calling for heads to roll, too, but they haven't single handedly cost the Sox "zillions" of dollars. The players are not performing. Ozzie and Walker and KW and whoever else aren't helping, but these are grown men. They can hit the ball...they've done it before. Somehow they are just sucking all at the same time. I'm a proponent of Ozzie getting fired because it seems like he's totally uninvolved anymore. Will it do any good to fire him? Who knows. But I'm tired of seeing him standing on the dugout steps with a Gatorade towel wrapper around his neck watching this $128 million team fail over and over again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2011 -> 03:21 PM) A liquor store? Is there a better sponsor for this team right now? Pepto Bismol

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 4, 2011 -> 03:07 PM) Adam Dunn can hit homers right? He's gonna have to hurry to hit normal 40.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ May 4, 2011 -> 03:04 PM) Cy Cy Sperling could shut this team down right now.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) You mean when we had an AL style lineup instead of Slappy McSucky leading off and a corner infielder who hits like a pitcher? I have his rookie card.

Have any of the announcers said something along the lines of tipping our caps yet?

QUOTE (flavum @ May 4, 2011 -> 02:49 PM) I thought the Sox would win about 92 games this season. If they lose today, they'll have to go 80-50 the rest of the way to go 91-71. Our only hope is that the Indians aren't this good, and they start losing games in bunches. Damn that's depressing.

I'm glad I can't watch the game. I'm depressed enough as it is reading the thread. Someone has to get fired, right? Right?

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ May 4, 2011 -> 11:51 AM) I was at the game last night and I haven't gone through the game thread.. was anyone wondering why Omar didn't pinch hit for Morel in the 9th last night? I wondered the same thing. I also wondered why Ozzie didn't complain about the bad call of Beckham at first. To me it just looked like the Sox gave up during the last two innings.

Maybe it's a short memory, but I had to vote for this year. This team is dead. Every day I expect them to turn it around, and it just gets worse. But, I keep watching. I'm a glutton for punishment, and there's still a glimmer of hope...I hope.

I find it hard to believe that he is hated. I'm sure there are a few guys who don't like him, but I would think he's generally liked or at least tolerated. He's not nearly the same type of player he used to be, and by that I mean a nuisance (asshole) to other teams. I can remember watching his antics throughout 2005, and especially in the playoffs (dropped third strike!) and saying, "He's an asshole, but he's our asshole." If he's that type of player towards other teams, one would think some of that persona leaks into his interactions with his own team. And some of his teammates may not like that.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ May 2, 2011 -> 10:54 AM) I like that. A lot. Ditto

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) We have a WAY better chance of the talent on this team being successful than we do going into a White Flag situation. There is zero question there. Absolutely. But, we can use one of our favorite phrases here...on paper. I thought this time would kick ass, and maybe they still will. But just about every part of the game needs to turn around right now. I won't stop watching the team even though I have been saying after almost every game that I've had it. I'm a fan, good team or bad. But, I'd rather see a team being built for the future playing .340 baseball than a $128 million team playing .340 baseball. There's no way the team keeps playing like this. But what is scary is that it's going to take a 10 game winning streak to get back to .500! How late in the season will it be too late to turn it around? If they're still 10 games below .500 in early June, is it time to ready the White Flag?

I'm impressed with how quiet it was kept. This was a long time in planning and I for one was shocked when I heard the new last night. I sort of thought for the past few years that he has been dead for a while since we really haven't heard much about him...aside ffrom purported sightings and audio recordings. I'm not sure this secures a victory for Obama in 2012 but it certainly helps him. A year and a half until the election, but people will remember that "Obama got Osama".

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 1, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) Would I be a bad fan if I blamed many of our offensive problems on high-paid, low-producing Dunn? If he had had a decent April, just a f***ing decent April, we wouldn't be 10 out already. He has had plenty of key RBI situations and FAILED. Oh I forgot, he's all screwed up because of the appendectomy. Maybe I'm cruel for blaming him when he had that problem. All I know is he's sucked and the team offense also has sucked. If he was hurt I'd rather have had him sit out all the games or do a minor-league rehab rather than him resemble a big dung pile. The whole team has not produced. And to me it doesn't matter how much someone gets paid. Whether it's a guy getting paid $1 million of $12 million, failing to get a hit or strike someone out or whatever they're supposed to do is equally responsible.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 1, 2011 -> 11:28 AM) What the team is doing right now will set the franchise back 20 years. I agree...provided nothing is done come the trade deadline. It's going to take a major turnaround right now to get this team back into contention. I'm actually starting to believe that there will a fire sale. If it's done right and they collect some good young players for the future, I'm okay with that. I'm certainly not okay with what this team is looking like right now.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:43 PM) * 1. Pierre, LF * 2. Ramirez, SS * 3. Quentin, RF * 4. Konerko, DH * 5. Dunn, 1B * 6. Rios, CF * 7. Pierzynski, C * 8. Teahen, 3B * 9. Beckham, 2B Can Teahen make another good play at 3rd tonight?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 10:33 AM) What was your original name? hogan873 A very original combination of my last name and my birth month and year.

Lillibridge!

Great job! Totally original.

7 hits and 2 runs in 7 innings. Sox hit the bullpen a little better and eek out a 4-3 win.

He's proven himself to be better at strategy this year...so far. He will make some bonehead moves, and that's what will bother me more than his emotional explosions or tweets. Right now the players aren't playing well. The pitching has come around the past three games (Buehrle made only one BIG mistake), but the hitting is still lacking. That's not Ozzie's fault.

I was slightly hammered one night and asked in a post what would be a good new user name for me. I threw out a few suggestions, and shipps took the liberty of creating one for me...combining the suggestions I tossed out there. Now I like the name.

This game could be the antithesis of the first two. I'm hoping Buehrle is sharp, but history shows the Yankees hit him well. Our hitters should be able to hit Fats Domino. I wouldn't be surprised to see 12-15 runs combined.

You can't but like Lillibridge...as a person. From what I've seen of his Twitter posts he seems to have a great sense of humor. Now with those two ridiculous catches, I can't help but want to see him play more often. He's probably a lifetime utility player, and that's fine as long as he fills that role like he has been this year. And speaking of utility players, Teahen has been playing fairly well this year.