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I would punt a baby kitten 50 yards if Swisher walked off against us in the play-offs.

Calling Bears fans as bad as Cubs fans should be very insulting to Cubs fans.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:38 AM) There's no way of knowing Thome would put up those same numbers with the Sox. Uh, the man played with us for 4 years buddy. Put up solid numbers every one of those years too.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:20 AM) BTW, what were the options in FA for acquiring another DH? Does it matter? We had Thome if we wanted him. That should have been our floor for our DH expectations.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:10 AM) KW and Ozzie are smarter than us, they wanted Kotsay/Jones while every other White Sox fan/follower/person who has never watched baseball before thought re-signing Thome would have been the better move, KW and Ozzie were clearly right. This is why we post on message boards and they have jobs with a Major League baseball team. These are the best kind of posts when serious.

You think the Hahn era will start now?

QUOTE (Wedge @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 03:52 AM) The b**** of it is, if we had kept Thome, we probably woulda been screwed too. I don't know how, but I'm sure we would have. Funny because it's true.

"It's how we react to a bad AB, a bad inning, a bad game, or a bad week that makes this team winners or losers." No it isn't. It's their performance on the field. By the way, we look very sane compared to our 2003 fanbase. We won 2 years later.

That bomb put Thome in a tie for first on the all-time walk-off HR list.

Honestly, if you were a player in the clubhouse, could you even respect your manager after the last week?

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:45 AM) it was entertaining in a cruel irony kind of way. For sure. Like I said earlier, if we were going to lose, you could not ask for a better way to end that game.

Games that stick out in Sox-Twins lore for me in no order: 1. Jose Paniagua (we actually won that though) 2. Jamie Burke getting laid out 3. Game 163 4. Last Thursday 5. Tonight

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:30 AM) about Thome not being signed which has been happening too much as it is. It's a season long disastrous move. Deserves to get talked about that long.

If we were going to lose, could you think of a better way? That was awesome. Props to Thome. f*** you Ozzie.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 17, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) If you think not having Thome will cost this team the division, you need to find another sport. Will? I don't know. Could? Definitely. Sox DHs: 109 games, 409 ABs, .235/.305/.399, 15 HRs, 49 RBI Jim Thome: 80 games, 204 ABs, .265/.387/.578, 16 HRs, 41 RBI

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 17, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) That's why stats are often like urine. Sometimes you just cannot look at a player in a vacuum. It's the lineup you have to analyze. We'll really never know. Impressive. That's one of the worst justifications I've ever heard on this board.

QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Aug 17, 2010 -> 07:31 PM) OK, I don't know how popular this topic is going to be, but I am curious to see if there is anybody else out there like me. Does anybody else somewhat resent football for taking all the national and local attention away from baseball once NFL training camp starts? Sometimes it feels like the trade deadline July 31 is the last time baseball gets the spotlight, from a coverage/attention point of view. Then NFL training camp starts, followed by the ultra-meaningless preseason games that are really hyped up, (then 20 pages of coverage about Cutler's two, yes, two passes), and baseball doesn't really take center stage again until the World Series. I work at a bar with one big main TV at the front. Not once, not twice, but THREE times over the past two weeks I was asked to change the channel from a pennant race baseball game (twice it was the Sox) to a pre-season football game. I know I shouldn't complain about other people's preferences, but this always manages to get me frustrated. Don't get me wrong, I AM a Bears fan. But I am far and away a baseball fan first. Football only really matters to me on Sundays in the fall/winter. I don't hate football, but I can't stand how America and Chicago makes it such a big deal, bigger than baseball, while there are pennant races going on. Or when the Sox tank and a popular post on Sox message boards is "I've got one thing to say: Go Bears!" To me, the Sox are so much more important. Anyway, maybe I'm the only one who feels this way. Football is king, in this city and in this country, and I should just accept it. But does anybody else resent it a little? Nice post. Well, living in Chicago sucks as the Bears have to have one of the dumbest and worst fanbases in all of pro sports. It makes all the talk that much more nauseating. I'll say this too: there is nothing more over-hyped or more pointless in sports than NFL training camp. Honestly, I am shocked people give a flying f*** about it. How fans can listen to hours of radio coverage of that s*** is beyond me.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 17, 2010 -> 09:32 PM) f***ing Kotsay again. Jesus Christ Pierre7 Vizquel5 Rios8 PK3 Q9 Kotsay dh AJ2 Ram6 Beck4 Danks Just awful.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 17, 2010 -> 06:16 PM) I agree. There's a lot more to signing a player since they have an agent with demands, owners have budget restrictions ect. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/deluca/2606...fe.suntimes.com There's some intelligent comments (not by the author). Did anyone ever consider that Thome may be a better fit for the Twins than the Sox? 31 teams balked at signing Thome and the Twins may have offered his last chance at being on a team only at their demands. The DH by committee is only a failure because it's filled by Kenny's lightning in a bottle approach. Kotsay was kept to help give PK a rest at 1st while Paulie can DH. Thome gives you no options other than needing a pinch runner. His 2009 numbers are not what you want from a DH anyway. Read the sidebar: Sox DHs: 109 games, 409 ABs, .235/.305/.399, 15 HRs, 49 RBI Jim Thome: 80 games, 204 ABs, .265/.387/.578, 16 HRs, 41 RBI Any discussion on whether not resigning Thome was the right move or not should end with those numbers. It was a disastrous decision on our part that may very well cost us a division title and play-off appearance.

I will be extremely disappointed in anything other than a sweep.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 13, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) It also is amazing the Cubs sell out every game They don't.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Aug 13, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) To take that even a step further, I don't even see it as retaliation I see it as setting a tone. It was no accident that the Twins hit our batters 4 times....just as it was no accident when Torii Hunter blasted the s*** out of AJ at homeplate a couple of seasons ago. Gardenhire does these things to make sure his team is the alpha male in the relationship....it's high time Ozzie quits sititng back complimenting the Twins and instead takes a page out of Gardy's book and has his guys do some tone-setting of their own. Start a brawl! Hit a couple batters! Annihilate a fielder on a slide! Do something to remind the Twins that they're in your park and you're in charge. Yes, I was very disappointed by that Twins series Which is why it was such bulls*** not to send AJ yesterday. Even if he's out, Mauer would have been split in half.

Bad is still much better than Mark Kotsay.

It was a brutal move for New Orleans