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Twins with a huge 8th inning, so this season will effectively be over in about 90 minutes!!

QUOTE (Cali @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 04:09 AM) I have not been impressed with Buehrle since his "perfect game +" One of the lefties will be traded in the off-season.... Worst season by far since his disasterous 2006 season. It would be much better if Buehrle is dealt and Danks stays around, but I can't see that happening. Mark, the NL is calling your name.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 04:07 AM) It'll work if we have Carl Crawford in LF and Victor Martinez at catcher.. and Adam Dunn at DH. (or Quentin gone if RF for a Choo like bat). You're better than that...you know we're not going to be signing a big name player (unless it's Konerko).

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 04:03 AM) It's obvious these guys care about as much as we do at this point. Yep, it's pathetic. If you're going to be terrible, at least play all of the young guys and stop pressing the starting pitchers so much.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 03:57 AM) Well, Morel will be an upgrade over this year you would think. Omar is too old. Viciedo might emerge as a stud hitter. He better work on the scoops; Paulie is a master at scoops. Morel at third, Lexi at ss, Beckham at second is a pretty good defensive infield. Viciedo at first ... he better work this winter. Ozzie doesn't seem ready to put Viciedo into the starting lineup full-time. The scary thing is that if Konerko leaves, there's a very good opportunity for Ozzie to bring back Kotsay and play 1B in a platoon. If that happens, can we pray for a player's strike?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 03:53 AM) Welcome to third base the next 12 years, Mr. Morel. He is a starter for a decade. So now it's Viciedo to first base for sure. Paulie likely to be gone. Should be interesting next year. One thing is sure. Third belongs to Morel. Well, that team will f***ing suck then.

Swing the f***ing bat Manny

Morel playing some nice defense, seems to have good lateral range.

Scalabrine is a great bench contributor...by that, I mean he does a fantastic job of cheering. I like him being on this team.

I'm excited that we could easily get no-hit tonight. I've never seen a team just flat-out quit like the Sox have over the last 10 days or so. Absolutely disgraceful!

Viciedo and Flowers better be playing against a LHP tomorrow.

Running Wilde's supposed to be funny, right? Ouch, not very entertaining so far, and I love Will Arnett.

Is it true there's an article in which Ozzie said that having Manny hurt this team due to not being able to have a flexible lineup?

Wasn't Ozzie the same manager who after his first ever game managing the Sox, he told the players to shake off the tough loss and go out and get drunk?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:35 PM) Bah, I always thought Frank would make a terrible hitting coach...out of a combination of everything coming so naturally to him and the fact that he had such a unique swing himself. Like Jeff Bagwell, who Astros players LOVE

Hitting coach replacement = Frank Thomas? It wouldn't shock me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) What makes you think the Sox will go outside of the organization for a new hitting coach? Even if it's Chambliss, it's at least a different voice than what our major league players have heard for a long time. All along, I've said that it's hard to tell if Walker is a great hitting coach or a terrible one, but the one thing that is pretty obvious is that something is broken with the way the team starts and finishes every season, as well as the progress of our young players.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 09:50 PM) Or Linebrink. Or Pena. Or Juan Pierre. Or Putz when he's sucking (he's not criticism-free to me unlike the majority of the board) or Rios (though I let fathom do the Rios bashing since nobody else will say an ill word ever about Rios). Are those enough examples for you since you brought it up? So anyone that didn't play on the 2005 Sox?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:38 PM) Well he was quoting my comment, which never said that Walker was great. Merely stated that a hitting coach is only as good as the players he is given. I cant really think of many players who didnt hit well with the Sox but then went on to improve drastically (Swisher?). You cant polish s*** (well you can as proven by Mythbusters, but I digress). Yes, Swisher is a great example. You could also say that the Twins hitting coach has helped Thome, as I swear he's shortened his swing this season.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) Probably best. This team actually hit, as a group, better than expected on the season as a whole. By all accounts, Walker worked his tail off. And contrary to the jokes seen on this site, I'm sure he wasn't exactly preaching lift and pull. But he did have some consistent flaws on his teams, like a complete lack of hitting in April-May. Hopefully any new coach can address that. Thanks for all you did, Greg. And a complete lack of hitting every September

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) They put up way more runs this year than anyone expected. I'm more afraid of who they bring in than anything. We all know it won't be anyone with major league experience, because we never hire those kind of coaches. I think the reason that Walker was so popular with the players is that he didn't challenge them enough. Walker should absolutely no ability to help our younger players overcoming the adjustments the league was making to them in a timely period, so I am very happy to get a new perspective into the organization.

7 in a row...keep it going!!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 04:48 AM) He is done bro! Ignore the batting average and OBP and his approach at the plate, he sucks. No power. Retire. Bring back Mark Kotsay. He was brought in to be a run producer, and he's sucked at that. If we brought him in to be a leadoff hitter, then he would have been doing his job.

Good thing I'm not watching anymore so I didn't have to hear Hawk and Stone verbally jerk off the mediocre K. Suzuki.

Real, I'm just hoping Ozzie goes, because if he goes, then so does Cooper and Walker. Walker said today that Ozzie's already told him that he wants him back. We are such an awesome 7th inning team right now!