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QUOTE(TaylorStSox @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:08 PM) Ozzie managed the same way last year. This year the pitching, for the most part, sucks. All of the adjustments in the world aren't going to change that. My grandma could have managed last year's team to a good record. Last year, he was more concerned with putting the best defense on the field. This year, it's opposite. Last year, he managed according to his gut. This year, he's all about match-ups.

Am I allowed to say that this team has quit on Ozzie? Also, does anyone know what our record is since the comment made about Mariotti?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:05 PM) How about the team. Can we worry about the team getting the W, I could care less which pitcher gets the W as long as we do. He was being sarcastic.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:02 PM) It's sad. We've been saying this for about the last 5 months, yet he has still not made the adjustments. That's all the game of baseball is...adjustments...when you don't make them..you f***ING suck. Hence, the performance we've seen from the 2006 White Sox in the second half. That's actually a great point about adjustments. Ozzie's idiotic quotes in today's paper show just how stupid he is. We should thank our lucky starts every night that our starting pitching got on a roll in the playoffs. QUOTE(shoota @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:03 PM) I disagree. You have to give them the chance at the W. Tom Kelly disagrees with you.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:02 PM) Hey, if the Sox can't win this game, they don't deserve to be in the playoffs. They may still back into them, but that doesn't mean they deserve to be there. Now let's show we belong and win this freakin' game! It's almost impossible for us to back into the playoffs the way our schedule is.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 08:01 PM) Like clockwork, here comes the 5 runs. Between our crappy pitching staff, our goof of a manager who doesnt make adjustments, and our pathetic hitting this team is pathetic right now. I pray that Ozzie quits after this year.

I really love a manager who's more concerned with his starter getting the win than he is giving the team the best shot to win.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:59 PM) We keep firing a guy, and then hiring someone else from the minors that preaches the same philosophy. Its stupid. We'd just hire another buddy of Ozzie who would have no responsibility for his piss-poor decisions.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) just pitches around kong with full confidence that no one else is going to touch him. defending world champs. On the verge of finishing the season 11-8 against the worst team in the entire league. You have to love a lineup with your best player, Dye, has no protection in the 4 spot behind him. What's the chances of the typical Garcia 5 run start?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) Next time we get a hitting coach, get someone from an organization that preaches OBP, and line drive swings. We keep dipping into our system that preaches swing for the fences. f***ing sad. It's fitting that our only run came on a homer right down the LF line by Konerko.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) its a shock to me that we are still going to be in the wild card lead after today Yep, but with the way we're playing, we're not going to stay in front. Ozzie refuses to panic, which basically means there's no urgency. He must be the only one watching that thinks this team hasn't mailed it in recently.

My brother just summed it up perfectly "we're awful"

Thome's really not helping his chances at making the playoffs and winning the ring.

Meltdown coming in 3.2.1.......

Can someone please calculate what our starting pitchers ERA is against AL teams this season?

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) Thome needs to earn his money and pick the Sox up right now. He can help the team the best right now by sitting out for another week, and not playing against lefties the rest of this year.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:35 PM) BMAC has 125 innings and over a year of service time! He's not a AAA player. That's Freddy Garcia with his 88 MPH fastball and hanging curveball. The WC lead is out the window if it's not 3 or more when we head to the west coast. Dropping these games is inf***ingexcusable. Garcia, Pods, and Uribe sure seemed to have a lot more power prior to the 2005 season. I miss the days of Uribe having enough power to hit a homer to right center, etc.

Tavarez made us look silly in that extra inning game by pounding our righties with sliders low and away. We should stack the lineup with lefties against him.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:32 PM) Didn't we win 9 in a row? Didn't we have 6 guys hitting over .300 for like 2 months? I hate when Hawk says we haven't had a good rhythm at all this year, because that's simply not true.

Uribe's on his way out of town.

I've never seen more hanging pitches in one inning than I did in the bottom of the 4th. I miss the days of posters saying that Garcia means to throw a high offspeed pitch.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:04 PM) Fields would most likely have the same results as Thome, although he wouldn't be batting 4th. Lefties bat .200 vs Redman, and righties are around .325

Another day, another less-than-intense performance by our hitters. QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 07:02 PM) It's not like Ozzie would use him.... Yep, why panic now? I mean, this offense is consistently going out there and putting up 7 runs on 12 hits a game now.

The annoying thing is that we don't even have a righty on the bench who we could DH today. I hope that AAA title is important enough to not promote Fields yet.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 3, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) Well f***, blow a golden chance to score a few and then give up a gopher ball. Love this team This offense is just terrible right now. The sad thing is that we don't even come close to hitting the ball hard.