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Cannot wait until the Tampa 2 is out of Chicago. Watching QB after QB just tear this apart throwing into wide open spaces because we don't alter routes or bump off the line. Watching linebackers moving backwards over and over. Thank God Peppers is getting pressure or this would be a complete mess.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) Horrible pass but an even worse drop. Horrible pass? It dove a bit, but it was in his hands.

Thanks for bringing your hands of stone in the end zone Clark.

People should be fired alone for assembling this abortion of an offensive line.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) Every NFL GM would take Cutler over Orton. The people who want Orton over Cutler are the same people who argued Crede was better than ARod, and Buerhle was better than Johan. Presented with logic and fact some Chicago fans choose choice C.) Crazy.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 22, 2010 -> 12:33 AM) Why not? It wouldn't surprise me a bit. I just want to know how they got this down to a neighborhood or physical address. I mean that is some straight up pimp best buy geek squad skillz that they have going for them. Odd though, when I looked at the IP its part of a /16 allocation for the senate in general. And the router announcing that network is in DC, and not Atlanta. But then again I didn't google geoip and use some random website as part of my investigation so it must be wrong.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Sep 20, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) I keep wondering if Garcia could fill the role of long reliever/spot starter next year. I could be wrong, but I don't think we can count on him for another full year as the 5th starter. However, I think he could be an interesting candidate for the role that Pena has found himself in this year a lot, which is coming in early in certain games with the hope of giving the Sox somewhere around three or four innings before they could get to the end of the bullpen. I know a lot of it depends on the ability to get warm quickly in the bullpen, but if Freddy could make that transition, I think it could be a great niche for him. Any analysis of the sox using X player properly requires the Ozzie factor to be analyzed. Garcia is family and if he is on the team and Ozzie is here he is a starter. If he hit lefty and was grindy Ozzie would consider him the best baseball player that has ever played.

This combination of crappy pitching plus anemic offense is surely capping the season the way it started. 8 out of the last 11 games have had 3 runs or less. Can we score 4 runs tonight. Can our pitching keep it under a touchdown. Who knows, but maybe its time for Ozzie to play the kids and forgo the need to play the Teahans and others.

So Bonderman in that last break, rubs down the outside of his forearm and then rubs the outside of the ball, then does the same thing with his other arm and then rubs the ball again. Methinks something is up.

So happy this has finally arrived in the Chicagoland area. Every trip I see if they are in the town I am visiting to see if I need to make a stop. The Chick-Fil-A Cow and his awesome spelling gets my vote.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 06:26 PM) I think fans got carried away with putting the savior image on Manny. He can't solve the pen problems. It's at the point where a pen appearance is an automatic loss. The bullpen sure has sucked lately. But the offense isn't exactly holding its own. In the last 11 games we have scored 3 runs or less in 8 of those games. In half of those we have scored 2 runs or less. So rotten bullpen + rotten offense + not so good defense = April/May.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 05:49 PM) Maybe it's time for the Sox to have a contest "Pitcher for a Day". Somebody in the stands or A ball, instructional league, whatever could just get someone out and not fill the bases. Maybe we could pair that up with another promotion, "For every run scored past 3 that the Whitesox score, Alex will donate 100 dollars in loving memory of Ursula."

QUOTE (Wanne @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 05:34 PM) I know there was probably 95% (if not more) of the people on this board who would NO WAY in hell trade Beckham. "He's the face of the franchise for the next 10 years, #3 hitter, etc..." What is your thought now? To me...if the right player is involved and it takes Beckham to get him I really don't think I have a problem with it. Again..."the right player...whoever that may be". I know he's been hurt lately and all...but I'm just not sure he's really going to be all that much better. Obviously he has to be better than this season...but I think the question now might be popping into people's minds a little more. Are people still in the "no way in hell" camp... The Kenny Williams "all in" trades need to stop. Trading away any young player who is cheap and under control for anything besides a "young player under control for a while" is not a good way to go. We have enough payroll locked up without trying to add more. Adrian Gonzales and other fantasies that people have on here are not going to happen.

The tigers have as much of a chance to catch us as we have of catching the Twins.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 11:26 PM) Seriously. They are playing .719 ball since the All-Star Break. Take away the 12 games vs. the Sox, and they are still playing .711 ball. Time to tip your cap and face the facts, Twins >>> Sox Here is the stretch in August and September where we lost this thing and the Twins passed us up. Sure the twins played outstanding baseball. But look at the teams that we played and how we just dropped the ball. Lots of beatable teams here. Orioles, We lose 3/4 Twins We lose 2/3 Detroit We lose 2/3 Twins We lose 2/3 Royals We lose 2/3 Orioles We win 2/3 Yankees we lose 2/3 Indians we sweep 3/3 Redsox 2/3 we win Detroit 3/4 we lose Royals 2/3 we win 7 series losses, 4 series wins. 25 wins, 35 losses This in a nutshell is why we lost.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 10:58 PM) Only until this season Ramirez would not be even considered a great fielder. He played much better once Omar started playing 3rd. The station to station and homerun or nothing hasn't made the Sox win either. They need to find the right balance. Still people overlook the obvious that the pitching was the paper tiger. Danks and Floyd may be regressing when they should be progressing. But Ramirez has had the entire breathe of the season to judge his skill. Its not like he wore the mitt on his head, caught the ball for 7 games in a row and we yelled success. Tricking some GM with magic pixie dust of a few games doesnt work, well unless that pixie dust is in Arizona and it happens to be fall. I hope you realize that in 2005 we played station-to-station baseball. We hit home runs and scored most of our runs via the dong. We won that year because of just outstanding starting pitching. Everyone had a great year and our bullpen was outstanding. We did not play slap and tickle baseball like people romantically remember. For every Pods steal that you remember, there was a long home run somewhere in the game providing most of the offense. You keep acting like the pitching is the only reason we lost this year. Anyone who builds a team and plans on 3-2 and 4-1 games in the AL is just playing with fire. Hopeing that all the stars would align and having nothing behind the scenes to back it up is a bad plan.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 10:51 PM) Actually guys like Jenks and AJ are in job preservation mode. Kenny's got some decisions to make on veterans. Why not let them play the season out. The kids will still be around if Kenny doesn't trade them. A few weeks of games for the kids in the big stadiums with some fans in them is good experience. Its nearly impossible to judge how a kid can play in the thin air of Arizona. If that was a good place to judge talent Brian Anderson would be our 3 hole hitter. The vets have had a long season that has vetted out most of the peaks and valleys. They have a history that isnt going to be overwritten by a few games in September. The better use of the remaining games is to get the kids out on the field and see what they can do.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) I would still like to see us play the kids for the rest of the season. f*** the pride crap Ozzie. Season is pretty much over, though I'm sure he will still play the vets since were not "mathematically eliminated." They are in job preservation mode. Get to 90 wins and call this season a success.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 10:30 PM) Go to the turn of the century it's no different. Manager has nothing to do with it. 03 9-10 02 8-11 01 5-14 00 7-5 If you want to go back before that the only time the Sox got the better of the Twins was when the Sox had losing records. Must be magic then.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:38 PM) Have I said how much I hate Ozzie lately? http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/...s-can-wait.html He did the same thing in 07 trotting Pods out there over kids.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:31 PM) Yep, but pitching and D was bad. The pen was the only group that showed up. I'm beginning to believe getting guys from the NL will not improve an AL team overnight. They have to make a big adjustment to facing pitchers they're not familiar with. A NL pitcher like Peavy is not use to facing a league where one division will have more hitters than the entire NL. While Jackson blows that theory, Hudson looks really good pitching in the NL. Maybe Kenny should stay away from getting NL players and the Royals. I am of the opinion that locating and aquiring every member of the 1990's Cleveland Indians for their farewell tour isn't a great way to build a consistant winner. Also picking up your random sox killer is a bad idea when they suck against everyone else. Giving long term extensions to medicore players is bad. If you want to keep Ozzie fine. Just ozzie proof the lineup. No crappy left handed hitters that Ozzie can over expose. Then hire an experienced bench coach that can call Ozzie's BS. Then for the love of god don't listen to the man on personnel decisions. He is in some sort of alternate universe where we are in the National League and we are the florida marlins.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:27 PM) Just looking at the Twins lineup, if Morneau can return healthy next season, there's no reason they cannot win 95-100 games again. Just absurd depth throughout with a few superstars around them. Maybe Ozzie should float the memo over to Gardy and hope he DH's Punto like we did this year. That might help our odds.

Well Hawk I understand that a bullpen is very important. But scoring more than 2 runs might assist in some wins as well. Thats what gets lost in all this pummelling, is that we are not scoring runs. I guess we should win every game 3-2, and 2-1.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:11 PM) Nice try. The pitching sucked. When that sucks along with defense (2 years in a row, starting 3rd baseman loses job)nothing can overcome that. Next. Well scoring only 92 runs in April might of had a slight hand in some of our losses.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) You can't blame the season on lack of a DH. This team was built on pitching and has been the most disappointing group. There's no DH on the planet that can over come that. The team was built poorly. They were built on the idea that we could recreate the 2005 pitching staff and be lights out and win 3-2 games all year long. This is not the NL. We play in the American League and in a stadium that plays like a bandbox in the summer. We took a valuable position and put two bench players and made it into a mess. Its the typical Ozzie formula, take a crappy player that should be the last man on the bench and overuse him. The first two months when we had a horrible horrible offense might of been mitigated a bit if we say actually had 9 hitters up there instead of 8 and a pitcher.