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QUOTE (vandy125 @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 10:02 PM) Glad to see a response to those Mac commercials finally. Macs are good for some things (creating graphics and videos), but PCs are much better at what I want to use a computer for. Well my mac runs Windows Vista and it runs OSX 10.5.5. The commercials are stupid, so is the anti-pc mac bias, and the anti-mac pc bias. Use the best machine for your needs. My Mac seems to compile my bsd programs a lot better than a PC, so for me the Unix under the hood is what I use and love about my Mac.

HIT THE f***ING BALL. DUCKWORTH SUCKS. Take it to them boys. Lets finish this f***ing thing. On Tuesday the war begins. Its time for a gut check.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 10:52 PM) Which goes back to the whole Chris Young trade again. He's young, dynamic and affordable. He does everything well besides throw. 46 doubles. Everyone will just throw out his OPS and OBP and say he's horrible, but I don't buy that argument. Obviously, he's a much different player than Ichiro, but I am not convinced we're so much better off with Javier Vazquez. At worse, he's Mike Cameron. And that's a lot better than our CF situation has been for the last three years. It's like just looking at Tadahito Iguchi's stats in 2005 on paper. They don't come close to telling the entire story. With Ichiro, how many errors did he force on the infield with his speed? How many pitchers gave up RBI's because they were concentrating on Ichiro at 1B or 2B? How many runners didn't advance because of his presence and arm in CF and RF? How many times did he move a runner over successfully? Don't get me started about our inability to bunt. Listening to both games today, it struck me the way that most teams' announcers say "and they're off to the races" as soon as a somewhat speedy guy gets on against anyone besides Buehrle. Mauer, you simply don't run on that guy. I kind of miss the days of Karkovice or even Miguel Olivo...when Harrelson was hyping him to be something he wasn't. But it was fun while it lasted. Chris Young is a speedy version of Josh Fields who happens to play CF. He has a low OBP, low BA, and hits homers. Of course he is a product of our system. The only reason I would want him, is that some other GM might over value him and give us lots of goodies for him. But I would rather have Vazquez right now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 10:33 PM) But alas, who are you going to trade in order to acquire him? We would have to wait until July 31st to trade Beckham. I can't think of anyone besides Floyd, Danks, Ramirez, Jenks or Quentin that the Mariners would want to have from either our major or minor league roster. They're certainly not going to make bringing back Matt Thornton a centerpiece of the deal....that would be too embarassing. Having learned their lesson with Sexson, Bedard and to a lesser extent Beltre, they're not going to want Konerko, Dye or Swisher. I think KW will do something risky like dangle Jenks out there...because he has so few players with any current/future value to other teams, besides the ones I listed that everybody in baseball knows about. We dont have enough to get Ichiro. He isnt coming here. But that wasn't the point of my comments, you stated about Swishers OPS is only .10 worse. Beckham looks like a line drive swing with some power. Hopefully we A.) keep him B.) dont let our minor league instruction mess him up. C.) he stays healthy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:20 PM) I just noticed that one of our popular trade targets, Ichiro, has an OPS exactly 0.10 points higher than Swisher. Unfortunately, McLouth, Granderson, Cody Ross, Matt Kemp, Shane Victorino and BJ Upton don't come cheap. And Rowand (dare I utter that name) still isn't worth that type of money. Ichiro has a .314 BA with a .365 OBP striking out only 61 times with 43 stolen bases with great defense and a rocket arm. I would love to have that player on our team. He would be more valuable to our team than 2 or 3 Swishers.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:54 PM) Be careful what you wish for. I don't think we want another trade like C. Lee for Pods (in terms of talent). I don't even want to think about what we'll give up for Chone. I want some line drive hitters to augment our power base. That doesn't translate to Tavares.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 08:48 PM) There's minimal speed, minimal defense and no timely hitting. It's semi-talented corpseball rearing its ugly head, yet again. Its funny. Kenny talked a good game about grinders, and playing like the twins, and how we will play like the twins. Then he keeps assembling the same offense. Hell he trades a line drive type, to get a low BA power guy. He loves him some power hitters.

During playoff hunt years, we have had Ozzie doing a postgame show. Now 670 only has it when they win.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:28 PM) You seem to forget the clutch hitting to dribe in winning runs or get a rtally started and you forget his great glove at 3B killingh opposing teams rallies. Joe Crede=winnah To bad Crede brought a bad back, a rusty glove, and crappy stick this year. Joe Crede hasnt been the guy you speak off since his back went EPIC FAIL.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:29 PM) Ever since we had Ozzie s*** the bed in Baltimore on the makeup game, this team has been in a nosedive. I don't think its that Knight. These guys have pucker problems. The minute the pressure steps up, they start to pucker up and die. Medicore baseball and this thing is clinched. 2 under 500 for the month, and one of the worst offenses in the AL for the month of September is why this is going to be decided in the last week. Then of course you have Buerhle in the paper talking about how basically the Twins series is they are up by games, because is impossible for them to win there.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:26 PM) Post of the season!!! Every time there is a chance to take control of the division, the Sox lose and dont take advantage, but never fear. the Twins are there the next day to lose and keep us in first...with an extra special thanks to Matt Guerrier for doing his own part in keeping the Sox in first... Well tomorrow they have Liriano pitching, and the Rays have been partying with their playoff clinch. We face another pile of crap that they will be swinging for the fence on. And I am sure Griffey will be out in CF to turn singles into XBHs.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 09:20 PM) Hey now, high fiving the cardboard cutout of himself has been the highlight of the season for me. Not just White Sox, all of baseball. Finally a guy with my kind of humor. This year is a fluke. I don't want to damn Gio or single machine, but trading away a sick AAA curve on a toothpick body and an afore mentioned Sweeney is worth the numbers Nicholas has put up every year prior to this one. How did our 16 game winner fare last year? How about our 74 year old 40 game loser Contreras? Didn't Fields jack eleventy HRs? How many did he tag this year? Ask 99.9% of our community what their opinion of Juan Uribe was even halfway into this season. The point is this game is so f***ing year by year it's not even worth risking arthritis in your early 70's typing worthless fluff. I'm not specifically picking on you, MurcieOne, as I myself am guilty of screaming rape based on some of the lol performances turned in by our guys at times (Javy pissed me off this year, Crede for all I know could hit .300 next year (lmaoroflf***), I wasn't too fond of OCab's Cintron impersonation early in the year etc.), but one year's unfiltered cigarette is the next year's inhaler during an asthma attack. But I'm serious about the cutout high fives. If he hit .003 with a bar over it I would be glad to have him on our 25 man. I am glad that you think Kid Comic can trot out there and suck as long as he gives you the giggles. Awesome.

The offense needs to wake the f*** up. April, May and now September. Wake the f*** up.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 08:02 PM) But Ozzie has the passion. The damn passion. All you need is passion. You've got to have the passion. And a magic 8 ball. How about in one of the large outfields, that we decide to break up the old guys in RF and CF. Maybe put Brian Anderson, whom I think might have the same chance for success as Griffey in his old age. Keep AJ out of the 2 hole. My god man, you moved Carl Everett who is a lot more boisterous.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 07:47 PM) If we step back and look at this team objectively,we have to realize that injuries have just killed us,Jose Contreras,Joe Crede,Scott Linebrink and Carlos Quentin and Paul Konerko battling injuries all season long...to lose your ace,your set up guy the sox paid big bucks to bring,your gold glove calibre 3rd basemen and your best hitter and MVP candidate,well it was too much to overcome.I know injuries are part of the game and the other guys gotta step up but how many teams can overcome them to their top players? Who is this ace that we lost? Please dont tell me you mean Jose.

Brandon Duckworth is a crappy crappy pitcher. Maybe our offense might decide that tomorrow is a nice day to earn a few bucks.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 07:42 PM) At least we gave it a run. Yes our swinging for the fences finally allowed us to break through on a horrible pitcher. Our long fly almost went over the fence in a large pitchers park. Our last hitter almost hit the ball, but didnt. Almost at this point in the year means s***.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 07:40 PM) Well at least we gave it a run. There are no hidden gems from this game. We made a crappy pitcher look like Johan. Then we decide at the end of the game its time to play. They should have this focus at the beginning of the game. This team has no killer instinct.

Pathetic.

Wasserman is up. LOL

Hopefully Clayton can pull something out here. Because the idea of Wasserman, MacDougal, Boone, or Ramirez as relievers in the playoffs is scary.

Hawk you are full of s***. Walk doesnt preach that, bulls***. We just happen to have a lot of strong guys. LOL

2-0 with no body on base against a Loogy and you swing. Great. Replace his ass with Anderson at least he can catch a f***ing ball and not walker it out to RCF.

Hey look, swinging for the fences finally worked. YES. Its a miracle when a straight as an arrow fastball gets rocked.

Boone should get the soap treament after the game from his teamates ala Private Pile.