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Thome vs Zitos curveball. Lets see if the corpseball offense can give a little thrill today, or are they going to get mowed down crazy like. Zito has a 9+ era in his last couple of starts and has been terrible at home. Which means we will have a hit or 2 by the 5th inning and he will have half a dozen Ks on our team. Just f***ing hit the ball.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 12:29 PM) He'll keep threatening that he'll quit. Hopefully the door will hit him on the way out. I can't believe that after a week in which we consistently saw no hustle or intensity on key plays from guys like Pods, AJP, and Dye, Ozzie finally decided to snap and it was due to a lack of alcohol in the clubhouse. And the fact that he scapegoats our rookie CF for his lack of offense, and then decides to play a SS that has been horrible all year long, a LF that wouldnt start on the Royals. This is a good ole boys network going on here. Cotts is our worst reliever, yet for whatever reason of insanity he has the most appearances.

When I went from throwing 88-90 in my junior year of college to low 80s I also thought that it was going to magically come back, because I threw that hard before. Then I had an MRI, and so ended my pitching career.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 11:54 AM) He's just trying to fire up Anderson and give Mack some confidence out there. Uribe and Podsednik are both vets that play better if their manager just keeps sending them out there day after day even if they suck, the second he says something negative about either of them, they'll likely lose all confidence and become bad players. Ozzie is just saying the same damn things he's been saying all year because he doesn't want his team to panic, if that means talking about how bad Anderson is every day to the press and sending a corner OF out to CF each night then so be it. The last thing he needs is a team with a sense of urgency. I am going to spend the money on the weekend package for soxfest just to get downtown for a weekend, and so I can ask a question at the Q&A session. I have to ask if Ozzie lost his goddamn mind. QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 11:55 AM) But what is he bitter about? What did Brian do? Or is it that Ozzie loved Rowand and is holding a grudge against Brian for his taking his spot? Kid remember last year. We had Pods go down, we needed offense deperately. And Gload was rocking the world down in AAA. He decides to play Timo as his DH, and LF, and 1st baseman. Because putting a guy hitting a buck fifty makes us a better team. I remember watching the Yankee Sox series in Yankee stadium and seeing Timo Perez leading off at DH. Now why can Timo who is slow, and cant hit lead off. Yet we cant put Mack in LF and leadoff. This is why Joe Nossek left this team after Ozzie got hired. I am sure he saw crazy crap on the horizon and decided to get off this bus before he went nuts on the bench.

Ozzie in 2006 = Tony Pena past 2003. The crazy believe shirts and all that jazz worked for one year. Then the next year, his crazy pitching moves, silly lineups, and wierd crap killed him there. QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 11:52 AM) Did Brian sleep with one of Ozzie's sons or something? Why does he have such a disliking for him? Because our manager is a child, a bitter selfish child.

Why is Uribe and his sub 200 hitting for the last month in the lineup then. Why isnt Cintron in there. Why is prancer out in LF, if we are worried about anything. Ozzie is full of s***, the sooner he goes bye bye, the better. Take Walker and Cora with him.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 10:20 AM) Ozzie threw a fit because there wasn't any beer allowed in the clubhouse after the game. I'm sorry, but there is a hell of a lot more important things to worry about besides that s***. If all they want to do is party, screw 'em. I mean, fine, have a beer, but to throw a fit about it because you can't, tells me that they are worried about the wrong things. How far of a lease does everyone want to give our manager. No sense of urgency.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 01:16 AM) i don't think he's handled the bullpen well this year. i didn't like how he mixed the lineups this year. i didn't like how he mixed the lineups in 05'. i do like how he managed/told KW what players he wanted on the team in 05. we won the world series in 05. i would definately give him another shot in 06. really, you want ozzie gone? if so, who do you think the sox should replace him with? Well lets start with the told KW the kind of players he wanted/traded for the team. If you remember we had a budget set for that team and Carlos Lee and Paulie were both 8 million dollar players and one of them was going to go. Pretty much we had a salary dump and picked up a speedy leadoff guy. I have a question for you, take the same pitching staff we had last year, and then add the offenses in 2003 and 2004. And do you think Manuel wouldnt of went to the playoffs or won something. We won last year because of lock solid pitching. Lou Pinella, or anyone that can fill out a lineup card that starts the starters 80% of the time, and can make normal pitching changes can do the job. Playing 25% of the starters, experimenting like we are still in Tuscon, and his inability to make changes have cost us more games than we are behind this year.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 01:09 AM) BTW, I didn't see the Mackowiak screw-up. Was it the usual, bad read type play? He dove it went in and out of his mitt. Anderson would of had it though.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 01:09 AM) name someone sorry, but i'm not ready to throw the manager who won us our first world series in like 100 years under the bus Do you think he has done a good job as a tactician/motivator, and manager of the pitching this year.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 01:03 AM) fire ozzie and hire who? "I've been horrible, actually. There's no point in lying or candy-coating anything. It's been bad." -- Rob Mackowiak on his CF defense How about a manager who wouldnt put a player who is bad in CF in CF. Or someone who plays there starters more than 25%.

Someone talks about Pods should of been replaced and the robot known as PFB states that well some people start out slow, and you cant replace them based on that. PFB Pods had one, count them one good month as a leadoff hitter. That was in May. September Batting averages. The ignitor .244 BA with a .278OBP. Uribe .150 Thank god he plays every single day and we never replace him. AJ .250 keep pulling and lifting Thome .244 Same here Mackowiak .188/Anderson .214 Gload who cant pinch hit for Uribe or Prancer is hitting .455 Cintron is at .350. Team ERA is 3.66 for the month of September.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 12:04 AM) It will be a beautiful day in the city of Chicago when that useless scrub is finally dismissed. It should be fun watching Pods Blak™ blow ass in the leadoff spot in '07 and beyond. Hopefully we can fire ozzie before we set our team back by employing another bad speed guy just because Ozzie thinks this is the 2003 Marlins.

3 hits, 6 Ks taken. So for the love of god, how is this a good hitting team. A mindless blind chimp could get this team to hit. You are telling me that a team can score over 500 runs in the first half, and then go to sleep because teams start to go low and away and our team never adjusts. Its not like they discovered something completely new. FIRE GREG WALKER!!!!!

Mother f***ing gutless pathetic pussy of a Captain there. Takes a pitch down the cock with the game on the line. Just go home. You dont want this. How f***ing pathetic.

Can someone bring Hrniak back for the last few weeks, and give Walk an early offseason.

Low and away, and another hitter looks stupid. You would figure that at some point someone in the video department would tell the coaching staff about this flaw. I mean they can pick up a guy tipping his pitches, but they cant pick up every single hitter getting absolutely owned on low and away.

Here comes the tease.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:48 PM) Thome hasn't seen a fastball in the last 2 months he's not afraid to foul off. Dont worry, he and the rest of the team are waiting for the middle in perfect teeball for them to crush. Too bad that this isnt little league.

Dye just showed us the prototypical corsepball approach with 2 strikes and a low and away pitch. First take front foot and instead of striding towards the pitch play, step towards third to help pull ball. Then extend arms for the meatball down the middle. Oh s***, its moving low and away. Cant stop swing, K.

QUOTE(tealeafreaderii @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:45 PM) .... if Mack got a chance to see him again the game would already be decided.... Thats impossible our apendage aware manager has already moved the chess pieces a few times. Too bad he is playing by the rules of checkers.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:39 PM) I thought I remembered Hawk and DJ saying earlier this year that Freddy was losing velocity to concentrate on control and preserve his arm more. Next year is the last year of his deal, and probably the last chance he'll get to earn a decent contract. I wouldn't be suprised to see his velocity magically come back next year. I should of used that excuse when my elbow and shoulder blew in my junior year of college. Oddly the minute I lost a bunch of MPH on my fastball without a reason, my coach made me get an MRI. Sorry coach I am just throwing slow because I want to preserve my arm for senior year, The scouts love the lob league I am now throwing that is getting crushed. I missed the boat on that one.

Zito and his big curveballs versus the corpseball express tomorrow night is looking like a lock for us huh.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:37 PM) Minny was down two to Oakland about a week ago (Wharris posted it), managed to come back. Minny was down two tonight vs Cleveland, and managed to come back, despite losing later. Does anybody have 1/10th the confidence in OUR team to comeback, despite the fact that we've scored what, 100 more runs this year? This is f***ing unreal. Our pitching has done okay tonight. Oh, wait Marco Scutaro with another hit. I forgot he was an all-star this year. Keith, how does the twins handle a 2 strike situation with men on. And what kind of swings do you see with RISP and the sox hiters up with 2 strikes. The twinks shorten it up, and punch it somewhere. Our guys are trying to send it out of the yard. That is why our team isnt doing it lately with the stick. Appendage aware strikes again.

If Ozzie is still in charge of this team next year he will literally ruin it for a while. He will beg KW to pick up a puss hitter like Dave Roberts or Juan Pierre. Cora will sill be sending runners to die at home with his waving silly arms. Walker will still be turning every single hitter into a myopic pull hitter. And we will look like world beaters in teh first half, and then our o will look like it got run over by a bus in the 2nd half.