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The jason tyner play to have the twinks go ahead. Man on, he gets pitched away on 2 strikes and he goes with the pitch and hits it hard into left center. Thats what our guys should play like. Guillen spanks off to how the twins play, but has a hitting coach preaching the Earl Weaver offense.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:54 PM) Like every year pre-2005, we can point to a select few players that give it their all 100% of the time while the rest go through the motions. But wait a second, in Ozzies first press conference he said we would play grinderball, and if you didnt play baseball the right way you would sit no matter who you are. That he would motivate the players, and play aggressive baseball the right way.

DJ Uribe doesnt come off of flyballs into the outfield. Stop making it sound like he had to make the play. Anderson pulled off, because numnuts would of crashed into him, because Profundo would of attempted to make the play.

And like clockwork the rain shows up. The only good thing is this a Roger Bossard field, which means that even in that crappy dungheap of a park, it drains well.

2 pull monkeys back to back. Nice. Well this is just pathetic. I am glad we gave Mr. Pull Baseball Son a nice fat 3 year deal for underachieving as the hitting coach. He just got lucky that our offense got hot for a few weeks in the playoffs.

Anytime Ozzie wants to give a week off to the Pull Monkey and use Gload, the happier I will be. He is worthless up at the plate right now.

Sweeney should play some winter ball and work on his speed approach also. With his sweet ass swing and doubles approach, he could be sweet to replace Prancer. I am not sold on picking up 900 year old Dave Roberts who is Prancer II the older version.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:41 PM) I hope Pods was watching. From the bench, never to return to the starting lineup again.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:39 PM) Is this the return of smallball? nah, Crede, Thome, and maybe Konerko will all go down swinging for the fences. Sweeney is even more aggresive then Pods. hooray! YES! What else is new!? Bad base running killing an inning! And actually looks faster than Prancer right now on the basepaths. Well we can send Pods to the woodchipper. He is officially over.

Sweeney gets back, but Gooch was checking out a butterfly or something and gets doubled off. f***.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:33 PM) I can take a player failing because they're not very good. I can't f***ing watch as Pierzynski completely changes his approach from what was succesful in the first half. How is he that f***ing stupid? Although Pods is just as bad right now, I don't get anywhere as angry watching him. Last year the player who did that was named Aaron Rowand, who was hitting well for average and then at San Diego said that he was working on a new power stroke. Then pretty much was useless for most of the 2nd half. Hitting .245 in August and .235 in September. Carlos Lee was a doubles machine the year before. He was dominant raising his average 70 points over a long hitting streak. Then he decided to work over his swing to get more power. We then witnessed Carlos striking out and doing his best corpseball impersonation trying to hit dongs when we needed a single. I still love the doubles that Carlos hit off the wall, that he throught was a dong, then only to get tossed out by a mile at 2nd trying to hustle in after he posed Year after year we have guys with successful approaches, then a "power" element is added to their game and they become worthless in the second half with men on.

Pretty much Sweeney has this game to hit and prove he can hit, or Guillen will bury his ass on the bench. He will be a defensive replacement or a pinch runner and that is it.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:29 PM) how come every other team in the majors can find out how to hit this lefty, but he becomes cy young against us? Most major league teams are not pull monkey softball teams like ours. They have a few guys with a noticible dip in their back shoulder, we have the whole team doing this. Watch the twinks, you get 2 strikes on them, they look to go back up the middle and to right. It allows them to put contact on the ball, and not do too much with it. We swing like its 3-1 and no one is on base and K.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:27 PM) So when is the elusive "Closed door player meeting" going to happen? Kong thinks nothing is wrong. Until they are elminated they are still in it.

We are getting 1 hit by a pile of dung that has never had a winning season in the minors. Maybe we should of called up the entire Knights team tonight, they at least might give us a chance offensively.

Who is going to provide the solo dong tonight. My money is on Taz, he will corkscrew himself into the ground King for the rest of the night. But one profundo. Hrniak fixed Uribe last year, then he came to ST and was back to being bad. Then old Greg said that the leg kick really didnt work, msut of been an illusion, and he was going to work on a new spread stance. Well after a year of the spread stance, I want Hrniak back for a weekend refresher.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) Listening to the radio, you could predict the PK DP coming a mile away. It's funny, but I was always taught that if you're on 3rd base, you should be running home on contact on any ball hit on the infield. All he needed to do, was to hit that ball for a single up the middle or to right field. But its just another case of the pull monkey being a pull monkey. He couldnt resist the breaking pitch on the outside corner. It screamed hit me hard, put me over the wall, circle the bases. Its not really his fault.

I figure that next year they will just have a dramatic shift on the left side, and Paulie will hit 215 and will become the Rob Deer of the 21st century he is trying to be by pulling every single pitch.

QUOTE(alexgtp @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) Man is it me or is Pauly sucking big time in the 5 spot? He has become the DP king! Yeah the 2 he has had there lately are so much worse than the 18 he has had this year in the 4th spot. It must be the positioning in the lineup that causes the biggest pull monkey in baseball to pull every single outside pitch. /sarcasm

In honor of the Croc Hunter..... Crikey, I see the midwest version of pullus ballus up to bat with the bases loaded. We can surely catch him as he is the slowest creature in the forest. You can keep him off his game by throwing him low and away, for he will GIDP.

So another crappy pitcher with a left hand, and a breaking pitch is dominating our lineup huh. I thought Greg said everything was okay, because he had video on this kid.

QUOTE(SABR Sox @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 05:24 PM) The MacDogual trade looks even better right now. Just out of curiosity, even though Jenks has only 3 BS, would anyone prefer seeing Mac in the closer's role? Up until the fatman gets healthy, then its back to Bobby in the 9th. Jenks has 39 saves this year, and only 3 blown. Thats as good of production at the end of a ballgame as you get from the sox over the years.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) How the f*** does a team get their top 4 hitters back in 2 days? Just hit the f***ing ball, throw the ball well, and catch the ball. And play like the season is on the line. Run out ground outs, and break up double plays. I could care less about the Boston offense, with a medicore 6+ era pitcher on the mound who was gifted with the southpaw hand, its more of if we hear this tonight from the Hawkeroo. Hawk "Well Young Mr Gabbard is pitching his tail off tonight. I dont care what his ERA says, this kid has some talent. I was talking to some scouts before the game, and they didnt clue me into how sharp this kid is. " DJ "Well when facing a lefty like this, you want to hit the ball up the middle or the other way. Which is harder than it looks, as they want to tease you with breaking stuff away to entice you to hit it on the ground and get the out. Gabbard has induced 3 double plays this evening, and has been lucky to get out of a few jams. But when you have a good defense behind you, you can risk lettting a good hitting team put it on the ground. Paulie needs to come through here, as the whitesox offense is in a bit of a funk right now. Minnesota won today on a 35-0 score as Santana strikes out a career high 18 Devil Rays at home." Hawk "Well the Sox are threatening here, oh for the long one here. Konerko has to cinch it up, and hunker down here. Paulie fouls off the 1-2 pitch. Wow he just missed a cookie right there. Bow your neck Paulie, and here is the pitch, Dagdabit, and the kid will get out of walking the bases loaded as it goes 6-4-3 and you can rack em up. The whitesox have blown a golden opportunity here to score in here in the 6th inning. And its 2-0 badguys. "

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) Last I heard he was around 85 mph with his fastball. I am surprised we are not starting him. Sounds like a candidate for the rotation with that kind of gas.

I figured he would of died by a snake bite. I watched one special when he was walking around in Africa in the middle of the night and stumbled across some little wild colored snake on the edge of the road. He starts to f*** with it, and it turns and bites him. They then show he and his crew frantically trying to figure out what type of snake just bit him, how poisonous it is, and is there anti-venom for it. After a short bit, they find him and then Steve gives a thumbs up to the camera, "This little guy isnt that poisonous after all, which is good because we are at least 5 hours from anything here on foot". Sad for his family. RIP Steve