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QUOTE(Yossarian @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 10:27 PM) He may be a good pal and a good motivator, but a game day manager he is not. The item to prove that is when you look at the oober player Timo who is Ozzies automatic plug in for every game on the line situation. Need a first baseman. TIMO Need a DH. TIMO Need a leadoff hitter. TIMO Need a pinch hitter for Gooch. TIMO

QUOTE(RX Bandits @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) This is our first real losing streak so far. Look I'm not saying I dont think it can happen---because it's in the back of my mind. However, All I'm saying is to chill. We should be GRATFUL for a 7 game lead. You can be greatful all you want for the lead. But we werent this bad last August with the great collapse. We at least hit 262 as a team with Joe Freakin Borchard in right. The reason we lost last year was pitching in the stretch and the pen. Take last years hitting(with Joe Borchard) and put it together with this pitching and we romp into the playoffs. Thats even with Valentin kicking the ball around here and there.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) Note to offense: In order to win a game, you need to score a run. We officially have hit rock bottom as an offense. Our TEAM splits for the month of August .228 BA as a team. 2nd worst in all of baseball. The only team worse is the Royals. They are worse by 1 freakin point. .285 OBP THE WORST IN ALL OF THE MAJORS. We are tied for worst with 58 runs. To give you a perspective on how bad this is. The twins whose offense was sucking for most of the month have scored 91 runs. 2nd from the bottom in hits. Last in doubles. BUT HEY WE ARE 6TH IN DONGS WITH 25. So 25 out of 58 runs have been scored via the dong 43%. And our pitching has been stellar. We are third in all of baseball with a 3.64 ERA for the month of August.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:49 PM) If you couldn't tell this team needed some offensive help even before the season started, somethings up. I don't blame Kenny for much, and my hope in him as a general manager is still high, but not addressing the area of need with the talent this team has, is worse than any non-move made by a general manager this season. Well JR for years used the excuse he couldnt get big FAs unless we came out to the park. Well they are on pace for a record amount of fans at the park. Time to f***ing spend some money and trade a few prospects. Lets get someone, something that will breathe some life into this thing. Our season is on life support. We have the lead, but when you lose 8 games in such a short period of time. We need something.

Make them watch this. If f***ing 12 year olds can figure out how to get a line drive swing. Maybe these guys can relearn how to keep the bat level when it goes through the hitting zone.

QUOTE(Tannerfan @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:29 PM) It started to fade when Frank (remember him?) re-broke his ankle. And he did that before the trading deadline. We got Geoff Blumm to replacement. Thanks for the shot in the nuts KW.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:21 PM) Wisdom from one of our many armchair hitting coaches. Too bad we got rid of Walt Hrniak. But Rowand is a perfectionist. While he fully admits his swing is pretty good right now, Rowand still points to the timing and rhythm of his approach that need to improve in order to catch the ball more out front, get the ball up in the air and drive it on a consistent basis. Thanks for f***ing your swing up. Keep tinkering, just like the rest of our guys. They almost got that ball up in the air and drive it working. The change of Rowands swing

QUOTE(Ozzie Montana @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:16 PM) Rowand has been really stinking it up lately. If he swings like he did against Rj when he hit the homer, well he'd have more success. That was a nice short swing. Like he had last year. When he had power to right and right center. This year, specifically after the padres series, he changed his swing so he can get more around on the ball so he can get lift. Its so f***ing obvious, look at his hands. Last year his stance was very erect, he had a strong L going with his arms. This year his hands are tucked in like Mickey Tettleton. He now has a very pronounced uppercut on the ball. And cannot hit the outside pitch at all.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:14 PM) Timo Perez is like the dork in school who you had to let play because he was the only one with a ball. I havent hated a player more since Royce K-Layton was here. Royce and Borchard hit circles around this panty buying girlfriend of Ozzie.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 09:06 PM) Bad luck? J. Jones blasted a hanging curveball. Rowand had numerous meatballs to hit tonight, and he was too busy fouling them off over the dugout. Luck didn't make Stewart and Ford catch those balls. If so, then J. Dye got very lucky also. Our offense flat out blows, and our manager has no f***ing clue how to manage a team during a game. What a f***ing insult to Iguchi to get lifted for a ph. BTW can we officially kill the Timo is clutch crap. 2-1 and he swings at a fastball at his neck. His job is to take pitches and get on base in the 9th leading off. But no, Mr. Fattypanties has to swipe at the ball like a mouse on drugs. But hey he provides a service that we shall not talk about. And buys panties from the big girl section.

This offense is worse than last year when we had Borchard patrolling RF. If we had this pitching staff with last years team(even without Maggs and Thomas) we get into the playoffs. This is a f***ing joke. In fact I am waiting for Borchard to come up. For f***s sake they only swing for the fences at least have someone who can hit like s*** and have some power.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 08:51 PM) For all you people jumping off the bandwagon your f***ing idiots I have been a whitesox fan since I can remember. I have seen some pathetic losses over my years. The only thing this would motivate me to do, is line up with all my sox bretheren at Soxfest for the Q&A session for Kenny or his successor depending if we collapse. Never would any of this sadness stop me from being a whitesox fan.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 08:42 PM) Problem with tonite is people will simply use Santana's stature as an excuse for their performance. It stands out more with Garcia's game, but it's far from an aberration. We've seen him for the third time this year. He's not molded from the arms of the best pitchers in baseball history. Teams have beaten him. Make adjustments. Take a few pitches. If we're losing, lose with several walks and more than 3 f***ing hits; 2 of which came off a reserve player in Ozuna. How about this for a strategy. Try and purposely hit the ball to the other field. If its a changeup you will probably pull it. This was from Hawk and DJ the last time we faced Santana.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 08:40 PM) The problem is even if the Sox make the playoffs, you have to face other playoff team's top pitchers. The White Sox offense has very little chance against good pitching. They have stopped running. They have stopped advancing runners. They don't situational hit, and if you don't have a couple .300 hitters, you aren't going to score much with that approach. It was fairly obvious in the second inning tonight that Garcia would have to pitch a shutout to win. I posted it then, and I'm no genius. Well I posted a few times earlier in the season about how bad this team is in BA, OBP and how we are last or near the bottom in the AL in singles, doubles and triples. Then of course the response was "Oh we are last in doubles, but we score a lot of runs and we have the best record in baseball, the whole idea is to score runs". Doubles are a very interesting stat. Doubles happen mainly because of line drives either hit down the line or in the gaps. We dont have line drive hitters. Does anyone remember the article during the padres series of when Rowand changed his swing because he wanted to get around on the ball more to center it up for more power. Well the power stroke looks good arow as they dunston you to death throwing s*** off the outside corner. And of course we pinch hit for gooch one of the few guys who has actually got an oppo swing going. This is worse than Corpseball. This is moronball.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 08:35 PM) Hey guys, first of all we haven't blown s*** yet. Don't assume nothing. We just need some f***ing help. Help is not on the way. KW is going to sit on his hands this year. The last few years, he trades everything for Everett and Alomar. This year when we actually have a chance at doing something, we dont trade because god forbid we trade a good prospect. He might be good like Borchard one day. Now our pitchers got a great message, pitch the game of your life and we will whimper out like a fart trying to swing for the fences. They dont need bats, with their swings they need Tigers driver. FORE!!!!!!!!!!! Timo Perez is our answer because he f***ing brought in some nasty panties.

Keep swinging for the fences that will just save the day. We scored on Sunday in one inning where we bashed a bunch of homers. OUr offense blows dog balls right now. f***ing strikeouts, f***ing popups.

Thanks Freddy, the only way you would of won is if you threw a no no and these mopes werent swinging for the fences. So much for the short quick swings of one inning on sunday. f***ing Arow is choping wood out there. The only one who had good swings on the ball was Kong. Hopefully we can get the wild card. 7 games up and we are dropping like a rock. Last week we were up by 15! We have dropped 8 f***ing games.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 04:26 PM) LINEUPS... Ozuna-3b Iguchi-2b Everett-LF Konerko-DH Rowand-CF Dye-RF Pierzynski-C Uribe-ss Blum-1B GArcia-SP As much as I hate Ozuna playing 3rd base. I like this lineup. I just wish they would of flipped Everett and Rowand. Rowand hits well in that 3rd spot. Konerko would have more protection in the threat of Everett hitting behind him. Oh well. Score some runs and BEAT SOME TWINKIE ASS

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 04:11 PM) I'm not quite sure I get your point, SS71. Yes, Carrillo is doing well so far, but you can't really say that Broadway has done worse -- he hasn't gotten the same chance that Carrillo has gotten. I don't think the plan for Gio was to be up at Birmingham this year, anyways. He's only 19. I'd like to see him dominate high-A a little more. But, as for our pitching prospects as a whole, it's better than it's been in a while. You got McCarthy at AAA who's been awesome in the second half, Haigwood who's having a brilliant season at AA, Haeger and Tracey who are doing decently at Birmingham, and then Liotta, Gio, and Broadway at high-A. Now, obviously none of them are locks, but that's seven good prospects are having good-to-great-to-spectacular seasons this year. I like our pitching depth in the minors. I have no personal problem with Broadway. I just like Carrillo's stuff and future makeup more. For me its the thought of a sinkerballer tossing a heavy ball at the Cell. We seem to draft very similiar guys in makeup, and its probably time we start to get a bit of difference so we can keep people on their toes. The big thing about our rotation this year is that there are no two guys similiar in our pitching rotation. I just hope that Lance can keep it up and progress well next year.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 03:49 PM) Agreed on PARC's missed opportunities for financial gain, but being the Apple devote' I am, i can't complain. As for the processors, I think the .030 and .040 were certainly technically superior to the Intel offerings at the time, and rather it comes down to them being stuck without a large volume source of a universal chip. I think the risc-based PowerPC chips were again really advanced technologically, but the problems involved with ramping up production of those were monumental. Well again its a decision of technology over marketing. RISC architecture was more powerful in the mid to late 90's based on certain types of processing. But the Intel chips had the market by then, and this was before the Next technology made its way back into Apple. Next ran on an x86 platform as well as the motorolla 6800 architecture. This was the core of what became OsX. Hell Darwin to this day can run on an x86. I had a vmware session running it to see what it could do. It will be interesting to see how multi cored chipsets compare to the big Iron type chipmakers. We are going to test a multicore cluster early next year running Oracle on linux vs a Sun E10K.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 03:33 PM) They should have used a standard chip set from the get-go, but that was Jobs screwing Woz around and withholding money on the Atari Breakout development deal. Since he had no money, Woz couldn't afford an 8080 processor when he was cobbling together the mac in his garage and had to go with something cheaper. Possible the single biggest f***-up in personal computer history. :headshake They had plenty of time to correct that decision. The next logical time would of been to move to it when they moved to the powerpc architecture, and then again when they moved to OSX. But Jobs likes to keep things internal and didnt want to risk his "valuable" MAC business by opening it up to hardware competition. Biggest f*** up in personal computing was Xerox and PARC. How many technologies came out of there and Xerox didnt see any real money? How many billions of dollars would be stuffed in their pockets right now if they had just kept these ideas in house.

QUOTE(winodj @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 03:07 PM) They do have the branding with the computers. But the compatibility issue and price point was the big difference. Well hopefully for their sake that should change when they move to Intel technology for their PC base. Panther is pretty good, and as a bsd/linux user its a nice alternative in the long run. Plus if Microsoft keeps their track record of coding flaws and security holes it could make a run once it gets on standard hardware. I dont think the same issues that killed the mac's market share will do the same for the Ipod. I have an Archos and an Ipod. My Archos has all of my video content for my long international flights, and my Ipod is my down and dirty for my day to day music listening. I like the Archos but the ease of use and slick interface brings me back to the ipod for music listening.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 02:06 PM) PETA didnt get all in an uproar over a rally monkey right? and for god sake they're just underwear Screw Peta, Hamburgers taste good. Now if we can get the fundamental girls to wear the sox rally thong during the go go whitesox song!!! That would really help the crowd get into the game. Especially if they could put it up on the nice new HD Display?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 01:11 PM) About as well, if not better, than Carrillo did in his stint at high-A. It's just, San Diego seems to want Carrillo on a fast track to the majors. They need arms. We, OTOH, don't. If we drafted Carrillo, I'd venture to say he'd still be with the big club. Lets see how Broadway fairs as he progresses through AA probably next year at some point. But so far Broadway 1 win 1 loss 9 Starts 47.2 innings 51 hits 15 ER 18 BB and 51Ks 2.83 ERA in high A Carillo 1 win 4 starts 19.1 innings 15 hits 6 ER 3BB 20Ks 2.79 ERA in high A 4 wins 5 starts 30.2 innings 23 hits 11 ER 7BB 35Ks 3.23 ERA in AA And whatever you can say about the fast track if any of our prospects made this jump in such a short time and also were doing as well in AA we would be doing cartwheels. Look at all the Gio love so far.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) My premise was that all the war hawks decrying him (and her) for doing what they did -- while it was shady what Jane did, at least she was closer to Vietnam than most of the chickenhawks that are whining about her. And I don't need to defend his statement but I'm glad that at least some people are *gasp* going to another country and experiencing what it is like rather than simply sitting behind a computer mindlessly saying "USA! USA!" as government further erodes our rights. Well as someone who "gasp" has travelled for the better part of 6 years all over the world for work I can say that my travels have depened my respect for the "eroding" freedoms that you talk about. My few trips to mainland China and a few other not so "open" places in this world left me with new found respect and love for this country.