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Tyler Kepner ‏@TylerKepner 56s Funny quote from Santa Claus (er, Eric Wedge) on ejection: "He shouldve thrown me out. I wouldve thrown myself out if I said that to myself"

I hate Jerome Williams

Damn was that smashed

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) Thanks again De Aza 2-1 Angels. I agree that it was dumb and he's been dumb on the basepaths, but I think you're the only one here that saw any possibility there except him getting out

Well it was Pujols going opposite field on an outside fastball against a lefty. That's just something he does, I guess.

QUOTE (MAX @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:55 PM) I don't recall him ever hitting .214 this late in the year. I bet he heats up soon or we hear about another wrist injury. He batted .234 in 2003 and .240 in 2008, so extended stretches of poor play aren't exactly unprecedented for him. Makes it tougher to decide if this is from old age or not.

I'd love to see PK heat up one more time before he leaves Chicago

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:53 PM) DeAza with bad base-running or just nothing he could do there? May have been dumb, but didn't change result of the play

QUOTE (fathom @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:52 PM) When Hawk announces with Wimpy, it's cool how Hawk acts like a proud papa of all the Sox players and brags to Wimpy about their contributions. lol I agree. "Look what we can do Wimpy!"

Dunn continues. How the hell did that become a double??

ALEXIS

That was actually a really tough play FWIW

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:46 PM) "Alexis" Rios, per Angels announcer He went by Alexis when he first came up, takes a good AND bad memory to call him that.

ADA getting hot. Wimpy and Hawk hilarious together

RIOS MERCY

Love you Wimperoo!

I would have s*** my pants if I ran into Frank Thomas on the train

Bunch of old farts in here. That said, I'll probably be missing much of this one too. Getting surgery in Oak Park at 7 AM tomorrow.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ May 16, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) I could not possibly disagree with you more. You just can't look at as Lee the fearsome hitter vs Podsednik the weak armed slap hitting outfielder. 2005 was the only year in recent and not so recent history that the Sox didn't have an all or nothing approach to offense. Yeah they hit a ton of homers but they got off to that great start with Pods and Iguchi leading the way. Didn't they take the lead in the first 37 games that year? Podsednik totally changed the dynamic and it's no coincidence that they struggled when he started having his injury problems. Like Caufield mentioned the Podsednik trade opened up the other possibilities and fortunately Kenny was at the top of his game. Scott Podsednik is a big reason why I refuse to become a stat slave to WAR. Kenny doesn't make that trade and we're looking at 95 years and counting. And again, Pods out-WAR'ed Lee that year anyway. It got us a ring.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 16, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) Honestly, I am not sure we are much better against the Heat in particular, with Derrick playing. Not saying he doesn't make us better, but there were a lot of times during that '11 series when I questioned whether he was a big improvement considering the way LeBron shuts him down. I know what you mean and I think it is the way we run offense. We tried to do the things NBA teams like to do, run an iso for your scorer in the fourth quarter, and it just wasn't working. Unfortunately, we didn't try anything else either.

This was a good season for the Bulls. A lot of fun to watch, too. This team has more heart without Derrick. Having Derrick Rose on your team is great, but I hope we can take the lessons learned and continue playing a team game. Too often, offensively, it was just everyone watching Derrick dribble. Run an offense and take advantage of everybody's talents.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 16, 2013 -> 08:57 AM) I mean jesus, the entire post I quit life

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ May 15, 2013 -> 11:34 PM) Good to know because he did look good out of the gate but at the same it was only 6 games. First game I went to this year he went 4-4 spraying the ball over the field. I recall some conversation about him gripping the bat too tightly in the past

Grizz continue to be underappreciated....that could change soon

They messed with his hands in ST