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I'll be very interested in the months after the season to see what is said about Paulie. If he immediately gets cut on, we'll know this is all injury-related. If nothing comes out about injury, then things are not good. That would mean the problem is either chronic or there is no injury and he's just back to the old mercurial Konerko.

What do we know about Rick Hahn that makes us so sure he'd do this thing or that thing? Everyone keeps hoping that Hahn will "finally bring in a good player" and s*** like this. What do you think KW does? He f***ing does s***. He makes splashes. A true change in GM would be someone that is decidedly less aggressive and would instead be more effective at developing homegrown talent. That may or may not be an improvement, but I can't imagine a fan getting excited about their team getting real conservative

Rush doesn't need even a shred of reality backing his statements to say them.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 07:12 AM) Not that it has anything to do with whether he deserves reelection, but the man: a) got into Harvard Law School; 2) made the Harvard Law Review; and was elected as its President by his Harvard law peers. I was Dean's List at a Big10 U and scored in the 92% on my LSAT and couldn't do that, or make Law Review at my Big10 Law school. Even if you account for "affirmative action" as a basis for admission to Harvard Law (which is what I assume implicitly underlies this issue), you can't accomplish items (2) and (3) as a dummy, or on any kind of free pass. No way. So if that's not "some proof" that the guy is smarter than the average bear, I don't know what is, and the transcripts won't "end" this issue for some people any more than the birth certificate did that one. I already said that admission to, leadership positions at, and graduation from Harvard Law School guarantees a measure of success but they said no.

Reporting that the Thursday game will have regular refs now. Now we can continue to rip the league when bad calls are made because they didn't give the refs adequate time to "warm up" or something

Steve's banner has been the problem. It's been downhill ever since it changed

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:13 PM) Big Game Jake He'll throw 200 pitches to get through 6 if he has to

Game thread is moving ever closer to wanting Ozzie back, don't worry

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:07 PM) 1.) We are not talking about day to day game play. He has struggled for over a month. Its do or die. So in your world. Carl Everett is our 3 hole hitter in 2005 through the playoffs. Because if we apply the same rules to that season do you think we win without that move. I was referring more to the comment about Alexei. I wouldn't move Youk now, but I would have moved him 2-3 weeks ago when it didn't look like we were moving things around out of sheer panic. The fact that Carl Everett was our 3 hitter for any stretch of time at that stage of his career is kind of frightening in and of itself, btw QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:07 PM) Why not? Maybe it shakes things up a bit.

1. Don't move the lineup around based on game to game play 2. This past week has been the unfortunate logical end to a pretty long-term trend of worsening play for our boys. The talent is there to surge to the finish, but the health, mindset, luck, and everything else may not be. I'm happy to get to worry about this crap in the last week of September.

Time to just watch and hope.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:51 PM) He's batting under 200 for the month. He is batting .233 for the year. He wont be here next year. What exactly are you holding on to here. Whether it's right or wrong, no one will ever sign a FA contract with you if your reputation is such that you bench former All-Star starters in the last week of the season with no prior indication that you'd do such a thing.

lol Lilli chipping in

Gonna win or lose with these guys now. Nothing would make your manager and team look worse than benching a bunch of veterans in the last week of the season.

The team is 1. Beat up, worn down and 2. Pressing Don't say they aren't trying or don't care because there are no indications of that. Playing bad =/= not trying, it much more likely means trying too hard. Trying too hard and playing bad is no thing to pat them on the back for, but I think it's silly to think they are just cowering away

Cheese is getting rather binding

I said I was getting out of the business of making predictions about this division and I'm staying out of it

I can't get too mad about stealing bases when the prospect of consecutive hits sounds impossible

September when it doesn't count: nothing that happens matters September when it counts: everything matters and easily projects to the rest of players'/team's careers

Basically just praying for a HR at this point

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:10 PM) Not sure what other evidence you need to realize that the fan base is pretty awful here. If attendance is the measure, sure, they're bad. I just think there is far more to it because I think our fans are smart, friendly, loyal, and I'm proud to call myself a CWS fan

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:09 PM) Who can they really get rid of to send a message? It's not like saying they should unload Paulie, Dunn, Rios, etc. for nothing just so they can have a "clean slate" or something. Complete tear down to me sounds like "you don't keep any key players"

Lilli has had a truly dreadful season. Too bad.

I don't think we have bad fans, they just don't come to the park unless we have a consistent (aka more than one season) winner