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@KeithOlbermann Fascinating choice in Chicago. Robin Ventura will either be bb's best manager, do it for 30 years, or its worst + he'll retire next June

Does he speak spanish?

QUOTE (WHITESOXRANDY @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) FRANK THOMAS is the new hitting coach!!!! I love these moves !!!! Really?

Okay, i seem to remember the yanks wanted to retain him as a coach, but he wanted to spend time with his kids. Does anyone else remember an interview like that? Obviously it doesn't mean you hand him THE KEYS TO THE DAMN TEAM but i'm trying to be constructive.

I'm so pissed right now. What a farce this is. What a slap in the face to those who spent money on that atrocious year last year.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 10:01 PM) Hopefully he doesn't charge any mounds. I'm comfortable with my zinger.

well, we certainly know the rangers are going to kick our ass now.

I'm completely on the players side, after initially thinking the owners had a point.

Did samsung hire I can't believe it's not butters ad shop for that ?

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 03:35 PM) Francona is seriously a possibility ... Very true, we almost had him in the waybackswhen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 02:32 PM) I don't think Atlanta's guy should be fired. First year manager, young team, team simply refused to make the moves they needed to be competitive down the stretch (3rd worst offense in the NL in September). Francona...I think he's gone for this. I think he's gone too, but all of his pitchers were equally awful in september.

Paul Konerko is so awesome.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 02:20 PM) Be sure to stop-by to pick-up your mustard and teal 2012 Marlins gear -- limited supplies available. That is just hideous Oh my god.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) That's the hard part of 2012. The results have sucked this year and we still put about a.500 team on the field. If you can get career normal years out of guys like Peavy, Rios, and Dunn, you have a playoff team in the making. It was the worst .500 team i've ever watched. Even our surge to .500 was boring, let alone the tip toe-ing around it for the last 4 months before finally pulling a rexy against the tigers..."f*** it!!"

I see the sentiment is that we weren't supposed to celebrate. But upon hearing the news, my roommates and I broke open our bottle of Pappy Van Winkle and took a sip to wash down the last 3 awful, no good years. I'm anxious that white sox baseball could be a step up from god awful to mildly entertaining next year.

Guys, this team is resilient! Well be at .500 in no time. Go Ozzie!

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 5, 2011 -> 06:23 AM) We want no LaRussa because he's boring and he's been here before? I'd welcome a guy who manages the game strategically, orders a hit out if one of his guys gets hit, and actually knows how to manage. He has his flaws as any manager outside of Madden does, but he knows what the hell he's doing for the most part. You saying pick your manager except for LaRussa is like telling a Bears fan to pick their MLB outside of Urlacher(the obvious pick). I know he's people hate him here but in the time I watched him in missouri his teams over achieved, which is an unbelievable idea as a sox fan. A team doing better than expected? Jesus Christ! Amazing!

It's amazing to me in the face of another September when "our fate was in our hands" and we fail miserably, how many people are willing to give our leadership a pass. You all don't want to win as much as being proud of being non confrontational.

Missouri takes their role as a state school seriously. They keep education options open in their state. What you are talking about means nothing except being more selective over students, not educating them. I'll put a Big 10 education up against mine any day. That goes double for Nebraska.

My softball game was canceled too, maybe there is something to this field problem

no way that's true. You think the players are ready to lose a whole years salary?

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 09:37 PM) +1 I remember someone posted in a game thread like in the first week of the season that it was gonna be a fun summer and I totally agreed...then Thornton had a meltdown and let the A's score like 4 runs in the 9th and we eventually lost in 10. A whole lot of suck has happened since then and they are a very boring team. the first two games of the season, I was excited for our offense. heh. heh.

didn't krause really love miles? Man, that was an AWFUL draft.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 07:02 PM) It's almost more amusing to think how much outrage there would be against Oney had Mrs. Teahen been as Oney described here. We've talked so much of hyperbole here this summer, and his description was just a "cheap shot" hyperbolic/exaggerated description of her. The reality is in that clubhouse, the woman who's the "7-8.5" on a 10 scale isn't good enough because the way MOST NFL, NBA and MLB players judge women is almost completely superficial. Oney was raised and still seems to be caught up in that "machisimo-driven" Latin American culture, which teaches the men that "men prefer girls who are beautiful (modelos) but brutas (dumb)" and Oney would be challenged by any relationship with a woman who's educated, confident, strong, athletic and well-rounded. That's the kind of woman that's harder for someone like him to dominate and control. What would be even more interesting would be to see how Oney reacted to criticism of his "groupies" or girlfriend/s. And the way Oney thinks, unfortunately, is pretty common. It's just rare to see it articulated. Just watch all the groupies and "trophy wives" in the players' boxes and you'll notice that quite a few of them are out of the same cookie-cutter mold. or you could look at posts on soxtalk

Yes, this deal will probably hurt the recession, not as much as default, however. But my point is that narrative stood less of a chance if liberals didn't repeatedly remove themselves out of the process. What did you think was going to happen when they didn't vote in 2010, at all, and a wave of "the debt will kill us all" came in? Liberals don't organize unless they are in the minority, but they'll only put in enough work to get into the majority and then stop doing ANYTHING worth a damn.