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I mean it's pretty damn hard to win the World Cup. I'll go with 20 years from now, but never may be a good guess. It's just not that popular of a sport where development is at the world class level. The best high school athletes will rarely be the soccer players, and that's from a guy who played in high school and went to college to play.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) 10 years ago I loved it...I feel like it seems vastly greasier these days. Then again i could have just grown up. It's still s*** but it's like KFC or Taco Bell where sometimes you just have a guilty taste for it, usually hungover as hell.

They are desperate for improvement so of course they are optimistic. They don't remember Hee Seop Choi even existed

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 08:04 PM) You disgust me. /slap When it opened on Taylor st I ordered a s*** load the first night. Love that garlic sauce.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 07:14 PM) No, you said it's "the worst kept secret" and "he's been UK for so long." That's no "I feel" anything. Sorry, "seems" based on the info thats been coming out all along. Just trying to temper expectations. I hope you guys get him.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:27 PM) I don't see why we couldn't leave Jake in. He's easily been our best reliever this year, why not leave him in against Seattle's best hitter? I totally agree but I understand why they wanted a lefty. Then complete choke job, including the offense.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:11 PM) Maybe so, but that's what he deserves when he manages like this. He either micro manages or he manages like he's asleep and does nothing. When you've got young kids in a save situation, bring them out to start the damn inning themselves. If Cano hits a home run, so be it. But don't bring in Surkamp like he some kind of a huge improvement over the Putnam matchup. So two pitchers failing to protect a 2 run lead is the managers fault. Uh huh.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:04 PM) Just a factor. But not an insignificant one. Obviously, there was plenty of suck to go around. I think the pen was played well today, they just didn't do their job. Quintana was pulled for jake which was good, they played Canos splits vs lefties and unfortunately ours sucks balls. Then Putnam choke on horrible pitch selection. And the offense did NOTHING.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) I'm glad Robin thought we should bring Surkamp in to face Cano. This guy is the biggest clown of them all. Surkamp blows, but look at Canos splits.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) Third or 4th time this year, at least, Robin has left a reliever in for a third inning/pitch count of 50+/seeing batters a 2nd time, leading to a loss, and this time he still had a long man Rienzo, and Webb in the pen. The man truly has the magic touch. You think that was the reason they lost?

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:47 PM) Well, at least the blown lead wasn't another Quintana lead. 5-7, with a 3.20 ERA...what support. He and Putnam put them where they needed to be.

And they go out with a whimper. After so nicely setting them up with a two run lead in the ninth This pen is so chokey

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:40 PM) It is a sad realization, when I look at that, and realize that the 'core' consists of only 4 players, well 5 if you count Avisail possibly....so so many holes in this roster to fill. Add the set up man and closer to this pen and it's not too bad. Also our 3B isn't too bad of a hitter.

At least this run was because of a hard hit ball unlike the ninth inning.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:37 PM) That in a nutshell is why Sox area bad team. No, it's lack of talent.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:34 PM) It was bad. So, just go with that More like clown show.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:30 PM) Yeah, it's the scores that do that. Classic Dotel build.

The World Cup is so much more interesting.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:18 PM) I would love it if they just went in another direction and gave Nieto/Phegley more ABs after July. There's no way they can still believe he's their guy. I said it before the season. The guy isn't a major league hitter, he just isn't.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:16 PM) K it is. You win one upper deck ticket to a Tuesday game of your choice. Congrats.

Free Fallin Tyler Flowers

Broken bat groundout or weak fly out here?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 05:05 PM) Why did we pull Jake for the 9th again? Loogy power yo.

Jones wanted to show a worse bunting effort than Alexei

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 04:54 PM) Did any team call? Charlotte