South Side Fireworks Man

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 31, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) Yes. He should always play vs lefties and never vs righties. If Ventura insists on him being the starter, but chooses this as his day off, I riot. Robin seems clueless sometimes.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2016 -> 05:22 PM) Outside of 1977, there wasn't really a competitive team in there. 1972

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) *Melky Cabrera then bunted both runners over. Cabrera has bunted against Robin Ventura's wishes in the past, so it might not have been called from the dugout, but it didn't work. Todd Frazier popped out and J.B. Shuck grounded out to keep the game scoreless. SSS.com Margalus is right, maybe. But we'll never know in a million years if Cabrera bunted on his own, because that would mean there's an issue with Ventura...Robin won't "out" Melky. Not sure which one is worse really, the White Sox doing things on their own because they're letting the pressure get to them and making their own strategic decisions that fly in the face of reams of statistical evidence about the best ways to manufacture big innings...or Ventura's decision-making process being flawed or outdated? And yet more reason/s not to bunt. You didn't have Melky or Abreu hitting 5th. You had JB FREAKIN' SHUCK. Now all of a sudden Robin has undue confidence or misplaced loyalty because he liked having him on the team last year and Shuck came through in a few key PH situations? Melky showed bunt several times before laying down that bunt. If Robin didn't want him to bunt he could have stopped him after he showed bunt the first time. But Robin said he called for the bunt in a post game interview anyway, so it's a moot point.

You don't bunt with your best hitter up.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) Hard to see Robin surviving this trip You think he's going to resign?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 30, 2016 -> 01:19 PM) Can't agree with that reasoning. Bunting is a valid and effective strategy. We had one out and two runners in scoring position and our bug hitter up Good strategy if the pitcher was up. Bad strategy when your best hitter is up.

Robin out dumbed himself that inning.

JR shouldn't be surprised when the Sox average 15K per game next home stand.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 29, 2016 -> 03:40 PM) I love how Cooper gets to sit back and get a pass thru all this bulls*** He should be fired along with Ventura.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 29, 2016 -> 03:37 PM) So who do you replace Robin with, tomorrow? Renteria.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ May 29, 2016 -> 03:14 PM) I havent seen a bigger wuss than Nate Jones. Throws 98 fricken miles per hour and all he does is nibble with that slider... What has Cooper been doing with these pitchers?

Fire Don Cooper.

I thought Jackson looked hurt when he caught that long fly ball near the fence.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 29, 2016 -> 02:53 PM) Cain homers off Jones. Please don't meltdown again guys They will.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ May 29, 2016 -> 10:20 AM) Well if Sale reverts back to before the Indians game (CG beast) and the Sox score runs, I don't see why they can't win today. Not even Robin can f*** that up. I don't expect them to win.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 28, 2016 -> 07:44 PM) That's never been his M.O. though. If it was the Sox probably could've landed Cespedes. I'm just being realistic. It ain't gonna happen. Oh I know and you are correct, of course. But I'm so pissed at this organization already and after today's disaster my attitude is that JR caused this mess now either let him spend his way out of it or sell the damn team to someone who knows how to run a baseball franchise. The only way to fix this mess is to overspend money to bring in talent.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 28, 2016 -> 07:22 PM) I care a lot about his contract. Remember when Danks and LaRoche contracts prevented the Sox from doing much in the free agent outfield market or relegated them to dumpster diving for Rollins,Latos and Jackson ? Now apply that for the rest of this year plus 2017 and 2018 with Shields . I have hope though that some other team presents a better package than the Sox are willing to offer or are willing to eat more of his contract. Come on Red Sox, Yankees, and Dodgers ! Let JR and his investors spend the money to make this team competitive again. They can't do it by trading away talent, the have no minor league system so they have to buy their way back to being a contender.

If Shields can pitch well enough to be a solid #3 starter, and it doesn't cost much in the way of talent to bring him here, I say do it. I don't give a damn how much money he makes, JR got this franchise into this mess so let him spend the money to get them out of it.

They better figure out a way to win this game.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 27, 2016 -> 08:30 PM) HE USED HIS CHALLENGE ALREADY MLB replay sucks. The only rule is there are no rules.

That's why strikeouts suck. When you put the ball in play, things can happen.

This guy is the biggest troll on this board.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:13 PM) Take his whole career, and it's still not .270. His whole career is only around 300 ABs.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:07 PM) Is his OBP even .260? Small sample size.

Saladino is one of the Sox' better players.