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QUOTE(fathom @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:44 PM) Heard about that Erstad injury on the radio. I hope Erstad is ok....but shame on you KW. Joe Crede, in my opinion, is the player that we needed to move last offseason. Agreed. And wow, Hawk with a terrorist joke. lol. Will losing a game where we faced 25 batters in 8 innings and gave up 1 hit finally be the final straw for Greg Walker?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:41 PM) I don't think people don't like Erstad. What I was more frustrated with, and many others, is that it sure didn't seem like he won the job and the amount of playing itme he got for what was supposed to be open competition in CF. There it is, that's exactly how I feel about it. Hawk has somehow made Erstad into a parody of himself though.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:38 PM) Did you even celebrate when we won the series? Just wondering. Yeah, and I did for about 3 and a half months last year too. This team since July of last year has been a joke though. QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:40 PM) As much as you don't like Erstad, the guy plays the game the right way. I don't see how anyone can not respect and appreciate that. Erstad has been a solid player hitting in the wrong spot in the order all year, I respect HIM quite a bit. The opinions of him spewed by the masses is what has made me want to hurl.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:32 PM) I guess if Thome collapsed and Hawk went to check on him you'd be thrilled, too. He has had a brutal Erstad mancrush all year despite the reality of the situation, and did something I haven't seen him do in 14 years (and we've had some bad injuries in that time). The Erstad/Hawk relationship has been like nothing I've ever seen between a player and broadcaster.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) what a bogus effort by a bogus team tonight. To me IMO, Erstad blew his achilles (sp?) That is my guess. When I saw the play live, I thought Jim Miller at Buffalo.

Hawk just called Anderson a 5 tool player. Anderson and Thomas Collaro will save us. /Hawk

QUOTE(SnB @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:31 PM) I don't think anyone is actually glad. Glad means you were rooting for him to get hurt, which I certainly wasn't. I'm just laughing at Hawk right now. And the answer to this question on T.V. is Gio.

Buehrle might throw a 1 hitter, face 28 batters, and lose because we couldn't score with 2nd and 3rd 0 out and the top of the order up. This team is really amazing, it's Cubs esque.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:29 PM) Sick to see some of you are actually glad Darin got hurt. Pretty classless. It took Hawk's clubhouse run to make me feel that way, blame him. And no I don't care if anybody finds it pathetic, I find most posts here pathetic too.

QUOTE(AirScott @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:28 PM) I'm glad Jay Mariotti has time to post here. But I guess you don't have a column to write till Sunday. Or maybe Hawk did it to find out for the viewers at home who would appreciate the information regarding their injured starting center fielder. I've been watching games for 14 years and have never heard of Hawk actually going to the clubhouse to get an injury update. This was all about the mancrush, nothing else.

QUOTE(diegotony06 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:28 PM) I knew that's where he went!!! MAJOR MAJOR props on that one man, great call.

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LOL Hawk actually went down to find out about Erstad. How pathetic.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:25 PM) So the consensus is that Ersty is done grinding for a while? Is Hawk upset? I would be shocked if he plays again in a White Sox uniform, that was ugly. And yes Hawk is upset, he's barely said a word since the injury. And wow Thome is mad.

D.J. thinks what A-Rod thinks has no place in the game. He's really off tonight, he's spewing all kinds of inaccurate things.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:23 PM) i am. no joke. cant f***in wait. Juice to Benn and win the Big 10.

QUOTE(AirScott @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:21 PM) OK, so we don't call a hit-and-run with AJ on first...the way Halladay's dealing, you like the chances for AJ to move one base to the next in the next few at-bats till he scores? Really? Right now he's allowed 5 hits in 6 innings. AJ goes first to third on a successful hit-and-run, but otherwise it'd take 3 hits to get him home, 2 if we're lucky. You confident we get those hits to get AJ from first to home? More confident in that than A.J. making it to 2nd. Mackowiak isn't exactly hammering the ball this year either, so that swing and miss was not a big surprise. And Aboz, last page for an injury description.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:16 PM) What happened? Erstad just either broke his ankle or screwed up his achilles really badly. Either way, he put no weight on it and left after being in major pain. The ump waived for the trainer right away, I think he might have heard a pop.

QUOTE(Iguchicago @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:14 PM) Considering he's been one of our better hitters that would be rather pathetic. So a .342 slugging and .662 OPS makes him one of our better hitters? It just makes him another of our hitters, bad.

QUOTE(AirScott @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:12 PM) Nah, you're right, let's try more station-to-station. Screw trying to manufacture something against arguably the AL's best pitcher of the past five years (barring injuries). I'm glad Ozzie has time to post in the game thread. If Ozzie shot his mother would you disagree with it? And yeah, that is the end of the Erstad experiment.

Erstad's season might have just ended, ugh.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:10 PM) (I don't blame the Erstad play with Mack getting thrown out at home, that was a nice play by Overbay) All he had to do was hit a groundball to 2B or SS and we had a run, they were giving us a run there. Erstad has shown an uncanny ability to hit ground balls to the middle infield this year too, but of course THERE he can't do it.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:07 PM) Owens is slugging about .360 last time I checked. When major league pitchers find out that he can't hit the ball past the outfielders, they're going to come right at him. He could make a decent enough 4th outfielder, although knowing this manager, he'll be our starting left-fielder and leadoff man next season. Yeah I'd agree with all that, but I'd rather see him in LF than Rob right now. When he's starting next year when we are healthy, I'll throw up. It was a good idea? We already ran ourselves out of 1 inning, not worth the risk to do it again.

Aaron Hill is actually a nice ballplayer. Something about those 5'10 MIF's from LSU apparently.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ May 31, 2007 -> 07:05 PM) Ah yes looks funny. Is it out yet? I think Ozzie is really looking for a reason to be fired now. Tomorrow it comes out, should be good. And Ozzie is going to get fired NEXT year when we suck and KW is looking for a scapegoat due to the mass lack of talent in the organzation (yes it will be worse than this year).