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LOL apparently Hunter has NEVER EVER missed the cutoff. #hawk

QUOTE (buckweaver @ May 2, 2015 -> 11:19 AM) No one said likely. If you prefer to complain ad infinitum...it's your right. But it's May 2 and the team is four games under. A little frustrating, but it doesn't make me want to chuck the season. And for what it's worth, the sarcasm and negativity toward other posters is why more people don't post more often. Toughen up as he correctly noted it's the rare team that turns it around like that. More likely is they just stink. That said, keep posting we need new blood.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 1, 2015 -> 08:39 PM) Another mental mistake does this staff ever go over what to do. Can you imagine? If I was working for the Sox I would have the film guys go through every single mental mistake and start some sort of fine or punishment. It's awful. I don't think a single player on the roster hasn't made one so far this year.

QUOTE (Tannerfan @ May 1, 2015 -> 08:38 PM) I'm just spitballing here but what about Ron Washington? He was a passionate manager with a lot of success. I don't hate the guy as a manager but he's also a likely cocaine addict and a bit of a loose cannon with the media. JR would never touch him with a 10 foot pole. I'd prefer the Sox bring in someone other than RV, but I'm not sure who is out there really.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ May 1, 2015 -> 01:46 PM) He's not playing the best, and I know I should't get upset, but come on! This thread is way too negative. Two months ago everybody was talking about how good Hahn is for locking him up long term. It's 1/8 of the season. Eaton is the type of guy who seems to take things hard. I mean, he shaved his beard last night. Tell me the mental demons are swimming in his head right now. He'll turn the corner and be back to who we know and love. However for the time being, drop him in the order. Bat him 9 for a few games. Throw Michah or Melky up there. This team WILL BE FINE! Yes, its frustrating, and it seems to happen every year, but we are starting slow once again. Cream rises people. Sale, Shark, Quintana will pitch better. Melky, Eaton, Ramirez, LaRoche, etc. will all hit better. BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT. Watch the Hawks tonight, take your focus away from the Sox, and in two weeks when things are rolling get back into it. I always shave my beard after a breakup so I'm with him! New look new you!

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ May 1, 2015 -> 01:25 PM) There ya go! I say shake it up with MJ leadoff and Eaton 2nd. Maybe Eaton batting ahead of Abreu will help Eaton out. Micah's long term development is way more important than a few more PA for our most patient hitter in April (Jesus, can't believe I just typed that). Putting him in the top spot just puts way too much pressure on him IMO. On that other hand, putting a rookie up top is exactly the sort of move that might be needed to galvanize this bunch. So it will never happen, that's not RV, don't rock the boat blah blah blah.

Eaton is in a funk but Jacob May, Thompson and the rest of the AAA and AA outfield can't hold his jock at the moment and probably never will. We need to hope Eaton is a 3 WAR player. Otherwise we're once again f***ed in CF for the next 5-10 years.

Over at SSS one guy mentioned that the Twins broadcast crew was making excuses for the Sox talking about the travel and disjointed series with Baltimore. GMAFB. THIS IS THE TWINS FFS. You know things are bad with a club when the 2015 Twins are making excuses for you.

Even better: how are they in the division on the road?

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:53 PM) Better roster, same mistakes. Robin the common element. Plus, you can't fire 25 players.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:57 PM) Have to wake from hibernation to take a nap. The RV jokes have been the best part of this thread by far.

wow.

If any other manager in Sox history was as far under .500 as RV he'd have been fired last offseason. But, it's RV, White Sox hero and all around nice guy. Does Robin own any fedoras? Did his wife friend zone him at first?

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 10:36 PM) I don't think the team looks like one that is playing badly because of its manager. And it isn't really playing that badly, last two games excepted If you don't think this first month has been bad baseball...what exactly constitutes bad baseball? Did you just watch a Major League movie? The Sox have made pretty much every bone headed mistake in the book through the first few weeks.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:50 PM) BS Williams picked him and Williams had a huge say on the extension. If I'm Hahn then I go ahead and say "cya later". There's probably 10-15 clubs that would take him off our hands in a heartbeat. KW is poison imo. Ever since '05 he has carte blanche with JR. Not good.

Dick Allen let me ask you a question: what does Robin need to do this year to get fired in your opinion? Fall 80 games under .500 for his career? Lose 100 games? Piss on a fan from a hotel balcony? I'm really curious.

Probably one of the most dispiriting starts to a season I can remember in my 25+ years of fandom. Expecations verse reality, and the way in which they've lost combined with the thing in Baltimore, the fight in KC -- it's just a cluster of WHY, GOOD GOD WHY. They can turn it around they are 3 under but FFS is there anything right now that points in that direction? This looks like a bad baseball club to my eye. Not 80 wins bad. Like 70 bad.

QUOTE (reiks12 @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:37 PM) you do that by benching eaton for 2 games and then playing him in the 9 hole for a week. Sends the message loud and clear Another anecdote about Robin and Eaton from spring...Robin was doing a pre game interview with the opposing team's color guy and they asked him about Eaton. Robin said "He's going to leadoff and play CF for us, hopefully in 150 plus games". He said it so matter of factly that I had to watch it again. He said it almost like Eaton was...a family member or something. I really think Robin is a nice guy but he's way, way, way too nice for this gig. Nobody fears the manager, it's obvious. And why should they. I refuse to believe that MLB players are this dumb on a nightly basis. We've seen it for the better part of 3 years now. Time to give him the hook.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 09:31 PM) soxtalk is going to break the internet The Sox have broken their fan support so f*** it.

WTF is wrong with his arm that he can't throw his slider? GMAFB. Win now. If he gets injured he gets injured FFS that's absurd to limit a 26 year old's pitching like that.

I wasn't watching the game thank god how the f*** did tehy score 7 runs in one inning off Sale? And 2 errors I see. Good job boys. Fire Robin man this team needs a f***ing wakeup call nobody's job is safe.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 05:53 PM) Have you ever played the game? I think you might have a different perspective if you did. Yes I played through DIII and was a starter my upper class years. I've talked about it numerous times. My claim to fame is going 0-3 with 3 k against Jim Dieters, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) legend who went on to be drafted in the 8th round by the tribe and made it as high as AA ball. I partook in a ton of showcases and for a minute was looking to play DII or Juco on scholie before going with my academic school of choice at DIII level. And I still feel the same about RV. I played for firey managers and calm managers. I always preferred the red asses personally.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) Eh, it is just lifeless Robin doing unpassionate things, amirite? He better start winning or else his wife will be the only victim of sleepy Robin.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 03:46 PM) Why even It's like Steve Francis when they traded his boy Cuttino Mobley away: why even get out of bed?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) Chicago White Sox ‏@whitesox 1m1 minute ago Due to the @chicagobulls game airing on CSN (Go Bulls!), our game will move to CSN+. Hell why even televise it all.