Greg Hibbard

QUOTE(shoota @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) Which is not the objective of playing. Championship or nothing. I'm not saying it is the objective

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:22 PM) They're on pace for 104 wins right now. 105 actually 0 new messages

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:16 PM) My advice; stay out of the casinos. I've won about $1000 this year betting on sports.

QUOTE(quickman @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:10 PM) why not the pitching is worse. actually our pitchign is terrible. The hitting is way better, and the pitching cannot get worse. QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:10 PM) How much? It's not as easy as people think to win 100 games, especially with the quality of teams and talent in the AL. So you would bet that this team would not be capable of going 44-31 or better down the stretch, a .587 winning percentage The one with the picture of Andrew Jackson on it, for any and all takers via pm

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 05:07 PM) I'm willing to bet it won't. I'll take that action No way this team ever has a 7 game losing streak mid-august either

last year after we swept this team all you guys could say was "how classy the fans were over at SOSH" and "Boston fans really are great baseball fans" Now a lot of you are acting like sore losers with this "f*** Boston and everyone who ever lived there" bulls*** We got beat two days in row, man up and let's move on.

There, I said it.

QUOTE(VAfan @ Jul 8, 2006 -> 04:46 PM) Boy, this thread may suck, but so does White Sox pitching right now. We need Contreras to bail us out tomorrow, but he can't win all of our games after the break. Today, not only did Garcia melt down after the botched popup by Nixon, but our bullpen couldn't get the third out in the 6th or 7th innings, giving up 1 and 2 runs after two outs and no one on. David Riske issued a walk to Alex Cora after getting ahead 0-2, then throwing 4 straight pitches outside. Cora stole, then Youklis hit a single to left on a ball left up over the plate. The 7th might have been worse. Cotts gets two outs, then we watch chink hits and dribblers turn into two runs. With Minnesota having temporarily cooled off, we haven't suffered in the wild card standings much, but we're not getting any closer to Detroit, and we aren't playing the kind of ball that took us to the World Series last year. This team needs to find pitching and defense first again if it wants to be the best in baseball. What kind of ball took us to the World Series last year? Is it just the incredible last 7-8 games of the season and 11 playoff games or do we include the 18-22 stretch that we had from late July through the end of August?

You guys are seriously embarrassing yourselves in this thread

we were due for a s*** series guys, and Boston is the only other team in baseball capable of winning the world series. Let's win tomorrow.

guys, painting an entire set of fans with a broad brush is insanely dumb

my wife is a red sox fan and yes, a extremely serious, pre world series winning red sox fan we have tickets for sunday's game

DH - edge Boston (statistically even, but Papi has a ton of GW hits and a few more RBI)

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 10:52 PM) Can't you read, my dear boy? I was replying to one specific person when I made the comment about subtlety. I guess in your haste to take offense at my indignation you wanted to make the point that I am righteous and condescending. Congratulations. Kindly eschew verbosity and obfuscation. Also... Let me tell you the difference between saying "Garland is trash", "Vazquez is trash" and "Politte is trash" We don't have necessarily reliable options to replace Garland and Vazquez, so we actually have to work with these guys. That's why I've been hesitant to overly criticize and been patient in looking for Coop to resolve this. However, with the trade for Riske, Politte's duty was reduced to a role that literally ANY other major leaguer with a functioning right arm could perform - mop up duty either way. Sure, he had a fine year last year. But don't overestimate what his role was on that team, a middle relief pitcher. He's not your starter and he's not your closer, so he's not nearly as important in the scheme of a pitching staff. And if he's not left-handed, he's easily easily replaceable at the major league level.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) There is a difference, perhaps too subtle for you to comprehend, between not wanting Politte anymore on the team -- and nobody can possibly want him to remain -- and saying, "He's trash" over and over and over, and ridiculing the end of his career. I'm not going to work myself up over it, and I'm going to bow out now, thanks. I just wanted to say that those of you laughing at Cliff's failures and screeching not for him to bow out of the game, to be cut from the team, but having all the fun in the world and directing all your misguided anger toward him should be ashamed. But, hey, he's garbage, and worthless now, right? So it's okay to be cruel instead of insensitive. Oh, but a snide, condescending attitude towards all the other people in this thread is perfectly acceptable right?

Most soxtalk posters who know me well know I'm optimistic to a fault You know what's ACTUALLY disgusting? the fact that I WANTED to see him struggle a bit tonight to further the case that he be DFA'd as soon as humanly possible. It's not a case of a few bad innings here and there. It's EVERY OUTING. EVERY TIME. Sure, thanks for the memories Cliff. Whatever. Thanks to Shingo for the memories too. And Crazy Carl. They was part of a championship season too. Does Cliff enjoy some sort of special exemption from harshness because he's still with the team? Seriously, this season has been maybe the worst composite of relief work I've ever seen from a proven veteran in a White Sox uniform.

forum troll? lol.

truth be told, I was half-joking with the thread title in any case, it's seriously time for a DFA. No question.

with this situation, there isn't even a glass in the room

GIMME A HELL YEAH!

BALL WAS f***ING CRUSHED

did this really warrant its own thread?

I probably voted 700 times today.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 11:02 PM) Good news, but I find it hard to believe the park didn't sell-out more games the year it opened--was it '92? April 18, 1991 got the ticket framed right in front of me

A question for the ERA stat stranglers Are 8-6 wins worth less than 2-0 wins in the World Series?