Greg Hibbard

Can we please get some bats off the bench?

QUOTE(Soxpranos @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 12:51 PM) Lets get some runs here guys... ahhhahahhahah that was a good one.

YES.

he gawn!

I just got back from watching 2 innings at lunch and let me just say that you can PM me for the "I f***ing hate Juan Uribe club"

Isn't it obvious that Uribe is worthless?

Uribe's in there for his defense, right?

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:59 AM) I think my post explained why we won't get him and why the Cinninnati ownership would've blocked the deal. I did not see this here and thought it was insightful as to why we did not get him. Sorry if I wasted your precious time from railing against someone. I was responding the the post directly before mine.

Yeah, I love these guys!

Timo's batting 3rd, with Blum cleaning up. They dropped Konerko to ninth.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) besides the game threads, how many of the threads that you start do you think are optimistic? Here's the way I board....when the team is doing well, kicking ass, and taking names I don't really say a lot. Yesterday I did put up a thread that asked you to predict the final records of the big three starters, and I think my predictions were on the optimistic side of things. When the team stinks, I feel the need to vent more. So I do it here. That's what the place is here for, right?

who the hell is panicking? our lineup stinks and we need to remedy it. In the other thread I wrote "I think this team has a chance to go deep in the postseason" seriously, Soxfan, wtf?

The one where you mentioned a 4th thread? This is ridiculous. Probably over 40% of my posts are rooting the team on during the game threads.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:19 PM) Negative Threads by Greg Hibbard: wow, who thought it was that bad postgame whining about umpiring Isnt Joe Crede just Jose Valentin There are a fw other borderline threads like the one about the Yankees and the Sox having like the same record since like May 13th... Wow, you found three threads I composed with negative overtones. Yes, that's definitely representative of everything I've ever posted at Soxtalk.

Uribe .176/.286/0/1

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) Facts, schmacts.... Uribes Sac Fly wasn't a RBI last night? s***! The ESPN splits didn't include last night's game and they just added those stats in....updated stats coming.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) Until we hit a rough spot in the season. Then the optimism seemed to diminish. I was fine through our rough spot in May when Texas was manhandling us. This is totally different.

Nah, I'll stick around. If people actually bothered to do a search on my posts, they would see that I've been pretty damn optimistic for most of this season.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:05 PM) August 9th. 9! THE 9TH OF MOTHERCUKING AUGUST!!!! How about we wait until the 30th or th 31st to decide how we played this month? I know, Im crazy right? Yes, you are crazy.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 12:02 PM) How about, you only post if you have something bad to say about the team? That's a pretty true statement, maybe you like not be happy with the team. Ever since they started scuffling seems like you've been starting an aweful lot more topics and the great majority of them have been negative. You know usually when people have a problem with me, I tell them to ignore my threads. However, you're doing such a good job bumping this one, I'm gonna let it go.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) Wow, another negative thread from "Greg Hibbard", why am I not surprised? 11 of your last 15 topics have been negative. You'd think we were 13.5 Games back instead of 13.5 games up. 11 of our last 15 games have been negative. There you go.

August batting averages BA/OBP/HR/RBI (In Podsednik's case it's stolen bases and runs instead of home runs and rbis) Podsednik .138/.167/2/2 Iguchi .259/.333/1/2 Dye .222/.329/0/1 Crede .130/.167/1/1 Uribe .133/.278/0/0 Perez .200/.333/0/1 whoa....this is a serious funk we are in. I know it's only 8 games, but sheesh...that's a bad eight games. Pierzynski, Rowand and Konerko are all hitting the cover off the ball in August, but the rest of the team is seriously awful right now. Everett was hitting .286 in August when he went down... I guess the good news is that even with this funk we are 4-4 in August....

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) So what has changed since the beginning of the year? the club is the same, functions the same, plays the same. Whats different? No Frank Thomas = No Bench Depth. That's what's changed. Before Frank was out for the year, the feeling was that Everett was a capable major league bat off the bench who could play a little outfield too. Now we don't have that for the remainder of the year.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 10:39 AM) Well, look out, because though every team in the world owns him, Shawn Chacon is pitching tonight. Power righty whom the Sox haven't seen? It's going to be a long night... It's gonna be a long night because Contreras is facing his old squad who'll want some payback...

My point is that we should not be worrying about getting every close call (pods at first) or having the umps confer about an unusual ruling (a-rod). If we are an elite team we should be KICKING THE s*** OUT OF MEDIOCRE TEAMS LIKE THE YANKEES!