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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) They were joking about Farmer having DJ's food ready for him when he got onto the plane today, and Farmer called him "Hop Sing". Oh, OK. I didn't understand why you said the ethnic part at first.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) sure there's danger in playing but probably no more than the others players. He will have metal plates in his neck. The danger is that if he injures it again there may not be much left to put back together and he will have problems for the rest of his life with numbness and tingling in his arms. Then again, he's a QB. They get hit like once or twice a year now with the pussification of football.

If no Ozzie means no Buehrle, see ya, Mark!

Why does TNA continue to give Jeff Hardy so many chances when they were so willing to drop Matt? Completely just the fan following?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) Farmio with the ethnic joke... We must be to the "there's no listening anyway" stage of the baseball season. Huh?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) Wrong again. Usually though you're not this clever. If you're not angry, I have no idea what anger is. Take it easy and just accept that he's gone, man. He's just gone.

QUOTE (bozzie @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:07 PM) Milkman, bozzie doesn't really care if you consider him a fan of the Pale Hose or not. The facts are there for all to see, compatriot. I agreed with the sentiment of the article, comrade.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) If Williams signed him for $56M, you couldn't. Aw, I think you're at the anger stage of the grieving process. It's OK, you'll accept that you're going to lose your beloved dog, I mean, manager soon enough.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) GM should get rid of players like that, better yet not even acquire them. LOL, I'll take a page out of greg's book. Yawn.

QUOTE (bozzie @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:20 PM) Joe Cowley in today's Sun-Times published the next installment in the ongoing saga between the two 13-year-old girls playing General Manager and Manager of the Chicago White Sox, suggesting Kenny Williams has been given assurances he is returning and can pick his manager from here on out. Clearly, it won't be Ozzie Guillen. Meanwhile, the man Ozzie Guillen says is like a father to him is blowing off his emails, and Ozzie is sulking his way toward resignation that his days as White Sox manager are numbered. How sick will Ozzie be over this when he takes some time in the offseason and finally realizes he did it all to himself. Guillen could have had a job for life with Reinsdorf if he had just learned to get along with the man who was his boss. Alas, Guillen's enormous ego, somehow borne of a middling Major League career as an average fielding, undrehitting shortstop with pi55-poor command of the English language, did him in. Guillen thought his "Hispanic Jackie Gleason" act, as Daddy-Reinsdorf once called it, was endearing enough to the owner that he didn't have to answer to anyone else. Any disagreement Guillen had with Williams was immediately taken to the media, by Ozzie, or even by Oney, his no-talent free-loading son whose largest achievement in this world thus far is a series of broken-English tweets running down the man who signed the contract giving his father millions. How sweet it is now to watch Guillen squirming, realizing he is about to face the ignonimity of a public firing, and not even having the ear of Daddy as his White Sox career careens down the toilet. He did it to himself. Here's how. In 2006, when the White Sox won the World Series, Ozzie for some reason took it upon himself to fued with Frank Thomas who, though injured, was a model teammate in encouraging his compatriots to their world championship. Guillen won that pi55ing contest: at the end of the year, Thomas was gone, replaced by another future Hall of Famer, Jim Thome. But Ozzie didn't like Thome either. Despite averaging 30-something home runs and 90-plus RBIs over three years, Ozzie ran him out of town as well, claiming Kenny was not constructing a team he could manage in forcing him to put the slow-footed Konerko and Thome in the middle of the lineup. Guillen won that pi55ing contest as well: at the end of the 2009, despite his stats, despite his Hall of Fame credentials, and despite being a class teammate and inspiration to his compatriots, Thome was unceremoniously dumped by the Sox. His replacement will go down in Sox lore as the man who began Ozzie's precipitous slide toward the delicious firing we are all waiting for: Mark Kotsay. It was Ozzie who needed Kotsay, to add for some reason "speed" to an American League lineup. Nevermind that Ozzie never took it upon himself to manage a team to compete in the league in which it was competing; no, Ozzie believed he was smarter than all the other American League managers and would not stop bickering with Williams until he could preside over a team with a National League flavor. He got his wish, and Kotsay hit about .230 - with one stolen base. Ozzie's face was so red over the embarrassment of his hand-picked "speedster" that the egg all over it scrambled even before Kenny Williams added to the shame by saying "so there" to Ozzie by going out and getting a slower, fatter, lazier, and far more soft-headed Jim Thome named Adam Dung. If Ozzie had managed Dung, as he was supposed to, he may still have a job. Instead, Ozzie's ego took over again. Despite Dung clearly illustrating he needed a break from lefthanders, Ozzie continued to pencil him into the lineup, most often in the cleanup spot, though sometimes even inexplicably in the #3 spot. Then, when it was clear Dung couldn't hit anything from left or right handers, Guillen still didn't stop, claiming there was no better option on the bench or in the minor leagues than a .170 hitter. It was to be Ozzie's last dig at Williams, who had signed the bovine Dung over Ozzie's objections, and he acted like he knew it, riding it for all he was worth and playing Dung long after it was clear he should have been sitting on the bench. Clearly, Ozzie believed he would win his power struggle with Kenny Williams by embarrassing the General Manager. Mike Ditka took a similar approach right before he lost his job with the Bears, telling the press "I have to play with the cards I'm dealt, gang," while explaining the Bears' inability to compete in the 1992 season. In Ozzie's perfect world, the Sox failure this year, and indeed their inability to finish over .500 in two of the last three seasons (as let's face it, they won't this year), wouldn't have anything to do with him. It would be Kenny's lack of talent causing the failure, and what was poor Ozzie to do except make out the lineup card. Now, thanks to Joe Cowley in today's Sun-Times, we know Ozzie's game is up. His consolation prize is to go manage a pi55 poor team in a market that doesn't give a crap about baseball. He bluffed with a pair of 2's and lost. He deserves everything he gets. While I agree with basically every last word of this, I have to wonder if you're really a Sox fan when you didn't even have the correct year of the title in there. Sure, it could have just been a mistake, but it seems less likely due to all of the effort put forth in that harangue. Also, who uses the word "compatriot" that much?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:36 PM) It wouldn't be the Internet w/out a few negative comments. Joe Crede, one of the great studs in White Sox history. Why? We don't win a WS w/out him, likely the only one in our lifetimes. Yes they are that rare in Chicago. This is either hyperbole or the White Sox have been pretty terrible when it comes to individual players over the team's entire history.

This game sucks. The Sox are winning. QUOTE (The Critic @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) Or Bob Dylan, Guns N Roses and The Faces, just to see if anyone noticed. I get GNR, but what about the other two? QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:48 PM) Thanks Milk. I don't know how to do game threads so I am glad you did it On the top right of the forum page there is a button that says "New Topic". Just click it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) Doesn't look like it will happen. ChuckGarfien Chuck Garfien In White Sox last 17 games, Adam Dunn has played in just 4 of them. 3 starts. Do you think they'll hold him out the rest of the season entirely? I can't see that happening, and he really only needs like 5 AB's to get there for sure.

As we have talked about before, Dunn should be starting as many games as possible to finish out this season in hopes that he might end it on a positive note going into next season. And personally, I want him to become only the second (I believe) hitter in baseball history to have more strikeouts than his average.

Let's do this!

Holy crap, not only is Verlander leading the AL for the triple crown of pitching, he's leading it for all of baseball.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 11:04 AM) I can't believe any of the Twins pitchers from the past 10 years haven't done it at least once. I would've thought Mays or Santana had done it. First Tiger. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 11:17 AM) ChuckGarfien Chuck Garfien According to @CSNCoop, Justin Verlander hit 101mph on radar gun 6 times last night. 5 were to Gordon Beckham. Haha, apparently the book is out that Beckham can't hit a fastball and Verlander just went to an extreme with it.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:35 AM) This has to be an act right? You can't seriously believe this. You're just doing this to get the responses right? Right? He's like the woman who's husband beats the absolute s*** out of regularly, but she will make up any excuse to let him off the hook.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) Incorrectly... what you said is true offensively only, and even that has some exceptions. Until very late in his short career, he was a well above average defensive 3B. Then I guess he should have said "really good half-player" in that case.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:22 AM) Hmmm... perhaps my "slang" of fool wasn't caught on in this case. (though I'm shocked not by Milk and Sqwert who are pretty cool dudes here) Word to yo momma. Ah well, thank god for J4L and Row I guess.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:23 AM) Lol@2006. They only got to the World Series that year. I'll take that collapse. No, I know. But they choked away the division lead that season, which showed that they have a clear history of doing that. It's just as evident as when the Sox did it in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, and almost in 2005 and 2008.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:15 AM) Personally, I want Mariano to not only break it, but destroy it. Love Hoffman, but Mariano is the best and will permanently put an end to those homer Padre fans who was really the best closer to ever do it. (since the saves record is their only argument they got left and also no disrespect to Eck who is another one) I can still see Mariano pitching for another 2-3 years (possibly more) IF he wanted to. 41 years old and still putting up a 0.93 WHIP.. amazing. (then again.. Hoffman put up a 0.90 WHIP at the same age which was the lowest since like 1998 which is even more ridiculous) I can't disagree with any of that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:16 AM) They can keep the pressure on by wining tonight! It's definitely a must win now. As long as the Tigers win two games the rest of the season, the Sox will have to win out. Seems possible. If the Tigers win just one game, the Sox only have to go 14-1 to take this thing. That's merely a .933 winning percentage, which I think we can pull off since he have yet to hit our real hot streak this season. Take a look at the Tigers' remaining schedule. It's no cakewalk and they're sure to fall apart as they're so prone to do (that one time in 2006). Our destiny is in our own hands. I think as long as we show nothing but support and really get the positive mojo flowing, there's just about nothing that can stop us.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 09:15 AM) The Sox have been officially eliminated from playoff contention. You pessimist, they're still in this to win it!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:11 AM) I can think of one person who he made look like a fool... I see what you did there.