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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 04:13 PM) The only thing worse than Joe West was hearing the non-stop complaining by Hawk and Frank about him today. That was the worst announced game I have heard this year. It was truly, truly terrible. And I completely agree. I watched the game with my cousin, and I think I said "I hate Hawk" or a variation of it about 50 times.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) Maybe. Maybe not. It would be a damn smart move though and we'd all be praising Ozzie if he did that. As soon as I saw this, I knew the following post would be this: QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 09:37 AM) There is about zero chance of that happening. When is the last time that Ozzie got a ton of praise for anything he did right? Not to mention, if we are talking about a move that no one has ever done before, that makes it literally an impossible standard.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 07:29 AM) Thanks god we have a day off Monday, and then it's time to beat up on some AL East teams. What a brutal stretch of baseball it has been, let's win the series today and gain a game on the Twinks.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:05 AM) Nah not at all. Alot of my buddies still do it at age 23-24 haha. I don't partake in it as much as I used to. Usually I'm out just getting hammered at bars/clubs (or box socials) and passing out.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 02:57 AM) Yeah, like sometimes you just gotta suck a dick... On a serious note, I pluck my stray eyebrows but that's it. I have no idea what it means to get your eyebrows "threaded" but it doesn't sound fun. I don't have thick eyebrows at all, but I do get a few stray hairs in the unibrow area. I just give it one swipe with the razor every few weeks.

I thought Mariotti was married, though? QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) I am sure Hawk will make some comment about it.... Hawk is way too classy for such a thing.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 01:10 PM) It looked like this: That was embarrassing. I couldn't even watch the whole thing.

I'm surprised at how hard he can throw, but I hope he makes it work.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 06:21 AM) The title said BAD, not tasteless. Your perspective usually changes when you have kids. Suddenly Dahl's "Another Kid in the Crawl" parody isn't as funny. Dead baby jokes don't sound so cool. And pedophile jokes just aren't funny. It's probably hardwired into our DNA somewhere. The last post was two weeks ago, and you bumped it for that? Here's one I remember from when I was a kid: Did you hear about the new book "Little Brown Spots on the Wall" by the Chinese author, Hu Flung Pu?

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) I took my 5 and 7 year old boys fishing yesterday at Maple Lake in Willow Springs. They insisted we get a boat and row to the middle. After an hour of that futile torture, we went back to the short and caught/released a bunch of blue gill before my 5 year old and I decided to dig in into the cooler and eat. The oldest wanted to try baiting the hook and casting the line by himself. Neither of the other two of us was paying attention when all of a sudden he starts yelling for help reeling in a fish. Turn out to be a 14" widemouth bass. He was the talk of the lake despite his dad not knowing crap about fishing. Lots of fun. Stop rubbing your kid's accomplishment in my face, jerk. Besides, I bet I can beat him up.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) I'm going to support my boy Jason Bateman tonight and am taking the wife to "The Switch". Looks pretty solid. Jason Bateman seems like such a douchebag.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) I say a sox streak of 32-0 sounds great. Suuuuuure.... I mean let's do 25-8. I'll take it. f*** the haters!!! f*** the twins!!!

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 10:01 AM) Glad to see some people are off the ledge. Again. Now we go to KC. These are the games we "must" win if we're going to stay in this. I'm not saying sweep, but if we don't win this series we don't deserve to stay in it. That said, we always have a tough time playing there. Oughta be interesting. I agree, 4 games doesn't seem that bad--when it could have been six. I've definitely jumped off the edge already, I'm just waiting to see if I should aim toward the canopy or the sidewalk.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 12:16 PM) Pierre's defense has impressed me. He gets to a lot of stuff, and I don't feel quite so bad about having him next year anymore. I just want him to do it over the course of the entire season, not take off the first month or so like this year.

QUOTE (elgonzo4sox @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:18 PM) Great post Quinarvy! There's been far too much Twins Envy and Twins Love on this website. The Twins aren't invincible, nor are they light years ahead of the Sox. In fact, the two teams are about as evenly matched as they could possibly be, with the Twins holding a big edge in head-to-head W-L due more to good luck than anything else. Here is my proof that the Twins and Sox are just about dead even this year. The Twins 4 game edge in the standings sounds big, but it is merely 2 head-to-head wins. The Twins have beaten the Sox 10 times, but 7 of those wins are by one run. Pick your most agonizing two Sox losses to the Twins, and change one thing in those two games to make the Sox win, and the teams are tied in the standings. What if Bobby Jenks nailed down the save in the game when the Sox lead by 3 in the ninth? What if Thornton threw a letters-high fastball to Thome (who can't catch up to high heat) instead of a belt-high one, and he whiffs instead of hitting a walk-off home run? When you lose 7 one-run games, it's easy to find one thing in a couple of games that, had it gone differently, would have flipped the outcome. That is how far back the Sox are behind the Twins: two bad pitches, or two missing clutch hits, or two Twins seeing-eye singles that just eluded a Sox fielder's glove. The Twins are +4 games ahead of the Sox in the standings, but +5 games ahead during head-to-head play. That means the Sox have played the rest of MLB one game better than the Twins so far this season. If the Twins are so great, why do the Sox have a better record vs. the rest of MLB? The Sox and Twins have played 15 times so far this season. With tonight's 11-0 shellacking, the runs scored by both teams over those 15 games now stands at 71 runs for the Sox, and 72 runs for the Twins. If those 71 and 72 runs had scored at different points in time, the games won/lost would be something other than 5 games won by the Sox and 10 games won by the Twins. In fact, if the runs were basically evenly distributed, the Sox would have won 7 times and the Twins 8 times. And the teams would be tied for first. Yes, I realize that at the end of the day all that counts is wins and losses, but when you look at the evidence, the Twins and Sox are a lot more evenly matched than most people probably think. The difference right now is very small, and the Sox still have 3 more games versus the Twins at home to close the gap. So as Bluto would say: LET'S GO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!!!! Talk about skewing stats to favor your opinion, yikes.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:00 AM) The comment was made that we need to beat the Twins more than 4 times in 25 games and I agree. But maybe the next four games will be the Sox turn to win? I ain't givin in to no stinkin Twins and neither should you. It ain't ovah till it's ovan someone once said and that's not till the end of the season or the math just don't add up anymore You are just chock-full of cliches recently.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) At any given time there are 30 managers in baseball. I am pretty confident there are more than 30 people in the baseball world who would be good managers, possessing those skill sets. But of course you won't really know whether or not the guy you hired is one of them, until they actually manage some games. That's the risk you are getting at of course. I just think at this point, its become clear what Ozzie is, and is not, good at. He'd be a fantastic Bench Coach, doing what he does best - keeping all the guys on the same page, marching together, and having the right mindset for the sport. He can also add in some help on defense, which he excelled at and knows quite well. Let him work under a manager who is more of the tactician type. That's exactly what I thought when reading that post.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) Then he got under the covers and yelled "Come on, Timo! Come on, Timo, Come on, Timo!" He then proceeded to ride him hard and put him away wet.

I would normally say this is a great win, but it seems like it just might be too little too late.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 09:37 AM) His pitching staff Respect for the fans?

I don't want to see another "rebuilding on the fly" routine during the offseason. I want us to trade away as many guys as we can for as much value as we can (and I don't mean giving Quentin away for a bag of balls, the deals have to be worth making as either salary dumps or to get younger players in here). Our approach is clearly not working. An actual rebuild is going to be necessary at some point. We have some pieces that will really bring back a haul in the offseason. It might be time to finally take that plunge and commit to changing this team from top to bottom.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:54 PM) I was happy to see the take out at the knees of the shortstop to break up a double play. That was nasty. It was totally an intent to injure move. I did enjoy that, but at the same time it seemed like it might have also just been an attempt by Quentin to not injure himself by sliding.

2005 feels like centuries ago.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 09:33 PM) Whats he supposed to say? Yes, he's so good we dont want to pitch to him, my team sucks, we dont have the players. Thats how you lose a clubhouse if you are retarded enough to take that POV. He's the manager of a sports team, he's trying to back his players and he doesnt give a s*** about players in the other clubhouses. It seems that this has already happened.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:39 PM) Another pathetic response by Ozzie with regards to Thome: http://twitter.com/cst_sox What did it say?