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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?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:11 PM) No but knowing his day/night splits could have come in handy in that Tigers series where he saved the game on 08/04 at night and then blew it big time the very next day in an afternoon game. Ozzie could have just trotted someone else out without really explaining why or just left Putz in and we could have avoided another day game disaster from Bobby. He continually sucks in day games so why completely ignore that fact. It was even pointed out that he's done that in most of his career. It's not like he's an everyday player like Alexei. There aren't that many day games on our schedule so it wouldn't be that difficult to avoid using him in those situations. Well said. And just because it isn't mentioned as a reason, that doesn't mean it isn't taken into consideration by managers.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Ya, but didn't Bobby quit drinking? Those stats remind me of BobDylan's legendary Gordon Beckham sucks in the day thread. I have a hard time believing that to be the case, and if he did, he substituted food for the alcohol. And I know this looks like a "Jenks is a fatass" post, but that man looks heavier and heavier with each passing season. There has to be something to that.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 02:38 PM) Find me any manager, in the history of baseball, who used Day/Night splits to judge playing time. Find me a concrete example and I will bow down. And that makes the stat useless?

If there is one thing that will get me re-excited about this season, it'd be a trade for LaRoche.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) logmein.com or GoToMyPC.com Those may help you a lot. I actually just ended up driving over there and doing it myself. Thanks, though. Those might come in handy sooner or later.

Give 'em hell, 54!

I get shivers every time I see this scene: "You have bled with Wallace. Now bleed with me." *sword toss* *army charges*

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 12:13 PM) In 4 of his 5 full seasons, his ERA has been higher during the day than at night. In the last 2 seasons, the difference has been over 3.20 in 2009, and 7.00 higher in 2010. How does that not hold any weight? It doesn't support a preconceived notion, I imagine.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:42 AM) I think he sounds like a frustrated fan of the team. I'll take that vs some indifferent retard with a high pitched squeal. What makes those professionals "retards" exactly?