Milkman delivers

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 26, 2008 -> 11:18 AM) Sounded more like a reference to Bobby Jenks. What? I was clearly referring to Danks. How in the f*** was Jenks our best pitcher throughout the year? Danks has that locked up, even if he gets blown out to end the season. I'm saying it was a f***ing retarded move to purposely avoid starting Danks in that series.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:50 PM) I really have a hard time blaming the coaching staff. I am really torn as a Sox fan right now. I really am impressed with what Williams did this off-season after a terrible year, but at the same time, the team is one of the most one dimensional teams I have ever seen watching baseball. Walker coaches these guys to not only play to their strengths, but to the ballparks strength. It just so happens most of the lineups strength is built around an all or nothing approach. As I have said, the Sox need some different style hitters to mold around the power. That's not the point. When a team fails miserably so consistently, heads have to roll. Coaches are fired all the time, even if they don't really deserve it, because a statement has to be made. Walker, at the very least, needs to go.

QUOTE (aboz56 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 10:28 PM) Considering we were expected to finish fourth in the division, I would hardly call the season a failure. Now these past three games were definitely a failure and that's putting it nicely. I have nothing against you, aboz, but I hate that way of thinking.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 26, 2008 -> 01:11 AM) That sounds about right. The Sox should be ashamed to have to cheer for the Royals this weekend. The scoreboard watching should be over. If this is a surprise to anyone, they haven't followed the team. Cabrera was gone in June. Yes, it failed. I'm not going to blame Ozzie for trying his hand with his "horses". Blame could be put on Williams for not having a real backup plan after Contreras, but whatever. If you are going to go down, I would rather it be with the guys that got you to first place. The Sox are going to end up with Cano, and the package is going to be centered around Swisher. Call it a hunch. Everyone was calling for urgency, and praising Gardy for playing the 7th game of the World Series. Again, Ozzie was using the best he had, and was going to go down with it. I would rather loose with Jenks than Dotel getting lit up. Comparing him with Rickey Henderson should get him fired, I don't care how good Gomez looked. Well, I posted way more than I wanted to tonight. O well. Such as the man who was consistently our best pitcher throughout this entire season (minus about 4 games)?

I love to make full turkey dinners, and I'm not kidding.

f*** this loser team in its ass. They're a joke. An absolute joke. f*** them.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 03:36 PM) THAT EPISODE SUCKS You suck.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 03:21 PM) I love the way the Oz haters never mention how close many of those games were in the 05 postseason and how we won all but one of them. Oz pulled the strings every game. I assuming they say I'm living in the past and/or any clown could have made the same moves in 05. I can recall some horrible calls in the playoffs, mainly in the ALDS and WS. And it's not hard to sit on the bench and let your starters throw four straight CG's. Ozzie is to Ditka as Cooper is to Ryan. The former two are the guys who get all the credit and are way overrated, and the latter two are the guys who deserve the majority of the credit but get none.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 03:19 PM) I think you find joy when the sox lose just so you can b****. As I recall, TheBigHurt is usually one of the more optimistic posters.

Once In A Lifetime.

Ozzie is basically one of those fools who refuses to leave an area that is about to be destroyed by a natural disaster.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 02:49 AM) You play the guys who brung ya. Dye should play. It's on him if he sucks again. You would be the worst manager in baseball history, I swear to God.

Aren't these "rally" things specific to certain years/seasons?

QUOTE (SoxPride56 @ Sep 25, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) Watch the game, because no matter what happens, win or lose, your going to miss baseball come October.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:34 PM) They boo him for the same reason he was traded (discluding the fact he was traded for tons of goodies). He was a clubhouse cancer for the Twinkies. Didn't get along with his team at all. That's why people started booing him to begin with, because he was known as a "bad guy" of baseball. Then after some of the '05 controversy everyone wanted to jump on the AJ hatred train. MN, is the only place that rightfully should boo him. But yeah, the guy who threw back Griffey's homer is an idiot. You could see by the look on his face he was hesitant though. You're either misinformed or a liar.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:42 PM) See Sig. I hate you.

QUOTE (HeGone33 @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:34 PM) Something to the effect of "Ozzie likes to call them piranhas but when they get on base I call em shi* heads cause the do everything out there right" Yeah, more praise for the Twins. Just what our team needs to hear from another one of our team leaders.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:36 PM) This is a good season for this team for 4 reasons -- Danks, Floyd, Quentin and Ramirez. Two excellent starting pitchers and two dynamic position players, all under the age of 27. And everyone else is getting older and worse, or will be out the door next season. We should have rebuilt, but somehow lucked out with the other competitors having fluke bad seasons. We'll go into next year after "re-tooling" with garbage additions, we'll fail to win the division again, and we'll be behind the curve as we should've started the reuilding process years before it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:16 PM) Fixed for you, as there's no way this can be considered a terrible season for us. I disagree. We're just getting older and s***tier, and there's no way the other teams in the Central are going to fall apart in another fluke fashion next season. If we were going to go down to the very last game of the season to lose it, I'd rather have just done terrible the entire year. That way, we'd get a good draft pick and we'd turn to rebuilding (which we should).

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:27 PM) I've seen too many seasons that weren't worth watching in September. Hell yes I'm watching. And I've seen too many Septembers where the Sox choke down the stretch against the Twins. Clockwork.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 11:02 PM) Shouldn't have though. the middle of the lineup, specifically Thome and Dye have had chance after chance after chance to do something, even just sac flies and have failed. Q was a big loss, but this team has had numerous chances with vetrans and have s*** themselves. I won't hang my hat on the Q loss We gave away so many games this year. And each time it happened, we were told it was just one game. It's biting us in the ass now, isn't it?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 24, 2008 -> 10:49 PM) That one hurt more. I'd like to see Swisher or Anderson in CF and Griffey in RF tomorrow with Dye lower in the lineup. They are just going right after Dye and he isn't doing a f***ing thing. It would also be nice to have Dye on the bench for the later innings when they bring in a lefty. Oh Carlos Quentin, where art though right now? Not a f***ing chance. Ozzie clearly has a personal vendetta against him, and he'll ride it out for the remainder of the season, no matter how much it hurts his own team. f*** This Team

I'll probably watch, although I'll be wanting to turn it off every second. Thankfully, I had the option of watching Sons Of Anarchy tonight and flipping back to the game to see it sadly end. I'm pretty sure I'll do the same tomorrow with It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. This team is just asking to not be watched.

Floyd has to win us the game tomorrow. He has to completely dominate the game because, if he doesn't, we lose this division. Our core guys should be absolutely ashamed of themselves (Dye). This is turning into a terrible, terrible year.

Wow, can I suggest that we get rid of this thing immediately?