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QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 12:03 PM) Scherzer's pretty beastly. Never trust a man with two different colored retinas.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:13 AM) Minny and Tampa Bay live on MLB Network right now. Any time the Rays want to start hitting the ball it would be much appreciated.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:44 AM) If Kotsay is the real team player he's made out to be, he will do the right thing and fake an injury.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:38 AM) But dude! That's different! Hot chicks making out and having sex with me is cool! But gay people, that's weird and different and immoral. Gross! Three ways=Cool, because I get to have sex with two chicks. Gay=Weird. Can't you see the difference? It's SO obvious, and definitely not hypocritical. And those 2 girls having sex with each other in front of me aren't having gay sex because I say so.

Twins pitching still holding up well to this point.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:40 AM) No, I think he's really due for one. A washed up, bad hitter is never really due.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 11:01 AM) I'll never understand how somebody can be against same sex marriage being legal. If you're not gay or morally against it, don't do it! But to want to withhold rights to a group of people because you think it's different or you think it's weird or even due to it being against your beliefs is kind of silly. As a straight person who goes to church, I just don't see how allowing gay people to get married impacts me negatively (or at all, really). What difference does it make if the gay couple next door is married or not?

Cowley:

Isn't FHM a Maxim-like magazine? Probably some kind of reference to Kotsay's hot wife.

Per Mark Gonzalez:

HULK...GET....MAD!!!!

Kotsay

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 01:44 AM) Viciedo. Hopefully he gets a pinch hit late in the game.

I just need to try and stop thinking about this situation before I get a brain aneurysm.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) Which is why it's asinine that Kotsay will probably stay even when Teahen is activated. You don't like having two of the exact same players (except one can't hit) on the roster?

QUOTE (hawksox13 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:40 AM) Looking back I think Reinsdorf just didn't want Kenny Williams making a rushed, emotional decision about Ozzie Guillen. Overall Ozzie is a pretty good manager and I think Reinsdorf thought this thing would get turned around and everything would work itself out. I don't think that situation completely tells that Kenny has no authority. Turns out it was a good thing not to fire Ozzie. I think if Kenny finds a way to get a left handed bat, Kotsay will be the player to go. Until Kenny finds that, we're stuck with Kotsay. But who cares if Kotsay is left handed? He doesn't hit RHP or LHP. I'd rather use a good right handed hitter up there than a lefty that can't hit for s***. And why are you guys talking about Kenny firing Ozzie? I asked if Kenny was able to DFA Kotsay.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:34 AM) The article in the one thread basically confirms Kotsay is staying when Teahen gets back. Kenny has to be kicking himself that he brought Kotsay back right now. It's his fault Kotsay is on the team at all, so KW deserves blame, but Ozzie deserves every bit of blame he gets for how much he's playing (I'd say the blame should be split for the fact he hasn't been/won't be DFA'd). I don't get it. Doesn't Kenny have the authority to DFA Kotsay?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) It's hard to have a .640 OPS. It really is. Just ask Dan Haren.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) I have a feeling Kotsay is going to do something HUGE either to help us clinch the division or something important in the playoffs. That usually happens where there is a lot of hatred toward a player on a successful team. It would have been nicer to have Thome or someone more capable help give us a bigger lead in the standings so that we wouldn't have to wait for some miracle at bat from this scrub.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) that's unfortunate. Yeah. We should be able to have married couples have 3-ways but gays shouldn't even marry at all. The sanctity of marriage!!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) If it means getting rid of Kotsay, yes. At this point in his career I'd expect Kotsay-like numbers.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) That, and the fact that he's his manager. Ozzie is a moron.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2010 -> 12:01 AM) I just thought I would play Devil's Advocate, Ozzie style. We've lost 13 games since June 9th. Kotsay hasn't played in four of those games (June 13th, July 16th, July 25th and July 31st). Therefore, he can't be blamed for those losses. In those 9 losses which he could have had an effect on, he went 5/28 but deserved better, hit a number of line drives and balls to the warning track that MIGHT have gone out in SOME MLB stadiums had the win been blowing out with gale force wins. However, he only came up two times with RISP during our entire stretch of 37-13 ball (that's right, with Mark Kotsay on the active roster, we're winning 74% of our games over a 50 game stretch!!!! Conclusion, if he's NOT on the roster, we won't play very well, and perhaps the prophecies foretold in the movie 2012 will come to pass as White Sox fans will have to stock up with survival gear, gas masks and a year's supply of Mike and Ike's...basically, if KW took Kotsay off the roster, it would be like Armageddon and December 31st, 1999 all over again.) On June 28th against KC, he pinch hit with runners on 2nd and 3rd and only one out against the Royals when we were trailing 3-1 and popped out. That hurt, although Alexei also didn't come through. And you can't really expect a pinch hitter to come through more than once every 4 AB's, right? On July 18th, with Quentin on 2nd base after a double against the Twins, he failed to move him. Of course, let's just blame that game on Bobby Jenks, right? Because any lead against the Twins in Minnesota is pretty safe, yes? We didn't really need some insurance runs! And there's no more MetroDoom jinx anymore...the Piranhas are almost all dead. On July 21st, he went 0/3 against the Mariners, but that's another one we can pin on Jenks, the game we came back to lead against Felix Hernandez (Vizquel RBI), only to have Jenks blow it once again. We lost to the A's on the 24th, but Mark actually got on base in front of Castro's homer, we lost 10-2, so you can't blame Mark there, either. And then against Bonderman this week, that's a Hawkeroo "hang wiff 'em" right? Conclusion, Mark Kotsay was 0 for 2 with RISP during 9 losses in the span of almost 2 months, he really didn't hurt us that much. In fact, Bobby Jenks had more of a negative effect than Kotsay. If we had reliable closer, we'd still be 4 1/2 games ahead of the Twins. Conlusion 2, more fans come to games to see Mark's wife in the scout seats when he's on the team, thus creating another revenue stream...and Lisa Dergan had to be replaced somehow. Thanks for going through the trouble of looking all of that up but it's pretty much meaningless. You throw a Dunn or someone of that caliber into the mix and the entire dynamic of the offense changes. During that time span Dunn would have hit about 7 HRs. The starting pitcher would have a lot more pressure situation pitches throughout the lineup. Just think of facing Rios, Konerko, Dunn, and Quentin all in a row. You can't tell me that doesn't change everything. Having Kotsay bat 5th after our sluggers is like having our pitcher bat. It's a sigh of relief for the opposition and usually ends up not extending an inning.

Wow. What the f*** is with this Kotsay obsession????

Rosenthal saying we are interested in Delgado. Why?!