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Carlos!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 07:21 PM) http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AvUE...quitting_072011 Another interesting Dunn article. In an interview with Yahoo's Jeff Passan, Dunn talks rather candidly about his thoughts of quitting the game altogether, which is just further proof that this horrid slump is so deep in his head that he may never get out of it. “If I’m not having fun anymore, I’ll go home,” Dunn told Yahoo! Sports. “Flat out. I’ll go home. I mean that. Swear to goodness. I’ll. Go. Home. I enjoy playing. Even though I suck. Or have been sucking. I enjoy playing the game. Love it. But as soon as I lose that, I’m gone, dude. It’s true. “How many games can you play doing this? This is ridiculous. You get to a point, and you’re like …”

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 06:26 PM) Dan Carcillo/Pile of garbage winner

zetterberg/leto

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) HOW HOT IS IT?!? swamp ass hot

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 06:01 PM) Exactly what has Walker done with Rios that he should have done differently? Since you seem to be the expert, what's the simple fix to get Alex interested again? I don't know, yo, I'm not behind closed doors. However, I'm not limiting this to just Alex f***ing Rios. There's a laundry list of players who are acquired, vastly underperform expectations, and then go on to re-achieve their former productivity elsewhere.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 05:08 PM) Walker must have said something totally different to him the first half of last year, then changed his tune back to his BS probably just to piss you off. He made that ridiculous waiver claim useful with some hard work over the winter and Rios got lazy again. You're right, Greg Walker forced that waiver claim to work hard. Apparently, hitting coaches only matter for players when they are performing, and not the vast majority of our players who suck f***ing balls and have their worst offensive seasons in White Sox uniforms.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) Well he started sucking before he got here. But I will give you points for him never looking s***tier than this year. Yeah, but his "sucking" for the Jays in 2009 would be a revelation this year. Check out his splits in 2009 alone. He had a .744 OPS for the Jays in 2009. I'd KILL for that right now. 2009 after he got here, .530 OPS.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) Dunn, Swisher, Betemit, etc Rios.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6811/c...r2SkJNCsHSFCLcF Yet another player who flourished under the tutelage of THE Greg Walker. How many outliers need to exist under one man's tenure before we try to explain the outliers?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:40 PM) Someone just told me Betemit to Tigers. Phew, I was afraid they were going to get a serious bat. Yup, I posted it about 10 minutes ago in "The Diamond Club".

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 11:40 AM) Anybody else ready to tip your cap to Bruce Chen again? HYPERBOLE HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH THINGS

MLB MLB BREAKING: Tigers acquire INF Wilson Betemit from Royals for two Minor Leaguers.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 02:42 PM) You forgot the green in the first part. Sometimes when sarcasm is so obvious, I feel green to be unnecessary.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) Dayan is not going to produce like Carlos this year. 2011 Carlos Quentin - .859 OPS 2010 Dayan Viciedo - .840 OPS (104 at bats) It's not entirely out of the question, especially considering Viciedo was not given consistent at bats when up with the big club last season and seems to have taken another step this season as well.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 04:00 PM) 99 degrees in K.C tonight. Temperature on the field will be 178 degrees. Hawk will tell you about a time it was hotter. Nice post.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) Because Alexei Ramirez occasionally might need a day off, and most everyone seems to agree that it's kind of hot outside. But he's not getting the day off. He's still playing. Now we get NoArm Vizquel at shortstop and Alexei doesn't get the day off.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 03:25 PM) Not picking up a bat worked for the first 10 seasons of his career. That being said, I would like to see him change it up this offseason after this debacle. Yeah, if it ain't broke don't fix it. But it's broke. Fix it.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 02:52 PM) Thank you. That is EXACTLY what I was thinking, i just wasnt able to put it into words as well as you just did. You are welcome.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) thats a lame criticism. Gee, thanks. Do all Spiderman movies need to have Spider-Man being bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining his powers again? It's the same f***ing movie that was already done incredibly well 9 years ago. Was a young, clueless Bruce Wayne featured in 1989's Batman? Did he deal with any training whatsoever, or have any real developed relationship with Commissioner Gordon? Guess what? I'm going to end up seeing this stupid Spiderman movie if the reviews are good, because he (and Peter Parker) was my favorite comic book character growing up save Batman. However, that doesn't make me less offended that this movie exists, or that in the s***ty teaser trailer it's quite apparent that they are going to exploit another hated gimick, 3-d, with first person "Spidey-rides" throughout the film. It's cheap, exploitative Hollywood utlizing 3-D which is ruining a vast majority of films and box office rankings. However, for you to say my comparison between the need for a reboot of the Batman franchise vs. the non-need of a reboot for the Spidey franchise is "lame", all the while picking a very small portion of my argument while refusing to acknowledge nipples pisses me off! There is no comparison between the Batman and Spider-Man franchises other than movies were made about comic book characters. I saw enough in that "LAME" teaser trailer to know this origin story isn't going to venture too far from the one that was so expertly told and produced such a short time ago. 1989 is a lot longer ago than 2002.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 02:13 PM) Dunn needs to hit the DL. Minimum 15 game trip, but it allows like 7-10 days to clear his head and completely forget about baseball (while still training) and then you get him 5 games against garbage in AAA. I've been saying this for a month.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) I love ignorant statements that have no merit. Save the fact that Adam Dunn has stated he doesn't pick up a baseball bat in the offseason. There's some merit there... I'd reckon picking up a baseball bat might assist in his not sucking so much.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 02:37 PM) I'll beat everyone else to it: Brandon Allen has homered in each of his last two games for ARI. He only had a .933 ops last year and a 1.006 ops this year in AAA, not to mention a near-.800 OPS in the bigs last year. We needed Tony Pena, and trader Kenny got him. I don't think Allen will be some amazing 40 homer bat, but I'd rather have a bag of golfballs than Tony Pena.