BigEdWalsh

Hope he kills it with the A's. He's a great guy but I can't honestly say I'll miss him.

I've been a White Sox fan since the mid 1950's. I moved far from the Chicago area in 2005. I don't think anything can change my support for the Sox. If they moved somewhere else it would be real weird but they'd still be my team. When the Packers/Zephyrs moved from Chicago to Baltimore, I became a fan of the Baltimore Bullets, at least until the Bulls came to town.

Incredibly sad.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 08:27 AM) Gillaspie Abreu

A little bummed we still have Beckham for the rest of the year but yeah, great to win a series against the f***ing Tigers!!!!

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 02:36 PM) Hahaha I can't tell if that's sarcastic or not because they are poorly written, I just try to share my observations, but thanks a lot, I appreciate if you're serious Totally serious. It's so cool when some of us get to actually see the minor league teams play. I appreciate the info. Otherwise, I'm only looking at box scores and occasional highlights. I'm hoping myself to see the Voyagers in a couple of weeks.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 02:03 PM) Great! How interested? As long as you can pretty much guarantee me most of the league is active throughout the season, sign me up interested.

When it comes to truly bad managers in the history, Robin isn't even close. Ted Williams, as great a player as he was, made a horrid manager. I never saw him play but I did see his horrible Washington Senators. Williams was kind of a dick and his players reportedly hated him. Terry Bevington....enough said there. He was an asshole who I met in a drunken state (him not me), not a nice man and a BAD manager. Buddy Bell was not a good manager. Tony Pena, Ned Yost, Lee Elia, Alan Trammell. As someone else mentioned even good managers can't do much with a lousy team. Case in point, no pun intended, Casey Stengel with the New York Mets.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 01:20 PM) Fantasy Keeper League You'd Keep two players on your roster by where they were drafted last season. Interested? Reply here for more information. I might be interested.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 01:24 PM) Gonna see Kanny tonight live I've been enjoying your game reports.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 06:43 AM) Tyler Saldhino out for the year. Tommy john surgery Bummer. There goes one September call up I was hoping for. I feel bad for him, it might have happened.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 28, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) I think he's perceived as a "s*** game manager" by some because his bullpen, for the most part is crap. In the end it's essentially the players that make a manager look good or bad, not the other way around. And that's that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) I have a vote for the worst thread in the history of Soxtalk. First thing I did when I saw this thread was say, "Oh Jesus Christ". But seriously, Terry Bevington comes to my mind first.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) The underachieving trio closes it out. Golden opportunity to get the sweep but we had to rely on those three bums. Oh well, The Big Hurt's a Hall Of Famer!!!!!

I had to blow my nose and wipe my eyes 35 times.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 10:37 AM) I consider anyone who doesn't commit awful crimes to be good. One of my friends is a terrible racist, but only behind closed doors. I don't agree with him, obviously, and he's an upstanding citizen. So I guess I consider him good. Raises an interesting argument. To me, racism is an ugly awful trait and no way in the world would I consider a racist a good person. My father-in-law was a racist. I liked him in some ways, he could be a pretty funny and nice guy but would I consider him a good person? No. Would I have liked him at all if he weren't my father-in-law? No. Maybe I'm pretty fussy but I consider only 20 to 30 percent of people in the world to be good.

Alexei

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:19 AM) Not sure...I did just read that he normally wears contacts so idk, guess he could just be hot...Or they're just magical I'm going with they're magical.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 10:07 AM) Flowers !!! I'll go with ABREU.

Johnny Winter, 70; blues/guitar legend. From one of my all-time favorite albums:

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 08:30 AM) As long as we keep posthummus. By all means, for the comedy. Along the same lines but seriously, as much as I want Boozer gone I will miss the guy when he is indeed gone. Only for his antics, that and the fact that he's a good guy. Also, despite his obvious limitations I think he played his butt off for the Bulls.

Big Donkey

Yeah I shudder to think how dreadful it would be watching the Sox right now were it not for Abreu. Yay for the win. And the When Do You Fire Robin thread slips a little further down the page........for now.

Tony Snell was great. Watching Posthumos was funny.

Tommy Ramone. Unbelievable to me that all of the original Ramones are dead.