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QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 11:50 AM) The Twins were 24-29 and 11 1/2 games back last year. They seem to have won the division if I remember correctly. Thank you!

It's still way too early for me to declare this season over. Things have been so bad lately you gotta wonder that the pendulum's going to swing the other way at some point. Houston in '05. Minny last year. I'm not giving up yet. This is just TOO bad. Usually we do well all the way until August or September and then collapse. To suck this bad this early... I'm keeping my options open.

I thought Hawk's comment was pretty damn funny when I read it.

You know, after his last year 2nd half collapse, I wondered if he'd ever have his stuff again. The one good thing about this season is we're seeing the Buehrle we know and love. Tonight was a perfect example. He should have had his #100, throwing a 2-hitter. But if nothing else I'm glad to see he's back on his game, and his no-hitter has been the best Sox moment since 2005, that's for sure.

You know, when things are this bad and we lose a two-hitter by Buehrle, you just have laugh at this point and ride it out. It's almost mystical what's going on. I can't even get depressed at this point because I think we're just going through a dark time where we can't get a break. It's like the anti-2005.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ May 31, 2007 -> 12:16 PM) why do sox fans bother to take mariotti seriously? He's on a mission - he hates all things associated with the sox, and ozzie humiliated him. He hates the man and wants him run out of town. This thread's not about Marriotti; just Ozzie's quotes. Thanks.

I hope you're right Steff!

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mariotti/40...T-jay31.article Now can we all promise not to start a Mariotti-bashing thread? These comments were reported in other news outlets as well--this is just where I saw them. So my questions: 1) Is Ozzie asking to be fired? 2) Where's the fight? 3) What kind of effect does it have on the clubhouse when your leader is throwing up his hands like this? I've said here before that in 2005 Ozzie was a firecracker in the dugout and these days he just mopes around. WTF? 4) While he's certainly right when he says "I've been watching the same ole s*** since July 2006", how is that going to motivate a team? I guess I just never thought that Ozzie, after being a big fan of him being hired back in '04, would be saying things like this. That's gotta be bringing everybody down, dontcha think? Maybe he does have to go after all. Maybe 2005 was just a fluke year. Or, in his defense. Maybe Ozzie has hit the wall trying to use what KW has given him. Discuss...

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 29, 2007 -> 08:02 AM) He might have left him in too long, but the bullpen is loaded with gascans who can't throw strike 1. LOL, AMEN, BROTHER. I remember watching MacDougal come in at the Cell last week or the week before and this guy could not throw a strike to save his life. Hey: throw strikes and get beat, fine. What kills me is that they throw themselves behind in the count far enough that they have to give up a cookie. Now, THAT is the most frustrating thing about all this, IMO.

I'm tired of the lifeless Sox we've been watching since 2nd half like the rest of you guys, but I'm not quite ready to give up when June hasn't even started yet. Let's talk in a month.

All I know is that, watching the Sox of late, they seem old, slow and not hungry. It's bad. It's worse than second half 2006, which was awful coming off 2005. Last night I bailed on the game about halfway through because I knew we'd lose. Not sure what the solution is, but I don't recall such a lifeless team. Even in 2004, the feast-or-famine years, they seemed a little bit hungry. And I'm not sure who to blame but I notice Ozzie just sitting in the dugout this year and last year, scowling. In 2005 he was a firecracker in that dugout, always moving, always talking. Now he looks just as glum as everybody else. And that's probably not motivating anybody else.

I agree that Minnesota plays with a zeal--with our without the Morneau incident--that makes us look like old men. It's like 2004 all over again. They just chop away and chop away and smallball us to death, or then big bat us to death. While shutting down our hitters. People forget that the 2005 Sox were basically our attempt to be the Twins. Seems we've gotten far away from that.

They could have easily played a doubleheader yesterday, not sure why they didn't.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ May 28, 2007 -> 03:49 PM) I really am tired of smugass KW sitting on his ass doing nothing but looking for guys on the cheap! KW is to baseball what Jerry Krause was to the NBA. You dig? I hear what you're saying.

I was standing on the LF concourse when Tererro hit that bomb and that is the longest HR I've seen in person in my life. That was two rows short of hitting the beer stand underneath the kids' deck. We were joking with the two guys in the stand aftewards. That was MONSTER. That double play, BTW, was highlight reel stuff. The Buehrle, Uribe to AJ one.

Sorry guys but 2 out of 3 against Oakland? Take it, I will. Not about to complain. Yeah, no "O" last night but after three insane days of run-scoring, you figured there's gotta be an off night. As long as we win series, we're good to go. I see this whole Oakland thing as a positive.

You know what I noticed though with all this Mariotti stuff and Ozzie's call-in and AJ/Buehrle and what not? All of a sudden our offense woke up. Just an observation.

I thought Sweeney looked great today. I LOL'd when he called Uribe off that pop fly (no I will NOT say "can of corn") and the look he gave him afterward. Also, anybody catch that AJ said something to him when they were shaking hands in line? I would love to hear what that was. Sweeney.... yes!

Help me out here: I don't remember in 2005 all these in and out pitching changes with the bullpen. This guy vs. that batter for one out, then another guy vs. that batter, then another switch, and so forth. Am I imagining this? It almost seems comical to me how many pitching changes we make when the bullpen comes out. I thought in 2005 guys pretty much were left in to strike out the right AND left-handed batters.

Tonight wasn't bad at all. More like it.

Question: What's the difference between me and the White Sox offense? Answer:

Hey guys, for kicks, here's my blog on the last week of 24 and how I've run out of ways to scoff at it. For laughs: ******** Oh hell no tell me I did not used to love this show. There was a time, back in the day (like last year), when I couldn't wait to watch 24, especially back seasons on DVD. It was so addictive you could easily spend an entire weekend on the couch watching Jack Baer kick terrorist ass and once again make L.A. safe for... cough... all those really, really nice people that.... populate L.A. Back then we'd overlook things like: hey, why are these guys always targeting L.A.? Everyone knows that in L.A. to get anything done you need representation. We'd also overlook things like: ooookay, no traffic in L.A.? Or, "WTF? If CTU can't even keep terrorists and traitors out of their own office, how are they going to protect us?" Aw, we didn't care because the plot moved along so quickly you didn't have time to stop and think about things like what does Bill Buchanan actually do, or: does anybody use a damn mouse in that office? What are they all typing? Because any office monkey knows: if somebody's poking away like that, they're probably IM'ing their little side dish that The Significant Other Doesn't Know About, and NOT tracing terrorist cellphone calls. Unless the terrorists are communicating in code--code that looks like: a/s/l? Anyhoo, last night set a first for 24 in that it had no action scenes whatsoever. That's right, apparently the writers sensed the growing non-demand for lots and lots of dialogue and bad soap opera interior plots as we're pounded over the head with how much Jack REALLY REALLY loves Audrey, who is now a vegetable thanks to those nasty Chinese. So forget s*** blowing up or terrorist ambushes (in Orange County! Nice!), we get lots of scenes of Jack--handcuffed to a chair for like the 1000th time because he went "rogue" (zzzzzz...) fretting about his mumbling Kung Pao Green Bean in the other room, who's being menaced by a doctor from Division (question: is there anybody from Division who's NOT an asshole?) who wants to go all Kervorkian on her. About 45 minutes into last night (and boy that clock has NEVER ticked slower) we get treated to the "action" scene of the night--when Jack... I'm not making this up... "overpowers" agent Ricky Schroeder (who lets him... never mind, long story) and busts Audrey (in a hospital gown!) out of CTU to... the lower level of CTU. Tons of non-suspense ensues as CTU tries to track down their own employee in their own office. As any cubicle jockey knows, the way to flush out any employee is to put leftover pizza on the table in the office kitchen. Or leftover candy. Or leftover sandwiches. Hell you could leave leftover cat food out and people would still eat it. I promise, you do that, and you will see people that you did not even know worked at your company come out of the woodwork. Because everybody loves free stuff, even if it's stale. Where were we? Oh yeah. Sorry. Maybe 24 is doing all these indoor shots because Rupert Murdoch slashed their budget. If you think about it... an awful lot of this season has been... indoors. Where are the choppers? The airplanes landing on freeways? The assaults on compounds? Instead, we get... Morris the Mope bickering with Tourette Chloe in the dark CTU hallway, where Milo goes to make out with Nadia. In the middle of a nuke crisis. Then it's back to the White House, where evil VP Powers is crushing the larynx of a guy across the room using The Force because the guy dared question one of his decisions... er, wait wrong movie. Where evil VP Powers--now in charge because President Wayne Palmer is BACK in a coma after having a stroke (What? They couldn't have him fall and break his hip?) which means now we've got two main characters who are vegetables and you know what that spells: A C T I O N. As if Powers (or whatever his name on the show is--nobody cares at this point) couldn't be any more evil trying to attack hapless Middle Eastern Countries That Are Never Named (um... sounds... very real life) he's trying to launch his own shag & awe campaign with his slutty blonde underling by showing her his cruise missle. Oh, and she seemed to be one of the Coalition of the Willing until we found out--slut!--she was sleeping with a lobbyist (who isn't in Washington these days!) who's really... working for the Russians! Now that the Islamic terrorists are out of the picture, I can't tell who the enemy is supposed to be--is it the Chinese Dudes Where Nobody Knows WTF Their Problem is But They Really Hate Jack? Or is it the now-evil Russians, whose president threatened us with military action last night if we don't get that circuit board back! Because it has a design only known to the Russians, or so they claim. Which just shows how clueless the Russians are (welcome Comrades, to capitalism!) because as anybody knows: the Chinese have everything. Flat screens, Madonna CDs, pirated copies of Spiderman 3, you betcha. Anybody who doesn't think they don't already have a copy of your "circuit board" and are selling it at the Peking Wal-Mart is living in... well, 24 world. And just in case you didn't already hate everybody in the White House (hey! Like now!), they supply us with weasel-like Tom, the Dick Morris-like little schemer who's sucking up alternately to Darth VP and President Palmer (before he became a veggie) and keeping secrets on everybody. I'm just waiting for him to tell Darth VP that taking out Russia--if they don't STFU with the threats already--would be a "slam dunk." Had enough yet? If you've been watching, there's plenty to be tired of, besides the tired plots, the tired acting, the endless talking and story lines you've seen a dozen times already. I don't know if you can turn a show like this around after it's fallen so far, but somebody better be thinking about 2008 and a whole new vision, or else I start watching Dancing with the Stars.

Sox hats are everywhere but not because these people are fans. They're just, frankly, one of the coolest looking hats/jerseys around. I read somewhere recently that the Sox merchandise is only behind the Yanks on a worldwide scale for popularity. Because it looks great, and black and white is always gonna go with what you're wearing. I see rappers all the time walking around wearing Sox gear, particularly the hats--and none of them are from Chicago, natch.

You know what's a really clinical, brutal way to see a game like this? Like I did today, on MLB live. You'd watch the Sox batter come up, watch the pitches scroll by on the bottom of the screen, watch the out get registered. Over and over and over again. Like a bad movie.

BTW I just noticed that it is one month to the day since opening day.