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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 02:00 PM) Just imagine if we did this in school. "Well little Johhny, you actually failed this class but since everyone else passed it's not fair for you to fail so I'll pass you too." Its called social promotion and it happens all of the time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) And it leads to lots of bloops towards RF. Not to mention when you are as strong as TCQ, homers to RCF.

QUOTE (pktmotion @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 01:31 PM) Won't matter who our LOOGY is unless Ozzie uses him correctly. Williams problem has been location, he walks a ton of batters. But even then if you notice his splits against LH hitting(which is the only hitting he should face) he has a serviceable OPP AVG of .250. It isn't going to blow your socks off, but it should get the job done for a LOOGY, if all he faces is LHers. Williams, however, has faced RHers 10 times more than he has faced LHers. (Righties are hitting a blistering .432 against him). It won't matter if Threets gets called up the mistake is in coaching, you help your pitchers if they can't locate pitches and most importantly, a good manager understands a player's strengths/weaknesses and plays to their strengths. It's dumbfounding how simple fundamental things escape our coaching staff. I pray for accountability. How many of those lefties has he walked?

It is Hoyts coke habit and you know it.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) Not when Vizquel and Nix are the other options. Vizquel can at least field the position, and is going to give you the same sort of offensive numbers that Teahen has to this point anyway.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 12:41 PM) So, then my question in reply would be...if you're in charge of a league where one or two teams have been running rampant and blowing everyone out and running up the score, to the point that half the players on your team don't want to even show up because it's no fun to face off against the team that has Bryce Harper at catcher, what do you do? Do you sit by and let half the league's players quit because no one wants to put up with that any more and no one is having any fun, or do you try to come up with a rule that makes things more workable? Yes, reinforce the lessons that you shouldn't work as hard as you can, and that someone else will just give it to you. Quit, because you get more out of it than hard work.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) What does this really teach the winners? We always tell kids to do their best and try their hardest. But if they are too good, then what do we tell them? Still try but don't do your best? Its a great lesson for modern society. Don't succeed too much, or someone will say you don't deserve it, and you should be forced to give it to someone else.

Evidently this thread title needs to be changed to include left wing fanatics...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 08:13 AM) I don't have problems with some of the really young teams de-emphasizing winning, but this is just stupid. At the 4 to 5 year old end it works because most of the kids don't even know how to play the game. After that, it is worthless.

QUOTE (greasywheels121 @ May 31, 2010 -> 06:53 PM) Holy f***. Now this should be a caption thread if I have ever seen one.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 11:30 PM) How sad is it that the BEST player we can bring up is Andy Gonzalez ummmmm I mean Brent Lilibridge?!?!??!?!?!? Truly a sad time to be a Sox fan... Again, that isn't really the truth. All they did was replace an IF.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 10:36 PM) Cowley really went out on a limb with that. The guy seems miserable covering the Sox. He mocks them whenever he can. Maybe he should quit. All he did was steal Jay Mariotti's schtick. He was a much better writer back in the Southtown days when at least acted intelligent.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:16 PM) Link He'd be dumber than Derrick Rose if he said anything else.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) From Mark Gonzales: It must have been a lot more serious than they were letting on orginally.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 04:07 PM) I'm not sure where you keep getting this defense thing. Other than Teahen, the defense has looked average or better to me. Alexei is his usual self, making spectacular plays and messing up easy ones. Beckham has been fine defensively. Konerko is above average, so are Rios and Pierre, thus far. Quentin not so good, I guess you can add him to the below average. Jones and Kotsay have been fine when playing. Vizquel is Vizquel. Overall, that's an average defense, maybe a little better than average if you take Teahen out of the equation. Konerko is great at digging throws and awful at getting to a ball hit more than a step away. I don't know that I would call him above average or not. He has looked a lot better this year because he has spent all year bailing out guys like Teahen, Alexei, and Gordo from some bad throws. Get some more average throws, and that is taken away as well.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) I don't feel like the opposition has taken too much advantage of Pierre's arm so far. Honestly, they seem to take advantage of Quentin's lack of ability to charge the ball and get off a good throw a lot more than they do Pierre. As Balta said, Pierre's been excellent in LF compared to what we've had in the past with Quentin, Pods, and C. Lee. I'm not saying Juan hasn't been an improvement, but I still don't see him as a plus defender.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) Juan Pierre has been awesome in LF, aside from a couple misplayed balls early in the year he's gotten to basically everything out there. Lots of that is canceled out by giving up extra bases with a complete lack of an arm IMO.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:44 PM) Teahen has given up more than the average, but other guys are giving up less than the average so the weighted hole is only 4.6 above average. The only guy who has been an above average defender by any reasonable amount has been Rios. There is no way Rios makes up for Teahen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:14 PM) Right now, UZR has us slightly below average on fielding, giving away 4.6 runs more than the average number. Teahen himself has given away more than that. Things like that are exactly why I can't get behind fielding stats as some sort of reality.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) Actually if it wasn't for Glass Stegall repeal, AIG and LEH don't ever happen either, right? Or any kind of regulatory effort what so ever...

QUOTE (elgonzo4sox @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) I am to blame - but having Vizquel's glove behind Buehrle is a good thing, given that Buehrle is only as good as the defense behind him, since he puts so many balls in play. Ozzie is following my suggestions (which I emailed to him 2 weeks ago) for getting Buehrle's season back on track: 1. Separate Danks and Buehrle in the rotation, so that teams don't see Buehrle Jr. (Danks) followed by the softer-throwing Buehrle Sr. (this was accomplished after the Detroit rainout). 2. Always bring in Santos (flame throwing righty) after Buehrle (a soft throwing lefty) leaves the game (this happened in Buehrle's last win vs. the Marlins). 3. Put the best defensive lineup on the field when Buehrle pitches, which means Vizquel starts in the infield. If our defense does not give any extra outs tonight, Buehrle will be fine and we'll win. A nice 4-1 or 5-2 win in 2 hours 10 minutes is my prediction. Burls goes 7, Santos gets the 8th, and Putz closes. I can't argue with that. I can't tell you how many runs we have given away this year, that didn't show up as errors.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) Huh? I'm glad I am not alone there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) There is zero chance any leader would have left his navy exposed in that way if he had an inkling of a time or a place.. Not the entire fleet. They knew that a Japanese first strike was a strong possibility. But that was why the fleet moved to Pearl; to respond to a potential first strike Look at the incidents FDR used to try to get us into the war before this. Each one was bigger and bigger, and it still wasn't enough to get the US in. He knew it would literally take an act of war to get us in, which is exactly what he wanted. Read his correspondence with Churchill for the years before the act and it really reinforces it. FDRs own words make me think he knew more than anything else does. Don't forget one of his big plans also had gotten out the weak before and undermined a lot of the support he was trying to build. If he pulled out part of the fleet at the perfect time, it would have made any allegations that he knew about this ahead of time a lot more tacky.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:17 AM) Didn't Jose Canseco nearly destroy his arm by throwing an inning as a relief pitcher? He had to have surgery after it IIRC.