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QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 31, 2011 -> 08:48 PM) Bruney looks like a fat Konerko. Not optimal.

Now, there's an ump getting caught up in the play/crowd. Terrible call at 3rd base. Just terrible.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2011 -> 07:26 PM) Ozzie continuing with one of the worst managerial seasons you can hope for. Remember -- if you're fired, you still get your salary! Ozzie's end-game, baby!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2011 -> 07:11 PM) Sox might want to limit Peavy's pitch count this year The game he pitched the shutout -- high pitch count -- stupid. Honestly, between letting Jackson and Peavy go too long in games, overextending Santos or Thornton for no apparent reason, having a 6-man rotation, or continuing to trot out Pena, Guillen and Cooper have had as bad a year handling this staff as I can ever remember. They are flat-out terrible this season.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 11:20 PM) I guess Cutler will need to murder a few dogs, or get some rape charges dropped before he gets the respect of his NFL peers. What a dumb article. Twitter makes it a new world, that's for sure. I think what IS interesting, though, is how quickly people jumped on him. If nothing else, it proves that people in the league, rightly or wrongly, kind of hate his guts. More than that, they don't respect him. I don't know; he's been pretty tough this year, I think. By the way, I guess Clay Matthews is now saying that the Packers made Jay quit. Who knows what to think? But sometimes guys on the field know . . .

Ouch. From Michael Wilbon, not exactly a "meatball" . . . http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/colu...&id=6052280

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 06:39 PM) What did Lovie say in the press conference about Cutler? Did the Lovie two-step: (1) say something vague; and (2) snap at the reporters who try to get behind his coach-speak. He said it was a "team decision," couldn't identify the play when it happened, and then got pissed off at the follow-up questions. Just like when Cutler had the concussion earlier this year. Poorly handled.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) So if Lovie would have waited 2 more plays and Hanie eventually got hurt, he could have put Collins back into the game instead of running a wildcat or having Earl Bennett QB. Seeing what I've seen of Collins, the latter was the better option. Totally. Making Collins the number 2 was negligent. Leaving him in any longer would've been criminal.

QUOTE (Nyx81 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 07:32 PM) If his knee was that badly injured, it was premature of me to be so hard on him for leaving the game. I can't say much else other that "this sucks". Bulls are now front and center. Well, I think it's unclear how bad it was. Lovie didn't do him any favors in his press conference, I'll say that. And Cutler said he hopes it's not a question of surgery. So I don't think it's clear that it WAS bad, either.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) A 3 man rush on 3rd down blows apart the left side of the Bears O-line. Olin Kreutz = Fraud

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 6, 2010 -> 11:01 PM) Being a new field and all, why would the designers of Target field make the benches wooden slats? Thats pretty dumb. The sox have padded, HEATED benches. Wood slats = More better grindy

Now there's some of that Twins lucky bullcrap! Yessir, hit the ball 50 feet off your hands and be safe!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Lol, Hawk just randomly starts making ominous comments about Delmon Young.... out of no where.... "I guess we will have to take care of this Delmon Young situation next year" "We play them 19 times a year. His time will come. His time will come." "We let Torri Hunter slide a few years ago, but Delmon Young won't slide this time. His time will come" umm.....ok Hawk.... I'm not a fan of LaRussa, for a variety of reasons -- and I doubt that he ends up here -- BUT . . . one thing is for sure. If that stuff happened with Delmon Young with LaRussa in the dugout, AN ORDER would have been given to put him on his ass, come hell or high water. And maybe more than once.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) Sox could sign Mientkiewicz. That'd be a big name.

Hawk with a Gene Brabender reference. Haven't heard that name since Ball Four. Well, Hawk hasn't quit!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 10:05 PM) Yep, it's pathetic. If you're going to be terrible, at least play all of the young guys and stop pressing the starting pitchers so much. The difference between quitting and what the Sox are doing is kind of invisible.

DFA

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 09:05 PM) Yeah, the Tigers were chased down both times by the Twins, but I was talking about the 2008 and 2009 seasons specifically. The weird thing is that most Tigers fans consider the White Sox to be their biggest rivalry, and yet the Twins have been the much better club. It's because no one cares about the Twins. Seriously.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 08:44 PM) That Sox righty hitters have one hit to left field all day, and that if you keep trying to pull the ball vs Duensing, you're going to have no chance. The Twins have used the same scouting report on our right-handed hitters for 8 years. If you're left-handed, low and away with off-speed pitches. Our guys have actually had a decent approach this year, but we just can't seem to get it together against Minnesota. I think we press big-time, and that equals trying to pull. Tough to watch.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 09:29 PM) Dude, you should have seen how loose the played in 2005! LOL . . . once Grady Sizemore dropped the ball in Kansas City.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 09:29 PM) The negativity of this fan base is truly inspirational to our players I saw a stadium full of fans on their feet. Maybe the players should perform better.

QUOTE (Nokona @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) Hell of a pitch that. That's what can happen when a right-handed relief pitcher is brought in to do a job. Our manager should take notes.

I like how the team with "nothing to lose" is extremely tight-assed.

Joe Mauer is from that Carlton Fisk school of "I'm badass, and I run the game."

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 09:22 PM) 98 mph for Crain? He must have worked out with Juan Rincon again. Using the Grant Balfour method.