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QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 09:40 PM) I don't know what's worse, this f***ing game or those f***ing lame ass Miller Lite commercials that they play 100 times a night. Oh look... It's SCOTT LINEBRINK!!! SaaWEET! I'll see your Miller Lite TV commercial and raise you one "Mike Rowe for Ford talking about millions of things" radio ad.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) 2010 Whitesox baseball, snatching fail from the jaws of victory. So true.

Crazy. Looking like a team of, ahem, losers. Honestly, our starting pitching has to take some blame here. Danks on Saturday being totally terrible, Buehrle having to throw 115 pitches to get through 6 innings tonight. These guys are supposed to be the strength of the team, the big equalizer with Minnesota. They've been needed with the bullpen struggling -- and generally haven't done real well.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 09:34 PM) Now the battle of wills. A guy who has no control, against a guy who has no patience. Unstoppable force, immovable object. That sort of thing.

That was a good at-bat by Jones.

Bad news: we sorta seem like a team that finds ways to lose. Not a recipe for making it to the playoffs, right?

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) They didn't have the DH when Hitler played. The Designated Hitler?

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 04:41 PM) This team has no balls. Joined with the mediocrities who dot our lineup and pitching staff, and you get 5.5 games out.

Everyone, I have a feeling, and I just have to see if anyone else shares it. Is there something about this team -- the stubborn player evaluation, the lineups, I don't know, something -- that makes this a completely maddening Sox team to follow?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 03:22 PM) And people will link a clip to The Club in which Ozzie confirmed to KW that he thought his plan would work. Both deserve a lot of blame...and I'm sorry, but FINALLY acquiring Manny when the team is possible 5 or 6 games out of first place is just a bunch of crap by KW. Talk about being late to the punch. The time to acquire a hitter was at the trade deadline when this team still had momentum. And this, too.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 03:20 PM) years from now people are going to look back at this season and wonder what the hell Kenny was thinking when he essentially went with the equivalent of a Royals DH platoon and felt he could win with it This.

Teahen's like Thome: throw it up and in within the strike zone, and he's a Mendoza-level guy. Of course, Thome's 10 years older, has light-tower power, and no other blind spots. So, there are a few differences.

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 02:17 PM) They aren't the only guys who left their guy parts at home against the yankees. Thornton flat out choked at YS when he gave up the lead in an AB vs. Jeter It's the uniforms. Nunez. Cervelli. Kearns. We've made them look like Mantle, Maris and DiMaggio.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) Danks, Floyd and Garcia's ERA in August are over 4.5 or 5. Yuck. When the chips have been down this month against good teams (Twins/Yankees), Danks and Floyd have flat-out sucked. Against the Yankees, they have been behind virtually every hitter and a many of those hitters are not good.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 08:33 PM) Come on, Mark. Not exactly coming up big tonight. Trying to be too fine because our offense sucks so much?

Hawk now going into Joe West references . . .

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 09:59 PM) Cause then we can convert Kotsay to a reliever. He'll just throw the ball to the second basemen a lot.

At this point, how can Matt Thornton not be placed on the DL? We are literally out of pitchers.

And Putz is hurt. Good stuff.

LOL, Hawk: "The bullpen has really been struggling."

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 09:54 PM) Are we even allowed to get outs in the 9th anymore? Betancourt won't be coming up this inning, right? Just checking.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) Wow, it's just totally mental for our bullpen right now. If by mental, you mean terrifyingly awful, I agree.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 01:12 AM) Mercy...that was 7 hours of our lives we'll never get back, but at least it doesn't seem like a total waste of time. +1

Survival

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 01:07 AM) The White Sox have proven time and time again the ability to blow leads in the past week+. It's not a matter of can. Putz 2nd inning? Seems like a surefire blown save. Well, technically, it would be a blown win, not save.