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QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 12:13 AM) This is really Dusty Baker-esc by Guillen. I don't get this at all -- sticking with Pena that is.

You'd think teams would start playing Rios right there. He's hit a lot of balls to that spot lately. Give him credit; his power is gone, but he's had some big 2-out hits the last few weeks.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:50 PM) Why the f*** are we bunting?!?!?! f*** Ozzieball!!! Just maddening. It's like he's not even watching the game we're playing.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:35 PM) Couldn't he somehow injure Kotsay simultaneously? NO, NO, NO -- FOR I AM KOTSAY THE INDESTRUCTIBLE! I SHALL GROUND OUT TO SECOND BASE FOREVER, YOU WEAKLING!

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:30 PM) These 3 runs on 10 hit ballgames would be so much more effective in the National League. We have one home run threat in the lineup tonight...that's inexcusable. We're fine. I mean, Kotsay's hitting in the worst luck.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) Excellent decision to have Jackson pitch in a game that obviously wasn't going to play out. Now we lose 2 today and wipe out our pen for tomorrow. Ozzie Guillen is really becoming the dumbest manager alive. This is 2 games in a row where he's managing for the NEXT game. f*** the next game. Win the game you're in now. Linebrink's ass should have been warmed up before this inning started.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:21 PM) We should have added a DH when we dumped Thome. Nah, it's better to cheap out on Damon so we can wait until the deadline to give up enormous amounts of our non-existent minor league talent for Adam Dunn -- or not.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) How many consecutive base runners before Ozzie gets someone warming in the pen? For chrissakes, maybe Ozzie should start managing the game he's in right now, instead of the next one. That's what lost the first game. Get a goddamned new pitcher in there.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 10:07 PM) Its been a very busy summer, so I have been on here from time to time but not as much. AJ is Hawks boy. He has known him for a long time and Hawk thinks he is probably the smartest player on the planet. Yes, every Hawk story about AJ is peppered with fun references to Florida high school. Hawk is one weird guy.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:58 PM) And the curse of the Vazquez trade struck tonight as Lillybridge decided to slow down on the Quentin double. And the Curse of Jenks struck tonight as he pitched in the game.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:54 PM) Hawk is Ron Santo with a better 100 yard dash time. 1.) The minute the ball goes into the air you are getting a stretch out of the Hawk. Like he is calling to the four corners of the earth to help him will the ball over the fence. 2.) He has started openly making comments for the other team to have a misplay. This is just stupid. This is no different that watching the uuber mom at the 12 year old Allstar game calling for some kid to drop the popup so that her kid can have some 10 seconds of glory. 3.) He needs to locate and then harp on some mythical reason that the sox lost. All umpires are openly trying to cause the sox to fail, the weather, a bounce, luck, the mascot farting. Anything but the game on the field and the players involved. 4.) Blame can never be placed on any person in a position of power with the sox. He will first locate whatever rookie he can, because its obviously their fault. Then latin players culminating to the last to be blamed AJ. His golden child. Then its back other mythical reasons that the play wasnt made. You get a robot, and a few MP3s of the Hawk and I can write a logic loop around it and you won't know that he wasnt there. Haven't been on the board with you in awhile SSI71; you're still in great form, I see. Classic stuff. Regarding Hawk and AJ, in the brief parts of the game that I watched tonight, I did hear Hawk say that AJ doesn't know how good a hitter he can be. Hmm. AJ's 32 now. If he hasn't gotten it by now, I'm not sure when this Hawk-inspired bolt of lightning is going to strike.

Maybe Bobby will start Game 2.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:51 PM) Man Gregg will be crying because you are talking about how fat Bobby is instead of how "Great" he is..... Such a fine line between great and fat . . .

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) I think he ate his wife, which would explain the medical leave. Cruel -- but I laughed. Not sure what that means -- about you or me.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) Don't forget... "Don't stop now boys" You will have to be careful to not get alcohol poisoning... Yes, Hawk is starting to say this when a Sox hitter gets to a full count.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) It's all part of the Venezuelan brotherhood they share. You wouldn't understand.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:41 PM) Ozzie was desperately trying to save the bullpen. Staffing game 2. Someone is going to have to explain to me how Jackson can't go at all tonight after a 7 pitch outing? No, I know that -- but there's really no damn difference between running Santos out there with 2 out in the 7th or to start the 8th -- so might as well get Garcia OUT OF THERE!

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:39 PM) they really gonna go ahead and start game 2 at 10:10pm CDT? Yeah, but they'll only let it go for about 7 pitches.

First one to tell me why Garcia was allowed to let the tying run come to the plate . . . gets a big 'ol prize!

QUOTE (WinorDie88 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) Nice Pierre finally playing like he should have at the start of this season OBP now over .350.

I like our execution so far. Top-notch. And Juan picks up Gordo. Nice.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) Do we know who is starting the second game yet? Steve Stone. It's why Big Frank is in the booth.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 09:14 PM) This doesn't suprise me a damn bit and i hate it. We're just not built to beat the Twins. I think it has something to do with the Twins having a better team than us. Maybe that wasn't true in other years, but that's certainly the case this year, and -- c'mon guys -- it's not really close. They were better than us last year, and made good offseason acquisitions (Hardy, Hudson and, yes, Thome), so it's not really all that surprising, I guess. It's frustrating, but it's not like this is about much more than that. They ARE BETTER THIS YEAR. (Go around the diamond, even without Morneau, and ask if you'd rather have their guy or our guy). The only quibble I have is with our pitching in these series against them but, hey, the Twins have a good lineup.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 13, 2010 -> 07:30 PM) The August/September offensive swoon is in full effect. Well, I think it's actually the true nature of the White Sox offense that is in full effect. C'mon, look at our s***ty lineup.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 09:08 PM) They swung the bats pretty good the first three games of that series as well, but there's no denying that the Jenks game can be pointed to as the turning point of the season if the Twins win the division. Disagree. The turning point of the season was among the following: (a) the Twins assembling a better lineup than the White Sox in those months traditionally known as "the off-seasoh"; (B) Jake Peavy getting hurt, which meant that a trade of Daniel Hudson was for pitching and not another hitter; and © the White Sox not adding another player to close the gap with the Twins lineup supremacy. At this point, the question -- and the only question -- is the same as it was in March: will the Twins pitching be good enough? Because Minnesota's starting lineup -- WITHOUT Morneau -- is superior to anything the White Sox have rolled out all year. It was that way on April 1st and it hasn't changed at all.