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QUOTE (qwerty @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:44 PM) Mildly ridiculous? Ya, right. Putting aside the ruminations about knowing the Tigers lost, it would be nice to figure out why the team tends to slumber after they've taken the first 2 in a series. To me, that's mental, plain and simple. Just not prepared to play, time and again.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:43 PM) Once again Detroit loses and we piss ourselves. This is what overall average, defensively inept and mentally challenged teams tend to do.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:38 PM) I can't beleive we lost that f***ing game. Another sleepwalk on another getaway day. This will sound mildly ridiculous, but it wouldn't surprise me if they heard the Tigers lost, knew they wouldn't lose ground, thought about coming home to play KC, and basically mailed it in, as always. I despise the mental makeup of this team.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:38 PM) The Bobby Jenks thread sure to follow this game will certainly be hilarious But it wouldn't be wrong.

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:37 PM) f*** me I honestly have no idea why Jenks was in the game. And I don't think the White Sox give a crap about losing this game, just like every time they win the first 2 of a series.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:33 PM) Wow, takes the 3-1 pitch right down the plate and then an awful 3-2 swing. A's are fired up now too. A state of being that I have never associated, at any point during this season, with the Chicago White Sox.

That K struck me as fairly inevitable.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:25 PM) or just never start the 8th inning Yeah, that was dumb.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 05:18 PM) Hawk and Huff with the jinx there. The managing the last two innings is so frustrating. Use Thornton!!! No, no, no. Don't you understand that there was only one officially, certified EighthInningGuy, Scott Linebrink? And that when he went bad, everything else is just a matchup to Ozzie?

Cunningham came up in our minor leagues, right?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 04:57 PM) Ugh, Thome's hurt It's part of Ozzie's plan to keep Dewayne on the roster.

Raise your hand if you thought Pods would get to that ball and field it cleanly.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 03:17 PM) Alexei will really hurt us defensively one day. I'd like to say he can improve, but the tallish gallop-ness just doesnt work for me at that position. If he's going to cheat so far to his right, he's always going to be on a dead run to get to 2nd for the turn. That means his footwork has to be a lot better than it is. I just don't see it with him out there.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 15, 2009 -> 02:05 PM) There's a part of me that won't be completely happy until every last member of the 2005 White Sox team has retired. Here's a player many of us wanted gone, hopefully to never return (unless he injected himself with HGH and found a fastball), and now he's back here. Awesome. I think we can be assured of the following: 1. Sweatiness 2. Steady diet of 87 mph fastballs. Maybe 90 if he's reaching back 3. Steady diet of floating breaking balls 4. Guillen leaving him out way too long because Garcia, not him, decides when enough is enough. 5. Opposing base stealers going crazy. But mark me down as a Freddy fan. I hope he has enough arm, to go with that savvy, to get something done out there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 11:53 PM) You can't focus on him though after all the stuff with him this offseason. Maybe they should have focused on Taj Gibson getting his high school diploma from a diploma mill? LOL. Anyway, I guess this is how Dotel looks when he hasn't pitched in many days. Like when he was 28.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 11:49 PM) Whenever Carlos sees fastball, he wants to just clobber it. Like swing completely out of his shoes clobber it. He needs to change that approach. Well, I'll tell you, we've got this hitting coach that's perfect for making that adjustment.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 11:47 PM) Carlos is looking bad again. He looks like a very confused guy. Combine that with his hyperactive nature, and it's not a real good result up there.

Alright, so I have to ask . . . is Paulie having another one good half, one bad half season?

Watching Rios in the outfield, is it wrong to think that it would've been enjoyable to see him and Anderson both out there?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 11:20 PM) Not having a back-up infielder that can hit from the left side really hurts. If we face any tough righties the next two weeks, it's going to be awful watching Nix have to face them. How about Wilson Betem -- uh, forget it.

Not that they really are, but . . . the White Sox look like a team playing to get its manager fired.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 11:17 PM) Whoever, earlier, posted that Hawk was upset with Ramirez... Yep. Moreso now. He appeared to be swing from el ass.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 10:52 PM) Castro with some great at bats. Pods going to have to get this bunt down. Should be interesting. Pods has typically been a decent bunt-for-hit guy and a miserable bunt-for-sacrifice guy.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 10:49 PM) He’s very good with Floyd and Danks. He seems to struggle with The Count and Buehrle. Maybe, he just feels uncomfortable being assertive with veteran pitchers I think he just gives them a longer rope -- thinks they can use their experience to work themselves out of trouble.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 10:45 PM) I still go back to the initial misplay by Q in left. Don't disagree with the other criticism and bashing, but THAT's the one that pisses me off the most. It's either that or the myriad Alexei horses*** plays.