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QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:15 PM) we have the intelligence level of that beauty pageant contestant girl that said "The Iraq" Classic stuff here.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:13 PM) He threw a glare at Rios and a desperate dive in too. Yeah, no communication between those two after the play. Just a Dye "WTF is your problem, interloper Rios?" look.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:10 PM) It's bad when your team leads the league in errors and has numerous players with absolutely no range. LOL. Not a good combination.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:06 PM) A DH playing RF thinking he is still a fielder. He had a look on his face that said: "That was your fault, Rios."

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:03 PM) You weren’t. Ozzieball was making the argument that batting average was overrated and that walks and homers counted a good deal more I agreed, and essentially said, “Boy, that sounds like Nick Swisher.” You followed that up with, “Nick Swisher sucks.” Yeah, when you said "Cough," I thought that you meant "Swisher disproved that theory." But I'll keep that as my opinion. (And I won't be changing it.)

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:00 PM) .230 for CQ with RISP, and no homers this year. But a lot of super fast swings, awesome swear words and cool shrugged shoulders.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) I think you and the point were heading in the right direction, and then you two just missed each other. I think I was agreeing with you. But maybe not.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:51 PM) coughNickSwishercough. Yeah, sometimes numbers don't tell the whole story. Cuz Swish sucked. Quite often.

Nix swings like a robot version of a baseball player. Sometimes, the ball goes out of the park.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:38 PM) No contending team should lose to a team starting Betancourt and Bloomquist. New law firm: Bettancourt, Bloomquist and Bannister

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:36 PM) Who tags the trail leg? Everyone, when that's the leg below you when you're able to put down the tag. C'mon, Fathom, you know that I think Alexei's a lousy shortstop, but he wasn't at fault there.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:35 PM) LoL. It's been an inning and a half. We got two guys on base in our one at bat. Blaming a player cuz he couldn't get the tag down fast enough is a joke. Seriously, the ball bounced up waist-high. He did fine with the tag; Teahen just beat it.

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.