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QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 11:15 PM) Nothing but home run cuts. That's the way! Have to get him to get the ball down.

QUOTE (OldSmoky2 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 11:13 PM) Three stretches and a dadgumit for Paulie The man can turn around a fastball. Just not enough on that one.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 11:07 PM) You guys all make good predictions. But remember that AAARRRRRdsma does love to walk people, so there should be one of those in there. Hopefully. Setting up double play number 25. I'd go with AJ on that one.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 11:04 PM) You know Paulie will ground weakly to ss, flip his bat in disgust, and mope on down to 1st base at a snail's pace and get thrown out by 2/3 of the baseline. AJ will fight off 7 pitches that are all balls before grounding out sharply to second base. Q will fly out meekly to center field and scream f***!! at the top of his lungs. You watch a lot of White Sox baseball.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:58 PM) Ted Williams is always a candidate when the game is played on a baseball diamond.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:58 PM) I wonder if Josh Fields still reminds him of Harmon Killebrew? Killebrew as a Royal, about 3 minutes before retirement.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:54 PM) Catfish Hunter runs away with it whenever buehrle starts. With the occasional offshoot, corollary mention of Charlie O. Finley.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:52 PM) Fantastic posts by you lately Thanks. It's a coping mechanism.

So, with the fight between Porcello and Youk, any chance that Baseball Tonight starts with a focus on the Red Sox?

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:48 PM) Farmer said that? My bad, thought it was DJ. DJ is f***ing stupid. But I like him because he's funny. Ah, I don't know. I'm not listening to those guys. I'm monitoring Hawk's nightly mentions of Yaz and Mickey Mantle. It's always a close race.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:45 PM) Listening to the radio and I can't remember the last time I've listened to a game pitched by Miguel Batista where the announcers haven't gone on and on about him being, in this case, "a Renaissance man" who plays music and yadda yadda yadda. I can't wait until this guy is retired. Ditto with Mark Hendrickson and announcers always talking about him being a former basketball player. STFU and start ripping the team. I think Farmer says that because he thinks that HE's a Renaissance man.

2 outs? Man on 1st? Yeah, he's running.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:41 PM) Damn, you could see that coming with all the movement on his pitches down in the zone. Yep. C'mon. Try to go the other way, especially with a big hole over there. Whatever. I could write that every year.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:38 PM) He's also been playing in Toronto his whole career, so I think we should give him a break until we see it for ourselves. True. Canada is a lazy f***ing place.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:34 PM) Seriously!!!!!! What's with the White Sox's inability to hit rookie pitchers!?!?!?!!?!? This is getting old! As Walker would say, look at the back of their baseball cards. I think they say: CANNOT HIT ROOKIE PITCHERS

I didn't know that they'd moved the Metrodome to Seattle.

QUOTE (GordoTheGreat @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:25 PM) Yeah, the dugout. I tell ya, this is one feisty crowd. Good stuff in here tonight.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:18 PM) My dump this afternoon had more of a pulse than this group of dead beats I hope we don't sign another dump off waivers. That might make your dump extra-pouty.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:15 PM) Just keep praying we don't give him some ridiculous contract extension. 1 year, $12,000. Old school, 1964-style. Go for it, KW.

Here's what I'm wondering. Can 2 guys who were great in a World Series -- Podsednik and Dye -- be so mentally fragile as to let the new guy's arrival make them suck even more than they were already sucking? I'm leaning yes.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:12 PM) You have three players in Dye, Thome, and Pods who are all free agents after this year. You'd have to be crazy to think they were going to be excited to see their at bats go down due to Rios coming aboard. Way to swing at ball 4 Alexei! I think we're now officially in a teamwide slump.

QUOTE (GordoTheGreat @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:10 PM) It's impossible to inspire this team, they're like a sack of potatoes. What do you mean "like"?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:08 PM) I said when the rumor about the waiver claim came out that if the Sox got Rios, I really thought the clubhouse morale would get really bad. Let's hope that doesn't happen. You're probably right. And that would probably cement for me why they'd need to cut the chord with some of these guys. Remember last year when Cabrera was the most hated man in the clubhouse -- but the only guy who showed up in Minnesota at the end of the year? Some of these other guys are just too comfortable.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:07 PM) Need to really shake things up. Ozzie rant at an ump. Ozzie spout off to press. Take advantage of Rios' arrival and sit JD for 2 instead of one. Move CQ up in order. Something to defibrillate this team. It's dead emotionally. We'll see Rios and Wise tomorrow. Count on it. (Yes, I'm serious.)

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 10:07 PM) Guys seem to be inspired by the acquisition of Rios.