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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.

Sweet throw to the cut-off man's feet by Jermaine. He's really getting it done all around out there. LOL.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:59 PM) No intensity, especially from the veterans. It's really frustrating to watch. I'm just thankful we didn't mortgage the future for this season. Same as the second half last year and in 2006. (2007=irrelevant.) Same lousy at-bats. Same terrible body language. Same general appearance of old badness.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:55 PM) I've said this a few times, but it's really home run or nothing for the 3-4-5. Konerko might be the worst culprit. I only remember one real positive play by him since the ASB, and that was the 3 run homer off of David Price. Paul was great earlier this year, really making a concerted effort to go up the middle and to right. Loved, loved, loved his approach. Now, when's the last time he's done that? (By the way, if I can see this, the hitting coach recognizes it, right? And, like, he's pulled him aside and told him, right?)

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:54 PM) Oh you will probably see Pods in CF, CQ in LF and Rios in RF... even though Rios is a much better CF than Pods could ever dream of being. That sounds about right.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:50 PM) Dye should get a rest day... swing CQ to RF and Pods to LF and Rios in CF....even though CQ isn't really playing a good LF..... I doubt that'll happen. The White Sox seem resistant to moving Quentin to right.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:49 PM) I can't wait for this lineup to be shaken up permanently, at the end of this year.