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QUOTE (Baines3 @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 09:46 PM) What in the world do we have to do to win a game in that place. Get rid of our slow and soft "leaders." And fire the manager who's in the tank before we go up there -- and the GM who built a team of guys who can't play fundamental baseball. But, since none of that is going to happen, I guess just keep losing.

Eh. Game 163, jagwads.

Dweezy b****es. Now your designated hitter.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 09:36 PM) sadly, gordon still has a lot to learn when it comes to sucking against the twins "What's it doing?" "It's learning."

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 09:33 PM) Gordon Beckham is the best pure hitter i've seen in a while I haven't been so interested in watching a Sox player take at-bats since Frank Thomas, circa 1993.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 09:03 PM) Anyone who can reference the WOPR deserves a good laugh.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:59 PM) i agree, beckham should be at ss. so...put alexei back at 2b? I'd be fine with it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:58 PM) Interesting story, as Bruce Levine basically said today that AJP isn't the only Sox player who's sick of Alexei being afraid to get down and dirty in the field. Levine's about as useful as a balm bag, but there's probably some validity to this. After all, last spring training when he played the outfield, Alexei was pretty clearly afraid of the wall.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:58 PM) it's like playing tic-tac-toe against the WOPR "Right now, I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would help."

QUOTE (ChiSox420* @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) Yes If reality = bad defense, sure.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:56 PM) Oh, f*** you. Alexei Yep, not a great throw, but Alexei should have had the ball. Again. He's a complete and total liability. End that f***ing experiment now, please. Thanks much.

Sometimes, I'll tell you, it's real hard to like this version of the Sox.

Nice work, Scotty. Again.

Way to challenge him, Jose.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 29, 2009 -> 08:46 PM) Home run or nothing from PK, Dye, and Thome these days. That inning was a microcosm of what this team needs to become versus what it is -- a guy who hits the ball where it's pitched, doesn't try to roll over every pitch versus 2 guys whose default is to try and pull the ball, at almost all times. More of the former, less of the latter, please.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 28, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) What's the book on Kotsay? The Man Traded for Brian Anderson.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 10:56 PM) Walkoff slam for Soriano...yeah, this baseball season is beginning to suck. Ironic he hit that just as the Buehrle thing came up on Letterman. Prototypical Cubs hitting performance -- struggle against good pitchers (you know, the kind you see in the playoffs), beat up on crappy bullpen guys. Meh.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 09:15 PM) Thome, no. Wise, maybe.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 09:14 PM) BTW, has anyone not names Thome hit an opposite field HR this year for us? Who is this Thome guy? Oh, you mean our designated hitter, who doesn't play against lefties, thereby compromising our team with a piece of s*** like Josh Fields?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 09:12 PM) It's absolutely f***ing sickening to see how every hitter we have besides Beckham and Nix tonight have pulled off the ball. Dye might be the worst, as all you have to do is throw it on the outside half and he has no chance. He does look pretty bad.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) Rolling over on outside pitches. Nice. Think Walker has ever uttered the term "go with the pitch"? Or: "watch Gordon Beckham and do that"

I remember when Ramirez used to go to right field. That was last year, when he was a dynamic player.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 09:00 PM) Had the AC on high for that one. LOL at this f***ing s***hole f***hole.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 08:59 PM) Fields/Nix could really learn a thing or two by watching Beckham. Up the middle is how you need to think against lefties like Perkins, not pull, pull, pull. There's where a hitting coach could offer guidance.

I hate that we have to bench our DH to put Josh Fields in the lineup.