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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.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 07:55 PM) If we had a good double play combo, we'd probably have 5-6 more wins this year. It's amazing how the most routine double plays aren't turned by the Sox. Yes.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 07:51 PM) And I'm going to ban every single person who comes in here and says anything about guaranteed sweeps and pointlessly watching. If you don't want to watch, don't f***ing watch. They play the game for a reason. Well, I think you need to direct your message to the team, because they're the guys that behave like they've lost before they even start the game.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 07:51 PM) drama in the dugout..aj pissed at alexei ozzie throwing stuff LOL at the whole crew. AJ should kind of shut the f*** up, given his s***-ass passed ball that got the ball rolling.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 27, 2009 -> 07:48 PM) Now 12th in AL in defense, 74 errors. 32 more errors than the Twins, who are 2nd in AL defense. Yet another reason for KW not to mortgage the future on this deeply flawed team. Konerko should have AT LEAST stopped both those balls. I don't know about the first one. But the second one was right at his feet. Catch that f***er, Paulie.