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Facing elimination with 2-run deficits in two consecutive innings... and they come back both times. God, I love baseball.

QUOTE (Wedge @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 01:52 PM) Basically, this was a classic PR move by Williams. -Fanbase wanted LaRussa, Francona, Martinez, or Alomar. -Presumably, the White Sox could not deliver on those options for whatever reason. -White Sox brass circles in on Ventura, who is less popular than the other four options. -Realizing backlash, White Sox brass highlights another, even less popular option (Konerko as player-manager) as the other alternative considered. Fanbase is at least glad THAT didn't happen. Classic married-guy strategy... give your wife something to complain about so she doesn't come up with something worse to complain about... You can't stop the complaining, but you can control the topic.

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Oct 9, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) What young players have come in and performed well? This sounds more like they want to go with someone on the cheap and bring up an organizational guy. I think he's just looking for a polite way to say Frank is not a candidate.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 01:58 PM) Whoever Cowley talked to felt that was the case. He said none of the Guillen's were his sources. I'm guessing some of them were the departed coaches. I'd like to know who his source is in the front office. Tyler Durden

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Coop calls Cowley a liar, but Coop did go to Williams for a contract extension. Because.... the GM (not the manager) is the person who is responsible for negotiating contracts?

Joe Cowley - the patron saint of one-sided truth

How long til JR says.... "why are we looking outside for a bench coach when we have Buddy Bell?"

I don't think Ventura's lack of managerial experience tells us anything about how he'll respond in key situations. Put a good experienced bench coach with him and I think Ventura's lack of experience will be a virtual non-issue.

Was a fun baseball game to watch IMO. I didn't care which team won and I could still feel the tension. How many times did it seem that one pitch could turn the whole game around? Great theater.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 10:41 PM) So now Joey is coming to the rescue to save face for Guillen. So Cooper is a bad guy for asking for an extension, and telling Kenny about the circus act going on in the dugout? Go f*** yourself Joe Amazingly weak and whiny column by Cowley. Not even blogger quality. Would be thrilled to see him take his talents to South Beach... and bring his fictional 'sources' with him.

I think Rios is tradeable if the Sox eat $20M of his remaining contract. Should they do this? Absolutely. They'd save about $5M per year off of what they owe now... which would almost pay Quentin's salary. Then, if I'm the new manager, I'd move Quentin back to left to minimize his defensive limitations... put DeAza in center and Viciedo in right. Put me in charge damnit! I'll get it done!! lol

Not sure I understand all the whining about Ozzie quitting two days before the end of a lost season. Anybody who has a one year contract and unsure future on one hand... and a multi-year guaranteed job offer dangled in front of them on the other... is going to discuss it with their current boss. You don't miss out on an opportunity like that. What's the old adage? The best time to look for a new job is when you have a job. Ozzie does it and he's a scumbag who quit on his team. GMAFB. Anyone who says they wouldn't do the same thing given the same circumstances is lying.

The meltdown on Boston fan boards should be amazing.

Well... that didn't take long.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 28, 2011 -> 09:57 AM) I'd much rather have Martinez. Sandy seems like a quite version of Ozzie, a manager that goes with his gut. I want someone who uses statistics to make better decisions. You don't get promoted in the Cleveland system unless you're onboard with a sabermetric approach.

I wonder how excited Javy Vazquez is to be managed by Ozzie again. lol

Morel had a TOTAL of 7 walks in the first five months of the season... And has 15 so far in September alone.

In the last 5 years, GF has played in the championship series 3 times and won it twice. I like it.

When I think of 'rebuild' I think of two types: - planned - unplanned Unplanned rebuilds occur when a team sucks for several consecutive years... resulting in a wave of young talent due to draft picks. The only teams I can think of that intentionally go through a planned rebuild are the ones that are forced to financially. And most of these are small-mid market teams that can't afford signing their better players once they hit free-agency, so they have to trade them for potential and start over. Somebody help me out with a couple of examples of larger market teams that have done complete planned rebuilds.

Two media whores fight it out on radio. Fans spend all day talking about it. Sounds like the media whores got exactly what they wanted.

I'm with Dan on this one.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 09:01 AM) Short, Marrero and Martinez are all more likely to end up in David Cook/Maurice Gartrell-Land than a major league roster. Danks is clearly on the outside looking in and he still has more upside than those three, arguably (especially in light of Flowers' surprising offensive resurgence the last two weeks after being given up for dead). I like how Flowers was "given up for dead" because of one year... 2006 - .838 2007 - .866 2008 - .921 2009 - .939 2010 - .768 (.768??? he clearly sucks let's dump him) 2011 - .890 (oops)

That was a laser by Alexei. Great throw.

Hawk is clueless. That throw was too far to the right of the plate for Flowers to catch it and still tag Kendrick at home.

FWIW... Flowers' stat line in Charlotte this season... AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS .261 65 222 36 58 8 0 15 32 111 39 84 2 0 .390 .500 .890 Viciedo's... AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS 293 110 420 53 123 27 0 16 69 198 43 79 2 1 .364 .471 .835