Dick Allen

Ohman is Robin's white flag.

When Brian Bruney is being pined for, it may be time for KW to make a few phone calls.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 10:04 PM) I would like to give our team a thumbs down for tonight but applaud Rios. If he played like this every year, he'd be a rather likeable player. He's hitting to all fields, doing great. My question to you is ... why does he stink some seasons? I mean really suck? You would think a guy with consistent at bats who never gets hurt like Rios would be more consistent. I mean he was a piece of dung last year and now he's fine. WTF? I think he goes through stretches where he really wants to play, and some where he doesn't. I think he's in a stretch where he looks forward to playing right now, hopefully it lasts for a while. The scouting report when he was claimed was he didn't feel like playing all the time.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 10:03 PM) Hector being Hector. What I don't understand is some thing he'd be a better starter. I think he'd be near 100 pitches by the 4th or 5th inning.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 10:01 PM) Hide your wives, Brett Myers is getting loose He'd be very hard to root for if he played for the Sox.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:58 PM) Kind of sad to see us with 12 hits to the Astros 5 yet we trail 5-3. Floyd and the home run ball haunt us again The funny thing was his curveball was HOF material tonight. They had no chance against it. The fastball was hit hard, although not very often.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:54 PM) My comment had nothing to do with Danks and I never said it did. Then your timing was coincidental. You made the comment right after Danks got a broken bat hit.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) What the f*** has Fukedome done? Wow WTF! What has Jordan Danks done?

This is the biggest strike zone I can remember.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:46 PM) Anyone else think Fukedome has played his last game with the Sox? Because of a broken bat single?

I was at the game Saturday right behind the Seattle dugout when Prior came in and struck someone out. The catcher threw the ball to the guy next to me. It turned out it was Prior's first career K, so they needed the ball back. They gave him a ball and a bat.

Floyd's curveball was pretty awesome tonight. The rest, not so much.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:37 PM) They miss Victor Martinez alot IMO! Definitely. They added Prince, and a lot of people assumed they were a lock to win 100, but Martinez was huge last year, and a lot of things went right for them. It reminds me of the 1984 Sox, because the Sox rolled over everyone in 83 and added Tom Seaver the next season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) Tigers lose on a bunt by the Reds Are the Tigers the 1984 White Sox?

Paulie's bald spot hasn't really expanded much the last few years.

Paulie's bald spot hasn't really expanded much the last few years.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:22 PM) Practice doesn't matter with space cadets. You think ODawg doesn't know not to count outs or Alexei doesn't know a guy is going to try and run home on that? some of these guys are just freaking stupid baseball players. I agree with this. Baseball IQ is something that isn't really mentioned very much. I think most people assume major leaguers have high baseball IQs. Some really do not.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) I am going to hold Robin accountable here. If that play is practiced the amount it should be, it is NEVER messed up in that way. C'mon. Ramirez has been a SS how many years of his life? If he doesn't understand what is going on with a play that is commonly used in little league, its pretty hard to blame the manager. BTW, the Sox have been much better this season in rundowns, so they practiced plenty.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 09:16 PM) I know you posted this earlier, but the production from the left side of the infield this season has been astonishingly poor. Since you're not going to permanently replace Alexei, you better be looking for a replacement at 3b. 1 homer all year. That's pretty hard to believe. If someone showed you the stats of the Sox SS and 3B up to this point of the season, I doubt any of us would be thinking they would be anywhere near contending.

Alexei screws up again. He's a talented guy, but he makes some boneheaded decisions on the baseball field.

Its really time Ramirez gets with the program. He'll probably snap out of this sometime soon, but he needs to do something different preparing for future seasons. The first third of the season does count in the standings.

Get your head out of your ass Anorexei.

Doesn't look like Gavin has much of a chance at his 20 win goal he set during Spring Training.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 05:12 PM) That was because of the Chris Sale situation. And we wouldn't be in first place or close to it without him. We'd be in full rebuild mode still. They are 4-1 in the games Sale has started since then. 2 wins against LAA and Min they scored 6 runs and another against Seattle they scored 4 , so I would say there's a decent chance they win those. The other against TB was a 2-1 game, so I'm pretty sure, even if you call the Seattle game a loss, they would still be close to first. Try to be more accurate instead of dramatic, you know, pretty much the same thing for which you are ripping McNeil.

Wandy should be done for the night. The Sox are getting a break here.