Dick Allen

If they don't walk Paulie here, Gardenhire is ridiculous.

3 runs won't be enough to win this game. Blackburn really sucks. Even the Sox are going to get to him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) DeAza with another hit. Thank goodness they waited four months to bench Rios. If you think you can make out a better line up than Dunn hitting 4th and Rios 5th against a LHP, you're an idiot. Just ask Ozzie. He makes the best line ups. He knows more than everybody.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 07:34 PM) If you saw the 2 teams, which would you suggest had the better record? Minnesota owns the Sox, we all know that, but part of the reason is the Sox attitude towards them all throughout the organization. Spend more time working on kicking their ass than you do kissing their ass and the results may be different. Apparently the other teams in the league don't have much problem against them.

Buehrle has always had problems pitching around errors.

Listening to Hawk and Stone, it would shock you to know the Twins are 9 games under .500.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) Is there any other manager in baseball who routinely calls the fans idiots? Ozzie thinks I'm an idiot because I don't think Dunn should be batting 4th. I think its fair. I think he's an idiot for continuing to put him either 3rd or 4th. When the season is over, I'll even let Greg evaluate who was more correct, making the other the bigger idiot.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 09:01 PM) Who is Hawk talking to? Hawk lives about an hour and a half or two hours away from the park. This conversion is probably one he has with him self after every home game.

Off the glove of Texiera, but Nova is right where he should be, hey Hawk you forgot to add, and AJ is jogging down the line.

They should just tell Sox fans to stick it up their ass and have Rios loaf around CF the next few years and hit 3rd and keep Dunn in the clean up hole. Maybe they can bring back Tom Seaver to pitch opening day next year.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:49 PM) Ask yourself the question: would I write this if the team was winning? If your letter is out of frustration tear it up. It doesn't do anyone any good including yourself. Now if you have made several copies before settling on this letter then do what you feel you have to do. I am a frustarted Sox fan also, but I don;t have a problem with Ozzie. I have a problem though with non-performing ball players. But, relaistically is there anything that can be done with them until after the season? Yes. Some can be benched, others can be moved lower in the line up. If you want to win you do what you have to do. ARod was struggling for the Yankees during the WS one year. Torre moved him to the 8 hole. Why does Dunn continue to bat 3rd or 4th if the Sox are truly trying to win baseball games? He's one of the worst hitters in baseball. Move him down, if he snaps out of it, then move him back.

As I stated in the gamethread, since the season is now 2/3 over, the fact that a guy with a .165 average who has a good shot at establishing a new MLB record for strikeouts in a season is STILL penciled in the clean up spot makes me wonder when winning will become priority number one again. And you are right, as a ticketholder for 22 seasons, this is the most frustrating of them all. I will not be renewing when in the past it was automatic. Failure to make changes whether just being stubborn or stupid is the final straw for me.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:04 PM) I pretty much live in bucktown on the weekends, I hope I never run into him. Whether you like him as a manager or not, you would have to admit drinking with Ozzie would probably be a riot.

I'm wondering if its considered derrogatory for Venezuelans to call someone Mexican. Ozzie once called himself a crazy Mexican, and now Jr. implies people are tough on his dad by calling him Mexican. It would be ironic if they were the ones using racial slurs. I don't have any idea. I will say, people saying they want Ozzie or his family dead even if joking is absolutely crossing the line as is anything ethnic or racial. To me, if you were going out to suck back some beers, Ozzie would be my #1 choice if I could choose anyone in the White Sox organization. I just think his time making out the line up card should be ova.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 04:27 PM) This is probably the first season in a long time I go into every game expecting us to lose. I wonder if I am alone in this feeling. Even with the great Ozzie Guillen pushing all the buttons?

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:14 PM) 1. Pierre, LF 2. Ramirez, SS 3. Konerko, DH 4. Dunn, 1B 5. Quentin, RF 6. Pierzynski, C 7. Beckham, 2B 8. De Aza, CF 9. Morel, 3B As long as Dunn is batting clean up, I take that as a sign White Sox wins aren't as important to the White Sox as they are to me.

The only person I have ever seen refer to Ozzie as Mexican was Ozzie himself.

CQ puts in on the board and the Sox have scored 6. Fire Don Cooper. Walker is doing a hell of a job tonight.

Don't stop now boys. Another run and the deficit is back to single digits.

QUOTE (Paulie4Pres @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) A guy that defensive and that quick to throw insults at anyone that questions him, obviously cares what people think about him. I agree. Defensive was the word I was trying to think of.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:43 PM) I was being sarcastic, that was I brought up once and was blasted to death here, cause the stats and all that crap. That's my gripe with Lexi, the things that cost games that DON'T come in the stat book The bottom line is he should win the GG. He has the ability. He just needs to worry about making plays not anything else.

QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:39 PM) He doesnt care about alot of things does he He's all talk. He cares about being fired. If he does get fired, he won't go quietly, and he's very concerned with what others have to say about him.

74,074.07 That's how much Alex Rios makes per game. Does it make anyone feel underpaid?

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:39 PM) Hey he sould have won the gold glove.......... Perhaps, but he makes too many dumb plays that it cost him one last year. He has no chance this year.

QUOTE (Paulie4Pres @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 08:34 PM) Dunn gets a curve right over the middle of the plate, and barely hits it out of the infield? I thought he had power? He put the ball in play both ABs tonight. Yet another Festivus miracle.