Soxplosion

Wee, they scored 850 runs last year. Well I dont give a crap about last year because this is this year. Stop living in the past!

Thats what they would say! "Noyton! Ya da greatest!" From some movie or something...

Hey, JB went 2-4 with an RBI and a run. If it aint broken, dont fix it!

I remember that, that was cool. I thought he was OK, but he wasnt that great, as evidenced by him hitting .180 with the Rockies...

I still dont like him but Ill give him credit for being very clutch...

Run, run, run, run, run! Always running from the truth! This team sucks. Just face reality and it wont hurt as much when theyre still here two months from now. Two months from now, it aint gonna bother me that were still under .500 because Im expecting such. Two months from now, everybody whos running from the truth thinking were still in the race is gonna jump of a building or something. We lost two straight to the Tigers. Who in their right mind thinks this team has any chance? In 2001, we were 20-30 after May. The offense had struggled (scoring only 215 runs, or approximately 4.3 a game) and the pitching had struggled as well(allowing 264 runs, or approximately 5.28 a game). We then turned it around and played .560 ball the rest of the year, going 63-49. Do the first two months of this year appear to look very much like the first two months of 2001? If I had to give you an answer....I'd probably say yes. I'd actually prefer to see what is going to happen in the next 4 months then to say that we'll suck because we're playing like s*** now. This team, right now, looks like s*** and they are playing like s***. If someone disagreed....they should be slapped. Then again....what happens today isn't necessarily going to happen tomorrow, let alone a month or two from now. You think this team will just go into the Cubs series with no heart whatsoever? Highly f***ing doubtful. That team had talent. Sure buddy, when one thinks of "talent"...Clayton, Mark Johnson, Rowand, Baldwin, Parque, Howry, Julio Ramirez, Ginter, Harold Baines, Singeleton, Sean Lowe, Embree...is what immediately springs to mind. Got any more of that cutting-edge analysis? Oh yeah, just forget to leave out Maggs, Lee, Thomas, Konerko, Sirotka, Foulke, Eldred and just mention the crappy players. Also, Baldwin and Singleton werent bad players at all... Listen, baby jerk, I am gonna say this once: --Siro was done in 2001 (kinda rhymes, no?) --Thomas did diddle squat before going down --Valentin was on DL had recurring hamsting prob and could barely walk for half a season. --Baldwin was no All-Star in 2001. --Singleton had like 45 RBI and 315 OBP...and got CS as many times as he SB (horrible %) --Wunsht/Barcelo/Rauch were terrible and went down very fast. --Howry and Embree were terrible. --Clayton was worse. --Kip Wells was simply awful in the second half, very mediocre overall. --Glover was bad, way worse than he is now. --Osuna/Wright/Ginter/Eldred/Parque/Biddle were ALL unbelievably bad. --Magglio had a pretty mediocre year for an all-star...he was no Delgado --I trust Mark Johnson/Josh Paul are known commodities...wink-wink --Dvid Wells had a medicore season and went down as well. --Harold f***in' Baines...not pretty (Lee/Konerko/Buerhle are constants so they don't count, brother) --Foulke was the only thing that was significanly better then. Durham and DJ are a wash and so are Crede/Perry when you consider defense, range and arm especially. How can you say that team was obviously more talented is beyond me, especially considering 2001 had a tougher division and more health problems. Check that, considering that between you and bmr there is pussy hair worth of baseball knowledge, I am not surprised one bit. I honestly think you don't know (or don't care) the difference between "severe underachiving" and "lack of talent" Oops. I was thinking of the 2000 team. Forget I ever said anything...

WE have Frank Thomas FT blows.......... I usually agree with you bmr, but youre wrong here. Frank is the freakin man!

What word would you use? OK, I dont think you can call a guy hero because he gets paid to play a game, but Frank is definitely something special...

Those are good points too, but JR invoked that stupid diminished skills clause this offseason so I dont think he can be trusted...

Awesome points clujer. And after all that hes done, how can you just spit in his face and tell him to leave? I think such heros need a bit more respect...

I think just Double Play K sounds better. Rhymes, and it rolls off the tongue...

Because I stick with this team thru the highs and lows. But unlike others here, who take this naive aproach that all is good and we cant lose, I dont hesitate to criticize those who need and deserve to be criticized...

Run, run, run, run, run! Always running from the truth! This team sucks. Just face reality and it wont hurt as much when theyre still here two months from now. Two months from now, it aint gonna bother me that were still under .500 because Im expecting such. Two months from now, everybody whos running from the truth thinking were still in the race is gonna jump of a building or something. We lost two straight to the Tigers. Who in their right mind thinks this team has any chance? In 2001, we were 20-30 after May. The offense had struggled (scoring only 215 runs, or approximately 4.3 a game) and the pitching had struggled as well(allowing 264 runs, or approximately 5.28 a game). We then turned it around and played .560 ball the rest of the year, going 63-49. Do the first two months of this year appear to look very much like the first two months of 2001? If I had to give you an answer....I'd probably say yes. I'd actually prefer to see what is going to happen in the next 4 months then to say that we'll suck because we're playing like s*** now. This team, right now, looks like s*** and they are playing like s***. If someone disagreed....they should be slapped. Then again....what happens today isn't necessarily going to happen tomorrow, let alone a month or two from now. You think this team will just go into the Cubs series with no heart whatsoever? Highly f***ing doubtful. And howd they finish in 2001? With 83 wins and 79 losses? No, that is unacceptable... Point taken. That team also had worse starting pitching and they played in a tougher division. We finish this month .500...at about 25-25....and play .560 baseball...we end up with 93-95 wins. That could very easily be enough to win the division. Trust me....I'm as tired of underachieving as anyone. But I'm not ready to give up on the season after 8 or 9 weeks. Anyone remember 1995, when the M's were 13 back in August and won the division? That probably won't happen for another 25-50 years or so.....if ever....but it clearly shows that stranger things have happened before. If a team that came back from 13 games down in the division race with about 10 weeks left can get into the playoffs, why can't a team that is 5 or 6 games back in late May? Saying we should sell off the team is dumb. If this year, we do disappoint....Colon, Gordon, Thomas, Valentin, Daubach, and possibly Lee, will all be gone(as well as Rios, White, and Alomar)....and no one is counting out that anyone else could be traded. If come the end of July, this team is 10 games out....a firesale will happen. Then and only then will the season really be over. Alright, point taken there as well. But didnt we expect that this team would be easy favorites for the division? Whered those hopes go? I didnt expect a walk in the park but I didnt expect this either and I dont think anybody did. And I really dont want a firesale. Knowing how Kw hates frank, Frank will be gone for sure and I dont want that to happen. Ugh, I hate even thinking about that...

Run, run, run, run, run! Always running from the truth! This team sucks. Just face reality and it wont hurt as much when theyre still here two months from now. Two months from now, it aint gonna bother me that were still under .500 because Im expecting such. Two months from now, everybody whos running from the truth thinking were still in the race is gonna jump of a building or something. We lost two straight to the Tigers. Who in their right mind thinks this team has any chance? In 2001, we were 20-30 after May. The offense had struggled (scoring only 215 runs, or approximately 4.3 a game) and the pitching had struggled as well(allowing 264 runs, or approximately 5.28 a game). We then turned it around and played .560 ball the rest of the year, going 63-49. Do the first two months of this year appear to look very much like the first two months of 2001? If I had to give you an answer....I'd probably say yes. I'd actually prefer to see what is going to happen in the next 4 months then to say that we'll suck because we're playing like s*** now. This team, right now, looks like s*** and they are playing like s***. If someone disagreed....they should be slapped. Then again....what happens today isn't necessarily going to happen tomorrow, let alone a month or two from now. You think this team will just go into the Cubs series with no heart whatsoever? Highly f***ing doubtful. That team had talent. Sure buddy, when one thinks of "talent"...Clayton, Mark Johnson, Rowand, Baldwin, Parque, Howry, Julio Ramirez, Ginter, Harold Baines, Singeleton, Sean Lowe, Embree...is what immediately springs to mind. Got any more of that cutting-edge analysis? Oh yeah, just forget to leave out Maggs, Lee, Thomas, Konerko, Sirotka, Foulke, Eldred and just mention the crappy players. Also, Baldwin and Singleton werent bad players at all...

For some odd reason, unbeknownst to me, everybody here has their lips secured quite tightly on Vals rear. Yet everyone hates Thomas, who, if anybody really cares, leads this franchise alltime in rbis, homeruns, walks and many other offensive categories. But theyd all rather crowd around a guy whos hitting .226...

Show me where he was pointing fingers. I want to see this Last year. He can point fingers in the clubhouse, thats fine. In fact I support it. But hes doing two things wrong. Hes hitting .226 (maybe he should start pointing fingers at himself). Lead by example, I just cant say that enough. And he went to the media. The media always makes things seem worse than it really is and it exposes our problems to everyone. Jose just needs to shut up and make sure he himself plays to his full potential...

Just if we fail, Im totally prepared. But you wont be and its gonna hurt when you finally realize the teams not that good...

I respect him for staying here for less money than could have been had in Baltimore. I respect him for always trying his best. But hes hitting .226. In my mind, where leaders lead by example, he aint a leader. So until he gets that BA up, he better stop pointing fingers...

Who is this Jeremy Reed guy? He looks good. But dont get too excited, hes only at single A...

ROTLMMFAO!

This game could be like Abbots game in 2000 but this game was against the Tigers (well actually, 2000 was against the Twins and they still sucked back then) so Id like to see us beat some real teams before we make comclusions. Still, we lost 2 of 3 to the Tigers which is not good at all...

Carlos Lee is clutch. But Joe Crede has done some amazing clutch things. The game tying and game winning homeruns (the latter a GS nonetheless) last year at Toronto (that was truly awesome) and I believe he had a game winning single later in the season. But Lee is also very clutch, maybe moreso than Crede. A walkoff gamewinning grand slam against the Cubs a couple years back (heck, doing that against the Cubs makes him the man in my book), the game against Toronto (wasnt walkoff but it was gamewinning). Either way, both are very clutch...

I heard it was hilarious, Ill probably see it sometime soon...

You know, I think Im putting the whole team on my permanent blacklist. I think it helps em. They all stink! And really, I dont like Crede but Ill admit hes the most clutch player Ive seen on this team in a long long time...

Whoa, I saw this and thought he won it for this week and I was thinking "how the heck did he win it?"