JohnCangelosi

who else would like to see Dayan in this spot? f*** YOU OZZIE

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 03:34 PM) I swear I don't have two accounts on here LOL, have the admins check the IP address of the posts just to be sure. Also, you'll notice half of my comments are completely ignorant so it should be obvious

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 03:30 PM) Balta, the whole point about Morel is that if you go into next year with 4 guys you have to hope have a huge turnaround season from 2011 in Dunn/Rios/Beckham/Morel, then you're setting yourself up for a potentially really bad year. As I mentioned earlier, 3b seems the most obvious position where you can try to upgrade if you don't want to trade Beckham. Morel has been an awful hitter all year. An absolute sally who has had the approach of being down 0-2 to Johan Santana in his prime before he got into the batter's box just about every time he's gone to bat. If next year is a rebuilding year, fine, give him the job and a new hitting coach and I am fine with it. If we're trying to win, sigh

Ya, we had no where to play this guy all year. What a joke.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) Wouldn't it be awesome if, instead of making the Marlins trade us someone, we could just make Ozzie take Rios with him to Florida? LOL, that would be awesome. Doubt we'd see him in the 4 slot though, unless Kenny was hired as the GM in Florida as well

Personally I don't mind Rios flipping out. That is just me. When you're pissed you gotta let it out. The real person to blame is Ozzie, for having him in there in the first place. He is not a major league caliber baseball player right now and De Aza should take each and every start that he had in mind for Rios.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 02:46 PM) Let's find a way to get the tying run to the plate the rest of this game. I have a feeling we will.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) scotgregor Scot Gregor After taking a called thrd strike in 6th, Alex Rios returned to #WhiteSox dugout and connected 3 times on wall by bat rack CSNChi_Beatnik Brett Ballantini Then gets a cup of water, sits down, and chucks it. CSNChi_Beatnik Brett Ballantini Rios goes ham in dugout, swings his bat hard three times, striking something harder than he's hit a ball all year. Can't we just call it a YEAR for Rios Ozzie? Lefty or NOT, I don't give a sh*t.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 02:37 PM) Brent Morel, flat out, is not a major league caliber hitter to me. I'm fine going into next year with Beckham batting 9th, but if he has an even worse, weaker hitter behind him, then your offense is likely to suck. AMEN. Brent Morel, to me, seems like a sissy. Where is the fire with him? Where is the fight? I don't see it. He plays a good D but if he's to stay here he needs to grow a pair at the plate.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Game basically over in Detroit unless KC can somehow score off Valverde. 2 two-out doubles. Detroit deserves the division, plain and simple. And Ozzie/KW basically just gave it to them by not making any changes to the roster or line-up. Nothing more true has ever been said.

If you're Danks, why wouldn't you be looking for a 6 year deal? I think he can get one, something like 6/80 or 6/90. No way do we go there, and he gets dealt in the offseason.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) Jake looks like he hasn't slept in days. I was thinking the same thing. Looks like he had a big night with Charlie Sheen last night, really...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 01:03 AM) I didn't watch the early innings. Did Zach stink? Is he toast? To me he looked very hittable. His fastball won't over power anyone and he had some trouble locating it- plus there isn't much movement on it. Same thing for the changeup. I'd say he has an average curveball from the limited sample size I've seen, so there you go. Also I think he has trouble when pitching in trouble/in the stretch. Way too early to say he's done of course but from a "stuff" standpoint I don't anything that excites me. Really all you can hope for is he can hit his locations because he is aggressive. There's my .02

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 30, 2011 -> 06:30 PM) If Ozzie's going to call the fans "idiots," then we might as well call him one right back. If anyone deserves the chance to play more often based on their improvement and effort/hustle this season, it's Lillbridge. Playing DeAza/Flowers/Viciedo doesn't make up for this stupidity....not only playing him over Brent, but in the clean-up spot so Konerko will see absolutely nothing good to hit. Surely Gardenhire's just telling his staff to work around Paulie and daring Rios to beat them. I'd go around PK everytime I could in that situation.

How many times have we seen Rios AND Dunn pop it up where they had seemingly no clue where the ball was going about 2 seconds after they made contact? Disgusting

LOL, reminds me of the Chuck Norris jokes.

Disappointing no one took him up on the offer as we would've found out (maybe) if Marty is Cowley or not. Oh well the saga continues...

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 29, 2011 -> 07:47 PM) There's nothing wrong with Pierre having a bad end to the season. I just cannot under any circumstance even with Ozzie at the helm them considering resigning him next year. But then again, this is the same management team that thought Kotsay was a great option because he hit one ball hard off Nathan in the metrodome with the game on the line that was a "hang with em"

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 29, 2011 -> 07:40 PM) Flowers with the double off the wall. AJ is now officially backup. We need Flowers' pop. Seems to me that Flowers has shortened his swing a bit since the last time we saw him? An absolutely DISGUSTING AB from Morel there. Pathetic defensive approach yet again.

102 pitches for MB, time to get the pen up?

Putting Rios in the 4 hole is beyond inexcusable, but I'm sure none of the ass kissing media will ask him why he makes such ridiculous decisions

Did anyone else catch the dig against Rios there from Hawk about "being in the game" and "bad jumps"? LOL

Do you think Morel has ever heard the term "turn and burn"? I'd love for him just one time to do that, his AB's are so defensive it's ridiculous.

I've also been impressed with Flowers although he strikes out a lot, 20 of them in 55 AB's. That's approaching Adam Dunn type percentages.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2011 -> 02:00 PM) If the Sox finish .500 and the Tigers finish .530, no one will find Ozzie's departure controversial except you. I will agree with Greg that it's pretty tough to win with 3-4 automatic outs in your lineup, which Ozzie has been stuck with all year. And it's pretty hard to move Dunn from the lineup in June because the guy has had a track record irregardless of the cash invested into him. That said, I'm sick of the comedy show here that is the whitesox management team and if Dave Martinez or Sandy Alomar are as good as advertised, let's get one of them... I won't lose any sleep of losing Ozzie and his in game decision making (not to mention lineups of our worst players batting 4th because he wants to stick it to our GM when we are still theoretically in the race. That is f**king bulls*it.)