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The excuse will be Abreu and Rodon didn't work together enough on that play in spring training...because they wanted to rest Jose's legs and work on Rodon's change-up. Well, at least the error goes to Abreu.

Jesus....what else can go wrong this season with the defense? Why was Abreu waiting so long to throw it???

More errors. Dan Webb? Really?

any other replacements for Hoiberg in Ames besides Hornacek?

Flowers will never have an easier sequence of fastballs to hit. Career average with bases loaded sinking towards .100 somehow.

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ May 29, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) Hard to tell which was the worst part of that play--Conor's 'fielding' or Melky's throw. Both were terrible. It's amazing he is one of the twenty worst players in baseball despite hitting .301 against RHP. He did cut down Altuve and Marisnick robbed him in the first. Oh, and forgot the passed ball on Flowers. Well, nothing new to see here. Lots of bad hitting with risp and K's.

Comedy of errors. Home scoring decision should be changed in NYC. Feel sorry for Rodon.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 29, 2015 -> 05:30 PM) The only reason Sox have any decent minor leaguers now is slotted picks. If that would not of changed Sox would still be last in spending and ranked 30th. If not for that Rodon would never of been drafted, but someone Sox could of got at #3 they could sign cheap. Except Borchard and Viciedo were both record-setting bonuses for collegiate and LA under 23 at the time of their deals.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 29, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) there are just some movies that are just plain brain dead movies and the only value it has is entertainment. that is i grade the movies. that is 1 category. No, that's Sharknado 1/2 and Piranha 3D.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 29, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) Tidal wave scene in NYC is pretty cool though. The Day After Tomorrow is another one to add to the TNT marathon. If nothing else, for sheer shock value to see how Emmy Rossum's changed so much from that point and Phantom of the Opera to current day. Plus you have helicopters with rotor blades freezing...rabid Russian dogs on container ships..and the scene where they have to let the father die (cutting the rope) when they break the glass while unknowingly walking on top of a NJ mall. And you can never root against Dennis Quaid. He's doggedly persistent in that one. The best one is in 2012 where the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy wipes out Danny Glover's White House.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 29, 2015 -> 03:05 PM) Deep Impact is so cheesy. More dramatic than over the top action. Tea Leoni is just so hard to watch act...that movie has too many contrived personal narratives that attempt to make you care about their imminent doom (like the beach scene with her father) which lead to just get on with the megadestruction, will you? Armaggedon has the Bayness about it...so that you can watch it over and over again. (Somehow it helps if you imagine Borat singing the national anthem of Kazakhstan in the background, America always shows up in the white hat to save the day...and there has to be a cool theme song, a hot girl, at least one scene with the whole gang walking in stride towards the camera with the concrete shimmering and flags unfurling and kissing wives or gfs goodbye.) Plus Con-Air has Vanessa Marcil in one of her few movie appearances.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 29, 2015 -> 02:58 PM) Exactly. It seems that some people want an autocratic last century management philosophy. That hasn't been the best practice for decades. Just like an equal number believe the latest Ivy League quant/stat geek/sabes guy can magically turn their franchise (or mutual fund) around...

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 29, 2015 -> 09:31 AM) Baseball is a different sport with a different type of intensity required. You can't drive baseball players that way over a 162 game season and expect results. Thibs has proved that you can't do it for a basketball season without the players falling apart or being drained and watching the other teams with more energy beat you. And yet Ozzie was always blamed for his Sunday line-ups. The irony is that he actually utilized his bench extremely well...and it paid off handsomely quite often. Ventura hasn't had the same level of bench talent to utilize, so it's harder to make comparisons. I do wonder if they have warned him about playing Alexei too often...of course, once again, with options like Leury Garcia or Olmedo, you can understand the hesitancy.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 29, 2015 -> 08:16 AM) Where did this garbage come from The yahoo.com responses under that earlier article. They even had other posters copying "Reinsdork" as if that was an original one.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 29, 2015 -> 08:17 AM) Bit of a difference between robin and thibs. Thibs was actually a winning coach, Robin is not. Sox go out of their way to support Robin, Bulls wen tout of their way to publicly undermine their coach mid-season... Firing Robin would actually be a normal thing to do. That's what is so hard to understand. Did they promise him four or five years regardless of the results on the field?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 29, 2015 -> 07:45 AM) Singles was pretty good with a great soundtrack. Obviously his best work was as the writer for Fast Times at Ridgemont High Yeah, I simply destroyed that cassette and The Cult's Electric by playing them too much on the cheap car stereo in 1993.

Gar Formen is Johnny Jump Shot two best friend, "Neal and Bob". This CS couldn't put a winning 10yo YMCA together. This Fgot needs to go. Paxson is about 5 years past his experation date. He's living off game 5 vs. the Lakers and game 6 versus the Suns. If he missed those shots, he'd be selling insurance. Old man Reinsdork is incorridgable. Look how long he kept Crumbs Krause around. He let that phat azz blow up the Bulls and sent them to the dark ages for ten years. Word gets out. This franchise is dysfuntional top to botton. No free agents will come here. Here comes about 7 years of 20-62 records. They all can G.F.T. Go Bulls....and take the White Sux with you! That was an entertaining rant worthy of the Rongey post-game show.

The opposite. The White Sox are all good "company men" who don't ever rock the boat...or question the longstanding way of doing things. I'd take a dysfunctional frontt office of ten overachievers/tireless workers who don't always get along with co-workers and push their players to their limits than...well, whatever we have now. Sort of like a country club atmosphere. If the Bulls made the same mistakes the White Sox make on a constant basis...would Thibs passively sit there and let it go?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 29, 2015 -> 06:06 AM) Because he doesn't want to. What, for example, has Buddy Bell done exceptionally well or even decently? Is there anything he could do to get fired?

QUOTE (Brian @ May 29, 2015 -> 04:42 AM) Not gonna lie, I enjoyed Battleship for what it was. And yes, I'll see San Andreas. Mmmmm Daddario You're watching for the "sensuous curves" or acting skills? I guess she wasn't (by a long stretch) the worst element of the Percy Jackson films. As long as you're not a Taylor Kitsch fan. Or Rihanna the thespian.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colum...528-column.html Why doesn't Reinsdorf find the baseball equivalent of Thibs? Reading the last couple of paragraphs, you could exchange Ventura's name with Hoiberg's. It's almost like Jekyll and Hyde. On the baseball side, loyalty and sentimentality reign supreme. Harrelson. Melton. Trying to keep Ozzie and KW both together for far too long. Baines. Cooper. Herm Schneider. Greg Walker Gordon Beckham. Mark Buehrle. Bossard. Nancy Faust. Farmer and DJ. Paul Konerko last year. Brooks Boyer. Hahn as apprentice in waiting. You would think the results on the baseball side would match the five consecutive playoff appearances on the bb side but it's actually the opposite. The White are a loyal and insulted family populated by the likes of Pierce, Skowron and Minoso. The Bulls are a cutthroat business where employees are whisked out the door with a Top Ten all-time winning percentage. Coaches are constantly hired and fired with an eye towards getting to the next level when White Sox fans would be simply elated with one playoff appearance. Has loyalty led to malaise and apathy? Are the White Sox like a 1980's Japanese style "work team" where a guaranteed lifetime employment contract eventually leads to a lack of productivity because there's little or no fear of losing your position? Or Reinsdorf simply can't stand disloyalty.....Ozzie talking to the Marlins while under contract and inseason....or Thibs using Van Gundy to trash the front office publicly? Shouldn't the White Sox be run less as a hobby and more like the Bulls?

Kirk Hinrich=Juan Uribe Love him or hate him...very few "in between" opinions. Reminds me of the Aaron Miles (god, he had a slew of minor league fanboys) debate when that trade was consummated. How long has Miles been out of majors now?

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ May 28, 2015 -> 08:30 PM) Has it been noted that Jeff Hornacek wants to coach in college? Is he disgruntled at Phoenix? He's done a pretty good job there. I hear the rumors swirling around here but I just don't see him going back to the college he walked onto 30 years ago as long as he's an NBA head coach. It would be interesting to see what recruiting strategy he would take....following in the Hoiberg path of JC's and transfers and international signings or doing things more traditionally? There's just not much of a track record. One thing's for certain, in Iowa....where you have guys like Self or Roy Williams or Bo Ryan to compete with just for your best in-state players, then you're sharing the state with UNI, Drake, Creighton, Nebraska to an extent, you BETTER have a plan that extends outside the state (for example, more Chicago Public League players)...Milwaukee...KC...Minneapolis, St. Louis, etc.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 28, 2015 -> 08:07 PM) It's time to make Gordon Beckham the starting second baseman. Case closed. Sox can't afford to have zero chance of a hit out of its second basemen! This should be a NO BRAINER! I think we tried that already for five seasons. If that time has proven one thing, it's that whenever we start to have confidence in him FINALLY figuring things out, it will always take a corresponding turn for the worse and you'll wonder why you were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for like the 6th, 7th or 8th time. Then we'll have a thread about why are we wasting valuable at-bats playing a journeyman 2B when we need to be preparing an everyday player for 2016-2019.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball...coaching-rumors How Fred Hoiberg got to big for Iowa State Didn't realize he was also a football player and was recruited by Nebraska/Osborne? What position? WR? S? QB? He was previously working in the Minnesota Timberwolves front office, where former president of basketball operations David Kahn said Hoiberg was "on track to become president of an NBA team."