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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 09:28 PM) I know you'll get blasted on here for saying that, but I'm beginning to agree with you. Viciedo just doesn't bring enough to the table against RHP right now. As for the bullpen, I wish Ventura had more confidence in letting Nate Jones start an inning. Two straight games where he left the starting pitcher in way too long and both times resulted in a Pujols homer. But who exactly are we going to get? We never made Dunn or Rios platoon players despite their struggles last year, it doesn't seem to be the answer to do that to a 23 year old if we want him to develop for the future. The White Sox have been playing so well at home recently because of home runs, mostly. Putting Juan Pierre in LF is not only going to be pointless, it will scare Matt Thornton from ever pitching again in the 9th inning again if Juan is out there.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 09:23 PM) One of Beckham or Viciedo can't be a full-time player PITCHER over the next 2 months. You mean Humber or Floyd. The problem is that Quintana and/or Sale are both on their last legs. When you score 5 runs, you should win the game. Period. This game wasn't on the offense. The pitching staff needs to do better. Konerko, Dunn, Beckham and Viciedo are all struggling. But there's no way you can play Danks, Olmedo or Hudson. Viciedo is at least streaky and is due to get hot again. Someone's going to say...let's sign Abreu, but that's not the answer. He wasn't good enough for the Dodgers or the Angels this year.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 09:14 PM) Doesn't Hunter PH for Wells then? Kendrick or Hunter, I think 'd rather face Kendrick. Hunter was already in the game as a defensive replacement in RF. Once again, Matt Thornton in nearing the possibility of proving that a reliever on a winning team can lose 10 games in one season. Although not easy. And Thornton doesn't have a change, he has that little hanging slurve pitch, but not a straight change. He's actually thrown it with a lot more frequency to get hitters off his fastball, which has been down from the 96-97 and occasional 98 he used to throw. Callaspo is now 4/6 against Matt and drilled a center cut "slurve" into the gap. Pretty lucky he didn't hit it out. Viciedo hasn't done much since the Twins' final game last WED, although his last two swings were much better....and he also drove a fastball to RF but it hung up, at least he didn't pull hook it to 3B or SS on two hops. Beckham has had 3 homers robbed this year but he is finally back in the .220's and sinking into career oblivion if not for his defense. MOST IMPORTANTLY, this team needs Dunn and Konerko to hit in order to win. Period. And Hawk, thanks to you and the cameraman for giving us a heart attack there in the bottom of the 9th....wasn't meant to be, though. Angels are too good to lose 4 in a row...and you can't keep expending so much energy to get back into games that you're down 3 or 4 runs in the first couple of innings...or giving up 4-5 in the first two. Humber and Floyd have to be better and more consistent. Dangerous start tmrw for Liriano...and Septimo is the only long guy, and he's NOT that. We really need that extra guy back in the pen (Axelrod or Omogrosso or whoever) because Olmedo and Hudson on the same roster is basically pointless. We need a guy to play all 3 positions. Hudson can't play SS or 3B...Olmedo can't hit and is just a slightly above average defender. He's the guy who will only play in a complete blowout but never ever start.

Saw the new Total Recall movie... It actually wasn't bad, at least not quite as bad as I expected from reading some of the reviews. NOTE: Don't want angry/kick-butt version of Kate Beckinsale after me.

Conor Jackson and Dan Johnson could be pretty important in SEPT. Same with having a 3rd catcher. We're surviving just fine at the major league level with only two lefties in the pen...we hardly have needed Septimo, actually. Saladino's going to be lucky to hit .200 at Charlotte one would think.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 08:33 AM) Pibb Xtra is a 1,000 times better than Dr. Pepper. It has a ton more flavor and bite. Mr. Pibb is no longer made. Dr. Pepper is bland by comparison. If you try a can of Pibb Xtra and a can of Dr. Pepper and still think Dr. Pepper is better, I don't know what to tell you. As far as porn, I'd be happy to do kinky stuff with first timers. Okay, I'll try it. Didn't even know it existed. These products never make it overseas.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 07:00 AM) Ew, some really bad moves in that bunch. Kenny has never had a Sosa for Bell moment. Ritchie for Wells, Fogg and Lowe was close, though. We then went into a period where we NEVER had a quality 5th starter from 2001-2004, unsolved until we added Jose and Freddy in 2004.

So there's "good/wholesome" slutty (like psuedo celebrities in the Kim K, Paris Hilton or random Playboy model who hangs out with Hef vein, Jenna Jameson, etc.) Then there's the ones who have probably slept with fewer guys in their personal life, but will do anything in adult videos. Maybe, psychologically, when the same girl does that of her own free volition, then it's okay. Or something like that... J4L, if you found out that Snook took those 150 shots over her lifetime (not at ONE TIME, lol), then would your opinion on her change? It's just the act of doing something like that which bothers you? So 150 guys over her lifetime, individually....okay? In the end, aren't most beautiful women (not going to put Snook in that category) getting PAID somehow for their beauty and youth?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 08:31 PM) Dr. Pepper sucks. Almost as bad as the worst soft drink ever made, cream soda. Porn? If I can get a 3-some with snookie and jwoww? Hellz yeah. Besides that? Not interested even if it was presented to me. Most porn girls are gross. I couldn't imagine banging a girl that i knew going in that she had taken probably 150 loads in her mouth. Yuck, yuck, yuck. No, not the dreaded cream soda. That's one of those drinks, like root beer, that tastes good for the first 1/3rd of the drink because you're craving the taste and then you struggle to finish it. It would be like trying to chug a whole VESS or generic cola. Speaking of suddenly out of the limelight in terms of his porn star fixation, where are Tiger Woods and his collection of girls? You'd have to think the paparazzi are still trying to catch him with a new girl, but very little has been written about that aspect of his life, almost 3 year later. Has he become a monk? Or just never goes out? If he went to strip bars or clubs like Scores in NYC (where the Yankees and Howard Stern types frequent), wouldn't it be splashed all over the cover of the Enquirer? Also, has anyone seen THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, the Soderbergh movie starring Sasha Grey?

And that number of RBI's is being put up in only a 5 month season of 140-142 games for Thompson. Jared Mitchell 3/5, 2B (2nd), R, 2 K's. Back up at .303, hanging in there.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 04:55 PM) I don't see why we even think the Sox have a chance at re-signing him. Two years? Dream on. If he is healthy the day our season ends, he is going to get 4-5 years from somebody at 15-20 million a year. Isn't that obvious? If the Sox do want this guy, they should just take him one year for the 18 million. Obviously he's not worth that. Well, we can't say he's not worth $18 million, because he might be our #1 starter (along with Liriano) for the remainder of the season. 21/22 Quality starts/Total Starts....you can't argue with that. He's slipped a bit from the first 2-3 months, but that's simply because of the weather changing and the ball carrying more...long fly outs are now homers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 04:00 PM) The 2007 season immediately after that trade though...wasn't exactly a fun one. C'mon, we had the bullpen revolving door, Josh Fields, Jerry Owens, Andy Gonzalez (the predecessor to Escobar in Sox lineage) and Ehren Wasserman. At least we kept Buehrle, and I think, Dye, that year...instead of giving them up, which would have precluded 2008 from happening.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 02:17 PM) Responding after getting swept by your division rival is huge, although if he didn't start a 9th inning with Thornton, then maybe the Red Sox series ends differently. Managing a young bullpen, but a few of his decisions in that regard that didn't work out were kind of obvious from the get go. I think it's just that he didn't quite trust Quintana at that point to close out games... Yesterday, he used Peavy when he was over 100 pitches in the 8th and Myers/Thornton would have been perhaps more logical. But he and Reed got out of that game somehow. But I thought facing Mauer with Peavy had disaster written all over it. But I probably would have said the same about Septimo or more likely Thornton facing Mauer. Right now, the only lefty to trust against Mauer is Liriano, and a healthy Sale.

Heck, Cliff Lee is getting $25 million, and he's older than Peavy and doesn't even have Jake's (now diminished) repertoire. But no way to $15 million or more. I think the consensus is $11-12-13 million per year and 2 years, no way more than 3. Or two years and an option year with a fairly significant buyout again.

Thompson is taller, he's more like a Strawberry/Rios/Winfield build. Not as explosive, but more graceful.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) The Japanese coach told the team not to score against South Africa, as 2nd place in the group would let them stay in Cardiff and not be forced to travel. The problem is that once Great Britain upset Brazil, that sent Brazil to Cardiff for the quarterfinals, so the Japanese have quite the opponent to face now. Shouldn't they get the same punishment as the Chinese, South Korean and Indonesian badminton womens' doubles teams?? I think that badminton actually got a lot more coverage than it ever would have because of this round robin debacle, but not for the right reasons. It's a bit like table tennis, where China is so dominant but it's almost never shown on t.v., and yet, if you were China, every single match of badminton (men's and women's singles, doubles, mixed) is shown like it's the Super Bowl. Feel sorry for the woman who claimed she was retiring, as she is the best in the world and her country and badminton commissions and the government are all coming down hard on her but not the coach. This has happened 20 some times in international player, out of about 80-90 times, where the two Chinese teams deliberately are coached to figure out a way to avoid each other until the finals, then both teams go all out to beat each other in the end. But lots of walkovers are ordered by the government when two Chinese players meet in early rounds.

Plus, McEwing has a lot of experience being around LaRussa....that has to help, too. He's our coaching version of Jose Oquendo, and similar players as well.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 02:33 PM) I feel like everyone is giving Robin too much of the benefit of the doubt already in this thread. His team responded to him and done well so far, but in no way am I ready to call him a great manager. He still makes plenty of WTF decisions. This team went through a carnival the last two years, so just have a quiet calming presence in the dugout would lead to a turnaround in performance. This team also hasn't faced major adversity yet, so he hasn't had to deal with that. I'm not trying to hate on Robin, and I think he could be a good one over time. But I don't think that four months proves that everyone's original opinion was 100% wrong. I'd say losing in crushing fashion to the Red Sox, getting swept by the Tigers and losing five games in the standings to them in one week. That was a pretty big test. Many weren't sure (myself included) how they were going to respond to that, especially with the Rangers and hated Twins looming...along with our tendency to beat ourselves against Minnesota. Any road stretch of 16/19 games against the competition we faced is huge test of any manager. And he's had to deal with that inexperienced bullpen for 2/3rd's of the season b4 picking up Myers and getting Crain off the DL.

Unfortunately, we only have 1993, 94 (not really) and 2000 to show for all that talent. And we never advanced past the division series.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 01:36 PM) It would be interesting to see who else from the Phillies went on waivers today, because those maybe the guys they are realistically looking to deal. Surely we'll be adding Papelbon to our bullpen by the end of the week.

13:$25M, 14:$25M, 15:$25M, 16:$27.5M club option ($12.5M buyout) That's making Peavy's deal look sane for 2013. Plus, we already have four lefties and Buehrle coming back, haha.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) Agreed. That was my point. But I hope that Kenny hits on a few of his recent draft picks. I'm sick of being disgusted with our offensive prospects. It really takes away from my baseball experience. So when we had Magglio, C-Lee, Rowand, Crede, Durham, Konerko....all coming up together, basically....baseball was more enjoyable then? To me, it doesn't really matter. I guess if you grew up with the minor leaguers and they came up together as a wave...maybe it would be more to get attached to and follow them, but would you trade places with Royals fans and be enjoying their last place position? Probably not. Royals fans have A LOT more to complain about than Sox fans these days.

The Indians suck against us but frequently beat the Tigers. We can't beat the Red Sox (this year) but the Tigers are .500 against them. And then we're 3 games under now against DET...4-7 now I think.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 01:52 PM) How are these not random? I would do it, but only in Europe/The Valley I would do it, but only with non-white girls I have an Asian fetish And a simple Yes/No suffices for the dr pepper one. I like Dr Pepper, but it's not my favorite soda. But with your wording neither answer fits That's just because I was trying to identify the TRUE Dr. Pepper fans...and forcing everyone into the other category. Actually....it's interesting, most people I know hate it, if it's not their favorite. I never thought of there being so many who were kind of "mehhhh" about it, drinking it if there's no other choice. Oh, well...too late to undo it now. Just bored on offday. Wish I wouldn't have given up on the Rangers/Angels game though last night....almost gave up on the Red Sox/Tigers. Baseball withdrawal symptoms, I guess.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 01:33 PM) Dr. Pepper is fine once in a while for a "change of pace" cola. I would not pursue porn as a second job. If I pursued it, it would be as my primary career, which I could then retire from as a multi-millionaire. I'm that awesome. So it's like the Circle-K change-up (Mario Soto) of soft drinks. I like that. And Mr. Pibb sucks, by the way. Any Dr. Pepper fan can instantly recognize the difference in a milli-second.