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QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 09:53 PM) LOL Melky baby. Fans booing heavily. SELL THOSE PLAYOFF TICKETS FRONT OFFICE. What a joke. Sell them to who? The Chinese government? The Greeks?

Please put Thornton through waivers tomorrow. Maybe nobody will make a claim and we can dump that contract. Doubtful, though. And the worst news might still be coming in if AJ's out for an extended period of time. We've been so lucky with our health as a team this year, compared to the Indians and Twins especially.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) I was wondering this question earlier: Is Dunn having the worst season in modern day professional sports history for an established player? Him or Tiger Woods, compared to past results/expectations. How many balls have been hit off Thornton like that? Thornton, maybe you want to cover the bag???

Can we just send Rios, Walker and Dunn their checks in the mail and tell them to stay away from the clubhouse until Spring Training?

What a terrible inning, besides Konerko. It's just to the point where you wonder how long JR and KW can watch this offense and not think something has to be done to change the tone or approach. Embarassing? That point was reached 2 months ago. Now we're reaching epic bad.

Well, as Harrelson says, only the M's and A's have scored fewer runs per game. There goes our last and best scoring opportunity of the game with Quentin.

Same crap he's been swinging at all season and trying to pull.

Well, that was unexpected. But we still might actually need to get a hit, which seems impossible. Maybe we'll have better luck against their pen. At least we'll see some 90+ fastballs now.

What are the odds both of these runners don't score against Ohman? Would have been better just to get no-hit to add to the shame and humiliation. 9 games under .500 at home? For a playoff contender, supposedly?

Moustakas 0 for the season against us...lol 23,130 depressed fans at USCF. Valverde will get yet another chance to keep his consecutive saves streak going in BALT. Will be at least 5-4.

What can you say? Only that you're REALLY REALLY glad you didn't spend your hard-earned money on this inferior "product" that not even the cast from BOILER ROOM could sell.

Willie Mays Eyre....good name for Scott's bro. 1st and 3rd, one out, Tigers threatening to break it open in the top of the 8th at BALT. That wasn't predictable by Flowers. Sheez.

Hey, Greg... It doesn't matter that every single ball into LF ends up in a runner advancing a base on Pierre's arm, does it? But he's hitting .282 or whatever, so everything's fine.

3-6 against the Royals alone should cost everyone their jobs. Granted, Stewart's not Edwin Jackson, but c'mon. How many games can we lose to Bruce Chen before they decide HEY, JUST MAYBE we need to find a hitting coach that all the hitters will actually listen to??

Alexei pull hook. Quentin swinging out of his ass. Konerko the only one with the correct approach. And no AJ, doubt that Tyler Flowers will actually get a hit unless he gets lucky with his "slider speed" bat and runs in to a ball on the inside half.

Flowers wrist is hurting. Have to do an MRI, apparently, unless it's just a bruise.

CLE passed the Twins again....3-2 now Indians and looking to add more in the bottom of the 8th.

Chen would be in the HOF if he only pitched against the White Sox. Meanwhile, Greg Walker...well. Hope AJ's wrist isn't seriously hurt, just a bone bruise?? Flowers in the game now. That would be a season-ender for the Sox.

So.... Beckham sucks, Rios sucks. Konerko can't run a lick it would be 1-1. Stewart's been okay. Tigers are up again on the O's, Twins 2-1 over Indians.

Watch AJ, Pierre or Paulie. They'll have to take anything pitched on the outside half of the plate (80% of his pitches) and take it to the opposite field. Chen is a little bit similar to Tommy Glavine in the last five years of his career.

That's why Lillibridge at 2B and DeAza in the line-up as the DH works too. The problem is Paulie's injury forces Brent to 1B for the time being. Beckham's defense is better than Omar's now, and he occasionally runs into an offspeed pitch and hits a home,r so he's still a better option than OLDmar.

I'll go with the theory that only completely under the radar guys like Buehrle, Boone Logan and Santiago ever rise up out of the system and succeed with the Sox. Hyped prospect, forget it! Unless you're Hudson/Gio and you succeed with another organization.

18/31 steals when he led the majors in 2010 and when that's his main weapon....that's not surprisingly good. His defense is worse than last year. He's making $8.5 million (part of it is subsidized from LA, granted). Sure, he's had a lot of clutch hits in the last two months and his average has risen to a decent number for a singles hitter, but it's not like he's a bargain by any stretch of the imagination. If Dunn/Rios/Peavy and Beckham didn't exist on this team to disappoint us, Pierre would return to his previously vilified status (of course, if they were all hitting and pitching well, we'd be in 1st place going away and Pierre's average season wouldn't matter much). Morel's a bit harder to pick on as an often overmatched rookie making the league minimum.

Kansas City and Pittsburgh would support their teams well if they actually were .500 or above and providing some hope for the future. San Diego at least has that beautiful stadium and lots of money in SoCal. Houston's future looks very bleak but their attendance is still well ahead of ours....they have traditionally supported their teams and had pretty big payrolls under McLane. We'll see with Crane. Baltimore could easily have made this list. Toronto too, despite J4L's pleas.

Kim Ng would be a typical White Sox hire. Always on the cutting edge with minority hiring/affirmative action. Former Sox employee. Somehow, at this juncture of Sox history, JR will probably be too conservative to pull the trigger in making her the first female GM, though. DiPoto is the only one with a major league playing background there on that list...I'm pretty sure.