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Who's getting more boos tonight, Dunn or Rios? Ozzie when he goes to the mound? Pretty soon there will be no boos because fans will have lost the incentive to even muster up the energy to show that emotion.

The biggest highlight of this entire game is Larry SOUP NAZI Thomas throwing out the 1st pitch before the game. Otherwise...ZERO. This might be worse than Sucker Punch or Piranha 3-D. I guess Shark NIGHT might eventually be worse.

Valverde time again in DET. Hopefully someone drills that smile off his face.

Doesn't Beckham have a hit tonight too? How many line drives (fair/foul) has he hit this year? 25 - 30? Can't even recognize the player from 2009. You would have to laugh if the attendance was under 20,000 for any of these games....with school still out. That would be the ultimate wake-up call to JR and the marketing department.

6-5 tigers boesch homer off expensive NL acquisition Adams (the next Linebrink) 5 1/2 games back...have lost 3 games now in less than a week collapse comes one week too late yes, let's pay john danks $90 million for an extension and double the ticket prices please great idea! i'm already adjusting to the indians being the only chance to beat the Tigers or Twins The Tigers are just too good offensively now...and Kipnis and Chisenhall are leading the Indians against Beckett....and yet we have Viciedo rotting away.

This is starting to remind me of the same exact things you hear on talk radio about a certain occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania. It's just that usually they are a bit more circumspect.

Avila continues to be AL Central difference maker...3-1 Tiggers Rain delay on its way there as well.

Viciedo K's in his first at-back back. Milledge, who very well could be starter or platoon guy next year all the way back up to .300 finally.

Tiggers already battering around Colby Lewis. Lucky to only have given up a couple of runs so far, in all honesty.

Huff vs. Beckett, Advantage Red Sox Tigers at Rangers Twins at Angels (Santana coming off no-hitter) Daniel Hudson vs. Tim Lincecum (wonder who Hudson would rather face, our AAA line-up tonight or the Giants?)

Maybe we could reacquire Jon Garland to attempt it?

Actually pondering that I'd rather have Beckham hitting 2nd instead of 9th. Ugh. That line-up is just ugly ugly ugly.

Lillibridge doesn't hit righties well and hasn't hit period for more than a month. I don't know, but Pierre/Lillibridge/DeAza sounds even more like a AAA line-up than what we put out there last night. Rios at least had a couple of hits in the past 2 games. If he was going to be benched, it should have been 3 games ago. I mean...we're really legitimately thinking we can beat the Yankees without Konerko and with that starting outfield?

Sort of. He's choosing Rios over Lillibridge. That's it. If Konerko was able to play, we'd know the actual answer to this, because DeAza's also playing in the outfield tonight.

This is sad. We've reached the point where the best chance of regime change is taunting Ozzie's son in order to set off a string of events with his father that leads to him losing his job. It's just not the right way for him to leave the Sox, but I guess there's no other ending to this story than ugliness and recriminations. You know KW will never be able to stay quiet or take the high road. It's not in his DNA.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) Enjoying watching a baseball game with my son. Teaching him to keep score. My enjoyment of baseball isn't tied to winning. Granted it's more fun if they win that day but that isn't the only reason. A day at the ballpark is better than a day almost anywhere else. Then I would take him to a minor league game. You can get to know most (well, not the first round draft picks, they've already developed an attitude) of the players personally....get autographs, catch a foul ball...the promotions and contests are fun for the kids. It's a much purer and more enjoyable form of baseball in many ways, because you see all these kids chasing the dream and even though only 3-4% are going to make it, the feeling is just completely different.

Peavy doesn't belong in the same conversation as Dunn/Rios. He's doing the best he possibly can...he could just shut it down completely and collect a salary, but he's always pushed himself harder than anyone on the Sox could push him and unfortunately that's caused him more setbacks than if they'd just taken the conservative approach from the very moment he was acquired. Zero reason he should have been pitching in 2009, that team was toast and nothing was going to turn it around...especially the way Rios was playing, and Dye fading as well.

Let's see....Konerko, Humber, Jeff Gray and probably Sergio Santos did better than expected. Maybe Crain. You can argue either way about about Alexei (his defense has definitely taken a step backwards, and hitting with RISP), AJ, Quentin and Sale. The rest of the roster has underachieved dramatically. Anyone watching or following this team all season wouldn't argue that Ozzie's done a good job. The last 3 games offer about 50 examples of poor fundamentals alone. And Ozzie wonders why they are so poor? JESUS.

And yet, for a myriad of reasons, we've never brought anything close to a superstar Hispanic player in the prime of his career to the Sox during Ozzie's reign of terror. Heck, if we just took Victor Martinez for less money than Dunn, we'd still probably be leading the AL Central.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 09:31 AM) Since the All Star break of 2010, here are Alex Rios's numbers in 165 games: 143-628 (.228 avg) 25 doubles, 2 triples, 12 homers, 77 runs, 63 rbi's He could be the lone reason for Kenny Williams losing his job. But there are so many other reasons. 433 OPS on the road, 388 on turf (where he should be at his best)

Or Getz. Or Brian Anderson. Or Sean Tracey. Or Jon Rauch (although everyone around baseball says he's a prick in the clubhouse and hard to deal with).

You forgot... Why can't we ever beat AL Central opponents? 3-5 against the Royals? 7-29 against the Twins? Why does everyone get up to beat the White Sox, be we can't get motivated to face the Royals or Orioles? Bruce Chen? C'mon. I just turn off the t.v. when I see he's facing us. Mark Teahen is abysmal and sucks as a player. Juan Pierre is the 3rd best hitter on the White Sox. This team is the most frustrating White Sox team I've ever watched. Rios/Dunn/Gordon/Morel can't hit their way out of a dry as Kansas prairie paper bag with the Green Lantern's blowtorch as a bat. (oops, that's me) Ozzie will win every single NL East crown for 14 consecutive years and become the next Vice President of the U.S. He will take Marco Rubio's Senate seat after he becomes President in 2012 or 2016. We will miss Ozzie and will never ever compete again in the AL with Joey Cora and fans will be clamoring for Terry Bevington to return. JUST WIN BABY. Any move that Ozzie makes can never be second guessed if the White Sox win. Bobby Jenks is the most underappreciated closer in Sox history, at least since Roberto Hernandez. I will probably get banned if I say what I really feel. That does it, I'm quitting SoxTalk. Should have written shorter sentences. B- effort. Greg, we love you! I've been mocked more times than you around here, trust me.

And Sabathia/Peavy...just going by the names alone, well it's not Phil Humber and Nova.

"C'mon, you're better than the Gap." (funny line from Crazy, Stupid Love)

Foulke removed himself from the closer's role and was eventually ditched for 93 MPH straight as an arrow FB fireballing Billy Koch.