LittleHurt05

Samardzija! Soto! Ride the ex-Cubs train!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2015 -> 11:55 PM) Wow Goldy! Best 1st baseman in baseball. (Miggy loses points because he can barely walk)

Makes sense, we all knew this would be happening during the year. Better than just shutting him down in August

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:59 PM) There are a lot of questionable moves that can be discussed at length. Brandon Pirri couldn't crack the lineup with Q, but fans continued to call for it. He scored 22 goals with Florida last year. The same is true for any sport: Win, and mistakes are overlooked. Or you can draft 3 franchise players, lock them up forever and hope their play cancels out your mistakes.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) You never would have lasted as a Sox fan in the 60s through the turn of the century. Or the 20s, 30s, 40s, and most of the 50s

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Basically I think you're making an argument that the team needs to be moved. And as the stadium ages year after year, I feel like that argument can get a bit more compelling over time.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) Then how do you explain the White Soc and Cubs having the exact same number of local Chicago m.s.a./local fans attending games in the 2010 season....with the only difference the 25% uptick for tourism/regional/historic site traffic that no other team other than maybe the Red Sox can count on? 2010 Cubs attendance: 3,062,973 2010 Sox attendance: 2,194,378 Difference: 868,595 Difference divided by Sox attendance = 39.5% Not sure where your 25% came from?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 22, 2015 -> 02:31 PM) Here are white people rioting and killing people and the coverage is much different. The coverage is different because they are different situations. This is much more comparable to the daily violence in Chicago than the riots in Ferguson or Baltimore.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2015 -> 02:25 PM) No, my point is that a fanbase which fills a park constantly every single game can still be pretty down on its team. Especially when they're rotten, and it's been a while since Boston has endured multiple losing years in a row like we have. You should see Chicago Blackhawks' message boards. If fans had their way at this point, I think the only people that would be left in the organization would be Toews & Rocky Wirtz.

QUOTE (gatnom @ May 22, 2015 -> 09:20 AM) Is there a fan base out there that hates itself more than ours? It's very intriguing, especially the inferiority complex. My favorite is the "Cubs fans only care about the beer, Sox fans care about the baseball". If anyone has been to both stadiums in recent years, I would say the opposite is more likely to be true. The indifference fans had at games during the 2012 pennant race was really eye opening.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ May 22, 2015 -> 01:23 PM) Sure I can. It's the job of the front office to identify talent to help this club win, along with being the right fit for the coach and the locker room. My expectations are set higher than giving everyone a pat on the back just because they made moves at the deadline. Good for them. Make them the right ones. Not to mention, this group of management decided to give Bryan Bickell a lot of money based on one postseason

Chris Kuc ‏@ChrisKuc 20m20 minutes ago Joel Quenneville didn't rule out Trevor van Riemsdyk playing in series. Won't play in Game 4. #Blackhawks Joel Quenneville on Marcus Kruger not taking faceoffs in Game 3: "He'll be better tomorrow." Asked about an injury: "There's no injury." Joel Quenneville said Antoine Vermette and Teuvo Teravainen "could play" for #Blackhawks in Game 4 vs. Ducks.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 22, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Read the rest of the thread. It was pile on Adam LaRoche hour. Sure they did, but you kept on quoting me. I don't disagree with you. Given LaRoche's age & career, I can't say I expected that much more from him at this time. Sure I would have hoped for a little more production, but he is what he is at this point. Starting him against LHP only diminishes your returns from him.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 22, 2015 -> 08:54 AM) Adam LaRoche is not a significant offensive "problem". I realize some have honed in on him, so now he will become a punching bag, and those who wanted to jack Rick Hahn off for his offseason are now saying they knew all along some of these signings were just bad, but a thread on the Sox putrid offense focusing on Adam LaRoche, is pretty lame. I was never criticizing Adam LaRoche. I was blaming Robin and/or Rick for starting the guy against LHP and/or not having better RH options available when you know how much he struggles against LHP. Somehow you spun that into blaming the entire putrid offense on Adam LaRoche but whatever.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 22, 2015 -> 08:30 AM) The offense was putrid against RHP, so I don't understand how this morphed into LaRoche can't hit lefties. There was some bad luck, as several balls were hit pretty hard, but its hard to win if you score 1 or 2 runs. It was a general comment/discussion about the LaRoche signing. Nobody ever said it had anything to do with the past 3 games against RHP.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 22, 2015 -> 08:07 AM) Why are people complaining about LaRoche vs. LH pitching when the 3 games in a row lost and lack of offense was against RH pitching? Because he shouldn't be starting against LH pitching. Nobody ever blamed that for this 3 game losing streak though.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 22, 2015 -> 07:31 AM) Who are they going to play instead though? I mean honestly, it's easy to rail on this issue and I understand it but what's the point? Would you rather put Bonifacio or Sanchez in the lineup because those are the option? They aren't going to play Flowers/Soto at the same time (Thank Goodness) and Beckham will be at 3B vs most LHP. There is nobody else to play. Now, if the Sox acquire someone like Aramis Ramirez for cheap, they can then play Gordon at 3B (yuck) and DH Ramirez vs LHP. They just don't have enough good players yet. Yes

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 21, 2015 -> 11:43 PM) I will say that I liked every signing at first blush except the LaRoche signing. Then I talked myself into it. Well, so far, he's looking like a bust and a lot of it is the Sox refusal to bench him against most LHP and play him moreso than Jose at 1B. He should be playing 1B 100 games and Jose 62, instead it's going to be like Jose 120 and LaRoche 42. Six games vs. LHP, 5 starts for LaRoche. That's just completely inexcusable, it's like we are back in the 1980s are something and the only statistics available are hits, HRs, and BA. That's not even sabermetrics, it's simple batting splits.

QUOTE (Lemon_44 @ May 22, 2015 -> 05:37 AM) I didn't like the LaRoche signing back then and even less so now. They replaced one Adam that can't hit with another Adam that can't hit. Yet, they always seem to occupy a spot in the middle of the order. When you have this problem: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=95533, you have no choice but to take chances on Adams like that. Sure the Sox could do better in free agency, but it's not always that simple.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 21, 2015 -> 10:31 PM) @MarkLazerus "Vermette and Teravainen are fine. Q wanted "fresh legs." This pushed Shaw to center as well. Stupid move. Because a 20 year old is probably out of shape, right? And it's not like Anaheim played 3 OTs on Tuesday, not did they fly cross country

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:46 PM) Anaheim flat out out schemed the Hawks tonight. Never thought Boudreau would out coach Q. This one is going 7 games

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:05 PM) I don't get the lineup changes for the Hawks at all. We lose face offs and offensive ability and replace it with turnovers. Nobody does. I guarantee that's the first post game question Q will be asked

Feels like Anaheim is in full control of the game, but it's still just one goal.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 21, 2015 -> 07:20 PM) The problem is you could make executive pay a dollar and it's such a small dent in the cost of covering the increase, especially for a company like mcdonalds. Does McDonald's actually pay restaurant employees or is the owner of each restaurant responsible?

There has to be an injury we don't know about it. Q never makes changes after wins in the playoffs.