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I don't know who to root for. The Cardinals are kind of my second team, but I really like this Rangers team. Mostly because they beat Detroit.

Good to see the Tigers lose. The Rangers are the better team by far. What a job by Daniels and Ryan to bring that organization back to winning big.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 15, 2011 -> 05:35 PM) Zook is the worst clock management and decision maker, I have EVER seen in a college coach. My 10 yr old on Madden makes better decisions. Not using timeouts at the 5 minute mark was just ridiculously stupid. I actually did think they should have gone for it on 4th and 2 at the end, but the fact that Scheelhasse and Jenkins weren't even on the same page is ridiculous. The clock wasn't even running, at least make sure you're calling the right play.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 15, 2011 -> 05:26 PM) Ron Zook is such a f***ing idiot. Also, Paul Petrino was brutal today. No idea why they were so conservative on offense today. Not going for it on the 4th and short in the first half and punting set the tone for the rest of the game on offense. Agreed. Zook is just...ugh. But really, at the end of the day, Scheelhasse and Jenkins didn't perform. And Bradley Roby is a b****. That PI he had on Jenkins was not only stupid, but it was dirty as hell. He's lucky they only give 15 yard PIs in college...

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 09:20 PM) Kind of disappointing. Brett was one of the few quality beat guys around. His stuff was somewhat Saber inclined which is a nice change of pace. Funny how he's out of a job yet Cowley still has one.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) I took your advice. They think Walker is OK and they love Seitzer. The vast majority chose Seitzer but had nothing bad to say about Walker. Have you ever considered a career in professional polling? You outta work for the news networks during the elections.

QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Oct 12, 2011 -> 04:19 PM) This and the Red Sox talk will give birth to a whole slew of Miller Lite commercials-imagine Lillibridge telling Adam Dunn to "Man-Up" Oh god, that'll be brilliant. Or they can do Real Men of Genius commercials. We salute you Adam Dunn for sipping beer during games and hitting .159!

The Cubs probably won't spend big for a while and the pieces they have right now don't fit Epstein's approach to building a baseball team. He's going to need at least a few years to get the right pieces together before this Cubs team can win again.

So Kenny actually thought about making Paulie a player-manager? The fact that he even thought that is ridiculous.

If you can get a couple of top 20 prospects, then by all means, do it. He's not getting any younger. I don't care how great of a hitter he is, if we're gonna rebuild, trade him for the right price.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 11, 2011 -> 12:02 AM) Well, what you mentioned is more on Martz. But Lovie hired him! I loved the coming out to go for it on 4th and 1 (wrong decision), burn a timeout (stupid), STILL make the wrong decision on 4th and 1, predictably get stuffed, then completely waste a challenge/another timeout when he was clearly short sequence. Outstanding. I said the coaching staff as a whole, but yes, that is mostly on Martz. And yeah, that was signature terrible Lovie.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 11:51 PM) It's both sides fault. People love to just blame one side, but usually, the truth lies in the middle. The players are not willing to give enough back considering so many teams are losing a ton of money, and the owners are trying to get back way more than is realistic. Nobody is willing to budge and look like the loser. To a point, but I think in this situation, where the majority of the league is losing money, a 50-50 split isn't that unfair.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 11:48 PM) Lovie is a pretty good coach IMO. Far from great, but overall slightly above average. He was TERRIBLE tonight though. A stupid 4th and 1 call, a stupid challenge, 3 timeouts in the 1st quarter (although that was the offense, but it still comes back to teh head coach), big plays galore being allowed by his defense specifically designed to stop big plays. At the end of the day though, this is on Jerry Angelo. This defense is old, bad, and washed up right now. He hasn't done a good enough job infusing young talent on that side of the ball to go with the aging starters. And the offense is just laughable beyond Forte and Cutler. They've played 5 games, and already have NO shot at finishing higher than 3rd in the NFC North and 6th in the NFC as a whole. The time management of this team is horrendous. That's always been something that has plagued this coaching staff, especially this season. How many times has Cutler come to the sideline annoyed that he can't get the play off since he doesn't have the play call on time? And it is on Jerry Angelo. The fact that he couldn't go out and sign some big pieces to the O-line is inexcusable.

You gotta love it when super rich people argue over large sums of money like they're poor or something. It's hard to side with the players when the majority of the owners are losing money and when the NBA has some of the most screwed up contracts in all of sports.

Well that game sucked. The defense can't tackle or stop the run and of course, the o-line can't block. Cutler had a hell of a game today. Omiyale and Webb are the two most useless offensive linemen in all of football. Absolutely f***ing useless.

I would not mind dealing A.J. at all.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 8, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) AJ f***ING JENKINS. He may have had bad coverage on him in this game, I dont know since Im just listening on the radio, but he is a flat out playmaker. That man is dangerous.

2K12's gameplay is so much smoother this year. Only got to play it for about a half hour, but I absolutely loved it. The smallest details are captured this year. They re-did Rose's jumper and it looks exactly how he shoots in real life. Boozer also does his screwed up fadeaways just like real life. They put so much attention to detail this year.

Willie Bloomquist lol.

Unless they go All In again this year and fail miserably, he's not in any danger of losing his job.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 02:16 PM) 1.) We've been through this troll thing before. A troll doesn't show up for 10 years and have a zillion posts. 2.) Ozzie got FRIED on this board that one game for sitting CQ after he hit 2 homers the night before or had 4 hits or something. Oz was sitting him cause he was 1-for-40 against the guy who was throwing or something. Just.Win.Baby. Only way to shut people up. Ozzie also bunts Juan Pierre to second give the chance. You can try to spin it anyway you want, but Ozzie rarely used statistics. And when he did, they probably weren't good ones.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 02:49 PM) After listening to that interview I can see why Coop didn't get the job. He's a wildman with that accent and edge. I love his work and like his attitude but no way he could deal with the media twice a day. You guys are right bout that one. Then what's Ozzie with his accent and edge?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 01:06 PM) Believes in a balance of old school game observation and statistical analysis. He's already better than Ozzie in my book.

QUOTE (dmbjeff @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) Another thing about Cowardley that bothers me most is he isn't even the White Sox beat guy, Van Schouwen is. Cowardley was supposed to be the Cubs guy this year but I am sure once the CST realized Cowardley has no actual journalistic qualities to get a good story, they had him working the Guillen kids all year for info and basically became a White Sox beat guy again. lol was Cowley really supposed to be the Cubs beat writer? I remember he was making fun of the Cubs before the season saying they had no chance and that all Cubs fans should convert to Sox fans.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Coop calls Cowley a liar, but Coop did go to Williams for a contract extension. Cooper said he asked Rick Hahn first. With Cowley's credibility, I'm more than willing to believe Coop instead.