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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2011 -> 10:27 AM) Give it up Cowardly. No one cares about your Guillen ass-kissing anymore. It's starting to make sense now...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 13, 2011 -> 11:12 AM) Please god stop saying Hollywood. +1

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 13, 2011 -> 10:12 AM) Despite what many on Soxtalk believe, there is no lineup combination on this roster that would average 6 runs a game. The best offense in baseball doesn't even score 6 runs a game.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 11, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) Madden 12 demo is out. Dream come true! It's Bears vs Packers in Soldier Field!! You get to play a full game, 5 minute quarters. You can't mess with any sliders or difficulty though, and it's clearly raw with no announcers, but it's still a huge upgrade. I had enough time to play one half last night after I discovered its availability... got into the endzone with Forte like a boss. The rosters are nowhere near updated for the demo, but it's still a blast. Running game is FAR too easy on the demo. Passing is harder than previous years, or maybe it's because the Bears o-line blows and I don't get enough time. This year's graphics look great close-up, but from the normal gameplay point of view, they suck even more than last year's. The Bears players seemed like they had orange numbers (not supposed to happen...). NCAA did a decent job with the gameplay cam graphics, why can't the Madden team do the same?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 12:59 PM) http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/8/10/2355509/...als-roster-news Dayton Moore loves all ex-Braves. Davies shouldn't even have a ML job.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 09:07 AM) ESPNChiSox Doug Padilla Update on the Twitter play-by-play front: Next season MLB planning to stop in-game update tweets . We'll learn more later. As in stop reporters from tweeting in game? They can't do that...

Just bought tickets to Tuesday's game. Hopefully, they win the Royals series so that Indians series means something.

I think it was Danks who threatened Bautista. He and Bautista barked back and forth a bit earlier this year.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 11, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) Juan Pierre 3-5 two RBIs and a run scored. He is hitting .281. Give it up for Juan Pierre. The most productive hated player in America. Also ... Mark, Konerko, Lexi, Sergio. Good road trip. It's put up or shut up time at home. He's definitely hated, but there's a lot of hated players that don't have a negative WAR (still).

The White Sox have no idea how to pitch to J.J. Hardy.

Morel has 20 HR power at best.

Guillen is overmannaging the bullpen like Tony LaRussa. But I can't complain about the Santos/Sale thing at all. Although if I'm Chris Sale, I wouldn't be so pleased that Ozzie is deliberately letting Santos vulture saves away from me.

The next 5 games are all winnable. Win all of them and you're definitely back in this thing.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 05:57 PM) It makes me mad to think he just now started making adjustments. He made them in June and started hitting better. Then he went back to sucking. I'm not going to buy into him being a good hitter again until he proves to me he can have more than a couple of good games in a row.

I was hoping for a walk in that PA, but the HR is way better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) I believe that we can all recall last year how Pierre wasn't a terribly below average player because he played excellent defense in LF. The problem with Morel is that he's about 50 points behind Juan Pierre's wOBA from last year.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) And Tim Collins on the Royals was part of that deal too, with Pastornicky. Hmmmm.... Still not too confident that Yunel Escobar will anything remotely resembling a star, will just have to wait and see. Now back to the Blue Jays, oops White Sox game thread. Yunel Escobar's had one bad year. He may not be a superstar, but he's easily one of the better SS in baseball.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 09:50 AM) Anthopoulos served as an advanced scout for the Greek National Baseball Team for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The Greek team finished in 7th place. Nobody plays baseball in Greece. It's hard to scout in North America to begin with, now imagine scouting in a country where maybe a thousand people play the sport.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 02:27 PM) Unless your name is Alex Anthopoulos. He can't spell mistake. I doubt he even knows how to spell his name (I don't)

When did Jo-Jo Reyes get traded to the Orioles?

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 03:09 PM) Yeah, I'm really sick of evaluating every single aspect of a baseball player based on OPS. I don't care if he's the best defensive 3B in the world, even that wouldn't make him a good player since his offense is so damn bad. Morel has so little power that his ISO is the same as Juan Pierre's! Yes, you read that correctly. Did I mention his SLG is lower than Pierre's as well? And did I also mention that his Batting Runs (based on wOBA) is 5 runs lower than Pierre's? You see everybody (mostly J4L) b****ing about Pierre's horrid offense and then you have...Brent Morel...who is even worse! Whoever told Morel to change his approach to a slappy singles hitter with no patience needs to get whacked with a bat. Because he would have been a lot more productive if he hit like he did in the short stint he was up here last season. To add on to this barrage of amazing Brent Morel facts... Morel is second to last in wOBA by a 3B in the AL with at least 250 PAs (3rd to last in all of baseball). He has the second worst wRC+ of any 3B in baseball. In both of those cases, he is only beaten by the one and only Chone Figgins. Morel's .252 wOBA (which is lower than his BA, something I've rarely seen) is 4th worst in all of baseball among players with at least 250 PAs, and his wRC+ is third worst in all of baseball. So...Morel needs to take some walks and stop hitting like Juan Pierre.

Reyes who?

Phew...

FINALLY!

TAKE HIM OUT!