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Konerko said he didn't step on first during that 6th inning and that the umpire screwed up...

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:25 PM) Exactly, I’ve never claimed that he has to be an expert or even a believer. But surely someone has said to him, “Hey, Ozzie. Did you know that if a stolen bass percentage is below 75% you’re wasting a s*** load of outs?” Or hey, “how about it cuts your chances of scoring a run into thirds if you bunt like you do?” Or, “Hey Ozzie. Take a look at these matchups! Do you see how Markakis hits against lefties? Maybe Sale isn’t the best idea?” Or, “ hey Ozzie. Andrew Jones and Mark Kotsay suck. Seriously, Kotsay is one of the worst players in all of baseball. ” Ozzie is way too full of himself to listen to anybody else.

QUOTE (striker @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:18 PM) Ozzie probably has math skills at a 3rd grade level so don't count on him using sabermetrics. I wouldn't be surprised. I think I'm more pissed off that he always sac bunts with Pierre on first. Like if the game is close and Pierre is on first, he'll always try to bunt him over. Yet, in almost every other situation, Pierre is always free to steal.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) Like someone said in this thread earlier. We're going to lose this division because of pitching. *rolls eyes* HEY, PUTZ DID GIVE UP THE GAME-WINNING HOME RUN.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) DAllen said he thought Thornton tweaked something Might be nothing. With the way he pitched, you couldn't really tell.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) So how did Jackson look tonight? Good. He got screwed by the defense in the 6th. At least he didn't get the loss, that would have been a shame.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:09 PM) There's going to be a serious sabermetric deconstruction of this team when the year is out. It is not going to be pretty. There will certainly have some great findings. It's like a science experiment - see what happens when your manager wastes a bunch of outs.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:09 PM) Looks like Ozzie got his ass handed to him by Showalter once again. Horrible all around series...I hate Ozzieball! And is Thornton hurt? This is what Ozzie gets for f***ing with Buck back in the day. If I remember correctly, Ozzie started it all because he thought Showalter's lineup cards were too fancy? Has to be karma.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 12:50 AM) Oh for sure, but you can't let one season's worth of poor numbers scare you off of fairly young talent... As we saw with the Haren trade, some teams will take small sample sizes seriously.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:05 PM) And now the genius manager is going to burn through our bullpen the night before a series with Minny. Put Liebrink or Pena in fu*k you Ozzie u piece of s. t. U an ur horrble offesense and decisions lost this game. I hope ur stubborness for Kotsay costs u ur job when we fizzle out the rest of the year. One more time f**k u Ozzie guillen, ur a lucky manager. KW you better rectify this BS offense. What a joke Baltimore. Fk Calm down man...

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 09:05 PM) Bunting twice with no one out was really, really dumb. That's what Ozzie does. He loves wasting outs.

Well this game sucked.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:52 PM) I just replayed it 3 times, Thornton definitely tweaked something in his arm or elbow that last pitch. It didn't seem unusual to me.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) Is Bobby available tonight? We're likely going to need him to close this out in the bottom of the 12th. I don't even want to think about Bobby closing a game right now. I want enough runs so that we don't have to worry about him getting a save.

A.J. could have had a 3-0 count there.

Who was it that called PK's home run? I know somebody did.

QUOTE (southsidepride15 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:21 PM) I understand. The fact is though is that these types of series' will happen throughout a 162 season, no matter how good of a club you put out there. If the O's are just "bad" and we lose 3-4 to them then are we "bad" or "worse than bad" at 15 games over .500?? All I'm asking is that we don't expect to play .800 ball and run away with it. I want as bad as anyone to pound these teams, but since we're not, the upcoming series' with Det. and Minny are all that much more of a gut check for team called the White Sox that we're all still apparently so unsure of. We're not asking for .800 ball, we're asking for .500 ball against the worst team in baseball.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:18 PM) To quote Ranger; If we don't make the playoffs, it's cause of pitching. Talk about trying to make a point...

lol why is he sueing Rawlings and Castro again? Did they make the bat "too hard"?

QUOTE (southsidepride15 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) Yeah, blow it up...we're terrible. Twins rule. We go on a bad stretch of a few games against a "bad team" (there are no bad teams) and everyone's ready to pack it in and b#$% about how we look like we did in April and May. NEWSFLASH: It's not going to come easy. We just might have to play the last 50 games and see what happens. I need you to something for me. Scroll up to the top of this page. Look at what is inside of the parenthesis after "Orioles". Now tell me if you think there are bad teams... They're 37 games under .500 and they have 37 wins.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 08:08 PM) shhhhhh, u might be accused of being "negative" Stating facts like those will definitely count as being negative.

I've had enough of this bulls*** from the offense. My god.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 07:58 PM) Castro cant catch for EJax. AJ way better at blocking in the dirt A.J. had a passed ball earlier on a strikeout.

Horrible play by Konerko, just terrible.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) The strategy of 'dont waste any outs ever' works when you have a skull-crusher of an offense to make up for it. We don't, so I think most here would rather get runners in scoring position when you can. It works better in that type of offense, but overall, it works well for the average offense, too.