Chicago White Sox

Get this guy out of here. He's going to walk Eibner in.

Bringing in a god damn rookie in a super high leverage situation. What a f***ing asshole. I hate Robin with a motherf***ing passion. f*** this chump.

f*** you Robin, you stupid mothef***er. You are a f***ing joke and I hope you never coach another game again.

Holy f*** this is a disaster.

Never mind he's clearly safe.

Challenge!!

I will f***ing lose my s*** if our closer blows a six run lead in the 9th.

What kind of stuff does Cooper have? He's been one of just a handful of pleasant surprises.

QUOTE (daggins @ May 28, 2016 -> 09:31 AM) bad every time I hear Buddy Bell talk about player development I become more convinced he is a Royals plant with a mission to destroy the Sox from the ground up. His development strategy seems to be "Let them do what they always have done, and if they fail, well, they weren't going to make it anyways." What's funny is I'm pretty sure he basically said that in his interview with raBBit. Bell is a real problem IMO and I'm shocked they've kept him this long. Also, I thought when Steverson was brought in we were going to develop a systematic approach to hitting. Unfortunately outside of a handful of guys, the approach still seems to be swing away.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2016 -> 08:40 AM) How did they perform after the bench clearing brawl vs KC last year? I believe they went 8-6 and then got f***ed over by the Baltimore riots.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 28, 2016 -> 06:57 AM) To be fair, some of the hits off of Albers were doinks, abetted by Rollins' lousy defense. He can't hit right handed pitching at all, his D shows his age, and Cooper/Ventura insist that he play 5/7....maybe it's Rollins who should get the DFA. Yeah, I'm not sure I put that much blame on Albers. That was an ideal situation to use Jones and Robin failed to do so.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 28, 2016 -> 06:41 AM) That was near the end of April, 2000. Yes, look at their record in May-July of that season...zipped to the best record in baseball. Rob Fick flipped off everyone, Jeff Weaver and Juan Samuel were other big elements of it. That's what I thought. A fight could do wonders for this team, just need to be more strategic than last year's altercation with the Royals. Instead of Sale getting into the middle of the action, we need guys like Sands & Rollins to step up. Also, loved when Fick got that beer dumped on him. And the Magglio jump kick. What an awesome fight.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 28, 2016 -> 02:11 AM) I hate to be a negative prick, but we have no chance in this game. Sox lost all the mojo it had. Yes at one point we were so hot and confident we had a chance to play with KC and beat KC. Now forget it. We are fodder for them. Look for about 5-7 wins against KC this year 12 to 14 losses. Sorry but that's the case. After last night, today is a no brainer KC victory. There is momentum in baseball. KC owns us and has set the tone at 3-1 vs. Chicago in four games this season already. Today should be something like 7-3 or 7-1 KC Please keep the Royals love out of this thread...thanks.

Ventura and Lawrie have beef right? I wouldn't mind some of those feelings spilling over to the field today. Didn't the Sox perform well after that famous Tigers fight during the Jerry Manual era? Anything that might shake things is good by me.

I am so sick and tired of losing. If this team has any heart, they will come out this afternoon and simply f*** KC up. 1st place is at stake and we will see what this team is made of coming off a painful loss. Go Sox!

He doesn't need to go, but he should only be used in low leverage situations until he proves otherwise.

Wow, not that far away from back to back to back.

Wow, that big middle finger fixed our offense! Five runs already scored since posted!

Oh s*** it worked! The nightmare is over!!!

Hey offense, you're being perfect gamed right now by Danny Duffy? Do you realize how pathetic that is? Man the f*** and bunt for a hit or some s***. Do anything and everything to get on base just once! Losing our divisional lead by being perfect gamed would the most epic fail ever! ________________$$$$ ______________$$____$$ ______________$$____$$ ______________$$____$$ ______________$$____$$ ______________$$____$$ __________$$$$$$____$$$$$$ ________$$____$$____$$____$$$$ ________$$____$$____$$____$$__$$ $$$$$$__$$____$$____$$____$$____$$ $$____$$$$________________$$____$$ $$______$$______________________$$ __$$____$$______________________$$ ___$$$__$$______________________$$ ____$$__________________________$$ _____$$$________________________$$ ______$$______________________$$$ _______$$$____________________$$ ________$$____________________$$ _________$$$________________$$$ __________$$________________$$ __________$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This offense needs to wake the f*** up and do so now. And if it doesn't, some sort of coaching change needs to be made. I get the players are responsible for their on-field performance, but when basically the entire lineup is struggling at the same time it's something bigger than that. These guys are clearly pressing and whatever Robin, Steverson, & Sparks are doing isn't helping based on the length of this slump. We're quickly approaching the point of firing someone simply to stir some s*** up.

Danny f***ing Dufffy is throwing a no-hitter through 4. No wonder caulfield is so excited.

Rollins has a .485 OPS against RHP, which is absolutely horrible. Despite crushing LHP, he's basically been a replacement level player so far. Our goal this offseason was to replace the replacement level & negative WAR players with solid 2 WAR types and Rollins isn't that. Challenge the word "disaster" all you like, but I can't think of a better word to describe trotting Rollins out in the two-hole day after day against RHP. While that ultimately falls on Robin, it doesn't change the fact how Jimmy is impacting our lineup. His performance has sucked and the signing as of now hasn't worked out. There is still some hope if Robin starts looking at splits and realizes whaf kind of player Jimmy is now. Not very optimistic on that front though. Also, let me add that I agree Jimmy has added value in the clubhouse and that I was a fan of signing him partly due to that reason. However, once it became apparent he can longer hit RHP, his time as regular should have ended. I don't want to cut Rollins by any means, but his role need to change because he's hurting the team right now.

As soon as we guarantee that extra year or control, Anderson should be called up. Rollins has been a disaster and clearly the Sox don't have a lot of faith in Saladino being a passable regular. Anderson will struggle at first, but no way can he be worse than Rollins has been. And I think spending some time with Rollins would be fantastic for his development. Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Danny Hayes called up to take some starts at DH. Sands serves no purpose on this team as currently constructed unless we're willing to send down Avi (which seems unlikely). Against RHP: 1. Eaton, RF 2. Anderson, SS 3. Abreu, 1B 4. Frazier, 3B 5. Cabrera, LF 6. Lawrie, 2B 7. Hayes, DH 8. Catcher (50/50 split) 9. Jackson, CF Against LHP: 1. Eaton, RF 2. Anderson, SS 3. Abreu, 1B 4. Frazier, 3B 5. Cabrera, LF 6. Lawrie, 2B 7. Garcia, DH 8. Navarro, C 9. Jackson, CF

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 26, 2016 -> 08:21 AM) He probably did get fired in Miami at least in part due to his comments on Castro, though. Sox should send down Sands and call up Hayes.