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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:14 PM) I think this is one of those seasons we'll just go back and forth between .500 and ten games under...can just never over the hump. Not as bad as 2007, but more frustrating...because we're in it "just enough" to keep from doing anything to change our roster or TRY any younger players on an extended basis. Basically, you described Baseball Hell. Looks like 2012 will be another one of those seasons where we're hoping players play up to the expectations because we're sure as hell not doing a lot of trading and FA signings.

"Look at the play by Pena..." IT WAS HIT RIGHT TO HIM! He had to move a foot to his right.

If you cant hit that last meatball from Zambrano you don't deserve to play. That has to be the 10th hanger he has thrown down the middle.

Rios, Teahen, Pierre........ Six more outs to score three runs, it seems.

LOL at the fans cheering the ball hitting the umpire.

I hate the feel of this game, from Floyd pitching terribly to Zambrano getting away with filth, and now that last call against Ramirez? It feels like something else goofy is going to happen, like an injury or we'll come back only to lose.

Somehow, Zambrano hanging sliders are the most devastating pitches known to man. No one can square them up.

What's going to annoy me is the Marmol 9th inning. Someone please tell professional hitters to just stand up at the plate and not swing. It's maddening watching him pitch, because its as if no one realizes it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:50 PM) Here's what kills me. We were up, 3-0 and the s***ty Cubs don't quit and take a 6-3 lead. You think there's any way in hell we come back from our own 3-run deficit? No f***ing way. No, I don't think they'll come back. But the Cubs were down 3-0 in the 1st. We're down three in the 6th.

of course that ball is foul. Lets give Pena an opportunity to drive in some runs!

Pink Floyd coming out this inning. Pitching scared and losing his balls in the process.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:39 PM) That was a waste of an inning. Zambrano isn't really bringing that much, the Sox should be lighting him up. And I know Konerko has a HR, but jesus, he has had about four hangers from Zambrano alone in his ABs that he has just stared at.

If this were the White Sox going against someone who's hot, and someone who's not is on deck in this situation, we would be killed. The player would hit a three run HR.

WALK KONERKO! Why even take a chance?

Hawk: "That'll get the job done...." May as well hit and run on every Pierre AB because you're guaranteed a weak groundout somewhere. One of the few ways we can make JP productive.

Pena loses a few more pounds every time I watch him.

Zambrano's pacing after pitches. The anger inside that man is building!

Wow, Zambrano's stuff is flat. He has nothing, atleast at this point. That last slider from Quentin that he whiffed on was terrible.

Leadoff single from Pierre. Even if he doesn't run, Pierre can atleast fluster the hell out of Zambrano here.

Good stuff from Floyd thus far. He has done well locating his fastball and the last curveball to DeWitt was filth. Good sign when he's on this early.

There it is, yet again. It's entirely up to Williams to remove Pierre and his influence from the team. Guillen will NEVER get it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:37 PM) Credit to this board as the reaction to getting dominated by Hudson was a lot less intense than was to be expected It's an embarrassment, but as Greg and others have suggested, it was entirely predictable.

QUOTE (Bighurt52235 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 06:50 PM) In addendum, it is very easy to hit a golfball 400+ feet. I would love to drive golfballs all over and out of US Cellular with a bat. When I was younger I would hit golfballs from the homeplate area of a nearby park with a driver. Bats were too loud. We would play homerun derby not with the immediate field, but the field that extended beyond it -- easily over 500 ft out.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) If EJax gets shelled and Hudson throws a gem PHT should probably just be on a 1 day close down I have a expectation of this scenario occuring. It's a feeling similar to pre-Minnesota games. And much like Minnesota games, even though I expect a loss it'll still irritate me when it happens.

During the game Anthony Reyes pitched against us several years ago, Hawk was going on about his old-school mechanics and how great of a pitcher he was going to be one day. I remember for quite awhile afterward people were obsessing over him and trying to find ways of including him in trade scenarios with St. Louis. Additional names: Corey Patterson (esp. when he was with the Cubs) Nate Cornejo Kila Ka'aihue (He played a limited time in 2008, and every year since then, but I recall Hawk going overboard with praise on this kid.)