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It will be a mockery to the award if hawk wins it. horrible, horrible announcer.

I like awards to have integrity. Awards that are a joke like GG's annoy me. If i vote for hawk, i feel like I'm furthering degradation of the integrity of the award. Hawk is a lousy ass announcer tbh. I'm getting tired of him living in hyperbole land where there are guys every single game that are "the best he ever saw" at something. Gets annoying and you know he is talking out of his ass.

1b: konerko 2b: tadahito iguchi SS: juan uribe 3b: joe crede RF: jermaine dre CF: aaron rowand LF: scott podsednik C: AJ pierzynski! DH: carl everett SP: contreras, buehrle, freddy garcia, jon garland, el duque RP: polite, cotts, jenks, hermanson, viscaino, marte DL: frank thomas

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 15, 2013 -> 09:43 PM) Agreed. I can't even stand to pay attention anymore. Move on. Next. (Before Greg protests, Konerko's the greatest Sox player of the post-Thomas generation, and he's always going to be appreciated by Sox fans, JR, statues, Konerko Days, etc.) speaking of konerko, what is Dye doing now a days? maybe he could play RF while avisail garcia plays center. Dye is a white sox legend. I'm sure he could still hit.

leury = piece of garbage

anybody putting dunn in the 2014 lineup must be under the assumption that he has a bodyguard. if not, his life is in serious danger. greg just might order a hit on him or take him out himself.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2013 -> 02:08 PM) Adam Dunn has one home run this month after hitting four in August and five in July. That's still pretty pedestrian slugger numbers for a LONG stretch of games. He's 4 for 38 this month with 21 Ks. He hit .148 and .165 in April and May respectively. So basically 2 1/2 months of the year he's been totally and utterly pathetic. He's hitting .197 vs. lefties this season with six homers in 117 at bats with .294 OBP. If we're going to keep him I would get somebody he can platoon with at DH. Play him only vs. righties where he still strikes out at an alarming rate and I would truly spot his playing time in April and May. Who cares if we anger him. He'll be finally gone after next year anyway. Platoon him. In August he did hit .267 with 13 RBIs. At one point he was 8 for 15 against Detroit and Minnie in games where he was supposedly hitting to all fields more. The bulk of that damage was in 3 games vs. Minnie. wait- you want to platoon a guy who will be making 15 million a year, but you defended ozzie to death when he played highly paid guys JUST because they were highly paid, even when they were playing like crap? agenda! hypocrite!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 9, 2013 -> 10:46 PM) I'd demand to see an accurate birth certificate on Abreu by the way. I'd like the Sox's future a lot better if we had a stud catcher like KC's Sal Perez. If the Sox sign Abreu and Grandy, I wouldn't mind seeing us bring back AJP one year. I know that makes us older, but not that much. You are subbing Grandy for DeAza (trade him for whatever you can get) while waiting for the Sox's outfield prospects to develop and subbing Abreu for Paulie. If those 2 guys hit and Beckham, Lexi and A. Garcia have big seasons, you could use an AJP for a season. Phegs can be AJ's sub. Arguably, Abreu, Grandy and AJ could help this lineup. True we would get much older in one swoop, but like I said they aren't blocking anybody and the young outfielders become that much closer to being ready for the bigs. I'm talking about Mitchell, Thompson, etc. What do you think? Forget about the fact I'm adding age; think about how I'm adding bats and the age of these guys won't matter in a year or two anyway when the young guys are ready. I'd pass on McCann for now and just give it to AJ for 3-4 million a year while putting off long-range plans for a stellar catcher one more year. With AJ available and still not finished ... why not take advantage of the cost savings there?? On paper, this lineup has a fighting chance to win some of the close games we lost this season. Of course if the defense remains crap, it will not matter a bit what changes we make. DEFENSE MUST COMPLEMENT THE PITCHING!! I wouldn't be surprised if AJ juiced last year. i dont buy that jump in homeruns at that age. either way, going on 37, i expect a significant decline for a catcher. no thanks.

f***. avisail and semien aren't even playing. i wish semien would get more time... i dont care to see veterans put up good stats anymore. theres still time for somebody to blow it

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Sep 9, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) I've heard June 8th as the date when he started his new approach. Even with the current slump he's been in, his stats from June 8th to today are as follows. .273/.372/.500 slash with 18 hrs and 51 rbis. Even with your hatred of Dunn you can't argue against those numbers. This bum could have hit .300 if he stuck with his hitting away approach. What happened to that? Too bad his wife loves those Benjamins too much to let him retire. Worst I ever saw since Alex Rios.

i think kenny just gave ozzie all he wanted that season knowing he would crash and burn. it was well known this was ozzie's preferred way of constructing the team. it really magnified how bad of a manager he was.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 5, 2013 -> 12:25 PM) What part of a roster of Juan Pierre's doesn't sound awesometacular to you? scrap city b**** scrap scrap city b****

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 4, 2013 -> 03:15 PM) None. It would take an order from Jerry to bring him back. Ozzie is pretty much unhireable cause of Castro and the other comments. and because he is a lousy manager. i have a question for you greg. do you defend ozzie's choice of getting rid of thome for mark kotsay?

this is one of the first times i will feel comfortable saying... GO CUBS GO, GO CUBS GO, HEY CHICAGO WHATAYA SAY, THE CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 3, 2013 -> 09:19 PM) Ozzie does seem humbled to me. I don't know if anyone would ever hire him again, but I think he would be about baseball and not about Ozzie for at least a little while now. probably just an act so he can get back into baseball. not sure anybody would hire him again. everybody saw how absolutely dreadful he was with the later sox clubs and that highly paid marlins club. he is just too damn stubborn of a manager. he refuses to acknowledge new age stats and ways of managing. i can't forgive him for giving up thome for mark freaking kotsay. thome was still productive as hell the next season. just no excuse for that.

did anybody else think hawk called the sox the "sux" right as the game ended? sure sounded like it

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 31, 2013 -> 12:13 PM) Did you say Oz ? I love Oz he was a great player and great manager. He has so much personality. He's fun not like boring old Ventura. Ozzie should manage the Sox again and hire Frank Thomas as hitting coach.If Ozzie could have stifled himself he'd have worked forever. His resume will forever include the only Chicago WS title in modern history. Odds are neither Chicago team will win another one in the next 20-50 years so he's going to be a legend a long, long time. True. It's a shame Kenny wanted Oz gone so badly and that garbage Marlins owner was too cheap and set Oz up to fail

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 31, 2013 -> 07:13 AM) Does AJP even stand a chance with a bum like Rios on the roster( The power of 2005 is much greater than the negative impact of a bum. AJ will channel his inner Oz and win multiple championships

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 10:36 AM) My guess is around the 50-60 range. Many people will try to poke holes at his age and the fact that he isn't exactly a strikeout pitcher. I think Micah Johnson and Semien are on the bubble right now, but will crack the list depending on how they fare in AFL. Anderson will be in the 80+ range based on based, position, and his plus speed. He's averaging a strikeout and inning in AAA

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 08:47 AM) Honestly, I think he should be anywhere in the 30 to 60 range. The only thing that really hurts his prospect value is that he doesn't have ace potential, but I seriously doubt you could find more than a handfull of SP prospects with higher floors than him. Short of injury, he will be a solid starting pitcher at the major league level and I think the odds are very good he's at least a #3 starter long-term. IMO, he should be closer to 30 than 60, but most of these sites value ceiling much higher than they do floor. Either way, Johnson proved this year he's a legit prospect and hopefully is a key part of our rotation for years to come. I dunno, with the way he is pitching at every level, i feel he can be a number 2.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 09:55 AM) Greg is Greg. I think people should utilize their ignore button instead of attempting to silence people. I mean, I think we fought a revolutionary war for that right... Lol, he's arguing about whether Greg is a troll or not. I think he has just become a parody of himself. He throws out his outlandish opinions, while completely ignoring logical arguments countering it, and then has a completely opposite and somewhat hypocritical view on another player or thing. I think greg is real, but he has just embraced how people react on his opinion and posts about Ozzie tbh.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 29, 2013 -> 08:39 PM) So its cool to be an asshole to other posters and call them names now if they have a different opinion on a topic? lettuce be cereal, greg deserved that

Greg is either a troll or has brain damage. one or the other.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 08:51 PM) I agree in as much as Hawk's dismissal of "modern" statistical player evaluations is short sited and comes off as bitter old guy. However, TWTW in some manner is what most people point to when they compare someone like LeBron James to Michael Jordan (or insert your own example of hero of yesteryear to current player). They always point to Michael's will and refusal to lose as the thing that separates him from everyone. Bill Russell had TWTW. Wilt Chamberlain did not. Really, how is it acceptable for ex-jocks and broadcasters to constantly say things like that, but Hawk's TWTW is the subject of ridicule? And i would call people who try to use "TWTW" to compare lebron and MJ morons. lebron has "TWTW"

QUOTE (hi8is @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 12:20 PM) LOSE 15 in a row WHITE SOX! BAD JUJU! BAAAAD JUJU!!! How can anybody want the sox to lose games? I'm rooting for them no matter what. go ozzie