I don't care what our record is or what the result of the game ends up (well, I do, but thats not the point) because at the end of day we will never have to see this s*** hole again!

Amen.

I hate that f***ing place. If I was in the area, I would stop and take a piss on it.

 

I hope we win 12-0.

I loved the skit the other day with Hawk pushing the button to blow the place up. I'd pay money to do it myself.

About f**ing time. How about everyone there bring grenades?

I find it really sad that this team is unable to win there. They are a main division rival and the Sox suck there.

 

I can not wait for this season to be over and changes to be made to this pathetic group.

Yeah, major changes have to be made to this team. Obviously the bad things are magnified right now with them playing so bad, but it's time to get away from the "let's wait for the home run" attitude. This team needs to jettison the old slowness and get down to speed and manufacturing runs.

Assuming we lose, if I say, “Blow This s*** Up”, I mean both the team and the f***ing MetroDome.

I doubt our fortunes will change dramatically there. But at least we will not feel the ghosts of past collapse.

Go get em Mark Buerhle and let's win this last one at the HumphreyDump

 

I think this game is on WGN so I'll record it for later viewing if we win. Otherwise it will self destruct

Thank the Lord.

Are we going to get Flowers today?

i really want me some tyler flowers

Flowers don't bloom indoors. Ugh.

It'd only be fitting to be swept out of the dome for the last time ever..

Are we going to get Flowers today?

 

Cowley reporting Castro get's the start today, unfortunately.

Yeah, major changes have to be made to this team. Obviously the bad things are magnified right now with them playing so bad, but it's time to get away from the "let's wait for the home run" attitude. This team needs to jettison the old slowness and get down to speed and manufacturing runs.

 

The let's wait for the HR attitude worked fine when we were 1-2 in HRs. Now that our HRs are way down it's not so fun anymore.

I don't think with the Sox Park that you really need so called HR hitters anyway. Its easy to hit em out that you could have more line drive hitters and still be able to knock em out. The softball team s*** hasn't worked and won't work.

Yeah, major changes have to be made to this team. Obviously the bad things are magnified right now with them playing so bad, but it's time to get away from the "let's wait for the home run" attitude. This team needs to jettison the old slowness and get down to speed and manufacturing runs.

Yes, because if our chances have been helped by anything this year it's been by bunting and having Pods get picked off trying to steal a base.

Podsednik dh

Beckham 3b

Konerko 1b

Dye rf

Quentin lf

Ramirez ss

Rios cf

Nix 2b

Castro c

 

Span cf

Cabrera ss

Mauer c

Morneau 1b

Kubel dh

Cuddyer rf

Harris 3b

Young lf

Casilla 2b

Yeah, major changes have to be made to this team. Obviously the bad things are magnified right now with them playing so bad, but it's time to get away from the "let's wait for the home run" attitude. This team needs to jettison the old slowness and get down to speed and manufacturing runs.

If the Sox go to a team that relies on "manufacturing" runs in the AL and with 81 games in the Cell they'll lose and be a terrible team.

 

Don't get me wrong, this team has, and seems to be, getting more athletic with a little more speed, but with the league and home ball park they still need to put some focus on power.

 

 

Yes, because if our chances have been helped by anything this year it's been by bunting and having Pods get picked off trying to steal a base.

T-Bolt, I don't mean to make an example of you, but you just happen to be the latest one to make a remark like this, so I want to just point something out.

 

There is a position in the middle of these two extremes. Just by going away from the "softball-type hitting, wait for the three-run homer approach" does not mean you go to the "smallball/smartball/ozzieball method of throwing away outs by attempting only to move runners over by sacrificing all the time. There IS a happy medium. And real baseball teams actually play within that medium.

 

Again, this is not directed at you, Thunderbolt, but there is a chasm that exists on Soxtalk between those that will present extreme value of the home run and the OBP and all that, and those that champion the manufacturing of runs through stealing bases, sacrificing, etc. Just because a poster does not advocate one of these positions does not mean he, by default, advocates the opposite extreme.

 

What we are going for here is something in the middle. I think most of us realize that.

If the Sox go to a team that relies on "manufacturing" runs in the AL and with 81 games in the Cell they'll lose and be a terrible team.

 

Don't get me wrong, this team has, and seems to be, getting more athletic with a little more speed, but with the league and home ball park they still need to put some focus on power.

 

 

I think most people go to polar opposites when they talk about lineup construction. The reaction to our issues with offense is that we need to abandon power hitters completely. its really about a balanced lineup. You need a power core in the middle of the lineup to provide high OBP, power, and the ability to drive in runs wrapped around with more pure hitters. Guys who can make solid contact, don't strike out and can hit doubles are the pure hitters that can augment your lineup. Having 9 guys who swing for the fences is dumb, as is having 9 singles hitters.

Podsednik dh

Beckham 3b

Konerko 1b

Dye rf

Quentin lf

Ramirez ss

Rios cf

Nix 2b

Castro c

 

come on Oz, you're 7 back and in third place. Why not throw out a lineup like..

 

1. Pods-LF

2. Beckham- SS

3. Quentin- RF

4. Konerko- 1B

5. Dye- DH

6. Ramirez- 2B

7. Rios- CF

8. Flowers- C

9. Fields- 3B

I don't think with the Sox Park that you really need so called HR hitters anyway. Its easy to hit em out that you could have more line drive hitters and still be able to knock em out. The softball team s*** hasn't worked and won't work.

 

Worked just fine in 2005. And worked in 2006 from an offensive standpoint, it was just too bad the pitching staff sucked. Softball team s*** got us to the playoffs last year.