That's How We All Feel, AJ

normally, your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while i’m in a transitional period so i don’t wanna kill you, i wanna help you. but i can’t give you this division; it don’t belong to me. besides, i’ve already been through too much shit this season to hand it over to your dumb asses.

best,

toonder

makes it easier to take when it’s just score updates. looks like the halos are deciding to lose to the tiggers as we’re losing to the carmines.

though i fear for the moment when kenwo hits some form of sobriety and a keyboard. i wouldn’t wish attendance to the past two games as a visiting fan on my worst enemy.

Also pretty sure AJ would be pissed if we had a ten game lead and he struck out, the at bats where he doesn’t get a hit/walk and doesn’t slam his bat on the ground must be in the minority.

At least one aspect of the Sox goes wrong every night: starting pitching, hitting, fielding, bullpen.

RIP 2009 Season

So does this feel better than ‘07, since our record is better? I think it feels worse. I remember some DB saying how really bad teams are more entertaining (I remember the DB – do you? – smiles) because there is no emotional/intellectual investment. And if you check Sept’s threads you’ll have the tumbleweeds blow by from the last of activity.

This year, so many moves, so much speculation, so much hope. And still, we aree within striking distance. The amount of energy we are expending to grind our wheels on the REAL “treadmill to nowhere” could power Cominskey Field for through 2010. Was it Bob Knight that said “When you are getting cornholed, lie back and enjoy it”? (Actually, it started as a joke in the ’50’s. But I digress.)

I’m enjoying this. But I’m part German.

This team is flawed right now, but they’ll be much better next year. We all got carried away with MB’s perfecto and Beckham’s unholy tear and the addition of Peavy and Rios. But let’s look at what we got here:

Q in LF – injured, not 100%
Pods in CF – nuff said
JD in RF – Old, I suspect he’s nursing some injury
Rios – just got here, Ozzie’s keeping him on the bench for whatever reason

Beckham 3B – playing out of position, and looks like he’s hitting the wall playing his first full professional season
Ramirez SS – playing a new position
Getz/Nix 2B – rookies, not the most talented players
Konerko – old, looking tired

Thome – old, looking tired

AJ – old, looking tired

MB – getting older, looking tired
Contreras – old, sad and depressed, but hasn’t thrown enough to be tired
5th starter? – pull a name out of a hat each week
Linebrink – old, needs to be taken behind the barn and put out of his misery
Thornton – only reliable BP arm left, overused

IMO the biggest problem has been the defense. I look for a lot of improvement defensively next year, especially with the guys having made the adjustment to new positions and having Rios in CF full time. This team just gave away way too many cheap runs this year,and the offense hasn’t been strong enough to pick up the slack.

But hey, they stayed in contention for most of this year while rebuilding on the fly and gave us some entertaining baseball for a while at least. Another division championship would’ve been nice, but they’re running on fumes right now same as they did at the end of the season last year. Face it, we would’ve been one and done in the playoffs anyhow. Making the playoffs just would’ve meant earning enough extra money to keep JD or Thome around for another year. I’ve seen enough of them so it won’t kill me to see them gone next year – tut mir Leid, aber nicht weh.

Rookie and all. Getz is still leading the AL in rookie hits if I’m not mistaken. Adding looking tired to everything makes it look better I guess. Nix. Young. Looking Tired. Rios. Lazy. Looking Tired. Fangraphs. Old. Looking Tired.

Richard was our leading hitter at .333. KW IZ AN IDIOT.

Even still if some miracle doesnt happen I won’t look at some laundry list of reasons they failed to snatch a winnable division. The Sox simply gave away too many games this ear. No rocket science needed to figure that out. Regardless I’m still excited for the future and the fat lady hasn’t sang just yet.

including a K and a popped up bunt with men on 1st and 2nd and none out in the 9th trailing by 1 run.
at least i got that going for me.

Best story of the year

Linebrink. Is he moveable in the offseason?

It’s a 2 year, 10.5 million dollar contract at this point. Agree to toss in some cash.

Or do you bet on a comeback?

Just fuck it.

Is that accurate?

Has someone started a “Fuck Scott Linebrink” (FSL) meme yet?

Also, I’d like to pass the following on to Ozzie: Linebrink only enters the game when the Sox are down by 6 or more in the 8th.

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