No Dome Excuses, White Sox Just Not Very Good

Let’s go tomorrow Mark. At least take one game back.

even though hes listed as being paid nothing. hardy harr harr. way to rub it in

But in a contract year you’d have to think he can keep it going at the spry young age of 32.

So you throw a rotation of Danks, Floyd, Peavy, Jackson, and Buehrle and I like my chances to compete in ‘11, just like we’ve seemed to be able to do recently – I mean all you can ask for is to be able to compete for the division. We know Kenny’s never going to make that blockbuster trade or monumental FA signing to allow us to compete with certain teams & some of our current contracts don’t make it easy to pull off those deals, but if we can piece together a decent offense with a sophomore-slumpless Beckham, I don’t think ‘11 will be too bad. It would also be nice to have Konerko back as he’s proven age is no factor when it comes to his production.

that can be made up in 2 weeks if we get hot again. settle down. i remember the death march of 2008… and we ended up winning at the end when 3 days prior nobody would have bet on us that we would.

ozzie needs to go though. telling me (and you) to fuck off for like the 10th time? fuck that guy. i was a fan before he got here as a player and i will be a fan long after he’s gone. what a piece of shit he is.

with estimated arbitrations, adding Beckham and Jackson, and assuming Jenks is non-tendered, we are at 80M for next year. That leaves 20M to spend on RF, C, 1B, 3B and the bullpen. (Carlos goes to DH). Lets say we bite the bullet at 3B and start Teahen until Morel is hopefully ready around June (feel free to discredit me here larry). We take a risk with Flowers starting at catcher, but then we will need a backup that can play up to 40 games or so in case he doesnt turn out. I feel that Castro will be ok but we may have to spend more. That leaves us with RF and 1B and a little under 20 M and we give Putz a raise of 3-4M (we still have an option for thornton at 3 million which is awesome). That leaves us with 15M for 1B and RF. Say we give Paulie 16M 2 years, that gives us 7-8M for RF, which leaves us out of Werth range.

So who can we get for RF for 7M? and this is complelty contingent on Morel and Flowers playing capably.

It’s all about the pitching…the Sox just don’t have it anymore. Score 8 runs and lose, score 6 runs three times and lose. The pitching was great during the 25-5 run. Now the correction is taking place.

We are gonna have Edwin Jackson and hopefully Peavy for all next year!

Make you competitive, but you need a new C, 3B, RF, bench and 2 (more likely 3) bullpen arms. Even IF they were to go cheap with Flowers/Morel (with Q as DH and Teahen in RF [or vice versa]), that’s not a good team. Still offensively challenged with no power and no OBP.

Plus, it all goes to pot if either Kenny or Ozzie get the ax….

twins runs scored since july: 7, 7, 3, 7, 12, 1, 6, 7, 7

now if you wanna go back to that baltimore series that didn’t matter, i’ll bring an extra case of haterade.

should read “Not Good Enough”. I said what bothered me in the beginning of the season was our penchant for coughing up leads and not being able to win one run games. The little things we all bitched about in the off-season that were not completed have shown up at the most inopportune times – as you would expect.

A good team. Not good enough. And now Teh Twinn will have Teh Resources to stay ahead. Sigh.

Just Not Good Enough!
How long is this roller coaster ride? April – May, everything sucks – hitting – pitching – bullpen.
June – July – Oh the glory – everything very good.
August – sucksville.
Again – I hope this roller coaster doesn’t end where it began.

Nothing like the manager of your favorite team telling the most loyal portion of the fanbase to fuck off and stop watching the Sox. Your wish just may be granted.

Ahh I miss you June/July.

His comments about the fans and Thome last night were the final straw. I waffled earlier this year, but no longer. Burn this whole thing down. The fuck yous, the Mark Teahen extension (THREE YEARS AND 15 MILLION), the Nick Swisher trade(S), counting on Omar Vizquel, the inability to play within t…he division, the lack of farm system, more focus on social networking and the internet than the damn team, the total dick sucking of the Twins, the same talk (year in and year out) about improving fundamentals and the failure consistency to do just that, the trading/signing for/of over the hill veterans, the overplaying of those same veterans….I’m over the whole thing. The whole damn thing. Fire them both, if you can. But, since Jerry won’t do that, Kenny gets one (ONE) more year. Ozzie’s gotta go now.

Now I feel a little bit better after ranting. But I still want his head.

In case Guillen hasn’t been keeping count, Sox batters have been hit by pitches 58 times this season, the most in the American League. On the other side, Sox pitchers have hit only 24 batters, fewest in the AL.

Not news…but the comment following the story is hiliarious:

Hey LA, we’ll send u JOBATARD and GAUDIN 4 MANNY LOL I would just love to see the SUX fans reactions if he came to the WC YANKS

not sure if this was already posted, but why not give him a shot?

  vs. RHP vs. LHP

LF – Pierre Pierre
2B – Bacon Bacon
CF – Rios Rios
1B – Paulie Paulie
RF – Werth Werth
DH – Q Q
3B – Teahen Viciedo
SS – Che Che
C – Doumit Jake Fox

Starters – Danks, Floyd, Peavy, Buehrle, Jackson
Bullpen – Linebrink (yuk), Harrell, Sale, Pena, Santos, Thornton, Putz

Utility – Brignac, Reed Johnson
Mgr. Cora
Gone – AJ, Andruw, Kotsay, Vizquel, Castro, Lillibridge, Jenks, Ozzie
New – Werth, Doumit, Fox, R. Johnson, Brignac

hahn for gm
put kw in a vp role

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