Reading Room: A slightly less mobile Big Hurt unveiled
by Jim Margalus on Aug 1, 2011 4:28 PM CDT
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PrintIn case you missed it, here's the unveiling of the new Frank Thomas sculpture at U.S. Cellular Field. Besides the genuine appreciation Thomas showed for the moment, one other thing caught my attention: The White Sox need a bigger podium.
Hopefully this is it for the Thomas-devoted days, and not because I've had enough of the Big Hurt, but because they've lost both games in his honor.
More links below the jump.
Dan Patrick talks to the ever-fiery Paul Konerko, who pulls off his "Win one for The Gipper" moment:
DP: Will the White Sox reach the playoffs?
PK: Jury's out. We're leaning against it because we haven't been playing good baseball. The hard part of saying no is that we're four out with 67 to go [through Sunday]. And we haven't really come close—other than maybe the first 10 games of the year—to where we feel like we're doing what we want to do out there. You look at the positive, and you just keep grinding away. We've got to get better at a lot of things. The math is there that [making the playoffs] is totally possible.
Speaking of inspirational, Mark Buehrle says pitchers have to pick up for the offense when they're not scoring runs, but in text form, he almost sounds resigned.
James shares his thoughts on the trade deadline (in)action.
Another team trades Brandon Allen for a reliever - this time it's the Diamondbacks, who shipped him to Oakland for Brad Ziegler. Sure, Ziegler is more useful than Tony Pena, but Allen must have some kind of hole in his swing to the point where homers like this one don't sway people at all.
Rhubarb posted this in a fanshot, but in case you missed it, you have no excuse now.
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Ballantini:
Safe to say a fair # of #WhiteSox are enraged by Oney’s latest tweets on Mark Teahen + wife. One term used was “smash his face in”
http://twitter.com/CSNChi_Beatnik/status/98143508120080384
Whales! Squids! Sharks! They're everywhere! Hello, I am Poseidon! Now, when people told me I was crazy that thinly sliced roast beef would be a delicious fast-food option, I knew it was the greatest idea, and you can thank me later for Arby's.
i nominate rios.
it’s not like he’s getting any other use out of his bat.
by obnoxious american on Aug 1, 2011 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I see a new purpose for rios developing
clubhouse enforcer
Joe Buck is just White Noise to me. It’s like the game is being called by a CD of whale songs. - mechanical turk
wait,
if rios knocks his frickin head off and goes to jail, the sox are off the hook for his salary right? sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
by obnoxious american on Aug 1, 2011 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Just wait until Rios inadvertantly picks a fight with Oney...
and Oney tweets about Rios’ nonexistent abs.
Oh, will the feathers fly!
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rios' strikeout rate is at a career low.
like 11%.
i think you mean need someone who would make hard contact.
what did he say?
I saw some tweets saying he would never want an ugly wife but I don’t know if thats related
Joe Buck is just White Noise to me. It’s like the game is being called by a CD of whale songs. - mechanical turk
The Proactiv reference gives it away
Whales! Squids! Sharks! They're everywhere! Hello, I am Poseidon! Now, when people told me I was crazy that thinly sliced roast beef would be a delicious fast-food option, I knew it was the greatest idea, and you can thank me later for Arby's.
Is there a reason there's no link to Oney's twat? For those of us that can't see it?
I mean we’re getting the reactions here, but not the cause.
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
because it's an offense to the entire internet.
by obnoxious american on Aug 1, 2011 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
We quote Cowley, don't we?
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
Some
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
You want a link to Oney's Twitter feed, but you can't see it anyway?
He calls Teahen’s wife ugly in a couple of different ways, and then says he sucks. Pretty much the Ralph Waldo Emerson vs. Herman Melville exchange you’d come to expect from ballplayer vs. Oney tiffs.
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Not at work now, was able to read the linked one.
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
Fair to say Teabags started this?
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
i doubt it
So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.
this is oney we're talking about
Joe Buck is just White Noise to me. It’s like the game is being called by a CD of whale songs. - mechanical turk
Teahen response
If you follow Teahen’s reply chain to that tweet, he insists he isn’t talking about Oney. If not the prodigal son, then who?
http://twitter.com/#!/ESPY_TEAHEN/status/98085427679989760
I hear Toronto has a mime problem.
You just know they’re all trust fund kids.
by mechanical turk on Aug 1, 2011 5:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Just read through Oney's tweets for the past 6 hours
He maybe the exemplar of internet douche baggery. He is a one man flame war
i just want to know how long the guillen dog and pony show is going to go on.
i can’t be the only one who thinks this is a constant embarrassment to the white sox.
by obnoxious american on Aug 1, 2011 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions
despite his backtracking, teahen feeling like he could say that in the first place
would indicate that it is a common feeling in the white sox clubhouse, would it not?
is that a problem?
i can see the temptation to attribute some of the underachievement this year to ill-feeling, but that would be entirely speculative unless someone comes out and says so.
/last year’s discussions>
As far as the statue is concerned, though...
I foresee an astronaut on a beach, pounding his fist into the surf and cursing humanity as the camera pans back, to show a statue of White Sox hero…
Oney Guillen.
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!
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by TasteeFreeze on Aug 1, 2011 4:45 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I forsee one more frank thomas day
when he gets voted in 2014. they will probably have a plaque unveiling or something of the sort
Joe Buck is just White Noise to me. It’s like the game is being called by a CD of whale songs. - mechanical turk
I'd like a statue of him speaking at the HOF.
And then a statue of him watching his speech at the HOF on an iPhone while eating a hamburger.
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by TasteeFreeze on Aug 1, 2011 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Is the Allen trade about Allen's flaws or Paul Goldschmidt making him expendable?
35 homers last year, 30 this year while making big, big strides in his bb/k, and they just called him up today.
But it reads as an either OR. To use your word. Hence the question back at ya.
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
Where are you getting these HR numbers from?
I count 26 and 21, counting minors and majors together. Are there consolation HRs I don’t know about, or aren’t in his stats?
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He's talking about Goldschmidt.
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
Is Rhubarb's lineup official? Btw, game on CSN.
Trying to score runs with Juan Pierre as your leadoff hitter is like trying to suture a wound in a moving car. You might still be successful -- but why make it so hard on yourself?
wasnt a GT so I slapped one up.
So, I say this more with admiration than anything else: I love that Kenny Williams went out and acquired the two worst players in the American League so far this year. - Joe Posnanski
I hate oney guillen. I hate ozzie guillen. I think he's horseshit as a manager but i hate him more for not managing his family.
the day these bunch of fucking fruit loops are out of chicago the happier i will be. Hopefully they take Kenny with them. Time to clean house.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
by KenWo4LiFe on Aug 1, 2011 7:07 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
i see you've taken to the superior one word form of "horseshit".
i approve.
"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck
The Big Hurt's youngest son is privileged for many reasons
but especially between 1:05 – 2:30 of this video.
that's just funny.
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by TasteeFreeze on Aug 1, 2011 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions
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