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Yoooooooouk!
By adamg on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 4:55pm
Last hurrahs are sad. Here's hoping he rips the covers off the balls in Chicago.
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Mark your calenders
He will be back on July 16th wearing a different pair of sox.
So long, Romanian-American god of walks...
...and thanks for always showing some fire, for being the anti-J.D. Drew.
You made it easy to mock pink-hats asking the "Why are they booing?" question (including that one mercifully short-lived NESN Remy-replacement-wannabe announcer, the dope who worked in Sox PR). You were a giant piece of the '07 championship puzzle, and were brilliant in '08. I like to think you were in the right in that Manny dugout scrap.
Too bad time and injuries overtook you (and, according to one conversation I had with a clubhouse insider, the bitterness of a very old man in the '11 season.) Pretty good run, all things considered.
huh
Care to explain what you're talking about? I didn't see a link.
Oh, sorry, here's a link
Kevin Youkilis traded to White Sox.
Surprised they dealt him to another AL wild-card contending team
rather than out of the league entirely.
What?!
The Sox are tops in their division. They're not a wild card contender. Besides that, there hasn't been any evidence that the Sox are contending for anything. Two games back of the wild card? Sure. Any signs of life against those wild card teams? Absolutely none. Keep crackin' the Baltimore jokes. They're not the ones watching from the cheap seats.
I was looking at this morning's standings when I posted that
at which time, Cleveland was still a half game ahead of Chicago.
Anyway, right now the two kinds of Sox have identical records. Chicago has the advantage of not having the Rays and Yankees in their division.
Um, missing a team there
Yeah, Baltimore's ahead of the Sox, too. You know, the same team that knocked them out of the wild card last year and has taken six of nine from them this year.
Oh, and I guess the White Sox are lucky the Blue Jays aren't in their division, either, as they'd be giving them a hell of a dogfight only a game back and has split the series with them this year.
Yeah, the White Sox are really lucky they can lead a division and don't have as much inferiority sitting between them and glory as do these talent-rich, never-say-die Red Sox. When's Dice-K pitching again? We'll have to get a running start to jump back on that bandwagon.
Sox?
I think you referred to both the Red & White Sox by using only "Sox". Hard to understand that paragraph without some context. Bosox & Chisox are the acceptable shortened terms.
A sports fan gets it
I'm not going to spell things out for every gum chewer that comes to this page. Which Sox are atop their division? Which Sox are closer to last place than they are to first? A fan knows, everyone else can take it walking. They'll have the context.
No need for the comments field copy edit.
Bosox and Chisox would be great...
if any real person called them that. In both cities, they're the Sox. In ESPN coverage, they're the Sox. I thought this was fairly self-explanatory, given the not-insignificant difference between the two teams that was spelled out in the comment.
It's useful for editors to
It's useful for editors to use to avoid confusion. If you aren't following the standings day-to-day, seeing in separate sentences that the Sox are leading the standings and the Sox are not in contention makes no sense.
Psst... hey pal
You know what this site is, right? Here's a hint: NOT THE AGATE PAGE!
Maybe Adam should clarify what a Youk is as well, just in case an old person or out-of-towner stumbles across the site. Make sure you run the correct version of the crossword answers too, Adam. That slipup and the Doonesbury comic strip on the edit page are a mail-room nightmare waiting to happen.
Stop rapping people across the knuckles with a pica pole.
Who will have a higher average
at the end of this year, Youk or Adrian Gonzales?
gonzalez.....
and possibly middlebrooks. youk is fading fast.
Sellout streak in danger?
Sox must still have a bunch of unsold tickets. Just got e-mail from them with this subject line:
Yook Was Sort Of Screwed
He was a 3B, asked to move to 1B. He did it, and became a gold-glove first baseman, outstanding. They traded for another gold-glover, and moved Yook back to 3B. He did what was asked, both times, in addition to taking a few short stints in the OF. Meanwhile, he put up some good numbers, excellent for a couple of years. Now he slumps, gets injured, and his replacement tears it up, so he's traded.
They never should have taken him off of 1B, IMHO, but business is business, I guess. They had acquired Gonzo, 3B was open... In any case, Yook's head was screwed with by management quite a bit more than most gold glove all-stars would have been.
Godspeed, Yoooooook.
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