The Chicago Shite Sox

[Saul Goodman]

Dave McKay had best watch his back tonight. Sux Nation is out for blood after that floppy haired pussy plunked Paulie yesterday.

[Tonker]

FIRST PLACE SOX

Peavy and Dunn are partying like it's 2007. They're not a terrible team to watch, but I'm not convinced they'll win more than 80 games. Of course, if they win 80, they'd be a mere 30 games better than the Cubs which is good enough for most Sox fans. Watch, they'll win the division, and we'll have to put up with the South Side Stench for another couple weeks.

Of teams whose fan bases have an unhealthy obsession with the Cubs, the Brewers are worth watching, especially if Aramis starts hitting again.

Despite my disdain for American League baseball, I've watched about 5 or 6 Sox games so far.  They're not terrible and that second wild card spot might be where they eventually end up, considering Detroit is pretty much going to cruise to that division championship.

The East has been fascinating to watch this season so far.  Baltimore's been not-shitty and Toronto has been entertaining as well.

Plus you have Bobby Valentine's shitstorm in Boston for additional entertainment value.

If you're watching the local broadcasts, do you turn the sound off?

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

FIRST PLACE SOX

Peavy and Dunn are partying like it's 2007. They're not a terrible team to watch, but I'm not convinced they'll win more than 80 games. Of course, if they win 80, they'd be a mere 30 games better than the Cubs which is good enough for most Sox fans. Watch, they'll win the division, and we'll have to put up with the South Side Stench for another couple weeks.

Of teams whose fan bases have an unhealthy obsession with the Cubs, the Brewers are worth watching, especially if Aramis starts hitting again.

Despite my disdain for American League baseball, I've watched about 5 or 6 Sox games so far.  They're not terrible and that second wild card spot might be where they eventually end up, considering Detroit is pretty much going to cruise to that division championship.

The East has been fascinating to watch this season so far.  Baltimore's been not-shitty and Toronto has been entertaining as well.

Plus you have Bobby Valentine's shitstorm in Boston for additional entertainment value.

If you're watching the local broadcasts, do you turn the sound off?

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

[Tonker]

FIRST PLACE SOX

Peavy and Dunn are partying like it's 2007. They're not a terrible team to watch, but I'm not convinced they'll win more than 80 games. Of course, if they win 80, they'd be a mere 30 games better than the Cubs which is good enough for most Sox fans. Watch, they'll win the division, and we'll have to put up with the South Side Stench for another couple weeks.

Of teams whose fan bases have an unhealthy obsession with the Cubs, the Brewers are worth watching, especially if Aramis starts hitting again.

Despite my disdain for American League baseball, I've watched about 5 or 6 Sox games so far.  They're not terrible and that second wild card spot might be where they eventually end up, considering Detroit is pretty much going to cruise to that division championship.

The East has been fascinating to watch this season so far.  Baltimore's been not-shitty and Toronto has been entertaining as well.

Plus you have Bobby Valentine's shitstorm in Boston for additional entertainment value.

If you're watching the local broadcasts, do you turn the sound off?

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

[CT III]

FIRST PLACE SOX

Peavy and Dunn are partying like it's 2007. They're not a terrible team to watch, but I'm not convinced they'll win more than 80 games. Of course, if they win 80, they'd be a mere 30 games better than the Cubs which is good enough for most Sox fans. Watch, they'll win the division, and we'll have to put up with the South Side Stench for another couple weeks.

Of teams whose fan bases have an unhealthy obsession with the Cubs, the Brewers are worth watching, especially if Aramis starts hitting again.

Despite my disdain for American League baseball, I've watched about 5 or 6 Sox games so far.  They're not terrible and that second wild card spot might be where they eventually end up, considering Detroit is pretty much going to cruise to that division championship.

The East has been fascinating to watch this season so far.  Baltimore's been not-shitty and Toronto has been entertaining as well.

Plus you have Bobby Valentine's shitstorm in Boston for additional entertainment value.

If you're watching the local broadcasts, do you turn the sound off?

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

Show a little respect for the man who invented the batting glove.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

That was the very moment I was thinking of. He said Samardzija better watch out or a comebacker like that'll take his ponytail right off. Spitting that out like Abe Simpson scoffing at Joe Namath's wild, untamed facial hair.

I also caught another bit where the camera found Samardzija chirping at Humber from the bench or something. This led to Hawk urging Snork to "go pick up a bat" himself, presumably forgetting that this was an interleague game at an NL park.

Of course, I completely missed the Paulie bean ball. So, lacking much of the context for the above, in the moment I probably mistook his risible meatball homerism for a slightly different brand of risible meatball homerism.

My favorite bit, though, came from the top of the 8th itself: attributing Gordon Beckham's third HR of 2012 to Samardzija having woken up a sleeping giant or some shit.

You wake up a guy like that, you're in big trouble.

Trouble to the tune of .206/.279/.333/.612 on the season.

[Tonker]

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

That was the very moment I was thinking of. He said Samardzija better watch out or a comebacker like that'll take his ponytail right off. Spitting that out like Abe Simpson scoffing at Joe Namath's wild, untamed facial hair.

I also caught another bit where the camera found Samardzija chirping at Humber from the bench or something. This led to Hawk urging Snork to "go pick up a bat" himself, presumably forgetting that this was an interleague game at an NL park.

Of course, I completely missed the Paulie bean ball. So, lacking much of the context for the above, I mistook his meatball homerism for a slightly different brand of meatball homerism.

My favorite bit, though, came from the top of the 8th itself: attributing Gordon Beckham's third HR of 2012 to Samardzija having woken up a sleeping giant or some shit.

You wake up a guy like that, you're in big trouble.

Trouble to the tune of .206/.279/.333/.612 on the season.

Yeah, the bit that made me snort was when they were discussing Beckham's long ball later in the game and Stone said something along the lines of "and then we had the go-ahead homer from - who else? - Gordon Beckham!"

Who else?  Pretty much fucking ANYBODY else, that's who else, you dribbling idiot.

[Tony]

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

That was the very moment I was thinking of. He said Samardzija better watch out or a comebacker like that'll take his ponytail right off. Spitting that out like Abe Simpson scoffing at Joe Namath's wild, untamed facial hair.

I also caught another bit where the camera found Samardzija chirping at Humber from the bench or something. This led to Hawk urging Snork to "go pick up a bat" himself, presumably forgetting that this was an interleague game at an NL park.

Of course, I completely missed the Paulie bean ball. So, lacking much of the context for the above, I mistook his meatball homerism for a slightly different brand of meatball homerism.

My favorite bit, though, came from the top of the 8th itself: attributing Gordon Beckham's third HR of 2012 to Samardzija having woken up a sleeping giant or some shit.

You wake up a guy like that, you're in big trouble.

Trouble to the tune of .206/.279/.333/.612 on the season.

Yeah, the bit that made me snort was when they were discussing Beckham's long ball later in the game and Stone said something along the lines of "and then we had the go-ahead homer from - who else? - Gordon Beckham!"

Who else?  Pretty much fucking ANYBODY else, that's who else, you dribbling idiot.

I was happy to see they were re-airing the game last night, even if I had to sit through the Sox broadcast. The weird thing is, when Konerko was first hit both Hawk and Stone agreed it was not intentional. But their story kept changing as the game went on for no apparent reason. By the end of the game Snork was pure evil in their minds.

And the idea that Beckham hit a homer for his injured bff was ridiculous. I don't know how Sox fans can stand to listen to them.

[Saul Goodman]

I got to see the game yesterday - ESPN America was running it on my cable.  For some fucking ridiculous reason, though, they ran the Sox feed so I had to listen to Harrelson and Stone's schtick from start to finish.  Three hours of calling the Sox players by their first names, you-can-put-it-on-the-board-yesses, he-gones and seeing absolutely nothing wrong with Beckham bundling DeJesus off second to "tag" him out.  You know the bit where Kerry Wood was hugging his boy and Len said "we'll let the crowd take you out", and there wasn't a dry eye in the house?  Yeah, Hawk and Stone talked right the fucking way through that, about fuck all of interest.  Fuck Hawk Harrelson and fuck Steve Stone.  Even if I were a Sox fan (and thank fuck that I'm not) I feel sure I would detest them with every fibre of my being.

CSN re-aired the game last night. I gather Len and Bob were on WGN yesterday because the CSN rebroadcast was Hawk and Stone.

Guh.

I opted to watch something else and just flip over occasionally to see how close they were to the top of the 8th, but I was able to gather from the bits and pieces I caught that Hawk is not terribly taken with Samardzija or his "ponytail".

I'd forgotten about that - it got lost in amongst all the other fucking drivel.  Hawk did indeed refer to Snork's hair as a "ponytail", and could barely contain his glee when that rocket back up the middle (the one that Barney snagged behind second base), and I quote, "nearly took his head off".  Cunt.

That was the very moment I was thinking of. He said Samardzija better watch out or a comebacker like that'll take his ponytail right off. Spitting that out like Abe Simpson scoffing at Joe Namath's wild, untamed facial hair.

I also caught another bit where the camera found Samardzija chirping at Humber from the bench or something. This led to Hawk urging Snork to "go pick up a bat" himself, presumably forgetting that this was an interleague game at an NL park.

Of course, I completely missed the Paulie bean ball. So, lacking much of the context for the above, I mistook his meatball homerism for a slightly different brand of meatball homerism.

My favorite bit, though, came from the top of the 8th itself: attributing Gordon Beckham's third HR of 2012 to Samardzija having woken up a sleeping giant or some shit.

You wake up a guy like that, you're in big trouble.

Trouble to the tune of .206/.279/.333/.612 on the season.

Yeah, the bit that made me snort was when they were discussing Beckham's long ball later in the game and Stone said something along the lines of "and then we had the go-ahead homer from - who else? - Gordon Beckham!"

Who else?  Pretty much fucking ANYBODY else, that's who else, you dribbling idiot.

I was happy to see they were re-airing the game last night, even if I had to sit through the Sox broadcast. The weird thing is, when Konerko was first hit both Hawk and Stone agreed it was not intentional. But their story kept changing as the game went on for no apparent reason. By the end of the game Snork was pure evil in their minds.

And the idea that Beckham hit a homer for his injured bff was ridiculous. I don't know how Sox fans can stand to listen to them.

I think they're trying to force Sox fans into Mobile Phone Park. Hawk, Stone, Ed, and Darren might very well be the worst broadcast crew in the game. Each is terrible in his own special way. It's fascinating that the Sox approve of their work, to be honest.

[BH]

The Sox signed O-dog, a penfoe favorite.

[Saul Goodman]

lol @ losing a home series to the Cubs

[Slaky]

Really enjoyed this commentary on cheap Sox fans followed up by the predictable flood of gay bashing Cub jokes in the comments.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Really enjoyed this commentary on cheap Sox fans followed up by the predictable flood of gay bashing Cub jokes in the comments.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/#comment-626034991

She'd aquarium

Aquarium? She hardly knows him!

[CBStew]

Really enjoyed this commentary on cheap Sox fans followed up by the predictable flood of gay bashing Cub jokes in the comments.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/#comment-626034991

She'd aquarium

Aquarium? She hardly knows him!

Are we Cub fans because we are gay?  Or are we gay because we are Cub fans?  Why are these guys fixated on our sexuality?

[Internet Apex]

Really enjoyed this commentary on cheap Sox fans followed up by the predictable flood of gay bashing Cub jokes in the comments.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/baffoe-talk-is-cheap-and-so-are-white-sox-fans/#comment-626034991

She'd aquarium

Aquarium? She hardly knows him!

Are we Cub fans because we are gay?  Or are we gay because we are Cub fans?  Why are these guys fixated on our sexuality?

Because we're hot.