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I’ll be the first to admit that I play GM quite a bit when it comes to White Sox baseball.  I don’t think there’s a better opinion than mine, as I know the 25 man and the farm system inside and out.  The thing is, the vast majority of my claims are not too farfetched and are easy to agree with. Example: I think Matt Thornton has had a dog shit year.  Most Sox fans agree.  Simple.

Anyways, like many Sox fans, I listen to The Score almost non-stop during baseball season.  Mully and Hanley, Boers and Bernstein, you name it.  Highly entertaining shit. For the Sox pre and post games shows, however, we have to deal with listening to Chris Rongey.  For the East Coast readers reading this, Chris Rongey is basically a combination of Jim Rome and Skip Bayless.  He makes ridiculous claim after ridiculous claim and does it in a super aggressive style. I was listening to him on Sunday’s post game show and he hung up on a caller and told him to “go sit in a room for 6-7 days, eat when you need to, skip work, and practice not saying stupid shit in the mirror,”  all while calling him the dumbest caller to ever call in.

The reason you ask?  Because the caller said that Matt Thornton should never pitch in two consecutive innings.

That was the dumbest call ever?  I couldn’t believe what I was listening to.  First off, 99.9% of Sox fans do not want Thornton anywhere near a pressure situation right now.  He cannot control his already mediocre offspeed and his fastball has seen a noticeable decrease in velocity.  Every hitter he faces is lays off the slow shit and peppers his fastballs all over the field.  I realize that everyone has down years though.  That’s baseball.  But as good as Thornton has been over his long tenure with the Sox, he cannot be trusted as the 8th inning guy right now, especially when they have the opportunity to make the playoffs like they do this year.  And ya know what?  I bet you even Thornton himself would agree.

What I am trying to get at is this Chris Rongey guy defends Thornton and EVERY SINGLE MOVE management makes as if the organization is paying him to do so.  Ventura could bat Dunn leadoff and Rongey would justify it.  The worst part?  He holds every caller who doesn’t share his view in fucking contempt.  He’s the end all be all of White Sox opinion, and NOTHING gets him off more than slamming the phone on a drunken caller.  There really isn’t even a point to call into the show  because even the most valid of points are wrong no matter what if they go against management decision making.

Since I know he is reading this blog because of our little Twitter war on Monday, I just want to tell him something on the behalf of most Sox fans:  Cut the shit, Chris.   Quit trying to be a hard ass, understand that you are not Bill James and realize that no one likes a brown nose.  Cuz that’s what you have become; a behind-the-microphone tough guy wannabe mathematician who sucks up to the organization and its players in embarrassing fashion.  It’s not a good look.  A relievers’ ERA does matter, the eyeball test does work sometimes, and you don’t always have to go against the grain like you do.

Having said that, Go White Sox

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