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Lip, regarding the Stu Holcomb conspiracy, was that covered in the Chicago Press? Not the fact he was fired, but his management style of getting rid of players the way he did? I never understood hiring a football coach to run a baseball franchise. Detroit tried it also, hiring Bo Schembechler as GM a few decades ago.

Will is playing the numbers batting Grich leadoff. He’s something like .360 career average against Fried in something nearing 30 at bats, if I recall correctly. I was looking at matchups last night and Grichuk’s numbers stuck out like they were in neon flashing lights. Edit: It’s a .313 average in 16 ABs.

The Baseball Prospectus crowd had a thing about Kenny Williams. KW did make some really questionable moves (sorry but renting Garcia for a top 20 prospect plus our starting catcher was ridiculous). But then they (and Michael Lewis) went on and on about how KW got ripped off by trading the situational lefty Chad Bradford; well that trade netted the catcher who became the starting catcher traded to Seattle to rent Garcia. And then there was the Carlos Lee trade: yes, on paper, the Sox took way the worst of it. BUT it freed up money to sign Iguchi (and Lee was one of those players teams wanted to trade away once they got to know him; sort of like Naylor today). Never gave KW the credit for the good (like winning WS) BP and Law have also matured over the years. They are no longer quite as dogmatic about things. Law liked Hahn; and Getz was his source for prospect analysis when Hahn was running the ship. I like law. I think he's pretty objective these days.

The Sox are 23-13 Vs the AL Central and A's They are 32-36 Vs everyone else. The next 10 games are going to be huge for them, time to prove it they are for real.

This is the fifth of 5 home series against the AL East. The first 4 have all been sweeps, and we're 1-3 in those series. Time to correct that. This is also the first of our 2 out-of-division 4 game series of the season; the other will come @ Houston. We also have 1 more in-division 4 game series remaining (Detroit in September).

Not too many fans will bother heading out to the park if this weather keeps up. Why pay to get soaked?

I don't want to be cynical. After scoring double digit runs yesterday and Schultz going tonight. This one feels like a loss. Would love to be wrong.

I wish Antonacci was in, but not going to be mad at Everson starting his first game back.

Tray, maybe Sam, and/or any of the other guys who aren't starting, will get in there later and do something cool!

I just looked at the foul territory page. Yeah, I don’t buy them knowing anything lol

I guess Peters and Antonacci are forever platoon bats

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mlb/article/mlb-trade-deadline-buzz-cubs-and-white-sox-in-on-reid-detmers-marlins-not-in-full-sell-mode-and-more-192100230.html

OK, Venable starting a few extra RH hitters, but hate not starting Antonacci.

Golly, I remember the days of having my battery powered AM radio next to my pillow listening to Sox games. No faces. The best. Even now, something soothing about baseball in the background on the radio or headphones instead of TV

Pereira in CF. R Grichuk (R) LF M Murakami (L) 1B M Vargas (R) 3B C Montgomery (L) DH C Meidroth (R) 2B B Montgomery (S) RF E Pereira (R) CF E Quero (S) C L Acuña (R) SS

Quite the lineup.

Fried is very good and with Shultz going for the Sox, this will get ugly early. Sorry, but I can’t be optimistic about this matchup. Maybe if Sandlin were pitching. That said, I hope like hell the Sox prove me wrong. I live in New York State and can’t stand the Yankees.

Facing a lefty? We're toast.

The hell with a split. Make a statement and sweep these shithead Yankees.

Slater --> Ziehl --> Hicks/Sandlin has turned out nicely.

1 week to go. Should be a fun ride. Let's hope the Sox play well vs Yanks and Rays in the meantime.

Chris Sale was a reliever, at best.

Probably get similar to what they got for Slater last year.