greg775

Bah Humber-bug. I'm hungry. Gotta go eat. 2-1. This game has a bad feel to it.

Rios has one homer since July 19. We probably need to accept the fact he ain't gonna be hitting home runs the rest of the way?

Why can't we bring the lumber against Humber?

If Rios homers here, we win the game. We need a Twins' like clutch hit.

Oh, that makes more sense. My bad.

Doesn't Juan lead the league in stolen bases? You a hater?

Gotta love Juan for coming through there. Yuni looks like he don't wanna play tonight. I would expect he'll be benched in Game Two.

Gordon, you got to hit the ball in the air there. How bout a RBI.

I repeat, the Royals are playing like clowns. We need to score here.

It's amazing how quiet is is at Royals Stadium in this and every season.

These teams are acting like they don't want to play til 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

How can a professional hitter like Butler not hit that over the fence? How can we not hit the hack the Royals are pitching? I guess that's baseball.

This game looks like 2 bad teams playing each other right now. We'll see if it changes.

How can a lefthanded hitter like Teahen take that pitch? My god.

Royals are playing like dopes this inning; we need to make 'em pay!!!

Fathom I do respect you for getting on Rios. He's kind of off limits on the board, cept for you. I like your willingness to blast the golden boy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:58 PM) But I thought you liked Ozzie cause he doesn't care about baseball's "code"? And BTW, I still think your reasoning is awful. It was the 5th inning for your platoon player. Not like it was the 1st inning for one of your everyday starters. I think he does go with the code most of the time. I was pointing out that in the playoffs/WS in '05 he let our starters finish games. That was against the norm, not the code. The code is not bunting in the seventh inning or later on a no hitter, etc.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:26 PM) We can totally afford to lose a game today...might as well make it two, right Oz? What a joke this organization is.... Why doesn't Sale start? Was he a starter in the minors?

Cause it's too early in the game. No manager pulls that crap that early in the game. A starter starts and plays. Late inning pinch hitting is regarded as fine; early inning pinch hitting goes against baseball's unwritten code.

If it's Pena and Freddy tonight, look for Kila and Butler and Gordon to have monumental evenings. Sit back, wait and wham!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:03 PM) Well, Ozzie DOES have a point, but I still think we baby the s*** out of pitchers (not just Sox, the whole league) so much. He threw 7 pitches yesterday. Yeah, I understand he had a warmup, but they have bullpen sessions during the week too. How much more of a workload could that be over the normal side sessions? Right or wrong, this is modern baseball. I watched a documentary last night saying there was a 16-inning game and Marichal and Koufax each pitched all 16 innings. Now we have this. A guy can't even complete a no hitter cause of pitch counts. If we pitch Jackson tonight and he gets hurt, which he would with our luck, no pitcher would ever pitch for the White Sox again. No agent would let his pitcher come to the south side.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 08:28 PM) It doesn't take a rocket scientist in today's age to know that a major storm is just about to roll over the area for the next few hours. We've delayed the start of games at USCF on more than one occasion without a single drop of rain hitting the ground. The game actually started. So let me get this straight. You think Ozzie/KW or whomever should have warmed up Pena, had Pena ready to start with the assumption the game would be rained out when the game actually started?? This is by far the most absurd example of second-guessing I have ever heard. Hopefully someday we will hire the perfect manager, somebody who can do what you wanted in this instance. Wow.

Yep, I am too. You can't end Jackson's career over a DH loss. Get 'em next year, baby.

I agree we get swept, but you can't pitch Jackson; you just can't. Not in this day and age. He was used up yesterday.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 08:52 PM) Yeah seriously. If Garcia gets shelled in game 1, we could be 7 out of first by the end of the weekend, after which we would need to seriously consider moving guys like Konerko, Vizquel, and Putz on waivers. IMO Putz is going to get a big contract this offseason, and it's not going to be from the White Sox. I read in a book in 1967 the Sox were swept by KC in KC in September in a DH, effectively ending the season. 43 years later, the same happens tonight. No. 43 coincidentally was the number of Gary Peters, who pitched in that DH.