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Did Lexi play center in Cuba or somewhere? Why all the cf talk? I'd rather have him at second. I love that single he got to left late. That was clutch. He does deserve credit for that big hit.

Great game. Great win. Love Pods. Love the walk by Nix. Love the opposite field drive by Beckham and AJ going after him after the game. Love the inning of work by Bobby and work of the fans. Would be nice for a similar game Sunday. Go Sox!

Very true. Great win. We'd have bemoaned the errors had we lost. But we didn't. We won. Love the fact Nix didn't whiff and took the walk and Beckham showed great poise and guts and you got to love the fact he drilled it to the opposite field. It was funny how he was running away from AJ. I was thinking they were going to dogpile him. Great inning from Bobby. Great hit by Beckham to win it. Glad we finished it in nine. Extra innings mighta been tough. If Bob had to go another inning he might not be available Sunday. And if he didn't go the 10th, Liney might have gotten lit up. Victory is sweet. Go get drunk.

I think you guys were right about the crowd helping Bobby in the tie game situation.

Frickin A!! Bob really is a stud. Let's win it now or it may be Liney time. Great game, let's win one.

Nice pitch Bob; or did Lee go fishin?

Would be nice to grab the lead against this hack (today at least) Dempster.

Pods truly is a f***ing stud. Isn't he also married to a perfect 10? What a cool story he is this year. f***ing stud.

Hopefully he'll walk and steal second

That's probably right as well as the blind spot theory. McCarver said the play was right in front of Mark and that was an unusual mistake for a lefty. Brain cramp on a hot day I guess.

True, but I meant just flip it over to Paulie where he was standing.

Why didn't Mark just flip it over to Paulie when he saw he was about to commit a balk? His vision certainly saw Pauley over in the vicinity.

Bradley gets a chance to make the sports media fawn over him if he slugs a double here.

I can't believe Houston beat Detroit. What a good deal that is. The Royals are a mess again. My god. Meche gets raked once more. Olivo with big baserunning gaffe tonight and they flop at Pitt. Some sorry baseball in Kansas City again this year with KC 10 below .500.

I'm surprised Piniella held his temper and didn't punch him. I wonder how Oz would have handled Bradley. Lou said in the media he's looked the other way several times this season when Bradley has acted the same way and had enough. I like Lou; I like Oz. City has some good skippers.

Oz wasn't pleased with AJ's at bat today, though he doesn't seem as angry as the headline on this article: "White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen criticizes A.J. Pierzynski's at bat" From the Trib's excellent writer, Gonzalez: “Bad at-bat,” Guillen said about five hours after praising Pierzynski for his clutch hitting and catching all 13 innings of Thursday’s victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. “(Pierzynski came off) the bench. He might have been looking for a breaking ball, but the breaking ball wasn’t a strike, and it ended up the wrong way for us.” AJ's take: “I was looking for a pitch up, and he threw me a high curveball,” Pierzynski said. “He’s known for having a good breaking ball. I hit it hard and hit it right at the wrong guy. I hit it three feet to the left or three feet to the right, and we are shaking hands right now. “I hit it to him, and what can you do. Pinch-hitting is tough. Marshall has a good curveball and he threw it high. Look at the replay. It’s high, right down the middle. I hit it good. Sometimes stuff happens.” I agree. s*** happens. I was feeling good when AJ stepped to the plate. Just think how happy we'd be if he lined that pitch over the first baseman's head.

I'd give anything for us to have Granderson. I love that guy.

Corky ... another backup catcher that failed. Will our current backup be the backup we need?

I guess. I had hoped for better, but w/out last year's CQ in the lineup, it's still pretty weak on most nights even with Pods doing as well as he has. There are enough flaws we do appear a bit below average team. I can't see us going on a sustained run to put us 5-10 games over .500 at any point this year, but I could be mistaken.

We also need another bat in the lineup capable of the numbers CQ put up last year. We really miss that obviously.

True. We ain't going 13-3 in the next 16. It would have been nice to win game one. Now we gotta do it the hard way again if we hope to win this series.

Yep, yep yep. Such is life of a five under .500 type team. As far as AJ's at bat, I felt good having the vet stroll up to the plate against the Cubs with the game on the line. I thought he'd loft a fly ball to at least tie it. I didn't think the vet would swing at the first pitch and hit into a DP. If Fields wouldn't have drawn the walk, people would have second guessed Oz for pinch hitting for Beckham. It's so easy to second guess the manager on any loss. I personally felt good with AJP at the plate even vs. a lefty.

As a fan, I felt pretty good when AJ strolled to the plate, even against a lefty. One pitch later I felt lousy. You can second guess all day and I'm sure people will. So point out the 10 bad moves Oz made. When you lose, there are all sorts of things to second guess.

Tough tough loss. Sure wish AJP would have lofted a game tying sacrifice fly. You could see it coming and wham, first pitch, we are done for the inning. After the great series against the Dodgers, disappointing to drop game one again.

I don't know why he ever moved from second. It's a great spot for him. He can still make the occasional remarkable play at second. He's too erratic to play ss and that was easily predictable. It seems stupid to play Beckham at third if ss is his spot and he's reliable there. For this year though, since Fields was a bust, I guess we need Beckham at 3B, Lexi at ss and Getz at 2B. It's better than Fields at third, Beckham at short and Lexi at 2B. Unless Fields is finally coming into his own after the two dinger game.