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QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 05:26 PM) I went to Rice. MC will beat them. MC usually handles Rice rather well as they are fast. The new coach gets his guys to play which the former coach did not. Rice did not give up to Marist and beating Rita was huge. They are a program on the rise for certain. Interesting. Was the former coach OK or considered a clown in football circles? I did read something about the new coach saying Rice had to attract good athletes. The implication was there might be some issues regarding enrollment. Is enrollment down at Rice or is the school still full?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:35 PM) Sure, if you only have two lefties, you should space them out in the rotation. That doesn't mean you go out and get second-rate righties in order to avoid having good lefties pitching on consecutive days. I also think the four lefties the Sox might use all have better stuff than Chen, so I'm not too worried about that. I'm still not that high on Q and/or Santiago. Although both have had their great moments this year.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 12:52 AM) Three starts... Did Guthrie dominate the Sox when he was with the Orioles as well? Or is this a KC thing?

QUOTE (My_Sox_Summer @ Sep 14, 2012 -> 10:40 PM) Just an update- I have contacted 37 people about my blog (TV, newspaper) and have received 2 responses. From Chicago Magazine and The Daily Herald. Why would the media want to do a feel good story about the Sox? If anyone wants to send my blog out to media outlets, I would appreciate it. Did those two organizations want to write about you? Chicago magazine would be a great one and Daily Herald would be good cause it's a daily publication. I think if the Sox make the playoffs you might get a lot of pub.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:26 PM) Why does trotting out four lefties spell disaster? That's a purely arbitrary statement based on no facts. Teams don't avoid having four lefty starters because it's a bad idea--they do it because four good lefty starters are hard to find. You start the five best starters you can get your hands on. You still hear a lot of baseball talk about flip flopping mixing and matching lefties vs. righties in a rotation so lefties don't start back to back. Is that another myth from the fabled book? I'd like to hear Hawk and Stone's opinion or Big Hurt's of having four lefties in a 5-man rotation in theory. I think the general feeling is the lefties with Chen-like stuff, utterly hittable stuff, would get killed after teams face strong lefties like Danks and Sale. The Chen's of the world stand no chance in a rotation like that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:19 PM) I've heard Youk doesnt especially care much about playing for the White Sox. Zero loyalty/desire to stay if he doesnt get his option picked up. That makes sense. He's still a big-name player. Wouldn't you think one of the loose pocketbook teams will be thrilled to sign him?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:19 PM) The American League has a .727 OPS vs LHP and a .733 OPS vs RHP, so there's no basis at all for saying that teams are going to be happy facing all those lefties, except for maybe some mythical division-winning Kansas City team. Trotting out four lefties in a five-man rotation spells disaster to me. Floyd and Peavy need to stay to so with Sale, Danks and Quintana. On paper, that's not bad if it can stay healthy. Sox are a big market team. They can't afford to pay that rotation??

You guys don't wanna hear it but just take the L tonight and move on to the rest of the season. For the Royals, every game against the Sox is their playoff game. They feast on beating us and for the Sox, they sleepwalk in front of 12,000 KC fans. After tonight, it's time to hunker down or whatever Hawk's saying is.

With Santiago winning out, that would be four lefties. Teams are going to be so happy when the White Sox come to town facing all those lefties. It's funny, but a guy like Peavy fits exactly what the Sox can't afford to let go. Floyd needs to stay as well. You can't have all these lefties especially Q and Santiago who haven't proven anything.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 08:58 AM) Here's an article Greg. It's in Rhode Island. The article is extremely biased, but I kind of see both sides of the coin. On one hand, it is a nice thing to do, but I honestly don't remember the last father-daughter dance I've seen/heard of. Maybe because I went to a school district where lots of kids didn't have both parents, so something like this would have been seen as extremely exclusionary. I do think this is over the top though. If a school wants to have such a dance, let it happen, but let the girls know they can have someone else take them. Now, to your post, slow down my friend. Political correctness isn't exactly an evil thing, society is getting ruined by a hundred and one things before political correctness. You have to remember why it's there; not everyone is a white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant male. There is a lot of discrimination out there still and political correctness is all that stops some people from trying to offend everyone. And don't be stupid, they wouldn't get rid of sports. The ACLU would have a snowballs chance in hell of doing that. But yeah...I honestly thought we already moved past father-daughter dances in society. Didn't know they were still around. Why move past father-daughter dances in society though? What's wrong with a grade school dad-daughter dance? I guess if there are so many divorces a little girl could be devastated, but again, if the kid has one parent I would think the mom could take the kid and other dads could dance with the little kid. I don't think my sports scenario is out of the question. At least I could see a kid sue if he/she got cut from the varsity team. Hey it makes the kid feel bad cause he/she got excluded/cut. I got cut from the baseball team at Brother Rice and was very sad. My parents didn't even console me. Too bad. Suck it up and move on.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:57 AM) I went to public school, but, yes, Mt. Carmel will win huge. Rice has one very good defensive player. I forget his name. He looks Samoan or has a Samoan name as I recall. Good player. Little overweight and got banged up vs. St. Rita. I think Rice has a pretty good defense but it can be scored upon. The offense is very good and probably is capable of scoring a couple touchdowns on anybody. So Carmel 42-14 might make sense.

Because of an ACLU complaint, a school district in New York or somewhere banned Father-Daughter dances saying they are discriminatory against a little girl who has no dad to take her. Couldn't the mom just take her or an uncle or a neighbor or a grandpa or again, have the mom take her? I just think s*** like this is ruining the country. Political correctness out of control. What is next? Ban all sports in school because one kid has a defect and can't compete and it makes him feel bad to see the other kids play? Do you agree our society is ruined because of PC stuff like this? I would think a lot of little girls will forever remember their dad/daughter dances in school. Not anymore? They discriminate!!!! What do u think?

QUOTE (Cali @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 05:52 AM) What exactly about Detroits play this season makes you believe it's all going to suddenly click when it's hasn't ALL YEAR? All those years when the Sox had more talent but were always chasing the Twins, why didn't the talent overcome then? Why is Detroit somehow special? The Story of the Central in 2012 is this: Sox can't beat Detroit or KC but they have beaten everyone else. (69-43 against everyone else) Detroit owns the Sox but is inconsistent against everyone else. (67-63 against everyone else) After tomorrow the Sox play everyone else. Detroit plays everyone else too. Sox are ahead so, as far as I'm concerned that's where they'll stay. I just have this gut feeling that the Sox are the ones to lead all season and Detroit, the overwhelming favorite to start the season, will sweep past us at the end laughing all the way. I just picture it for some reason.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:40 AM) Are we seriously going to continue to get shut out by Cy Chen? This s*** is ridiculous. Yes. As great a season as the Sox have had, the Sox simply suck vs. KC. You can see it in their faces on the closeups. You can see it when they put the camera on Yost. KC expects to kick our ass and they usually do. This will be what the fourth straight series they've won vs. Sox? Or fifth?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 06:54 PM) Yes as does Loyola now. St Xavier began running this a few years back and are very successful with it, won the NAIA national championship. The Rice coach is from there, as well as a Rice alum Harry, Dan and Buehrle are u all Rice grads? DO you think Mt. Carmel will pound Rice this Friday? I watched last Friday's game on the Internet. It's amazing when high school quarterbacks throw that many times. I would think some weeks the turnovers may come in bunches. So far so good, though for Br. Rice.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:55 AM) Alarmed yes, Detroit a lock? By no means. Detroit goes to play on the road then and they are a very mediocre road team. With that said, win tomorrow and go A's. Those playoff percentage stats piss me off. They mean nothing. So Sox were 80 percent a day ago? What if Detroit is one-game out after tomorrow? Is Detroit suddenly 50 percent and Sox 50?

The question is ... how many innings do we go without a run now. If Guthrie goes 7, no way we score on that bullpen. Royals beating us 12 times in one season is unfathomable.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 01:48 PM) No, they've accomplished nothing, other than costing taxpayers additional money to clean up the messes they've left behind. While I think their original intention was noble, and I'm glad to live in a country where this type of protest is allowed, their message was lost because they lacked organization...and thus lacked a message. Meanwhile, our current government pumped ANOTHER round of "quantitive easing" into the economy by flooding banks with more cash, so they could lend it out to citizens that need it (which they probably won't do). So, in response to the Occupy Movement, our government does what? Gives the rich bankers even more money to play with. Wasn't the entire point of the Occupy Movement supposed to bring focus on the other 99%? So much for that... Our government has no idea what it's doing anymore...and that goes for both sides that make up the vast majority of the whole. Thanks. I tend to nod in agreement after reading your post.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:53 AM) We don't get on base. Lets not just assume it's poor effort, when we in fact lost the way one would expect us to lose. The shocker would be games where we pitch poorly, or fail with the glove. Those have been our strengths. Yeah, we hit just enough one run homers to beat KC on Tuesday. Our offense isn't built for the postseason, that's one of the reasons I don't think we gonna make it.

Let's play the What If game.... If, as expected, Guthrie handcuffs the Sox tomorrow and we get shut out a second day in a row, and if Detroit wins and they are one out ... do you think the Tigers are locks to win the division considering their easy schedule compared to the Sox the rest of the way? Will you be alarmed if it's one game after tomorrow?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:44 AM) Yes. I am sure there is a matchup coming up where he hits less that .417 against a pitcher we don't call CY because the entire team fails to hit him. I would have sat him in whichever game that might be. I feel if he needs rest, he needs rest. Sit him. You'd think maybe Flowers could connect against that soft ass s*** Chen lobs up there. Also, you may consider me insane after reading this, but I also consider law of averages. OK, AJ is hitting .417 against him. That doesn't mean he's going to rap 3-4 hits and improve that to .500. It means he probably will go 0-4 and lower it to the mean. I mean these numbers don't mean there's not an 0-fer coming. With your logic, AJ will ALWAYS rake against Chen so in 2-3 games from now, he'll be hitting .650 or .700 versus him. Look at it this way. Chen was due to get him out. I blame Flowers. Hit the f***ing slow s*** Chen flips up there like a halfway decent Class A player could.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:41 AM) Again, Chen is actually tougher on righties than he is on lefties. I agree we should have score 4+ runs easily tonight, but the fact that we didn't only magnifies the mistakes we did make. I don't know why the guy can't just LOOK AT THE DATA instead of going with the traditional righty-lefty/lefty-righty matchups every damned time. Who knows what might have happened had he actually put the players that had the best chance to succeed in instead of just automatically going with the traditional opposite matchup EVERY SINGLE TIME. Maybe Flowers and Beckham get hits off of Holland instead of the two easy outs that two cold guys off the bench were against a guy throwing 99. Is that too much to ask, honestly? I respect your arguments, but you do agree AJP needs some time off, right?

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:32 AM) Wait, so the board is collectively pinning a 3-0 shutout loss against Bruce Chen on Robin? Really? Not me. I blame the players. They were DEAD. QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:34 AM) Do you read posts before you reply to them? Oops I think my post was meant for the other guy.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:27 AM) Viciedo absolutely choked on that flyball, short-armed it knowing he was about to hit the fence. The guy has been surprisingly good in LF this year, but not tonight. He also blew chunks at the plate with the bases loaded, swinging at a pitch that wasn't even close to being a strike. How many times do you think Manto has told him to lay off the inside pitch that the book says is his gaping hole? Blame RV all you want, but only if it's for putting Dayan in the lineup tonight. And that's a weak argument at best. What are you talking about? Dayan is our everyday leftfielder this year and they were throwing a lefty for goshsakes. We're sinking or swimming with Dayan. Did you see that bomb he hit the other day? That's why he's playing? Potential to do that more than 20 times a season. He drives me crazy as well, but he's our everyday outfielder this year no doubt about it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:21 AM) Well you know where I stand on that issue. What is your excuse for not playing AJ when he hits .417 against Chen if it was absolutely imperative to play Dayan tonight? AJ probably needs a day off now and then. If we don't make the playoffs, the sole reason is head-to-head matchups vs. KC and Detroit. That's it right there.