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Has anybody noticed how loud the Dodger crowd is? I thought people were laid back in LA. Loud crowd.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 04:29 AM) Yes, I've seen plenty of managers that will pull their pitcher after allowing 8 hits in 3 innings (especially if they're one of the worst starters in baseball coming into the game). Seriously? After getting out of it with "just" four runs in three innings? Your starting pitcher?

I'm thinking a 5-4 lead doesn't mean much, tonight.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 04:25 AM) Ugh, why the hell are we leaving Humber in there. I do think every manager in baseball would do the same thing, leave Horrible Humber in. Four runs in three innings sucks, but it's not seven, eight runs. YOu have to let your starter go five as long as his pitch count is OK. Seriously, don't you agree? No manager hooks Humber this early "only" giving up four. I do think he sucks, though.

Speaking of Rios, he's playing like a definite all star. My god he looks like a phenom up there. What is the deal with Rios' career? I can't even think of whom he reminds me of, up there this season. Tall, lanky and bashing everything. Why can't he do this year after year?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 04:18 AM) Wtf do you want him to do fathom? Santiago is up throwing, he has been since the third run came in. Do you want Ventura to throw things? Get tossed out? In all fairness to Robin, you are f***ed as a skipper if your guy can't go five. The decision is made to start him. Once you start him, you have to let him try to go five, unless his name is Hochevar and he gets lit for seven in one frame. If Humber gave up 7, he'd have been hooked.

I predict he'll be put on the DL. We don't need any more long relievers who suck.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 04:16 AM) Send him to the bullpen for now. Axelrod is a better fit for the rotation than Humber right now. But we already got a meatball long relief guy in Zach. Dodgers really abusing the Sox. I'm smelling a sweep the wrong way. They are good n hungry.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 17, 2012 -> 04:14 AM) Oh god there was not one time this season that humber deserved to be on a fantasy roster. I'm thinking he was OK from the get-go til the perfect game.

Crazy that in the same season as pitching a perfect game, Humber will likely be DL'ed, sent down or DFA'ed.

Humber's gonna get killed. He's one of the worst pitchers in baseball right now. He's done. He's gotta be sent down.

Bye bye Humber. A guy that throws a perfect game finally gets released from my fantasy team. Man he's meat.

The Royals are four back in the loss column. Will they ultimately pass the Sox? 15 games remaining vs. KC I think.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:29 AM) With regards to AJ, I really don't care if he pretends to hustle to first on a routine ground ball to 2nd. For him, he seems really slow behind the plate. He already has more passed balls this year than he had in each of the last two years, and his effort at blocking pitches in the dirt has been inconsistent. At least this is a reasoned argument. If he is "slow" behind the plate, maybe Fisk disease is hitting him. Fisk couldn't catch a pitch in his last season. It was sad.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:00 AM) AJ might be the laziest ballplayer I've ever seen. I mean that. God, I hate him. QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:04 AM) I do agree with that and I've honestly been more upset with PK's laziness. I think AJ not getting down on pitches could be helped if we rested him like a normal catcher Two of our best players this season getting absolutely FRIED on soxtalk. Wow. Paulie lazy?? AJ lazy? Tough tough crowd here.

Rios is a likeable fella this year. HR again.

No offense to Hudson, who won us one game, but he's another KW fail. I mean he's not getting it done. Bad acquisition. How many bad decisions does KW make compared to his good ones????

Has the NL passed the AL as the better league? Sox having troubles with everybody not named the Cubs.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:19 AM) Because he's consistently been a 2-3 ERA reliever with the White Sox for 1 1/2 seasons. Last time I checked, there's no such thing as a perfect reliever. But yeah, this really hurts. We badly needed this win tonight to stop the bleeding, and we knocked out Kershaw, had the best pitcher in the AL on the mound with a 5-1 lead and couldn't hold it. I must catch him on his bad nights. Seriously, when I watch him pitch he sucks big time. He earns a fat paycheck, too, doesn't he?

This is like the old days when we stunk. Ugh, frustration.

I'm not a big Jesse Crain fan. Is there any reason I should be? Fail tonight.

This is a big appearance for Crain. Got to win games like this against good teams.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:04 AM) Will Hudson ever get his body in front of a ball at 3rd? That's what I was thinking. Good observation. WTF Hudson?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 08:20 PM) But seriously, Greg, the Sox are NOT trrelevant right now. They are in first place. They have a guy who could end up being the HR leader for the season. They have an outstanding young pitcher that is just about the best in the AL. They have a first baseman that keeps getting better every year and after every pitch to the face. They have a talented, young bullpen. AND they DON'T have Ozzie Guillen, thankfully, because his shennanigans would take the focus off of all the good stuff I just mentioned. I was responding to the poster who said he went to a party and everybody there thought the Sox were way under .500 and sucking. We're not in the news. Only we diehards know how the team is doing.

QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 06:20 PM) This also explains the low attendance at US Cellular. For the average baseball fan, it takes a couple years to get with the program. They still think AJ deserves the hate, and they still think the Sox suck. I was actually at a party last night, and a group of people started talking about the Chicago baseball teams and how bad they are. Not one person knew the Sox were in first place. Another reason Ozzie's mouth wasn't bad to the average fan. He kept the Sox in the news, kept people buzzing about Ozzie. Sox are irrelevant again w/out Ozzie for now. We may all be diehards on here, and follow the Sox no matter what, but Ozzie was good keeping the Sox in the news for the average fan. He was free publicity for the White Sox/ticket sales. If you think his brashness affected the players negatively, I think you should reconsider your position. Who gives a f*** about his kids? These are grown men playing baseball. Ozzie was a GREAT sideshow as well as a WS winning manager.