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Rivas K'ed Stewart fly out to CF, 1 run scores Carrasco being taken out 2 down, 1st & 2nd, 3-1 KC

bottom of 7th - IF chopper 1B by Jones Cuddyer HBP jammed bloop by Ryan bases loaded 0 out, brilliant ass-hat Twins "rally"

QUOTE(brijames @ Jun 28, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) As much as I hate to say it I feel the Sox are going to get swept by the hated Tigers. Call it 30 yr White Sox fan intuition or call me an idiot but i feel this team is hitting the wall right now as proved by 13straight scoreless innings.. The Tigers are treating this series like the world series knowing if they are to have any chance at all they must beat the Sox now. I think MB is way overdue for a stinker of an outing and then with the kid pitching tomorrow and Garcia who seems to pitch great only in big games lately on Thursday we are looking at a sweep. The Tigers can hit the ball and the Sox are going to have to score a lot of runs to win these games. I just don't see them doing it right now. Actually Idiot it's been 16 straight scoreless innings. However the idea that we will get swept by Detroit is foolish. (Oakland maybe, but that's only because it's God-forsaken Oakland) Even considering BMAC in the rotation our starting pitching is clearly better. We've dominated everyone the division throughout this season, regardless of what it seemed like our boys were playing like around that time. There's no real reason to think we're going to hit a wall other than just a run-of-the-mill random slump (which our guys have kept to 2 or 3 games everytime so far this year.) Despite the last two losses, our rotation is in good shape, our pen is well rested, and our position players should not be hitting a wall (during the Cubs series, different lineups played each day and we've had basically 2 full days off for this series - Sunday afternoon to Tuesday night).

blah, blah, blah. Cotts threw 13 pitches. Big deal. The Cubs pen is the utter catastrophe right now, ours is in perfect shape for the last two games of the series.

I don't have many memories, seeing as I was born in 1981 and then our family moved from Indiana to VA in 1988, but the most vivid memory was in 1987 (I think) when Craig Grebeck and Ozzie Guillen hit back-to-back HRs off Nolan Ryan (with Texas at that time). The crowd was going ape s***. The next time through the order, Ozzie got a heater square between the shoulder blades and a "don't ever f*** with me again" stare from Nolan. Nolan looked as if he was going to charge the f***ing plate instead of the other way around. My dad and I went to two games in July 1990 which was the last time I was there. I had little emotional tie to it (being not even nine yet), at the time I remember being more facsinated with the new stadium. But my dad and his parents have memories at Old Comiskey going back to the 50's (for my dad) and 30's for his parents. My dad and granddad went to the last two games at Old Comiskey. There's a picture on my dad's dresser of the two of 'em standing just above the Sox dugout, it's really cool. OK, emotional rant over. :fthecubs

QUOTE(danman31 @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 01:47 AM) I can't wait until he learns a 3rd pitch...if that ever happens. On a sidenote, he's just proof that scouting reports can be way off. His best pitch was supposed to be his developing change up last season. He certainly had 3 pitches when I saw him here vs. Norfolk. It's just that he doesn't have enough faith in his stuff to put his curve and change over the plate at the ML level right now. But, that happens quite often to 21 year olds. Am I a bit disappointed he didn't come right out and take the AL by storm, sure. Does it affect my long term view about BMAC, no. According to what I read after his last start, he seems to recognize and admit what the problem is which speaks all the more to his maturity level.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 02:13 AM) Vizcaino needs less votes... sorry, about 4500 of them are mine

there's one scrub fan doing this for glendon rusch right now, it looks as if he's doing the same thing we are cause it's going up at about the same pace as when I was adding to the duke's numbers

and for anyone who wants still wants to help, feel more than free to double up on Duke and Viz because I'll be away from my computer (coaching baseball) for most of the evening tonight (about 5 to 11).

we're making up ground, it's gone from 45.3% (which was the lowest point I saw) to 46.3% in about the last 15 minutes

Who's the right fielder on your All-City team? 46.5% Jermaine Dye, White Sox (20161 responses) 53.5% Jeromy Burnitz, Cubs (23184 responses) 43345 total responses

ummm, this is not a drill, Burnitz has the lead over Dye

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 10:19 PM) Red Sox have to fight their way through the Orioles and Yankees. I know the Yankees aren't good, but they always play each other hard...kind of like the Cubs with us. They'll have a tough, tough time getting into the playoffs. I'd rather the Red Sox win this game and completely put the Indians out of contention. I agree, I'd rather throughouly smoke the division first. And with our August schedule, and the number of times we gotta play Minnesota in September, we look great right now but it's by no means over. If we're still up 8 or 10 or more going into the last month, then I'll worry about who wins the east or west.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) Yeah, I guess. Although they DO have a decent rotation and a really good bullpen. Their pen is good except for this guy, Bob "Clubhouse Buffet" Wickman, who will promptly give Boston the game right here.

YANKEES SCORE 20; 13 IN HUGE 8TH INNING COMEBACK Yeah it happened yesterday, and yeah they've still lost two of three to the Devil Rays, but still...20 RUNS! Inside on C17 - Ozzie Guillen said something that Jay Mariotti didn't like. - Dusty Baker's new astrologically-based reason why Kerry Wood keeps having arm problems. - Sox win again versus weak AL Central.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 09:51 PM) The White Sox over this 7 game win streak have been hitting like nobodies business. They have scored atleast 4 runs in every game. 12-6 6-0 5-3 4-3 11-8 5-1 5-1 38 runs for the Sox over their last 7 games. Thats 5.43 runs per game. Not bad at all. Funny how this winning streak/offensive explosion started after that 10 run inning against Arizona, we all knew it was a huge uplifting game but this is just awesome. True about the offense (and it's wonderful to see) but also check the runs allowed, that's 5 good-to-great pitching/defense games out of 7, with the other 2 being the 10-run game (in which our bullpen was great) and BMAC's game (in which our bullpen minus Jizzcan was great) I'm going to spend all day tomorrow it keeps up over the weekend. As we're demoralizing Twins fans, it would be great to punish Flubs fans as well.

Boos resounding through the TwinkeeDome, 5-1 Tigers, 2 runs already in in the DET 4th and a man on 3rd. And now Cuddyer boots a Rondell White ball into left field, 6-1 Detroit (and more booing)

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 05:11 PM) Shingo has gotten a lot of consistency back, and then soem IMO. Idgaf what anybody says, he needs more playing time. Luckily, today i think was a bit of abetter situation to put him in, but soon he should be back to the way he was pitching before. This reason (the playing time) was why I was for Shingo going down to Charlotte for a couple weeks, just to get some flow and confidence back. While I still wouldn't be against such an idea, it seems as though he's getting a few more good opportunities of late, and I think Ozzie's pretty close to full faith in Shingo. And at this point, that simply means being added into the Cotts, Marte, Politte mix and maybe closing every once in awhile (i.e. if Dustin has been out there for 2 or 3 days in a row)

within just a couple minutes... Who's the right fielder on your All-City team? 74.0% Jermaine Dye, White Sox (8670 responses) 26.0% Jeromy Burnitz, Cubs (3051 responses) 11721 total responses

I was helping out for a few minutes, but I don't think I'm needed. It was going up steadily the entire time.... Who's the right fielder on your All-City team? 71.2% Jermaine Dye, White Sox (7553 responses) 28.8% Jeromy Burnitz, Cubs (3049 responses) 10602 total responses

I love Shingo, he can still be critically important even if he's never the closer with Hermy around. He's done better, and the last couple outings have been only half-garbage situations. So hopefully his confidence keeps building and along with Cotts, Marte and Politte, we will have that much more depth for the 6th through 8th innings. (we need a Japanese flag smiley)

Wanna see something laughable...or in keeping with this thread's style, a major HELL YEAH! WHITE SOX 49-22 St. Louis 45-26 4.0 GB Baltimore 42-28 6.5 (OK, done gloating - back to serious, "we still have 3+ months to go" thought process)

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) Would you guys have sent Rowand home knowing that Crede was due up? not with how Joe's been hitting recently

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 03:03 PM) Did you figure that by Hawks "Woulda been out by 1/3 of the baseline!"??? No I didn't even hear that, LOL (maybe I was wrong then)

The Widgenator!!! 2nd and 3rd, 2 out, Cora almost waved AROW (would've been out by 30 feet)