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QUOTE (daa84 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 01:35 AM) tigers lose... Rain delay, but Tigers have the bases loaded with 2 outs if game continues.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 01:33 AM) Frustrating Bad feeling about a walk, some bloops and then a 2-1 Twins win tonight. It's puzzling that Dunn isn't crushing these sinker ballers like Blackburn, Feldman and Porcello.

Getting dominated by Blackburn right now

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 02:22 AM) Tribe getting THUMPED in KC 8-3 bottom of the 3rd. Good, we want them to lose these games against KC so that we can root for Indians to sweep the Tigers in the remaining 9 games they have.

Easy inning for Blackburn. Similar offensive performance to Sunday.

Great inning for Liriano there. Time to get him a few more runs

Awful offensive performance so far. Blackburn's up in the zone with that sinker. Tough inning for Liriano here.

ADA with nice range out there

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 01:46 AM) Gordon's last HR was 6/20 vs Cubs I feel like he had a power outage when he got to 9 homers last year also and then hit #10 on the last day.

Youk's bat speed is really poor right now. Gotta wonder how healthy his legs are.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 01:27 AM) I watched a bit of the Olympic basketball today and was appalled at the lack of quality from the rest of the world. Spain might be the only team capable of making the NBA playoffs and honestly I think it would be close. Would any other country be able to get out of the NBA cellar? A healthy France team could

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:12 AM) Tigers score one, third inning, game now in delay. Beckett leaves game with injury. They had Verlander on the ropes in the first and couldn't get any runs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:32 AM) Honestly, I'm not nervous one bit. Team's played head and shoulders above where I thought they'd be, the guys who looked unsalvageable have all produced, and we got a pennant race to be in. Heckuva lot better than where we were the last couple years in August, which was starting to look like no one cared and limping to the finish. And with how the young guys have played/pitched this year, there's a whole lot to build on going forward as contracts start to clear. Yep, KW's managed to upgrade this team by a huge amount during the season without giving up one key piece for the future.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) I cannot imagine any player not wanting to play with the White Sox. He must be pure evil. I guess you don't want to watch our starting pitcher tomorrow then

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 08:45 PM) This is all true. However, I'm still skeptical if this is the actual problem. The did an ultrasound after the MRI. As I stated in a different thread, these are usually for muscle injuries not tendon. I think this case is one that no one really knows what's going on so they rested and rehabbed it to see if it would help. If it does, he'll pitch again. If it doesn't they'll do surgery. Most of the time, this type of ambiguous pain comes from overall shoulder instability. In a pitcher typically the "looseness" focuses in the anterior part of the shoulder and begins to degenerate tissue in this area. This could explain the original Subscapularis findings. The grade 1 tears show as fluid in the area as it's only a minor tear. General degeneration will show up like this as well. My guess is that if can't continue to throw they will do surgery to tighten up the joint capsule and "clean up" anything else they find. The only real danger of this is if they tighten up the capsule too much it isn't flexible enough. If they don't tighten it up enough, the joint is still too loose. It can be tricky. Either way if they do surgery anytime before Oct. he should be ready to go in spring Training. Would a full recovery be expected?

Just create a different thread that contains no spoilers at all.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) Good deal for the Cubs. Say what you want, but Theo is doin' things. Still a long ways to go. But it's hard not to like what he's assembled so far: Rizzo, Solar, Vizcaino + Texas deal. He didn't draft him, but it sounds like Javier Baez is blowing up this season

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 08:22 PM) He blossomed this year. I'm sure you were looking at pre-season rankings. And their 20-25 ranked prospects could be top 5 for the White Sox. I believe Molina was an example of someone who went from not in the top 10 for the Blue Jays to our #1.

Harden led the NBA in 4th quarter FTs this year

they have some better arms like Holland/Crow/Herrera they can have close now, but it weakens their middle relief. With how bad their starting pitching is, this is likely going to hurt them.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) If the Sox land Liriano today, everyone's happy. All they did was land him 4 days early so he could already be pitching on deadline day. There are no complaints from me. +1000000000

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 08:04 PM) We landed Contreras and Peavy after the deadline was apparently up. It's not over. It's not over until bucket, docsox, rock or kona say it's over!

If the Cubs traded Garza to the Dbacks, it would be for one or more of their starting pitching prospects.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 06:35 PM) Oleny thinks Garza for Upton makes sense. Is he crazy? I saw that, and it seems absolutely nuts to me. Garza has not looked good at all this year, and that's before the injury.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 04:58 PM) I don't really want to come off as being down on our pitching staff. I think that we have a good starting staff, maybe the best as a group in the A. L., but right now it just looks like a train wreck waiting to happen. I hope that Quintana & Sale get over their respective "dead arms", Peavy never has his "dead arm". Humber & Floyd pitch as well as they are capable of pitching, Lariano pitches like a man on a mission (for a new contract), and Danks has a miraculous healing happen and pitches like an "ACE". Wouldn't it be great to be arguing 2 months from from now on which ones of the 7 deserve to be in the playoff rotation more than the others. At some point, you need the starters in the rotation to step up and lead the team to the playoffs. You can't try to go 8 or 9 deep in the rotation just to cover for guys fading at the end of the year.