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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:28 AM) It would certainly be nice if they could respond well to it. They didn't respond well to these losses earlier this year. We won the Saturday and Sunday after the horrible Friday night loss to Tampa and the two games after the awful loss to the Dodgers.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:27 AM) Or the same ones who would have said SEE I TOLD YOU THEY WOULD COME BACK if the Sox actually did come back. Relax everyone. It hurts, yes. Santos missed his location. Second game in a row, yes. But the posts about THE BULLPEN IS IN SHAMBLES or other stuff is ridiculous. Good night. Feel better tomorrow. Wait, you don't think the bullpen is in shambles?

QUOTE (chiguy79 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:26 AM) Not the end of the world...but every 10 days it seems we turn two very winnable games into losses..it is getting old. I can only imagine Ozzie is going to go off the handle after this one. I think the thread should just close with the bolded part. I highly doubt anyone disagrees.

Biggest issue with our blown saves is that it seems like we've gone on to lose all but one of those games. At least we can say that when Sergio goes bad....he really goes bad.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:20 AM) The game tonight is not indicative of anything on its own. Even the best teams in baseball have nights like these. We controlled the game throughout and then got done in by some hit batsmen and two hits in the 9th. Don't let the 9th be indicative of the whole night. Our weak point has been offense this year, and today we provided some. Our weak point is clearly our bullpen right now.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:17 AM) "This game won't matter much in the big scheme of things." /ranger He was talking the other day about how Buehrle struggled to start 2006 due to the extra innings he pitched in 2005. I guess he didn't realize Buehrle was great the first 3 months.

Reason this is a terrible loss is we might have faced the worst pitcher to start a game all season, and then we had about 10 pitches to win the game. This is so similar to the Tampa debacle on another Friday night where they had a long losing streak. Oh, and you suck Juan.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:17 AM) The same people who are b****ing that the season is over now will be the ones screaming that real fans (like themselves) can't get tickets to the post season games Shouldn't you be giving Bobby a sponge bat right now?

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:14 AM) Sergio has been really solid all year. Just because it hurts right now doesn't mean you start thinking of him as the worst pitcher in baseball. He's had 3 blow-ups in about 2 weeks. He looked like someone with no confidence at all tonight.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:13 AM) Maybe JR better get off his ass and fire Ozzie and Kenny The bullpen is in shambles, and I blame KW for leaving the unreliable Pena on the roster coming into the season. The fact we have two righties in the pen that even should sniff a big league roster is usually a bad sign.

I would also like to know why AJ called for a change-up to Suzuki after the previous one almost hit him in the dick. Santos didn't throw a single change-up that inning that didn't tail hard towards his right.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:11 AM) I can't think of a single part of this franchise that doesn't suck right now. Our general manager sucks, our manager sucks, and our players perform below expectations/suck. Meanwhile, the owner continues to sleep as the team tumbles deeper and deeper into irrelevance. I wonder what it'll take for change. Konerko and Quentin are pretty awesome.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:09 AM) You know full well Terence isn't a manager in baseball who would have pulled him before the double. Totally disagree. It was clear he couldn't get anything but a fastball over. I really think Crain would have been brought in if he wasn't "overused".

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:08 AM) He had Willingham 0-2 and AJ decided to get cute. Sergio is fine. He's getting squeezed and then it just snowballed. He had no offspeed stuff tonight and his fastball is straighter than anyone else's on the team.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:06 AM) And that's a White Sox season. Sergio hit the wall about two months earlier than he did last year. So we're down to....nobody reliable in the pen.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:06 AM) Ozzie?? How bout Sergio s***ting the bed???? Of course Sergio s*** the bed, but there was no excuse to have him still in the game. Maybe KW should get off his ass and get us another righty in the pen.

We had something like 9 pitches to win this game. As big of a choke job as I can ever remember.

Screw you Ozzie.

Sizemore is going to destroy a fastball here.

Problem is he can only get the fastball over...and Sizemore I'm sure knows that. Crain should be brought in.

PULL HIM!

He's making so many mistakes with his location right now. Throw sliders!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 11, 2011 -> 04:00 AM) f*** me. It's Suzuki. We're gonna lose this one. Don't throw him a high fastball...he's killed us in these situations on that pitch.

Santos is overthrowing every offspeed pitch the last few batters.

Hung the slider badly there. No homers here