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Hey, at least AJP has power.

Justin Upton hit an insane home run off of Zambrano.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:47 AM) Sure but he results are about the same Compared to what we've seen, at least there's some signs of life tonight.

Great defensive play by Danks! Keep Reynolds in the park here.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:45 AM) It is no different than any other game. Way better contact being made tonight.

Goodness, just one of those games.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:41 AM) I know it was a bad decision on his part but at least he's one Sox batter who's looking to be aggressive up there. Oh yeah, at least he looks dangerous. Just too bad he gave himself no chance to be productive by swinging at that.

Alexei showing no patience with RISP, and swings at a pitch head level. If Arrieta throws a low inside fastball, this game will be 6-3.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:36 AM) He injured it last year. What did they do over the offseason with it? It's been going on 5 years for him

Baseball's a funny game. That swing was terrible, yet it falls. Better see a hit and run here.

Goodness, 4 straight rockets. Beckham will break that streak.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:34 AM) I agree. I think Rios gets out of this. His bat speed is there. The thing that scares me is, mentally, can he handle this funk or will he shut down and have another horrific season like he did 2 years ago. It will be interesting if they shut him down for a while due to the toe injury. It might be something where he decides to rest it now instead of play the entire year with it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:33 AM) So was Wilson Betemit 2-3 springs ago. Well, at least the Royals noticed him. Ironic, since we acquired their 3B. Betemit was used terribly with the White Sox. He's a pretty damn good hitter.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:30 AM) Danks is really good. He might be having a bad game, but every year he goes deeper into games. Guy is one of the best lefties in all of baseball. I'm not saying he's not a good pitcher, but it's a tough call if you pay him as a #1 pitcher in the open market.

Vlad scares me more than Scott here. Need to bounce the offspeed pitch here.

Ok Danks, time to shut us up and keep the game tied.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:28 AM) Danks really is a 5 inning pitcher. He may not make it 5 tonight. I really, really hope we don't overpay him with a contract extension.

Danks is just awful tonight. Just a matter of time for Orioles to break this game open if he continues to have zero command.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 02:24 AM) I might be alone in this, but I get the feeling the Sox bats aren't all that far away from righting the ship. It's hard to tell. Dunn looks better, as does AJP/Alexei/Teahen. We've gone over Beckham's struggles, and we're not seeing Rios tonight. Arrieta is the perfect pitcher for our hitters, as almost everything is hard.

Ha, Arrieta is so brutal. Good swings that inning, just seems we can't buy a break once it starts going bad in a game.

This Baltimore team has some pop

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 01:15 AM) And Danks always pitches just not quite well enough to win. That's a very interesting way to look at it.

Wow, Danks has nothing tonight. Every pitch is above the belt.

Arrieta is pretty awful. We should score a few more runs off of him tonight.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2011 -> 01:03 AM) So basically Walker's existence is/was connected to Konerko coming back....and Dunn came here because of Konerko? Konerko came back cause we offered him the money he was looking for. Him saying it was partly due to Walker is just him looking out for his buddy. As for Dunn coming here, it had little to do with Konerko.