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Nice job by Buehrle of pitching over Alexei's best Rashid Davis impersonation.

Jeez, the bad baseball continues. Didn't know Pods was back on the Sox.

Yay, we have the Joe West crew. Crowd is pretty small tonight.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) outside of this year, Garland has been pretty meh since he left the Sox. Dude, he won a WS ring in '05

Rather see Viciedo start against a LHP

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) Come on Fathom...you were one of his harshest critics in the game threads...we can't always play revisionist history here... I was saying his slider was awful compared to reports of it being his best pitch. I was always impressed with his change-up, but he definitely had control issues with his fastball.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 04:00 AM) Wouldn't that be something? Thome and Konerko both go North and end up beating our brains in. Ugh. Konerko LOVES Thome, so it wouldn't be a ridiculous idea.

One of the more under-reported stories during ST was that Konerko said he thought it would be time to leave the organization after this season. I was amazed there wasn't a lot of talk about it in the media. Due to his success this season, I say its 50/50 if he returns. I'd love to see him back, but if he's going to get 3/30 this offseason, I wish him luck.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 11:02 PM) We acquired him too late. Sox have a lot of work to do in the offseason. Will be hard to improve the team if we don't trade any of our starters and I assume we still want a rotation of Mark, Jackson, Floyd, Danks and Peavy which on paper will be very good. Man with Sale and Thornton and Putz and maybe Jenks ... on paper that's a worldbeater staff. But we know how on paper doesn't mean s*** when it comes to the White Sox, who can't beat teams in their own division. Sale won't be in the bullpen. He'll either be starting with the big league team or starting in the minors. I would be surprised if he's not projected by the Sox to be starting in the majors next season with one of the 5 starting pitchers traded this offseason.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 08:42 PM) He has been the bullpen in the last couple of weeks. That has more to do with it than anything. And one could argue that the reason he had to be "the bullpen" was due to early health issues and ineffectiveness with Jenks causing Thornton and Putz to have way too much put on their shoulders.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 08:46 PM) Manny's been here for like 27 seconds and he's already been a waste of 4 million. Not singling him out or anything. But our season is just about over and he hasn't even had a chance to make a legitimate impact. If the Sox try to bring him back next year, it better not be for anything more than 5 million or so. Watching him play all season, he just doesn't have the same bat speed he once had. He's still such a smart hitter with a great approach, but to pay him as if he's an elite run producer would be silly.

Jenks just seems to break down during the 2nd half way too often. Thankfully, this is the last year we'll have to worry about this, as there's absolutely no way you bring him back for the money he'll want.

As someone said earlier, just a terrible stretch of games. We have to go undefeated on this upcoming homestand, or this season is likely over.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 07:01 PM) Glad Kotsay got an at bat. The curse of the Kotsay-Damon comparison continues.

This offense flat out did not show up to play the last three games. Seems like a team that was on its last legs on this road trip, and just hit the wall once the magic wore off.

Just got back from lunch. Nice to see Rios show some life, but jeez, it seems Gavin was lefty in way too long.

QUOTE (soxbsbllvr @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) Hmmmm maybe if the Sox waited he would be doing it against the AL as well. Couldn't agree more. It's not like he was getting hit hard in 2 of those 3 bad starts. If Beckham had any range at all, he could have had a decent start vs the A's.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) Carlos is horrible in the field, but give me a break...you get throws like that all the time from the OF as an infielder, especially at 3B. Knock the thing down without booting it 15 feet away. True, but errors usually even out for outfielders.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 06:46 PM) Morel appears to have a face only a mother can love, and his game looks horrible with the small sample size He looked 100% overmatched during Spring Training.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) And to think there are still people on this site that think Carlos is a decent fielder. He either has to be the DH next season or traded.

I think Quentin has more errors since the ASB than home runs.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 05:42 PM) This offense has been horrid the last 3 games, they look completely uninterested, looking to just pack it in. Why not just crown the Twins AL Central champs again, unbelievable.... You have to admire the Sox winning 7 games in a row on the road, but it was like as soon as they lost a game and the Twins won that day, their bubble completely burst. We started seeing a lot of acceptance from the players with regards to what was likely to happen. Not that I blame them really, as the Twins are an absolute machine right now.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 06:41 PM) Which is one of the biggest differences between the Sox and that team in 1st place Completely accurate...hey, at least the guy in the front office that said having lefties in the lineup wasn't important because of our possible postseason match-ups can't say he never said that thanks to The Club.

It's a rule that any Sox hitter from our minor league must come up to the big league squad and look overmatched.

I love stacking the lineup with righties even though Porcello really struggles against LHP. Hell, give me De Aza in CF over the K/DP machine in Rios.