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Rios with some sensational swings this game!! Hope he didn't twist his ankle too much.

Wow, Valencia missed that pitch by a foot

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:26 AM) Shut up Stone it was a strike. Your what hurts?

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:22 AM) Any early predictions on the insane circus ending in store for us Sox fans...? I'm gonna go with a blown call going the Twinkie way. I'm thinking a fluke play like an interference call costing the Sox a big run, or an easy DP throw being butchered Lillibridge style to give the Twins the lead.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:15 AM) Those two hits looked getable for Paulie If PK leaves, I truly think we'll be shocked when we realize how little range he has at 1b, as well as the fact that nearly every 1B is good at picking the ball at first.

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:08 AM) AJP is flirting with worthlessness at the plate this year. No doubt in my mind we'd be a better team if Castro got to play every game against LHP. Also, no reason for Floyd to even pitch to Mauer. He's hitting over .650 vs RHP starters since ASB.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:44 PM) What he say? From Cowley twitter "Oz to Sox fans crying about Thome: "Don't like it that Thome isn't here? Good, don't watch the f------ White Sox."

I assume no one is watching tonight based on what Ozzie said today?

Another pathetic response by Ozzie with regards to Thome: http://twitter.com/cst_sox

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:49 PM) I like to lay down in my bed with the lights out stroking my stuff to Hawk's voice saying "Don't stop now, boys!" that's only after looking at your stuff and telling it to "stretch"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:11 PM) Actually, a decent way to use him could have been having him facing any RHP that the Twins brought in from their bullpen...if Jones had come in to face the LHP in the 5th. Please don't go there. No smart manager would make a move in the 5th inning to try and help his team. The only strategy that can be used in the first 6-7 innings is small ball.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 10:04 PM) Alexei has horrific April/May's. Should we not play him till June every year? I wouldn't object

Hell of a day for the state of Minnesota

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 06:06 AM) I think his post makes sense in he's saying because of the utter venom on here this year we really don't deserve a title. I don't know about message boards of other teams, but wow ... this one is NEGATIVE. Even when we were 25-5 it was ultra negative. Weird. It's the economy, baby. The ONLY negative thing that was talked about during that stretch was how would we fare against the AL teams.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:56 AM) Next year's staff has a chance to be impressive. Despite Freddy's quick spiral down, he got wins in the beginning when the so called studs were duds. Well, if the rotation is Peavy, Buehrle, Danks, Jackson, and Floyd, they better win a lot of games 2-1 because that's a ton of money that will be locked up with our rotation with money being needed to fill holes at 1B (if PK leaves), DH, C.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:53 AM) Yeah, tough to say. Danks just really can't seem to keep his s*** together versus the Twins in the early innings. He often settles down eventually, but how many times does he struggle mightily in the first few innings againstt them? Always puts us in a huge hole from the get-go. Should have anticipated that tonight I guess. It is unreal how Danks seems to have the same game every time he pitches in Minnesota.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:47 AM) Well, you know me...I am a pretty big optimist....but these losses start cumulatively wearing on me... Coming out of the ASB, winning 25 of 30, I really felt like maybe this team had put it all together and could put together a strong run during the 2nd half and outlast Tigers/Twins. So much negative has taken place since then, it really felt like to me coming into the game tonight that the Twins are the stronger team, and were in the driver's seat to win the AL Central.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:43 AM) DO you take the over or the under of 11 K's for Liriano tomorrow? Under...you figure he'll pitch 7 innings, so there's 21 outs there. Pierre will have at least one bunt out, and make contact at least in one other AB. There's 19 outs. Rios will hit into 2 double plays, so there's 15 outs remaining. I would predict maybe 8 K?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:41 AM) What a killer....what an absolute killer this is...sometimes I wish I would have chosen soap operas instead of sports... This is a 6 out of 10 for me on the frustration scale. The Sunday game after the ASB, where Jenks blew it, was a 10 out of 10.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 05:38 AM) There's no way of knowing Thome would put up those same numbers with the Sox. Some guys play better for other organizations. Swisher isn't the same suck player for the Yankees. Well, can we get our players to perform better then?

Not exactly a movie, but the ESPN 30 for 30 about Hank Gathers, and the resulting scene with Bo Kimble shooting a lefty FT, always gets me.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:25 AM) Greg is actually being pretty logical in my opinion. And I hate to say it, but I can't stop thinking about Rongey telling us that the pitching would be the thing that would ultimately sink us if we lost. Kotsay has actually been very good during these last few weeks. It has been the pitching which has done us in. We managed to win games in spite of Kotsay earlier, and maybe it's partially his fault that the staff is worn down, due to pitching in so many high-leverage innings, but since we were 1.5 games up on Minnesota to 4 games down suddenly has very little to do with our DH situation. But a portion of those games have been in really low scoring games (ie: Saturday's game and the extra inning game in Seattle). A better DH could have led to more runs, and thus more insurance for our pitchers.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:24 AM) Vlad, pure and simple. Hitting .297 with a .839 OPS. That was my pick, and the one I wanted the most. He was never going to play here due to Ozzie and others.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 04:20 AM) BTW, what were the options in FA for acquiring another DH? Branyan and Gomes!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy s*** people, why are some people so freaking stubborn? Those that wanted Thome gone were also under the impression that KW would acquire another hitter that could get those at bats as the DH. Everyone and their mother would have wanted Thome back if we knew that Kotsay/Jones would be the alternative.