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This team needs to regain their swagger as soon as possible. I can't believe this is our lineup tonight in the biggest game of the season. You look at that lineup, and you wonder how the heck we can compete with such a sound Twins team.

DAllen said he thought Thornton tweaked something

So how did Jackson look tonight?

Looks like Ozzie got his ass handed to him by Showalter once again. Horrible all around series...I hate Ozzieball! And is Thornton hurt?

Really feel like KW would kick the crap out of Rizzo if he got the chance.

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 01:38 AM) I like the trade deadline access and debate. Well, I hate D. Zien, the Assistant Director of Baseball Ops. His talk about facing LHP in the postseason was idiotic considering we have to make the playoffs first.

Beckham not sure he'll be back for the Twins series...yuck!

The Hawk stuff was awesome

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 12:55 AM) You remember how I said Friday's loss was unacceptable? This is why. Not because that loss killed us Friday, but because it killed us today. You've got to win the extremely favorable matchups when you have them, because you're going to lose games like this today. We win that game Friday night, today's loss still hurts, but not like it is right now. great post shack

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:32 PM) I'm just enjoying the season. My expectations really aren't that high. I believe the Twins have a better team. I'm hoping for the best while enjoying baseball. For me, I'm absolutely thrilled that it hurts when the Sox lose games. After the first 50 or so games, this seemed like a wasted season. It would be great to see the Sox have a great home stand coming up. I'm happy we're going to play the Twins to hopefully provide some energy to this team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 09:21 PM) Great. You haven't a noticed in a drop in posts on here, except the same simplistic arguments about Kotsay and Jenks and Ozzie's lineups? Negativity wins out, but negativity ultimately sucks. Or it's cause the summer is ending, which means a lot more people are going on vacations with their family before school starts again? Also, it's not like we've had the most exciting match-ups lately. I bet the thread/chat is packed for the Twins series.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 09:19 PM) Surely Nick Swisher would be smarter than too allow pictures of such a thing. But seriously, I thought that was Chicago's worst kept secret? It would be up there along with the extracurricular activities of Kyle Farnsworth, Scottie Pippen, etc.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:01 PM) I really think this is a great post and that it deserves its own thread. Yes, it sucked to lose 2 to the Orioles, and yes it would suck even more to lose 3 games to the Orioles. It really sucked. However, it's become increasingly alarming that this team has literally no margin for error before most of the board thinks they have no chance at well, anything, even sometimes don't even deserve paying attention to for the remainder of the day. The moment the Sox are down against a bad team people are flying off of a bridge in the game thread. Why exactly is that? People rode out a terrible August in 2005, and showed a lot more patience through something like a 5-13 stretch, and this was before the White Sox could even prove they could win a pennant, let alone a World Series. You're right, it's not like 60% of this site had pictures of someone choking in their sig.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 09:03 PM) We won't need to send Viciedo down if Beckham goes to the Dl. I can't see him going on the DL for that.

When KW didn't acquire a bat at the deadline, you had to know there was going to be even more skepticism and negativity about this offense when they struggled. And this offense was pretty damn good during our 31 game stretch, as well as recent performances at home. The biggest story of this season, with regards to the offense, is the seemingly Coors Field impact playing at the Cell is having on our hitters.

Something that will be frustrating is if we send Viciedo down after Monday in order to promote Teahen, even though we face two LHP during Twins series.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:56 PM) What use is this supposed versatility if we don't use it, Ozzie? Where the hell was Dayan? All season, he's shown no idea when to PH for our players in situations we might need a home run. Just a terrible baseball day when you consider we lost a game in standings, and our best hitter right now got injured.

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:55 PM) I was calling for the Pinch Hit (PH), not the DH. Yeah, I changed it to PH.

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:53 PM) PH with the Tank!!! Sorry, he's an untouchable that cannot be allowed to PH.

Ugh, Viciedo really should have been batting for Lillibridge there.

Ha, Castro is a stud.

Twins win...Indians gift-wrapped this game for them.

Kenny should have been out looking for a RF at the deadline. He was too busy trying to call Rizzo's bluff, and apparently wasn't even close to acquiring Dunn. Everyone in the world can see that the Sox need to put Quentin at DH for his health and the team's overall defense.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:43 PM) Can't afford to take the AB's away from Kotsay. The thing is, I don't know what can really be done about this offense right now. Kotsay obviously is swinging the bat well the past few days, but it seems we're struggling to get extra base hits.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:42 PM) He had a routine fly ball but it was hit right into the sun and he couldn't find it. Deflected off his glove and Jones ended up on second. Quentin to the DL with a strained eye?