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Danks is back to falling violently off the mound.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:08 AM) please don't tell me zambranos no hitter beat the world series? #1 was Bartman #2 was Hester's Super Bowl kickoff return #3 was Sox winning World Series. I know Zambrano's no-hitter was higher than Pods walkoff in the WS. Buehrle's no-hitter didn't make it.

Did anyone see WGN's 10 top Chicago sports moment of the last 10 years today? Unbelievable

When's the last time Thome homered?

Saw "Bruno" today. It was solid, nowhere near as good as Borat.

Great speed by Alexei there! Thome, we know you like hitting long balls vs Blackburn.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:57 AM) Don't see JR and KW investing $125-150 million into Joe Mauer when the Yankees will throw it at him to replace Posado or whoever is catching there in 2010. Yankees are grooming some young superstar catchers though. I bet Mauer stays in Minnesota.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:54 AM) It's quite obvious he has mancrushes on a number of the Twins. Mauer is legit though, as he's probably a top 5 player in the league right now. I wonder how the Cubs feel about picking Prior over him. Who was catching for them at the time, Todd Hundley? fathom.....? Damien Miller and Paul Bako maybe?

QUOTE (scenario @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:50 AM) Giving him the 'ol fathom discount are you? Poreda 97 mph = 91 mph as Colon 90 mph = 84 mph All this talk about Colon coming back so soon makes me wonder if KW is trying to trade Richard and/or Poreda.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:45 AM) Bring him up now. The sooner he is in Chicago getting hit all around the park, the sooner we can move on and forget about him. Funny, as that's my same attitude about Quentin. Call him up, and if the pain is too much, shut him down for the season.

Beckham having a string of some bad at bats. Needs to get more aggressive at the plate.

Crede with a bad decision there, as he would have easily got Thome out at home. Oh, and I just got a call that Colon's fastball was at 84 mph yesterday.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 10:30 PM) Any word on his velocity? 84 mph from what someone at the game told my brother

A run here would really be a nice momentum changer.

Must be nice to have a SS that has range to his right. Very nice play by Harris. Blackburn's going to get 20 grounders today it seems.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:37 AM) He threw 3-2 cutters that missed by more than a little. He wasn't his aggressive self. I thought the pitches to Mauer and Morneau on 3-2 that were both close enough that 90 pct of the hitters in baseball swing at them. If he threw a fastball down the middle that Morneau hit a slam on, we'd be upset.

Blackburn already has a foot wider plate than what Danks got.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:35 AM) Bulls***, he's the enemy now. Grab some bench. you're fired up, I like it!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:34 AM) Keep it at 4 and things can still work out. I don't understand Danks' tentative-ness. He dominated this team last October. I'm calling bulls*** with the tentativeness thing. He got squeezed mightily against Span, and then he didn't give in to two of the best hitters in baseball on a 3-2 count. Kubel always destroys the Sox, so that's nothing new. I think it's pretty pathetic by Hawk to go nuts on Danks like this and call him out.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 12:34 AM) Ascencio did it with 16 pitches for the Royals, but not to start a game. UMM...mixing the rotation to let Danks (who was pitching so well) face a team he SHOULD have a bit of confidence against isn't the problem. We changed our rotation around down the stretch last year and had starters going on 3 days and we somehow made it to the playoffs. It's not Ozzie's fault Danks has morphed into Rick Ankiel or Dontrelle Willis. pitching Richard on 3 days rest was absolutely idiotic

Instead of watching the pitch, just watch how far off to the right Danks is falling off. He's almost ending up off of my screen.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:31 AM) Has anyone seen someone start a game with 4 STRAIGHT WALKS? I have never seen that before in 25 yrs of watching baseball... Catfish never did that

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:31 AM) Danks is no where near the plate right now. This release point is all over the place. And you could see him get visible frustrated when he was throwing pitches to Span right down the plate called a ball.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2009 -> 01:30 AM) Its the typical White Sox Metrodome performance. Disgusting really. I think the team should meet with a Sports shrink before they go back at the end of the month. And just another reason why the standings are so deceiving right now, as our schedule is impossible in the 2nd half.

Wow, this is amazing. Seriously, keep his ass on the field.