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QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 08:00 PM) True. This road trip on paper promises to be a bad one. Toronto usually handles the White Sox and the Royals play good baseball against just one team: The White Sox. I'd say KC wins 2 of 3 again (one win is about all we can expect; KC is so bad you'd think we will be able to get the one victory and avoid what would be a devastating sweep). The key is to split the four-gamer with Toronto. If that happens, the Sox go 3-4 in the next two series. Not great, but I don't see any better record than that and a worse record than that is entirely possible. As is a better one, stay upbeat , screw what you think and believe ! This team has fight . I don't know how it will turn out but they are very worthy of support.

I think the title says everything that needs to be said.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 07:26 AM) Blow it up and serve it in spaghetti sauce. You guys act like the pen should have 0 ERA and WHIP. Breaking news pitchers give up runs.

BENCH X 3 !!!

QUOTE (Wagz @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 04:14 PM) With this lineup and with JorDanks coming off a walk off night do you think we could see him come in as a late game replacement for DV? Danks is playing well in the OF as well or seems to be comfortable with the team as a whole. Really liking what I see out of that guy for the most part since his call up. The bunt is the only bad thing that has really stuck in my mind Danks has already come in numerous times for DV in the late innings.

Bench !

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 07:19 AM) Just going off of the fact that Morel didn't play last night. Isn't Morel out of options ? I say Johnson.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 04:47 AM) I was happy with the walkoff, congratulate him on his first career homer, and the unreal timing of it, but he's still a subpar bat. He's actually about a month older than Gordon Beckham. I think we have 5 walk offs this year and I know for sure our bench has done 2 of them. Escobar had one and now Danks.

Danks for the memory

I needed to put a after that post. It's all good.

Fun reading through this thread. I played 12" inch for a few years in my late 40's to 50 until RA forced me to retire. I miss it. I was a starting 1st baseman for our team. Our team went from sucky to pretty good over the 2 years I played. The infielders loved me because I'm so tall and I could pick those low throws in the dirt. Good thing about playing in California is you can play year round. The new composite type bats really amazed me. I could hit a ball farther at 50 with these bats than I could at 25. Surprised there hasn't been any posting in this thread for a while since it's gotta be softball season in Chicago now.

Don't know anything about the quality of the opponent but nice seeing Hector pitch a good 5 innings. I read where he's going to be working on throwing 5 pitches so if he stuck to that he pitched great not relying on his best pitches.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 07:29 PM) Beat me to it. Lock and delete this biatch. I'm a little slow but I'm starting to understand all the negative posting.Whenever you say something positive it's a jinx so must be that negative comments are a reverse jinx so all that bad stuff in game threads means they are hoping what they say/write makes the Sox do better .

Walk off time

Ha Francoeur stealing popcorn is classic.

Even though the Sox have way more HR during the season KC out homering Sox head to head.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 04:28 PM) Uh oh mlb.tv not working for the 7:05 EST games... get your s*** together I want to stress out while watching the Sox dammit! Come on over You can watch on DirecTV

5-0 Yanks

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) Over/Under 2 runs scored today I'll take the over for an easy win.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 02:11 PM) My whining comes mostly from the fact that this team has been in first place for 70+ days, and if they miss the postseason it will crush me (and I'm sure other people on the site) It will hurt 10000 x more than if they had just lost 95 like they were being predicted as losing. I would prefer losing 95 to missing the post season by 1-2 games It's tight right now and every single game matters, so we as message board fans who obviously know better get a little chappy when s*** like this happens. I hope these days off reinvigorate the team and they run all the way to October, but in the meantime every game is gonna be looked at under the worlds largest internet microscope. If we can't rest guys against Guthrie who's had been just as bad as Humber when can you rest them ? I think the sun in California and the recent quakes have got you a little bit shook up. Rather lose 95 than have a wonderful season like we are having ? Sheesh ! Lucky Robin got word Youk and De Aza were ready tonight because he originally was going to keep out PK Rios Youk and ADA.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 03:58 PM) There will be no need for a game winning hit, I'm calling a big first inning. Are you Soxman 2nd City Saint ?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 2, 2012 -> 09:40 AM) I personally got tired of my optimism constantly being shut down when I saw a good ball club. Now that everyone sees more of what I saw everything I wanna say has already been said. I can't not read these boards though, they supply this jobless fellow hours of entertainment. Are you Soxman or do you just think he's cool/funny ?

The best Sox blog out there Southsidesox.com does a nice write up on the relievers the Sox have picked up in recent memory at the trade deadline . In the last 13 games bullpen has a 1.32 ERA in which the team has gone 10-3. All 3 Sox pickups have been outstanding so far. Here is the link http://www.southsidesox.com/2012/8/7/32250...-help#storyjump

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) Paulie with his first clutch hit in forever! (Side note, does it seem like he's holding his hands lower? Wrist still bugging him) Anyways, Sale's velo way back up. Great to see. Oh... and f*** THE TIGERS. Wasted a Verlander start and didn't gain anything in the standings. "NO GROUND FOR YOU!!" The GROUND Nazi ???

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