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Google Play Music All Access (in dire need of renaming) is pretty cool. Enjoying my trial, will probably stay with them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 10:29 PM) No offense to Robin, but it seems to me even with the defensive miscues, we decided to give them this game by putting in that new pitcher I've never heard of in the 10th inning. Why just give ANOTHER game away?? Ridiculous. It's almost like this game was fixed. Those were all the pitchers we had. It was him or Deunte Heath left. We've played only close games lately, everybody was/is burned.

We played like hell, but it was a lot more fun to watch because we actually looked like a team that might score.

Dunn, if you can help it, make this game end in this at bat either way. Don't pass the buck to Jordan.

Ha - 1/1, HR vs. Janssen in Dunn's career

Take 3! I'd love to see Dunn get up, even if there is a high probability of K

So...who would rather see Dunn up here?

HP umpire has been horrible tonight, completely inconsistent.

Bad call.

On the bright side, we're hitting.

I'd have to see a replay to see if he did something wrong, but it's hard for me to mad at a catcher on a play like that. You don't really get to practice that one anywhere. Just our kind of day.

Oh well.

I have a funny feeling that Dunn batting fifth instead of fourth could play a role in the outcome here.

On that one, you could tell Tyler wasn't comfortable with how Troncoso's pitches break. He thought it was going to break much further away from him than it actually did.

FWIW, the main mental mistake that Alexei made tonight was one that likely would have been an out even if he did run back to the base. Also, lol

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 10:08 PM) Alexei absolutely should be benched tomorrow. I don't care if you play Konerko at SS, you have to send a message that mental errors can't be happening along with physical errors. Could probably slide Gordon over there for a day. The fact that he hasn't sat out may have something to do with the kind of day he's had today.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 10:05 PM) Alexei continues to have a dreadful game. He flat out dropped the throw from Flowers. What a disgrace. Yep, bad play. What a throw by Flowers.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 09:51 PM) Questionable pitch selection I can understand being afraid to triple him up with a fastball, but I sure as hell am not throwing a slider anywhere near the zone (probably not throwing a fastball in the zone there, either)

Will be seeing some Ramon Troncoso and Deunte Heath tonight if Robin will be holding to his promise to rest Crain.

Joey Bats'd

Dunn hit it right to shortstop....and the shortstop was there. What?

RACK EM UP MATTY ICE

I am very encouraged by our offense lately, but this game is a tallest midget contest. We still have to clean things up. QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 09:25 PM) I won't tolerate Tyler Flowers. I know, you staked your claim so clearly in the offseason that I have a feeling there is nothing he can do to be up to par for you.

ADA stays really hot. Also, T-Flow is approaching that .230 mark that many of us said we'd tolerate at the outset of the season. I'm guessing the threshold is a bit higher now that his defense has been disappointing.

If Courtney wants hit .350 for a couple months, I'm happy to promote. Otherwise, I don't see it happening. At his age and given his start to the season, you want him to thoroughly dominate that level before promoting again.