Balta1701

Eaton steals 2b, throw bounces off Cabrera, Eaton goes to 3rd on the bounce. Winning run at third.

Eaton leads off the 10th with a single. Bunt good, tyler.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 05:06 PM) That whole $71,000 in debt issue doesn't strike me as an astute financial manager. That doesn't sound like very much?

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) 2005, for example, was all about adding a bunch of solid players on market level contracts to a core that was already pretty good (particularly the starting rotation and a couple of hitters). If we can't at least start signing players who just meet expectations, we're in trouble. See, I actually think that's very much "Not" what the White Sox did with the guys they signed on the FA market. Pretty much every one of them was a value signing to my eyes, a person who had something knocking down their FA dollars, which is fundamentally different from what we did with guys like Dunn, LaRoche, Cabrera, etc. List: Dye: coming off a severe leg injury and hadn't performed well in the time since the injury. Injury knocked price down. Hermason: had closed a bit for the Giants but mostly he was a starter the year before who hadn't performed as a starter, not being a closer knocked down his value. Iguchi: unknown quantity, and Japanese players at that time had their overall value knocked down because Kaz Matsui hadn't hit for the Mets like he was supposed to. Orlando Hernandez: basically was tossed aside by the Yankees as being at the end of his career. Really they weren't wrong, he just had a bit left in the tank. Value signing because of age. AJ Pierzynski: Value signing because he supposedly kneed a guy in a particularly painful spot, among other reasons. Compare that to the full-priced guys we just signed and maybe the only one you can make a case as a value signing is the one I like the least because of the whole needle thing.

Nice pitch.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:50 PM) And here comes Adam LaRoche against a lefty late in the game yet again! Do we have no one who could PH here? Beckham? TT? Leury? Flowers? Someone?

Elizabeth Warren will not be jumping into this race at this point and stop suggesting that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:45 PM) Ok Jose, demolish this pitch and send em home happy. Drat. Got to the track.

Ok Jose, demolish this pitch and send em home happy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:42 PM) Not sure why no Petricka.....saving Duke for Sizemore, kinda pointless. Robin has treated Duke as an 8th inning guy the whole year, regardless of position splits.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:41 PM) Such a stupid contract It was a 100% reasonable gamble if you thought this team had a good shot at competing this year with everything around him. The flaw was in the logic of the 2nd part.

Tie game, 5-5, Duke blows save on a walk, double by Geyer, and relay throw from Eaton that air-mailed Alexei as the cutoff man.

Alexei got him on his shirt.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) The end game of what you're advocating is children needlessly suffering. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Jaso grounds out to 1b, preserves the lead, 5-4 Sox after 5 innings.

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) They're going to lose this game, aren't they? As far as Rodon, send him down to get straightened out. Bring up Johnson They need to get this out right here. If they're spotted 5 and then lose the lead I think that'll do it mentally for them today.

Jaso in to pinch hit.

Asdrubal Cabrera doubles off the CF wall over Eaton's head, run scores from 1b (was running with 2 outs). 5-4 White Sox, tying runner at 2b. Now they intentionally walk Loney, I think the rookie is up next.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:34 PM) Wait. Why is Rodon being lifted after 75 pitches and two walks? Robin's managing like it's the playoffs today for some reason.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:32 PM) Rodon has been disappointing IMO He's a rookie who was barely out of college this time last year. If he's been disappointing then the problem was your expectations. I still laugh at the person who told me that bringing up Rodon in April would be worth 10 extra wins for this club, but that's where people were in their thinking early this season.

Rodon walks Forsythe, Robin out. Pulls Rodon for Albers after 4.2 innings.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:27 PM) The parent(s). And if they still want an abortion, go get one, and pay for it. Like someone said, cheaper than 18 years... And the end result when the parents can't is that you will.

5-3, deep CF HR by Longoria. Double Play right before that bomb was huge.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) How about hitting .374 in the minors ? He does a great job of putting the ball in play to the right side, that keeps his average from dropping that low. However, because he's constantly flipping the ball the other way, he's never driving the ball so it becomes a very, very punchless batting average. He was able to do that against minor league pitching because they don't get the scouting reports saying "don't put the ball right here to this guy" and because the control in the minors is lower. In the big leagues, people are just avoiding giving him the ball he can bloop to RF and it's killing him right now. He's absolutely talented, but that only gets you so far. There's no problem with playing as many talented guys as possible even if they've struggled early in their career...as long as you're not dumb enough to count on them as key parts of teams you expect to contribute on a team that must win this year to justify big trades or FA expenditures.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 03:03 PM) We all know the facts but you asked about skill set and it was answered. Catching 2 balls over the fence isn't a skill set.