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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) Well, we better never acquire a "big-name" left-handed hitter again. First, Swisher...now Dunn. How is it even possible both guys could veer so far off their career norms when they came to such a hitter's park? It's the curse of Joe Borchard. (Yeah, yeah....Thome was good). Maybe Dunn has a drug problem now?

QUOTE (almagest @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 10:03 PM) I keep hearing we don't want to bring up Viciedo because Pierre is on an MLB contract, and the team doesn't want to lose money. Isn't Viciedo also on an MLB contract, since we signed him out of Cuba? Aren't we paying him $4 million to kill AAA? Only about $1.5 million this year and if he stays down past mid august he might have another year before arbitration starts and FA starts.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 10:03 PM) And he's crushed him throughout his career too, 7 or 8 homers alone in the match-up. Babe Ruth was fat. John Kruk was fat. Why didn't it affect their hitting? They had appendixes?

Sigh

QUOTE (chiguy79 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:46 PM) Omar has the 5th highest slugging % in our lineup tonight...no one should be surprised that we aren't scoring many runs. Impossible. Mark Teahen is a lefty and there's a righty on te mound. That should overwhelm all numbers. And logic.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) I tend to agree with Rongey on this. You see it in other sports. There's no logic in the economic world of sports, especially baseball. I'm going to bundle Juan pierres performance and sell it off as a grade AAA investment then take out credit default insurance to bet against it. The goveremt will then step in to cover my losses on Pierre and I'll come out a zillionaire.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:43 PM) Wish he'd quit reminding us. We'd have a 2 run lead if Teahen wasn't at third.

Well at least we know the cubs have a new sox killer.

Zambrano is getting outs but he sure doesn't give you the feeling that he has settled in

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:57 PM) Well Dusty Guillen needs to make sure that he can purge the lineup of as many young players are possible. I wonder how long the Juan Pierre and Omar slappy show will keep in play. Wednesday we have to send someone down to make room for Peavy. I wonder if Guillen and KW will send Beckham down so they can start Omar full time. That play had nothing to do with Omar. Teahen is at third.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:55 PM) wait, there was a 0-97 budget vote? or is it all fake? I think they brought the unedited Obama budget up and it failed like that. (that'd be a normal vote for any budget that congress hasn't debated, so it's just a vote to make a political point, the deems whipped against it I believe)

Glad that ended. Ok bats, there is work to do.

Why do you pitch out when even on the pitchout you can't throw him out?

Crap. Neither of those 2 runs would have scored had Brent Morel been at 3rd. And it would have saved Gavin 10 pitches.

Come on G!

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:45 PM) DJ LaWHO?? Exactly. Cubs AA team is in Knoxville and I've never heard of that one.

Morel would have had that.

Didn't Soto used to be big?

S***ty Rios.

Was that a slider? An 87 mph cutter diving in on a lefty? That was mean.

Lotta pitches to these two

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) 4 up....4 down. 23 more to perfection And you're not wrong either.

Some swirling winds at the cell.

Fukudome looks annoyed having to field the ball.

Konerko passes Harold Baines on the all time HR list, ties Dwight Evans. Konerko ties Frank Thomas with his 11th season with 20 or more HR in a sox uniform.