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QUOTE (Soxy @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 07:17 AM) 10 ways to publicly humiliate your wife. Look at the bright side...he didn't have her standing next to him at his press conference.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 08:40 AM) I doubt KW takes a chance on him with $50m over 5-6 years. If we could get him in the Viciedo price range, I think we'd push it. I'm just not sure that the Yankees won't come in and beat what everyone else would consider fair market value.

QUOTE (mreye @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 08:14 AM) Did they announce an AL Pitcher of the month for June? If they didn't, it's King Felix.

We bloodied up Greinke a bit last time we saw him. How about a full blown massacre today?

Probably means that at least 1 of the Mets, Phils, and Braves comes to Chicago.

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Quite frankly I'm not sure that going all-in is the right strategy here. Just because it worked in Iraq doesn't mean it'll work on a smaller scale here. But the fact that Iraq has turned around so dramatically argues that it's worth a shot, does it not? And The fact that 6 years and probably a quarter of a million or more lives and a trillion or two dollars later Iraq has finally achieved a low but simmering level of violence with only a car bomb every couple days doesn't exactly mean to me that he wasn't a f***tard.

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Neal Cotts has the Tommy John surgery

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:48 PM) What? That's worse than that game when Joba got swarmed by nats at Cleveland back in 07. I can't embed this video but here it is. Delayed game for over an hour while they called a beekeeper.

QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 08:02 PM) I'mm feeling like a "buyer" Where would he (aka anyone) play?

MARK!

Ballgame.

Rangers reportedly borrow a large sum from MLB to make payroll.

And here comes Ozzie/Jenks

And it's 4-1, there goes the Shutout.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:25 PM) Mark should definitely go back out there. Not a save situation. Farmer says Jenks is up/ready if needed.

I think tha'ts 2 to the wall by Anderson tonight.

Rough Day for Beckham. But he gets an RBI. 4-0.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:12 PM) Who would you want to add, Kroeger or Ward? One interesting thing, I bet a movement to start Nix at SS, Beckham at 3B, Getz at 2B and Ramirez in CF starts soon... If Quentin comes back, that movement will end before it starts.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) The larger point is that the "surge" is damn near the same in Afghanistan, and three years ago, everyone was against it that had a (D) behind their name. Why? For political motivations. PERIOD. Yes, there were a lot of other factors. And there are now. But the tactics are largely the same. Those (D)'s were pretty damn quick to dismiss it all because it was political, now the same tactics are supported. And you know what? They did a hell of a lot more than just adding 20000 troops. They fundamentally shifted strategy and literally threw the bums out who were insisting that the old strategy was fine. They also got plenty lucky on the timing of the thing because the surge happened just about the time that the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad of everyone who wasn't a Shi'a was complete. And altogether, it caused a dramatic improvement. It wound up working. Hell, if you want me to say I was wrong, sure I didn't think it would work that well, but the shifts in strategy were huge. Had they not done that it may very well just have been more of a bloodbath. In Afghanistan, they've tripled the number of American troops in country and they're trying the same basic shifts in strategy. We'll see if it works.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) Both the Twins and Tigers have the night off. So the Sox can get 2.5 back if they get three more outs and hang on. Mark's probably going out there in the 9th I believe. He's only thrown about 90 pitches. Linebrink's up, but they'll give Mark every chance to finish this.

If the starters keep going 8, when do we start thinking about sending Gobble down, going with an 11 man bullpen for a while, and bringing up a position player/hitter? Gobble down if Q comes back?

6 pitch 8th inning for Mark.

2 pitches, 2 outs.