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Another hard hit ball turns in to an out. Danks needs to settle down a bit. 28 pitches for JD through 2.

They are hitting him pretty hard though. Soto, Theriot, and now Murton all have solid hits.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 11:18 AM) How is Danks' stuff looking? They're getting hits on him by being aggressive on the first pitch where he's throwing first pitch strikes to try to get ahead. But he's getting a lot of stuff on the ground so far.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) Surprised they pitched to BA If they could get BA out, it extends their starting pitcher's game a bit because now they lead off the 3rd inning with the pitcher. Not the worst strategy if your bullpen has had a lot of work, and if you don't respect Anderson at all. And right now he doesn't seem to deserve it.

33 pitches for the flower girl through 2.

Damnit Brian come on.

Fairly surprised they're pitching to Anderson here. Brian, that's a big statement of no respect.

How is Danks with the bat?

Every batter so far has hit the ball in the air off Lilly.

Told one of my friends yesterday he should pick up JD in his fantasy league that day.

That makes me feel better.

17 pitches by Danksy in the first.

Ok offense, let's over-water this lilly

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 11:02 AM) What was the second hit after the dribbler? Solid hit to center that could have been a double had Anderson not played it well

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 09:57 AM) I think the shutting down of these outside groups by Obama has just started. Holy crap, I'm impressed. From an email I just got:

3rd manager to fall this week.

11 pitches for Lilly in the first. Interesting that all 3 outs were fly outs.

Not sure whether to keep this discussion going here or to move it to one of the energy threads, but why not here, someone else can move this if it keeps going on. The argument of the Bush/McCain team is that opening up the areas offshore to additional drilling by providing more oil leases will produce more domestic oil production and will hence decrease oil imports, the trade deficit, and will push fuel prices downwards. There's another big problem with that logic that hasn't been hit yet...it assumes that the oil companies will actually drill the areas that they receive the leases for. The logic is fairly simple. If I'm an oil company, and I expect oil prices will keep going up, then the longer I hold on to each lease without producing oil from it, the higher the value of the oil in that site. Especially if I think that oil demand is going to keep forcing prices up due to contracting supply, and if my lobbyists can keep the U.S. from developing any sort of alternative energy system, then the more leases I can stockpile now without drilling them, the more money I'm going to make. While this seems all anti-capitalist and conspiracy theory-ish, the numbers on oil leases and drilling bear it out. The Administration has been dumping out oil leases for the last 7 years, at a rate well above what oil companies either can drill or have interest in drilling. It's a partisan report, but I'd love to see someone who can show me that their numbers are wrong here.

Kill.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 07:45 AM) We also have Fields and Owens down in AAA to use as trade bait, a package of Owens, Fields, Richar and Broadway could be enough to bring in Roberts. I know we do not have a 3B next year if that is the case, but KW is not trying to win next year. We could find a way to add Rowell into the package and give him a shot next year or go after Blalock, Crede, or Dallas McPherson in the offseason. First of all, no that package would not be enough for Roberts. Fields is hurt, Owens is old and hurt, Richar is struggling, and Broadway is average. Jerry Owens is simply not trade bait no matter how much we may want to think he is, and Fields has basically spent what seems like the entire year on the DL.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 08:09 PM) Any of the series down the stretch in 2005 were much more important (especially the series in Chicago against Cleveland), given how hot Cleveland was an how cold we were. I have to agree with this one. The series where we lost 2 of 3 to Cleveland but where our 3rd baseman had a couple of good swings, followed up by the series where we took 2/3 from Minnesota and the only game we lost was a 2-1 game where BMac dueled Santana to a draw and we followed up with 2 wins to turn momentum around, I'll take those.

Becoming a true member of the White Sox community permanently: Step 1: Bash Wrigley Step 2: Step up and destroy the Cubs for a few games Step 3: Perform in October and get a nice, shiny ring out of it. John, you've covered step 1, step 2 is in about 2 hours.

I. Want. Blood.

The 1999 Chicago Cubs were 8 games above .500 on June 8. On June 9, the 1999 Chicago Cubs played their first game that season against the Chicago White Sox, coming in to the series 7 games over .500. On June 14, the Chicago Cubs of that season arrived in Milwaukee on a 4 game losing streak, now only 4 games above .500. That sweep by the White Sox sent the 1999 Chicago Cubs in to an absolute tailspin, and they finished the season 67-95.

QUOTE (Maxwell @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 06:58 PM) I want to see him play first base. It probably won't happen, despite the article on the team web page. Frank Thomas's career nearly ended because he was playing 1b during interleague play.