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Tying run to the plate with the 3 highest paid bats on our team up...supposedly what you'd want I guess.

Uh-oh.

Only 61 pitches for Robertson through 5. Detroit's bullpen has the 4th worst ERA in the bigs, if your plan for how to attack the Tigers doesn't involve patience against their starter, then you're on the wrong track.

So the Tigers have a guy with 22 career at bats hitting behind Cabrera? Ouch.

QUOTE (Cowch @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 04:40 PM) I DIDN'T SAY TRY FOR A DOUBLE!!! Oh well, Run scores thanks to that steal. Way to go Lex. Would you consider him 5-tool? He's getting there, he's got the ability to show them all. I'm not yet sold fully on any of them though.

Hmph, so Detroit's still playing that Clevin kid, I vaguely remember him from last year.

Good ol frozen gameday, waht would we do without you

Q has just been off for a couple days now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) Many people expect Smardaijza to give up baseball in a year or so. Doesn't he get pretty much paid as long as he doesn't give up baseball for about 3 more years though? Aren't those next couple years worth like $8 million to him?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 03:39 PM) yeah, i get the feeling that miggy is ready to break out, plus, they're looking for anything to help turn their season around and this is a golden opportunity. Still...sox are swinging the lumber right now in a big way. And, more importantly...Detroit has to get past Jose.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) Buffalo has a solid year last year. Marshawn Lynch is an absolute monster, and Trent Edwards showed promise toward the end of the year. Lee Evans is a viable #1 WR, and they just added "sure thing" 1st round WR James Hardy out of Indiana in the 2nd round. Are you calling Lynch an absolute monster in terms of being a solid football player...or in terms of being "An absolute monster" of a person?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 01:29 PM) Anyone want to fess up to voting for "they are both worse than Bush"? I am surprised someone voted that way. Bush never threatened my beer

This is a decent giggle.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 12:47 PM) I was going with issues hotly discussed nowadays. But now that you mention it, maybe an entry for individual rights (1st amendment and related) would have been a good addition, when you consider this administration's tendency to stomp all over them. How much has this administration really stomped all over the 1st amendment? I'd say speech/assembly has suffered a bit from the "Free speech zones" that appeared at there events where they hid protesters out of the way, religion has had the whole ID bit but honestly they've simply failed in the courts (Deservedly) regardless of what Bush thinks, so out of but out of Speech, Assembly, Press, Religion, I'd say the 1st amendment isn't in terrible shape. #4, #5, #6, and #8 however...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 08:56 AM) Actually that is the whole point. The Chinese economy is WAY bigger than it ever was, and the communist government on top of it is on a more precarious position than anytime since Tianamen Sq. If the very existance of the Chinese economy was threatened, they would have no choice but to go to war, if for nothing else than to preserve themselves. While I disagree with this particular point re: China, I will play Devil's advocate a bit and note that wars typically tend to follow trade routes. Countries have nasty habits of going to war with their bigger/biggest trading partners. France and Germany were constantly each other's largest trading partner in the early half of the century, with a 4 year gap and a 6 year gap, for example.

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) How about his teammate Adam Dunn? He might cost too much but he has amazing power. If we can I would also like to get lofton or maybe pierre on the cheap for a quick/ steal threat/ pinch runner/ 4th type. Juan Pierre is essentially as far away from "Cheap" as any player in baseball. Lofton is available...but as I said a couple pages ago, if you replace Uribe with anyone who can't play the infield, you're setting a trap for yourself that could easily cost you more games than it wins you by only having 1 backup infielder.

Did people really think the officiating in game 2 was fair? Do people expect the officiating in game 3 to be fair? I certainly answer no on both of those.

QUOTE (tommy @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 09:29 AM) The ultimate SLUMP BUSTER! Normal Facial Hair, thats what he needed! And Toby Hall's pants.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 09:19 AM) if we sweep detroit, they're done. I don't care what a team's record is...if they're as potent on offense as Detroit potentially is, then mid-June is still too early to count them out. They're 11 back right now, Cleveland came from what, 15 back in 05 to make it interesting, and was the greatest regular season swing in White Sox history away from pulling within 0.5 games and probably breaking our spirit?

Sweetest swing I've ever seen.

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QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) I'm not really sure what your looking for here. I think the key question is...how do you know they were killed BECAUSE they were union leaders, and not just they were union leaders who happened to be killed for other reasons?

Hmmm, Detroit is really the only team that seems to have hit Jose well this season. He pitched against them in his first 2 starts, gave up 9 runs and 16 hits between the 2. Time for Jose's revenge.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 09:02 AM) Who's going to catch fire when the Sox start playing .500 ball? The thing is, though, 88 games might be enough in this division, so if the Sox go 1 game over .500 the rest of the year, they would be 88-74. I betcha that wins this division. Barring someone else in this division making a trade or something surprising happening like a pitcher for minnesota or Hafner catching fire, that number probably is right.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 04:42 AM) Don't get me wrong, I think Hinrich blows personally. But he's a SG that's been playing out of position as a PG, and as a result he looked terrible running the offense, dribbling around aimlessly for 17 seconds before heaving up a shot and hitting the lower left side of the backboard. So I'm inclined to think that playing the 1 and always being assigned to players like Wade had an effect on his shooting. It's kind of wishful thinking, but if he became even an "ok" shooter, drafting Rose would give us a pretty good backcourt. I caught this fairly interesting piece on the "Combo Guard" a couple weeks back and I think it fits here (does show Hinrich on their scale). Basically, the thesis of the author is that most guards these days other than Nash and Kidd fall pretty squarely in the "Combo Guard" category, where they're either taking a good number of shots on their own or are pass first people. Read it, hard to explain in toto. On Hinrich...I think he's one of those guys who'd be an excellent fit for a certain kind of roster, but just like Gordon, I'm not sure it's the roster we've had the last couple years. He does a couple things very well, in particular playing defense. You can put him on guards bigger than him and still get a solid performance. He's not the best passer, he's not the best ball handler, he's not the best shooter, he's not the best at creating offense for other people, but on all of those, he's not "terrible". But what he does need is he needs to play alongside someone who can do the job of being the key guy on the offense other than him. If you put him on a team where he's the 2nd option, or the 3rd option, where he can take the ball up the court but the defense is still focused on another guy, that's a position he can succeed in. Alongside a guy like Wade, or Kobe, or in Lebron's backcourt or perhaps on a team like the Nuggets, I think he'd thrive. But just like with Gordon, his problem is that he's been on a team where there's been no one who has the ability to create scoring opportunities for the rest of the team, and thus, his advantages get muted and his weaknesses get played up.