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Thank you Tampa Bay, for giving us that game so many, many, many times.

A ground ball now would be nice.

QUOTE(GoRowand33 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:52 PM) after the way we played tonight a win is ridiculously underserving Tampa Bay has played roughly 4x worse than the White Sox. They literally handed us about 6 white flags. We shot the guys carrying the first 5. Those flags wound up red. Eventually we remembered what a white flag means.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:50 PM) im sort of worried abotu them actually....they have a scrappy lineup and is much improved with shealy there and with sweeney And they get to face Freddy "The Royals crack corn and I don't care" Garcia too. Hopefully Buehrle and Contreras take care of business in game 1. And hopefully the Royals are spending their good pitching performances on the Twins.

QUOTE(Yoda @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) That's quite an amount of money for a guy who has shown to be reliable the last couple of seasons. But if I were the Astros I would try to save some money for a good impact hitter. A Carlos Lee playing in LF would not be bad. That would put Berkman in RF or 1B. The Astros have Clemens's $12 million and Bagwell's $18 million coming off the books this offseason, together with a couple million leaving with Aubrey Huff (who is making >$6 million but wasn't there the whole year). And that's only about a $3 million raise over the $11 million Oswalt is making this year. So that's about $36 million freed up, with about $3 million extra committed to Oswalt. They have money for 2 bats if they want to spend it.

Ok, Garland gets the win, MMac and Thor can pitch the 8th, and everyone is happy in Chicago. Well, except Cub fans.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) I think McClunk beat us in the dome down in tampa this year I believe so also. So we're really, really due to beat this guy.

Seth McClung and his 6.53 ERA in. Lefties are only hitting .299 against him, 5 home runs in 175 at bats.

QUOTE(SinkingShip06 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:42 PM) so...who on tampa is gonna break our hearts tonight... Neal Cotts. Yes I know he's not technically on Tampa Bay...but close enough.

Ok Jim, this is Tampa Bay's bullpen. Finish them!

KC won that game within 1 second of Iguchi hitting that home run, I swear to God. Our whole night turned around in 1 second.

KC Wins

Nice play Grudz...

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:38 PM) I've been hoping for a DL trip for a long time now. Think we could arrange a collision between him and Mackowiak when Ozzie starts Mack in CF tomorrow?

(Whispering in Ozzie's ear)...suicide squeeze...

4-3 Royals, solo home run by Cuddyer. Thank God Mauer let a passed ball slip behind him in the top of the 9th.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:31 PM) Why is Juan batting? We have some good lefties on the bench. You know...that's a real good question. The one time in this game where I'd agree with going righty-lefty... How much you want to bet Mack PH's for Anderson.

Ah, yet another Tampa Reliever with an ERA around 5. Tampa Bay has the 2nd worst bullpen in the AL. We better be able to scrape together 2 more runs.

QUOTE(G&T @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:27 PM) Wasn't he a roider? 2 of them in bullpens in our division. Juan "Steroids" Rincon and Rafael "Steroids" Betancourt. QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:27 PM) We take the first ball right down the middle, and then swing at s***. Ozzie is trying to get Jon the win instead of the team. Garland has only thrown 93 pitches, and you and I both know God Kills a Kitten if you take a pitcher out before he throws 100 pitches.

KC up 4-2

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:22 PM) Somone needs to see if these guys are getting paid off.... With Josh Paul in there...the White Sox do have the connections...

Tampa Bay's been holding up the white flag since about inning 3. Problem is we can't figure out which way to aim the cannon.

Shealy leads off the 9th with a double off the Hefty bag.

QUOTE(GOD @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:17 PM) Twins beating Royals 4-3 This is why I'm an Athiest.

QUOTE(SinkingShip06 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 07:15 PM) so i should just ignore what is going on? i'm giving them kudos. we would have folded like a lawn chair. Because we haven't won any games in the 9th inning this year. Especially none against good closers, like Rivera, or Papelbon, or Ryan, or Ray, or Street, or Jones