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A pinch runner?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 26, 2008 -> 07:17 PM) That last pitch was down the middle of the plate, and called a ball. Nice job Blue. Yeah it was, gameday shows it straight down the pipe too.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2008 -> 07:14 PM) Wait, so you can use a pinch runner? Ozzie was saving them for extra innings.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2008 -> 07:10 PM) Impressive out by CQ. Sox have the warning track power swings down tonight. GameDay shows 6 outs in the Warning track, is that accurate?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 26, 2008 -> 06:41 PM) Sizemore, 4 for 8 against Thornton with 3ks. 4-9, with 4 K's now.

QUOTE (daa84 @ May 26, 2008 -> 06:40 PM) garko too Gameday shows Marte and Carroll as well.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 26, 2008 -> 06:26 PM) Its time to bring fields up, I could care less if he Ks, the multimillion dollar thuds that are checking the backs of their cards K as well. At least he can hit lefties, and give us some power. This is sad. Yep, put Konerko on the DL and bring up Fields.

That was an odd strike zone.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 26, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) Cabrera's clearly only trying to help the team. The fewer errors he's charged with, the better the chance is that he'll wind up as a type A free agent when he walks at the end of the year, and that gets us an extra draft pick! I'm all for him staying a Type A Free Agent, but I highly doubt that was his motive.

Why would a player actually care about something like that "during" a game?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2008 -> 10:36 AM) Blow up Dolls>Hillary Blow up doll of Hillary > Hillary

Lets start another steak today.

QUOTE (Chet Lemon @ May 26, 2008 -> 07:37 AM) Obviously if the team is in good position at the ASB (and they should be), trading Contreras wouldn't make much sense. I do believe that he is a ticking time bomb right now, and will likely blow up in the second half of the season. It seems to be a trend that he pitches well for one half of the season, then pitches lousy the other half. I appreciate Contreras and given the fact that he's a consummate pro, I do not wish to see him gone, yet my head tells me that it will be hard to watch him in the second half. In 2007 he was just bad, it didn't really matter if it was the first or second half. In 2006, he did have a significant drop-off, but that may have been due to the extra miles on his arm from the postseason in 2005. Remember he had that crazy run from the ASB in 2005 to the ASB break in 2006 where he went 20-2. The off-field issues seemed to arise in 2006 as well. I wouldn't say he is a ticking time bomb; he may regress some which is common for most pitchers, but I wouldn't be surprised if he ended the year with an ERA below 4.00.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 25, 2008 -> 08:35 PM) As great as Carlos has been, I want to point out that without this rotation, you'd be looking at possibly the worse team in baseball. All I can say is that hopefully Q keeps kicking ass and that some of the other bats finger things out (or Kenny finds other guys who can). And to the pitching...keep on being BOSS!!!! You are correct. This pitching staff has been sick. Buehrle is the only pitcher on the staff with an ERA over 3.80 (not including Wass and his 3 IP). In the last 6 games the pitching staff has allowed 11 runs (54 IP), and 0 allowed by the bullpen in that run.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 25, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) People actually complained about the CQ deal? We gave up a AA catcher who may never see the majors. ????

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Atqn...p&type=lgns

19-3 when Linebrink pitches. CQ for President!

A funny note was they kept flashing the stat that the Angels had not played a game in extra innings this season all through the top of the 9th. CQ made sure that continued.

CQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE (daa84 @ May 25, 2008 -> 06:51 PM) AJ, Crede, Uribe, Ramirez and even OC are guys who simple dont work pitchers...we have too many guys in this lineup liek that....the fact that konerko, thome and swisher are the only ones who really do is really tough when those guys are scuffling like they are Regardless, you can't give a pitcher a 4 pitch inning.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 24, 2008 -> 04:45 PM) So we can't beat the Angels. Let's hope we don't see them if we make it to the playoffs. Didn't we just split a 4 game series with them?

Just re-assign him to another position at the very least. They have to at least show they are trying to fix the problems instead of just denying that they exist.

Seemed like the ump wanted to get this one over. Several calls outside of the zone on each batter, ugh. Another great effort by the pitching staff done in by the offense.

The team is just setting up for another dramatic 9th with the winning on base so Thome and Crede can strike out again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2008 -> 03:12 PM) I think it's time to start trusting Nick a little more with some more innings. Save Liney and Dotel a bit more. Counting today, he now has 3 consecutive outings with 2 or more innings and 0 ER.