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QUOTE (BlackBetsy @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) I'd take a Twins loss in 9 innings over a Twins win in 20 innings. Arms are expendable at this point with just a bit left in the season. Plenty of rest in October if you don't make the playoffs. I'd take that too. But isn't going to happen. Meanwhile, the Twins' pen has been weak.

I hope, at least, this game goes to like 20 innings before the Twins head out on that 10 game road trip. That would be nice.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 09:36 AM) Didn't we have a 1B at Charlotte that just tore that league up this year? Why isn't he with the Sox now? If Swisher goes down, who plays 1B? Toby Hall.

Inning over. Mauer stranded. Twins aren't being patient either.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) Royals saw 8 pitches for 4 batters in the 8th and actually got a hit. They seem like a very different team against the White Sox as they would have worked the count there and gone through 3 different relief pitchers. That's because Sox pitchers wouldn't be attacking the zone.

The Royals are bad. Ball bounces of German's glove. Mauer with a 2 base error.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 11, 2008 -> 09:53 AM) The twins always alter their rotation so that their big guns hit the sox down the stretch. Expect Liriano to hit us as well. The only thing that might stop them is that they are playing the Rays before the Sox. That's a tough series at Tampa. They will need their big guns to win there too.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 10, 2008 -> 07:43 PM) Tribune is saying 4-man rotation after Sunday. That means the matchups in Minnesota: Vazquez-Baker Buehrle-Perkins Floyd-Blackburn The Twins have an off day right before our series. I wonder if they would alter the rotation to get Liriano in.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Sep 10, 2008 -> 08:40 PM) Huh? I was just stating a fact. Gomez, Casilla, Mauer, Morneau, Cuddyer, Span, Young, Kubel, Harris, Baker, Blackburn, Liriano, Slowey, and Perkins. That's 14 starting players under 30. By comparsion, the Sox have 7 (CQ, Alexei, Swisher, Buehrle, Danks, Floyd, Richard). I can buy a couple of those guys as underachievers but they still have better younger players than the Sox. Hmmm...so that's how they win all the time. Playing 14 guys.

Didn't this thread happen like 2 months ago? With that map?

I think I'll be amazed now if the Sox can win 90 games.

If you look at the Sox schedule on whitesox.com, you will notice Darth Vader pictured on the 16th. Which is also a game against the Yankees. It's almost too perfect.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 2, 2008 -> 11:31 PM) OK, I'll say it. Sinks can be tricky depending on the height. Also the depth. Splashing is a possibility.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 03:40 PM) i won't be excited until we clinch the division. i plan on being pretty excited that night. the next day, i'll be anxious about our playoff opponent. i'm looking forward to that anxiety. Agreed. Except in 05 when I wasn't nervous about any playoff opponent. God that was fun. This year though, yeah, I'm going to be very nervous about who the Sox play.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) It will help for with the far right. She is also for the teaching of creationism in public schools. hmmm...don't know how I feel about that. For anyone interested in Palin's scandal: Yahoo

On CNN they are saying Palin is a member of Feminists for Life which might play to independents. I don't know anything about them. This is from the Wiki page: Wiki

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:58 AM) I thought so as well. She is a strong speaker who still comes off as feminine. I'm sure there are more people within the Democratic party thinking highly of her than several hours ago. Totally agree. But the convention speech will be much more important that this "get to know me" speech. But I'm more interested in what she has to say than McCain after hearing her today.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) no it isn't irrelevant. Frankly I'm not impressed by being governor of Alaska for 1.5 years and already getting caught in a scandal. Alaska has 2/3 of a million people. That's it. They are a sparsely populated area. They have like none of the problems most states have. They have a weak state government with not much to do. Does anyone know what Alaska's state legislature is like? Is it like Georgia and she can do whatever she wants, or are they powerful and give her a semblence of what it would be like to work with a powerful legislative body? Before that she was a mayor of a town of 5,000 people. Safetytown's have more people than that. Say you want about Obama, but working in the U.S. legislative body gives lots of experience. LBJ's knowledge of the congress was instrumental in him pushing through all of his initiatives. This whole "executive" experience thing is a fairly new phenomenon, although not that senate has ever been a popular jumpoff to pres, we've had great presidents that were senators. Frankly, being a U.S. senator is far better experience in running this country than mayor of Alaska or Rhode Island. Her education, poor. She has a undergrad degree in journalism. Obama has a law degree from harvard and served as the law reviews president. She has a freaking journalism degree from IDAHO! IDAHO! Please don't act like there are no discrepencies between these two's experience. Alaska is also a state with oil concerns, environmental pressures, blue collar workers, guns, and it's a border state. All of which are issues in a political campaign. So actually Alaska can be a strong point.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:54 AM) More honest than a Clinton, that isn't saying much... With analysis like that I can never be wrong! But that's not what I meant. I meant honest in general.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 11:50 AM) What did she talk about? She started by talking about her family, but, relevantly... She talked about her fights against over spending and quite a bit about oil. She also thanked Ferraro and Hillary for breaking ground for her, which was interesting. There wasn't a lot of substance, really, but that's expected. However, she spoke very well and with force. She's probably a better speaker than Hillary (though this was only one speech), and she comes off as honest (though we know nothing about her). For what this speech was, I thought she did a nice job.

I can say this: before the speech, MSNBC was talking about how crazy a move this was and how she could blow it. After the speech, suddenly they talking like it might work in their favor. Her speech at the convention will be highly anticipated, but I think she stepped up today.

Palin is speaking right now. She appears very comfortable, especially considering she's never been in a national spot lot and had little time to prep for this. However, the two don't look comfortable together at all. Honestly, Palin looked disgusted at having McCain close to her.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 09:21 PM) From what I've been told by the office skank, Danks has absolutely no game with the ladies. I finally have something in common with a baseball player!

Wait, don't tie breaker's only come into play where there are multiple spots for the playoffs? As I understand it, if the Sox and Twins are tied for the division and the wild card is already decided (for example Boston is the WC) there would be a tie breaking game because they would battling for one spot. On the other hand, if the Sox and Twins tied for the division but one would take the wild card, then the WC would be determined by the tie breaker. In other words, if Boston wins the WC, you can't lose the division by tie breaker.