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Great road trip for Gavin. CQ too. I cannot imagine where we would be without Quentin and Alexei.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:54 PM) Did anybody else lip read what AJ said when PK got his single?- "Get the ball." "AJ never misses a trick on a baseball field."

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:48 PM) I think it is Baker. Won't be easy. True. I'm just thrilled with the one win. Now we stay in first either way, survive KC, then go home and play the Cell like a fiddle.

Gavin has really earned his stripes on this trip. First gutting it out in Detroit, and now a win right when we needed it most. Nice timing, Gav.

Wassermann looked like the Wassermann of '07 tonight. He was the lone bright spot. I've never took much stock in what happened earlier this year. How many innings did he have to compile that 14 ERA? Not too many. Tonight's outing should lower that earnie by a nice bit.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 28, 2008 -> 03:18 PM) Agreed...he just needs one or two good outings. I don't think anything is wrong mechanically...just placement on a few pitches. I also haven't agreed with a few pitches called either...specifically the 0-2 pitch for a hit a few games back. I also think he'd better if they limit him to LOOGY status and quit pretending he can cover the righties on a consistent basis.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 27, 2008 -> 10:23 PM) I'm a Gates man myself.Gates gets it done too, but for convenience sake, if you're over by the Negro League Hall, Bryants can't be beat. I liked the old school atmosphere of their dining room - complete with those retro-style cigarette machines you used to see in bars everywhere.

I've been to both places. Minny in '01, KC at the end of '03 (RIP JM). Minny, you got the Mall of America, which might be of some interest. When I was in KC, on Saturday I did a day trip over to the Negro League Hall of Fame and Jazz Museum, which are both well worth your time. Then afterwards I took a short walk to Arthur Bryants for some serious Kansas City barbeque. Good times.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ May 28, 2007 -> 10:28 AM) FWIW, somebody with a grand total of two posts at WSI posted that he has "reliable" information that Day has been called up. ESPN 1000 is reporting it is Day.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Apr 28, 2007 -> 04:05 PM) I wonder if it has anything to do with Easy E...Chuck D more likely.

Radio pregame reporting that Alex had to leave to go back to PR for a few days due to his grandfather having suffered a stroke. Andy Gonzalez is up for a few days while Cintron tends to family business. Reports are that Alex's grandfather basically raised him so he's closer than the standard grandfather/grandson relationship. Best to #8!

QUOTE(Drew @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:07 AM) NL years always piss me off because David Ortiz plays at first for the American League, making it one of the 16 games a year he plays in the field.Everything NL pisses me off.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 10:22 AM) There really is no such thing as the Sunday line-up anymore. Our bench players are much better than those that formed the old "Sunday line-up". Word. Also helps that Manuel is in Queens these days.

QUOTE(Heartattack19 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 09:06 AM) My dad and i were in the Left Field Blechers. I thought it was going to be a long day when Wendall McGee hit a homer for the tigers. I remeber Tanyon Sturtze threw the second beanball and the hit battsman did not charge (maybe Dean Palmer?) but it was someone from the dugout! I carry the ticket stubb with me all the time and have met three or four other people who also were at that game. It is in the top three games i have ever been to! A buddy of mine from work was there too. This is one of the top five games of all-time that I wish I was at but wasn't (that list just got a new #1 this past week).

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 02:22 PM) http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws Great news... I can't stand Gustavo anymore. Hopefully Hall will be back sometime in May if he continues to do well. And this is really starting to sound like a thing he has always had, and that the injury he had just aggravated it, and when he got the MRI they noticed the tear. It's definitely true that there are different scales of tears when you're talking about ligaments and tendons and such and it depends on how bad the pain is and what you can handle. I believe Pedro had a partial tear of something in the shoulder or elbow the past couple of seasons and pitched through it until he couldn't deal with it anymore.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) in all seriousness... I wanna kill myself now for not going. Only 23 thousand were there, I think Hawk or DJ said. co-sign....oh well, I'll always have Game Two in my ticket stub portfolio.

QUOTE(shipps @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 10:13 PM) Thats the most excited I have got for the sox since 05'!!!I work in the ER and thats all everyone is talking about right now.Doctors,nurses,patients,janitors!Its all no hitter talk. Get Mark over there, stat. He'll save more lives.

Bravissimo, guys.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 10:04 PM) Jon Garland is gonna be paying Buehrle some $$$$ for this one. Hopefully JR will be paying more $$$$$$$$ for this one.

Also, can we say it now...there was no reason for Buehrls not to be starting on Opening Day...I know it's a minor thing...hell, maybe it spurred him on a bit. That and the hit on the forearm in Oakland. Maybe the best things that could have happened to him.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) COMCAST WILL BE REPLAYING MARK BUEHRLE'S NO HITTER AT 11:30 TONIGHT WTG, Comcast...I promise not to call you guys comcrap for at least the next 72 hours.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 09:55 PM) He should never have been moved out of the 2 hole.Word...life

This is why we watch, folks! Funny, even after the title ride of 2005, moments like these still get me as charged up as they ever did when I first started watching the SOX way back when. I'm just so happy for Mark. Hit that cash register #56...cha ching...price starts going up now. I would give my eyeteeth to have been there tonight.

QUOTE(joeynach @ Apr 16, 2007 -> 12:58 PM) Tada was awful in the 7th spot last year in ST, he was awful there this year in ST, and he has been awful there so far this year. I dont know what else Ozzie needs to see, Iguchi has shown Ozzie just how uncomfortable he is down there. Its not even that the announcers say it too, Iguchi just looks like a bad hitter with bad tendencies hitting lower in the order like that. DJ was saying yesterday how when Tada is letting the ball get deep on him on driving it hard to Right field we know Iguchi is locked in, and now now hes kinda of going out to get the ball and trying to pull everything hard to left. Not good approaches at the plate. Thats why I say Iguchi hitting in the 2 hole "forces" him to be that better hitter he can be; seeing more pitches, letting the ball get deeper on him, trying to hit behind the runner, etc. Its just about time Ozzie noticed this trend for himself. So true. I think his boss has "noticed" it for Ozzie. Hopefully we see the change tomorrow night.

QUOTE(StatManDu @ Apr 15, 2007 -> 07:23 PM) On March 18, 1942, the White Sox were in position to change the course of baseball history but passed. On this date, White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes watched African American athletes Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland work out at his team’s spring training facility in Pasadena, California. According to Jules Tygiel’s 1983 book “Baseball’s Great Experiment,” Robinson, best known as a football star at UCLA, and Moreland, a Negro League pitcher, requested a tryout, which Dykes granted. History tells us that nothing came of the tryout but Dykes, who stated he was willing to accept black players, was impressed even though Robinson was hobbled by a charley horse, according to Tygiel. “I’d hate to see him on two good legs,” Dykes said. “He’s worth $50,000 of anybody’s money. He stole everything but my infielders’ gloves.” After a stint in the army and with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues and the minor league Montreal Royals, Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with Brooklyn on this date in 1947. Robinson did not mention this tryout with the White Sox in his 1972 autobiography “I Never Had It Made,” Minnie Minoso broke the White Sox color barrier on May 1, 1951. This item originally appeared on March 18 on www.whitesoxalmanac.com The other connection is of course that we had the only other player in MLB history to come from Cairo, GA. Another second baseman whose greatest claim to fame when it's all said and done will be having been the man to score the winning run in the 2005 World Series championship. Nice article though. Joe Morgan was telling this story on the game last night on ESPN.