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QUOTE (Baron @ May 30, 2012 -> 02:45 PM) Billy Beane working his magic with the A's. Shut out by the Twins Moneyball

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 30, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) Nobody will admit it, unless they're Cole Hamels or Ozzie Guillen. Exactly. Admitting it only costs you money and time away.

Carlos Quentin with another long ball today. He can hit when he's healthy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2012 -> 02:24 PM) Although umpire supervisor Charlie Reliford was clear that no warning is needed by the ump was deemed to be intentional. Which it surely was. Crain vs. Rodriguez. Then they should not ever issue warnings. I could see if they actually drilled him and it was intentional, an ejection. But not hitting him doesn't warrant an ejection without previous warning, when you have warnings at your disposal. You usually don't get as much time for attempted murder as you would get for murder.

A lot of people thought the brawl with the Tigers, was a big catalist for the 2000 White Sox. Robin is quiet, but he takes crap from no one.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:46 PM) I wonder about the pitchers throwing behind a hitter. Humber did it a few games back and now Q. Were they actually trying to hit someone or just sending a message? I think its more of a message, but when the ball is throw behind you, a natural reaction is to back into it.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:44 PM) Lol, seeing Dayan's BA up to near .300 makes me giggle. Dude must be hitting like, .750 over the last week. He's hitting .354 with 8 homers and 24 RBI this month.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:40 PM) The Rays were retaliating against a dirty play. The umps knew it and that was that. To then throw at Zobrist especially in a close game is dumb. The Rays seem to be a fine team this is not like the Showalter BS. So the umpire knew the Rays were retaliating by drilling someone and didn't throw anyone out, but because the Sox retaliated by throwing behind a hitter that was worthy of an ejection? BS. If they think the initial "retaliation" was fine, they have to let the Sox throw behind someone without an ejection.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:36 PM) It was said earlier, but no way that AJ and Q are calling that. Those calls come from the dugout. Its either thar or its the pitcher taking matters into his own hands. He earned a lot of respect from his teammates today. The fact is, the guy who hits a batter nothing happens to, the guy that throws behind a batter gets tossed without warning. That's weak sauce.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:31 PM) AJ slid in on Zobrist at 2B yesterday...late slide, his left cleat was WAY up in the air and caught Zobrist on the shin. Clearly a dirty play yesterday and could have injured BOTH of them. Wills going off on AJ. The whole thing was over.....two White Sox HBP early today but no warnings, then the White Sox decided to go after Zobrist to even up the score. Probably called by AJ himself. It wasn't called by AJ himself. Get with the program.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:23 PM) I'm not even convinced that it was intentional. Maybe, but I figured AJ knew why he got hit. I'm astonished at what the umpire did. My heart's breaking for Q There's at least a 95% chance it was intentional. Other than Q was cruising, I love what he did. Was there a warning issued earlier?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:20 PM) Really stupid by Q and AJ I don't know.........it might cost them some bullpen, but tomorrow is an offday, and protecting your hitters does a lot for team chemistry. Throwing him out is silly, there should be a warning. We are now finally in an era where drilling Sox hitters will not be tolerated.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) At this point, I'd say that 2012 Orlando Hudson > 2011 Brent Morel I disagree. Their OPS is the same and, if healthy, Morel makes all the plays Hudson makes at 3rd, Hudson wouldn't make all the plays at 3B a healthy Morel makes. If the "real" Morel is the guy we have seen this year, there's no question Hudson is better.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) When Danks comes back shouldn't we CONSIDER a 6 man rotation if Quintana can keep this up? He looks really comfortable out there.... This would limit the innings on Peavy/Sale/Etc, not to mention continue to give this guy a chance if Humber continues to disappoint (outside of yesterday's outing) Taking pitchers out of their routines is a recipe for disaster.

Morel when healthy is better defensively at 3B than Hudson and the ODog isn't exactly tearing the cover off the ball. If Morel is healthy, IMO he's better than Hudson. If he's like he's been, he's not.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) 1-3 to end it, Sox make Rays pay for HBP of Aj. Sox lead 3-1 after 2.5 from the stadium that was almost their home. JR and EE have to be so happy they didn't move there. They probably would have had to at least threaten to move again.

Viciedo is having a decent month of May.

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Tanks is awesome.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 29, 2012 -> 08:10 PM) In all seriousness, if the Sox win this game and Konerko goes hitless tonight, do you give him the off day before the off day so he gets two days off? I think I would. He just missed time with the ball to the face. Paulie will be in the line up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2012 -> 07:13 PM) And his refusal to do so screwed us out of type A arb compensation. Yeah, maybe another Lance Broadway. The reality is, the lack of compensation pick probably saved paying bonus money to a stiff.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 29, 2012 -> 06:29 PM) I thought the reason it was controversial was because he expected us to resign him but wouldn't provide us with any access to his medical records... That was part of it. The other part was he had a procedure done that, at least at that time, wasn't done in the US. When Maggs first injured his knee, Ozzie ran out to the field and told him he should have signed the extension. Boras was his agent. He was done with the Sox.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 29, 2012 -> 09:12 AM) Yea hawk has very critical of Ozzie, albeit non-directly. He doesn't outright blame ozzie, but there is no doubt who he is talking about. That's exactly what I've noticed. He doesn't blast him like he does Manuel still from time to time, maybe because they know the firestorm it will create with Ozzie and Oney, but the indirect criticism is definitely there almost every telecast.

I hope Matsui plays. Guys that haven't seen MLB pitching in 8 or 9 months are ideal opponents.