Dick Allen

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 03:09 PM) Thome's HR was measured at 480 ft and hit a flagpole In his last 590 AL AB, Thome has 44 homers, 125 RBI and 119 BB. I don't know how you turn that down for $1.5 million.

The Twins cannot win games outside. Getting out of the dome is going to kill them. Thank God the Sox are 7-0 on this roadtrip. If they were 4-3, it may be time to play taps.

Jordan Danks with 151 k's in 445 AB. Putting things in perspective, Dave Kingman, a strikeout machine, had a career high of 156 k's in the major leagues in 535 AB. Danks will get every consideration due to his last name, but at this point, I would think a productive major league career has to be considered unlikely.

2 runs in a third of an inning, yet 2 or 3 dadgumits.

Right size, wrong shape.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) Perhaps some junky shots found holes? It's already over? Damon, Cabrera, Kelly and Inge all hit the ball very hard. Its not over at all.

Gets out of it with a DP, although that was a rocket. Hopefully, a little break will be exactly what he needs.

Perhaps the 129 pitches Jackson threw his last outing are causing him problems today.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 5, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) Close call, could have gone either way. Is Hawk b****ing and moaning already? I'm pretty sure if every game were perfectly umpired in Hawk's mind, the White Sox would be undefeated.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 5, 2010 -> 10:01 AM) Manny gets $127,000 for watching a game today. Think about that. Manny maxes his social security tax requirement after 1 day.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 5, 2010 -> 03:31 AM) Exactly Kite. Drives me crazy. If Sergio had picked up 2 saves today they'd be saying it will be the thing that turns around our season. Bobby does it ... yawn. He did his job, and did it well. He pitched 2 innings and held them scoreless which is great. The Sox team let them score twice in 18 innings. No Youk, no Pedroia, no Ellsbury. When the schedule came out, you would have thought 7 against the Red Sox in September was almost unfair. Its turning into a blessing, although they are still better than Cleveland and KC and a Baltimore team the Sox had some trouble with. The Sox need to win today. If Minnesota just plays .500, the Sox have to be 7 over just to tie the rest of the way. The getaway games after already taking the series are games except for that one hot streak, they have historically had trouble with. Beckett has been garbage. The correct color will win today.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 5, 2010 -> 09:43 AM) Manny is sitting today. I thought he would DH 30 games, or until the Sox were out of it. He's more valuable sitting. He could come up to pinch hit at any time. Beckett and the rest of the Red Sox know this, so the White Sox should have a field day as the threat of Manny batting is actually more prevalent when he's on the bench, because it could be at any time.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 10:46 PM) Don't know much about hitting do you? Apparently a hell of a lot more than you. 7 quality AB, the likes have which have not been seen on the southside since Frank Thomas was in his prime....you are delusional. Almost every player has had a string of 7 AB that were as good or better than Manny's first seven at some point, but its Manny. Everything he does is the best. A journeyman reliever for Cleveland hung AJ a curveball because he was so scared Manny was on deck. Another hung a curve to an MVP candidate, a guy hitting over .400 his last 30 games and a guy hitting .350 the last 3 months, because he was scared. Manny was on deck.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) Lackey hitting Q sure LOOKED intentional, but Lackey is an idiot if it actually was. Can't load the bases up by hitting a guy because your catcher had weak hands. It may look intentional, but you don't have to be very far off the plate to hit Quentin. If he really wanted to drill him and missed with the first pitch, I would suspect the second attempt would have been right in the middle of his back.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 07:21 PM) The first pitch almost hit him, the second one did. He was throwing at him. So you aren't allowed to throw 2 in a row inside to Quentin?

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) Red Sox announcers calling out umps for warning the White Sox.... All I know is if Quentin was a Red Sox and Lackey a White Sox, and that same scenerio happened, Hawk would have a very different take. Quentin hangs out over the plate. Its not like he drilled him in the back. Hawk is b****ing that the Sox pitchers aren't going to be able to throw inside, but on the other hand thinks if Sox hitters crowd the plate, the opposition shouldn't be able to throw inside either.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) Manny's at-bats so far have been among the best a Sox hitter has had in years. Not since Hurt have we had a chance to watch a hitter mentally own a pitcher like Manny has. You just can't fool the guy. He's ready for anything and adjusts from pitch to pitch. That's what his former teammates mean by making all the hitters better. Yeah, Konerko hasn't had a stretch like Manny's 6 or 7 ABs in years. Get real. Manny's been good, but please.

A sweep would be wicked awesome.

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Sep 4, 2010 -> 07:32 AM) Just realized the first game today is on the "U", I hate the U. Just had to vent. I hate the U too, but DirectTV finally made it HD. Of course, the last time the were on the U the station had a problem with its HD feed and showed it standard. I don't know if HD is a blessing or a curse. If I never had it, standard would be just fine, but its hard for me to watch anything not HD anymore.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) I don't know how the hell he's doing it, I just hope he keeps it up. Hi Oney. Weren't the Sox something like 7-13 their previous 20 games before getting to play Cleveland? Isn't Cleveland pretty much an awful team? Ozzie's done a decent job, but giving him all the credit means you have to give him all the blame if things don't go as planned.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 02:15 PM) This game will not exist. Looks like a washout. Dadgumit.

They obviously don't want Teahen playing 3b late with the lead.

Since June 1, Paulie is hitting .350

I love Paulie but the Sox really have to be careful. If they are paying him for the next 3 or 4 seasons for this year, they will ultimately regret it. 4 or 5 months ago, if someone offered the Sox anything for him and his contract, KW would have most likely jumped and no one here would have complained. He's come up huge, probably because its the best he's felt in a while. Odds of that occuring for 3 or 4 more years are probably slim, although it wouldn't shock me if he had another real big season in him after this one. If I were the GM, unless he wanted to give a huge discount from market rate both in salary and years, Paulie is in his final month or hopefully 2 in a White Sox uniform.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 07:11 AM) And you personally know what those answers were? From what was reported he was saying things like "I'll do anything they ask me to do". Obviously the answers weren't sufficient to get him in the line up and obviously the door was open for that.