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Happy Birthday, Broseph...enjoy your day!

The cigarettes in Canada suck ass.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 10:47 PM) Money doesn't concern me. That's all you talk about when it comes to going to games.

The serpent and the blood of his penis!

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 11:04 AM) Good to see Dunn getting a day off. I assume De Aza is out resting the knee? I think that and the fact that he's getting all the lefty regulars out that he can against Harrison.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) In my house, those are known as DVR nights! Absolutely...unfortunately, mine is all emptied out...tonight may have to be a pay-per-view night!

I'd take Sale all day long but it's a gamble on his health...I think Sale has the slightly better stuff but more of a chance to get injured. Tough call.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 09:00 AM) Day games are just wonderful work amusement, that is all. Except when I get home from work and there is no game on that night!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 07:51 AM) May the Serpent carry the Sox under his feathery wing to victory. And the blood of his penis.

Everything is bigger in Texas...including their big bag of suck!

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 03:39 PM) He hasn't been that great this year though defensively. He has lost a step range wise and isn't getting to as many balls as he should. Sure, he still makes the GG play here and there, but so much of being a great SS is making the normally hard plays look routine. I have been a huge supporter of Alexei, but it's clear he is a bottom five SS this year in the AL. The stats back that up, both defensively and offensively. Jeter wins the GG every year based on naked-eye scouting. People see him make the great plays. But the metrics show he sucks. Let's wait til the end of the year to evaluate the defensive metrics. IMO, many of the plays he has failed to make have been routine plays he's botched, not necessarily range-oriented plays. I think as the season goes on, he'll be a bit better. And again, he's clearly on a huge upward trend offensively. He won't be a bottom 5 shortstop offensively when it is all said and done.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) Yesterday is the kind of game that makes me cautious when using run differential to evaluate a team. Once the Sox got ahead by 10 or so, the Rangers weren't going to trot out their best relievers to try and keep the run differential down. But the idea is this evens out over the course of 162 games. There are plenty of games where the Sox do the same thing and the score is skewed against us. How many runs did Stewart give up to shrink our run differential?

You guys are all gluttons for punishment.

Happy Birthday fellas!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 12:11 PM) Which has always been his problem. The guy has no focus. It has plagued him the whole time he has been here. Space cadet

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:42 AM) I was only speaking from an offensive standpoint. He's a surefire scrub at the dish, bro. Been on fire the last month though.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:36 AM) Before last night it was +40, which isn't second best, but it is the only positive in the division. Brian Kenny has a CLubhouse Confidential segment about "Run Differential" saying its a better indicator than standings to show how good a real really is, but there are flukes, like the Indians as you pointed out. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_...45&c_id=mlb Yeah, this is why you will see teams on coolstandings with a greater percentage chance to make the playoffs than teams with better records than them. For instance Boston, Tampa, and Toronto all have better chances to make the playoffs than do the Orioles, despite Baltimore being in second place currently.

QUOTE (RME JICO @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:16 AM) After that 17 point win, we are now +59 for the season, which is 2nd best in the AL (TEX) and 3rd in the bigs. Cleveland somehow still has managed a winning record, but is a -36 (worse than KC). To me that seems unsustainable. If we can start winning at home, we are in a great shape. Cleveland has that great trio of relievers at the end of their pen that lock down close, tight games for them when they are leading...so they have a lot of close wins, but a lot of larger-margin defeats. Also why they have been so good in 1-run games. I am pretty sure this happened with the 2005 White Sox to some extent. We won a lot of close games due to the success of Cotts, Politte, and Jenks, but we lost a lot of games by several runs at times which brought us back in the Pythagorean. I remember arguing standard deviations with Orioles fans as a reason for why we won so many games that year.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:22 AM) The starters have had a lot of 110+ pitch counts this year. Just watching MLB this year (haven't researched it) that seems to be a thing so far, higher pitch counts for starters. I think the entire League is starting to bring the pendulum back a bit from a bit of a dramatic focus on pitch counts. Seems the bigger key is how many stressful innings the pitcher is going through. But innings like Sale was pitching yesterday...he was just cruising...I don't think they worry too much about those innings.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) Don't forget you could also see the difference next year. Part of me wonders if Humber is going through this now. Yeah, but I'll worry about next year next year. This year, I'd like to win while we have the chance.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:00 AM) I think the big worry is that if they don't at least show some care with him, if they try to push him close to 200 innings without extra rest throughout the year...the end result will be what we saw in early May...elbow soreness. or worse. There may not be a single line where it happens, but if you can avoid it by giving him a few extra days off...then shoot, why not. I'm very pleased with how they are handling him. If it works out that he can basically skip a start and get his kudos at the ASG, then so be it.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:29 AM) This bullpen is very short on experience right now, and I'd prefer not to waste bullpen innings when it isn't necessary. I also think we're all assuming that Sale is going to turn into a pumpkin after 150 innings and I'm not necessarily buying that. Me neither...do we really believe that suddenly we are going to see this vast decrease in velocity and effectiveness once he hits 160 IP? And if we were, would it really matter if we skipped one start here or there or if he pitches an extra inning here or there in a game where the outcome has already been decided? I think at this point you just ride him all the way home and see how fast he can take you...doesn't mean you have to press him unnecessarily, but I don't think saving 12 innings over the course of two-three months is going to make a huge difference.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 10:27 AM) THATS A CLOWN PITCHER BRO I prefer to refer to him as "this asshole." Texas bbq sucks.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:33 AM) We used one of those special code things to get our seats for $20 each so I'm not sure how much it's going to cost us to exchange those for four tickets in the shade. I cringe at the thought of spending $100 more on tickets than I have to, but maybe these temperatures are going to force me to do that. Bring a towel to wet down and put over his head if you're sitting right in the sun.