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It's a pretty good trick to have three errors and no unearned runs. I'm sure Chris enjoyed the stress of the extra pitches on his arm. Ridiculous. Like the MERS outbreak, its spread and is now affecting everyone on the team like a virus.

Sale getting very frustrated with the ump there...glad the record means more than trying to win the game all of a sudden. This seems to be the exact situation which would bring about an injury, going after Mauer and Hunter. Kind of feels like we are forcing this record and not being respectful to the sport a bit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:02 PM) Why the hell is he still in? You had to pull him last game because he threw too many pitches in his previous start, so why leave him out there in a blowout? Once he got to ten...you pull him with how things are going this inning. Some weird decisions leaving Danks and Sale in so long this week. Even if you pin it on the defense partially this inning, he has been hit hard. Sale still at 96.

Great defense from Eaton again....sigh. What happened with Sanchez earlier in the inning...shouldnt he have had the tag at second? One step forward, two steps back. Double figures in k's but it's kind of hollow at this point. We are making the Twins question the promotion of Buxton...well, maybe.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:20 AM) I forget where I said this the other day but more teams are willing to wait for their higher valued prospects to become MLB ready. The cubs would seem to be one example. They have plenty to trade but they realize they need more time to see who sticks, then the players that do not stick could very likely be traded this winter for pitching. I see Boston doing similar things with holding onto certain high level prospects. Both teams are loaded but not likely to make the playoffs so,imo, they are continuing with their respective rebuilds and see where they are at this winter. The ever increasing price of FA is making teams think otherwise about dealing top prospects. That's not to say no team will deal top prospects, just seems like prospects are holding more value in the eyes of some teams. That said. Maybe a team like Boston changes their perspective if a young lefty like Q was on the trade table. They do seem pretty adamant in keeping their best though so who knows? Passan just wrote about this yesterday. They're not going to make wholesale changes, and certainly dont want to dump Ramirez and Sandoval for pennies on the dollar. Betts and Bogaerts are close to untouchable, along with Rodriguez and Swihart. The pitcher they value the most for the moment is Brian Johnson. Unless the White Sox view Rusney Castillo as a future star, there's not a good fit. Yoan Moncada has a disappointing 576 ops in the low minors (roughly 100 abs) so far but they wont trade him this quickly.

The real question is who will put on the brakes in the front office now and preach patience...one step forward, two steps back, etc.? It hasn't ever been JR or KW's style...and for a GM beginning to have a target on his back (if he doesn't make any changes), his job longevity won't exactly be helped by "rebuilding" now when the fanbase was promised the 2016-2019 window of getting back into the playoff hunt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/educat...4eb1_story.html As well as makes up a phone call from Mark Zuckerberg (supposedly while in Panama)...urging her to go to Harvard, where he of course didn't even graduate. This is the corollary to the participation trophy idea...it's the "tiger" parents who are unwilling to accept anything less than eight Ivy League acceptances, who force their kids into mastering multiple instruments, leadership in volunteer activities, sports year-round (captainship is a plus), clubs/extracurriculars, student newspaper editor, training center classes for SAT, arts/drawing/singing/dance in order to differentiate their son or daughter from all the other perfect SAT scorers who look virtually identical to admissions counselors. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/genius...d8e5_story.html Opinion piece on the situation.

Probably from watching too many Adam Sandler films there in KS.

Carlos Correa is pretty good, haha. Don't think he can catch Bryant and Pederson for NLROY, though. Unintended trade consequences situation with the Rays/Mariners...they swap two former top prospects in Montgomery (originally with Royals, the forgotten part of the Myers/Odorizzi/Shields/Wade Davis deal) and Erasmo Ramirez. Ramirez ends up pitching well for the Rays and keeping them competitive when everyone had basically already given up on him in SEA. Meanwhile, Montgomery's pitching a shutout against his former team, the Royals.

Petricka always has a lot of adrenalin flowing in his home state.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 08:37 PM) I see his best-case as a Juan Pierre/Carl Crawford-type outfielder. I think you're confusing him with Tim Anderson. Actually, if you combined the two (Micah/Tim)...Crawford's XB power and Pierre's stolen base ability. Still, Crawford was a Top 5-10 MVP caliber player early in his TB career, don't imagine we'll see that happen but we can always hope, right? Unfortunately, we have "half players" all over the place. Combine Sanchez/Micah as well, you've got a decent player. Beckham with Gillaspie, etc.

White Sox bullpen ERA entering tonight, 11th in the American League. Yikes.

Well, if we do go on to win this game filled with clutch two-out RBI's, we'll be back to only one game behind the Indians. That same Indians team is single-handedly keeping the Tigers in the race, with 1 or no more than 2 victories against Detroit all season long in that series. DET 10-2 versus Cleveland 69 runs scored 49 runs allowed

The crazy thing is that the White Sox have 13 one-run victories....all those late game comebacks, and we're still sitting on the 7th pick in the draft next year. Sanchez got an XB hit? What? Abreu, very quietly, is almost back to .300 again (.297).

Molitor changed his mind about pulling Pelfrey there. Must have said, "I've got this!" Will see how it works out. The answer: not well.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 07:09 PM) Soto rivaling anyone on the team as far as meaningful RBI/hits goes. Clutch does not exist. #juanuribejoecrededontlie He was VERY close to throwing the ball down to 1B away...

Over the last 7.5 road games....14 runs scored. Yay. Alexei's durable, there's that. #searchingforpositives The funny thing today is there's probably an even split about what will happen first, a Quintana trade or a change in manager. It's incredible they would even start to contemplate trading away core pieces without first at least trying to do something different with the coaching staff and see how the players respond.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 07:03 PM) They talked about team not working the count ever and swinging down to the ground on everything. Could not believe Sox swept them. Cabrera and Avi Garcia maybe.... I don't know who else they would be expecting to hit with power....maybe Alexei as well?

Why didn't Soto slide? If he slides there, he's safe...what the heck is going on with the baserunning? Did he really get deked that easily? Even Conor got a horrible jump there.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 06:55 PM) Was watching the Astros game last night they talked about why can't the Sox hit homeruns. It was interesting from out of town eyes. Observation, or theories as to why that was happening??? It's kind of sad, listening to Molitor explain why they felt Buxton would feast on Danks but felt that it was better to protect him by moving him back down to the bottom of the order against Samardzija, who's not exactly lighting it up this year so far.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 06:32 PM) For the love of God, those were hits against any team in baseball. Not according to the Twins' own announcers...they were really questioning if the one on Ramirez would be called an error instead.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 06:29 PM) Keep playing Alexi RV IDIOT! But then you're stuck with Beckham or Sanchez at SS and one of them at 2B. Despite Gordon's homer this past weekend, he's in a terrible funk. Then again, nothing can be worse than what they're producing. I guess they're simply hoping that Ramirez can turn it around (he's a good career hitter against Minny) enough to rebuild some trade value.

They can't let this keep going on for another 3 1/2 months, CAN THEY? Two base hits, two plays that legitimately could or should have been made behind Samardzija. That ball deflected off Alexei's leg somehow, lol. Then you have LaRoche who probably had a better play on the first single and doesn't quite have that comfort level yet knowing which balls Sanchez will get to...and which to go for himself.

Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Sandy Koufax and John Danks would have this White Sox team around .500, MAYBE. 19 runs given up by Samardzija in the first inning, and counting. Expected Twins' runs come in response after blown bases loaded situation (that must happen 75-80% of the time to the Sox since 2012). The Shark looks...legitimately shocked.

And that's probably the game, lol. Pelfrey, by the way, hasn't beaten the White Sox in 7 career starts. 0-3, 6+ ERA. White Sox counter-trend, losers of 7 consecutive road games and have scored 13 runs in that stretch (1.86 RPG). Minnesota 8-3 against us this season.