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Dunn 3 for 43, .040 against lefties. Only one has stayed in the park. 3 for 44. Gave it a ride, but not quite good enough. Tried to pull a hanging pitch on the outside 1/3rd of the plate.

August 12th, 2009....14th inning walk-off single by Ken Griffey Jr. against the unforgettable Tony Pena, haha. White Sox last tied 0-0 through 13 innings in that Mariners contest four years ago.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) Morel & Danks? NO WAY. Beckham is ARGUABLY the BEST 2B defender in the AL & ALL of baseball. That helps ANY team at that spot. Someone with the MLB Extra Innings Package can offer their opinion on that one.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 05:12 PM) Fire Manto, hire Big Hurt. Royals are 2-3 since Brett took over. Sox would take two wins out of every five games the rest of the year. They're not going to do that...although I'm sure they would be better off with Ventura as the hitting coach and someone else as the manager. Maybe if we brought Rowand and Carl Everett back as coaches, we would have some fighting spirit, lol. At least the Field Museum Dinosaur Exhibit would get more visitors.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 05:10 PM) AL for sure. Miami might have dibs on worst. They still have Stanton, fwiw. He has more trade value than any player in baseball...at least he did, entering the 2013 campaign.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 05:09 PM) Oh trust me I know the struggle of this teams O. I'm saying you put Beckham on ANY contender & he improves them immediately at 2B because of his D. That's true, but you could have said that about Jordan Danks or Morel a couple of seasons ago, too. The irrefutable fact is, you can't have 7-8 hitters in the bottom quartile or quintile of OPS.

White Sox being subjected to 2005 theme song "Don't Stop Believin'." Poor Konerko, having to listen to that and reminisce about the past.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 05:00 PM) & you aren't? :unsure: Seems like Beck has been getting way to much heat on here because Hawk loves em. The guy is a piece to a CHAMPIONSHIP team based on his glove alone. The problem is that championship team has to have at least some semblance of an offense to carry a 2B hitting with a 625ish OPS. The standards for "good" or successful in this organization....setting benchmarks lower and lower, is incredible. In 2009, Derek Jeter-like impact, liner after liner to RF, doubles machine, captain for the next decade, 750-850 OPS, that was his upside. SIGHS. It's the Aaron Rowand, Morel or Brian Anderson Effect. He's a VERY GOOD defender, but he's not quite a Gold Glover, either.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) Anybody got a record on the longest 2 teams have not scoreD? Probably one of the Pirates/Tigers games last week, lol. Have to look that one up.

Well, at least Harrelson can be happy about Beckham getting back-to-back hits. Next one in, Nate Jones. I swear, the White Sox need to send their whole 40 man roster and top hitting prospects over to Japan or Korea for military-style hardcore bunting, cut-off/rundown/pitchers covering bases and overall fundamentals practice next spring training. Don't trust ANYONE currently coaching or managing in the organization to get the job done in that regard.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 04:52 PM) Raul has no shot down 0-2 against Crain. Don't jinx him, please! 73 MPH "Takatsu-esque" frisbee curve takes down Ibanez. Suffering continues for both teams. Harrelson and Stone Pony start worrying about missing their flight...cue it in 3, 2, 1.

New White Sox slogan. "They're Too Nice To Win and Hurt the Feelings of the other team."

Maybe if Crain throws 50 pitches...Hail Mary, Full of Grace, no injury to Crain, too. Morales first pitch swinging and it ends up with a 1st and 3rd situation for them, lol. Keppinger would have had it. Chance to win the game again for the Mariners.

Or Crain to blow out his shoulder or elbow...

QUOTE (DukeofChicagoA1 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 04:44 PM) May 27, 2012 - The day Konerko's soul died. That game against the Cardinals that he hit into a DP (I think Quintana started) at the end of the game and we lost 1-0 sucked, too.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) Addison is pissed haha....Just know it. Isn't Casper supposed to be ONLY GOOD FOR HITTING LEFTIES? According to the box score, he was PHing for Gillaspie, who was PHing for Viciedo.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2013 -> 04:41 PM) Personal curiosity, how many innings/pitches did Axelrod throw? Can someone add that stat for me? 5.1, 6 Hits, 5 walks, 4 k's Somehow, no runs. 93 pitches. ERA sits at 3.73 now.

First pitch swinging, OF COURSE. Jesus.

Casper Wells with a chance to enact revenge against his former team.

Couldn't take it anymore and went back to sleep. Woke up at 6 a.m. and Gimenez was in the process of blowing the sac bunt, and then the double to lead off the bottom of the 9th. Still amazed Thornton survived...well, really, it was Crain that bailed him out. Battle of two teams that are equally bad and neither really deserves to win, except for the starting pitchers.

Reading a book centered around Nick Franklin's minor league season for Clinton in 2010...he just had a big confrontation with Mike Trout's Cedar Rapids Kernels squad. Interestingly, coming out of high school, Franklin made the Team USA squad and Mike Trout was cut.

Once again...opposing base-runners taking advantage of the Sox with their aggressiveness. Can't blame that one on Gimenez, though. He at least tried to block it.

Good job at least by Axelrod getting the double play earlier. He seems to have a knack for pitching out of trouble...probably better than anyone but Sale.

Sigh. DeAza not being the ideal lead-off hitter this season. Every time something positive happens, it's quickly erased or mitigated by a mistake. Only Buchholz has a better ERA...this is not going to be easy to even score a run. 1.34 ERA at Safeco this season. Need to get Rios going again...if for no other reason than his trade value (see Rangers, if Cruz is suspended).

"Brian Omogrosso is not going to be on the next White Sox playoff team/World Series team." TM pending.