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How many tying or go-ahead RBI's does Youkilis have this year? It's uncanny, his sense of drama and timing.

Liriano with solid outings 5 out of 6 times now. We'll take that. For Hernandez and Escobar? Huge steal.

Turn on the computer, of course, 100% believing Lew Ford would have been the one to hit a homer. Curse of the Twins and former Twins, lol. And he was hitting in the 160's coming into the game, with Davis on the bench.

So many great quotes this year from AJ and Harrelson. What did he say during the Blackburn game..."Let's hit this piece of s***!" or something like that? And then Blackburn finally got released or DFA'ed. Surprised we haven't picked him up, too. "It's all good!" has a limited shelf life, though. That one will quickly get old...next season even.

Either Santiago or Quintana would be better to face the Tigers on Friday than Axelrod/Humber. Setting the tone that first game out is just critically important. We saw what happened last weekend series there. We lost Friday, then it really snowballed when Sale lost the Saturday game (can't remember who lost the first game, maybe it was Peavy? or Sale, then Peavy?). Just remember Saturday was a regional FOX afternoon game. Scherzer and Verlander have BOTH been pitching like Cy Young candidates the last 15 or so starts out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 08:04 AM) Yeah, if you would have told me that we would have lost our pre-season #1 starter (Danks) to a shoulder surgery, and we would have gone through two closers, not to mention losing Paul Konerko for two stretches this year, and having nine rookies on the roster at the same time at one point, I would have wondered how high our 2013 draft pick would have been. Four closers, really. Santiago, Thornton, Sale and Reed.

Yeah, look at the Angels. They hit it huge with both Trout and Trumbo in two consecutive years, they have Pujols, Kendrys Morales finally back, Kendrick, Hunter, on paper, they should have a great rotation or at least one of the better ones (Weaver, Haren, Greinke, Santana, etc.)...and they're STILL probably going to miss the playoffs with that payroll. Just goes to show the importance of a bullpen as well (see Marlins, Miami for example #2)...and how Mike Napoli emerging and becoming a force with the Rangers really changed the balance of division offensive power temporarily.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Aug 26, 2012 -> 10:05 PM) That's a pretty gruesome mix. Kenny does 1 of 2 things this offseason IMO: he continues adding youth (late September fade/quick postseason exit) or he tries to extend the window another year. If he goes the youth route then you'd have to think vets are traded & in those deals we end up adding much better pitching prospects to the equation, completely excluding Axelrod, Rienzo, etc. Or if Kenny goes for it, we'll add a vet or it'll be a good, relatively proven young guy like Quintana as the #5. Yep, subtracting Peavy/Floyd and the possibility for regression from Quintana makes things a bit scary, to say the least. Still, I'd rather tempt fate if we could retain Liriano somehow than with Floyd. There aren't very many trade candidates left that would net us much. Thornton and Crain wouldn't get us back any A level pitching prospect at this point. That would mean we would have to continue to turn the roster over and move Alexei Ramirez to get something quality back in return. You might be able to live with swapping out Flowers for AJ, but losing Youk, Ramirez and possibly replacing Beckham is going to be a huge turnover. That's why even though he's the most obvious weakness, moving Gordon at this point shouldn't be considered a Top 1/2/3 priority. The only other starter on the horizon would be Brett Myers, if he contract kicks in for 2013, but I can't believe KW would let that transpire. No way they can afford $10 million for a 7th/8th inning set-up guy with Thornton and Crain already making big dollars.

Making it even more doubtful we'll pick up that 2013 option... Just too big of a risk, trying to trade him. Of course, the danger is having too many lefties with Danks, Sale, Quintana and ???/???. Santiago, Humber, Axelrod, Castro, Molina and Rienzo are all in the mix, one would think.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 26, 2012 -> 07:17 PM) Feels very 2005ish. Minus the lockdown bullpens of 2005 and first half 2008 when you just expected every single one run lead or tie game to end up in the Sox victory column if you got to the 7th or beyond...

Whoever was asking, Victoria Justice (Fun Size) is the actress in my avatar. BTW, White Sox only lost one game against the Mariners all season, and that was a game we SHOULD have won and blew.

Does SEA not play tmrw?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 26, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) Quite the interesting series for this umpiring crew Plus you don't want to risk the possibility of injuring one of the best Sox relievers on a mound dappled with clay and bad foot landing spots.

It would also be interesting if the Cubs resumed play, but we didn't. Or vice-versa. Quite a different feeling from last Sunday. Can't believe we could be 16 games over .500 a week later, sweeping the Yanks and the hottest (granted, against weaker teams) team in baseball in the M's.

Brent Morel goes 2/4 to push over the Mendoza line, to .213. Mitchell with his typical XB hit, 2 K game. Sitting at .240 now, low 700's OPS.

The game has importance for the first-place White Sox, who are seeking their seventh perfect homestand of six or more games in franchise history. Before taking the first two games against the Mariners, the Sox swept the Yankees. Not only that, but you have two teams that are playing on a Sunday getaway day and both need to get out of Chicago. Delay too long, and it could affect the White Sox tmrw against the Orioles...although it would be a pretty lame excuse, it's not just a tiny detail, either.

T-Flow OPS sitting at a much prettier 731 as of the moment. Kind of the reverse of last season, where he started out so well and then faded.

The "best interests of the game" clause could supercede the official rules for rainouts? That would be an interesting one, especially were the team that was winning in that scenario to turn around and lose...lose their spot in the playoffs, post-season shares and revenue, season ticket renewals, etc.

If the game has completed the bottom half of the 5th inning and either team is ahead, the game can be deemed an official game. The leading team is declared the winner, and the game officially counts in standings. (In some Minor League Baseball and college games, this scenario is possible only in the final game of a series.) However, if the game is rained out prior to the completion of an inning in which the visiting team scored one or more runs to take the lead, and the home team has not retaken the lead, the game is suspended, to be resumed at a later date.

http://deadspin.com/kansas-city-royals/ Greg775 behind this letter? Possible, but doubtful. It would have had to include praise for the beating the first place White Sox 8 of 12 times this season.

Tigers with .720 team OPS against LHP, .781 against RHP. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_...6/philip-humber Humber has given up 2 homers to Cabrera and Boesch, 1 to Berry. 15/43, 1.112 OPS. NOT GOOD. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_...hector-santiago Hector Santiago Only 4/29 DET hitting against him, Dirks homer, .618 OPS Hector seems to be the pretty obvious choice.

Ironic because we dearly need Gavin due to the way he's always pitched against the Tigers. Can we get Jose Contreras to sub in?

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 26, 2012 -> 05:34 PM) we swept 2 teams in a row. Not bad. Bench mob coming through big time, just like they have all year long for us. This game is FAR from over. Unless they just banged it and you're the only one who knows about it.

Is Tyler Flowers showing enough here in the 2nd half to get the nod as the everyday catcher in 2013? Have to fear overpaying AJ based on his stats for this year and the likelihood of a decline.

Could have tagged runner going to 3rd and got the force at 2nd. But that definitely helps to avoid the big inning, unless he turns around and gives up a homer here.