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QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 06:35 PM) I'd rather have Quentin than Viciedo for the rest of this season. DUH. But the point is that 1) that's not an option, and 2) I could name 15 players at every position except for a couple (AJP, Rios, Dunn, Konerko, YOUK) that I'd rather have in the Sox line-up, but this is OUR team, right now, as is, as currently comprised. Would you rather have traded the prospects the Angels did and got a lot less performance from Greinke than Liriano, too? By all rights, 5 of 6 out of Liriano's starts should be victories, if not for Brett Myers' outing on Monday night. And the Angels? We could name 27 second basemen who would be better offensively than Beckham as well.

Guess we also can't trust Wise against LHP because he hit into a DP there. Waive him.

Maybe we should also trade Konerko, since he has the exact same number of RBI's as the "horrible" SS that we should (constantly and) supposedly trade. And he's been in a much better position to drive in runs all season long than Alexei, so maybe we should trade Paulie instead.

Some posters also have nothing new...nice to see Axelrod getting away with 87 MPH BP fastballs. The key is nursing him through this game and getting Santiago in there to bridge to the bullpen. It would be nice to see the monday at Boston Axelrod start, but we can't count on a shutout or one run game from him by any stretch of the imagination.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 06:24 PM) That Quentin trade is looking pretty bad. So is drafting Gordon Beckham. If we didn't have Viciedo when Quentin was sitting on the bench in April and May, we wouldn't be in first place now. Danks isn't a full-time player. By the way, do you STILL want to trade Alexei Ramirez? You can't criticize both of them constantly, then not give credit to Ramirez for a huge, clutch two out RBI. AND, the key player in the trade for Liriano was Hernandez, who we also got for Quentin. So Liriano and Viciedo > injury prone Carlos Quentin at a MUCH higher salary

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 10:58 PM) Andy Wilkins keeps the Barons from being no-hit. And CoHawk (??) hit his 4th HR. He is just tearing up Kanny. So he can't be The Hawk because of Andre Dawson and the NBAer Connie Hawkins?

7-5 lead now for the Royals. Knew it was too good to last.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:11 PM) Come on Robin, do a better job getting this team prepared to face crap teams please. Get angry, throw a cooler, make an inspiring speech. Uhmm....the Orioles are not a "crap" team this year, in case you haven't checked out the AL East standings recently. And they always play us tough...even when they have a down overall season, at least since 2008.

Oakland beating the Indians YET again.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:08 PM) It has been awhile since Verlander had a winning decision. The only thing good about the Sox game is that a good outing didn't go to waste by anemic bats. They're winning a bit less than 60% of his starts now. Liriano would have been 5/6 if not for the Myers blow-up.

Another interesting tale of this season (recently) is how many key runs have scored against us with 2 outs. Sale already had 4 K's and had retired the first two batters when he blew up in the bottom of the 2nd.

1st and 2nd, 2 outs. Another hit...10 in less than 2 innings. Amazing. Inning finally over. Mercy! And yet you have a feeling the Tigers' offense will manage to come back, down only 4 in the 3rd inning. Cabrera back from his "ankle sprain aggravation."

7-3 Royals...still not over in the bottom of the 2nd inning. 7 ER in 1 1/3rd, ERA all the way up to 2.81.

The more amazing story tonight is Verlander getting torched for 6 in the first two innings. Which doesn't mean the Royals will still inevitably win, but it's almost shocking considering how well he's pitched in the 2nd half.

As long as it's Humber, it doesn't really matter. But it could be damaging tmrw...Axelrod's just the sacrificial lamb to the slaughter if he gets ripped tmrw early.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:20 PM) Sale's fastball velocity has been way down since he struck out the second guy in the 2nd. 87-91, started the game 92-93. And the Yankees' start last week, 92-96...pretty consistently 93-94-95.

YAY!! Detroit's already up 3-0 over the Royals in KC. What new?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:12 PM) LOL, the standard SoxTalk game thread. Soon the "Detroit will win every game vs. KC, while the Sox will get swept twice by KC" crowd will bless us with their presence. It's not out of the realm of possibility, but nobody was expecting us to sweep the Yankees and the M's coming in with an 8 game winning streak. If Ventura makes the correct bullpen decisions last night, we're riding a 7 game winning streak and Chris Sale into tonight's game. Instead, we're already worrying about Axelrod tomorrow, Sale's arm strength and a possible 4 game sweep going into DET. Whatever you say, last night really destroyed all of our momentum and somehow we have to get it back before we head into DET. On the other hand, we've only been swept by the Tigers and the Royals this season...and those were three game series. Still, I don't think anyone would be shocked either (by a four game sweep)....because of our recent history with BALT. This team is so enigmatic and hard to predict this year.

And Verlander's going tonight.

LOL. Of course, Lew Ford strikes again...after playing for an independent league team and bulking up from his Twins' days. You just had to expect he would bedevil the White Sox this series, SOMEHOW. We REALLY have to figure out a way to win ONE game this series!!! All the momentum in the world is quickly going against us.

Yet another gut check. From that 8th inning on last night, everything is falling back to the usual pattern against the Orioles. And BALT only 4 1/2 games behind the Yankees. At this point, we would have to be elated with that same 1 1/2 game lead we had going into DET last time that quickly turned into 1 1/2 games down...and then quickly reversed itself again 7-10 days later. In the end, the bullpen just hasn't done a good enough job to build that 4-5-6 game cushion we legitimately should have based on the other elements of our team...starting pitching, defense, home runs, etc.

Just when he's cruising along, it all falls apart. Walks, walks, walks. Simply killing this team in the last two games...and we were lucky to survive a lot of them last week, but the baseball Gods won't let you get away with it forever.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 04:07 PM) love the houndstooth pants Jake! Roll Tide! Peavy looks like Jeremy Renner here...Hawkeye "We've got a man there."

There definitely is evidence about bringing in additional revenue in the case of Japanese superstars like Nomo, Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, Dice-K, etc. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm sure the Mariners' front office could tell you how much he was REALLY worth to their franchise over the last decade.

Angels with 20 blown saves. White Sox tied for 2nd in the AL with 18. Sigh. Plus, Thornton's confidence is probably a bit shaken now, not being used in such an obvious situation against McLouth, who had previously owned Myers.