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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 09:41 PM) I'll totally agree a lot of us (definitely myself included) are guilty of this. However, when Veal was warmed and ready to go, that's when it's frustrating that he wasn't used to face Cano. More than anything, we're just looking for signs of progression or improvement in the decision-making process. Granted, the likes of Jones and Thornton and then Crain/Myers (weekend) have been really frustrating and ineffective...but the second-guessing has pretty much been "first guessing" and predictable for most die hard fans.

Has anyone ever had more than 40 HR's and 100 RBI's with a BA of below .200? Pretty amazing season by Dunn...

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 09:36 PM) Well, possibly the best way I can phrase it is that Robin, especially with the bullpen, has been making decisions counter to ones that would seem to lead to the best chance of success for the ballclub. Yes, it's the pitcher's job to get whoever out. But it's the manager's job to utilize the bullpen in a way of making sure that happens. Leaving Santiago in for 75 pitches probably wasn't the best way to do that, for example. what was the most pitches that Santiago threw in his 3 starts down in CHARLOTTE? any word on DeAza or Floyd, whether Gavin's actually hurt again or it's just his mental fragility at stake here?

IS THE SEASON OVER YET? Have the Zeros appeared off the western coast of Hawaii yet?

Why are they trying to keep Youkilis close?

Gordon.Beckham.Isn't.Quite.Dead.Yet.After.All. WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? GORDON BECKHAM hit a 94 MPH fastball out to the opposite field? WOW!

Should pulled Santiago after the Jeter homer. But it's just the way things have been going...over Ventura decision with the bullpen is backfiring 80-90% of the time.

Hope they don't pick up Floyd's 2013 option at $9.5 million...or, if they do, they just try to get something back in trade. Would rather see Santiago out there than Gavin...or Liriano.

Rays taking it to the Royals, as predicted. Will be 14 games over .500 after tonight.

Rays taking it to the Royals, as predicted. Will be 14 games over .500 after tonight.

Well, Beckham is OFFICIALLY lost for good one would think. Trying to bunt there? Really? Zero confidence.

Bad luck there?

Plus, MOST of our baserunners can run at will against Garcia when they reach.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) We are witnessing the collapse of the 2012 Whitesox. It started friday night. Some things you just cant shake off. Getting swept by the terrible Royals is one of those things. Having a pitcher like Gavin Floyd is another. If it was going to happen, it would have been after losing to the Red Sox in heartbreaking fashion and then getting swept at DET. They'll be fine...they might not make the playoffs, but the season isn't collapsing yet. We will still have a one game lead going into tmrw, no matter what happens. And we've scored plenty of runs against Freddy Garcia since he left the Sox. It's whether Floyd can hold the Yankees down for the next 3-4 innings to let the offense get us back into this one. DET blew a 5-0 lead in the first inning the other night...playing at home, the Sox tend to score in bunches.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) In that age 26 season in 2010, Alex Gordon played 75 games in the minor leagues. The Sox have yet to try that with Beckham. Angel Berroa might be a better comparison.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) Of course Tampa will, I mean they are 0-3 on the season against KC already. Except with the way the Rays seemingly play every pennant drive (and have been playing recently), it would be pretty shocking if the Rays didn't at least take 2/3 in Tampa, or 3/4.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 04:23 PM) A's going to win so Sox lost 3 games this weekend in the WC standings to Tampa and Oakland. Anaheim has 6 more games vs Tigers, so we need them to start playing better. And you know the Rays will sweep KC at home to go 16 games over .500. We would be 1/2 game behind the O's, tied with the A's.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:56 PM) He should. It was horrible. People saying they aren't that mad about this sweep, make zero sense. Ummm...what exactly would getting mad accomplish? Help the team get up for the Yankees? It's on the players and coaching staff...and you can't blame our fans all season long for not knowing what to make of this team. It's a head scratcher.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:55 PM) Great to hear Hawk blasting the decision making this road trip. Rios 0-4 in all three games. Assume you mean since arriving in KC. Well...for whatever reason, we were flat the entire series. Weird the Sox have become one of those teams that has to be pushed to rise to the occasion against the better teams in the league, although we seemed to do just fine with the Twins and Blue Jays for most of this year...at least until this point. Just a weird, weird season. We could easily be 14-16-18 games over .500 and running away with the division, but that would go against the laws of baseball sanity apparently.

This feels NOTHING like that Tigers' sweep at Detroit following the devastating (at the time) loss to the Red Sox...the now infamous Cody Ross game. We went from 3 1/2 games up to 1 1/2 games behind that week and it seemed bleak. Totally standard, predictable Royals crap. Nothing new or unexpected here, except the sweep rather than 2/3.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) For the out of town Sox fan, I bet Hawk is a peach to listen to right now. Probably just quiet and amazed the Sox are still in first. That might change with the collapsing Blue Jays heading for Motown.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:47 PM) Completely unreliable...still time for KW to get another righty reliever on the waiver wire. You simply cannot have a righty you use in games that matter with such an awful WHIP the last 3 months. .349 BAA against RHers this season is almost, hate to say it, unFATHOMable. How can you have that kind of stuff and suck so hard? Santiago, conversely, has been better against righties...so has Quintana, for the most most part.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) And not a hint of criticism from Hawk towards Pierzynski. Seems Konerko should have had it, or at least stopped it from getting by him. Sox defense has abandoned the team over the last month. By the way ROBIN, Nathan Jones is giving up a .349 BAA vs. right-handers. Against LHB'ers, .197. And yet Ventura always seems to use Nathan as if he's a typical RHP. Crain screwed up this inning by letting the leadoff hitter on, and of course we have no prayer of throwing out anyone at 2B, let alone Dyson...even on perfect pitches on which to throw.

What the hell is going on with this team? Not playing like a playoff team this series....sleepwalking for the past two games.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 01:43 PM) The walk to Escobar when he was going to bunt is just inexcusable. It screwed us this inning. If he wants to give you the out, take it. Yes, because a rookie pitcher who's never pitched this many innings in his life, who was in A Ball in St. Pete last year at this time, with an ERA around 2.6-2.7 at this point of the season who has a NO-HITTER being thrown again...yeah, it's all his fault. Blame Sale and Peavy for sucking when those guys needed to beat the Royals on Friday and Saturday if they're our stoppers or aces supposedly.