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That's what Nathan Jones SHOULD look like, lol. Flowers with no hope in hell to hit that pitch.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 27, 2012 -> 08:59 PM) Take a pill. First you say Beltre is going to kill Thornton, then he walks and you deem that as another reason Thornton has to go. He let one run score when he came in with the bases loaded and one out against the heart of the Texas Rangers line up. Did you see how hard he hit that ball? By all means, go ahead and make Matt Thornton the closer, if it makes you happy. You are probably the only White Sox fan in the entire country who felt comfortable in that situation with Thornton there. But go ahead and ignore everyone else's comments, lol.

Lost in all that was the fact that Viciedo made the play of the game to get the force at 2nd or that inning is a complete debacle.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 27, 2012 -> 08:56 PM) Crain is a 2 inning a week pitcher and after the way he threw Wednesday, I don't have much confidence in him right now. There's no way Crain can be worse than Jones and Thornton have been recently.

Jesus Christ. This is where the argument is that it WORKED, but it wasn't the right move and we got lucky as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JUST GET RID OF THORNTON PLEASE.

More reasons why Matt Thornton sucks. Probably will throw it right down the middle. Beltre awesome fastball hitter.

Way to give up another room for Sale there, Nathan. Jesus, has anyone seen Jones' numbers the last 6 weeks? I understand trying to build confidence in your pen guys, but this is winning time. JESUS, do not let Thornton face Beltre, why why why do we have Crain and Myers?

A's are rallying to knock off Orioles, 12-9 lead now. The O's pen might be worse than ours.

Why are we not using Myers or Crain here?

Crazy game, Baltimore blew 9-8 lead against the A's. Trying to hold onto tie game, 1st and 3rd, one out, Brandon Moss against Jim Johnson.

Why did Sale start this inning? Crazy.

Sale at 83 pitches heading into the bottom of the 6th. Somehow surviving. Harrelson's right, super lucky to miss Diamond.

Flowers' swing is looking better, despite that K. He hit one HR distance to RF foul...he's obviously got power, it's just a matter of timing and repetition with that swing. Gordon must be reading all the threads on the Sox sites the last 48 hours.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 27, 2012 -> 08:01 PM) Is anyone not a little concerned? That last one was 94. I think he's battling through it. If he was in pain, he wouldn't be out there, let's hope.

Quintana and Sale are stone cold assassins. Javy and Gavin and Danksy should be taking notes about how to man up in tough situations.

Great pitch. Had Beltre guessing change or curve. Hopefully Humber is taking notes. He's going to need his A curveball to survive.

This is a gutty performance. Like Quintana against the Yankees.

74 MPH? That's Takatsu territory.

Doesn't have the pitch to put away Kinsler tonight.... Uh-oh. Trouble a brewin'.

Viciedo, Dunn and Konerko all with huge opportunities to blow this one open. Oh, well.

Moyer/Buehrle/Glavine version of Sale. Reached back for 91. One would imagine if his elbow was hurting, he wouldn't be able to throw the slider/curve. Has to be the dreaded "dead arm" thing, and it's understandable. Quintana will probably go through it soon, too.

If everyone in baseball knows he's getting another MRI, so be it. They shouldn't leave him out there. KW or JR should call the dugout and order him to be pulled.

I don't understand why they're leaving Sale out there. Obviously something isn't right with his arm or elbow.

Harrelson again with the "IT'S ALL GOOD" call. That's going to get old and played soon. Cooper: Let's not give Chris Sale a lot of rope tonight. The pen is well rested.