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QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:32 PM) Toronto having no problem hitting Lester without Bautista 9 runs in 2 innings..............Sox should of smoked that guy. We did score 6 runs against him....how is that bad?

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:25 PM) This. Their pitching staff sucks beside JV and defense is bad as well. There's a reason why the season is 162 games. Fister is very good. Check out his record with DET after he joined them last year. They only lost, as a team, 1 or 2 of his starts. Scherzer is leading the AL in K/9. He was consistently hitting 97-98 in the 7th inning against the Angels this past week. Porcello is 3-0 against the Sox with an ERA of nearly 1. He's 23, so he's done all that before the age Verlander started pitching for DET after Old Dominion. Turner is one of their best pitching prospects and Drew Smyly was very very underrated for them, their version of Jose Quintana.

I just hope we're not paying Myers essentially $6.5 million to be a set-up guy for 2 months. The Astros better be paying that buyout money.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:22 PM) Detroit is just better than us. They played way below their expectations and now they are playing like everyone expected. As for us, maybe we played abouve our heads and we are seeing the true 2012 Sox. You can make an argument that if we had a healthy Danks, it'd be closer. However, they've been without Victor Martinez, Smyly, Fister (their 2 starter, arguably), Albuquerque, Austin Jackson...health is not an excuse for the White Sox.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:18 PM) This is a great post. Unfortunately, when the Tigers are playing like they are right now, they might be the toughest team in baseball to beat. It happens, and you have to hope the Sox can recover against the Twins. We should have a pretty good crowd tmrw night if the heat doesn't kill off the crowd, or rain. If we did manage to take out Liriano, that would give them a needed shot of confidence in the arm. Ultimately, this isn't like those years when we lost to the Twins and always muttered to ourselves that we had the better talent...you can't make that argument with this Tigers team, especially when Konerko's just a shadow of his former self...and Dunn's in danger of falling back below .200. Not only that, but our bench has been exposed this week. That Escobar mistake was a huge one in the 9th the other night.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:14 PM) Of course it is. That should be your goal every year. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Adding a SP will do nothing for this team I don't think because they can't hit. They're still in the top half of the AL in runs scored. It's simply the fact that we're ice cold now and DET is playing like the best team in baseball. We ran over the Cleveland Indians when they were in a similar position. We were hot and they were cold. Playing 16 out of 19 on the road is suicide. Thursday's game didn't help. But it's not over yet by any stretch of the imagination.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) Now ask yourself the quetion that fathom asked Marty. I don't think a SP will make a difference. This team cannot hit, and it hasn't been able to hit post asb for as long as I can remember. They survived in 2008, even without Quentin.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:08 PM) Question for you....do you think even with a solid starting pitcher acquisition that this team can contend with the Tigers the rest of the year? And they already have Smyly, who was an early favorite for AL Rookie Pitcher of the Year. They will certainly fix 2B, and get rid of Raburn/Santiago (as a starter).

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 01:08 PM) I think the clock started ticking on KW after the Boesch homer. Why? Better yet, don't bother to respond. Carry on with your anti-KW rants, if it actually makes you feel better. No matter what, you (and everybody else here) have no CLUE whether the person who would replace him would do better. How many years will you give a new GM before you turn on him? 2 years? 3 years? 5 years?

Farmer said the team looks tired. Of course, that will happen when you give back the lead every time the offense scores. Well, we've been on the other side of this, when we had our own 14-2 run. But do we really face Liriano tmrw? Just goes from bad to worse. I wonder how many times in MLB history the two teams fighting for first had six consecutive games (in the standings) go to one team in the rivalry?

Batting practice continues. Cabrera's homer was around 490.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:53 PM) How do you know Beckham has no trade value? Well, if you were a GM of an opposing team, who would you trade your 2B for to replace him with Beckham? Yeah, I know, Joe Borchard had almost no trade value and we got Matt Thornton for him. But it's not like we are going to get Weeks or Ackley. Maybe Jermile Weeks. Betancourt. Robert Andino.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:52 PM) Didn't we sweep the Rangers? For a while there, this team looked like they could contend with anyone. Of course, we said the same thing in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010 and now this year.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:50 PM) Be my guest. What's the point of trading someone who has negligible trade value? Do you want to start Tyler Kuhn or Escobar there? Bring back Lillibridge and start him at 2B?

Caesar, what, if anything do you actually enjoy about the White Sox? List 3 things. As far as trading away anyone from our current roster (with the exception of the bullpen)....doesn't make any sense because you're fighting with 5-6-7 teams just for the right to face one of the two best teams in baseball, the Angels and Rangers.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:43 PM) Why is Flowers starting today? Because he's country strong? Probably because he won't be able to stand by late August if Ventura keeps playing him at this pace.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:41 PM) Sorry, but the team was struggling before that choke job and the Tigers were playing their best baseball of the year. But that was the tipping point. There's no way we would be in the process of getting swept now had they won that game. Friday, yeah...but not Saturday and Sunday, and not with Sale. Can't believe Scott choked away the British Open.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:34 PM) Unless the offense magically reappears, adding one starting pitcher isn't going to lead the way to the promise land. Also, there is absolutely no way for you to predict how the team will be next season. I don't think anyone would expect them to beat the Angels or Rangers in the Wild Card game. Let's just face it, the Tigers are better, especially with the injury to Danks and the rookies filling up the pen. We will forever be haunted by Escobar, Thornton and Reed from Thursday night's game...and Ventura's inexperience.

It's not like the Tigers are going to get any worse in the near future. Just can't wait for Victor Martinez to come back and be the full-time DH.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) How the f*** does Berry hit a Hr, that too opp. field. The funny thing is two organizations totally gave up on him after never giving him a chance. Not unlike Humber, except Berry's good now.

Well, if we're going to collapse, we might as well do it convincingly before KW trades away someone we'll actually need next season.

Like a broken record.

Great, here we go again. Sigh.

Let's see if we can NOT follow the trend of giving up runs after we score....and giving up a plethora of 2 out RBI's.