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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 09:00 AM) He's hurting a bit, and its pretty hard to keep hitting about .380. Dan Johnson in place of Konerko would more than negate the improvement from Youkilis/Hudson. More the body language and defensive side of things. The question is whether 10-14 days of not playing would really help his injury or not...if he's just going to have to play through it and wait until the offseason again, so be it I guess.

Who the hell is Grimm that started for the Rangers tonight? Grimm Results, should be the headline in the Dallas Morning News tmrw. Why don't we ever get to face guys like that when we're going against the Rangers? (Yeah yeah, if he was squaring off against the Sox, he'd throw a 4 hit shutout with 7 k's) By the way, what percentage of Liriano's major league wins have come against the White Sox? Even in the last 3 years, he's 4-2 against us. I guess that's it. He didn't face us as a starter in 2006, 2007 he was injured, 2008 didn't pitch against us.

Trevor Plouffe and Willingham the quietest set of teammates with 15+ homers in the majors, perhaps.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 08:56 AM) If you want to blame someone for a play that should have been made, PK was slow to react on Plouffe's cheap single. What is wrong with Konerko these days? You have to wonder if that floating fragment/bone chip is still bothering him...that it's still rubbing against a bone. If it's not going to get better, they might as well DL him and play Dan Johnson there for 2 weeks. Nothing we seem to do can knock us too far out of first place for very long.

Peavy close to crossing the 3.00 ERA threshold. It's pretty incredible he could be 6-4 after today with how he's pitched this year so far. This could/would be 5 or 6 losses in a row in games started by Peavy/Sale. How we could still be in first place is beyond me.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 08:50 AM) When did this game become a blowout? The feeling of doom which pervades every Twins' series or match-ups against Liriano, Sabathia or Johan Santana.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 08:49 AM) The only race Minnesota and Kansas City are in is for the higher draft pick in 2013 That can't happen if they beat the White Sox 18/30 games.

Yay, jinxed Liriano. I also would like to "Dewey/Truman early predict" the Tigers will beat the Rangers 11-2, which will automatically result in a Rangers comeback win.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 08:46 AM) We say this every year it seems, and one team gets hot and wins 90 games. Not 2008 and 2009. Those were nailbiters down to the end.

Anyone going to call another Liriano no-hitter against us?

Well, the Indians are playing just as bad or worse than we are now... Only question is how many other teams (Royals and Twins) are back in it as well. Liriano, Santana, Radke, Kenny Rogers, Hawkins, Rincon, Guardado, Romero...names change, but the results never seem to (barring the miracle season of 2005, stage-conducted by the Maestro of the Midway, Ozzie Guillen).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 08:32 AM) That's an insult to Dick Stockton At least it wasn't to the level of Jim Gray fawning over Tim Tebow...he makes the plants and natural museum history at the university better by his very presence, we'd love if our daughters married him, he's a cross between Jesus, Gandhi and Mother Teresa with a little Jim Brown and Steve McNair thrown in, blah blah blah.

Tiggers punking the Rangers. Two blowouts in the AL Central race so far. And our usual bad results against Liriano for 2 innings. Cue Greg rant about not beating the Twins and Royals.

By the way, why are we messing with Beckham when he was comfortable again? Sigh. Hopefully he doesn't go into another slide. The last time he was this close to .250 was in 2010 or the first week of 2011. Tigers out to early 3-0 lead over the Rangers.

Darn, internet too slow so didn't get to see his first AB. Thanks to Greg's hero, D. Wise, the Yankees rolling all over the Indians. Jeanmar Gomez out, Zach MacAllister in, new Indians' rotation. Yankees have outhomered the Indians (home and road) at Yankee Stadium alone. Carlos Quentin, anyone?

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 03:15 AM) Seeing what he did at 19 in their top league (.330 with 17 home runs and 78 RBI.), I think the upside is there, but who really knows? Throw out any stats from their leagues. Almost meaningless. Unless they had a particularly high walk rate, that would be noteworthy. You're right, nobody knows for sure. Just projections based on tools. I'd feel more comfortable giving Viciedo money to this guy than $30 million to Soler.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 12:00 AM) Sounds like the Cubs will finally promote Babe Ruth, Jr. tomorrow. They would call him up today, but they want to protect Johan Santana from facing such a monster. Meanwhile, Andrew Cashner is being converted from a reliever to a starter. 3 solid starts in AA so far. I though you meant Mr. Jackson at first. He'll be the next Matt LaPorta/Chris Shelton in the big leagues.

PUIG is a much more refined and polished version of Soler, without quite the upside or downside risk. Older, much more international experience. And I'm not buying the whole idea of Soler as a five tool guy. We have our own guy in Hawkins, anyway. Seems like he could end up more of a complementary player (Leonys Martin, Leslie Anderson) than a superstar, but hard to tell. Alexei was supposed to be a Ramon Santiago/Juan Castro type of player and he was much better than that. http://sportstwo.com/threads/215834-Yasiel...d-to-hit-market 7-8 teams already in on him. Can't believe the Cubs would also go after him after all the money for Soler. 21 years old. Physically, he reminds me of a cross between Cespedes and DeAza. The picture on the left, he seems heavier, like Dayan. On the right, more like Alejandro. Cespedes is kind of in the middle, more muscular, a bit like Hawkins' build as well.

Is that a weekend or weekday? See what happens when you add Youkilis? $5 increase can be justified per ticket, even though it's only about $1 million in salary added, plus the buyout I'd guess. What other players can we add that will not increase payroll dramatically that teams want to dump, will increase attendance but also won't cost us top prospects, lol? Paging Brooks Boyer.

How many minutes before we credit YOUK for giving someone in our line-up better pitches to hit..."his mere presence in the line-up alone makes the White Sox five wins better..." Remember when Manny Ramirez came to town and we were trying to stretch every one of his at-bats into a positive? Well, hopefully the OPS will be closer to 750 than 550. I think it's reasonable to expect.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 25, 2012 -> 07:06 PM) Ozzie Guillen could set fire to an orphanage and it would be the book of matches' fault. Or he would throw his wife or kids under the bus and try to blame them. Or KW. Or Swisher/Tracey/O-Cab/Javy/Brian Anderson/Brandon McCarthy/Hudson.

COOPER HAD BEEN THERE A LOT LONGER THAN OZZIE, and many more years with the SOX as a coach OZZIE WAS DELIBERATELY LEAVING HIS COACHING STAFF OUT OUT TO DRY..."LET THEM SWEAT IT OUT" i remember was his quote COOPER WANTED TO STAY WITH THE SOX, AND EVEN BE THE MANAGER (perhaps) OZZIE WANTED TO DITCH THE SOX Is Ozzie taking care of Jeff Cox now? Paying his bills or mortgage? I think not. SOMEONE had to stick their foot on the line and say "who's with me, who's staying, who's loyal to JR, to their OTHER boss KW, to Jerry Reinsdorf?" Wait and see a couple of years from now. I bet Buehrle will be back in a Sox uniform. Guillen will be a 3rd base coach somewhere, or bench coach. Or maybe on TV, since that's what he is really best suited for now, until he says something that's impossible for even him to walk back.

Boston... 1) Had to clear 3B for Middlebrooks full time 2) Had to get Gonzalez back at 1B, where he's most comfortable 3) Have to prepare for Ellsbury and Crawford to come back....so Gonzalez really was struggling offensively as well, partly because he was so uncomfortable and akward out there 4) You can't have their equivalent of Buehrle/Konerko, World Series hero, on the bench....he should be able to play everyday at his age still, it's a respect issue in the clubhouse, with the manager, with Pedroia/Ortiz, etc.

I expected a Jake PhD dissertation here. How could Jermaine Dye not have an appreciation thread? Probably the way things ended in 2009 with Rios, he went out rather quietly...at least it wasn't covered very thoroughly in the press as that season ended up so frustratingly. And maybe because lots of Sox fans thought he'd still be with the ballclub perhaps. Losing Thome and Dye in one offseason really changed the complexion of the roster.

So KW can point all of his scouts and resources (especially Cooper) to scouring the world for more pitching now. Of all things we're good at as an organization, that has to be strength #1. It's really going to be a battle down to the end...war of attrition in this division.