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This is all fine and good until Konerko suffers a season-ending injury or pulls a hammy lunging to his left or right or trying to come in on a bunt and throwing across his body in a way he's not used to doing. Viciedo...okay, he's played with position as recently as 3 years ago. Konerko, no way.

Actually, Nathan Jones now is in the pen...maybe Quintana just getting in work for his next start depending on Danks' status.

Quintana warming up. What? That's interesting. Guess RV is in love with LH relievers this year...

Would have to guess Sale at least gets to go out and start the 9th. Off-day tmrw. Hate to bring in a reliever with a runner or runners on base, but he's earned the shot at the CG if he can keep his pitch count down. This is going to be the problem all year long. He's so good, you keep telling yourself you have to protect him, even though it's so tempting to leave him out there. He does have that extra day of rest, right?

Can Ventura go to Reed again? Pitch count 99.

Yay! We have 2 bench players now over the .200 mark. Sale's at 94 pitches. Very tempting to leave him in the for the 8th...at least until he gives up a baserunner.

Twins still up 3-2 after getting out to the early 3-0 lead in the top of the 5th. Similar to the game yesterday, where they were out front early 4-0.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jun 3, 2012 -> 03:08 PM) Mitchell 2-2 already and B-Ham cruising. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...biraax_mobaax_1 I think we have a real OF prospect again. Yay! 36 RBI's, and, most importantly, his 37th walk of the season.

5th walk on the season for Viciedo. Don't think he'll be hitting cleanup too many more times this season. What's the status of Fukudome?

QUOTE (Brian26 @ Jun 3, 2012 -> 01:41 PM) Did you copy these from a post on WSI? Driving me crazy because I thought I saw it somewhere else recently. http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/vbullet...p;postcount=245 The first quote is from Mark Liptak, their resident scribe from Idaho who I think works for a newspaper/media outlet. But yeah, in the original quote, I attributed it directly to him. The second was a quote that I looked up from Ozzie.

Guess the story of today's game is missed opportunities/LOB and the fact that the score could easily be 6-7-8 to 2, right? Seems like some of those bases-loaded situations could have ended up with more runs scoring if not for some flukey plays?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,1048975.story Harrelson calls Wegner, apologizes

Yu Darvish and CJ Wilson locked in a bitter pitcher's duel in the 6th, 0-0. Momentum shifting game if the Angels can win again and put some real pressure on the Rangers this season. They hadn't been previously threatened.

I thought it was a promotion for a new Terminator movie, lol.

Hungry fans may purchase a $35 game ticket for unlimited All-You-Can-Eat items. These items include hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, Pepsi soda products and ice cream. Sections 316, 317 and 318 are available to fans on an individual game and discounted group ticket basis. All-You-Can-Eat items are available when the gates open through the end of the 7th inning. Oakland A's promotion If they did some more packages like that with the upper deck tickets, or put them in combo packs where the parking price was included with the ticket and food, then by disguising the high individual, one-time cost for parking, fans (imo) would be much more likely to attend games, and it would keep the upper deck vendors much happier with more tips and less staff being sent home early every night.

Mitchell 2 for 5 with his NINTH triple of the season, .290, 34th rbi. Just to mix things up, they tried Jose Martinez leading off...and he had a solid game. KWJR with a career game, 3/4, all the way up to .213, haha.

Amazing finish to the Tigers/Yankees game. Two Cabrera homers to take leads. Papa Grande gives up a HBP, walk to Jeter, three total stolen bases in one inning, somehow retires Granderson, hits A-Rod to load the bases, Cano also amazing pops up with 1 out and bases loaded, walks TEX to tie the score 3-3....Ibanez was retired but the catcher dropped a foul pop-up and he eventually was retired on a groundout. Feels like one of those season-changing games no matter which way it ends up.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) He also should have knocked down the double. Was the balk call legit? I was sitting a couple rows behind the Mariners on deck circle, you could hear Robing yelling the call was "bulls***". If it was, it was such a close call that no other MLB umpire would possibly have called it. Thankfully, that run didn't score at least.

Happy for Gordon to play this well in front of his parents. Really hope he's finally turned the corner. Have to throw out mad props to Dayan Viciedo and Nathan Jones, those two guys are the ones that have been among the most fun to follow this year. DeAza has just been super steady, the definition of consistency...same with AJ's overall season so far. And you knew Dunn and Konerko were due to have a cold spell. Heck, Alex Rios is dangerous, from 1-7, pretty awesome line-up, and Alexei's at least been dangerous. And it's nice to be "upset" with the offense when they're putting up 8 runs and losing, shades of 2000 offensively (and pitching-wise, too).

FWIW, Simon Castro is pitching very well (going tonight, no hits given up yet) and has limited RHB's to a .180 average. Darn. Twins blow an early 4-0 lead in CLE, tied 4-4 now. That Kipnis is a pain in the damned butt. Pretty impressive they're still well over .500 without Santana, Hafner and Sizemore, with Jose Lopez as their clean-up hitter. Lowe has been the key to stabilizing that starting rotation.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:48 PM) Hudson's error in that inning was pretty big. In the 6th? They didn't score that inning, although it was extended through Stewart and Santiago. But not stopping AJ's throw (in the 8th) turned out to be huge, because we could have had a tie game going into the bottom of the 8th instead of the 1 run deficit that Dayan tied up against Pryor.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:46 PM) Yeah, it's not as much that Quintana would be the 5th starter, but you're putting a lot of faith in Axelrod to step up when one of the starters hits the DL/hits the wall Or Castro. Although Dylan definitely is 1A because of his experience.

If Soler's in the $20-25-30 million range, you have to pass. However, if they could sign him to a similar deal to what Viciedo got (and between $12.5-$17.5 million)....where they control his rights well beyond the first four seasons in the majors (like Cespedes and the A's), then you have to think about it seriously.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) Why not? Would you prefer prospects from some team? As bad as Floyd has been recently, there's a 90% chance that he would be better overall than Quintana in terms of giving us the best shot in the 2nd half to win the division...simply because we know eventually he'll go on another hot streak, he's just completely erratic, but it will turn again. Youkilis being picked up would be out of the same playbook as signing Manny Ramirez. He's creaky at best down at 3rd these days, which is why they still prefer to play the error-prone Middlebrooks down there.

5-6 in one run games 13-14 at home 1-3 in extras 9 blown saves Lots of room for improvement there. Game should have been over when we were up 7-5 in the 8th, but Crain just wasn't able to hold it. Some really bad defense from AJ/Hudson...bad baserunning from DeAza getting deked by Ryan into thinking he might drop it, you have to get back to first and prevent the double play there. At worst, it's a forceout and there's a runner on 1st for Dunn, although with the way Adam hit in this game, maybe it wouldn't have even mattered. Key hit of the game was obviously the Ryan double. Still, great to to see more homers from Viciedo (one of the most impressive of the entire season) and Beckham's hot streak (9 games with at least one hit) continues.