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Tigers and Angels tied 2-2. Not a surprise with Santana out there instead of Weaver.

Hitting with RISP. NOT GOOD. You have to put these games away when you have a chance. The more our bullpen is exposed, the more the Royals have a chance to win this game.

Should have let Alexei, who can actually handle a fastball and just homered...hit away. Gordon was OVERMATCHED.

You're... 1) Deliberately ignoring all the time he has missed this season...who would have played his position, Viciedo? Danks? Fukudome? You're severely UNDERESTIMATING the negative impact it would have on Dayan's development to just jerk him around between AAA and the majors, from position to position, you just don't do that to your premiere upper levels hitting prospect. Who's to say that Dayan wouldn't have been hitting great the first two months and then you would have just benched him? If you can imagine Quentin putting up the same numbers for the ENTIRE season without being injured, well, we might as well pretend Dayan was lighting up the majors like he was hitting in Charlotte in May/June 2011. 2) Danks, Ohman, Thornton and Crain...those salary dollars have hurt us a lot more than Dayan, Beckham or even Morel...because we found YOUK to replace Brent, for one thing. 3) You keep overestimating Ramirez's trade value or seriously underestimating how important he is to the White Sox, or both. By your logic, we should be trading Konerko, Dunn and Rios as well this offseason, right? Especially Dunn and Rios. Let's say we had to trade AJ's salary in order to keep Quentin on the roster. That's a legitimate possibility. Obviously, Tyler Flowers wasn't going to put up those same numbers, so no matter what you argue about Carlos vs. Dayan, Flowers vs. AJ is going to undercut ANY benefit you might have gotten from getting Viciedo out of the line-up. Finally, when you do have a lower cost player that you've spent 3+ years developing in Viciedo, it makes ZERO sense to hold on to the much more expensive player...because for the 100th time, Quentin CAN NEVER STAY HEALTHY. If you could guarantee CQ was going to put up 2008 first five month numbers for the remainder of a 3-4 year contract, I'd say sign him tomorrow for $20 million per season. But we all know that's not the player we would get. It's another version on a smaller scale of the problem every team considering Josh Hamilton would have...CQ, because of injuries and streakiness, Hamilton because of his off-field issues, health and age.

FWIW, Silverio has also been playing in the outfield recently.

Hawkins continues to impress, 6 for his last 19. 8 homers and 33 RBI's in 200+ AB's at 3 levels. 900+ and 800+ OPS numbers at Kanny and W-S. Morel has had a good game tonight, but was in a 1/23 stretch after going 7/14.

Of course, Marty will say we should have traded Matt Thornton and not re-signed John Danks.

But Viciedo has been better in the last 20 games, lol. We can play this game all night long...

Cabrera will win the MVP. Leading Trout in average now, just passed Hamilton in RBI's. 3 behind Dunn/Hamilton for home run lead. 2-0 Tigers in the bottom of the 1st.

QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 03:54 PM) too bad he absolutely SUCKS against the Tigers, let's go UBALDO 2-1 with a 3.75 ERA, 24+ IP, 24 hits, .261 BAA. That's EXCELLENT for Jimenez, compared to the numbers he's put up against the rest of MLB this season.

QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 03:54 PM) too bad he absolutely SUCKS against the Tigers, let's go UBALDO DOUBLE POST, please delete...or NOT

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 04:22 PM) FWIW, there had been talk earlier in the season about AJ having really put effort into a strength and conditioning program for the first time as a player, particularly in the offseason. Our S&C coach was interviewed as well. This was offered as an explanation for his resurgence. Of course, this goes both ways. I'd get more interested in lifting weights, etc. if I was doing a steroid run too. Just like people saying there are whispers. Of course there are when something crazy happens like this. There would be whispers if he were innocent. Allen Thomas

White Sox chances of making the playoffs went from 70.5 to 69.8% after the win. Weird. DET at 40.8% Huge series for the TIGGERS against the charging Angels, who are poised to sweep the A's on the road and pull back to 11 games over .500. Fister goes tonight, Scherzer Friday, Verlander Saturday, Sanchez Sunday. Angels countering with Santana, Wilson and Greinke, for now, unless Weaver miraculously heals himself.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 01:55 PM) Stubhub had premium lower boxes for $5 last night and $7 today. Going to need some fans to show up the next 7 games at home. Weird schedule this year...19 games after this homestand and only one more home set left?

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 01:55 PM) His name is Rios and he dances on the sand (twice)! Or he dances in a ring of fire...(Jim Morrison) Either way, we'll take it.

Have yourself a game, Alex Rios. 6 RBI's on the game. Pick to click, anyone? 22/82 for the year...outside shot at 100 RBI's. I'd seriously give him the Comeback Player of the Year over Dunn, but not sure if he's as popular with the writers as Adam.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) I'd love to hear what a guy who missed 3 prime seasons in military service but still with a lifetime .344 avg. .482 OBP and 1.116 OPS had to say about hitting. If it was a Red Sox broadcast, lol. I'd rather hear what Shoeless Joe Jackson, Aparicio, Fox or Luke Appling had to say had to say. Maybe Hawk can get a Harold Baines quote to use occasionally? Or Big Hurt/Ventura.

Guess they're still going with Sale/Chen instead of pitching both Axelrod and Santiago this weekend. The problem then is that means they plan to use Quintana against the Tigers. Have there been any rumors about starting Axelrod instead? They could pitch Axelrod Sunday, Santiago Monday, then Peavy, Liriano and Sale again.

Ah, there's another Harrelson/AJ connection. His wife and Hawk's daughter roomed together. Dammit Peavy. Have to get through this inning with no worse than a 4-2 lead.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 01:33 PM) More and more firewalls are becoming app aware and these little tunneling tricks don't work all the time. I normally use DynaPass or Freegate. That did the trick. But that torpedo program was blocked from working.

Made it through nearly 1 1/2 hours of a game before the first Ted Williams quote.

Still, you put up a 4-0 lead for Peavy, he SHOULD win that game 85-90% of the time, right? So it could be 1/10, as long as that hit's a Grand Salami, you once again would be expected to win most of the time at home giving your team that kind of early lead...

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) Omg, I get so mad when we get tossed out stealing You just got on that base by sheer luck, and you can't even wait 2 seconds to be called out? It's okay because we can start off fresh with Wise leading off again next inning. Not the end of the world.

“What makes me feel the best is no matter what happens this month I know that everybody in uniform has given us his very best,’’ Williams said before the Sox’ 18-9 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday. “Given it their all in preparation, the study of their opponent in the video room and scouting reports. They talk about ideas, they come out early en masse to work on little fundamental things you take for granted in this game or are considered old school. ‘‘So at the end of the day if we don’t achieve the goal we don’t set out to achieve I can’t think of a better group I’d love to go down with than these guys. And I mean that as much as anything I’ve said all year long. We don’t want to do that — we want to be the last club standing, but in the event that we’re not I will walk in and thank everyone in uniform for their efforts.’’ http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...sided-loss.html

Dammit, should be 1st and 2nd and a DP away from getting out of the inning. Letting the Twins right back into this game.