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What does it say in that Sun Times article by Van Schouwen exactly? Can't get their website to open here in China.

A little luck there for Jakemeister. We'll take it. Paulie not hitting but guiding balls around the diamond these days. Except for the good swing he took on a Verlander fastball.

Great play by Plouffe there. Could have set up for another huge inning. Still have a chance here to bust this game completely open. If only Konerko would stop feeling sorry for himself. Assuming he gets up to the plate...forgot Dunn. Well, that sucked.

Have we ever heard of Ventura calling out KW for giving him a crappy and/or completely inexperienced bullpen this year? That would be MORE fun.

YES. Okay Peavy, you better not f-ing give up 2-3 runs back next inning or we will kill you. Paulie, what the heck is wrong with you, by the way?

We suck at bunting. That's ONE problem. At least 75% of our position players. And DeAza was out the first two games of that series, one of our better bunters.

Okay, SMART baseball here, ala KW's instructions. Intellect.

Are/were Morel, Beckham and Viciedo hurting/helping the Sox? Clearly, Morel was....and they addressed that with YOUK. Beckham and Viciedo are different situations, but somewhat similar salaries. It's a year by year situation with Beckham definitely. Dayan will get at least 2013 and probably 2014 to establish himself, unless he just completely bombs next year, which is pretty hard to imagine happening. Meanwhile, Konerko/Rios/Dunn could all be leaving after '13 and '14, so we need SOMEONE with a potent bat to emerge as that 3-4-5 hitter of the future.

Hopefully, next time, he gives Omogrosso more of a shot over Humber. He's looked a lot better than most anyone expected in his appearances at the major league level this season.

If LaRussa were managing this team, we'd be 16-20 games over .500 right now, without a doubt. With Ozzie, +/- 2-3 games of .500, without a doubt.

COO COO COO Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane

HESHER rules. Underrated classic, but not so easy to watch. And 50/50. Bachelorette is REALLY REALLY good. In some ways, much more witty and pushing the envelope further than Bridesmaids.

Ervin Santana, C.J. Wilson and Zack Greinke are expected to start, all on regular rest, against the Tigers this weekend. (Weaver would have been starting this Friday's game, if he kept on the regular schedule from his Sunday start).

Let's revisit Friday. Youk hit a liner with the bases loaded, Dunn struck out and Paulie is/was in a huge slump. And then Thornton in the 7th inning, that scenario was 100% predictable, WELL BEFORE IT HAPPENED. So leaving Peavy out there too long when he was gassed and has been overused all season long, and going to Thornton there...or Jones against RHBers when he has a below .200 average against LHB but something like .330 against RHB? How much of that is intellect or will? Bad luck? Expecting the worst to happen in a place where you've lost 18/21? If anything, KW should have been able to observe from the past decade similarly disastrous results in OAK/LAA/SEATTLE, then more recently against the Orioles, Royals....and all along against the Twins and now Tigers. That's 90% on the GM for the players he brings in, not the field manager. Clearly, Ventura has been struggling with his bullpen decisions, as well as when to pull his starter, but that was expected...or should have been expected with a totally inexperienced manager. Otherwise, they should have hired LaRussa or Gaston or some other retread.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 11:21 PM) No disrespect to anyone, but unless you're at the game, you shouldn't complain about attendance. Don't care if you live 10 miles away or 10000. Just leave it alone if you're not there. They did announce that the tickets for this 10 game homestand would all be discounted or cheaper. Not sure if it's because dynamic pricing doesn't work at all against the Twins or because they had no choice but to suffer embarassing crowds for Monday-Thursday games against the Tigers.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 11:19 PM) And all 16,000 wish they were someplace else. Sox didn't deserve a crowd after the last 6 in Detroit. And tonight? They could be 2 up? You can't blow opportunities like tonight. They'd be right back to 2 up but couldn't beat the s***ty Twins again. Unacceptable. I'd expect the crowd tomorrow will be 5,000 to 10,000. It's like the Sox got that early lead for once and just stopped playing. Was it 3-0 or 4-0 after two innings? What a joke. It was 3-0 heading into the top of the 2nd. 1-2-3 first inning for Quintana.

What's the point of going to the press? Maybe he should have more than 3 starting pitchers who are capable of pitching in August/September...see Sale/Quintana being arm weary and perhaps mentally drained, as Quintana normally has played 140 game seasons. Where was he when we needed at least one more starting pitcher. Why did he hire a manager with NO experience, and now he's going to complain about it? If he thinks he could do a better job managing, and I'm of the belief that he does believe this to be the case, he should fire Ventura and put himself in charge of the team As much as he gets defended for this season, and rightfully so, maybe we need both of them gone (Ozzie/KW) just so the entire organization can have a completely fresh start. Maybe even Cooper, although if there's anyone who should get the benefit of the doubt, it's probably him.

10 doubles, 2 each from Dayan and Wise.

Not too often you have a game with 9 doubles and you lose it by 10 runs. Humber and Nick Blackburn must be fighting to have the worst ERA by a starter with 75+ innings in MLB history. 6.50 now for Phil. Please god, help out our rotation next year. Sale Danks ??? Quintana ??? Humber ??? Santiago ??? Floyd, Liriano, Axelrod, Castro, Rienzo, etc. BTW, what was the announced attendance for this debacle?

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 08:14 PM) whos pitching the last game? Guthrie against Santiago, probably

Game over in DET. About to be swept by another AL Central opponent, just not the White Sox.

So Santiago is left now as the best option for Sunday. Still wouldn't get too upset if they started Axelrod against CY CHEN and Santiago against Guthrie. Could it get any worse than the last sweep for us against KC?

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 07:57 PM) I'd rather see Veal be LH setup to take Thornton's place. Give that $5.5 million to AJ or Youk as part of their package. Coming off this season, Crain would be much harder to deal...but the idea of getting anything decent for Thornton has left the barn, along with getting anything back for Crede/Jenks. Held onto him TOO long, to the point where his trade value completely eroded.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 07:54 PM) He looked good there, but there's no doubt Veal should be the LOOGY for next year. And one would think Santos Rodriguez has an outside shot based on his AFL and Spring Training showing. But yeah, Veal has been one of our underrated and underutilized assets.

Is Chris Perez available tonight for the Indians?