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Be careful on your slide DeAza if you go for SB #11. Howell not the same pitcher he was in 2008 and 2009.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:41 PM) It would have been nice to see Luke Scott get smashed in the face with a fastball. Would Obama have been kicked out of the stadium if he cheered that while in attendance, lol?

Jones with an ERA hovering just barely above 1. White Sox absolutely on cruise control.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) Its either thar or its the pitcher taking matters into his own hands. He earned a lot of respect from his teammates today. The fact is, the guy who hits a batter nothing happens to, the guy that throws behind a batter gets tossed without warning. That's weak sauce. It's Quintana's Nacho Libre/Colombian/Wrestling Persona, lol.

AJ believes he's the manager, lol. Why the hell would Ventura call that? To take out Zobrist? Zobrist was the one that AJ spiked. That makes ABSOLUTELY zero sense from Robin's standpoint. And to take out a pitcher who RHB'ers are 1/24 against this season and was on cruise control...unless he just assumed it would only get a warning and not the ejection?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:34 PM) The Sox thrive on this stuff apparently. Expect a return of the blow-up doll, lol.

Viciedo at .293, 832 OPS. And the clutch hitting with RISP continues from the last game against Minny and CLE series. Taking every pitch right back where it's pitched.

Trade Viciedo for Josh Hamilton or Matt Kemp, lol. Well, maybe Kemp.

AJ slid in on Zobrist at 2B yesterday...late slide, his left cleat was WAY up in the air and caught Zobrist on the shin. Clearly a dirty play yesterday and could have injured BOTH of them. Wills going off on AJ. The whole thing was over.....two White Sox HBP early today but no warnings, then the White Sox decided to go after Zobrist to even up the score. Probably called by AJ himself.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:27 PM) Automatic ejection for manager if a pitcher gets ejected after warning is given. There was no warning given to the Rays after the first 2 HBP. Now it looks like Cobb might have been hurt warming up....hamstring/push off leg. Guess he's okay for now. Someone should push a bunt out there and test Cobb's leg.

Hopefully Jones can get this game through the 6th. Might be a blessing in disguise, who knows. But it sucks to take the win away from Q. This has to be 90% on AJ...or Quintana just not being experienced enough to know how to deal with a situation like that at the big league level. He only has 9 games at AA in his entire career.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 30, 2012 -> 01:23 PM) so can anyone explain to me why Quintana is throwing at someone, while winning the game The unwritten code of baseball. Obviously it was intentional, Zobrist was the one involved in the spiking yesterday with AJ. There's just no reason not to at least issue a warning first. Wegner has a Napoleon Complex, big-time.

They better throw out any Rays pitcher for any pitch that comes halfway close to any Sox batters for the rest of this game. Well, luckily we have the off day for our bullpen. But Greg gets his wish, payback for our two hit batters in this game. Which was directly related to the AJ spike of Zobrist. Ventura kicked out of the game, too.

Payback for the AJ Pierzynski spike. Well, there's Greg's revenge. AJ thrown out of the game? Zobrist was the one who was spiked...then they throw behind Zobrist? This was a really really dumb move...doesn't make any sense. Nathan Jones will be in the game. Should have at least issued a warning there.

Wow. Right handed batters are 1/24 on the season so far against Quintana. Bizarre. 0.042 average.

Bad luck there for Paulie. Was hitting .421 with RISP. Josh Hamilton's in .360's, Jeter nearly 30 points behind him. Nearly a 50 point spread between Konerko and 3rd place. White Sox have threatened to score in every inning this game. Unfortunately, didn't push across at least 2 in the second, but didn't really deserve one in the first so we actually should be up 4-1, realistically.

Revenge for Ben Zobrist and the spike yesterday. Not exactly wise to do that in front of Viciedo, though.

Rios with a ringing double. Royals came back to take the lead against the Indians 5-3.

Leave the bases loaded with no outs, momentum ALWAYS shifts. One of the inexorable laws of baseball.

Well, that sucks...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 12:22 PM) Yeah, he could easily be over .300 with a little of Konerko's luck. I think those "robbed" home runs made both Beckham and Rios MAD.

Only 3 Colombians in MLB today. O-Cabrera and Edgar Renteria the two most famous ones in history...as well as Edgar's brother.

25 RBI's by Alex Rios now. White Sox taking advantage of nearly every break they get these days. Two plays that should/could have been made there.

In this day of modern transportation and instantaneous delivery, how could Konerko go for 3 games with all of his own personal bats still left back in Chicago?

Sox have refused to go with their alternative black road jerseys out of "good luck" suspicion so far during this streak. Dave Wills complaining the Rays don't have their best weapon against LHP, Jeff Keppinger, available to play.