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QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) It should be happening regardless of how next 10 games go. As I've been arguing, you have to make Santiago a starter, right now, with Charlotte. Axelrod can get his audition, but without Sale and Molina looking iffy for the rotation (nobody at this site can argue credibly he's looked like anything more than a back of the rotation guy), we're back to 1998/99 all over again. Attendance in the 1998-99 figures. At this point, Kenny Williams just needs to leave and wipe the slate clean. This is a 3 year fix, at best, without Sale. It's almost to the point where they'd be better off doing the Tommy John surgery today before he even blows his elbow out and bringing him back as a starter again in 2013. What's the difference? We're going to do the same thing with Sale we did with Santos and trade him for a back of the rotation guy with control who throws about the same velocity as Phil Humber?

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 4, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) That's at least three games the bullpen has blown in the last inning. Might be four. quit counting. 3, Baltimore at home, at Oak, at DET It really doesn't matter really, we don't have a chance to be competitive anyway without Sale in the starting rotation.

Now the only question is whether 2-8 becomes 5-19 and the full rebuilding/trade all assets talk begins again. Can't imagine things being much worse this year, but without a closer, just like what happened in early 2011, the whole season can come undone quite quickly. The Marlins are learning the same lesson with Heath Bell, only they're giving him $27 million to learn it the hard way.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2012 -> 08:56 PM) LOL. Fathom right. Me wrong. Let the floogate of losses begin. Here they come! Wow. Sox lose a game the Sox had in control most of the way. Poor Jake; poor Sox. I wouldn't say control most of the way, but it's a game they should have won had the bullpen been managed properly. Left Peavy in one hitter too long when they should have used Reed, and Thornton's just not a closer.

And that's officially the start of the rebuilding phase for the White Sox.

Didn't realize that Peralta had 4 seasons in a row of 20 homers and at least 80 RBI's. He's a statue defensively, but that's great production at SS. And Matt Thornton leads the majors again in broken bats, flares, balls off the end of the bat, checked swing singles....I don't know what it is, he has that fastball but a lot of times the opposition can make contact.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2012 -> 08:48 PM) Hawk having a rough night in the booth. He was cheering too hard for a Beckham single or triple there, lol? Great play by someone Thornton's size, very athletic to run down Santiago.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) What time is it where u live caufield? 948 am on Sunday, 13 hours of difference

Amazing thing is I think that ties Lillibridge for 1st (Desmond Jennings) for the AL SB lead despite barely playing. Quietly, the Rays again are the best team in baseball...without Longoria. 30 K's for Morel (new thread for M-34 if we somehow lose this game).

BTW, is there any team in the majors with a worse bench than ours? Other than Lillibridge's versatility and pinch-running, not much there. Beckham will get another AB here unless Morel hits into a DP. Yay, we now have one bench hitter over .200 finally.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 4, 2012 -> 08:36 PM) He was out of gas facing one of the best hitters of the past 20 years who has seen his pitches 3 times previously tonight. When it's all said and done, maybe one of the top 3-5 hitters of all-time. He's Manny Ramirez without the steroids.

CLE getting on a bit of a mini-roll here in the early season. Took down the Rangers at home and in first by 2 games now. Weird, bringing in Valverde down by 1? He hasn't even pitched well in tie games this season.

Uh-oh....that wasn't a good idea.

Second-guessers if Cabrera goes yard....line up. No Reed here. Talked Ventura out of taking him out of the game. Pitch count 118.

Ummm....shouldn't we be warming up Santiago or Thornton? Or Reed? Only 6 walks all season for Peavy.

I think they're really oversensitive now after what happened with Peavy's ankle injury and the argument it led to his lat problem. The thing that doesn't make sense is not shutting him down for two weeks or DLing him. How putting him in the bullpen is going to prevent him from having an injury at some point is beyond me.

It wouldn't have mattered had they signed Buehrle instead of Danks. We'd still be in the same basic position. They simply couldn't afford both. Attendance would be the same, that wouldn't matter. You're never going to see any major league team risking that kind of a contract on a pitcher in his 30's over one in what should be the prime of his career. Had Fielder looking low and away and then came back high and over the middle...just high enough, and just enough juice/movement.

Tie ballgame, Dunn made contact there when he needed to. Got it off the end of the at-bat. First time Smyly has given up more than 1 run in a start. Bullpen coming into the game soon. Below? Looks like he's leaving him out there, 96 pitches. Didn't realize AJ was 8/23 already this year against lefties. Make that 8/24. Probably the end of the night for Smyly.

Two really good at-bats by Ramirez tonight...that's encouraging. Now, needless to say, we need to score this run. No option to fail.

Only 6 pitches for Peavy there. Still, doesn't really matter if our offense continues to sputter. Haven't won a game in which we scored 3 runs or less all season.

What did Harrelson say?

Great battle there by Beckham. Patented flare to RF. Up to .225. "White Sox ran wild on the basepaths last year and were terrible and it even got silly at times." LOL. Ozzieball, trying to spark the offense.

29 K's for Morel. He's probably starting to press even more knowing that Ventura said both him and Beckham need to start producing soon.

Replace DeAza against LHPer's, that's it. He came into the game right around 800 OPS overall, that's great for him. But 3/27 against LHP isn't. Then when you add that to Dunn, AJ's struggles the last couple of years against LHP, it turns into a big problem in our line-up turning over consistently.

Not easy to hit an opposite field homer at Comerica, especially at night. Avila's the envy of every team that needs a catcher in the majors. 2nd homer in 41 innings of work surrendered by Peavy. Tigers' announcers accusing the White Sox of dirtying up the baseballs (I've never seen such dark baseballs, says Avila)....returning to the comments about the batter's box being a foot off against Cabrera. That's it. We've solved the problem. The White Sox/Chicago have a reputation for the dirtiest/darkest baseballs in the game. Maybe we should try to whiten/shine/buff them, lol. Because that hurts our offense as much as it helps the pitchers. Probably orders from Don Cooper, haha.