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Well, as Harrelson says, only the M's and A's have scored fewer runs per game. There goes our last and best scoring opportunity of the game with Quentin.

Same crap he's been swinging at all season and trying to pull.

Well, that was unexpected. But we still might actually need to get a hit, which seems impossible. Maybe we'll have better luck against their pen. At least we'll see some 90+ fastballs now.

What are the odds both of these runners don't score against Ohman? Would have been better just to get no-hit to add to the shame and humiliation. 9 games under .500 at home? For a playoff contender, supposedly?

Moustakas 0 for the season against us...lol 23,130 depressed fans at USCF. Valverde will get yet another chance to keep his consecutive saves streak going in BALT. Will be at least 5-4.

What can you say? Only that you're REALLY REALLY glad you didn't spend your hard-earned money on this inferior "product" that not even the cast from BOILER ROOM could sell.

Willie Mays Eyre....good name for Scott's bro. 1st and 3rd, one out, Tigers threatening to break it open in the top of the 8th at BALT. That wasn't predictable by Flowers. Sheez.

Hey, Greg... It doesn't matter that every single ball into LF ends up in a runner advancing a base on Pierre's arm, does it? But he's hitting .282 or whatever, so everything's fine.

3-6 against the Royals alone should cost everyone their jobs. Granted, Stewart's not Edwin Jackson, but c'mon. How many games can we lose to Bruce Chen before they decide HEY, JUST MAYBE we need to find a hitting coach that all the hitters will actually listen to??

Alexei pull hook. Quentin swinging out of his ass. Konerko the only one with the correct approach. And no AJ, doubt that Tyler Flowers will actually get a hit unless he gets lucky with his "slider speed" bat and runs in to a ball on the inside half.

Flowers wrist is hurting. Have to do an MRI, apparently, unless it's just a bruise.

CLE passed the Twins again....3-2 now Indians and looking to add more in the bottom of the 8th.

Chen would be in the HOF if he only pitched against the White Sox. Meanwhile, Greg Walker...well. Hope AJ's wrist isn't seriously hurt, just a bone bruise?? Flowers in the game now. That would be a season-ender for the Sox.

So.... Beckham sucks, Rios sucks. Konerko can't run a lick it would be 1-1. Stewart's been okay. Tigers are up again on the O's, Twins 2-1 over Indians.

Watch AJ, Pierre or Paulie. They'll have to take anything pitched on the outside half of the plate (80% of his pitches) and take it to the opposite field. Chen is a little bit similar to Tommy Glavine in the last five years of his career.

That's why Lillibridge at 2B and DeAza in the line-up as the DH works too. The problem is Paulie's injury forces Brent to 1B for the time being. Beckham's defense is better than Omar's now, and he occasionally runs into an offspeed pitch and hits a home,r so he's still a better option than OLDmar.

I'll go with the theory that only completely under the radar guys like Buehrle, Boone Logan and Santiago ever rise up out of the system and succeed with the Sox. Hyped prospect, forget it! Unless you're Hudson/Gio and you succeed with another organization.

18/31 steals when he led the majors in 2010 and when that's his main weapon....that's not surprisingly good. His defense is worse than last year. He's making $8.5 million (part of it is subsidized from LA, granted). Sure, he's had a lot of clutch hits in the last two months and his average has risen to a decent number for a singles hitter, but it's not like he's a bargain by any stretch of the imagination. If Dunn/Rios/Peavy and Beckham didn't exist on this team to disappoint us, Pierre would return to his previously vilified status (of course, if they were all hitting and pitching well, we'd be in 1st place going away and Pierre's average season wouldn't matter much). Morel's a bit harder to pick on as an often overmatched rookie making the league minimum.

Kansas City and Pittsburgh would support their teams well if they actually were .500 or above and providing some hope for the future. San Diego at least has that beautiful stadium and lots of money in SoCal. Houston's future looks very bleak but their attendance is still well ahead of ours....they have traditionally supported their teams and had pretty big payrolls under McLane. We'll see with Crane. Baltimore could easily have made this list. Toronto too, despite J4L's pleas.

Kim Ng would be a typical White Sox hire. Always on the cutting edge with minority hiring/affirmative action. Former Sox employee. Somehow, at this juncture of Sox history, JR will probably be too conservative to pull the trigger in making her the first female GM, though. DiPoto is the only one with a major league playing background there on that list...I'm pretty sure.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 09:41 AM) I mostly agree, except for the Morel part. We had him in the 2 hole and he failed, and we'd be jerking Lexi around yet again. Leave him at #9 this season and approach things with an open mind in the spring. Look at Alexei's hit chart. He simply can't do the Iguchi-esque things that Morel can....execution-wise....he doesn't change his approach for the situation or count. Same thing with Quentin and Beckham. They're just up there hacking away and pulling everything. Rios, too. Morel is a team player and does the little things you don't notice in the box score. The only problem with putting Ramirez in the RBI spot is that he has sucked with runners on base, hit into way too many DP's for his speed and he's still a more dangerous hitter than Morel so you can certainly argue him getting more pitches to hit with Juan Pierre on base in front of him...that's the strongest argument on Ramirez's behalf.

I ended up dumping Nortel instead so my mom can take a loss for taxes. I suppose there's an outside chance AIG could recover 10 years from now. Probably not.

I thought Santiago had at least 2 long mop-up jobs that he did well in... 5.33, 1 H, 1 BB, 2 K's

Maybe he did and Sergio didn't want to give away anything...guess that's possible. That was the same thought everyone was probably having while reading it, exactly what did Mariano say to him? MUCH BETTER ARTICLE on the Mo/Santos meeting: http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/white-sox/...ice-from-rivera

A shutout against the Royals isn't happening. They have too many good fastball hitters. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_...3926/bruce-chen AJ and Juan Pierre have hit really well against Chen. If you look at the splits, they'll tell the numbers against RHB and LHB aren't very different at all. Here's a suggested line-up. Pierre Morel (because he is our best #2 guy going forward) Konerko Quentin AJ Ramirez Rios (4 for 25 against Chen but hot as of late) Lillibridge (for Beckham at 2B) DeAza (for Dunn/DH) Beckham is 1 for 10 against Chen. Beckham can't hit a fastball on the outside half or up, and it seems all he will do is pull every outside pitch on the ground to the 3B or SS if he does actually make contact. At least this way you get Dunn/Beckham out of the line-up and a lot more pop and athleticism from the bottom of the order. DeAza has hit lefties well in AAA this year, so not worried about that, and Chen hasn't had great success against LHB's this year either.