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It's going to be another good wake-up call for the marketing department to realize what kind of marketing "hell" they're about to enter this offseason.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110811/COL2...ews|text|Sports Article advocating for reducing playing time for Ordonez and Carlos Guillen

Okay guys, who do you want to trade or "dump" to clear enough salary to sign a leadoff hitter? Someone will have to go. Danks? Not sign Buehrle? Quentin? Floyd? Thornton?

Ozzie also didn't get Lillibridge or Ramirez into the game as PH'ers. At least both those guys can get an extra-base hit or a homer...Lilly should have hit for DeAza against a LHP. Ramirez could have hit for Vizquel.

We probably have to face Chen and/or Duffy, right? God help us if Ozzie doesn't play Lillibridge and expects Dunn to hit a lefty for the fourth time all season.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 08:13 PM) LMAO...the Sox will NOT keep winning every 5 out of every 6, no team does. The White Sox will NOT win this division "going away"...if they win it, it will be a very tight race and will require excellent overall baseball against good teams...beating up on the Twins and Orioles does not make for sporting lofty predictions. They're not going to win anything without Dunn and Beckham contributing. Rios and Morel have picked it up at least, that's somewhat encouraging. You would say it's almost too bad Rios wasn't asked to bunt (if he actually can execute it)...but that would have meant Dunn or Beckham still would have needed to come through with a hit. Dunn, now 17 times this season with at least 3 K's and no hits. A new major league record every time he manages that difficult feat.

Dunn and Beckham are just awful right now. Frasor's best days are behind him. His stuff isn't nearly as crisp as it was 5 years ago. Looks like he's been overused in TOR over the years. Typical White Sox. Well, maybe not coming back from 4-0 down, but blowing all the opportunities with RISP late. Even Konerko looked terrible his last 2 at-bats. Demoralizing loss. But hey, we saved Thornton/Sale/Santos for another day. Yay!

Sale or Thornton against DAVIS? No? For the record Ozzie, Reimhold is 2 for 2 career against Jesse Crain. Are you crazy?

No fastballs to Reynolds. And no hangers that are center-cut, either.

Great job, Jesse! UGH.....the last thing you want to do is give them the lead right back. At least it looks like Johnson will be entering the game again for the 8th. And don't let Jones swipe 3rd.

Let's see if we get the "good" or "bad" Crain. We'll find out pretty quickly with the middle of the order. It's a miracle that this game is tied with how many hits the Orioles put on the board. 11 and only 4 runs? They weren't missing many. Indians now leading 9-3 and threatening for more. MIL going for the knockout blow against the Cardinales.

Wow....starting to become a believer here. Can we actually pull this game out? Great job Juan, you sucked for 2 1/2 months but you've been a very clutch hitter ever since. But please don't sign him for 2012, KW. Whatever you do...don't do that. Humber somehow gutted out 6 IP. Please, please, please tell me the bullpen's coming into the game. Aha, looks like Crain time.

Atta boy Brent. Berken coming into to try to retire Juan Pierre. At-bat of the game....we need to at least get within 1 run here somehow. Berken with 6.10 ERA.

At least Rios is alive now. Should have brought up DeAza months ago to get this reaction out of Alex. 144 K's coming into this ab, ahead of Reynolds and Austin Action Jackson.

Not better D by Omar. Just younger legs. He's done as a SS. He can still contribute at 3B and 2B occasionally. Setting up for the game of the season in the AL Central tmrw with Verlander trying to hold the 2 game lead in the face of a 13 game losing streak in CLE.

OOOPS. Guess I'm saving a lot of money NOT watching the White Sox this season. That sucks. Thought they were in KC.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 06:37 PM) 11 fly balls for the Sox tonight. Looks like we're going to have to beat up on Tillman tomorrow to salvage this series and have some momentum for Friday. A loss tomorrow, and you're probably looking at a half-empty Cell. Thought we had KC on the road, then CLE and TEX at home??? I hope that's right, I will be at the Friday and Saturday games in KC.

If Ramirez was playing shortstop...or Lillibridge, we probably limit the damage to 2 runs there in the early innings instead of 3. OLDmar just has zero range at this point in his career. Even if he stops the ball, he doesn't have the arm strength to make most of the throws...especially deep in the hole.

1) Humber has hit the wall...nothing to be done about that 2) Vizquel should never be playing SS at his age, only 3B or 2B....you have to use Lillibridge to rest Ramirez 3) Dunn has to benched for the rest of the season 4) Nobody on this team is taking the right approach at the plate except Konerko, AJ and Morel...and Pierre usually Beckham, Rios, Quentin, Ramirez, Dunn....all of them need a new hitting coach desperately You can't try to pull every outside pitch. Harrelson keeps saying "just missed it" but that's what will happen Carlos. Rios keeps pulling outside pitches and they're resulting in a ton of lazy fly balls to CF. I've given up expecting Beckham to go on anything resembling another hot streak the final 7 weeks. Last inning was a perfect example. Leadoff double, Dunn K, Beckham swinging out of his ass and popping up and the runner never leaving 2B. Can't afford to give away games that like this when you're 4 GB in the heart of August.

Can you mark on your form "apply to new hitting coach" like the check-off on the 1040 for the World Wildlife Fund or Presidential Election matching funds?

Another one would be the race for most homers between Alexei, Beckham, Lillibridge and Rios.

Wonder what the buy rate will be? http://www.baseballprospectus.com/odds/ Current playoff odds, 25.7%

The market for Jose Reyes should still be strong after the season, Jon Heyman writes at SI.com. MLB executives tell Heyman that the Giants, Cardinals, Tigers, Angels, Nationals, Braves, Phillies, Red Sox, Yankees and Mets could be fits for the shortstop in terms of finances and positional need. Here are the rest of Heyman’s rumors... That would really suck! They could easily move Peralta back to 3B to make room for him.

I'm leaning towards holding onto Pfizer and TI. Cisco, MEHHHHHH. They're going to have to completely reinvent that company and the router business to ever be a growth stock again.

Not usually a fan of the blonde/silicone looks, but she's cute. And she has a big personality. Would much rather have watched her than Rosie what's her name in Transformers. She reminds me of a lot of the women you meet in Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. But obviously not Latina. BACK TO WHITE SOX, don't stop now, boys!