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But doesn't that open them up to having to at least give Ubaldo a pretty thorough physical exam and battery of MRI's before it's approved? Especially if his velocity was noticeably down?

Ubaldo deal close to official to CLE. RED SOX interested in Willingham/Harden/Crisp. Twins will be just 5 GB if they win tonight. You know you're in trouble when AJ and Pierre are K'ing.

The Tigers are getting huge crowds every game...their fans are buying into it, at least. And the Twins are least selling 40,000 tickets per game.

Konerko back to life. 3 career homers against Lester. 53rd on all-time career homer list, tied with Craig Nettles.

If Youkilis makes a great play against Rios, how will we be able to differentiate which is more powerful, the YOUK cheers or Sox fans booing? Lucky for Alex.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 08:01 PM) Anyone know how to make the font smaller on soxtalk? Give Adam Dunn 100 blindfolded swings with your computer hanging from the ceiling...it has to be the biggest laptop in the history of the world suspended in the middle of an imaginary strikezone.

Red Sox radio guys urging a Sox selloff since we can't seem to get past the .500 mark and "that's a hallmark of a team that's just not going to be able to contend or put a run together." Oh...they probably don't even glance at the AL Central standings until the final week of the season when the Yankees/Red Sox determine who their playoff opponents will be.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) Dumb? I imagine the reason they started him was to get that 4th player from Cleveland... They might be losing Pomerantz or White the way this is going.

Shades of Sirotka/David Wells???

It's not yet pumpkin time...and the pitchforks are out. Bale pitched for the Royals a while back. Would have been hilarious if they would have embedded the time Christian the actor went totally berserk and it was audio recorded....

Jimenez and Ludwick could be teammates in a day or two for the Indians. So weird.

OOOPS. Almost a great play by Ramirez but couldn't complete the throw. Goodbye Ohman.

DJ, Farmer and Rongey running a Hollywood-worthy PR campaign for Beckham to get the Gold Glove. That will never happen with Cano and Pedroia actually being able to field as well as hit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) If Viciedo's thumb is still in one piece, the time is now to call him up. This lineup just sucks so much against LHP, and can't afford to drop Sunday and Monday's game just due to a s***ty lineup like the one tonight. No Rios please, no Dunn either. It has to be tomorrow. Monday is already written off. Shouldn't be, because of the beginning of the game against Verlander this past week, but we always get rolled by Sabathia. Doesn't matter what team he's pitching for... 3-2 the next five games is probably the best-case scenario.

There's no way you trade everyone away in 19 hours. But you can trade away a few smaller pieces and start preparing mentally for 2012. You have to be very, very careful with Humber and Peavy. They're set to be the keys to next year...and you can start looking at Stewart/Santiago/Sale/Infante/Reed as well. They'll need to make a determination on Frasor and Bruney, too. Probably not until the final 1-2 weeks of the season, unless the Yankees and Twins just bury us this week. Who knows with this team?

QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:46 PM) Hopefully, trying to see if he can trade himself. Whatever we get in return would be his greatest acquisition. They call it addition by subtraction. Wonder how long it would be before Hahn dumped KWJR from the Sox minor league system? One week? Or he'd just let him quietly "retire" and offer him an internship in the front office? The other reason this season sucks is we can't even see what we might be working with going into 2012 with Sale as a rotation member. Can they send him to the AFL or has he spent too much time on the major league roster? Is there a rule on that? Winter ball?

Wonder how desperate the Yankees will be to add Floyd or Danks? They've got CC, but out of Hughes/Burnett/Nova/Colon/Garcia...who do you go with for Games 2-3 in a playoff series?

If that deal was done, there's just no way the Indians would be letting him start. Imagine if he got hurt tonight and then the deal hadn't been completed. OUCH.

DJ with the catch...Farmer will go on and on about that one for days.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) Rios needs to stand the f*** up.. that squat takes all his power away....either way would love to see his ass go somewhere else but noone else will be as stupid as KW was on that one.... should have let Detroit claim him Would they even have taken him with Granderson in CF at that time, and Ordonez in RF? It was just a theory. I know Curtis was struggling against LHP during that timeframe...but you have to think the main reason is that KW really was overconfident a change of scenery and the Sox coaching staff could "fix" him.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:36 PM) Humber has a lower ERA than Felix. Humber's mediocre peripherals and absurdly low BABIP were bound to bring him back to earth. I'm not hating on the guy. s***, we'd be 10 games out if not for his first-half. But I never thought he was the real deal. We've had a very good infield defense all season long. You expect they'll field a lot of grounders, as long as the balls aren't getting hit into the outfield or over the fence. He's definitely not James Baldwin 2000 or Danny Wright. He's just not an ace. A respectable 3rd or possibly 4th starter (depending on the team), sure.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:34 PM) He's not viewed in the same light outside of the White Sox organization/fans. Every MLB GM knows he can hit. It's the lack of a position that mitigates his eventual value...since he couldn't stick at 3B. He would have to be #20-40 as a prospect now, were he eligible.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:30 PM) Well except Viciedo. Only name I've seen. (unless you want to still count Sale) A lot of teams would definitely ask for Mitchell or Thompson as the 3rd/4th guy in any trade. Lester absolutely dominant tonight, anyway. Let's just hope this means the end of Alex Rios in the line-up. If Ozzie plays him two more games in a row against Miller and Sabathia, he deserves to be fired. Or leaves Dunn in the middle of the line-up. Just those two issues alone are enough.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:30 PM) Hudson dwarfs Humber. Not to mention Humber is 5 years older. Hard to argue that when Humber STILL has an ERA nearly a run lower in the AL. We'll see. Usually, long-term, the White Sox aren't wrong about pitching prospects. So far, they seem to be on Gio and Hudson. 2-3 years from now, we'll have a much better assessment.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 07:28 PM) I wonder if a Mariners-esque losing streak would cost Ozzie his job. That'd be so worth it. I hate Ozzie more than Dunn, Rios, Kenny Williams, Nick Punto, Ichiro, Bud Selig, Mark McGwire, steroids, people who hog weights at the gym, slow drivers, communists, porn music, the French, Ivy League graduates, draft dodgers, the ATF and Bostonians. That's a lot of hate. What about David Koresh and that guy who killed all the students in Norway? Can you really hate Cornell graduates?