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They weren't going to spend $19 million on the DH position. Not unless you have Pujols, Fielder, Miguel Cabrera, etc.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) Kills me that he broke his thumb. He was on his way to making the team. He never had a place to play. They weren't going to platoon him with Dunn or release Pierre in spring training. He was always stuck in AAA unless they did something with Teahen.

Ozzie said he liked what Dunn said in the paper about feeling "something clicked" the other day. He's never coming out of the line-up or being moved down while Guillen is the manager.

Wow....can't believe we actually hit a SAC fly and not a grounder on the infield. Another runner left on 2nd base. Ozzie, 2 for 61, that'sa not so gooda.

Gardenhire seriously should walk Konerko to load the bases. But he won't. He has to believe Paulie will roll over into a DP.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) Another fantastic offensive game against a lefty for Morel. Have a feeling he'll get sent down soon, as he flat out is not ready to hit at this level. Which will make KW look even more stupid when Teahen commits 10 errors and Omar Vizquel puts up a 575 OPS. Ooops, that's what Morel is doing already.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 03:29 PM) f*** you ump he struck him out with the previous pitch We need to save our emotional energy for cursing Dunn, Morel, Rios, Beckham, Ozzie and KW. Duensing has retired 11 batters in a row. Morel, AAA isn't very far away. Don't worry, you'll be back up in August.

One of about 10-15% of his strategic decisions that's actually worked out this year.

Walking Cuddyer to face Thome has potential embarassment and humiliation written all over it for Ozzie.

If these 6 games don't kill us, 10 in a row at Detroit, KC and Cleveland should definitely do the trick. Thankfully, KW can't make any desperation moves with Viciedo until the last 5-10 days of July and by then it will all be academic.

The murmurings of boos are starting with Rios groundouts now. Not quite so demonstrative as with Dunn, but humorous nonetheless. Wonder if Rick Hahn is watching "Horrible Bosses" and having thoughts about taking matters into his own hands with KW and Guillen. Beckham, "Bend It Like" can work for balls hit down the lines that come back into the field of play...you might think about running.

June 8th, against Mariners. 2 homers in a 7-4 loss. Had one the previous game. So over a month of typical Carlos deepfreeze. Wow, we've had the lead for 3 innings so far is this series...progress from the Royals' games.

White Sox offense shutting down again after the 1st and sleepwalking through the middle innings. Poor Buehrle. Too bad he wasn't out on the mound yesterday with that 5-1 lead to work with.

Nothing yet on Gammons' twitter. Trout debuts@19. Trumbo walkoff. Eddie Bane drafted them and the prospects that brought Haren and he was dismissed. C'mon Rick Hahn, sign us a better scout(ing) diretor. Trout, Trumbo, Conger...etc.

Reported that he would likely be fired over the All-Star Break. I tried to find something at WEEI website but it's too early for any of their podcasts or "Full Count" broadcasts from today to be archived. Maybe Cafardo from the Boston Globe will pick up on it as well, if Gammons doesn't have a weekend column there.

Are there any other sources popping up about the Gammons/WEEI comments speculating about Guillen getting fired over the ASB? We should put it up at mlbtraderumors, lol. Or start a twitter campaign until Cowley, Rogers, Van Dyck or Gonzales actually pick up on it. What is our average with RISP and two outs? It has to be around .150-.175 over the last 2-3 weeks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 03:44 PM) First run Morel has created in a long time Too bad RUNS CREATED PER 27 AB doesn't take defense into account or he might be putting up a negative number the last 10 days. They need to have that +/- stat for baseball like they do with basketball and hockey.

Morel, your days are numbered. Typical Twins' unearned run scored against the White Sox. Two bunts that are actually executed. 2-1. And...it continues. Not a single hard-hit ball in the inning, of course.

Seems like Dunn and Rios really are waiting for next week to get serious about rallying the White Sox. Ramon Blastro strikes again with another XB hit.

He's married to Leslie Visser, I think. Good upgrade for him. He's violating the "never date or marry someone two or more better than you on the 1-10 scale rule" I think. Got rid of Thome one year too early...this year he's really struggling to stay healthy.

2 for 59 now. At least no K. Hopefully Ozzie (or whoever is manager) will leave Alexei alone in the 2 hole.

Well, started off well enough. Of course, we said the same thing yesterday after the 1st inning, too. Didn't realize the Twins were already tied with us in the loss column. Yikes! At least this time we didn't hand them them the lead right off the bat.

Cora, Walker and maybe Baines SHOULD leave with Ozzie. I'd give Baines the option to stay, just because it seems shabby to run him off, but no way ANYONE in the entire fanbase would be excited about Cora managing.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 11:16 AM) I'm just shocked that one of our own would predict such a demise and jinx us like that. In a gamethread no less. Well, at least Ozzie hasn't blamed negativity from SoxTalk for the White Sox record against the Twins. I wonder if the WSI board is having a total meltdown about right now. It's getting harder and harder by the day, hour and minute to defend the organization. To me, the mood around here is more or less calm and resigned. Unfortunately, that seems to be the same attitude as the players and manager have. "We'll just have to work harder. We'll get it going after the break. It's still early, blah blah blah..." There's just no sense of urgency or fight visible. Except for the vow by Dunn and Rios to "put the team on their shoulders and carry the Sox in the 2nd half."

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 10:58 AM) Rios was questionable at best. If he really was so great, he wouldn't have been let go for nothing. I loved the Peavy trade personally and it still may work out OK. Its not like Clayton Richard is going to the HOF. As for Dunn, no one could possibly see a drop of this magnitude. There were some warning signs there, but still........anyway, had KW overruled OG and said you know what, Mark Kotsay DHing isn't really a good idea, and re signed Jim Thome for peanuts, a couple of things may have happened. Maybe the Sox win with Thome and Twins without him. If he had the year he had, maybe he brings him back for 600 and doesn't go after Dunn. The bottom line is KW gets paid a ton of money to make the decisions, fans don't get squat. KW has a bloated payroll and a team that just doesn't click. Ultimately fans will love the trades and signings that work out and will not like the ones that do not, even if they thought at the time it was the right thing to do. That's life. I think its time KW and OG move on. This entire circus needs to be closed. 1) Borchard becomes a franchise player and there's no need to trade for either Thome or Swisher probably. We already had Dye to supply RF power. That would also have allowed us to hold onto Gio Gonzalez. 2) If any of our pitchers drafted around 1998-2001 had worked out (Rauch, Ginter, Wells, Fogg, Danny Wright, Barcelo, Stumm, Brian West)....then there would have been no need to trade for Javy. As it was, we already had Buehrle, Garcia, Contreras, Garland and McCarthy. Adding that sixth pitcher never made a whole lot of sense to me, because we traded Chris Young and Anderson wasn't able to get the job done. 3) If we had kept Thome for 2010, there's no doubt in my mind we would have won the division. It seems overly simplistic, but if we'd managed to develop Borchard into what Dunn actually became AND kept Chris Young in the fold, things would look very different right now. That would have avoided the entire Rios debacle as well. Whatever they do, after learning their lesson with Hudson last year, they absolutely cannot trade Viciedo as well.