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Well, thank God for Santiago and Teahen or this game would be absolutely unbearable. The irony again with the Swisher trade is that Fautino De Los Santos is exactly the final piece we could have used in that bullpen. We're still one RH short, although Bruney's been okay. Tony Pena, yuck.

Cubs tied again. It would suck to lose that game after coming all the way back from 8-0 down. The Cardinals lost in similar fashion to the Reds the other night. Guillen caught napping with Repko appearing as a PH.

AJ didn't exactly hustle on that one. God, that's just a pathetic inning of offense after we actually threatened Pavano in the 5th. There's no choice left now. Teahen for Morel, DeAza/Lilly platoon and Viciedo for Dunn. Doesn't matter who you "mystery DL," just get it done KW.

43.75% K rate It's worse than Deer, Kingman and Reynolds.

Even if we lost six in a row, the worst we could be is 7 1/2 games back. Almost the exact same position as 2003 at the All-Star Break.

Santiago=Ehren Wasserman 2007 He's been getting his FB up in the 93 range with the four-seamer. Cubs now have the 9-8 lead. Anytime you can have almost a 20 MPH differential in pitch speed, that's usually going to be effective. Uh-oh, AJ.

Just way too many opportunities wasted with RISP. I don't know what the hell they can do. Stick Teahen at 3B and pray. Move up Beckham or Ramirez and hope they get hot again. Ramirez has really struggled in that RBI position the last 10-12 games or so.

.242 is as high as Beckham has been in a long time. 660 OPS.

Ramirez 4 for his last 37. I can't remember a line-up so collectively cold in recent memory. Just AJ and Pierre are alive. Even Paulie's in a mini-slump. Mark Teahen sighting. Pavano slams down the rosin bag, visions of blowing a 7-0 lead the last time out (well, he left down 7-4 and then the bullpen further imploded). Lousy swing by Beckham. That's a line drive in the box score, Gordon.

For some reason, I just had a vision of Greg as Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception urging his wife not to jump. Blackburn against Floyd, that's not exactly confidence-inspiring. On paper, it's the worst match-up of the series for the Sox.

Dunn 606 OPS, Rios 577. Updated.

We're also about to be 1-5 in all our games this season at exactly 2 games below .500 For Greg Hibbard, Pavano was leading 7-0 the last time out and the Twins blew that game to the Brewers eventually.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:29 PM) Huh? In no way was I saying the bad F word. It was me trying to say Fire Ozzie Guillen without breaking the "no fire" streak in the thread. Sorry if any confusion. I was joking. Well, this still isn't worse than the game Freddy Garcia started early in the 2009 season that we gave up 20+. Let's go, Royals. In the process of cheering for teams playing CLE and DET, we just might get passed by the Twins. It's kind of funny since they were 20 games below .500 this season.

Humber now over a 3.00 ERA. And out of the ballgame. And the deluge continues. With 28 losses out of 35, you'd almost be tempted to bet against the White Sox tmrw. 8 wins in a row for the Twins. But I could never, ever do that. It would be the game the White Sox win and you'd end up kicking yourself for weeks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:21 PM) I dislike Ozzie as much as anyone, but this just isn't the Sox year so far. No manager in baseball could have this group of players playing hard. Something that's interesting to think of is that maybe the Sox need to go away from bringing in guys with a reputation of not being "winning" players. Dunn and Rios definitely had that reputation coming into the year. Javy too. Interestingly, Swisher and Cabrera were the players with the consistent "winning traditions" in their backgrounds (and have continued to be). We did bring in Crain, and he's been as good (or better) than expected. Oops, I guess things can get worse. Teahen, what the hell was up with that freaking lollipop throw???? Konerko falling apart. Pathetic. Beckham wasn't paying attention on that play, either.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:17 PM) F____O____G______ Thank god Ozzie's name doesn't start with an A Are you Jay Mariotti in disguise?

Cooper's energy getting out to the mound for Humber is about the same energy we've had this entire game. Flat from the get-go, and Humber pitching scared for the first time in ages. Doesn't help not to be able to throw many runners out on the basepaths.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 08:10 PM) It really makes me wonder if we will even beat them once this season. This could get really interesting how many times they can beat us in a row. At least 8. That's the same number the Tigers got to before we finally beat them this season.

Hibbard, do you and greg have a "secret PM" agreement to defend Juan Pierre? Can I join your cabal, just for fun?

Yawn.

There should be the same investigation into Mark Teahen robbing the White Sox blind than there has been with Countrywide Loans. "The White Sox just don't it collectively as a team. They have a lot of good players over there." Gardenhire's explanation for Twins' success against us.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 07:56 PM) What's wrong with Phil(ip) tonite? Weird. The lack of faith in the team by SoxTalk posters has caused him to go in a funk. And we have to remember, they're playing us without Morneau, Kubel, Delmon Young and Denard Span. We bring them to only 5 games under .500 at the ASB and all bets are off in the 2nd half.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) I believe Valencia will put this game out of reach if he comes up Almost the call. But it was probably over already at 3-0. Or before the game even started.

It's peanut butter and Hector Santiago time. "Guillen, you're nothing but Gardenhire's b****." Rosie (Victoria's Secret supermodel/baseball analyst)

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 07:49 PM) It's just ridiculous. I really can't believe Jerry Reinsdorf is not going to feel an obligation to fans to press for some changes to this team, even if it's just a call-up from AAA. Poor Viciedo...the expectations on that guy if he does come up...not fair. We'll probably be 7-8 games back by then and it won't matter as much. Really, getting swept here might be the thing they need to just say "f--k it" and completely played relaxed and winning baseball in the 2nd half. 9/71...closing in on 12.5%