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I love how we don't even think about PHing for Rios here. Just concede the game, Ozzie. Or the entire series, for that matter. It's not like we don't have an All-Star just sitting there on the bench.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 09:36 PM) Walkoff grand slam for Hafner. They're going to be tough. I think it's either the Twins or Indians. DET has too many issues with Porcello and Scherzer, and who knows how long Penny and Verlander can stand up to the wear and tear. DET also has a ton of bullpen/relief issues to deal with. Minnesota looks to head into the 2nd half with a ton of momentum.

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/0...ctor_santi.html Very good Hector Santiago article...

Unreal. This is getting to be semi-sadistic to put him in the line-up at #3 or #4. Pull the plug.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) Santiago's fastball looks a lot like the Johan Santana fastball of old. We might have the next member of our rotation for 2012. Who would have predicted Hector Santiago and not Sale? Did anyone even have this guy for AAP? No more Morel or Omar at #2. Dunn and Rios should never again be higher than 6-7-8.

The White Sox should just offer free rainchecks to every fan for future games until they beat the Twins just once. It would be the least JR could do to generate some goodwill. KW should personally be forced to hand them all out to every single ticketholder until we win.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 09:22 PM) He just can't barrel-up a fastball Beckham or Konerko? Rare Juan Pierre strikeout.

Nishioka just doesn't have the arm for SS. They need to switch Casilla and Nishioka again....although it probably won't happen until the offseason.

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.