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Nice signing WILLIAMS. FREAKING IDIOT. He should never ever be allowed to pitch when the game is tied or the Sox are winning.

Can this team EVER get over the hump just ONCE this season? This is almost unbelieveable that they can't get back over .500 at least once the entire season after April.

Why is there a "Santana shift" when he couldn't pull Floyd's fastball? That would have been right to the second-baseman if they were positioned normally. Gavin continues his struggles in "clutch" situations when he really needs to come up with the big pitches to get out of an inning unscathed. To add further insult to injury, Brandon Allen has been on fire for the A's so far this season. Ohman, basically you suck when it's an important situation...

Crap. Not sure how much I'm willing to trust Ohman in this situation. Don't let him get his arms extended, Gavin.

Floyd, just throw strikes. No time for nibbling at the corners or throwing 2-0 offspeed stuff.

Great job, Tyler. Between Flowers, DeAza and Lilly, hopefully we can cover for the sins of Dunn and Rios. 12 LOB for Sox so far, only 2 for the Indians.

JESUS. We can't just keep giving up those runners on 3rd with Dunn up there. Have to score at least one of those. What's the major league average, about 56% success rate? Jimenez already over 100 pitches. Not long for this game. C'mon Tyler!

Was that really a nice play by Dunn or the fans are just trying to be "extraordinarily encouraging" of anything he does?

Okay, Gavin. Limit the damage to just one run.

Dunn still has a higher OPS than Morel and Rios. Nice play by Choo. 68 pitches for Jimenez through only 3 innings. 7-0 Tigers, you had a feeling that Verlander was going to win that one...18-5 now for the season.

7/9 K's...incredible run for Gavin to start this game. But no let-up's in the middle innings tonight, hopefully.

Atta boy, Alejandro. Huge pick-me-up run there, momentum to Sox now.

3-0 Tigers. Cabrera/Martinez duo has been quite deadly tonight. Beckham somehow safe at 2B, five steals. Avila single, 4-0. Bad luck with the ball hit off the side of the hill kicking to Donald. Should be 3-0 right now, at least. These missed opportunities have seemed to come back to bite us all season long.

Seems like the only way for Beckham to reach base these days. C'mon Brent, get him into scoring position. Productive at-bat, por favor.

Verlander with only 8 pitches in the top of the 5th. 80 through 5. 4 k's in a row for Floyd. Since when did Gavin add that flat slider or cutter? He's been using that effectively in this game so far. 6 outs/5 K's Why isn't Kipnis playing? Just decided....Morel looks like Edward Burns with a bigger nose

What new, Dunn? You just can't play him any longer. They're going to have to use Lillibridge or DeAza. Have to knock pitchers like Jimenez out in the first couple of innings before they get a rhythm. The longer this goes on, with Rios and Dunn both coming back in 2012, it gets harder and harder to sell any season tickets.

Verlander with 72 pitches to get through 4 innings...2-0 going into bottom of 4th.

Gardenhire, why in God's name are you pitching to Miguel Cabrera with 2nd/3rd, 2 outs and a base open? Must be from the Ozzie Guillen School. 2-0, Tigers. Twins had a good chance to escape 2nd and 3rd, no outs and blew it.

Off the top of my head....the Twins have DL'ed Thome, Span, Kubel, Nishioka, Delmon Young, Mauer, Morneau and a few of their pitchers. The Indians have lost Hannahan (although Chisenhall had arrived already), Alex White, Choo, Sizemore, Hafner, Carmona (I think)...maybe LaPorta, at any rate, they've both lost more valuable players for much longer time periods than us. Not even close to say it's like 2001 or 2004.

I swear to God, if the pitching staff suffers in AJ's absence (while he hits about .175 with Dunn's K rate) and we finish 7-8 GB in the division and someone says "well, we'd have won the AL Central if we wouldn't have lost Pierzynski," and that is used as yet another excuse for bringing back Ozzie and KW, I'll.... The Indians and Twins have each had 8-10 more major injuries than the Sox this year.

The problem is if they don't keep Kubel and/or Cuddyer around. $16 million/2 years for Cuddyer isn't going to get it done. Span looks like a shadow of his former self, and they can't go with both Span and Revere in the outfield, not enough punch....especially if Morneau never returns to form and Mauer decides to put up Tommy Herr numbers with a higher batting average. They also have Slowey who should be coming off the books. MINN just screwed themselves not bringing JJ Hardy back. The guy is outhitting everyone on the White Sox but Konerko and Quentin.... And their middle relief has been a joke...when you don't replace Breslow, Reyes, Rauch, Guerrier and Crain, you're cruising for a bruisin'. Finally, Capps has been a big disappointment. Smith and Kenny Williams are brothers in bad moves the last 2-3 seasons. Luckily they had all of Ryan's talent in place and in their primes. Might have to let Liriano go as well...when the return will be minimal compared to what it once might have been. Same with Young after last season.

Whatever happened to Nuke LaLoosh?

What does Katie Upton actually do? Modelling, I'd guess? Singing? Actress? Groupie like Rachel Uchitel for Tiger? Is she 1/32nd related to BJ/Justin? Harrelson joke inserted.

Home of Delray Brooks, right?

I'm pretty sure it's up to 12 or 13 now, just in CLE. We don't have that for the entire season...games that we've won in the 9th inning or extras, home or away.