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At least Jon Rauch is in for the Twins. That should be good for 1-2 runs for the Rangers. Little known fact, Darrin Jackson faced Koji in Japan.

Too bad we don't have Joey Votto batting for us in the 9th, at least that would make it interesting. Two of the best games of the season today and probably the worst White Sox game...or one of them (maybe if I keep saying that the White Sox won't go down 1-2-3 in the 9th). I think this will Uehara's second ever save opportunity.

I wouldn't give Beckham a pitch to hit either. Koji Uehara warming up. Pierre's 12 game hitting streak is dead.

Thanks, Vlad the Impaler, 4-3 Rangers. 17/19 batters retired now by Orioles pitching.

Big out for CJ Wilson against JJ Hardy to preserve the 3-3 tie going into the bottom of the 6th. Wilson and Duensing both 5-0 since the All-Star Break. Gonzalez into the game...it appears.

Fire Walker! Now, I had to say it, and thus, I feel a little bit better...not that it makes this performance less infuriating. Of course, the White Sox will somehow take 2/3 from the Yankees to stay in the race and keep our hopes up, and they might have to with the Mariners playing the Twins and Felix Hernandez having already gone today in the DH against BOS.

Gee, we've never seen that this year, Carlos. Man, our offense stinks again, we used to OWN USCF about a month ago. Now we can't even hold serve against the Royals and Orioles. Pathetic.

Harrell and Threets both warming. Thrilling.

I don't think anyone would have said in June that Gordon Beckham would be our best hitter, Sale/Santos our best two remaining relievers (no, I'm not going to give that to Jenks because of one key DP) and Alex Rios our worst hitter. Didn't realize we had 10 or more hits in 10 consecutive games....but with RISP? Not so good.

Well, the Rangers simply have to beat the Twins now...because it doesn't seem like we want to beat the Orioles. The only chance is if we can face Simon again, but I don't think Showalter will allow that to happen again.

Brian Roberts strikes again, 2 of 3 homers versus the Sox this season. Why would you be booing Mark Buehrle? Idiots!

Just who you don't want to see coming up for the Twins with the bases loaded. Please hit into a DP ball.

Stupid Twins of course are coming back in their game as well.

I think I would rather be watching Piranha 3D than listening to this debacle.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 07:29 PM) much gets made of Kotsay, but it was a big fat fail filling the need at 3b last off season Actually, picking up Vizquel as insurance for Teahen and utility play was KW's season-saving move.

Great, the dreaded leadoff walk, and Pie had an 0-2 count. UGH. Harrelson must be getting frustrated at this point in the game.

Has there been a more listless offensive performance this season? I feel sorry for anyone who paid good money to go to this game. I take that back, if we just supported our hitters more, they would obviously do much better. The final tale of this season might be our pathetic performances against MIN, CLE, KC and BALT.

But we don't need to improve our DH position. :-( He's got 17 homers!

I just don't want to hear the excuse that we destroyed Jackson, Floyd and Danks down the stretch in 2010 and that's the reason for 2011 going bad before the season starts....as we have said in the past after 2005 or even using the World Baseball Classic as an excuse for Javy. In some ways, I suppose 2009 would fall into the same category, right? We really pushed our pitchers hard down the stretch that August/September, plus the additional playoff starts. The interesting thing is that Buehrle started off 4/12 in quality starts and then has something like an 11/12 string going, so he's actually gotten stronger as the season has gone on...same with Jackson, Floyd and Danks, Garcia is the only one who has tailed off significantly in the second half.

Well, there are some restaurants where you're treated rudely by the wait staff (I'm thinking of the Varsity in Atlanta and Gates BBQ in KC) and that's part of the tradition, but it's pretty rare where you'd go to steak place and the mai'tre d would shout "fu-- you" to the dinner party on the way to the table. I suppose you can make the point that it's EXPECTED that Ozzie is this way...so I suppose if the product is good enough, you'll put up with abusive/lousy treatment or service if the overall experience, in the end, is worth it. Of course with Ozzie, it's more of a situation where we can put up with his behavior when the team is doing pretty well or successful, it's when the team is struggling that those character "flaws" are held against him. Essentially, the same thing happened to Maradona as a football coach, but he didn't have the World Cup trophy to fall back on in his defense.

If they're not going to claim him, this is seemingly a PR spin job to create the illusion we're trying to improve our DH position when the results show otherwise. Tiresome if true.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 03:49 PM) Guillen has 1 DNP since being acquired, and that was yesterday, when the Giants started Cody Ross, who they claimed on Waivers from the Marlins. Should have looked it up, I remember listening to one of their games on the radio over the net and maybe it was the other team's announcers implying he wasn't going to be a starter with them. If they've added Ross and Guillen, there's no way they are going to add Ramirez too, in addition to Burrell (although I do applaud them for effort, at least the GIANTS have actually gone out and addressed their hitting problems, or tried to).

Harrell definitely had a lot better stuff, that much was clear, despite his wildness. Torres has to be absolutely PERFECT with his location and command every time out or he gets hammered. Basically, he's not even in DJ Carrasco's league in terms of his arsenal.

Guillen hasn't even been starting consistently in SF, has he? It seems he's more like their 4th outfielder. Unless his playing time has changed a lot in the last 7-10 days.

Greg, just be yourself. If you get to the point where you start censoring yourself completely, never starting threads or feeling like you don't have the freedom to do so without being criticized, that you can't talk about Guillen or Jenks or Kotsay, then you're not going to enjoy posting here. That said, we all tend to get into patterns and repeat ourselves and become predictable. We look for evidence that reinforces our own viewpoints and reject contrary evidence, it's human nature to act that way. Sometimes I will do the same thing as you do, make "devil's advocate" arguments when EVERYONE seems to be taking the opposite position...for me, it's a habit ingrained from being a teacher. For example, when I was teaching in South America, all my students would basically say "Bush sucks." Well, despite my personal opinions on the subject, as an American, I wanted those students to fully understand the reasons/rationale for actions that were taken, whether I agree with them personally or not. I see what you have been trying to do defending Ozzie and Jenks, and if you look at the shambles that is our bullpen now, when arguably our most reliable reliever wasn't even a thought of ANYONE on this board but a select group of White Sox scouts 2-3 months ago, well, obviously we need Bobby Jenks just as much as he needs us to support him, lol. I guess the best you can do is try to be fair/objective/unbiased in your appraisals, but that's not very easy to do, is it? Everyone has their favorites.