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Texas also has Michael Young, Kinsler, Cruz, Guerrero, Andrus, they've got more offensive talent overall than the White Sox...but no way Konerko wins the MVP unless we win like 32 games in a row (Paulie with a consecutive games hitting streak during that entire time), Konerko ALSO catches Bautista for the HR crown and Hamilton falls off or gets injured like Quentin in 2008.

The most impressive thing is that he pitched over the most made-to-order DP in the history of the game and didn't blink or make excuses, then let the game get away from him. You know Carlos Zambrano would have flipped out there. He was aiming the ball a little bit after the 2 walks, his radar readings then were "only" 93-94-95 (versus 95-100, consistently 97). What's most impressive is his ability to already control a much better slider than Thornton...and from what everyone says, his change-up might be his best pitch, and he's not even using that out of the bullpen. I realize Chapman and Henry Rodriguez with Oakland are getting a ton of hype too, but I can't think of two more impressive arms joining the White Sox (E-Jax, too) in the span of 2-3 months that didn't exist at the beginning of the season in our imaginations. A lot of scouts would take Chapman over Sale, and there are going to be concerns about his durability because of his slight frame and his mechanics/delivery...but we should just enjoy it while it lasts. Sale took down the toughest hitter on the Indians in Choo and Ozzie/Cooper had their faith in both Santos and Sale. Proves that Ozzie will trust a rookie, although the choice was pretty obvious to most. Right now, with Jackson, Danks, Floyd, Buehrle, Peavy and Sale, we have a combination of the the best six potential starters collected anywhere in MLB. There's no debate about it. Quite a turnaround from June 9th when many thought our talent was in the bottom 5-10 teams in MLB.

How about that White Sox scouting department? Beckham and Sale...coming up huge for the Sox in the 2nd half. Juan Pierre continuing to hit, walk, steal...and cause problems for the opposition. Carlos Quentin, you suck and Andruw Jones might start playing over your mentally-driven disability to hit on the road. Mark Teahen, I hope you never ever again are playing defense in the late innings at 3B again. Paulie having his best season ever considering his age and the final year with us possibly...without him and Rios, there's no whiff of the playoffs. Alexei continuing to be a dangerous hitter, and also had a clutch RBI to add a critical insurance run.

UGH. DAMMIT. Now the question will be why was Santos pulled after one inning, lol.

Well, you knew it wouldn't be easy...never good to walk the 9 hitter who's batting under .200.

KEITH LAW IS AN IDIOT.

When's the last time a pennant contender relied on two relievers with as little experience pitching in the minors as Santos and Sale? Okay, we all have to shut up and be quiet if Sale blows the save...EVERYONE asked for this, now we've got it, and there are three hitters who aren't exactly imposing. But closing any game in the majors can't be easy.

Ozzieball Execution at its finest, you go Greg!!!! Whatever Ozzie did, it was the right move if we won I guess....well, I'm not going to argue if we escape with this win.

Perfect SAC bunt by Castro. If he wasn't the slowest player in the majors, we'd have bases loaded. Suicide squeeze play?

Carlos Quentin, 810 OPS Andruw Jones, 800 OPS I think we might have passed the Rays the past month for not having the worst DH numbers in the AL.

It's Donald/Gimenez/Brantley. Not exactly murderer's row. Sale would definitely come in for Choo/Hafner.

Santos has one more hitter... But is Sale ready? Thank god for that, if that was the kid they used to have who would hit about 12 homers and get 75 RBI's per season, he'd have gotten a hit for sure. What was his name? He always killed us, but he just didn't have enough power for full-time 1B or DH duty.

If we somehow sweep the Indians, I'd say we definitely got away with at least one win we didn't deserve, especially today's game. But that's what good teams have to do in SEPT. The only problem is we haven't closed out this game just yet. NIX/BROWN/CROWE, we just need to overpower those guys.

Go De Aza, GO!!!!!

HUGE MANAGING FAIL BY ACTA... You can't use Germano there, he's NEVER EVER been in that situation. And thank God that at least Jenks won't blow this game. So who gets the chance? Sale? Santos? Linebrink?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 01:22 PM) To induce an intentional walk. To face Konerko with the chance to give them the lead against a guy who couldn't get a spring training invite from ANY team?

Pierre got lucky there....shouldn't be looking back at the plate/catcher. Why do that? It just slows you down.

Acta managing like this is the World Series. Well, after Ozzie called him out for not deserving another major league managing job, I'm sure he enjoys beating us just a little bit more.

I honestly didn't expect us to mount a comeback today with the way things had been going...thankfully, Carrasco just ran out of gas. He was terrible last year in 5 September starts, but his last 8 AAA starts this year, he was pitching very well, around a 2 ERA, and he was one of the keys to the Cliff Lee move with the Phillies. Also would have been nice to have scored that 2nd run two innings ago. Oh, well...let's get their bullpen.

I don't think it's a good idea to make Castro the everyday catcher next year, either. Coming into today, we'd given up 127 steals, the Indians only 67....so 129 now. If he wouldn't have held onto that ball so long on the pitchout against Nix, Ramirez wouldn't have ended up having to block the base and getting spiked. Would be nice to have those two runs our defense gave away back about right now.

One game under against BALT One game over against KC Three games under against CLE -3 against the three worst AL teams, with the exception of the Mariners, we should be 9-1 instead of 8-2 against them except for Jenks

What's the report on Garcia? Either he hurt his arm/shoulder (his FB was 83-87 today when he was at 90 and 91 against the Yankees on Friday) or he hurt a knee/ankle akwardly trying to field the squibber off the bat of Nix.

Vizquel was bunting on his own for a base hit. This just in, we gave this game away and we have nobody to replace Garcia in the rotation.

Is Beckham available to pinch-hit or is it going to be Friday/Saturday in Boston before we see him again?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 09:53 AM) I haven't heard one thing about Peavy not pitching. Peavy is supposed to begin throwing shortly and is expected to be on track to be starting spring training games. That could obviously all get pushed back, but from what has been reported Peavy's recovery has been fine thus far. In terms of Edwin, the good news is, he'll get an extra days rest since we have Thursday off. If Garcia for some reason got blasted his next two starts, I wonder if they'd consider going back to the 4 man rotation like they did at the end of 2008? At that point, there'd be about 25 games remaining...but I just don't see them taking the risk with Floyd, Jackson and Danks of putting that much wear and tear on their arms. We already saw the aftereffects in the 2006 and 2009 seasons. And, even if they did make the post-season, the odds of being able to successfully sustain those pitchers throughout the postseason would be pretty low.