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QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 08:33 PM) This reminds me of game 1 we lost last year in the 3 game series in September. As I recall, it was a 5-4 game? Basically where we should've won it but basically handed it to the Twinkies and they went on to sweep. After Nathan shuts us down in the 9th, I'll be THRILLED with one win this weekend. Well, the key difference is that we led that entire game...versus trailing or being tied from the beginning tonight. Down 4-0 with Blackburn on the hill, we probably shouldn't have even made it a game. Then the Cuddyer play in RF reversed all the momentum, along with Beckham not getting the go-ahead run across the plate. And Carlos Gomez single-handedly destroyed us that game...tonight, Mauer's the hero (theoretically), but I never felt we would win this game after we couldn't take the lead and you knew Dotel/Thornton/Linebrink would figure out some way to untie the game at the HHH. PS: I hope Jenks throws a WP here so he can understand how stupid it is to let runners steal at will on the Sox in the late innings. Stupid baseball. Yes, concentrate on getting the hitter, but sometime it will come back to bite him in the big 'ol butt of his.

I think I might have walked Mauer even with the favorable LHP/LHP match-up and with an MVP coming up after him in Morneau... PS: Our bullpen isn't nearly as good in reality against tough competition in the 7th-8th-9th as it looks on paper. Walking Nick Punto. Then letting him steal 3rd? Typical brain cramps for the White Sox, and a microcosm that inning of how the Twins peck, peck, peck teams to death until there is no meat left on the skeleton to devour.

That strike 3 looking on Dye was really low and out of the strikezone on ESPN. What happened? Is Ozzie arguing?

For those wishing we left Danks in to run a 120+ pitch count, why would all these teams be lining up for Dotel if we don't trust him ourselves in these key later innings situations?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:58 PM) Give me a break. In the Indians series, he got robbed of probably 4 hits. Well, I can't SEE a single game here in Thailand and my GameDay audio player hasn't been working, so the only thing I have to go off is the stats. Which say that Beckham is something like 6 for his last 32, and he's had a few crucial defensive lapses, although you can put those on KW, not Gordon.

Beckham hitting the second wall of his season and going through some growing pains at the big league level...when he probably still should have been in the minors if it weren't for the overall underwhelming play of Fields and Betemit.

Beckham was 9 for 23 with RISP before that at-bat. Well, let's pray for a miracle hit by Wise.

what happened? catch by who?

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) Wow, that's not the Joe Mauer that rescues babies from waterfalls. and dates models/actresses/beauty pageant winners, baptizes orphans in the 3rd world while also supporting a foundation to provide mosquito nets to prevent the spread of TB, malaria AND finds time to do the New York Times crossword puzzle everyday faster than Mike Mussina and Ken Jennings. He's Tebow and Tyler Hansborough before they even existed...

Well, "Sizzler" is considered elegant/fashionable dining here to Thai people in many of our malls....and Shakey's Pizza does very well in the Philippines. To each his own...one man's Denny's is another's Ruth's Chris Streak House.

I know the overall head-to-head between the two teams over this decade was either tied exactly or just within a game or two of .500, one way or the other.

Thome has been pretty consistent against LHP and RHP this season compared to the usual disparity.

Strange stat...Alexei 4/9 in his career against Blackburn with 4 BB's already. But only hitting .233 vs. RHP. Ramirez has to be up over .400 against LHP then...

Detroit has put up a 5-1 lead, we need to hold serve. Pods doesn't like the ball down and in at all, unusual for a lefty but with his movement in the box, tougher to do much with that compared to pitches up and away.

Wow...didn't realize Blackburn was close to sporting a sub 3.00 ERA. He's definitely been their best starting pitcher this season, along with Perkins.

Looks like Danks will get the fifth and be on a tight leash starting the 6th.

78 pitches for Danks...my gametracker got behind so I switched to ESPN. For some reason, can't get MLB.com to come up at all so can't listen to the game, which sucks.

Somehow we're still in this game....obvious key will be the bullpen holding down the middle innings somehow. And the Twins' bullpen is a shade of its former self, so we can continue to get to them.

Want to see what Pena and Poreda can do in an important game against a rival on the road in a hostile environment...to see what we actually have with these two guys right now. We know what Carrasco is capable of and incapable of...

QUOTE (nastymasty21 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:12 PM) how many pitches does Danks have? Hes really throwing a lot Danks had 58 freakin' pitches to get through 2 IP. Pretty impressive feat. Alexei Ramirez all the way up to the .280 mark with about 40-45% of the season left to go. Nice recovery.

2008 1-8 2007 4-5 2006 5-5 2005 6-3 2004 6-4 04-07 combined at HHH=21-17 2003 2-7 2002 3-7 2001 2-7 01-04 combined at HHH=7-21 2000 4-2 33-48 coming into 2009 season playing at the Metrodome In other words, if we played a full season of away games at Minnesota (162 games), we should go 66-96.

Don't see JR and KW investing $125-150 million into Joe Mauer when the Yankees will throw it at him to replace Posado or whoever is catching there in 2010.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:48 PM) That's how I feel too. Except I also feel that way about Span, Harris, Punto, Mauer, Gomez, Kubel, Cuddyer, Crede, Blackburn, Baker, Nathan, Liriano, etc. It was a lot easier to hate Torii Hunter, Jacque Jones, Rivas, Mientkiewicz and AJ (ESPECIALLY THOSE TWO), LaTroy Hawkins, JC Romero, Steady Eddie Guardado....but could never really hate Santana or Radke, you just had to respect those guys. Oh, and Redmond, Blanco, Matt LeCroy, Lew Ford, Jason Tyner, Jason Bartlett, Denny Hocking and any other unidentified Piranhas I left off the list. Don't hate Punto because he sucks so bad offensively I want to see his silly slides into 1B just to laugh at him. And hating how Nathan was automatic death for us when he came into a game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) Funny, as that's my same attitude about Quentin. Call him up, and if the pain is too much, shut him down for the season. Then we bring in Juan Pierre when McCourt agrees to eat 80% of his contract as a favor to JR and Ozzie has his NL team with Juan, Scotty Pods, Getz, Beckham, Nix and Ramirez to utilize as he sees fit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:42 PM) Crede with a bad decision there, as he would have easily got Thome out at home. Oh, and I just got a call that Colon's fastball was at 84 mph yesterday. AKA a Charlie Haeger fastball. As slow as Takatsu would throw the frisbee, somehow at his age he could still get the fastball up there at 88-91.