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Royals explode for 6 runs against the Twins, threaten to win one game. The big question now is whether the middle relief can get the game to Soria or not.

Well, it was due to happen....first base hit allowed. What was Redmond thinking? Out by the same distance as Hardy... By the way, the Indians' announcers were recalling how Santos was legendary for his BP tape measure home runs and hit 20 in one season...interesting, he's a big dude, so not surprising. How much did we pay for him last APRIL when we made that deal with SF?

I think we need to let Santos pitch and DH for Kotsay like in Little League...is that allowed?

Santos time. Great job T-Pain. Wonder if Santos can keep the momentum going on his early season success? Still hasn't given up a hit yet on the year. 10 strikeouts.

UMMM. Glad Kotsay's OPS (sub 440 now) is about the same as Mauer or Morneau's OBP. You know, it might help to have Andruw Jones or Quentin there with an actual chance to do some damage and get it back to a 1 run game. Oooops, I forgot Kotsay has one homer.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) If Ozzie quit or was fired, and I think there is less than a 1% chance of either, I would say there's a 99.9% chance that his replacement would be Cora. Disagree, I don't think Cora or Walker would take the job in that situation. It would be seen as too disloyal to Guillen. Unless Ozzie told them to go for it and gave his blessing, who knows with him these days.... Jerry Manuel and Ozzie are the 2 managers most under fire in the early weeks. Ironic.

4 straight hits? Send that ball to Cooperstown.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 12:27 PM) You're joking, right? I'd prefer to keep KW. If we don't. Interview Paul Depodesta, David Forst, Rick Hahn, Kim Nga, and Logan White. For manager i'd like a guy like Davey Johnson. Kim Nga would be perfect. She started with the White Sox earlier in her administrative career. But it's a dream world to think she'll get the job...maybe we're another 5-10 years b4 that happens, the first female GM. I would say Bobby Valentine, but I really don't like him that much. I always liked Torborg, though... MINNESOTA up 2-0 on the Twins and threatening for more. Hello 6 games back. It's just too bad there's no possible way for us to have an announced attendance under 10,000 with our season ticket base, but the actual will be in that area for the Mariners.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 12:23 PM) Tony Pena is too good to be wasted as a long man, wsox need to drop Randy already and call up Torres. Deck chairs and lifeboats, meet the Titanic. The irony is that we had a perfectly serviceable long innings guy in Carrasco, and spent that money on Vizquel/Kotsay/Pierre/Teahen instead. Well, that's about ITEM 13 or 14 on the offseason complaint list I guess. But it created yet another problem in our bullpen, the lack of a long guy/innings eater.

Would we really offer the GM job to Stone? Something needs to be done, but I would prefer to keep Williams over Guillen. Seriously, I would rather see DJ, Ventura, McDowell, Fisk or even Lance Johnson managing this team over Guillen at this point. I'd actually rather have Walker as the manager, too. Or Cooper. Just not Cora.

Yeah, I think the Iguchi homer off Wells was the key. You can argue that, or the Josh Paul/Pierzysnki/Escobar incident...followed by Crede winning that game with the smash to left. Everything went right that offseason, except for Contreras, the best pitcher in baseball at the time, losing to Paul Byrd.

Ozzie, have you LOST YOUR MIND? We can't burn through our entire bullpen today. Williams and Linebrink are not 2-3 inning pitchers.

Choo with more RBI's in the first three innings than the White Sox in the entire series seemingly. We're now officially at the point where it's worse than 2007 with Fields/Owens/Wasserman/Gonzalez.

Indians' announcers making fun of all Ozzie's quotes this week. Farmer wants to manage today, said he'd do a better job managing than Ozzie would broadcasting. I think it's time for Steve Stone and Farmer or DJ as GM and Manager!!!!

Ozzie, please have a complete meltdown just to make this team interesting again. Or KW next week at home. The Indians' announcers are basically saying the White Sox look like a team that's just playing as fast as possible to get out of town on getaway day.

LOL at Teahen going. Maybe Vizquel missed the hit-and-run??? This just is becoming almost comical. You can't even get mad anymore. At least they gave Omar some cheers, unlike Thome. I guess if you're traded, it's okay...but leaving via FA makes you a villain and traitor.

The scary thing is that there might be more closet Rays fans at the games next week than White Sox fans. We'll be lucky if we can salvage another one with some AJ theatrics with the umpires again.

Gavin Floyd has a 95 MPH fastball today and twice he's thrown curveballs with full counts. Interesting.

Floyd with a career ERA of around 6.5 in April and 5.25 in May. LOVELY. And 30+ pitches to get out of the first, which means he'll be lucky to get to the 6th inning, further destroying our pen. Just send Williams or Linebrink out there I guess as sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

Who would you rather have at 3B? Peralta with his long term deal and statue-like range/defense, or Mark Teahen?

Well, at least Floyd's throwing 95 MPH. Throwing a curveball to Sizemore before he has control of it with a full count? We always manage to make Choo look like a superstar...and we overexpose Thornton to their line-up to the point where he's consistently ineffective against CLE.

That's great...although the idea is that you score the runner from 3rd with Konerko's sac fly after Pierre steals and THEN you bunt. Jesus.

Great, Pierre is a gunshy leadoff hitter who can no longer steal. Brilliant, and Beckham's been reduced to his worst asset, bunting. Idiotic.

I think it hit me when I was more excited to look up what Hudson, Danks, Flowers, Viciedo and Retherford were doing than our box score. The funny thing is that I woke up in the middle of the morning here in China and didn't even realize we had blown the lead...so I was saved from being really really aggravated from having listened to the whole disaster, which was almost exactly like the Twins' game the previous Saturday but this one was even more frustrating. I remember last year listening to many of the Barons games in the first half, until they broke that team into 1,000 pieces. Heck, I'm even a bit excited for Cub Scout/Sin City villain lookalike Mr. Lillibridge.

The only good thing that you can say is that Ozzie didn't single out Nix and also included Vizquel/Kotsay for the bashing. But dang, aren't you upset you're not getting thrown under the bus, if you're Donny Lucy? You might think Ozzie feels you're totally irrelevant if he's not even thinking about your name...haha. I'm also mystified why we don't think Quentin, Beckham or Rios would need guidance/assistance from time to time with their hitting? Quentin looks fine on paper, he's got his stats, but his overall approach at the plate these days reminds you of Juan Uribe/Joe Crede/Frank Thomas/Brian Anderson in their final days.