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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:55 PM) Haha, don't cite them as authorities, man. They're terrible. AJ can bunt....about as well as Anderson played that ball. That's why BA shouldn't play, how can you NONCHALANT a ball in the bottom of the 10th???????? RIDICULOUS ATTITUDE.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:48 PM) I feel like the biggest jinx. Turned the game on with 2 outs in the 9th. White Sox now tied for AL lead with 5 blown saves.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:44 PM) let me introduce you to john danks That second pitch to Thames was definitely a strike and changed the composition of the entire game...oh, well. Get that run back. And the Konerko DP ball stings a lot more. You know that will come back to haunt you somehow, leaving a runner on 3rd with less than 2 outs.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:07 PM) h0ly hamburgers, Dye working the count, then getting a hit. What a concept. Did that pretty well against Millwood last week, or when Buehrle is pitching in general.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:04 PM) No idea how Leyland lets Rubelo hit there, but good for us! PR Anderson?

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 02:03 PM) Ahhhh, nothing like facing the Tigers' version Wiki Gonzalez in a big spot, huh? Wiki was a much better hitter for the Padres than Rabelo or Molina will ever be. Didn't Lopez used to pitch for the Blue Jays, or is that my imagination?

QUOTE(G&T @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:53 PM) Garland walks Guillen. First baserunner since the first, I think He wasn't going to give in to Guillen. Intentional unintentional walk.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:52 PM) Sox giving a great pitched game away (they must think Danks is pitching). 15 LOB with several in scoring position. No, you're reading the box score wrong...has to be. You don't add each LOB throughout the order to get it.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) They wouldn't IBB walk someone into scoring position. If anything, they would have brought in Seay. I don't think you take out Verlander for Seay in that situation...Leyland doesn't tend to overmanage like Ozzie in that situation.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) Paulie needs to sit for a day. He's really beating himself up between the ears. Nice strategy with the bunt Oz. And you still have to play to get the lead on the road. Konerko is supposed to be our best hitter, and he came through yesterday.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:46 PM) My thoughts exactly. Come on Paulie! Does anyone doubt they would have walked him anyway? Why would they pitch to Thome?

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:44 PM) And it used to be bigger. In 2003, they moved the walls in. That should really be a base hit. I think he might have had it beaten out, but I guess the error because the ump did call him out originally.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:39 PM) it's early in the season, but I'm very pleased with our starting pitching. The best thing is that we're not scoring runs in bunches...setting the tone that we have to scratch and claw for whatever we can get, and it's really forcing the players in the top and bottom of the order to play more fundamentally sound to compensate for Konerko, Dye and Crede struggling.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:26 PM) I doubt it. Probably Rodney. Thome is on pace to break the AL record for Walks with 183 (held by Babe Ruth - 170). I think they will have to use Mesa or Grilli if the game is tied. Rodney has been looking so bad, I don't think that Leyland trusts him after yesterday's game. What's Jon's pitch count? It has to be around 70-75, no more.

QUOTE(chisox72 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:26 PM) I too am enjoying seeing Mack in the lineup lately. His defense is far and away better than Prancer and his bat isn't too shabby either... I just wish PK and JD would stop looking like s***.... I wonder if Dye or Sheffield will both end up with really subpar years...under 25 homers and under 90 RBI's. Maybe... I'm convinced Rabelo and Molina are the same player and they just go back and forth between clubhouses.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:23 PM) Some of the worst ABs I've ever seen from PK and Dye. Good job of tying though! Is it me, or does Mackowiak bring a lot of the intangibles to this team that Pods doesn't? Mackowiak is perfect for THIS role of playing about 2/3rds of the time. Good defender in LF (usually), high OBP, he can get you 15-20 SB's with 300-350 AB's in a season. Konerko and Dye are sinking this offense, two times with RISP and they both don't come close to threatening Verlander. At least we have Thome again this April, or we'd be sunk.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:05 PM) The Twins also have 162 hits and the Sox only have 114 (which is also dead last). GRINDER BALL...that was an Ozuna base hit.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:52 PM) And this way Anderson can play in CF, and we won't be missing the grinder effect with him at 1B. Erstad will be glad to grind away over there. EDIT: How the heck does Infante have 15 career hits against Garland? He's not even an everyday player....

QUOTE(G&T @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:48 PM) Thome flies out, 2 outs. PK strikes out swinging. Absolutely baffled by the pitch. The best hope for this game is to keep it within 2-3 runs and try to get to their bullpen in the 7-9th innings. Those quick innings aren't going to get Verlander out sooner, though. 53 pitches for Verlander through 3.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:38 PM) Lol he does run weird. Garland's definitely pitching like he doesn't care today...way to pick up your teammates Jon, it's not like we don't want to have a five game winning streak. Rabelo=Molina neither has a hit this season...maybe no more catchers with vowels except Piazza or Lo Duca.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:35 PM) I feel like Hawk is cheating on Yaz, Catfish, and Jim Rice this year with Al Kaline and Dick Williams. Erstad's coming around...he's starting to hit the ball hard to LCF and LF in the air, and not flailing away like he was against Zumaya or Sabathia.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:16 PM) This ump has a small strike zone. That's definitely an advantage for the Tigers. How did Garland lose 2-3 MPH off his fastball?

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:08 PM) Grinderstad with a Crede-esque swing there for a base hit. Then Pablo pops out, boo Well, at least we're leading the AL in walks. Can't ask for more than RISP and Konerko and Dye coming up. Of course, 97-98 MPH fastballs aren't so easy to hit.

QUOTE(JohnCangelosi @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 11:51 AM) Today's lineup: CF Darrin Erstad 2B Pablo Ozuna DH Jim Thome 1B Paul Konerko RF Jermaine Dye 3B Joe Crede C A.J. Pierzynski LF Rob Mackoviak SS Juan Uribe No "Sunday" line-up....and the Tigers have Monroe, Sheffield and I-Roid on the bench...although the first two are so cold, you might prefer they stay in the line-up, but you'd still prefer to take your chances with someone else in that line-up. And Vance Wilson isn't able to hurt us either, since he's on the DL.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 11:11 AM) Why would the General Manager like to cut back on payroll?? Why would any GM ever WANT to cut back in payroll? Williams gets a number from Uncle Jerry, and works off of that. If attendance is on par with last year, there is ZERO reason the payroll gets anywhere near 75 million. I have no idea where you're getting these ideas from. Because the ultimate success in baseball is doing what the Twins, Indians, Marlins and A's have done....being a playoff contending team with a lower quartile payroll. We won it all with a $75 million payroll, there's no reason we can't do it again. Mostly, it's about ego. I think he's willing to chop down to $85 million for one year (the Fields/Sweeney year in 08), THEN add exactly what he sees the ballclub needing for 2009, going back up to the $90-105 mark. QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 11:14 AM) I don't think there is anyway that KW cuts the payroll under $100 million from now on. The only reason it would go down would be if he replaces Dye with Sweeney and Crede with Fields. He would then use the difference to resign Iguchi and Buehrle and also look at extensions for others. I also believe he is going to make one big splash this offseason in the FA market. Either that, or the attendance goes back down below 2,000,000 and he has no choice but to cut. We have a five year window to take advantage of the World Series. If we don't get back to the playoffs, statistics say a club will be back to where they were the year before winning the whole thing. We're in Year 2 now.