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QUOTE (BFirebird @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:46 PM) Winner, winner chicken dinner. Come on Danks, lets ruin their week and get a split tomorrow! what he said danks has looked pretty awesome in pretty much all of his starts this year, who are the twins running out there? Liriano? wouldn't surprise me

hopefully this is just bobby getting the rust off, sheesh..

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:32 PM) Breslow is one of the growing number of Jewish players in the majors. I never knew that Schoeneweis was. makes sense, his nose IS rather massive

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:24 PM) Who's coming in to pitch? Great effort by Floyd tonight. easy heat

Floyd rocks. I had a good feeling coming into tonights game that we had a better chance of winning than losing. He just keeps throwing strike after strike, moving inside and out, changing speeds and pitches. I've seen his fastball from 91-94 tonight, and his curveball has had some hard biting action to it Buerhle + Danks + Floyd is a nice 1-2-3 for ALDS

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:02 PM) Field out of game!!!! Was he traded, no don't be so sure, haha

Gavin really has problems pitching out of the stretch, he's absolutely dominant for the most part after 1 out and nobody on base (he seems to throw a lot of pitches when facing the first batter of an inning, though)

let's see how Gavin handles pitching out of the stretch, i don't feel good about this

Quper-f***ing-man.

NICE HIT JOSH! OPPO!

big game gavin has a nice ring to it

gardenhire will keep livan in the game as long as possible, as long as we don't tear him apart too quickly we need to put up a few more runs on this guy before the twins pen comes in and locks the game down

thank you gavin for pitching well so far

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 07:16 PM) 24 to go.........very nice inning by Gavin! i'm watching the game online, i'm wayyyyy behind the live broadcast, i'm just now watching mauer's AB guess i should stop reading this thread lol

26 to go

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 07:11 PM) I'd really like to see Ramirez bat after Thome. You combine Thome's OPS with Ramirez's ability to get hits. alexei's spot in the order is fine when Konerko isn't in the lineup, but when he is you really do need Alexei hitting after big jim

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 05:54 PM) I hate you for downing my spirits an hour plus before the game. Gavin vs. the twins @ the Dome (1 Start), he has a .227 BAA, the guys who had his number that game were Delmon Young, Joe Mauer, and Jason Kubel

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 01:18 PM) Not only is this a big game for the team, but, I think its a potentially defining moment for Gavin. A solid game here does a lot for his confidence, and the team's confidence in him. A pummelling by the Twinkies could spell a lot of trouble. Go and and get 'em, Gavin. i agree, you can't have a game that's as close to playoff road atmosphere as tonight's game, it's that simple you have a team at home who is one win away from overtaking 1st place, and doing it against the team that currently holds that spot this game will be huge, the crowd will be insane, I hope Gavin can shut these guys down and keep us in 1st place after this series is over

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 01:15 PM) Why does Ozzie's dad still have to work? i'm guessing Ozz Jr. made the comment

this trade doesn't happen because Konerko does not get benched for the majority of the games remaining, regardless of how he plays, Ozzie will keep running him out there once he's back from his "Time Off"

QUOTE (scenario @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 11:19 AM) Nobody commenting on the fact that Konerko hit the ball pretty hard last night in a couple of at-bats, eh? or the fact that swisher went yard off the best closer in baseball (yes, I think Nathan is more talented than K-Fraud, by a mile)

ETA until ESPN MLB homepage puts up "Who wins the AL Central" Poll? lol

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 10:53 AM) Sorry but I'm surprised we made it this far. Yeah, Detroit started awful but it's not how you start... All it takes is Detroit to go on a tear in August and Minnesota to keep chewing away and we'll be in the rearview mirror soon enough. When two highly-paid sluggers (Konerko and Swisher) are hitting around the Mendoza line this late in the season, you're in trouble. just curious, are the red sox a pretender? they've now lost first place back to the Rays i think you and I both know the Red Sox are better than the Rays are, and will ultimately win that division, but right now the Red Sox are in second place, BY TWO GAMES I'm not freaking out with 2 months left to play, i'm sorry. teams have their ups and downs. it happens to every team in baseball, in fact the only team this year that I haven't really seen have any ups/downs are the angels and we're 3-4 against them this year people need to stop freaking out, and look at all of the other teams in baseball and take a subjective glance at the divisional races.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 10:52 AM) If we let Livan Hernandez take first place from us, then what kind of hope is there, really? That guy is a stiff. I'm so glad they haven't replaced him with Liriano or we may be 4 or 5 out. simply put, if our hitters have an intelligent hitting approach to Livan tonight, we'll clobber him. we've shown that we can time his slow pitches and score a lot of runs on him. there's no reason why these guys don't come into tonights game with the mindset that they can hit him around you'll know from the 4th inning or so how this game is going to be IMO

Twins could be in first place after this series, and I still think we have a better chance than they do of winning the division, albeit slightly I just think that team is way better at home than they are on the road, and they are beatable at home as long as your team plays fundamental baseball, something we haven't done very well since the all-star break