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Ahahahahaha that's the White Sox. This is a hell of a season.

Keppinger is an .864 OPS player against LHP, .680 against RHP. Pretty clearly a platoon player. Hannahan would be an ideal platoon partner if he didn't suck so badly against both. Would've been nice to sign Chavez as well, but hopefully we can find a lefty 3B who can hit righties decently - any candidates out there?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 11:17 PM) Pathetic effort by Drew Storen tonight. Terrible pitching with 2 strikes and you simply can't walk two batters in the 9th inning with a 2 run lead.2 strikes, nibble nibble nibble, walk. Painful to watch and I don't even care who wins this series.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 1, 2012 -> 10:00 PM) Tough crowd tonight. Forte is worthless? Defense is awful? C'mon guys. This has been a really good game for us.Bad defensive line play. Lucky Bryant can't catch anything. The secondary is playing fine, though. Yet another interception.

The turnovers are nice, but man the Bears are playing some bad defense right now.

Yeah, even against a team that struggles as bad as we do against the Tigers with RISP is going to put up some runs if you load the bases two innings in a row with 1 out.

It's tough to close when you only have one pitch, and that's what Reed has shown. He can't get his changeup over, and hitters seem to recognize it, because they rarely swing at changeups that are close (from what I've seen, anyway). Reed's fastball isn't good enough to put hitters away unless he makes a perfect pitch.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 07:20 AM) That's Tokyo Dome. I was there last week.

I don't know why you throw Franceour a fastball ever, except to keep him honest. It's the only pitch he can hit - any time I've seen him get a hit it's on a fastball, and it's to the opposite field. Get ahead and throw him junk and you'll get him almost every time. Nice win, though Reed sure is scary sometimes.

Tie game - Konerko HR on a 3-1 sinker that didn't sink.

Playing the Royals is really annoying.

I know they keep harping on the play at the plate, but it was incredibly close, and in fast motion I can see why he was called out.

I know it's been said before, but you guys know greg is probably just trolling the s*** out of all of you, right? Especially considering every time the Ozzie talk dies down, here he comes with another article or statement praising Ozzie for something. And even if he's not, who cares? He has his opinion, he loves Ozzie, he's not rational or objective in any way... whatever. It's not worth it to argue with him because you're never going to change his opinion, whether he's trolling or not.

Upset stomach for Youkilis

I don't like any of these nicknames but they're still a million times better than suicide watch SoxTalk when we're losing.

This is what happens when you score 1 run against a mop-up pitcher.

Rios ripped that. Wasn't a bad pitch by Perez, either. Like to see Alexei make good contact here.

If I can call "garbage in the dirt" before every two strike pitch to Beckham, and be right, why can't he recognize this and not swing at it every time?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:14 PM) WAY TO f***ING HUSTLE RIOS AND FUKUDOME!!! TIE GAME!Isn't it still 2-1?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 08:19 AM) The talent drop off between Texas and Cleveland is just amazing.If we finish behind them again, it'll be really disappointing.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Apr 2, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) Mine does it on my Mac but not my girlfriend's PC. Not sure if that has anything to do with it, but that's the most obvious correlation for us.It's been working fine until today. I stream at work on a Macbook Pro.

Is it just me, or is the stream for this game awful? Terrible stuttering on the video.

Wasteland 2 kickstarter Sequel to the spiritual predecessor to Fallout. Remake of Baldur's Gate I

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 11:31 AM) Bautista farts >>>>>, Konerko gets >>>>> boners. Such is life. For the 1 other Wii owner on this thread, Nintendo finally announced they are bringing The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles to the US. This makes me happy. Xenoblade is amazing, and Lost Odyssey is one of my favorite games ever, which makes me really look forward to The Last Story. Looks like the fiancee is going to be kicked off Fortune Street for a while...

He was bad in Cleveland, but if he can get on base with us like he did with the Cubs, this is a good move for some bench depth. If he's playing every day, it means one of De Aza/Viciedo/Rios has been awful, which means we're probably terrible anyways.