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Before long the lineup will be Pierre, Beckham, Quentin, Konerko, Rios, Pierzynski, Jones, Teahen, Ramirez, and we'll all be enjoying it a lot. This Kotsay thing is temporary. He's a once a week starter, pinch hitter, defensive replacement after Nix runs for Konerko.

Yes J4L, good point.

Here's the interview... http://67.72.16.166/wscr2/2311511.mp3

I wonder if they could do it over, would the Rays take our Beckham with the first pick? Could you imagine Beckham and Longoria in the same infield. Good lord. Anyway I'm glad the Rays, Pirates, Orioles, Royals, Marlins, Giants, and Reds wanted different players. Our gain for the next 15+ years--hopefully.

Anyone booing Teahen already needs to turn in their Sox Card. He's not a star player. He'll never be a star player. And they aren't asking him to be a star player. Just let him be the 8-hole, .270 hitter that he is with 15-20 homers and 60-75 RBI's, and be steady defensive player at 3B. That's what he is. And yes, he's going to strikeout over 100 times. Deal with it.

Soxbadger: I'm aware of the rolling blackout in the 08 playoffs, but my point is that the first and original was in a class by itself. I was at the Game 163 Blackout, and I didn't support the rolling blackout at the time because it was just too special to water it down with it again. As far as "supporting the team" or whatever, of course I love the White Sox otherwise I wouldn't post on a message board about them. I just don't think it works when it's warm out or daytime. If I was going to a playoff game when it's 50 degrees, yes I would wear black. But regular season, warm weather baseball, I don't want people telling me what to wear to a baseball game.

I'm glad it failed, and will probably squash future attempts on opening day. There was one Blackout Game, and that was September 30, 2008. Stop trying to duplicate it because it will never be as good.

Only 49 hours until the next game. 49 HOURS!!

Just a hunch, but I think today is going to be a high scoring game for both teams. Maybe a 8-6 win for the Sox.

Ok, 4-0.

I have seen the future, and in 16 hours the Sox will be up 3-0 in the first inning on a 3 -run homer by Alex Rios.

Valbuena is hurt. That's why Grudz is starting.

Injins lineup: Cabrera Sizemore Choo Hafner Peralta LaPorta Grudzielanek Marson Brantley Westbrook pitching. Go Burls.

28 hours until first pitch. Ok, I'm officially pumped.

http://twitter.com/JJPutz20/status/11557001369 /thread

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Linebrink is also making 5 million this year, and 5.5 next year. That doesn't help his cause.

Obvious one...Linestink. I know, it's lame.

Linebrink will be on the DL by May 1.

Jo-Jo Reyes is having a rough one. 12-1 Sox, 5th inning.

If Alexei starts cold like he has the last two years, I suspect Omar will be in there.

5 errors for the Braves. Good times.

Of course the Sox get a 6-4-3 dp AFTER Beckham leaves the game. I think he only got 1 or 2 in all of the games.

Long run? No. Once in a while if he's swinging the bat well? Sure. Truthfully, I don't think Kotsay should start more than 40-50 games. If Andruw Jones plays himself into the starting lineup, he should be in there most games.

I'll give Brooks Boyer some credit. He said today that if it was up to him, he wouldn't be doing the blackout for opening day. This is all Kenny on his own. It'll look bad for a couple reasons-- day game and short sleeve shirts. It looked better at night and everyone was wearing black jackets and sweatshirts.