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We've seen Braden once before. In that game, he went 7 innings, giving up 3 runs, 7 hits, a walk, a home run, and 4 Ks. Vs. Current Sox Splits

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 01:08 PM) I'm certain Viciedo is involved in any Sox trade talk right now. They have to keep his value as high as possible. If he goes 0-10 with 6 K's, Kenny's plan, whatever it is goes out the window. You really think 10 at bats is going to change a team's mind about a prospect?

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 01:36 AM) I know it was discussed when the voting results were announced, but I just wanted to take one last chance to say that it's a joke that Andre Dawson is going into the Hall of Fame. Dawson wasn't a great offensive player. His career wOBA is .352. If .352 gets you into the hall of fame, then there should be a lot of people in the Hall. The thing with him is that he was a great fielder. He has a career total zone of +69. That makes his career WAR at 62, which is almost hall worthy if you ask me. To me, the hall of fame cut-off is 75 WAR. Because if you put up an average of 5 WAR for 15 seasons, you are one of the best the game has seen and you deserve to be in the hall.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) Plus you're taking him out of Coors. Yeah, that too. Plus, he's really dropped off this year.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 09:43 AM) The choice...Luke Scott or Jack Cust? Luke Scott and it's not even close. Brad Hawpe's name is also getting thrown out there now. The problem here is that Hawpe is a DH and a DH only. He's no better than Quentin out in RF.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 09:56 PM) Well, with Minnesota seemingly jumping up as the favorite to challenge the Sox with Ordonez and Inge down, it seemingly will come down to pitching (as always): Garcia/Hudson versus whatever they can get from Duensing, Slowey, Blackburn and Baker. For the moment, you don't see them trading for Oswalt (although I wouldn't be shocked, either) or Haren, I think they're pretty confident about Duensing after 2009 down the stretch. For whatever reason, they've gotten through to Pavano. From one of biggest jokes and worst contracts in baseball to probably their co-#1 starter along with Liriano. As much as their fanbase has been on SLOW-BAKE-BURN this season (along with Rick Anderson and GM Smith for their contracts), Pavano and Liriano have certainly been somewhat unexpected success stories which have somewhat mitigated the drop off from Kubel, Cuddyer, Morneau and Mauer. Of course, having Nathan go down early didn't help matters either, they still have some shakiness in their middle relief corps. One of those guys don't belong in that sentence. If he didn't get hurt, he'd easily be the MVP favorite right now.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 10:30 PM) The Tigers will spend as long as attendance holds up and Ilitch has his finances in order. They are 14th in the league in attendance avg just over 30k a game. The problem with them is, they are too willing to give out big contracts to bad/mediocre players (Robertson, Willis, Bonderman, Inge) and over pay on many of those contracts and other ones, such as Pudge a few yrs back, Ordonez, Guillen. Dombrowski is a decent GM, but way to liberal in terms of contracts. In other words, he's bad. He's the Jim Hendry of the American League.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 09:27 PM) nay, I will never be a fan of anything New York.. and like I already said, im a casual basketball fan at best.. so the two teams I like are both in Florida, at least its not just random picking as I like most of the sports teams in Florida.. Is there a way I can block your horrendous signature?

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 09:59 PM) I've heard Chris Narveson. Bleah. Narveson's not as bad as his ERA makes him out to be. Out of everyone that the Brewers might offer us back in a Fielder trade, I'd take Parra or Narveson.

Maybe this means the Tigers will look for a bat instead of an arm.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:44 PM) The lineup should be very interesting considering the consensus is the Sox look "tired" today. I still don't understand why Pierre and Omar have to play every single day. Would you guys want Jose Guillen for a rental the rest of the year? I'm sure the Royals, however, would try to rob us for said rental. I don't want him, but he's another bat the Royals are dying to get rid of since he's a headcase. As like an almost to last resort kind of thing, okay. But there's lots of other guys you'd like to have besides Guillen. He can't field, he can't run, and he's a horrible clubhouse guy.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:35 PM) I have seen you say this multiple times now. S*** was just not thrown at the wall... and then let it stick there. I suggest you look up exactly why the number is, what the number is, otherwise you will not grasp it and always be in doubt. I think I saw the reason why it's 10 runs once, but I forgot now. Has something to do with the average amount of runs scored in a game.

That's gotta be the worst strike call ever.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:14 PM) The GG officially died when Franklin Gutierrez, who had one of the most spectacular defensive seasons EVER, didn't get it last year. It officially died long, long before that though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:57 PM) Then you have one powerful umbrella if it can take hail accelerated to 100+ mph. Greg makes it hail on dem hoes.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) Not to mention Cashner. His stuff is electric. I like Cashner's potential a lot.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) Rosenthal says KW is confident he can get either Dunn or Fielder. And I'm confident he will give up Hudson if he does get one of them.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:49 PM) Boy you just had to go there didn't ya? Now there will be a page of crying again Especially because Greg is here.

Wow, this game sure turned quickly.

WTF? I went to the bathroom for two minutes and the inning is already over?

Braden is pitching tomorrow. No Anderson.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) He's having a good year, but really he is not even one of the ten best OFs fielding-wise in the AL. I couldn't name off the top of my head ten better, but trust me here. He also has a noodle arm which is big in defense value. Good year, but not great. In fact, I would argue Alex is a better fielder than Juan and more deserving of a gold glove despite not being super great either. Rios is a lot better than Pierre. But Juan is third amongst all LFers in UZR, noodle arm or not.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 04:24 PM) My ears hurt Grace and Rose are just terrible. They really don't have much of an idea what the hell they're talking about. Grace thinks Hudson's dominated his last two starts. No he hasn't...

Read somewhere that D-Rose wants T-Mac on the Bulls, said T-Mac was his favorite player in 6th grade. Oh Derrick...

Pena's usually pretty good in these kind of games.