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QUOTE (Tannerfan @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 05:14 PM) I think he'll be our Chone Figgins. He will play wherever he is needed to play depending on the strengths and weaknesses from year to year. With his arm, I think he could even play 3rd. With more power! Alexei has 20-homer power.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 05:12 PM) Joe Morgan of ESPN speculated that Ramirez and Beckham will be the Sox future DP combo, but it's anyone's guess which position they end up playng. I think Alexei is supposed to be the better SS so maybe Beckham ends up at 2B? Alexei is a SS by nature. Beckham just looks like a 2B.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 12:05 PM) I agree 100%. It makes to much sense to actually do though. Because it's Ozzie? Lol...

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 07:53 AM) Not the way it was done. He wasnt throwing strikes at a clip you'd like to see but the Cubs had a couple cheap hits (see Theriot) and the two HRs hit off him were good pitches. Patterson hit a pitch that was probably a ball inside and the pitch to Ramirez was at his shins. Vazquez wasn't good, but he wasnt atrocious either. Sometimes you have to give a litte credit to the hitters as well. You never throw pitches low and in to lefties, Javy did. You never go away against Ramirez, Javy did. I don't know if he just missed his location or our advanced scouting just sucks. But Javy did not pitch well at all. We were lucky that the Cubs didn't score 5 while he couldn't find his control.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) I'd love to see us set the rotation like this: Buehrle Massett Contreras Danks Floyd This way, Javy can get a break. He looked really fatigued yesterday for whatever reason- Danks can pitch against the Cubs again and hopefully pitch similarly to what he did Friday, Floyd can pitch the 2nd game- I put him here because I would really like to see him throw against the Cubs and watch them attempt to hit that nasty breaking ball he's got, and then Buehrle can face the Cubs, which is what he's scheduled to do on Sunday anyways. TBH, giving Masset a spot-start against the Cubs wouldn't be a bad idea.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 02:16 PM) I just puked in my mouth. Javier Vazquez is the White Sox best pitcher, and you want to give him a break. Do you want to give Carlos Quentin a break from the lineup right now and sit him down for a week or two too just because he's struggled a bit? With what happened in his past 3 starts, is he still the best pitcher we have? Javy and Jose are on dead-arm periods or something.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 03:14 PM) If it was real, she would have been fired. Cause that ball was almost fair!

Cheap home run or no doubter, we still lost. 1. Had we gotten one more hit with RISP in the first game, there's a 80-90% chance we would of won. 2. Had Contreras not sucked in game 2, we might of won. 3. Had Vazquez known how to throw a strike in the first and had we learned how to hit with RISP, we might of won yesterday. Besides game 1, we got outplayed. Period.

Looking at this Dodgers series, I think we should tinker the pitching staff a little bit. Contreras had probably the worst outing of his career vs. the Cubs on Saturday, why let him face them again? As the rotation stands right now. Buehrle pitches on Tuesday. Floyd on Wednesday, and Danks on Thursday. I'm thinking we should pitch Contreras on Thursday because of the day off today. Contreras would face a non-potent Dodgers offense and Danks will once again pitch against the Cubs. Hopefully, Ozzie leaves him in longer this time. Just my 2 cents, Contreras could be dominant on Friday, but I'd like to see Danks in there instead.

QUOTE (BaseballNick @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 10:09 PM) One word sums up the situational hitting on this team: PATHETIC! We had 2 more hits and scored 6 runs less. Speaks volumes don't it?

Ozzie needs to wake this team up.

Life sucks. The Sox sucked. I'm gonna take a couple of days off from baseball.

Ahh...the Joe Crede pop up.

I think this may be the start of that collapse all the doubters were talking about.

With a base open...Plunk Ramirez

Can we at least show some life? I see a rant in Ozzie's future.

When we hit the ball hard, it's right at someone. When they do, it finds a hole. Luck ain't on our side.

This team is dead...

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 04:36 PM) http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brog-white-s...spiration-18404 ROFL...

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 04:15 PM) "You should go to the American League and you'll see more potent lineups," Vazquez said. ^^ Put up or shut up time for Javy. Ozzie better be captain hook today and not let things get ugly in a 5 minute time span like yesterday. I caught the 4th inning yesterday and thought Jim Parque was back. I haven't followed either team much, but the Cubs look good. Maybe Javy will actually try this time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 04:02 PM) Verlander has found his fastball again. He's consistently in the 96-97 mph range today. I heard Farmer and Stone say that against the Twins, Livan "The fatass" Hernandez yelled something to Verlander during the game that pissed him off. Then, Verlander started throwing faster. Damn you Livan, damn you!

QUOTE (palehose23 @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 03:57 PM) Jay was at Wrigley on Saturday and one of his Sun-Times brethren came up to him to ask him why Jay blasted him on Chicago Tonight. Jay immediately goes up to a security officer and ask him to arrest this writer. The security guard ask Jay if the writer had touched him and jay answered No. So the Security guard kinda laughed it off and said that there was nothing that he could do. Then Jay proceeds to call the police because he feels he is in trouble althought the writer never hit him or threatened to hit him. Making a long story short, Jay spent the remained of the game in the Wrigley Field Press Cafeteria wetting his pants. WHAT A PUSSY True story but none of the Parties will ever be able to write about this so I wanted to make sure the public knows this. True or not, great story.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 12:50 PM) Yep, it's better to focus on the AL Central than to care what the idiots in the media or Cubs fans with inferiority complexes think. Especially now, because Minnesota's won 6 in a row. They beat Webb today. *Sigh.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 11:26 AM) No, dont you understand, if the Sox dont win then our lives in this town are effectively over. The Cubs fans will be able to gloat and I will be sad and the columnists will talk and civility will come to an end as we know it. TBH, if we win this game, I will breathe a lot easier this week. Mostly because we'll be up 2.5 games going out west and we'll be 9 games above .500, not 7. And we would snap our 8 game losing streak on the road.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jun 22, 2008 -> 10:18 AM) I'll take the HR. You can have your singles, I take the HR. We will see who comes out on top. I never said I'll lean either way. I said I'll take both. The combination wins. One or the other usually doesn't. Although the home runs will most likely win.