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Ozzie f***ed this game up today. I don't know why he's in love with Linebrink now for some reason. Has he been blind for the past month? Linebrink has been terrible. Those two runs in the 8th did us in. If we didn't score those, Thornton comes in and we probably win this game. Getz was also horrible at second today.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 10:30 AM) Amazingly, he went 7 whole innings, only giving up one run. Lost in the 9th on a squeeze. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CH...200706230.shtml Man, we were bad that year. 29-41...ouch.

QUOTE (kane0730 @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 10:23 AM) Z scares me the most in that line-up. I'd hit him 5th to give Lee some protection. He hit a homer off of Floyd in MLB 09 The Show on a 2-seamer. x(

This was from last season.

QUOTE (StatManDu @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 09:23 AM) http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=84...&topic=8433 The Sox current 4-game winning streak over the Cubs is tied for their longest in the series. The Sox also won four straight in 1999. ... John Danks' 9 strikeouts Wednesday were the msot ever by a Sox pitcher vs. the Cubs. The previous best was 8 set by the likes of Mark Buehrle and Javier Vazquez. Javy probably lost the game he pitched.

QUOTE (Brupin @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 10:05 AM) They need to add this to the Palm Pre...ASAP. Too bad the Pre has an OS nobody wants to develop for. xD HTML 5...lol. I don't like the blackout restrictions, at all. Seriously, what's the point then? BTW, did any of you have to pay another $9.99 to update? I already bought the app a while ago and I'm not on 3.0 yet (waiting for jailbreak). I'm on 2.2.1 and It says I have to pay $9.99 to get the new update. What's up with this?

QUOTE (Downtown518 @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 09:49 AM) Cubs lineup per the Score.... Soriano - LF Theriot - SS Bradley - RF Lee - 1B Soto - C Fontenot - 3B Fukudome - CF Blanco - 2B Z - P Looks like Lou isn't a man of his words. He only replaced Fukudome with Johnson, which is what he usually does against right handed pitcher anyhow and he put Blanco in there instead of Miles. Big difference.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 08:06 PM) Bryce Harper is the Steven Strasburg of hitting. Now that he is in the 2010 draft the Nationals will pick the 2 best prospects ever in back to back drafts. No I'm talking about the Thome guy.

Hahaha. Who is this guy?

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 04:24 PM) The resurrection of Pods has really been an amazing thing, and I'm enjoying every minute of it. And I just found out today that Podsednik's one of the best defensive left fielders in baseball. No, it's not a joke. His plus/minus as a left fielder was actually the highest among all left fielders from 2005-2007. I was like, no f***ing way. At one point, Pods' Plus/Minus was higher than Rowand's in center field.

Cubs can't hit. Gavin should have a good time tomorrow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 04:09 PM) The first caller to the White Sox post game show is a Cub fan. I thought they didn't care about us?

Danks pitched out of trouble and he was absolutely dealing later in the game. I think part of him being so good might have to do with that the Cubs offense can't hit. If Thornton comes in in the 8th, we might be looking at a shutout. Sox offense did execute, but didn't put this game completely out of reach. We should of tagged Dempster for at least 5 runs. Oh well, win is a win.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) You do realize that, by definition, a hitter must have a BABIP over .400 in order to average .400 on the season, right? That his BABIP is high goes without saying. It's like saying "No way his batting average will stay that high--because obviously his batting average is too high." Not really, a player can hit a bunch of homers and that wouldn't factor into BABIP. I think his point was that he has been getting lucky and that it will eventually go down back to his career average, which is probably .350.

We're not going anywhere this year. Get him healthy for 2010.

Doubt it. He'll probably end up hitting .360-.370. As somebody said, his BABIP is way too high.

About time somebody lit up Verlander.

Even if Sosa wasn't on steroids, I really don't think he deserved the hall. Yes, he has 600 some home runs, I understand that. But are we all to the point that we have to count home runs to elect people into the hall to begin with? You might think Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are comparable in their numbers. You couldn't be more wrong. Hell, you might think that Sosa would be a bit better, if not a similar type hitter to Frank in terms of numbers. You couldn't be more wrong. Sammy Sosa is about as good as Jim Rice in terms of his hitting skills. He hits a lot of bombs, but he's never been a guy to take a walk because he did not have good plate discipline nor a good batter's eye. That's something both McGwire and Thomas possessed and that's why they're considered much better hitters than Sosa. Thomas is actually a better power hitter than Sosa as well, he beat Sosa out in slugging% by about 20 points. McGwire is better than both Thomas and Sosa, but he had no chance of getting in to begin with. Some people were actually leaning on voting Sosa into the hall before this steroid incident. Steroid incident or no steroid incident, I really don't think Sammy's numbers are all that great. His OPS+ is 28 percent lower than Frank's, yet people say Frank isn't a first ballot Hall of Famer. Like that makes any sense.

I got work.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jun 17, 2009 -> 12:11 AM) Harden for Dotel would kind of help as each team can deal from a slight surplus into a need. But I think in the end the Sox will make one trade for youth if we're good for a sec here....and several trades for youth if we're swept or near swept a few times in a row. The Cubs would never do such a trade.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jun 16, 2009 -> 07:55 PM) Ah, magglio. simpler times. I never really took to hating him as much as some Sox fans have. If I consider my own organization to be kind of dunderheaded, I cant really take offense when a player feels the same way. He was my favorite player back in the day. Never said a word and just did his job. BTW, have they announced who would start tomorrow?

I just looked up the Cubs' offensive numbers after a buddy of mine told me that the Sox should be glad that the game is postponed. My goodness are they atrocious. The only thing this team has going on is the pitching and that's pretty much a recent trend. I thought our offense was bad, but this theirs is almost worse. 26th in average in baseball. 28th in runs in baseball (second to last in the National League) 21st in slugging% 20th in OBP From the numbers, our pitchers should have a real good series.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 16, 2009 -> 05:24 PM) Is it sad that I can tell you the starting lineup of the 1983 Sox and the 1984 Cubs? Yeah, I wasn't born yet.

Meh.

Have to feel a bit bad for Weber. But that's what you get for following an idiot like North.