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QUOTE (WSoxMatt @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:42 PM) The ball was coming back towards fair play, but it was foul... I didn't take the closest look to it, but from how Farmer and Stone described it on the radio, they made it seem like it hooked foul. I believed them lol.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:06 PM) If the coach is waving him on and he gets nabbed, I'm not gonna blame him. If the coach is waving him but he blows off the coach, well...? I'm hearing stories where people say he should of gone to third and that Cox was waving him. I don't know. He got a double, that's good enough. We should of got him in, 'nuff said.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:09 PM) The only reason it was close to fair was the wind at Wrigley pushing the ball towards the playing field. That ball was hooking foul, not fair.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 07:10 PM) up 4-0 on Big Unit Unfortunately I just saw that. I guess we'll be 3.5 up now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 07:04 PM) Twins are playing really good baseball. After that ass kicking we gave them, I didn't expect them to be back in the race so soon. Yea good baseball vs. the Nationals. Congratulations to them.

Actually, I digress...maybe that ball wasn't foul. Here's a picture, it's definitely questionable. http://6.imagebam.com/dl.php?ID=8069327&am...de58ba79d303838

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 06:41 PM) Please.....you can't blame it on the wind... I can't, but you have to admit, when the wind blows out at Wrigley, there happens to be a lot more homers. It's too bad Quentin's double earlier in the game didn't go for a dinger. Maybe that's why the Cubs get a lot of come-back wins, the wind starts kicking up later in the afternoon and they just hit fly balls that ride the jet stream. Who knows? I thought BA's ball was gonna get caught, it didn't. Ramirez's ball probably would of been a fly to the track without the wind. It's Wrigley Field, there's no big scoreboard to block the wind, it's a crap shoot half the time.

Let's not lose any ground today. Diamondbacks vs. Twins (Johnson vs. Baker) Tigers vs. Padres (Bonine vs. Maddux) I can care less what Cleveland does, they got swept by Colorado...

It was only a matter of time. Too bad they had to do it today, Ted Lilly probably got giddy. Maybe that's why he had a QS today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 06:02 PM) Yeah, I was listening in for that. Stoney went off on a nice little discussion of how Soto had never hit more than 5 home runs in his career over 6 years or so and suddenly already has 12 this year and has turned in to one of their most dangerous hitters. PEDs...no doubt. If Cubs fans were some how miraculously on this board, they'd point to TCQ. I would come in his defense and show them his amazing minor league and college numbers. .

QUOTE (SoxFan101 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 02:55 PM) I dont understand why they keep Marriotti, most cub fans find him as intolerable as sox fans.... and if a Cubs fan is going to buy a paper for the sports section its going to be the Tribune... and obviously no whitesox fan is going to buy the Suntimes because of him. Be nice for a paper to show a little class and fire the most classless reporter in the city. Because Marioti is a controversial writer, that sells papers. Plus, he's on ESPN daily, something that gives the Sun Times publicity.

Some stupid Cubs fans or NL fans in general say the DH needs to be abolished because it favors the AL. BS, the fact that we have to have our pitchers hit is worse. At least NL teams can trot out a real hitter when they play in AL parks, we have to trot out a pitcher who gets 5 ABs a year when we play in NL parks. And one of the biggest reasons Danks was pulled today was because of the lack of the DH. I know Uribe got a hit and all, but he didn't score! Be grateful Cubs fans, so many things handed you this game.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 05:41 PM) Too bad the bullpen had to blow it for him... Too bad the wind had to start blowing out late in the game...

That was a foul ball. If this game was anywhere else in the Majors, that ball is fair. The lines at Wrigley are fairly deep.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 03:31 PM) This was exactly like the last game @ Tampa. What were we with RISP? 0-9 or something? I thought this was the one to get today. Something along those lines. This is what happens when we play good teams. We can hang in there, but when it really counts, we can't hit.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 03:25 PM) chw2 we don't move runners over. That's not our game. We can't bunt. Anderson had a triple and didn't take it. We don't bunt. We are a classic AL team and hit home runs. If OC would have hit his we probably would have won. At least hit to the right side, Thome is a lefty, he loves grounding into the shift all the time, why not now? Jesus Christ, that makes me mad. Swinging for the long ball in the 9th with a runner on 2nd in a tie game, f***ing fantastic.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 03:22 PM) I like Thome, but he's been either or 2nd or 3rd worst hitter this season. Instead of going for the 2 run homer in that situation, the much smarter move would have been try and move the runner over to 3rd base. I'd take a guy on 3rd with 1 out over a guy on 2nd with none out any day of the week. Exactly, Ozzie's probably thinking, "I can get a two run homer here and be good with it." Truth of the matter is, Thome's a terrible hitter late in the game! And he showed it! WHAT HAPPENED TO OZZIE BALL, OZZIE?

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 03:19 PM) Wow that was a complete let down....this offense is ridiculous. They have to do a lot better with RISP. I still don't get why you pull Danks when he only has 85 pitches.... That wasn't a bad decision, it's not Ozzie's fault Dotel sucked it up. Blame his offensive decisions. Not bunting with Anderson doubling and Jim Thome up? In that situation, you put in Ozuna or Wise and you bunt him over. At least get him over on a grounder to the right side. Cabrera probably could of gotten the run in with a sac fly. We had so many opportunities, screwed them all up. It's too bad Cabrera almost had a 2 run shot in the 7th, it just missed the foul pole.

WTF was he doing with Thome up there? Does that make sense? Get Wise up there or Ozuna. Bunt Anderson over. Then Orlando gets him in. What's with Sox relievers giving up homers that lose the ball game? That's 4 times now!

Ozzie is a f***ing dumbass.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 01:30 PM) We needed someone to replace Carlos Lee. And Jose Valentin.

A.J. = new Cubs killer.

Fukudome and those swinging bunts... Good job by Danks to get out of it. His pitch count is gonna haunt him again today.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 12:50 PM) Weird I though for sure Hall would be playing against Lilly, hes got a lifetime .400 BA against him. We need a better hitter like A.J. in the lineup when Thome is out of it. That's why.

QUOTE (Sully Baseball @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 12:44 PM) Hey White Sox fans... My name is Sully. I'm a Red Sox fan who has appeared on HBO and ESPN2 and been a TV producer and filmmaker. I keep a blog called Sully Baseball where I try to not always focus on the Red Sox and Yankees (but can't always help it.) Last month I wrote a post about the White Sox and wondered why the franchise can't get any love. It's here Would love to get any White Sox fan's take on it Thanks and I am rooting for the White Sox to win the Central I'm a big Ozzie Guillen fan It's always been an uphill battle for the Sox since the whole idea of Cable TV. Eddie Einhorn made what the Sox are today popularity-wise. Had sportsvision never came along and had the Sox stuck to WGN, they would be a lot more popular, no doubt. It's more of a media battle for the Sox, the Cubs are owned by the country's largest media outlet, of course the Sox are going to be discriminated against. White Sox fans constantly bash the Tribune for their lack of Sox coverage and their incredible love for the Cubs. It's a chip-on-our-shoulders type of feeling. We're the underdog. Our fan base is somewhat smaller (to say the least), we don't get full houses every night, and even with a World Series, it still doesn't prove anything to the idiotic Cubs fans we get into arguments with. They say it's a thing of the past, we say their past goes back 100 years. Once Tribune sells the Cubs, it may turn for the better, but right now Chicago is a Cubs town. It might of been a Sox town in the 50s and 60s when the Cubs were nothing, but even with a little bit of hope back in '03 and what they've done in '08, you can see 2/3 of the city erupt in joy. The same joy the White Sox gave to Chicagoans 2 long years ago. The love is definitely spreading though, the WS Championship did its part. But in order to win the city back, the Sox must keep winning championships until the Cubs can match them no more.