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QUOTE (kane0730 @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 03:10 PM) Is the line-up floating around somewhere?? I need a good laugh. You already know what it will be... 1. Pods 2. Alexei 3. AJP 4. Konerko 5. Wise 6. BA 7. Getz 8. Bacon 9. Contreras I think it might be time to move Beckham up to the 6 hole.

Ankiel has a great arm, but Anderson's range is better in center field. Ankiel's UZR before this season was always negative. His lowest was last year at -5, meaning he cost his team 5 runs in the field. Anderson's is barely above average, believe it or not. He has incredible range in right and left, but not so much in center.

This definitely made me feel better about yesterday's game.

QUOTE (beck72 @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 11:41 AM) Now, say the Red Sox called and offered Michael Bowden or Clay Bucholz for Alexei.... would you hang up? That said, I like Alexei's power and ability to play SS and 2b. But do the sox move Beckham away from his natural position, to play 3b, or move Getz who looks like he's from Minnesota farm system [something sox fans have been wanting more of], and hope teams don't realize he can't hit a decent breaking ball? I would hang up in a second.

QUOTE (hawkubes @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) This thread is ridiculous. It's one bad outing. The only reason this team has been able to stay afloat is the outstanding bullpen, and Scott Linebrink has been a huge part of it. I can't believe how quickly everybody turns on a player. This was a tough loss and I'm as pissed off about it as anyone, but I have no doubt Linebrink will bounce back and I sure as hell don't want him sent down (which will never happen but has been suggested) or traded away for cents on the dollar. Have you not been watching him this year? There's a reason he's 2-4 this season. His WHIP is a blinding 1.542. That's horrible for a relief pitcher. He's only come in once when there were runners on base and of course, he let that runner score and I think that was yesterday. But Linebrink has given up a lot of hits and if he were to come into more pressure situations, he would have allowed a lot more inherited runners to score. What's even worse is that his WHIP has been 2.538 in the past two weeks. This isn't new. He's given up the lead or let another team tie the game at least 4-5 times this year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 09:27 AM) I'm looking forward to seeing the complaints about the lineup tonight. Really nothing Ozzie can do. Is JD not playing tonight?

QUOTE (Stocking @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 04:35 AM) Maybe if it were unlocked, but its not. The first two generation iphones couldnt even send a MMS. The technology in the Iphone has been around for years in multiple phones, apple just did a fantastic job of marketing it for the everyday person. The iPhone can send MMS now. But guess what? AT&T still doesn't support it... No wonder people wanted to jailbreak and unlock their iPhones so they can get on T-Mobile...

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 19, 2009 -> 11:29 AM) iPhone fanboys are hilarious. It's a brand new OS and plenty have already developed. The library will grow. You guys get so defensive if anything isn't the great iPhone. The Pre is the s***, and has many features the iPhone doesn't, and all the features it does. Nobody wants to develop for it because HTML 5 is a brand new revision of HTML. It's going to take some time for the Pre to get on the board and I don't think Palm and Sprint have the time for people to adjust and learn about the new code because the iPhone 3GS is basically on board with the Pre in almost every single hardware category. The Pre does have a nice OS, as it allows multi-tasking and such, but there's some problems with the Pre and the network it is on. 1. The iPhone already dominates the cell phone market. They have 51% of the cell phone share in the United States. 2. People really don't like Sprint. 3. Like I said before, the new iPhone 3GS pretty much has everything the Palm Pre has and an App Store with over 50,000 applications to attract customers. It's already like a monster that's gotten too big. People like developing iPhone apps because they are coded in Objective C, something that a lot of people know and anybody can basically program for it. And I wouldn't call 18 applications on the Pre App Store "plenty". If the Pre really wants to build up its App Store, do what Apple did. Charge people $100 bucks for an SDK and let them develop. It might take a while though.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 04:39 PM) Apparently Linebrink is today's Soxtalk ™ scapegoat, not the guy who actually caused it all -- Chris Getz. Typical Soxtalk is all I'll say. Yes, it's ALL Linebrink's fault -- Getz didn't have anything to do with it...nothing at all. How can you not blame him? Yes, none of those runs were earned. But he gave up two homers to two guys who haven't hit more than 10 since the ASB of 2008.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 04:03 PM) That 1st error given to Getz was on Ramirez. He pu**ed out of the way of Fontenot sliding into him and at the same time tried to bare-hand the thing. The next error in the 8th was a rocket that short-hopped him- that's a super tough play, if you've ever played at any level. This Reds series will be tough with Cueto, Harang, and Arroyo (in no order), but we should win 2 with how bad the NL is and how we've played on the road. That was supposed to be a double play.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) Did you watch the game? He made an amazing play to save a run in I forget which inning (4th maybe?). The first error he made should have have been on Alexei. He just let the ball flip on the transition go right past him. The 8th inning error was f***ing terrible though. Two wrongs and one right doesn't make him excused.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) One pitch pitcher, which is a flat fastball. His shoulder injury has made it harder for him to keep the ball above the belt. He hasn't even been close all season with his splitter. It's time to demote him to 7th inning duty and use Thornton as our primary 8th inning guy. I don't know how many times Linebrink has to fail before this move is made. Thornton was the setup man for a long time. Dotel would have been better today. Seriously.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 01:04 PM) The touch costs $10 to upgrade (or free if you google around a bit) iphone upgrade is free. I'm talking about the app, not the firmware update.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 18, 2009 -> 03:57 PM) He made the best play of the game on a ball up the middle by Fukudome that would have scored a run had it gotten through. We could have survived the Lee homer, it was the Soto one that blatantly said "when/how will the White Sox manage to lose this one?" He also booted two grounders right at him. The second one looked like a bad hop, but you have to get that ball. If that out is made, the bad 8th might have never happened.

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.