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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2012 -> 11:08 AM) How do you insult Kansas City? There is nothing there to insult. To quote a great Danny Schmidt song, "It's nice enough to visit, or it's nice enough to get back in your car." He was singing about San Antonio, but it works for KC, too.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 16, 2012 -> 10:23 PM) The man who collapsed at the game tonight was announced dead at the hospital. Sad and unfortunate. Prayers go out to his family. That's too bad and I also feel for his family and friends. I was watching tonight and wondering about it as well because of my own experience with that. In 2005 I was fortunate to get a ticket to the first playoff game against the Red Sox. It was great, of course - I was in the corner down by the right field pole and we won bigtime, 13 or 14 runs I think. But the two or three times I went upstairs for food, etc., my left shoulder just felt strange - tired is the best word I can think of to describe it. The next night at home I started feeling that again and, after a while, realized I probably should get to a hospital. I went to Illinois Masonic and less than five minutes after I got there went into full cardiac arrest. The great people there brought me back, got me in surgery and found two blocked arteries. I was lucky, and I was watching tonight and hoping that guy would have the same luck. That's just too bad he didn't make it.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 04:31 PM) Who cares who he said it to. The NYT isn't a small paper. You can't tell me the Chicago media didn't know he said. They just ignored it. They should have covered it at some point, probably after a bit of a wait to avoid looking like they were just scrambling to keep up with an out-of-town paper, but then the truth is the Trib and Sun-Times just don't have the sports columnists they used to. Cowley's been a bad replacement for what the ST used to have; he's always been a lazy writer and he's just not that good. Telander's the best writer at the ST but he's very much part-time at this point in his career there. At the Trib Rogers isn't writing at the level he used to be at, and Haugh doesn't write much about baseball for whatever reason. In Rogers' case, it may be because the bean-counters at the Trib have him filing little newsbits everyday instead of letting him just focus on a few good columns a week, like he used to do. Who else is there to go in-depth at the papers? They're just shadows of what they once were. That said, I'd be surprised if none of the radio shows talked about the Reinsdorf quote, but then I don't listen to them so I don't know. As for the quoted comment, "Ventura’s team is winning, Guillen’s team is losing…. which makes comparisons conveniently easy." Uh, yeah... Duh.

Nice win... Now get them tomorrow, Gavin.

YES!

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 08:32 PM) Do you think that having to basically have two loogys on the team at the same time in Veal/Septimo is a bad idea, which in turns cause lack of depth of righty relievers as well as on our bench? At the time they made the move the other day, I thought the bullpen was a little worn out, so a qualified yes. But I'd sure love to have some of Jackson's or Johnson's offense with Paulie out now.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 08:28 PM) Crain can't pitch every day. 3 innings a week tops if you want him to last he rest of the year.. Agreed... And with Reed going more than an inning tonight, Crain may well be closing tomorrow afternnon if it (hopefully) gets to that point.

It is not worse than when Ozzie was here. Thornton gets paid well to pitch the 8th, mostly. On the other hand, I don't deny getting really jittery when Thornton comes in this year. Robin's probably thinking he'll need Myers tomorrow with Gavin pitching.

QUOTE (Caesar @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 08:02 PM) Ventura is a complete moron when it comes to the bullpen. Whew.... But Wimpy said Robin left Q in because Toronto would have pinch hit for McCoy against Myers.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 07:46 PM) I heard this Undecided fellow pitching Saturday has some nasty stuff Well, hopefully Detroit has as much trouble against Undecided as the Sox usually have.

Wow... This would be a good night for for Quintana to buy a stack of lottery tickets.

Just checked and Weather Channel radar forecast has rain ending around the Cell about 7:30.

Crain is back for today's game... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,1356315.story

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Crain comes back OK. And if John Danks gets healthy, Humber becomes a pretty good RH arm in the pen, given that there's no way Quintana's not staying in the rotation. I'm guessing as long as things go OK with the kids we've got, KW will stand pat for now rather than give up good prospects for middle relief.

Worth noting that the Sox have given up 14 unearned runs while the Tigers have given up 41. And that doesn't account for the balls that get through Detroit's infield and lead to earned runs, balls that Beckham, Ramirez and now Youkilis get to and turn into outs. Add to that the speed in the Sox outfield and you can see one big reason the Sox have a better record than Detroit. The runs you prevent are just as important as the runs you score. And Detroit isn't going to replace any of those infielders, except possibly at second base, with mid-season acquisitions. I'm not saying it's going to be easy and, yes, the Sox pitching needs to hold up, but there is good reason there to believe that the Sox will continue to win more games than Detroit. As for the schedule, the Sox have 15 games left with KC and 12 with Minnesota - winning most of those series is big. There are 9 left with Detroit and 6 with Cleveland, by the way.