Beat Beckett!

Beckett has 8 loses. So he clearly not as dominate as last season...lets get to him early and run with it! This would be a HUGE series win and boost for the team.

Going to the game tonight... I'm excited to see Danks and Beckett live. Hopefully he beat the s*** out of that D-Bag Beckett though.

Danks on the mound, first place, and a series win on the line. I like it.

 

Going to the game tonight, last time I saw Beckett pitch was 2 years ago in Yankee Stadium and NY put up about 10 runs on him...hope we can do the same and give Danks an easy win!

 

I hope Quentin is gonna be there.

BOSTON

Crisp cf

Pedroia 2b

Youkilis 1b

Lowell 3b

Bay lf

Drew dh

Lowrie ss

Varitek c

Ellsbury rf

Beckett p

 

WHITE SOX

Cabrera ss

Pierzynski c

Quentin lf

Dye rf

Thome dh

Ramirez 2b

Griffey cf

Swisher 1b

Uribe 3b

Danks p

 

Over/under on Red Sox triples is 1.5

Over/under on Red Sox triples is 1.5

And that's just for Big Papi.

Over/under on Red Sox triples is 1.5

 

Triple cheeseburgers?

Move AJ out of the f***ing 2 hole for christ sakes, and you wonder why Quentin doesnt have the RBI's Hamilton has.

 

AJ as a #2 hitter:

 

.281 .306 .399 .705

Edited August 11, 200817 yr by RockRaines

Move AJ out of the f***ing 2 hole for christ sakes, and you wonder why Quentin doesnt have the RBI's Hamilton has.

 

AJ as a #2 hitter:

 

.281 .306 .399 .705

Cabrera isn't exactly helping matters either with his .269/.327/.352/.679 on the year and .620 OPS since the start of July. It's just not fair, Hamilton gets Kinsler and Young and Quentin gets Cabrera and Pierzynski. Ouch.

I agree about moving A.J. out of the 2-hole. It was a good idea earlier on in the season when there were no other options, but at this point, I'd rather have Swisher up there for his OBP or Alexei for his general speedsmanship. Stick A.J. at 6 or 7.

I agree about moving A.J. out of the 2-hole. It was a good idea earlier on in the season when there were no other options, but at this point, I'd rather have Swisher up there for his OBP or Alexei for his general speedsmanship. Stick A.J. at 6 or 7.

I prefer Swish up there so he can see fastballs and get on base, but ANYONE should be better getting on base than AJ

RBI is such an overrated stat, it's like wins for starting pitchers. You can't control what the people in front of you do. I keep hearing "omg Hamilton has 50 trillion RBI's", but if Quentin had the same guys hitting in front of him, he'd be in the same boat, if not have a few more runs batted in.

I agree about moving A.J. out of the 2-hole. It was a good idea earlier on in the season when there were no other options, but at this point, I'd rather have Swisher up there for his OBP or Alexei for his general speedsmanship. Stick A.J. at 6 or 7.

 

 

Swish with the 98 Ks though

Cabrera isn't exactly helping matters either with his .269/.327/.352/.679 on the year and .620 OPS since the start of July. It's just not fair, Hamilton gets Kinsler and Young and Quentin gets Cabrera and Pierzynski. Ouch.

Problem is, except for about 40 points of slugging, those are right on Cabrera's career numbers. His OBP is actually slightly higher this season that it is in his career. This is just who he is...he's a below average player with the bat.

Swish with the 98 Ks though

 

Yeah we don't have an ideal leadoff or two hitter. I guess you could try Swish with all the walks he draws, but so many strikeouts. Alexei can run and hits for great average, but can't walk. Even OC isn't a very good leadoff hitter right now.

I think the main thing is that either of them seem like better fits than A.J. right now. Mix it up and see what works.

Swish with the 98 Ks though

He sees so many pitches per at bat though. I wonder if Swish was put in a contact hitter role if he would rise to the occasion

Let's go Yankees!

Stat of the day: The White Sox are 56-14 when scoring four or more runs. Which means lets score 4 or more runs tonight.

Cabrera

Pierzynski

TCQ

Dye

Thome

Alexei

Griffey

Swisher

Uribe

I have a couple of softball games so I won't get to listen to the Sox. Go get the series win, that would be huge. It'd also be awesome to have Griffey hit his first homer in a Sox uniform.