Balta1701

I'll tell you 1 thing...I feel better that some of our guys got the chance to take a few innings off these last few days, and Boston's guys didn't.

Matt Clement versus Jose Contreras. Man, I like this matchup. Over his career, the White Sox have hit something like .375 against Clement, if memory serves. We were beating him ruthlessly last time we faced him - that game in Boston that was rained out. Let's do this thing boys. We've got the defending World Series champs coming into our house on Tuesday.

I'm only enjoying this because of the surge of Indian fan trolls we had here calling us chokers like 2 weeks ago. That 1.5 game lead is back up to 5 boys!

Against Ortiz, I'd put Cotts and Politte in before Marte.

Personally I'd rather end up playing the big money teams from the East than the Angels too...because the Angels are so close to a mirror image of us...they've scored almost exactly as many runs as us this year, they've pitched almost exactly as well as us...the only thing we really have as an advantage over them is our total bullpen ERA, and in their best guys they're as good as anyone. About the only difference is that they're way behind us in home runs, but they hit a hell of a lot better than us with RISP. In the playoffs, pitching and defense win games. You don't win many games by out slugging everyone. Why did the Red Sox come back agains tthe Yankees last year? Because the Red Sox pitchers stepped it up. I think it will be us or the Angels coming out of the AL because of that.

QUOTE(letsgoarow @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 04:56 PM) f*** BOSTON......."We won 96 game because damnit were good" Hehe, it's 98 now.

You know, in my head, I kept telling myself I wouldn't care if the Sox lost today...since it would set up the potential 3-way-playoff that just had to hurt the other potential opponents. But ya know what? Even with that logic in the back of my head...damn it feels good to screw over those Indians. Go get em Kiddo. Let's finish this off right, and then we can turn a 5 game winning streak into a 16 game streak.

God this article was so much better than the crappy "Why wasn't Frank in Detroit too" version the Sun Times ran with.

Pinch hit Everett...Pinch Hit Iguchi...Pinch Hit Konerko...ballgame.

Hot Carl's coming in to pinch hit for the Widge.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 07:04 PM) How can you be pissed at Marte? Hafner hit a soft single to left, and Martinez hit a decent pitch down past a drawn in 3rd baseman. Farmer said the pitch that Martinez hit was right down the middle.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 07:03 PM) Lol we are just toying with the Cleveland fans. Watch us win this in 10. Widger...Blum...and Harris up for us in the 10th. Yeah....................

Dustin Hermanson once again does the best job humanly possible.

Thank you damaso and Timo.

Damnit Marte...it would have been nice to win this one easily and not care at all about the game tomorrow.

Shockingly Timo has one of our better batting averages with RISP. .286.

QUOTE(chisoxfan79 @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 06:44 PM) Remember three years ago when we all had Borch as the next big thing? That could have been his last Sox at bat. Then again, he could still have a shot at turning it around. He's put up some excellent numbers at AAA...he just goes into a slump every time he comes up to the big leagues.

C'Mon Timo! This would be a nice run to get home.

Played in both High School and as an undergrad @ IU.

Borchard getting that average back up to .556

Man, they have 1 bad game against the pitcher with the lowest ERA in the AL and suddenly they're outcasts.

El Duque coming in out of the bullpen. Here's his test.

5-1 Boston.

4-1 Boston

3-1 Boston...Ramirez singled to load the bases, Nixon took a walk.