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Has it been mentioned anywhere yet that the road teams aren't obligated to lose? I know St. Louis, Baltimore, and Cincinnati got the memo... Washington too, just now.

That entire sequence beginning with the steal looked so effortless- like it was bound to happen.

Wow, Reddick goes yard.

Haha wow, wild pitch score him to tie.

Cespedes stealing 2nd and 3rd with lefty Reddick at bat.

There's something to be said about: a)Wanting a new stadium b)Wanting out of Oakland c)Giving the finger to a fanbase that helped them place 27th in total attendance with 1,679,013 in what ended up being a playoff year More than likely, it's a combination of a & b, with a light sprinkling of c.

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It happened on the 8th pitch. He struck out the leadoff hitter, got to 0-2 on Scutaro, and left pretty quickly. There wasn't much of an attempt to see if he'd be able to stay in. It looked like something on the side/lower back. Back Spasms that they're saying were present before the game and didn't get better. Day to day.

Cuetoh-oh. Out of the game in the 1st.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 29, 2012 -> 12:57 PM) His time was over. If he kept his mouth shut things might be different. While this is true, any front office that decided they want him (Or need him in Miami's case. They seemingly couldn't get him fast enough)having seen his body of work in Chicago should know damn well that verbal diarrhea comes with the package much like his children and Joey Cora do. When a front office goes out and signs a manager up for 2 or more years, and then fires him before the playoffs even begin- that makes the manager look bad, but it makes the front office look incompetent as well. In Florida's case, that was well known for years.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 10:35 PM) I'm pulling for a Baltimore-DC area World Series I think that's what I would like to see too. It was clear that the Nationals were on the way up since at least the 2011 season, so their success hasn't really come out of nowhere, but Baltimore would be one of the last teams I would pick to play into late October coming into the season. Shutting down Strasburg takes on a whole different dynamic if the Nats made the WS but lost. Still, it would be a thing if the first place for one day (last day of the season) A's went deep, or if St. Louis made it back after barely making the Playoffs. Again.

Good to see that the season is over for Texas. I enjoyed that tremendously. I'm on the O's bandwagon AL-wise.

Yikes. And the garbage throwing commences...

I voted Cinci, but really I'm good as long as the Rangers and perhaps Yankees don't win.

Postseason will be a smashing success as long as the Rangers lose- ideally tonight, and ideally in an embarrassingly lopsided manner. After that, I don't care who wins, although it would be a great story if it turned out to be the O's, A's, or the Cardinals. Again. I suppose it would be entertaining to see Texas make it to the World Series again, only to lose again.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 02:56 PM) I'm hearing Bob Brenley might be available. Kasper/Brenly booth is solid. Unless some sort of a managerial gig presents itself, not sure why he would leave. In any case, I hope he doesn't... I'm sort of having trouble imagining him paired with Hawk. I think he would go well with Stone.

I get the feeling that this was it. He's on my White Sox Mt. Rushmore, so that's a bummer, but he earned himself a payday with this season's performance. With his age being what it is, I'm not sure that it would be worth that risk. Don't let anyone wear #12, and hopefully, have a spot waiting for him somewhere in the organization for when he decides to hang it up, be it coaching staff or calling games.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 10:29 PM) I'd love to have a traditionalist accompanied by a SABR guy. It'd make for great conversation throughout the game. All of us would learn about baseball philosophy and probably come to respect the different factions of it. A good idea on paper, but traditionalists traditionally want nothing to do with metrics. It would probably play out similarly to some of the baseball calls Dan Bernstein fields on B&B.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 09:01 PM) They should hire Mike North. (I'm kidding) My word. I remember when this was speculated. It was such an awful concept that I think my mind repressed that entire episode. I would rather tune in to MLB Gameday on a cell phone for all 162 games than to Mike North and Hawk. Even hitting mute couldn't save that broadcast.

Pods getting acquainted with the Yankee Stadium wall on a nice grab. The grindiness of Rowand and Erstad from 6 years ago is stronger than the force. Francona in the booth for this one- he must be beaming on this inside to be there.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 01:43 PM) Hudson 4 Wise 9 Konerko DH Viciedo 7 Johnson 3 Lopez 5 Gimenez 2 Danks 8 Olmedo 6 Floyd 1 go team

QUOTE (daggins @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 06:30 PM) Let walk/ buyout - Peavy, AJP, Myers, Youk Pick up option - Floyd Trade - Rios, to Angels, for Conger Crain to anybody for anything Quintana to someone for 3B prospect/project and SP depth Sign - B-MAC or Marcum, and hope Herm can keep em healthy Scott Hairston C Conger 3B Some Guy SS Alexei 2B Beckham 1B Paulie LF Hairston/Danks CF De Aza RF Viciedo DH - Dunn Sale/Floyd/Danks/Bmacormarcum/Santiago or SP Depth Bullpen - whatever, we've got guys. No use getting too specific before stuff even gets started. This team is fairly cheap and not very good offensively but has the potential to be a very good rotation. Basically, just like how the Sox were coming in to this season. Hope you get a few more career years, some bottled lightning and go to it. That's close to what I can picture happening, or at least what I would like to see happen given that it probably won't be a radical reshaping. Bye-bye Peavy, Pierzynski, Youkilis, Liriano, and probably Myers- no real effort is made to keep them, either. The first three of that group could probably find someone willing to risk more money and length of contract on them based on this year. Sorry to see Pierzynski go (as he is one of my all-time Sox favorites), but it feels like the time is right to part ways. It would be nice to have Peavy in the rotation next year, but despite the image he projects, he's not coming back for free. Of course he loves it here. He would love it in Burundi or on Neptune too, if there were an MLB franchise over there willing to pay him. Not sure what Thornton's contract situation is, but his is another situation that should be looked at closely. There should be a line open for anyone wishing to talk about trading for Rios, the same goes for Quintana- although the best return for him was right around this past ASB deadline, so unless someone wants to pay nicely for him, he should be kept. No idea what they go after for 3B, or C. Uribe is going into the last year of his LAD deal, but whoever it is, hopefully it's not Morel. I don't know that they wouldn't hand it over to Flowers and just go after a backup instead of a starter at C. Additions for the rotation will likely be of the unimpressive and risky variety, with the potential for a nice upside- it doesn't necessarily have to actually be B-Mac, but that's the kind of player I can see being sought.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) Not the time to be teaching a lesson, Robin. You didn't see Olazabal benching Rory McIlroy for nearly missing his tee time, not with a championship on the line. Robin appreciates the game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 07:14 PM) It's not like they hit the ball well tonight. Indians also aren't trying at all this series since they know they can't play spoiler. I tuned in just in time to watch that hit, but with the team facing long odds since the loss on Saturday, I was curious to see if there would be a 2012 version of Brent Ruth from last year, albeit with a sample size of only a handful of games, instead of the entire September that Morel got to work with.

Unf***ingbelievable how this happens now. Next year Management needs to print fake newspapers and leave them around the clubhouse that say the Sox are mathematically eliminated, starting in spring training. If anyone runs into any form of media that says otherwise, just laugh at them and tell them they're crazy.