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http://www.suntimes.com/sports/12181010-41...els-mining.html Speculation about Cole Hamels signing with the Cubs as a FA...

Two run deficits, Guillen said, "feel like we're down 20." "That's how it feels like right now," Guillen said. "And I want to get that feeling out of this area." Asked if he might shake up the lineup, Guillen said he might -- but not because any one in particular is struggling. "You cannot lose confidence in those guys," Guillen said. "As soon as you start losing confidence and being negative, bad things happen. I always say you can't win a pennant race in the beginning, but you could lose a pennant race in the beginning. "We're not winning now. We've got to pick it up and play the game right, now. Believe me with the experience I have, I've been through it before. We have to keep fighting. If we had a bad club I would say it would be tough. But I know in my heart, my soul we have a good team. "You can lose confidence early in the season, or grow up and play better. But you're not going to play worse than this. We're not going to be worse than we are right now." Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/fish_bytes/...l#storylink=cpy

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0428-a...0,5887830.story Downs will be the closer, Walden out. Trout will replace Peter Bourjos. Worst start in club history. 5-14. UPDATE: Trout now 1/11 (091) with a single. Pujols 1/4 with a K...also made a pretty big defensive blunder (in foul ground) which he would never make normally.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 08:22 PM) Seriously, this doesn't even have anything to do with the Sox. Charlie Haeger was a consultant on the film.

That the odds of either contributing to the major league White Sox in the future are about 2-3%.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 11:06 PM) I don't believe there is an argument at all. Your opinion is a 3 run lead in the first inning would have mattered against what this offense did against Danks. Fine, take 3 runs in that first inning, it doesn't matter, the Sox still lose by 5 tonite. Homerun or not, Danks was awful tonite. AJs at bat wouldn't have changed that If you're always going to go under the assumption that everything after that point would have transpired exactly the same as it did, when then there's simply no way of having a discussion. Let's say a golfer has a 4 shot lead with at Amen Corner on a Sunday and he quadruple bogeys. You can't say the rest of his round would have had the same exact result had he laid up for a bogey instead of carding a quadruple bogey and losing the entire lead on one whole. Pitchers feel a lot more stress and pitch differently with a 3-0 lead as opposed to a 1-0 lead. They make different pitches, and have the luxury of not having to be so careful with their pitches...which, in Danks' case, always leads to elevated pitch counts and numerous walks. Baseball is and always has been a game of momentum. We've gone from on top of the world and playing well twice this season to losing four in a row or 5/6. We could have easily beaten Boston had we played them last week...but when they started to get their confidence against Minnesota, Bard and Aceves put together a momentum-changing relief appearance and they've been on a tear ever since. They lose that first game against the Twins and they're a completely different team coming into Chicago. We desperately NEEDED that 3 run lead in the first inning. When we didn't get it, you just had a feeling with Danks pitching...."Oh, no, here we go again. That lead will never stand up." And it didn't. If we can feel that as fans, don't you think it can also adversely affect the players on the field as well? In 2005 or 2008 or whatever year it was, if Grady Sizemore didn't drop that ball in the afternoon sun against the Royals on the next to last Sunday, the entire following week would have played out quite differently.

Notice that K. Walker's now moved up to 2nd in the Kanny line-up. Saladino's close to recovering from his tepid start. 3/5, 2B and homer, 3 RBI's, at .237 after being well below the Mendoza line for most of April. He's clearly the best legitimate 3B candidate we have to replace Morel within the system...

Of COURSE, the McDonald hit killed us, especially with 2 outs. But the entire tenor of the entire game changes if we take a 3-0 lead early. We can argue about it, it can't be proven, it's just one of those things you feel in your gut from having watched and listened to hundreds of baseball games in a lifetime.

At least the Marlins have lost 6 in a row or something like that. Don't have to hear how Ozzie's a miracle worker raising malcontents like Hanley Ramirez and Zambrano from the dead (actually, they've been okay, they're losing games for other reasons like Heath Bell). 20,414. Although I guess it was only 39 degrees at game time and felt even cooler at the park. Red Sox now only one game below .500 and close to passing us on the way up the standings.

There goes an 88.5 MPH fastball right out over the heart of the plate. With Axelrod's velocity, he's got to be pinpoint with his control and get ahead in counts. It's Darnell McDonald's day, that is for sure.

Turning point of this game was AJ's early double not going out of the park... And giving up 4 runs with two outs in the 6th. Rios, Viciedo, Morel and Beckham. Surely a crooked number will be put up. Can we maybe at least challenge the Boston bullpen once in this series?

Can't even say we STILL are in first place because the Indians rallied from 2 down late to beat the struggling Angels. Tiggers just lost to the Yankees on a wild pitch.

LOL at the Royals and Twins slugging it out for last place. Shouldn't laugh TOO hard though, because one or both of those teams might pass us at some point this season. I guess the future for the Twins is still probably bleaker than for us, but not by much. And they still have their almost brand-new stadium, too.

Tigers take the lead back again from the Yankees, 5-4. Verlander getting touched up a bit in this game, though. And Ryan Tannehill's wife is super-hot, just an aside. And Miguel Cabrera already has 1000 RBI's in his career, not yet age 29. I think there are something like 20 or 21 active player at that mark or above.

It must be because of the combined brain trust of Theo, Hoyer and Ricketts.

Here we go again. Danks might be our 6th starter at this rate...the most expensive in the game, except for maybe Barry Zito.

Morel just passed Beckham, 179 to 170. Yet another single to RF.

Danks is throwing the change-up a little bit less than 1% more than last season. The big thing that sticks out is his FB velocity is down a full 1.9 MPH from last year. Is it the April excuse, or something more serious?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 06:35 PM) It's kind of amazing how Floyd, Danks and Ramirez seemed to have peaked in 2008. And Quentin, too!!!

Can we please start the "KW should be fired for giving Danks that big contract thread!" lol? Every day, we can change to a new player. Yesterday, Viciedo. Today, we can try Alexei Ramirez or Danks if we get tired of picking on Beckham or Morel.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...biraax_monaax_1 Mitchell with yet another walk, currently at .347. Jose Martinez two-run RBI single. Charlotte's game at Syracuse was postponed.

Just a few feet away from 5 homers and 18 RBI's. That hurts not to get those 2 extra runs there. Note to JD: Do not give the lead back to the Red Sox right away, thanks!

Encouraging to see Dunn get so many walks this early season. Konerko with a chance to break it open early here. Didn't realize Skowron was a punter on the Purdue football team, played at Webber or Weber High School. Does that school still exist? Nasty slider to put him away after going after Paulie with all fastballs.

DeAza is an XB machine. Got to score this run. Horrible at-bat for Ramirez, no advance to 3rd. Still having troubles in the 2 hole.

Didn't realize that Skowron made the All-Star team 8 times, once with the Sox in 1965. They made a big announcement before the Yankees/Tigers game. What did they do at USCF? Joking about how Skowron was teasing Farmer all these years asking for a free Mickey Mantle autographed ball...."You can afford it, Farmer!" Didn't Skowron get hundreds or thousands of Mantle autographed balls when he played for the Yankees? Probably how he funded half of his retirement years.