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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) Funny thing is the same type of play literally happened a minute ago in the LLWS game. Who is winning, Hawaii or Japan? I saw Hawaii dismantle Texas but they're showing the Dodgers/Rockies game here in Thailand now. Why the hell does Lillibridge run there when Ozzie ALWAYS bunts the runner over in those situations. UGH.

Now...if only he could have done that against the Twins and Mariners. Oh, well...we still have a puncher's chance here.

I'm not sure this match-up against Granderson, no matter how much he's sucked this year, is a good one for us. Fingers crossed. JENKS, YOU ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!!

QUOTE (OilCan @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) Robinson Cano is just filthy. The very strange thing about Cano's season is his average has gone down every month...from superhot April and May, very good June and then July and then August has been just so-so until he faced us.

Or if our big "power" injections into the line-up are Viciedo, Flowers and KW selling the idea that Teahen's going to be our everyday 3B, then I don't want to read this board again until April...because all we'll hear about is how our starting rotation (theoretically, with Peavy healthy and/or Sale) could be the best in the majors. That was the same plan coming into this season...didn't work, despite our team being among the MLB leaders in quality starts. Wait, I take that back. If they bring back Kotsay and Jones last year in their same roles, that will be even more infuriating than DeWayne Wise, Mackowiak, Daubach or Erstad in CF.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 03:41 PM) I really hate to say this, but I honestly feel a majority of people here just shoot down any player regardless of who it is. I do agree Manny probably isn't worth the short rental if we have to give up anything of importance, but this race is NOT over yet, and the fact some people try to make it sound as if Manny is just some random deadline scrub is really hilarious. Manny as our DH would be simply exquisite. Yes, the problem is that it would have been MUCH more helpful when we were 4 1/2 games ahead of the Twins in the standings and had the opportunity to crush them. Since that time, it's looking like the Twins have played 17 games over .500 and we're a blase 2 games under the .500 mark. Most importantly, 2-7 versus Minnesota. You just can't hold first place with that head-to-head record against your competition.

Well, this team needs to have a late innings comeback...and that hasn't been one of our strong points all season long. It really feels like we have to win this game, though. In some ways, it's perfectly working out to be a big egg on KW's face that when he finally does acquire a DH, it's too little, too late...documenting for posterity's sake the desperate situation which was created by not addressing that position in the offseason (I'm really really tired of this same subject, but it is what it is...it's likely be seen retrospectively as the #1 flaw in our team the entire season long, especially with Thome ending up contributing so much to the team that ended up ahead of us in the standings).

I'm really really going to hate this offseason if we hear over and over again the reason we can't even resign Konerko is due to Edwin Jackson (well, that has worked out okay) and spending $4.1 million on a superfluous Manny Ramirez. The Rockies are crushing the Dodgers, 7-0. Two nights ago, that was great news...now, not really. 4 more outs until Mo Rivera. UGH.

Having a lame-duck Manny Ramirez on a team ostensibly out of the playoff picture would be a recipe for disaster. Farmer's really really getting on the umpires, and he's usually fairer than Harrelson.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 29, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) This. Or it will become known as the straw that broke the camel's back between Ozzie and KW...with one of them out of the picture.

Is Sale ready to pitch against the Yankees in this situation? I guess we'll find out. Teahen, Kotsay...doesn't really matter, they're just average and below-average MLB players, I don't expect that much out of them. There were never reasons to believe either player should be starting on a VERY GOOD team.

The question is, what prospect do we even have in our system worth $1 million to another team? It's not going to be Mitchell, Thompson or Viciedo....that leaves who? Tyler Flowers? I just can't see who we're going to trade that will "discount" the cash that we're going to have to pay Ramirez significantly. If I'm Coletti, I would ask for Sergio Santos probably...and there's no way KW can do that with the pen in shambles.

I'm thinking with budgets stretched...we might be forced to deal Thornton or Danks instead of spending money on free agents. Theoretically, we could make a trade, but it's very hard to do that from our minor league system. As far as Danks goes, he's a VERY good pitcher, but no way I think about paying him Sabathia or even Lester money. He's really come up with some pretty horrible outings now against the Twins (twice) and Yankees that gave us little to no chance to stay in those games. A lot depends on what happens with Sale. With Threets now out of the picture, our LHR situation is cloudy with zero depth behind Thornton if Sale becomes a starter. For next year, everything is predicated on Peavy being healthy. Then Sale probably spends one more year in the bullpen.

Nick Blackburn comes into that game with something like a 7 ERA and now he's Cy Young against the Mariners. Between the A's and Mariners' offenses, that's a lot of suckage. Can't imagine sitting through 18 games between those two teams as an announcer. I guess the positive would be the fact those games would be over pretty quickly...unless they went to extra innings with neither team scoring.

Have you noticed how badly Fuentes has pitched this year? He's not worth the money he will be making...besides the fact that he seems to blame the fans in LA for his failures (see article at yahoo sports)

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/angels...o-orange-county Fuentes won't be closing any games with Capps around...UNLESS there were three left-handed hitters in a row due up.

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) i dont care what anyone says linebrink has looked decent lately....if there wasnt a blown call right there he wouldnt have given up the 2 run shot...not his fault That change-up to Swisher just hung over the middle of the plate and then faded right into an area where Swisher could punch it out and use the wind to his benefit. Thankfully, the wind really killed that ball Cano hit into RCF or it would have been tied 4-4 and perhaps a different result.

Have to question that radar gun. Linebrink had one up there at 97. Yankees' announcers said Burnett has never been at 96 consistently this year. Garcia at 91? Mariners get one run back, now a 2-1 deficit.

Going against Sabathia and Nova or Nava (whatever his name is), we have our work cut out the next two games... And Minnesota doesn't have to face Felix (who they beat last time anyway).

Too bad Threets can't seem to stay healthy. He could be a very important part of our pen next year...seems he should also try to pick up the target a little earlier, maybe that's one facet of his control problems. Doesn't really look at the target until after he's already started his delivery. Seems easy to fix.

Somehow Cervelli has 10 errors in limited play at catcher. Considering the Yankees have the best record in the majors, it's looking like Boston will be only 4.5 game behind both the Rays and Yankees. They have absolutely no clue what to do with Burnett (7 ERA and no wins in August) and if Pettite can't come back, things will get very very interesting in the final 2-3 weeks.

Na na ha ha, hey hey hey goodbye Burnett. Underachieving as usual.

Can't believe Pierre has his OBP all the way up to 350 now. One of those years where we're underachieving, our Pythagorean record is 71-56. Nice throw SWISHER!!! That's 2 really bad mistakes from him in the OF, plus a couple of weak 4-3 Kotsay-esque groundouts.

Not exactly one of the fastest paced games in the history of MLB. I guess that's good for our vendors and concessionaires, lol. Need to save that money for Manny. Freddy Garcia's nickname "The Chief" comes from the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest character? I didn't know that...

Ball's not flying tonight, thought off the bat that Cano's ball might be gone. BTW, the White Sox are tied for 2nd in MLB in quality starts with the Cardinals at 78. Oakland is #1 with 83. Too bad they have an offense that defines anemic.