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QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) Joe Mays and the Twins years ago figured out the formula years ago. Nick Blackburn will have a stellar game as he features his slider away tomorrow. Don't forget one of Hawk's greatest crushes of all-time, Brad Radke.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) Defeated before we even take the field What I simply don't get is that they were destroying us in late 2008 and almost knocked us out....especially after the infamous Carlos Gomez/Jenks blown save game. And then we won Game 163, you'd have thought that turned things around. I guess the Thome game-winner against Thornton and the Jenks blown save against them are just imbedded in their minds. Do you have any confidence that Santos could go out there and hold a lead against them?

Has a team ever come back from 20 games under .500 to win a division in baseball history?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) the new sox killer: Dinkleman! Wasn't he one of the first hosts of American Idol?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:26 PM) At least we're benching Lillibridge for him. Who needs better offense, better defense, better base running. Even the Twins' announcers know that Lillibridge is the better defender than Pierre.

Isn't Pierre leading the AL or entire majors in plate appearances so far? Between Kotsay last year and Juan Pierre this year....it's almost like the Twilight Zone how KW and JR can watch this and actually side with "Ozzie's gut" over winning pennants?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:18 PM) the advance scouting for the White Sox has sucked for years See Gellinger, Mike. Maybe it would be better if Juan Pierre bunts into outs so his eroding speed isn't showcased with multiple embarassing double play grounders?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:19 PM) Teams that are constructed around Thome, Kubel, Morneau, and Mauer are not singles hitting teams. They are a line drive hitting team that is constructed around a left handed attack. And Delmon Young was really their best hitter, on a consistent basis, last year. Why couldn't we jump out and get the early lead, Morel? Well, at least we're sort of trying to fight back into this game.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:16 PM) We seem to have a disconnect here on how our scouting versus execution works. The twins are a fastball hitting team. They make lots of contact and hit line drives. So for some reason we like to throw lots of fastballs to them. Which in turn they hit line drives and run around the bases. We are a fastball hitting team. However we have no plate discipline. So the first pitch we put into play trying to drive it to mars. So their fastball hitting team gets lots of fastballs, our fastball hitting team gets a ton of breaking pitches. Year after year we see the same thing, and year after year we see no adjustment besides which member of the sox breaks their back bending over to salute and praise their team. Its f***ing sickening. I hate the twins more than any other team in baseball. The Yankees have figured out how to beat the Twins. Its called crushing fastballs, and throwing them lots of breaking pitches. Eventually we will figure this out. The Yankees also have All-Stars at 6-7 positions offensively. We have Alexei Ramirez, Quentin, Konerko and half a Lorna Dunn cookie.

7 out of 33 stretch (dating back to mid-2009) would equal a 34-128 record if we played the Twins as our only opponent. Yes, that's a 7-26 or 6-25 streak of being destroyed, demoralized and discombobulated. How is it even possible?

At least it's not Romero, Rincon, Hawkins, Guardado and Nathan at the back end of the bullpen. We still have a shot because the Twins' pen absolutely sucks...but how many comeback wins have we pulled off against the Twins the last decade, especially on the road?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 07:01 PM) Are you serious? Damn. Jose 2.0. Zimmerman is back. Harper will be there next year. Rendon the year after that. AND I've read they'll be a major player for Prince Fielder come winter. And that contract will be the worst in baseball the back half of it...but they really do have a chance to do some damage while Fielder's 28-32. I still wouldn't pay $200 million to a 1B unless it was Pujols in his prime. AJ has now thrown out 7/52 on the season, including 1 for CoCo Crisp out at home.

Well....I'd almost rather lose 8-1 against Minnesota than having Santos and the season shattered by blowing a 2-3 run lead in the 9th. Maybe we can slowly peck our way back into this one instead of our usual losing the lead in the last 3 innings trick. I'm just thankful that we can't have two THREE game sweeps on our record....when you lose a series 0-2 it doesn't seem so bad psychologically.

QUOTE (Real @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 06:55 PM) Sox are awesome against the central 4-1 CLE 1-5 DET 0-3 MINN 1-1 KC 6-10=.375 About as good as the 1962 Mets in the ALCD. Cue Greg meltdown/diatribe.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 06:53 PM) Ladies and gentlemen...We could very well be looking at our 'ace' going into next year. Who, Humber? He's starting? Because he's had all quality starts and the two that weren't, he only gave up 4 in both those games. Although against the Twins, he'd probably give up 7-9 runs in the first inning.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 06:52 PM) He's fallen in love with that 85 mph slider this year. What an awful inning by Gavin. Not to mention his Jenks-like inability to hold on runners. We're getting "outexecuted" to death. What new?? Cue Hawk meltdown or fawning words of praise. They're doing all this without Mauer, Nishioka, Morneau or Nathan!!!!! Amazing!

So much for the theory of changing the stadium....changing our luck. We're actually worse in that outdoor stadium than we are in the MetroDOOM.

Why didn't they even make an attempt to throw out Cuddyer there?

And the unwritten rule of baseball strikes again....don't score a runner from 3rd and less than 2 outs and the majority of time the opposition will score at least once the next inning.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 06:43 PM) JP: Too Big, Too Fast, Too Strong, Too Good You have to put 66% of that failure on Morel...he has to do better than that, I guess we can keep making excuses for him as a rookie, but that sucked.

Anyone suprised with our current 6-24 run going against the Twins? And 1-10 against Detroit?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 03:12 PM) This may be a dumb question, but who else are you referring to? Joe Nathan and Soriano?

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jun 13, 2011 -> 11:58 PM) $150,000 I'm not sure which has been the worst investment, KWJR, the Dominican Academy, Manny Ramirez, Jerry Krause or Dave Wilder's disco "Burn."

What was the signing bonus for KWJR? Does anyone know?

As long as we don't bring back Broadway, McCulloch or Anderson Gomes, I'm "all in" on bringing back Poreda. Who knows, maybe Santos could teach him to throw one of his offspeed pitches. It's so crazy how a career SS can pick up 4 quality major league pitches and someone like Thornton and Poreda can barely throw 2, guys that have been pitching for 12-15 years.