I hope the Twins just blister through the next two months so Kenny Williams can't even consider deadline desperation moves

Considering schedule and injury concerns, if the Twins go .500 for the remainder of May I would be very, very happy.

Scoreless in KC after 4. WTF?

Frankie T doing color? WTF?

Beckham may have a HOF career ahead of him as a hitter, but his baserunning needs work.

Steve Stone is taking a 3 day vacation. so Frank is in the booth from the 14-16th. They finally scored too.

Just saw the run on AJ's duck snort.

Frankie's finally loosening up. Those first two innings were really painful to hear.

Konerko just flied out. Barely.

Buehrle tossed. WTFZ. wow. unreal. lulz he does work fast.

Guillen's apparent inability to understand the concept of the LOOGY is ever so slowly moving me toward the "fire him" camp.

Twins are 9-9 right now since May 10. They do have Doug Fister tomorrow after a long flight tonight, so I expect them to fall just short of .500. But I thought they were going to play low 400 ball, so I cannot complain at all.

Looks like the Sox are doomed. thought they had a chance to turn it around this month. doesn't look like it. 9 games under .500 and Cleveland going for the sweep tomorrow.

I know its cynical, but I'm kind of relieved. They've been so bad that even Kenny "All-In" Williams may have to abandon any ill-advised deadline moves and plan for next year (or, frankly, the year after that).

Unfortunately there's less than a week to trade AJ and I'm worried it's not going to happen.

This is a really bad year for baseball in Chicago.
When does mini-camp start?

He's a 10 and 5 now. As much as I like AJ, it's very poor management to hang onto him with Flowers around.

Yeah. He could still OK a trade, although I don't think he will do so unless he is pretty certain he'll get a lot of playing time.

To play devil's advocate, it's possible that they simply weren't getting any good offers for him. And I acknowledge that there is some value in avoiding trades that will be seen as "white flag" moves so early in the season, especially with a popular veteran from the '05 team.

could we finally make it to .500 puh leazzze. pirates and nats. sox playing some good ball.

I'm rooting for the Sox to hover at .500 too.

HURRR 8-1 road trip

.500

MOVIN' ON UP

I'm pretty relieved that despite circumstantially horrible luck of the draw over the last 10 games

Twins: Braves/Rockies/Phillies - Each +.500 teams (Also facing Ubaldo Jimenez and Doc in the last 4 games)
Tigers: Pirates/Nationals/D'Backs - Bad/Bad/Worst
White Sox: Cubs/Pittsburgh/Nationals - Poop/Crap/Dookie

That the Twins held on to their lead for now.

Also, very excited that the Sox might no longer be sellers at the deadline.

I don't mind too much if the Sox aren't sellers as they didn't have much that was sell-able anyway. Just as long as they don't become buyers (or buyers of anything significant).

Chris Sale signed for slot money. Holy crap. This is already a pretty great draft year for the Sox.

This is unreal. 8 in a row. 3.5 back (9.5 two weeks ago). Someone woke up Carlos Quentin.



SUH WEEEEEEEEEEEP NIIIIINE


LOL MINNESOTA LOSES

2.5 BACKK WUT WUT

LOL CUBS NEXT CHOMP

Knock, knock...

Some great baseball lately. They're still the third-best team in the ALC, but stealing the division isn't out of the question with this pitching staff. Just as long as they don't do something crazy/stupid like trade for Prince Fielder, it could be a moderately enjoyable rest of the season.

This is a nice start. Was Zambrano hurt or what?

No, he just almost punched Derrek Lee in the dugout.

Big Z is having a complete meltdown this season, I love it when he goes all apeshit.

Glad to see somebody on the Cubs still fucking care about this season. This is what I want to see the Cubs lineup look like by the end of the season.

1. Sam Fuld - CF
2. Mike Fotentot - 3B
3. Marylon Bryd - LF
4. Tyler Colvin - RF
5. Starlin Castro - SS
6. Geovany Soto - C
7. bring up some minor leaguer - 1B
8. bring up some other minor leaguer - 2B
9. pitcher

Derek Lee needs to get his lazy ass and his blind daughter the fuck out of Chicago.

Theriot is the most overrated Cub of the past two decades.

Suspended Indefinitely?

10 in a row pretty sick.

Minnesota loses again. 1.5 back.

ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HURRRRRRRRR this is pretty special.

tied with tigers for 2nd.

I don't know if you've heard but there is this soccer thing going on right now, it's getting a lot of coverage, you might want to check it out.

You haven't exactly been the best ambassador for the sport, WP.

i dont buy any of this until we start playing AL teams again

Oh I'm right there with you. Nothing has changed since my (extremely prescient) first few posts in this thread.

and now we are back to the same old white sox from this season...cant score runs against bad teams

Sox to pursue Adam Dunn?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/2447412,ada...-062910.article

The tricky thing is that Dunn will probably be a Type A free agent, which means that the Nationals would want a lot for him since they would be giving up those picks as well.

I think the price will be too high and he'll just stay in Washington. Unless the Angels make an offer the Nats can't refuse, but I think teams will go for cheaper guys like Luke Scott.

Wouldn't Jim Thome look nice in a White Sox uniform about now? Good thing Ozzie added flexibility to this lineup. That's been a winning strategy. Great to see Kotsay and Jones getting at bats instead of old slow Jim Thome.

or dye for that matter...at least he couldve given you some flexibility in the field...

by going out and getting dunn kenny and ozzie have then said - small ball doesnt work (at least with these players)

which would then be unfortunate cause dunn and thome are esentially the same player

prince would be a nice move since hes already said he wont play in MIL next year and theyd like to get a nice return for him, but what do the sox really have to give up? floyd?

Fielder and Dunn are both going to cost too much because they're both (probably) Type A free agents. To get one of them the Sox would have to give up at least Hudson or Flowers, and probably some smaller pieces too.

I would rather see something like Nevin Griffith or Carlos Torres for a guy with a lower pricetag like Luke Scott. Or best of all, save the prospects entirely and trade a bullpen arm to a contender for a new hitter.

I saw Jim Thome hit a triple for the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.

Did you read that sentence? No typos. How surreal is that?

Ugh. Peavy down.

let the hudson era begin

early reports are just a strained lat. hoping it stays that way.

quality relief from pena. and jones did something. he must've been pumped for polish heritage night.

Detached Latissimus Dorsi muscle for Peavy, likely done for the year...

Daniel Hudson is starting on Sunday...Stat line on Hudson this year at Charlotte for those not in the know:

17 starts, 11-4, 93.1 IP, 81 H, 31 BB, 108 K's, .228 Batting Average against.

We'll have to see how he does on the Major League level on a more regular basis (pitched a little last year), but with those kind of numbers, here's hoping it translates well.

Hudson will probably be solid. But they are now dangerously thin with just Carlos Torres and not much else available if (when) Garcia's junkball stops junking.

So they're now short two-three offensive positions AND a starter. They're too good to sell right now, but if Peavy is really out for the year, they can't buy either - they're too much of a long shot with this many problems.

do you move garcia to 4th slot now?

have they listed when hudsons first start will be?

Hudson's first start should be Sunday. They called up Marquez to fill in for Tony Pena over the next few days thanks to Pena's four and a third inning outing last night.

gz listening to the guys on baseball tonight talk about peavy, sounds like it could be career ending. out a year at least. always figured this guy would have arm problems based on how he threw.

yeah for a small guy hes got a violent arm motion...i was hoping hed develop some pitches with movement like maddux eventually did once he lost his speed....looks like he'll have no choice now

Well, he hasn't lost any velocity yet. He's been averaging 91.5 this year, which is right at his career average. I think it's premature to start talking about mechanics changes. They should look for a conditioning solution and only change his approach as a last resort, because his aggressiveness is pretty key to why he's a good pitcher.

do you really expect him to come back with speed after this?
the doctors dont even know how to treat this injury yet?

i dont

i never said there would have to be mechanics changes, he would just have to develop some pitches that create movement, and probably a better sense of location - just basically adapt to whatever his injury limits him to - which if it involves mechanics changes so be it

I don't know enough about this type of injury to say how fully he could recover from it. Can't think of any pitchers off the top of my head who had the same thing.


Fair enough. You went from talking about his violent arm action to developing new pitches, so I thought you meant his mechanics.


I don't understand why this is necessary - he's mixing five pitches with pretty good speed and varying breaks, and everything except his changeup has been in the black this year.