Go Dodgers!

anybody? anybody?

Let’s go Jamie Moyer.

Yuriorkis Gamboa fights tonight!

2 outs, Martin on 1st. manny comes up. base hit. Martin takes 3rd. Loney comes up, double down the line = 2 runs. Simple, right?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/1201790,CST-SPT-greg04.article

If White Sox bench coach Joey Cora gets the Mariners’ managing job, as has been speculated, that would hurt the White Sox, an official from another American League team opined. The official said of Cora: “He’s very good. He does all of their paperwork and all of their spring training stuff.”

http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-spken1005,0,7899558.column

The White Sox have just added many new fans. These frustrated Cubs fans should be welcomed by us. They do not need any more disrespect. As long as they are truly committed to the White Sox and not to the Cubs, let us show them how it feels to be part of a team that has winning as its first priority.

are different sides of the same coin.

is a much better story than Cubs win.

Matchup: Rays (97-65) at White Sox (89-74), 3:07 p.m. CT, TBS
Probable Starters: Matt Garza (184 2/3 IP, 4.05 RA, 1.24 WHIP, 128 K) vs. John Danks (195, 3.42, 1.23, 159)
Pythagorean Record: Tampa Bay, 92-70 (774 RS, 671 RA); Chicago, 89-74 (811 RS, 729 RA)
Hit List Rankings: Tampa Bay, #3; Chicago, #10
Series Favorite: Rays, 89.5% (Up 2-0)
Prospectus: The White Sox have been exposed in the first two games of this series as a slow team unable to produce runs except via the long ball. Now they face elimination, and will have to “fight like a cat,” as manager Ozzie Guillen put it, if they want to have a shot at spoiling the Rays’ storybook season. Chicago does get to come back to US Cellular Field this afternoon, where it posted the fourth-best home winning percentage in baseball during the regular season. The Sox will also have Danks on the hill, who is coming off a superb performance in Chicago’s one-game divisional playoff win over Minnesota, and who pitched very well versus the lefty-vulnerable Rays this year: a 1.86 RA and 20/3 K/BB in 19 1/3 innings over three starts. Garza, on the other hand, has scuffled a bit down the stretch of the season, failing to throw more than five innings in any of his final three starts, and his road RA this season (4.83) was over a run and a half higher than his home mark (3.28).

The Rays could get Carlos Pena back in the lineup today, as the slugging first baseman expects to play after missing most of Game One and all of Game Two due to blurred vision resulting from a scratched cornea he suffered while at home. If Pena does play, there is a good chance that Tampa Bay could put forth a batting order featuring its full complement of offensive talents for the first time all season: the Rays have not played a single game this year with Pena, Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, and Rocco Baldelli all in the lineup at the same time, but that could happen tonight. Baldelli missed most of the season due to his mitochondrial myopathy, returning in mid-August just a game after Crawford had been felled with a torn tendon in his finger, and three games after Longoria went down with a fractured wrist. Crawford didn’t get back into the batter’s box until this series, but has fallen right into his swing with a 3-for-8 showing and two RBI, while Longoria’s two blasts in Game One removed any lingering worries about his wrist. Anyone watching Baldelli race around the bases to score from first on Dioner Navarro’s pop-fly double in the eighth inning of Game Two had to be impressed with the progress that the outfielder has made in battling against his rare fatigue-inducing disease. It’s remarkable that the Rays were able to win 97 games while having their top batsmen miss so much time, and frightening for the rest of the playoff contenders that all of their offensive talent is finally healthy.

three elimination games.

OC, SS; AJ, C; Dye, RF; Thome, DH; PK, 1B; Griffey, CF; Ramirez, 2B; Wise, LF; Uribe, 3B. Danks pitching.

also an fyi for those of you holding tix for tomorrow:

Game Time

If the White Sox and Red Sox both win today, tomorrow’s game time will move to 7:07 p.m. to accommodate the TBS telecast (we’d be the only game in the country).

can we please dismantle the whole cubs organization? they are a total fucking embarrassment to any self-respecting Chicagoan. i’m almost rooting for them just so i don’t have to watch anymore douchebags crying.

was the sabathia for laporta trade worth it for milwaukee?

sonuvabitch.

I had the game on casually in the background, just to check in, see some plays, meh…
He could not believe that I wasn’t rooting for a Cubs win. I wasn’t being a dick about it, and cheering loudly for their demise; but I did express that I was hoping they lost.

Being from San Pedro, he was raised with the mindset that you root for your city, and even if the Sox are my team, the Cubs should then be my second team.

We argued for about 20 minutes, and I eventually got him to agree to disagree – we are of different cultures. He could not possibly get his head around the rivalry of the teams.

I know there are plenty of Sox/Cubs fans that loathe the other’s team. And I know there are plenty who don’t really care, and would root for the other, should they be competing… I don’t hold people at fault for thinking one way or the other… but I think part of my own take (in really disliking the Cubs) comes from the history of ridicule from Cubs fans – part of my wanting them to fail, comes from my not wanting Cubs fans to have bragging rights. I feel like this would fuck up my sphere of being in some way.

Anyway, long story short….am I a total asshole for not wanting the Cubs to win?

all filled w/ cub hubris. He bet me a ‘3 pack’ of malnattis pizza (I guess they fly ‘em in) that the Cubs would go farther than the Sox. So i hope for a win today…but isn’t there better pizza than malnatti’s these days? Back in the day they weighed about 30 lbs a pizza. Ideas?

I actually like Grimaldis under the Brooklyn Bridge. Or Johns on W. 44th

Griffey, whose nine-year, $116.5 million contract expires after this season, told Chicago writers that he wants to play three more years.

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/chasing-elusive-world-series-griffey-is-often-the-old-man-out/