“You look at that team over there, they’re a little bit tougher than we are right now,” Cleveland manager Eric Wedge said after the White Sox defeated the Indians 6-5 Wednesday.

2 out of 3 in cleveland is big

I didn’t watch it, but fortunately CSN will show the game again at 7pm

... Cabrera went on to point out how any Major Leaguer who says he’s not selfish is lying. He added that “everyone is selfish about numbers, because that’s the only thing people cannot lie about.”

That sort of perceived “me-first” response goes against the “pulling from the same end of the rope” attitude the White Sox have been preaching since the start of Spring Training. But Guillen felt as if Cabrera made a wrong choice of words in his commentary.

“Everyone has to take care of themselves before they take care of the team,” Guillen said. “That’s the way he should have put it. I played the game. I played longer than he did, and I played with more different teammates than he did. I think selfish sounds like he isn’t a team player. But in baseball, I say we win as a team and lose as a team.

“But when you’re there, you’re by yourself. It’s not basketball, where you got to cover me and I’m going to shoot. This is about you. You hit a ground ball, that’s about yourself. When you’re going to hit, it’s you. Everyone has goals, and his goal is to make as few errors as he can, like I did it. But I keep repeating that. It’s not about me or him. It’s about the club.”

Above all else, Guillen’s previously mentioned comment sits at the crux of this situation. Cabrera can disagree with the man in charge, but as long as he continues to perform, having knocked 10 hits in his past 18 at-bats entering Wednesday’s contest, the disagreement gets pushed to the background.

“The only thing I care, believe me, is how he’s going to be on the field,” Guillen said. “I don’t think I’m his favorite manager. But you know what? He’s my favorite shortstop right now. He’s my favorite shortstop, and I know Cabby since years ago, and I don’t think our relationship should be missing about this.

“If he’s not happy or something here, we have stuff and we play our way. Maybe it’s the wrong or the right one. My way is to protect the players the best I can. If he don’t feel that way, there’s nothing I can do about it. I have 24 guys that I have to be behind him.

“It’s about playing well,” Guillen added. “He’s doing it right now. I don’t have an issue. Maybe one of his teammates has an issue. Hopefully not, but to me, I don’t lose my positive energy to stuff like that. We have more problems.”

1. The winning rally came after back to back doom and gloom posts. You know the Spiro Agnew line…
2. The Qnicorn picture (see game thread#2).
3. WU received a well-deserved comuppance!

Oh yeah, what Cheat said too.

Guillen admitted to making a mistake by thinking about not taking Hall with the team out of Spring Training. “Thank God we keep him and made that decision and he earned his spot,” said Guillen of Hall, who is hitting a team-best .375 in 40 at-bats. “We didn’t play him the way we should play him in Spring Training, because I worried about his injury. He’s doing a pretty good job, and hopefully he keeps it up.” ... The White Sox picked up their 1,000 franchise victory over Cleveland on Wednesday. It’s the third franchise they have defeated 1,000 or more times … Quentin has 23 RBIs in his past 20 games and six games with at least three RBIs. ... Four of Jermaine Dye’s nine home runs have come against the Indians.

Offense showing some ability to string things together. Floyd, obviously just keeps doing what he’s doing. He isn’t going to keep the ball in the park like early, but 7K and 1BB is great.

Ozzie and Cabrera need each other. I can’t stand Cabrera but at least he’s playing better lately. If you he can just be 90% of last year that will be a nice boost to the team.

sunday?

Very Batman, 60’s tv show variety.

the deal includes a team option for 2009 worth $13M or a $3M buyout … $22M of remaining $46M on his contract at time of trade that sends him to CHW is paid by PHI ($5.5M each season in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009)

so, 13-5.5=7.5 right?

I know most of us felt the team blew a great opportunity for increasing the lead earlier by wasting the good pitching, etc.

After the Tampa series (Assuming even worst case 1-3) comes opportunity #2.

The team plays 13 of 16 at home against KC, Minnesota, Col and Pittsburgh while visiting Detroit for 3.

Time for the bats to heat up and make some noise and build a bigger lead.

“if it partners with cadbury i don’t give a fuck which one it is. i wish someone had told me that sportsnation had replaced rationality with caps lock.

by MarketMaker on May 27, 2008 5:50 PM EDT”

Well, we know who to blame for an increased expense in trying to take care of our women:

“Candy Companies Blame Higher Prices
On Hedge Funds’ Chocolate Cravings
By AARON O. PATRICK
May 28, 2008; Page C1

London

The price of Cadbury PLC’s Caramello candy bar is up 10% over the past 12 months, raising a sticky question: Are hedge funds to blame?

Soaring cocoa prices are driving up the cost of chocolate around the world. The chocolate industry points its finger at speculative buying by professional investors, especially hedge funds.”

Fuckstick, MM. All men who have living, breathing women take umbrage at your speculative excess at the xpense of hard-working AMERICAN whipped men.

Thanks, man. Choke on it.

http://www.uroclub.org/

Oakland 3.23
White Sox 3.42
Toronto 3.43
Diamondbacks 3.54

So Sorry to See Cabrara Crying. It Seems Some Sorry Saps Can’t Stay Calm.

Will Cowley Keep Stirring the Swill?

Find out tomorrow!

Same South Side Sox Time!
Same South Side Sox Channel!

Alexei Ramirez appeared to strain his right hamstring when he scored a run in the seventh inning Wednesday, but he stayed in the game and was fine afterward.

“He just had a cramp,’’ Ozzie Guillen said. “I thought he pulled a muscle, but he doesn’t have any muscle. Maybe it was a cramp in his bone.’‘

Shortstop Orlando Cabrera all but sealed his eventual departure from the White Sox with the following statement:

“If it happens again, I will call again,” Cabrera told the Tribune on Tuesday after declining to speak to the other beat reporters covering the White Sox. “I don’t have to do it with other teams because they always had my back. They don’t want to do it here, I can take care of my own business. If you have a problem with what I did, come to me and say something. Don’t go to the media to send a message, because he didn’t send any message.’’ ...

inning if you can. I think it says alot about the pitcher Floyd has become this year, minimizing the damage from a few bloop hits and an error of his own doing.

1 for 3 tonight for Charlotte with a HR and a BB. He did have a throwing error. He also had a strikeout. Richar was batting third. I wonder if they will even call him up with Ramirez finally starting to hit.

Uribe was 1 for 4 with a RBI single for Charlotte. He also had a strikeout.

They gave up 5 runs in the 9th to allow the Twins to tie it up. The Twins then scored a run in the 10th inning to win the game.

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=62827&view=findpost&p=1648701

That guy is a massive White Sox homer.

Cabrera drew a walk during the Sox’s three-run fifth and scored the tying run in the seventh.

I’m not pointing it out because I’m above reproach, when clearly I’m not. I just thought I would point out that even when you have editors shit slips by…

...if a batter calls time while the pitcher is in the windup, and the pitcher goes ahead and throws the ball and his the batter, what happens? Dead ball? Live ball? Automatic ejection?

so he can do captain-like things such as helping with the leadership.

first for publicly acknowledging (what most of us believe already) that his ex-manager is better than Ozzie, then saying his manager doesn’t back him up. It’s one thing to be stats-oriented (wasn’t the most “selfish” stat guy Big Frank? And don’t most folks on this site want a statue built of him?). It’s another to keep throwing your manager under the bus.

For a guy who is the “field general” I think he may need to be fragged by someone he respects. Who might that be on this team? It reminds me a bit of Carlos Beltran and how he’s taking a very wide berth when it comes to his manager. I do wonder if it a cultural thing (there’s a marvelous pecking order in the Latin community, and Columbians are right up there with Spaniards and Cubans as the “top of the heap” category, from what I am told).

Link:

With [Frank] Thomas aching and Ryan Sweeney taken for X-rays after fouling a ball off his left foot Wednesday night, the A’s might have to dip down to Triple-A Sacramento for reinforcement from outfielder Travis Buck.

The A’s did not receive such good news about 22-year-old right-hander Fautino De Los Santos. He had elbow-ligament replacement surgery this week. He hasn’t pitched since April 24 at Class A Stockton.

Gio Gonzalez is also not doing very well for Oakland’s AAA team…

5.37 ERA
53.2 IP
59 H
28 BB
51 SO
.281 BAA
1.62 WHIP

Meanwhile, roidless Swisher is still stinking up the joint for our White Sox.

I’m not a big OC fan. My fear for the short-term has been that he’ll be nothing more than a replacement level SS and for the long-term that he’ll play well enough to be over-rated for supposedly good intangibles causing the Sox to re-sign him to large free agent contract. This tea-pot tempest may resolve both fears. First, if OC is pissed off and sure he’s leaving, that’s all the more reason to motivate into good production. I’m not a huge believer in the contract year theory but I don’t think it can hurt and maybe with OC, it will help. Second, having violated Kenny’s code of omerta, he’s much less likely to come back. Let’s all root for him to play well enough to help us win and then earn Type A status on the way out the door.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3417029

Paraphrased, since I read it IN the S-T, but can’t find it online:

“Ramirez is ok. I thought he pulled a muscle but he doesn’t have any. Maybe he pulled a bone”.