I can’t believe THT let him do that write up.

Better than the crap on this site.

twins 2-1 favorites? I wish vegas would give me those odds.

Gio Gonzalez allowed just one run in five innings to defeat the Rays on Tuesday night.
His first major league win came in his second attempt. Gonzalez struck out five, but he did issue four walks on the night. He was able to limit the damage, though, and lower his ERA to 4.09 after two starts. He’ll face the White Sox, his former team, in his next start.

Jarrod Wasburn allowed four runs – one earned – in seven innings as the Mariners lost to the Angels on Wednesday.
He was only charged with one earned run thanks to a Yuniesky Betancourt error, but he did give up two homers in the contest. Still, he struck out three and didn’t allow a single walk, and allowed just seven hits despite the costly error. He’ll face the White Sox in his next start, assuming he’s still a Mariner.

I like it. The White Sox are underdogs again. I mean they have very little chance of competing or going to the playoffs this year.

One of the finest comics ever written/drawn. One of the more endearing characters was a lad who botched a suicide attempt (his father told him he should have put the gun in his mouth, not under his chin), and the resultant surgeries left him with the appropriate nickname of “Arseface”. Don’t know why I thought of him last night, but I did promise to post his pic today. Enjoy!

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the A’s pulled Alan Embree back after he was claimed off waivers by the Twins.
Oddly, the Twins let Chad Bradford get past them on waivers, but claimed the 38-year-old Embree and his 5.40 ERA.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

There is much more cogent analysis at the THBT.

The last starts from Floyd, Danks, MB and Javier have been very encouraging. When 3 out of the 4 have arguably their best stuff of the season and dominate with lots of strikeouts and pinpoint command and control, it’s hard to not get excited for what could be going forward.

That said, the news on Liney is very encouraging. Hopefully he can be back and effective within two weeks.

I’ve wrote off Crede for the rest of the season, Uribe has been playing very well though, and perhaps he can go on one of his little Uribe like runs where he posts a 250/300/500 line a month or so. His defense has been excellent.

I’m excited for the last 40 games, even if the Sox don’t pull it off it’s a hell of a good season with the emergence of so much young talent, and it gives hope for the future that really wasn’t there prior to this year.

but for those who don’t read those:

Guillen said after Tuesday’s 9-0 shellacking of the Royals that Quentin will be out of action once again on Wednesday night.

“Quentin is OK,” Guillen said. “I’m going to give him one more day to make sure he’s fine.”

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080812&content_id=3297046&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

If the Sox can hold the fort and Linebrink comes back the way he was early in the year, I think the bullpen will stabilize and we have a shot.

Contreras going down really hurt us.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Joel Zumaya’s loss Tuesday night “evidently will be his last appearance for a while” because of “ailments in his upper pitching arm.”
Zumaya allowed two hits and handed out three walks without getting an out Tuesday, and according to manager Jim Leyland he had a medical exam after the game. “I can assure you, I’m not going to have Zumaya for a while, even if everything checks out all right,” Leyland said. “All I know is there is a problem. Joel is not himself. I can see it in his face. I can see it in his demeanor. Right now, I don’t feel comfortable pitching Joel. I’m not talking about because of results. I’m talking about because something is not right. It’s going to be next year until he gets back to 100 percent.”

Source: Detroit Free Press