Is one of those times we all need to step back and think about what we expected this season to be like before it started. I was thinking third place above the Royals and Tigers.. and here we are a half game back in August.

its been a damn good year, especially looking toward the future- Dank, Q, Alexie, Floyd and Swish are all great assets to our team moving forward.

And please for the love of the gods lets have Thome come back every year until his OPS dries up.

Go Sox or some such shit!

Here’s your choice of what to show in Milwaukee… two of the top four teams in the AL going head-to-head, one of which is a team who play all of 90 miles south of the city, or Cardinals vs Braves. Of course you go with Cardinals vs Braves — Cardinals are in the same division as the Brewers so clearly that takes precedence over a good baseball game. I know I’m beating a dead horse here but that exclusive Saturday window that Fox controls fucking sucks. I feel for you west coasters (among others) who probably get that shaft at least once a month.

As far as the game, it’s frustrating in the sense that the Twins are winning out in LA while we’re one game away from being swept at home. In a broader and more relative context, though, I’d file this one into the “shit happens” category. The Sox did a pretty decent job working Kazmir, Vazquez was cruising and then it all falls apart in the 8th. The Sox win that game better than 80% of the time — it just sucks that this time the Rays hit their river flush. That or I’m simplifying things way too much.

The Dye-Thome post-homerun “celebration” at homeplate cracks me up every time I see it. Dye trots around the bases and Thome is always waiting there at home, arm extended, waiting for a nice hand-shake once Dye touches the plate. It fits in perfectly with the “Gentleman Masher” persona.

He’s got a two run lead.

0.5 games back now.

White Sox bench coach Joey Cora is emerging as the early-line favorite to become the Mariners’ next manager, with interim skipper Jim Riggleman having little chance of getting the job on a full-time basis.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7986

We sure do suck against the AL East this year.

Then again, so do the twins.

i mean, he is still in the top 15 in the al in ops and even with his day yesterday he’s ops-ing .895 in the last week.

but no player worth a damn has ever struck out 4 times in a game before, and surely not when three of the four come off a pitcher the caliber of kazmir. except maybe thome during the rest of his career, when he presumably wasn’t declining, including striking out 4 times in 13 games before this season and 5 times twice. or the great adam dunn (4 strikeouts in a game 6 times and 5 k’s once). or a-rod (4 strikeouts in a game 4 times). or david ortiz. or manny ramirez.