was that the part where we all pleaded for certain trades / moves?

I agree with everything.

having Junior out there. (2 Junior + 2 BA + a pinch of JD = 1 Q!)

I think Dr. Herm should have performed the surgery right there in the dugout tonight, giving Q! an additional 3 days of healing for the playoffs. We’ll need him for game 7 of the ALCS, damn it!

But anyway, I put the new Don Guillote in there, if nothing else.

Enjoy!
It’s been a long day, full of typos through tears, and I must rest up for some dragon boat races bright n early tomorrow.

Good night!

Great energy and definitely a lot better eye candy. Enjoyed the samba dancers outside. Inside not surprised to see the Sox offense roll at home, even without Quentin. As a few of us mentioned yesterday it will utimately come down to how they pitch before it does hitting.

Welcome back Mr. Konerko (even though you really had arrived and not many noticed). Driving home I tried to call the post game Score show to argue with host’s argument that the Sox had lost their most unreplacable piece, though he did finally admit this is not mid April where NO one was doing a damn thing except Superman himself.

If 13-9 doesn’t get it done (21 over for the season) then you just have to tip your cap for the season to the twins and say great season for us. Good to see Linebrink out there (he looked rusty) and can’t wait for Danks next start or today’s game where Im taking the family.

Mark Gonzales wrote:

The team also said third baseman Joe Crede, who has also been experiencing some injury problems lately, left the clubhouse to get a second opinion on his back.

“I’m not counting on him any time soon,” Guillen said.

Rick Morrissey wrote:

It’s being called a freak injury, but if you’re putting yourself in a situation over and over again where something odd might happen, it isn’t as freaky as it is dumb. An angry scream is just as effective as a punched bat. Laryngitis would not have put him on the disabled list.

Okay I will be a doofus (again) and point out the Rays will be tested again now. The White Sox are 4 games back in the lost column to them.

Their schedule is brutal now. 2 more on the road at Toronto, 3 at Boston, 3 at Yanks, 3 at home vs Boston and 4 at home vs Twins before ending finally 6 on the road vs weak sisters. Between them, Boston and Twins something gives.

They played well past the first rough late stretch. Not so sure it can happen this time and with Boston 2 1/2 back aren’t they likely to catch them?

I have been wrong pretty much on all things Rays but this does bare watching in the scoreboard stalking.

Here’s practically their first feature on Q all season…check the headline

“Carlos Quentin’s stupidity might have cost him the AL MVP Award.”

Matchup: Angels (85-55) at White Sox (79-61), 6:05 p.m. CT
Probable Starters: John Lackey (142 1/3 IP, 3.29 RA, 1.13 WHIP, 109 K) vs. Gavin Floyd (167, 4.58, 1.24, 119)
Pythagorean Record: Los Angeles, 76-64 (648 RS, 593 RA); Chicago, 79-61 (710 RS, 615 RA)
Hit List Rankings: Los Angeles, #8; Chicago, #6
Prospectus: The White Sox began life without their MVP candidate last night with a rousing 10-2 victory over Los Angeles, jumping on starter Dustin Moseley and reliever Darren Oliver for seven runs in the first three innings. Nick Swisher played left field in the absence of Carlos Quentin, who will have surgery Monday to insert a screw in his fractured right wrist and is likely out for at least the rest of the regular season, while Ken Griffey Jr. patrolled center, and Paul Konerko took the field at first base. The Quentin injury frees Chicago’s logjam of three bats for two spots in center and at first base—but of course not in the way that anyone wanted—and now Chicago is one pulled Griffey hamstring away from having to start Brian Anderson or Dewayne Wise regularly in the outfield. (To his credit, Wise has slugged .470 this season in very limited playing time, building on his excellent .319/.402/.565 campaign at Triple-A Charlotte.) Chicago is a very old offensive team—Griffey is 38, Jim Thome 37, Jermaine Dye 34, Orlando Cabrera 33, and Paul Konerko 32—so what looked like a congested offensive roster several days ago has now turned into one for which depth could well become a pressing problem in the event of another injury.

The loss of Quentin—who admitted yesterday that his injury was unfortunately self-inflected—was obviously a huge one, as he leads the American League with 36 homers and is third in OPS. That means that some member of the Pale Hose will have to volunteer for offensive overtime in order for the South Siders to hold off the Twins, who continue to shadow their Windy City rival. It looks like that player could well be Paul Konerko, who was 3-for-3 with a homer and a walk last night to extend a particularly hot run. Konerko went on the DL on June 14 holding an OPS of 693, and came off of it on July 8 by hitting .203 in 19 games. Since August 5, however, Konerko has come upon the swing that had gone missing for him all season, hitting .384/.510/.630 in 96 plate appearances.

instead of college football?

Link:

The White Sox announced that television announcers Ken Harrelson and Darrin Jackson will broadcast "Chicago Blackhawks Night" on Tuesday, September 9 (vs. Toronto, 7:11 p.m.) from the Fan Deck above center field. That game will be televised on Comcast SportsNet.

Sox lineups for Saturday

ANGELS

Figgins 3b

Anderson dh

Teixeira 1b

Guerrero rf

Hunter cf

Rivera lf

Napoli c

Wood ss

S. Rodriguez 2b

Lackey p

WHITE SOX

Cabrera ss

Pierzynski c

Dye rf

Thome dh

Konerko 1b

Griffey cf

Ramirez 2b

Swisher lf

Uribe 3b

Floyd p

2-1 Twins in the top of the 5th inning. Tigers need to score some damn runs.

While Black thinks Giles is a mainstay, the Padres front office obviously feels differently. Buster Olney says he heard that “the Padres were livid when Giles vetoed the trade that they pursued with the Red Sox in August.”

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/09/padres-were-liv.html

livid he used a clause in his contract. that you gave him. priceless.

GRANDERSON!!!