Chris Sale Brings Bling, Blank Innings

The White Sox are 7-0 when tied before the first inning on the road with Manny Ramirez on the roster

I still believe that the Twins will hit a wall at some point. Chris Sale was impressive today and I can’t wait to see him in the starting lineup sometime next season.

I was so disgusted after that Sunday Yankee game….. I told my dad not to send in the playoff payment. Luckily he didn’t listen to his loose cannon of a son.

Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe I’ll back off the ledge.

…but it’s more important that they didn’t lose any ground. The Twainn could have put us away on multiple occasions…but didn’t.

It can still happen. But so far, so good.

You guys.

Chicago public school 6th graders go back to school in three hours.

Activity on SSS set to drop by 43%.

From the Star-Tribune

The White Sox rallied past Boston on Sunday at Fenway Park for their sixth straight victory, and Target Field patrons were treated to the highlights late in the Twins’ 6-5 victory over the Texas Rangers.

“That was the worst thing you can do,” Gardenhire said Monday. “I thought that was really terrible to put the highlights of the White Sox up there in our game.”

and..

“We’ve never done that, and I hope they never do that again,” Gardenhire continued. "That brought everybody down; the crowd went pfffffffft. We don’t need that. This is our game. We’re playing our game. We don’t care what the White Sox do until we play them.

“Scoreboard watching is one thing; having White Sox highlights during our game is a joke.”

“You don’t have to tell me, I know,” Gardenhire said following Monday’s 5-4 victory over the Royals. “I feel them. Every one of them. We don’t get much sleep at night.”

In 51 hours White Sox won against Bucholz, Lackey, Beckett, Scherzer on road

Beat Verlander tonight and it’s the baseball equivalent of a sweep on Super Tuesday.

agree with what’s been said that even though we haven’t made up too many games, huge to win on the road and against the quality of pitching we faced. don’t stop now boys!

also, manny’s line with sox so far: .364/.462/.364, will the power show up?

Jim Thome on the Der Twain hurts again and again and again.

Also the games were blacked out in Madison Wisconsin… weird shit

http://twitter.com/InsideTheSox/status/23258735178

Sale’s a good story. But my guess is there are a lot of college starters who could make a fairly immediate splash in the minors. They don’t because college starters drafted in the first round — the most talented young pitchers that anyone can identify — next become professional starters rather than professional relievers.

But if you can throw 95 miles an hour with reasonable control, you don’t need a great deal else. Sale’s been pitching for many years. The Dodgers have this kid, Kenley Jansen, who was a catcher until last summer. But he couldn’t hit and he was 6-feet-6 and he could throw really hard, so the Dodgers made him a pitcher. This year in the minors he struck out 78 hitters in 45 innings, and he’s essentially done the same thing since joining the big club six weeks ago.

The dirty little secret about relief pitching is that there are many hundreds of pitchers in professional baseball, right now, who could be excellent relievers in the major leagues right now. The great majority of them are starters.

If teams had 30-man rosters, everybody would have 15- or 16-man pitching staffs, and starting pitchers as we know them would become mostly extinct. Instead, we might see the “starter” go two innings and be followed in quick succession by four or five “relievers,” with everyone throwing mid-90s fastballs and impossible breaking stuff.

Baseball’s not easy. I can’t throw 70 anymore. But there are scads of big boys on this earth who can throw 95 for an inning or two.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/5148/how-unlikely-is-chris-sale

when up against his competition

i feel lost already.

Since spring training we’ve speculated about a chain reaction in which Fredi Gonzalez goes to Atlanta, Ozzie Guillen goes to Florida and La Russa comes to the White Sox, to finish his managerial career where it began. The possibilities remain.