White Sox and Twins

[spark240]

The White Sox have won their game with the Tigers, so there will indeed be one more season game in the AL Central. A very-last-day meeting between two teams tied for first place in their division, with everything on the line; this is how the season should end! :cap:

[MagsMigs]

Here's pulling for the Twins. Winning with coaching, defense, pitching, chemistry, baserunning, and a $40-something-million payroll. A true example of a TEAM, from how it's run to how it plays. Congrats from a bitter rival.

(two of the game's best hitters help, too, but after them, they're pretty bleak offensively)

[doctor_gogol]

I'm a Detroiter, living in Minneapolis, rooting for the Sox

I'd like ot see an all Chicago series. With the Cubs taking it all.

[jaxxr]

Just great for baseball,

Great for the Twins and the Chisox, I'll be rooting for tonite's winner to somehow go on and win the WS !!!

[Brad Harris]

Doesn't matter really, since I'll be rooting for the Rays in the Division Series. On the other hand, I hate Ozzie Guillen so...

Go Twinkies!

[yamsi12]

I cant stand ozzie or AJ.....so go twinkies.
:)

[MagsMigs]

Why aren't the Twins sending Frankie Liriano to the hill? It would be on 4 days rest, and even if you want to strategically use him in certain playoff games (i.e. games 1 & 5), you aren't there yet. I don't get it.

[Seattle1]

I am rooting for the White Sox!

[Evangelion]

Why aren't the Twins sending Frankie Liriano to the hill? It would be on 4 days rest, and even if you want to strategically use him in certain playoff games (i.e. games 1 & 5), you aren't there yet. I don't get it.
I don't believe the Twins want to start Liriano on three days rest.

[Dodgeboy]

I'm just wondering why baseball still uses a coin flip to determine home-field for these games. Wouldn't the season series (10-8, Twins) be more fair and logical. Winning the series should count for something.

Go Twins!!

[spark240]

I'm just wondering why baseball still uses a coin flip to determine home-field for these games. Wouldn't the season series (10-8, Twins) be more fair and logical.

I'm with you there. Why use a random device when you don't have to?

[Bobby_Ayala]

White Sox hit more than double the home runs the Twins hit but, the Twins scored more runs.:lookitup:

[MagsMigs]

If the Sox hang on, then they're in the playoffs because of a freaking COIN. They've mustered one run behind the most electrifying home crowd I've seen in a long time. There's no way on earth the Sox survive the dome. What's funny is regardless of the outcome, the Twins win the season series.

[NYMets523]

Yeah. It is ridiculous they got home field because of a quater. Such is baseball. I hate the White Sox but I wouldn't mind seeing them win just for Griffey and Thome.

[spark240]

And the Sox hang on to win it, 1-0 on the Thome blast.

I guess this is good news for Barack Obama and you others who want to see an all-Chicago Series.

[MagsMigs]

The Sox also need to thank Cliff Lee for skipping his final start. Awfully convenient, ain't it?

That should cost Cliff they Cy Young.

*sigh* not really, just venting.

But seriously, thanks are in order for Cliff Lee, a quarter, and Minny's third base coach. Really?! Tagging on a pop fly to shallow center?!

Ok, and John Freaking Danks.

[108stitches]

I guess this is good news for Barack Obama and you others who want to see an all-Chicago Series.

Bush also wanted to see the Chicago Clubs and Chicago White Stox in the Serious.:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[MagsMigs]

I guess this is good news for Barack Obama and you others who want to see an all-Chicago Series.

Of the three, hopefully only the Cubs win. :hide:

[Seattle1]

White Sox fans held a "black out" where they all came to tonight's game dressed in as much black clothing as possible. Looked pretty interesting on TV. At Penn State University, sometimes they hold a "white out" where everybody comes to the Nittany Lions game dressed in as much white as possible.

I guess this kind of thing might help psych-out the opponent, and encourage the home team, a little bit.

[skobabe8]

The Sox also need to thank Cliff Lee for skipping his final start. Awfully convenient, ain't it?

That should cost Cliff they Cy Young.

*sigh* not really, just venting.

But seriously, thanks are in order for Cliff Lee, a quarter, and Minny's third base coach. Really?! Tagging on a pop fly to shallow center?!

Ok, and John Freaking Danks.

Sorry Mags!

:dance

[Rowdie]

The Sox also need to thank Cliff Lee for skipping his final start. Awfully convenient, ain't it?

That should cost Cliff they Cy Young.

*sigh* not really, just venting.

But seriously, thanks are in order for Cliff Lee, a quarter, and Minny's third base coach. Really?! Tagging on a pop fly to shallow center?!

Ok, and John Freaking Danks.Yes, it makes much more sense to blame a team shutting down their surprise ace with a sore shoulder on the last day of the year and nothing to play for. There's certainly no blame to be laid at the feet of the Twins who, oh, I don't know, lost 2 out of 3 to the Royals - in the Dome. Or maybe try going better than 11-14 in September with 18 of those games against teams with a worse record than they had. Just 12-13 would have avoided game 163 with the ChiSox.

I would have liked to see the Twins - I admire how they run their franchise, but I've run across too many of their fans who point the finger everywhere else but themselves.

[partydude1377]

White Sox fans held a "black out" where they all came to tonight's game dressed in as much black clothing as possible. Looked pretty interesting on TV. At Penn State University, sometimes they hold a "white out" where everybody comes to the Nittany Lions game dressed in as much white as possible.

I guess this kind of thing might help psych-out the opponent, and encourage the home team, a little bit.

Yea, the Georgia Bulldogs do this occasionally as well, a black out that is,....unfortunately it didn't help us against alabam last week, uhhh.

[DoubleX]

I'm just wondering why baseball still uses a coin flip to determine home-field for these games. Wouldn't the season series (10-8, Twins) be more fair and logical. Winning the series should count for something.

I agree. Seems very unfair to not reward the Twins for winning the season series. Playing in the Metrodome, which is a right the Twins should have earned, could have made a difference last night. I'd be pretty annoyed at MLB if I were a Twins fan.

[doctor_gogol]

I agree. Seems very unfair to not reward the Twins for winning the season series. Playing in the Metrodome, which is a right the Twins should have earned, could have made a difference last night. I'd be pretty annoyed at MLB if I were a Twins fan.


Well, the 2 teams just played 4 games in Minneapolis last week. A change of venue was only fair.

[MagsMigs]

Yes, it makes much more sense to blame a team shutting down their surprise ace with a sore shoulder on the last day of the year and nothing to play for. There's certainly no blame to be laid at the feet of the Twins who, oh, I don't know, lost 2 out of 3 to the Royals - in the Dome. Or maybe try going better than 11-14 in September with 18 of those games against teams with a worse record than they had. Just 12-13 would have avoided game 163 with the ChiSox.

I would have liked to see the Twins - I admire how they run their franchise, but I've run across too many of their fans who point the finger everywhere else but themselves.

Really? You didn't catch the "*sigh*, not really, just venting" part? You must not have because certainly you wouldn't have felt compelled to compose a paragraph full of jumble, with which you were honestly conviced would change my way of thinking. Well sorry that I foiled your chance to be a voice of reason, because the "*sigh*, not really, just venting" part was to insinuate that I didn't really mean what I said. Seriously, it came right after the Cliff Lee line. Read it again, you might realize that I wasn't serious. But thanks anyway for the policework. Just channel it where it fits, that's all. You've got the sarcasm down, so you're on the right track. Oh, and sorry you spent all that time unnessecarily digging up their September stats.

By the way, I'm not a Twins fan, but it's interesting to see how their fans are viewed. Sorry, guys (Twins fans). I really was pulling for you!

By the way, Rowdie, along the same lines as your argument... If my Aunt had a unit, she'd be my Uncle.

[MagsMigs]

Sorry Mags!

:dance

*sigh* I know, I know... :sigh:

I think I was more upset that Mags and Freddy couldn't stick it to their former team the previous night.

And that Ozzie Guillen is a top-notch ***hole. Yeah, we have Sheff and Rogers, but they're choirboys next to him.

Go Rays!