Chip Shots: Quickshots: Just When You Thought You Figured Them Out, The White Sox Screw With Your Head

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Chip Shots: Quickshots: Just When You Thought You Figured Them Out, The White Sox Screw With Your Head

Quickshots: Just When You Thought You Figured Them Out, The White Sox Screw With Your Head

Another improbable White Sox win yesterday and this one wasn't over Sergio Deli Mitre. This was over A.J. Burnett. The Sox get their chance to renew acquaintances with one of their all-time tormentors, C.C. Sabathia this afternoon. By the way, don't believe the hype. Sabathia vs. Buehrle used to result in Buehrle being gone by the third inning. I'm not it saying it will happen today, but it wouldn't shock me if it did.
It appears that Jake Peavy has made a good impression on the media. Now if he could only do it from the mound.
"What do you mean Lillibridge isn't a pitcher? Then send me a pitcher!" (White Sox Examiner)
J. Rod's take on the Peavy trade. (Midwest Sports Fans)
John Sickles, the great professor of minor league ball, weighs in on the trades. (Minor League Ball)
Larry's always stellar minor league update, including a report on Freddie Garcia.(South Side Side)
While we didn't get the Sox game here in Milwaukee, we did get the Brewers game, so I got to watch Clayton Richard's debut in a Pods uniform. He looked good for four innings, but started running out of gas in the fifth and was finally pulled in the sixth. He was denied the win when reliever Greg Burke gave up a run in the top of the sixth.
Speaking of not seeing the Sox game yesterday, I would like to personally have five minutes in a locked room with the idiot that drew up this week's broadcast map. This is the Midwest and there are no ties to the Dodgers or Braves and no one around these parts gives a damn about either of those two teams. The White Sox are ninety miles away and there was no excuse that I could think of that justifies you boneheads running a Dodger-Brave game. Don't give me the NL city argument either. Neither is in the same division with the Brewers.
I love this comment.
Funny cartoon from the AJC on a potential beer summit. Why do they draw Obama to look like Carlos Marmol? (via Kissing Suzy Kolber)
Big Ben apologizes to his teammates for creating an unnecessary distraction. I think the chick's lawyers should also apologize to the Steelers for the same thing.
Once again, the WWL decides to do a documentary that amuses no one. Even as a non-Cub fan, there was NO WAY IN HELL Moises Alou and his gimpy, aging knees were going to make that catch. And besides that it was the sure double play ball blown by Alex Gonzalez that coast the Cubs this game. And they still had a game 7! So, you tell me how one poor guy, in the wrong place at the wrong time can take all the heat. Maybe the WWL ought to do a documentary on "Great Chokes in Modern History) and feature 1969, 1972, 1984, 1989, 2003 and the last two years of Cub baseball, THAT would be entertaining.
Unfortunately, the era of finding out what an athlete is up to off the field is coming to an end (Sports By Brooks)
If you never saw this man play or know little about him, get this book. Thurman Munson was everything you ever wanted a baseball player to be. Hard to believe we got that horrible news thirty years ago.