MLB - 2008 All Star Break and Beyond!

[Stuie]

Rays must be happy - they get the winner of tomorrow's game, right? (Assuming the ChiSox hang on).

Rather have that than the LAAoA.

[snoopy369]

They do.

Alexei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they win tonight and tomorrow, Imran, you think that GS makes a difference in the RotY voting?

[-Jrabbit]

Alexei sets the ML record for grand slams by a rookie with 4. He's hitting olver .400 with bags loaded, too. I know the whole "clutch hitting" thing is considered overrated (code for "we havent found a metric for it that we like"), but this kid is clutch.

Now if the bullpen can just get those... last... 3... outs... :Please:

[snoopy369]

Jenks will come in, give up 3 runs, and then strike out the side with the bases loaded. He works better under pressure.

[-Jrabbit]

I was never so disappointed as when Jenks gave up those two hits on 0-2 counts in the 8th against the Twins last Thursday. That was brutal.

[-Jrabbit]

INSURANCE RUN!

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[-Jrabbit]

OK, a 6 run lead now. Maybe we can do this without burning Jenks.

[-Jrabbit]

Amazingly, a 1-2-3 ninth for Carrasco, so Jenks is rested for the play-in game vs. the Twins tomorrow.

Weird fact:
White Sox and Twins finish 162 games with identical home, away, and division records. Plus (obviously) their overall records.

[snoopy369]

Go Sox

Managed to get a ticket to the game tomorrow, was hoping to get a couple and go with a group but tickets sold out crazy fast... Had a reasonably good ticket (just towards right of center field seat) on my phone's browser, but that quit as I put in my email info Ended up with give or take left foul pole, near back row... but still, it's a seat Maybe Alexei can pull one over my way

[-Jrabbit]

Cool, have fun!

[Berzerker]

Congrats Imran on winning the league championship

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Managed to get a ticket to the game tomorrow

Sweet

I love one game playoffs!

[Guynemer]

Quick question:

The Twins won the season series vs. the Sox, 10-8.

So why is the game in Chicago?

[snoopy369]

MLB doesn't use tiebreakers for anything that matters. They use coin flips. (Among other things, they need to schedule these way in advance, so they can't wait to see who wins the series, I suspect.)

Jake Hahn, a five year old who is the son of the Assistant General Manager, called the coin flip 'heads', and thus it is played in Chicago.

[-Jrabbit]

Sox break through with a Thome HR in the 7th.

1-0; 6 outs to go.