September 25, 2008
Twins Killer?
Sox Machine wants the White Sox to fight piranhas with piranhas:
Carlos Quentin's wrist injury wasn't supposed to mean this much. Granted, he would've been a shoo-in for MVP had he not overreacted to missing a Cliff Lee fastball, but with Dye and Jim Thome holding their own, Nick Swisher coming off an acceptable August and Paul Konerko beginning to come around, the biggest question was supposed to be the bullpen.
That's not the case, and the Sox's attack is a shell of what it was just a month and a half ago. It seems like much longer than that.
Nevertheless, I have a solution for tonight - but the Sox will have to act quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, two words:
Jason. Tyner.
That's pretty funny. The piranhas on the Twins actually can hit. That helps.
Last night's game could have gone either way. Mauer barely beat out a double-play grounder to score a run, Pierzynski's drive in the ninth almost fell in, etc.
To state the obvious, there's so much luck in a one-run game. Meanwhile, the opening game of the series was hardly a piranha-fest. The Twins just outclubbed the White Sox with three home runs.
What will happen tonight? If I knew, I'd be using BoDog right now for all my baseball gambling needs.