Short and Sweet

Minus a couple crappy calls in tonight's game, they Twins pretty much screwed themselves over tonight. Too many missed opportunities and blown plays. Sloppy baseball at it's best. Yes we didn't just roll over and let the Spank-me's take it from us, but still. You guys play better baseball then this.

I'm not sure what the hell Joe Nathan's problem is again, but I thought we were over whatever little fight we were in, pretty sure after tonight we're fighting again because I'm not very happy with him. I'm not very happy with Jason Kubel either, but he and I haven't been fighting for the last 2 months.

I hate the Yankees, that will never change, but that was pretty much a stolen game for them. They got lucky with that one. I wanna know who paid off the umps.

All I'm saying is this, you guys need to pull your heads out and stop playing scared. Pretend it's game 163 again and go out there with the fire and determination you had on Tuesday damn it.

Again Joe? Seriously?

Before I get into the game...

The disappointment from today's game, at least for me, became anger after reading a message on Twitter from the Star Tribune's Joe Christensen about Paul Konerko.

"Classic (Konerko). After the game, flipped his cap off as he walked into the clubhouse and said, 'We own this place'.''

Last time I checked the White Sox record in the dome wasn't that great (5-19 in their last 24 to be direct) and they were all crying and ready to leave. And my gosh, they come back and win a game and they own the fucking Dome. As far as I'm concerned I'm glad it's the last time they are going to be here this year because I was getting tired of listening to Ozzie cry about how much he hates the Dome... same goes for AJ.

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Onto the game...

It sucks that we lost because I was tasting a sweep of those idiots again like you wouldn't believe. I think today's loss hurt more than the loss did in Oakland earlier this season. I think my heart was in my toes when Nathan gave up the home run to tie the game. Don't get me wrong, I love Joe Nathan, but it hurts when I start thinking I don't want him to come into a game and it's coming to that point. I know I used some language that might not be work appropriate when the game was tied up, and I really know I used language I shouldn't have when the Sox took the lead.

Joe, we still love you... some of us just don't like you very much right now. Just please, please, please figure it out and soon. I miss watching you come out and scare the crap outta the guys at the plate. I wanna be able to use "Fear The Nathan" again and right now the fans are fearing the Nathan instead of the guys at the plate.

I don't wanna spend the whole post this time dwelling on what could have been (more like what should have been) because there was an amazing pitching performance today from Brian Duensing. I strongly feel as though both he and Jeff Manship should be tops candidates for the starting rotation for the 2010 season, I'm sure everyone knows the two that they would replace ;-)

Duensing went 7 shut out innings with 7 strike outs and only 5 hits. He did amazing against the Sox today like he did when he pitched against them in his first major league start back in July. He's been proving time and time again he deserves to be here in the majors. He may have only had 88 pitches in today's game, but 59 of those were strikes. Amazing job today Brian!!

Both he and the White Sox Killer seem to know how to handle Chicago... now if only our closer could take notes.

I know we still have three more games against the Sox this month in the South Side, but all I have to say to them is don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

A Blown Save? Say it Ain't so Joe!

Coming from me, I'm getting tired of all these walk off wins after us having the lead, even though I didn't last the whole game. I somewhat heard what was going on as I did leave my TV on, but I totally missed Nathan's blown save, which is probably a good thing because it quite possibly could have done me in for the day.

He's not perfect. He's not going to get the save every time he goes out there, but does it make the pain any less bearable, no not really because it's Nathan, so many people expect when he goes out there it's game over. But after 20 consecutive saves, as much as I hate to admit it, I knew there was going to be a game in there that didn't go his way and last night was it.

We had been doing so well on the road lately and the last thing I wanna see is this team fall back into the "hole" we were in on the road at the beginning of the season, but all these walk-offs and late inning rally's from teams are going to hurt us in the long run.

I have to agree with Sarah though, can we get some sushi for the Angels for tonight's game? Buscher knows of a great place to get it! How about a rule boys? No sushi on games days... less chance of food poisoning! I'll admit I did have to laugh a little when the reports started coming in that he was thinking it was bad sushi, but at the same time I know it's not a laughing matter because it's no fun. Thankfully we had Harris to play at 3rd or it could have been a more interesting game then it already was!

It's no secret that I don't like Jesse Crain, so I had to chuckle a little this morning when I found out he had to take the loss. Welcome back Jesse. But you know it has to be bad when Gardy even comes out and says that we need pitchers. I've got at least one outfielder and a 2nd basemen we can trade! Perhaps even a pitcher or two from Triple A.

If tonight's game goes like last night I'm going to take all their little rally monkeys and throw them in the Pacific Ocean :-)

A game guys. Where is your freakin' A game?! That's all I'm asking for. You had it going for awhile, did you leave it in Texas with the gray uniforms or something?