Regardless of whether the White Sox are winning or losing these days, a common complaint among callers to Chris Rongey's "Xfinity Feedback Zone/White Sox Radio Network Postgame" after games is RV's refusal to take DH/1B Adam Dunn out of the #3 spot of his lineup. This as Dunn is flirting with a .200 overall BA and is on track to breaking his own single-season strikeout record that he set a year ago.

While fans continue to bitch and moan about Dunn, consider this, Sox fans. Before he left to become the Miami Marlins' manager, Ozzie moved Dunn out of the #3 spot many times last season, and guess what? It didn't work and Dunn was miserable no matter where he was penciled in, even when Dunn sat for a few games and wasn't even in the lineup.

It's not just Dunn that has been awful lately. 1B Paul Konerko has only 2 RBI's in July, while 2B Gordon Beckham has struggled since being dropped from #2 to #9 and even 3B Kevin Youkilis has gone into an offensive funk, too. The White Sox offense in general has had a lot of trouble struggling to score 1 run, let alone 5 runs a game since the All-Star Break. The time has come for RV to shake up his lineup and go back to a combination that was most productive before the Youkilis' acquisition from the Red Sox. That lineup starts with CF Alejandro De Aza & putting Beckham, despite the subpar BA & on-base percentage, in the #2 spot.

Here's what else I'd like to see RV do with his lineup:
*Move Youkilis down to 6th where he was more of an RBI guy during his years in Boston
*Your #7, #8 & #9 hitters should be C A.J. Pierzynski, LF Dayan Viciedo & SS Alexei Ramirez
*Youkilis or 1B Paul Konerko Batting 3rd in Games Dunn Isn't In the Lineup (Not Many)
*RF Alex Rios in the #4 Spot when Konerko Isn't in the Lineup
*Beckham Leads Off when De Aza Isn't In the Lineup

These are just a few suggestions worth considering before this White Sox season gets away.

This is all I got from this post

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Rob Van Dam...No.

It sounds like the White (meaning light skinned) White Sox are struggling.

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RV to SHARK: Mind your goddamn business.

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I'm just trying to help.

Hey, who hasn't once or twice, right?

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It's a team-wide problem.

This ties in perfectly to Good Dolphin's bum story. Circle of life...

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Especially in Cleveland I'm guessing.

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Here would be my lineup, SHARK. What do you think?

Ramirez SS
AJ C
Rios RF
Vicideo LF
Youkilis 3B
Konerko 1B
DeAza CF
Dunn DH
Beckham 2B

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No. I like this better.

De Aza CF
Beckham 2B
Konerko 1B
Rios RF
Dunn DH
Youkilis 3B
Pierzynski C
Viciedo LF
Ramirez SS

That looks like a lineup that Liriano could no hit.

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Well, he no-hit the White Sox, I think a year or two ago at the Cell.

I know, we went thru this in the other thread. Best game ever pitched at the Cell.

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I'm trying to help...The White Sox fixed what's not broken.

Huh?

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Read the start of this thread. You'll know what I meant.

I did.

What did the White Sox fix that wasn't broken?

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The lineup...It was productive when De Aza & Beckham were #1 & #2. It's no longer productive with Youkilis in there. That was the idea behind the thread!

Youkilis has been the Sox most productive hitter since he got here!!

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Was it not productive with De Aza and Youklis at the top until it wasn't?

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In the last 2 weeks, not so much.

So let's shuffle the lineup every time it struggles for more than a week.

Good idea SHARK.

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I just don't like the logic that because a guy hits marginally less horribly in the 2 spot, as justification for him being in the 2 spot. You suck at hitting, you go in the 9 hole, or wherever the manager sees fit. Youkilis is fine near the top of the order, he will walk and work a count. Beckham has a good month or two a season, but he has enough of a track record now of being a below-average hitter, I think we can comfortably projet that he is what he is at this point.

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Defense is Gordon Beckham's calling card. Make no mistake about it. That being said, I heard Mac & Spiegs mention the name Robby Thompson, who used to play with the Giants some 20 years ago, in the same breath with Beckham last week.

I think Robby Thompson would hit one out of the yard every once in a while. And I don't recall him being anything more than an average fielder... so No. I don't think it's a very good comparison.

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