What are you trying to say, Frank? That's exactly the kind of guy Vazquez was. Sort of like "Losing Pitcher" John Danks. The difference is, I don't want to run Danks out of town. I realize that he has value and contending teams need guys like him. I just wouldn't have given him money like he was the key man in my rotation. The Sox never did that with Vazquez. He was brought in to be a 4/5 guy and that's what he was and he did it well.

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

If I had one game to win and had to choose between Danks or Javy to take the bump, I would choose Danks 10 times out of 10.

Danks winning the Blackout Game might be the most credit one guy has gotten out of one start since Kerry Wood's 20K

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

"losing pitcher" Nick Blackburn.


Danks was also the only pitcher to get a win in the ALDS that year.

So far, 1st rounder Tim Anderson has made 9 errors in 15 games. Hitting .302, but 4/20 BB/K ratio.

The White Sox have promoted 2B Micah Johnson to High A Winston-Salem. They also promoted RHP Jake Petricka and 1B Andy Wilkins to Triple A Charlotte.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

He's still a little on the high side.

White Sox prospect Scott Snodgress came within two outs of a no-hitter for Double-A Birmingham on Monday night.

In a 7-0 win over Chattanooga, Snodgress allowed a one-out single in the ninth to the Lookouts' Matt Wallach on an 0-1 count.

Removed from the game after the hit, the No. 6 White Sox prospect, according to MLB.com, improved to 10-7 on the season with a 4.09 ERA. He also struck out five and walked three.

"It was an incredible feeling," Snodgress said to MiLB.com. "I wish that I could have finished it, but I guess that's how it goes."

He'd previously thrown six innings of a combined no-hitter for Rookie-level Casper on Aug. 18, 2011, three months after he was drafted out of Stanford University in the fifth round.

In three starts this month, the 23-year-old lefty has allowed one run over 21 1/3 innings.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

He's not listed on Baseball America or Baseball Prospectus top 100 lists so he sucks.

I don't waste my time with the Cubs.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Triple A RHP Andre Rienzo threw a 7 inning no hitter last night. He walked 4 and struck out 11 but he's not on anyone's top 100 lists either so he still sucks.

So the Sox reach down into their shitty minor league system for the second year in a row and pull out a pitcher who produces.