posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:59 PM by Jim

June 27: White Sox 10, Cubs 3

Bullet points:

  • The Sox knocked Ryan Dempster out during a seven-run third inning, punctuated by a Nick Swisher grand slam.
  • Jermaine Dye had three hits and three RBI, and also made a few nice catches in the outfield.
  • Carlos Quentin had a four-hit day, and took advantage of Eric Patterson's rough day in left by scoring on a bad throw.
  • Jose Contreras gave up three homers, but all of them were with the bases empty.
  • Of course, two of them were back-to-back, which means the Cubs have done that in all four crosstown games.

Record: 43-35 | Box score | Play-by-play

Comments

# re: June 27: White Sox 10, Cubs 3

Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:05 AM by Fundman
Caught the game replay today and was surprised by the Cubs play by play guy (don't know his name) who was talking about Ramirez vs. Crede at third. He said that Ramirez was "far superior" offensively. Ok, agreed. He's also three times as expensive but, whatever. Then he starts talking about how he's pretty good defensively. Not only is that statistically bs (2x the error rate and waaaay worse on almost every measure) Ramirez then proceeds to whiff on the tag of Dye on his steal of third.......still like their announcers Jim?

My wife and I did the Hawk's "put it on the board call" for Swisher's granie just to keep things sounding normal.

# re: June 27: White Sox 10, Cubs 3

Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:37 PM by Jim Margalus
Well, Crede and Ramirez's salaries will be on the same level after this year. But his defense *is* quite perplexing -- he looks like he has two sets of abilities from game to game, and I guess I'd quantify it as average at best.

But yeah. Kasper is a rah-rah guy like any other, but I think his best broadcast days are ahead of him.