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I'm baaack!  There's a problem with Blogger that's prevented me from posting since June 30.  Son Jeffrey found a work-around that allows me to post until Blogger fixes its site.  And what a bad time to miss out on posting.  The White Sox have been White Hot again, with another winning streak that today reached five games behind John Danks's two-hit shutout of the Angels.  The 1-0 game was very Buehrle-like in length, taking only one hour and fifty minutes to complete.  The most important thing is that it put the Sox a half game out of first place and eight games over .500.

I won't try to catch up with everything that happened while the site was down, but Jake Peavy's going on the DL with a latisimus dorsi injury deserves special mention.  Jeff Marquez has been called up to take Peavy's roster spot, but it seems more likely that Daniel Hudson will be asked to take Jake's spot in the rotation.  Hudson pitched well enough in spring training to make the team, but there wasn't a place to put him.  Well, now there is.  I'm not suggesting that Hudson is as good as Peavy, but it's nice to have a replacement that you were willing to go to war with at the start of the season.

One other point of discussion:  Adam Dunn.  I've watched him all season with the Nats and he's the perfect DH for the Sox except for one thing.  He doesn't want to DH.  The Big Dunnkey thinks he can play defense.  He was horrible as a right fielder, but has improved to mediocre as a first basemen.  Since Dunn is in the last year of his contract, he's not likely to re-sign with any team that won't let him play the field -- like the Sox.  So that turns him into a rental -- shades of Bill Veeck and the South Side Hitmen.  I do not want to see the Sox give up anything of value for a three-month rental.  I'd love to have Dunn, but only if we can sign him to a new contract.  Go Kenny Williams!  Go Sox!