CHICAGO -- White Sox right-hander James Shields vowed Tuesday to stay in the rotation despite back pain and asked for patience from fans amid the worst season of his career.A day after Chicago manager Robin Ventura suggested Shields could be shut down, the 11-year veteran said a doctors visit produced good news.Knock on wood, I havent missed a start my whole career and I dont really plan on it, either, Shields said. Its one of those things where Im pretty sure Ill be out there on Saturday.Shields struggled early in the season with San Diego, even allowing hefty New York Mets pitcher?Bartolo Colons first home run in May. He faced public criticism from Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler,?then was dealt to the White Sox on June 5.Besides a six-start stretch in July when he had 1.71 ERA, Shields has been hit hard. Hes 3-10 with a 7.50 ERA in 17 starts with Chicago. He said he has had off-and-on back pain.Its been a crazy year, man, Shields said. A lot of things going on. Obviously I got traded. Things that happened in San Diego that werent under my control. Come in here to a new team, probably out of the gates tried to do too much, then settled in and then didnt do too well.Shields was an All-Star with Tampa Bay in 2011 and helped Kansas City reach the World Series in 2014. His nine straight 200-inning seasons make the longest active streak in the majors.I know hes always taken the ball, Ventura said. If hes feeling healthy hes going to go back out there and pitch.The 34-year-old takes pride in his uniquely heavy workload at a time when other pitchers are doing less in an effort to stay healthy and effective.Some years you have a really good feel for the baseball and some years you dont, Shields said. Unfortunately this year I havent felt it like I wanted to. 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Ben Stokes believes Marlon Samuels lacks respect following the pairs various confrontations over the years.A feisty, often angry, rivalry which began with Samuels saluting Stokes after a dismissal in the Grenada Test in early 2015 further escalated during the World T20 final in Kolkata earlier this year went the pair went face-to-face in the middle.Samuels would end up finishing unbeaten on 85, and earn the Man-of-the Match-award, while Carlos Braithwaite clubbed Stokes for four consecutive sixes to seal the trophy.Samuels, who was later fined 30% of his match fee for abusive language, further raised the tension in the post-match press conference by saying: Stokes is a nervous laddie...he doesnt learn.In his autobiography, Firestarter: Me, Cricket and The Heat of the Moment, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, Stokes makes clear that resentment remains strong.Marlon Samuels lacks respect. You get that if you have spent any time with him on a cricket field. Marlons conduct after West Indies victory over us in this years World Twenty20 final showed a total disrespect for the game.Without removing his batting pads, Marlon walked into a press conference, sat down and placed his feet on the desk. Totally lacking manners.It didnt require him to give me a character assassination -- bizarrely claiming I am some sort of nervous laddie -- to help me form the opinion that I do not like him one bit. I believe in the saying respect the game. I dont think he respects the game.Yes, he played an unbelievable innings but, because of our personal history, it stops me short of saying hes a good player. Team players are the good players in my eyes.Recalling how tthe tensions rose early in West Indies run chase, after they had been reduced to 14 for 3, Stokes writes:His mannerisms got me involved with Marlon.dddddddddddd I was at mid-off and, in my enthusiasm, found myself creeping in from my position and I noticed that Samuels, at the non-strikers end, was walking around like the big easy. I couldnt resist. Youve got a bit of a swagger on here, Marlon, considering youre 14 for three, I said. Shut the f*** up, you little bitch, came the reply.It appeared Stokes would be able to have the final say, however, when he had 19 to defend off the final over to earn England their second World T20 title. But he began with a poor leg-side delivery to Brathwaite, which was swung over deep square leg, and three balls later it was all over, leaving Stokes distraught, on his knees, in the middle of Eden Gardens.It was a numb feeling. I felt hollow, he writes. My England team-mates were the ones I had affected most with those four deliveries. We had gone all the way to the tournaments final over. But in a flash, all that hard graft had come to nothing.I knew the cameras would be all over me to see how I was holding up. I may have looked OK. That was an act. I was gutted. Do not show it, keep your head up -- Joe Root had said exactly that to me more than once as I crouched motionless on the square.In the aftermath, it was natural to question my methods. I wondered whether things might have been different had I plumped for four slower balls. The answer was no. My regret was execution, not selection. ' ' '