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That was a meatball. Teahen needs to find some holes and not smash it right to the first sacker. Hope Thornton has his heat today.

Did Alexei get fooled? Or bad at bat?

96 pitches isn't all bad. I wouldn't mind seeing him pitch two batters in the eighth. How bout it?

Yeah but I tried the reverse jinx today. I bet four bucks on the Twins on centsports.com. It's kind of a fun fantasy betting site if you guys are interested. You start with .10 and are free to make bets to work it up. I think there's a max of 100 buck profit. I'm at 26 bucks. If you lose you just go back to zero and get .10 a day to work with and build up.

I just wanted your take on your feel about what will happen.

Are we gonna lose this game or do we have it under control?

At least the team appears to be taking aggressive hacks today.

I wasn't for signing Damon at the time for some reason, but having him at the top of our order would make me feel pretty good compared to now.

The problem is they have made no attempt to upgrade. I think overall we'd be in better shape if we made no changes from last year to now. Pods, Dye, Thome would arguably cause more havoc than Juan, Teahen, Jones, Omar, etc. We shall see. You would think we have enough talent in CQ, Paulie, AJ, Rios, Lexi to start scoring 4-5 a game. Maybe?

I know it's totally early, but the Sox like most teams rarely hit better on the road than home. We are going to really need to suck it up to avoid a pretty horrendous record through our first dozen games. Oh, and this quote, just kind of sucks as Minnie continues to dominate the Sox. “When we play the White Sox, home or away, everyone gets fired up for the games,” said Twins outfielder Denard Span, who was startled to learn how one-sided the series has been lately. “They have a good team, and they play hard. For us to come here and win the majority of games, it’s good for our psyche.”

I tell you what ... I know Boston has been sucky, but I watched that game tonight and that lineup compared to ours is like comparing the Lakers to the Nets.

The pitching has been so good I simply cannot believe we're not 3-2 at worst, 4-1 would be more like it. Can you believe if we lose tomorrow, we're 4.5 games out. I know it means little to nothing, but it's pretty wild nonetheless.

I hate to be a negative prick, but I just have a bad feeling about our offense. It's pretty bad when I'd give anything to have Ankiel in our lineup and Pods as well. I just watched Pods smash a double off the wall. Maybe I'll have to root for my Sox B-team this year as well in the Royals. I get to see Pods and Getz play regularly here. OK I'm depressed about our first five games. So kill me.

I'm watching the f***ing Royals game and they are pounding the f***ing ball. Ankiel has five hits in a row over 2 nights.

My final post of the thread: Not bringing Pods into the equation. You guys aren't really excited about Pierre being our new leadoff guy are you?

I tend to agree with Milkman. I hope Kenny has a Plan B in mind to reconstruct the lineup a bit before we are 10 games out. Winning tomorrow might be wise. Maybe our new Sunday lineup can score 7 runs. A 7-3 win? How bout it? Oz should throw a few tables if we finish this homestand 1-5.

Pierre had 380 at bats last year and 375 the year before. I hope Oz has a similar bat load planned for Juan.

My expectations have been lowered considerably. We need at least one more middle of the lineup impact bat REAL BAD.

I think Pierre playing every day is an out machine. Pods while a bad defender was a hit machine.

I hope so, but I think this lineup is really a D. Starting Pitching on paper: A plus. Relief corps: B. Lineup: D.

I should add that, no, I do not think Pierre is a real player. I'd take Pods over him any day of any month.

It's Kenny's fault we have Teahen though. Slow start notwithstanding, he's average at best. Moving Beckham to second was also a dumb idea. He was becoming a very good third baseman. Also whether Dye and Thome are finished or not, it should have been easy to see that we needed a reliable big bopper to go with Paulie and CQ. Also, the Juan Pierre love was not good. I never thought we'd get Damon, but he's a real player at least. He's gonna help Detroit a lot.

I don't know why anybody would be pressing after Game One in which this team looked great. It was a perfect opening day. Since then .... blah.

I'm just very down because these are teams in our division, it's early April and we should not be 1-4 at home. And it is alarming that Minnesota has this kind of record on the road. Also, so many guys on our team in my mind are washed up offensively that I don't see much room for optimism offensively.

But Badger, now that these guys have taken the field, hasn't reality set in? Pitching is great. But the lineup is an opposing pitcher's fantasy. Dream all you want how we could be better on the road. It doesn't work that way. .500 road trips are good ones.