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He isn't the only announcer in baseball who moans about the umpires and other things. The Twins announcers are still moaning about the coin flip. Royals announcers here constantly mention the umps. And frankly somebody has to b**** about their HORRID strike zones. I applaud Hawk for getting on those lazy bums in blue.

How's this for logic? He got the game winning hit LATE against the Yankees. The guy says he should never be up late in a game, period. That hit was recent. So LOGIC SAYS in my logic textbook that yes indeed Wise can and should be up late in games. How can my logic fail in this one? Are you serious? If I was wrong here I'd admit it. I am going by LOGIC in my argument. He got a winning hit late in a game, thus he can bat late in games. The poster said he NEVER SHOULD bat late in a game.

Wow. I hope Freddy pitches for us like he did in that one game against us late last year. Wasn't he darn good for six innings or so? You think there's ANY chance Freddy can give us quality starts? If not, I think Hudson was the guy. Or the pitcher by committee thing which worked the only time we tried it with Carrasco starting.

If a player knows somebody is getting the autograph to sell it, he shouldn't sign. And he should make a scene and say something to the other fans about how people like this ruin it for the real kids who want autographs for memory sake.

I finally read this; wow this is a great great thread. Funny stuff especially Colon at the buffet and Todd Ritchie.

Sqwert, why wouldn't I like Hawk? He's a legend and he's good? I only get the Score on my car radio out here, but I also find Rongey's handling of the callers pretty good. Some of those people are nasty. I am not only positive. I hated Swish; I don't like the ex Royals relievers we've picked up (I was wrong about Carrasco I admit it); I was down on Lilly; I didn't want Pods signed at the time; I stand up for Wise, but agree he shouldn't be playing much; I think it was STUPID to trade a decent first base prospect for a middle reliever; and I'm not crazy about letting Richard go even though I am excited about Peavy.

He wants to win. A lot of pitchers have the stoic look. Rip him all you want, but I'm sure he wants to do well. I do agree it's time to try somebody else.

That's not a mistake. You can learn a lot about baseball from listening to Hawk. He and Stone are awesome.

I'm just trying to make a point. The guy says he should NEVER be up late in a game. He beat the f***ing Yankees. So he should be up late in a game. If he's not up late in that game we may lose it and all losses now are crucial (see the Pods pick off game). His argument seems lame to me when he's already beaten somebody good with a late hit.

It might be worth a try, but in theory it's getting late to experiment. We're in a pennant race, .500ish record and all. I wouldn't mind trying it though. At worst he'll be inconsistent like a lot of our relievers.

Except when we play the first place Yankees and he can line a hit to win the game. and somebody said also: Why, when everyone else on the site is in agreement on something, is there always one person who refuses to see things that are incredibly obvious? This is no shot at Reddy, but there's always that one guy who goes against the entire site for some reason that nobody understands. Uh, that's life. People see the facts and make up their own minds. It's what makes life interesting. Why should everybody read a thread and then everybody agree on the same stance??

Would have been nice if KC coulda got a run for Greinke. Detroit is now gonna sweep that series so we better win the next two. Love to see Lexi mash the ball. Poor Jose. Cut him loose.

This color man doesn't seem good.

WOW

6-0 ugh. Lexi needs to be a leadoff hitter and get on f***ing base here.

I'm not impressed with this A's team. Why is it 7-7? I just got in to tune in. Has it been ugly?

I'm glad this "fan" has been outed and named in the media and staked out at the police station last night. Maybe it'll prevent people from doing this crap in the future. What a f***ing moron to dump a beer on a ballplayer. Bad decision. He should be convicted of something and not let off. 3 days in jail and a big fine would be nice. Stupid stupid people who interfere with balls in play and dump beer on players.

I don't know about that. It might be say ... talent? Linebrink, Dotel, Pena seem awfully mediocre to me. I think Pods does more for the team than those guys. And I know, I know. Dotel has a lot of fans on here.

If that's true, that's funny. That's a helluva nap. He must have been one tired dude.

I agree. Beckham should stay put in the lineup. As far as Pods, even if we say he 100 percent cost us the game, he's won us at least five single handedly so he's ahead of the curve. My only problem with player criticism, is sometimes people forget the player's overall value iin a season. He's been good to very good and I was against bringing him in initially. I guess as long as a ballplayer keeps raking every night (Pujols, Mauer are close) they are pretty exempt from criticism. There was a time not too long ago Pods was hitting and walking so well he was exempt from criticism. Not now. Pods made a huge mistake and it cost us the game but how many middle relievers have cost us games this year with their horrific pitching (walks, base hits)?

Getz is a mighty likeable player. I like him. Sucks he's out. As far as your above quote ... why does Oz catch it every time??? It's like any other company nowadays ... a "TEAM" thing. You think Kenny won't have a say in whether Lilly or Nix plays, at least from the get go? I'd amend it to say cmon Ozzie and Kenny don't mess this one up.

Good post. One amendment though: You said we're gonna lose games, lots of them and win games lots of them. I say: We're gonna win as many games as we lose. .500 baby.

Why should he hustle? He's set with that contract. He has a reputation as a lazy player. We'll see.

Why is it hilarious. .500 teams are tough to follow. We basically lose every other day and there's always a goat in a loss. We lose a lot. The team is a flirt.

We should know for sure by the end of the month. We play Oak, KC and Baltimore before the big road trip. If we don't kick the living s*** out of those 3 teams then we'll know. We play very well against good teams but believe me we're not going to be dominating Boston and New York on that road trip and we all know for some insane reason we can't beat a very bad Twins team in their pisss*** of a building. If we somehow get red hot and take care of business against those 3 bad teams, we might have some good momentum going to play the big boys and in that scenario could split with Boston (gasp) and win one in NY before the Twins fiasco.