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Overmatched. Flowers and L. Garcia blown away. Oh well.

Ugh, L. Garcia is up.

Well it's 5-4. Good job batting for Nieto, but NO DP, Tyler. Single to left center, please.

ELEVATE PAULIE! No DPs!!!

Well, the Sox didn't quit again. Odds are against us pulling this off but oh, wouldn't a bomb be great? Nice effort by the formerly punchless Sox. They woke up. A bunt can wake up a team, Hawk says. So can a blast from Abreu.

Any chance we win a game this series?

Webb was absolutely pathetic. Hope the youngster learns from this lousy outing.

Somebody e-mail the booth quick.

Are they screwing up the Eaton trade? What is goin on?

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 13, 2014 -> 05:24 AM) Better than Garcia? That's a pretty damn good return for an aging, expensive SP. It's not like Peavy had a ton of value. I love Garcia, but missing this entire season is not gonna help him any. Not blaming the Sox for the injury, of course.

See, this is why I love Hawk. He just said the Sox outfield has been BAD. Not many announcers can get away with that kinda talk. Seriously. The Royals announcers would be fired on the spot.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2014 -> 05:19 AM) With Rios, you never know if they could have afforded Abreu then. I'm ok with those trades, as it resulted in Abreu and Avi and some decent minor leaguers. The trade that's a killer if it doesn't work out is Addison Reed for Davidson. We could always trade Davidson for Moustakas in the transaction of the busts. That is, if Davidson keeps stinking. Moustakas already is a bust. He's kinda like Beckham.

OMG our hitters stink tonight. Not a good start to the road trip. Horrific.

Was that Big Hurt in the dugout? What's he doing in there?

How come L.Garcia is playing. He's not so good.

Hawk would jump for joy if our leadoff hitter bunts for a hit here. ... Imagine if he popped the bunt to the catcher or pitcher, however. Yikes.

That DP was big-time. Maybe it will wake up our dormant bats.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 13, 2014 -> 05:12 AM) Hawk still whining about the bunt. Never mind the double off the wall and the wild pitch. Now the walk. Webb having a bad outing. To be fair, Webb did become unglued after the bunt.

Get Webb outta there. He's gonna kill somebody. He doesn't have it tonite.

Webb stinks tonight. Interesting.

If you are a hitter and the defense has that kind of a radical shift, you just HAVE to learn how to bunt. It's stupid and selfish IMO to hit into the shift for easy outs. Kudos to Redick.

Redick ... what a smart play. It can't be that hard to learn to pop a bunt that way. He should do that 80 percent of the time when the shift is on.

Hawks are looking good up 3 games to two. Can Hawks wrap it up on their ice or do they have to do it at home?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2014 -> 05:01 AM) This is a pitcher you need a lot of lefties to face, and if you look at the Sox lineup, 3 of the 5 lefties playing tonight have no business starting in a MLB lineup at this point of the season. Oh well, maybe they'll fight hard in the 9th again. Makes sense to me. We do have some lousy lefties playing.

Here's a serious question. Everybody talks about Oakland being the "smartest" team in baseball in terms of Sabes and scouting. Do you think they laugh their asses off when they play the Sox (at least prior to the arrival of Abreu) cause they just KNOW they have the Sox tendencies well under control? Are we pretty much beaten vs. the A's before the game begins cause of scouting/Sabes, etc?