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8-6 loss. Epic fail. These games are in the Cell. One game up for one more day.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 04:22 AM) Wouldn't be the biggest shock in the world. He wouldn't get fired though, he'd just resign. Did he sign a 3 year deal? You have to wonder if he's enjoyed this or not. If he quits, I guess it'd be the same candidates again. None of those guys excited me. I'd rather keep Ventura than Alomar or Martinez. I'd be OK with Big Hurt replacing Robin or Steve Stone. Or give it to Cooper and let Mr. Ego manage a year.

Maybe Robin hates KW and Jerry and wants Myers to get paid.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 04:14 AM) I feel like we are getting teased. I think it's called choking. The players choke when it's close. Detroit moves it to 8-1 and the heat's off and we score four. Now it's close again and we won't hit the rest of the way.

I'm thinking a lot of this is mental. Once it gets to 8-1 and the pressure is off the Sox score a bunch. Now that it's a three-run game and we technically are back in the game, the hitters will be all tight and fail again.

We'll never know if Youk would have done that last night. Thanks Robin.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 04:00 AM) There are NO free agent catchers that are any good. It's either Flowers or a trade. The rest of the money has to go to replacing Peavy, 3B and the bullpen (possibly, if they trade Crain or Thornton). Or we can tear things up by dealing Ramirez, Rios or Dunn. The last two won't get us much talent back...Ramirez might, but we don't have a replacement for him that's close to ready. Sanchez doesn't profile as a major league SS. Better off at 2B or 3B. This was a frustrating season because Detroit underachieved except in head-to-head games against the Sox. It was our chance to win the division. Detroit isn't going anywhere and the Sox will have wasted career type years from Rios, AJ and one of the best first halves of Paulie's career. Also Peavy was very good early. Obviously we couldn't overcome the injuries to Danks and Floyd and the loss of Buehrle in the long run to go with the continued s***tiness of our main relievers Thornton and Crain. Still with Detroit sucking we needed to win the division this year cause Detroit probably will wake up and play to its potential next season. Sox have a lot of work to do on the roster this offseason after losing yet another starter in Peavy and a third sacker in Youk.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:56 AM) The handling of this bullpen is embarrassing. Matt Thorton better be injured. The hitting is still the overriding issue. All that bullpen tinkering really helped tonight. We're only down 8-1. Just pick a f***ing reliever and let him pitch. This is embarrassing lately.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:52 AM) No matter what, this has been a positive year. In no way am I giving up on the year, even if the Sox lose tomorrow. Far too many strange things have happened with the Tigers losing to inferior opponents this year, and they also have to face the red hot A's next week. Plain and simple, the Tigers are a HORRIBLE match-up for the Sox this year. What kind of a matchup are the Royals vs. the Sox?

LOL. Two nights ago somebody was posting all the negativity on the Detroit message board. Now after the predictable bounceback beatdowns, Detroit is the division favorite again.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:48 AM) He is also forgetting that the Latin love of his life used to play matchup like he was Larusa. Bulls***. He didn't do this and Robin didn't do this until the second half when he decided to overmanage. You don't win divisions without set up men who can, uh, set it up for the closer. We've always had guys who had roles in the bullpen dating to the days Joe Morgan proclaimed it the best in the land.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:47 AM) It doesn't work? Lefties are 0-20 vs Veal this year. I understand what you are saying about Veal, but this lefty/righty s*** is overdone by Robin and he wasn't doing it earlier this year. You've got to have setup guys who can go a full inning. I don't care if it's Veal instead of Thornton but this is bulls***. Earlier in the year Robin kept his starters in too long arguably. Now he's in love with this one batter crap. After tomorrow the race is tied again.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:44 AM) Well, a reliever and Reed are going to have to not give up any runs. On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you of that happening? There's no way in hell we're beating Verlander. Once again we blew our chances to be up by four games heading into this series.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:44 AM) If Donnie Veal wasn't God's gift to LOOGYS, then I might agree that Ventura had no other better options. Aren't you sick of this kind of baseball rather than Thornton or Crain pitching a FULL inning once in a while? This is bulls*** lefty/righty madness and it doesn't work.

At least attendance sucked during this bizarre season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:33 AM) Where the f*** was Veal? Septimo has shown that he's terrible in close games. Not only will they lose tonight, but now they have to use an inferior starter this weekend instead of Santiago. QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 03:33 AM) decisions? Any reliever we bring in seems to blow. Yes! You guys that love to second guess Robin for all these bad decisions regarding relievers much be in heaven the past few weeks as he brings in reliever after reliever until he runs out of them. It's boring, awful baseball and if we keep doing this in his second year as manager I expect us to finish last. Our bullpen SUCKS! It's not the way to win games bringing in tons of relievers. The bodies change but one thing is constant - ONE OR TWO OF THEM FAIL every night! Crain and Thornton suck as well, but we need them to pitch A FULL inning once in a while and not this lefty/righty crap with these god-awful relievers!!!

Season is too long. Robin is in love with the lefty/righty, bring in a ton of relievers crap.

Remember earlier this year when our starters went deep into games and we didn't use a zillion relievers a game? I'm sick of it. Just have Detroit get the three wins over with and on to Minnesota please!!

Who does Detroit play next after mopping us up while we hopefully are winning the Twins' series?

QUOTE (daa84 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 01:36 AM) Man it feels like we are watching the same game night in and night out Yep. No offense except for solo home runs. Decent starting pitching again but not deep into the game (cept for Q the other day).

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 01:41 AM) Oh, quiet, you. They're just acknowledging the fact that Scherzer happens to have great stuff, hence his impressive stats this year. Yep, I'm just pointing out he looks unhittable.

This guy has no hitter stuff tonight.

There it is. Hawk mentioning Paulie's health again. He's about 40 percent I bet. I wonder if he's playing with a cracked bone.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 01:33 AM) The Tigers are fine 1-4 in their lineup...it's the 5-9 guys that have not been coming through for them this year like they did last year. With that kind of pitching, it seems stupid of them to not build a team with defense as well to go with sieves Cabrera/Fielder at the corners.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 01:28 AM) If the Tigers make it into the post season, and I think they will unfortunately, I believe they will go deep into the playoffs. I don't see how anybody beats their starting pitchers. It's the same thing everytime I tune in. Their pitchers are pouring strikes in there and we are doing very little with their pitches. Last night's two solo homers meant nothing. Solo homers don't mean squat.