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Watch for the suicide squeeze.

This season is gonna be really frustrating I can tell. The division is gonna suck and we will be extremely up and down.

He come the Royals and Mac's gonna give up the lead.

If we win today, we will have stole two games from the Royals. They have outhit us, out pitched us, out fielded us, outstole us and everything else this series.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) This year always seemed like it could become a developmental/bridge year, unfortunately. OTOH, it seems if we had someone like CoCo Crisp in CF, then we might even be the favorites to win the division...we're just a player short. This is nothing new though...we've seen the same thing in Chicago for nearly a decade. It's just that the names have changed from Thomas/Lee/Ordonez/Valentin/Durham to what we have now. But same inconsistent approach, same 3 run HR offense, corpseball, whatever you wish to call it. Difference there is that Thomas was a all-star player, Maggs and Carlos all-stars who could run, Valentin also could run and Durham could do many things. We don't have the same type of players as we did back then.

Can Obama use his executive privileges to make the Royals go to their bullpen, anyone minus Soria and Cruz?

Danks has been getting hit and missing spots his last couple innings, gotta shut them down this one Big Jon.

This is disgusting to watch. This may be the worst offense display in three games that I have seen from a Sox team in quite some time.

We aren't even hitting the ball hard. Pop ups, easy grounders, Ks. At least get out on hard hit balls. When we don't hit for power (whether it's the weather or a slump) we simply suck on offense.

Anti-clutch we are right now. one big hit the entire year so far.

Can we please get a clutch hit Q?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 01:31 PM) Get used to it for this year. I think we will see some really good plays and then errorrs on some easy plays To be fair, that wasn't as easy play. But I know what you mean.

Another Royals pitcher overpowers our hitters. Hooray. If you didn't need 4th and 5th starters, I would seriously consider anointing the Royals division favorites.

Best pitcher on the staff going today. Hopefully he can shut down their lefties and we get out of this offensive funk. Q needs to get going and so does Sexy.

Wow. That is sad. He was a good looking pitcher. Very very sad.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 8, 2009 -> 09:33 PM) Really disappointing game from the offense, as I've never seen a team take so many hittable pitches and swing at pitches out of the zone. Quentin's fly out in the 9th was disturbing, as it seems like he crushed it and the ball went nowhere. It's going to take him a while to get things going, and I hope he doesn't try to do too much at the plate. Oh, and someone tell our first baseman to stop trying to just make weak contact at the plate. If he's in that mindset, might as well sit him on the bench. Gavin looked great though, just needs to keep the fastball down more consistently. Bullpen is definitely a strength of this team. Yeah, we are going to pitch well, but offensively we won't be hitting until the weather gets better or we are in a dome. Still not going to be able to manufacture runs because our fastest runner is never on base, getz is a grinder, but he isn't a speedster. Alexei looks bad so far at the plate, too, dunno why. But I worried about his adjustment because the whole world knows he hits fastballs well, but not hooks.

This ballpark doesn't become a homer park until May, so our offense is going to be a little slow at home for the first few weeks. As much as I dislike Walker as a hitting coach, he doesn't exactly have speedsters to create offense. Only wise has great speed, but it doesn't help him when he can't get on base.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Apr 8, 2009 -> 08:27 PM) What? End got better. But the story line is so convoluted right now, it's annoying.

This is getting very bad. I am not excited to watch anymore. First 20 have been awful.

Our cloggers are so frustrating. A faster base runner could have been at third on JD's hit and scored on Konerko's GDIP.

We control our own destiny the rest of the way. Great feeling. HAHA.

One more out bobby.

Big out here Mark.

JOE CREDE!!

Game about to get out of hand.