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Good, glad they called it an error.

JD creams it to center and Taguchi jumps up at the wall and drops a ball that should have been caught. It should be an error and I hope it is called that. Lets legitimately bust up the no no with an RBI single right here.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 06:10 PM) Flash: what exactly are you trying to say? We don't scout the latin countries well? I think that's fair. But if you're saying that guys like Liriano and Reyes are a dime a dozen, and we should have a few, you're kidding yourself. Flash, the guy who made his debut for Bristol yesterday throws into the mid 90's and I think he came from our dominican camp. QUOTE(shoota @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 06:10 PM) Yes, and it's because of his offensive value why I don't want him to get hurt on bad reads on fly balls. Unbelievable.

Throwing a no no for the Cards is like a curse. Bud Smith, remember how touted he was. Than Jimenez who was supposed to be pretty good, but really had a mediocre career sans a year or two where he was semi solid as the closer for the Rockies. Glad to see Eckstein is okay on that colission.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) He's really only been fastball/change-up so far. It's been all about his location. His change doesn't look near as good as it did in the 1st inning. Hawk isn't the only one to notice he's giving away the change. Everytime I see him throw the change I know its coming. He's slowing down his arm as opposed to his FB.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) So........... Where's the Anthony Reyes in our minor league system? An injury prone righty with great stuff. Maybe Honel was that guy a few years back, but Bmac is way more of a prospect. Wow, Jermaine makes an amazing catch, but he's really slow to get up, I hope he's alright.

Freddy is gonna get hammered if he keeps pitching like this. He is leaving a ton of breaking balls up. 1 down though, Mack makes the catch in center.

QUOTE(Benchwarmerjim @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) "Everybody is going to be focused on Roger Clemens, with it being his first start of the season," Hunter said. "But while they are all focusing on him, they are going to see something totally different, which is Liriano. He's going to shock the world." that was on the MLB.com preview thingy today I just read your sig and it was hillarious. By the way, what would you say to being a mod on this forum and I am serious. Your a damn good poster and very active over here. You may be a Twins fan but you know baseball and are always respectful and thats exactly what Soxtalk stands for.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) That's more retarded than racist. Funny how he was throwing mid 90's in Seattle. By slow, I think he was referring to how Freddy takes his time on the mound as opposed to his velocity.

Hawk starts to laugh at how Mack almost fell over catchin a routine fly to center. Luckily he caught it. I almost thought that was going to be an insdie the parker (had Rob fallen over) that thing would have rolled all the way to the wall. For those that don't have the game on TV, it wasn't a hard hit ball at all. Went off the end of the bat (so in Mack's defense that makes it a bit harder to get a read on, but right there was one of the reasons I don't want him in CF when we have Anderson available)

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) I've noticed that Hawk is most vocal about the gun when Garcia is on the mound. To be honest, after all of the questioning about Garcia's velocity this season, I'm happy that he makes sure he tells the viewing audience what's going on. It took DJ 19 minutes to comment on Garcia's finesse style of pitching. Him and DJ have even said 87 is the hardest he's thrown now while 91 is about the hardest they've seen all year and I usually think stadium guns are relatively accurate. Plus they talk to scouts who I'm sure are checking the guns of Garcia. You can tell they have been frustrated with Freddy's lack of using the FB. He has great breaking stuff, but he still has to throw his FB from time to time.

QUOTE(Linnwood @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) Seriously? Its true. He responds to a ton of them too.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:22 PM) Notice how CSN is making a big deal about the gun today of all days when it's almost always way off, funny how it would be such a big concern with today's starter for the Sox. Hawk has been pretty pissed at the gun readings the last few games I've watched.

Can Comcast please fix the f***ing radar gun. I'm sick of this bulls*** every time I get the Sox feed. That or if its the Sox gun, fix it. Whatever it takes, just get it done. QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:16 PM) Reyes has got some impressive control. He's going to throw that change-up on 3-2 pitches all night. He should have been up here a while ago. I think the Cards took it a little slow with him and they shouldn't send him down. They got guys that are worse. Apparently they are recalibrating the gun now.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:44 PM) Torii Hunter sure is a classy guy. He just appeared on Baseball Tonight's show discussing how much Clemens has owned him over his career. Nothing else. Forget that Liriano guy on the mound, or his team's resurgence. I guess your slamming him, but I love Torri Hunter's attitude. He's such a refreshing interview when you here him on the radio or on sports center. I liked his interview with Gomes too, where he he told Gomes to repeat that name and than made a scared reference to how he feels about Clemens. He's totally unselfish and would be one guy I'll always cheer for.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:09 PM) Ok DBAH0, bring it on. Italy gets to f*** up the Aussies. Can we say...Forza Italy

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) :headshake Another in the long line of reasons why I'm lookin to go. These types of posts and these types of posters are getting way to common here. Really, dude, settle down and think before you type. Don't worry, that crap won't ever be tolerated. He GAWN

Freddy is just not throwing as hard. Part of it is he feels he gets better movement/command with less velocity and I think part of it has to deal with him not being in as good of shape. Plus his arm has some mileage on it.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:11 PM) Wait, Woodson got hyped up and he's repeating? Ya, they were working on improving his secondardy pitches and wanted to do that with him in extended spring. The reason for this was that they felt it would make him better prepared for his move into the rotation.

Everything was merged into here. Don't make posts outside of this thread, the whole board doesn't need to be filled up with Ozzie discussion.

They have a few good arms in that rotation, between Moreno, Woodson, and Edwards. Couldn't tell you much about the other two.

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) All I know about him is that he was drafted out of New Lenox here in Chicago area, hes very tall, totally nice guy. Met him a SoxFest with a guy who went to that same H.S. He grew up a SOX FAN. Will make for good press if hes successful. Don't hold your breath. My guess is he will be out of the organization very soon, unless he shows some semblance of a fastball, command and obviously his knuckle curve. Its too bad, he was on the fast track for a while and than totally blew up.

I forget which team, but he's supposed to be coming back up with Great Falls or Bristol. He had been rehabbing in extended spring training.

Cool stuff. Tracey is my boy.

Eddie Lewis, played great until he came out for Convey who also played solid in his limited action. Lewis should have been playing left mid all along, along with Beasley. The problem with Beasley is I'm convinced that Arena has him thinking way too much out there. Beasley is the type of guy that needs to take his ball and use his speed and athletism to create something. He did that and we had a goal. He also had a goal that was taken away against Italy (it was the right call). Onyewu - I thought he was a bit raw this world cup, but he's going to be a strong player for the US. He's physically imposing and will be a true weapon when we bring him up on corners and set plays. He also has the ability to throw the long throw in's to try and get goals. Plus I think he uses his body well as a defender. He'll be a major factor in our defense next cup. Reyna played hard but was bad this cup, Donovan was awful sans the Italy game (where everyone really stepped up). He needs to work on finishing but more importantly he needs to play agressive. The thing is, we had very few guys that played agressive and I truly believe thats because we had Arena's ultra conservative approach out there which left a lot of our guys standing still. Its too bad for McBride who played hard and has played his last world cup. Keller was overhyped and played like piss in this cup. He was supposed to be one of the better goalies with his foot and turned into one of the worse. In the Italy game he failed to go long and towards the sidelines (giving the Italians countless of opportunities at a time where we just wanted to run the clock out and get the tie). Overall it was a dissapointing world cup, but we are a better team that showed up and they played hard the final 30 minutes. Sure I'd have liked more but they played one of there best international matches against Italy (ever) and should be getting a new coach (hopefully a more creative one).