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QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 04:22 PM) Ozzie gets buried if Marte f***s this up. WHERE THE NEAL COTTS? What if it works?

Mark has been giving up a lot more hits and base runners lately.

I wasn't able to hear any post game comments from Ozzie. Were there any? And did he address the obvious ..... El Duque is worn out and it's McCarthy's time.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) Tyner is hitting .312. Nice double play! Glad to see that inning end...hell of a long inning for 3 outs. And only 3 batters.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 09:45 PM) Boy, the twinkies announcers are just loving the sox collapse Tee hee. :finger

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:15 PM) No they said he wouldn't be 100% for the rest of the season. Close, but not there. Sounds like propoganda to me. Their definition of 'close' is not the same as mine.

First pitch to Ford is the 100th for Jon.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 08:48 PM) Come on Sweeney It was a good thought.

Another homer - 3-1.

Cleveland just took a 2-1 lead. :headshake

Well isn't this start embarassing. I just have the radio - does this guy throw slop?

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) Were basically a .500 team in the 2nd half. I would say resting the players didn't help too much. Any way you look at it, Ozzie steered this group into 1st overall, as of a week ago. I have a harder time understanding that, than understanding why they are slumping at the moment. Pods got hurt and still can't steal. Some of the starters have not performed like they did in the first half - they were absolutely lights out. Does Ozzie get any credit for having the confidence in Garland that nobody else showed. And a couple of our other key hitters have gone in the dumpster at an inoportune time (i.e Everett). I don't see arbitrarily hanging these misfortunes on Ozzie. Absolutely every team had their poor stretches. Let's fire every manager because of it.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:22 PM) He rested players TOO much. Even when there was a day off the next day. If the point of resting players was solely to 'recharge the batteries', it did seem to be excessive coddling. What you may be failing to take into account is the psyche of the rest of the players. Making the bench an essential component of the team only serves to strengthen the greater whole.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:18 PM) I totally agree. How many games this year did we concede w/ those lineups?? I say at least 4 or 5. Which if we had won would have given us a 10.5 game lead right now.......... Obviously hindsight is 20/20. But it does make you think I didn't like seeing the 'B' team either. But resting people may have been a contributing factor to this team somehow having the best record in baseball as of a week ago.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 01:05 PM) Williams should not be the scapegoat. He constructed this team as best as he could. Ozzie should take the fall. QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:06 PM) I agree. Oz is definitely the fall guy here. I think they both have done a great job. The collapse of some key players should not be held over Ozzie's head.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:04 PM) It might be hard for him to make changes from the unemployment line. If the Sox fail to make the playoffs, I have a feeling he'll be the scapegoat, and not Ozzie. Hope you're wrong about this one. He tried to make additions. Nobody was able to. Seller's market. Not making the playoffs will show how much the Sox played over their heads for much of the season. Being 1st for so long did seem a little surreal.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) Were 3-4 vs Boston, 4-5 vs. Anaheim, 3-3 vs the YAnks, 2-7 vs Oakland, and 10-3 vs Cleveland. That equates to a .500 mark of 22-22. Not to bad i say..........We are obviously not going to blow teams away, so our pitching has to carry us, which it hasn't been as much in the 2nd half........BUehrle and GArland carried this team in the 1st half, and they both have losing records in the 2nd. These guys have to get it going again if we have any chance in the playoffs. Pretty much sums it up.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:53 PM) Can someone tell how McCarthy's stuff looks after this half inning kthxbye. Guerrero and Erstad struck out - 3 up 3 down.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:48 PM) Did you see how far that ball carried?? And Gload hit it off the end of the bat the other way!! Imagine playing the Indians. Yesterday their starting lineup featured 9 players with homer totals in the double digits - anywhere from 12 to 25.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 07:40 PM) I can't wait until Duque magically gets hot for the playoffs. He's gonna be a sweet playoff ace. QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:41 PM) He shouldn't be anywhere close to the playoff roster. However, we might not have to worry about that decision if this collapse continues. I hope the brass remembers that the outs have been tagged as well.

I hope Aaron had his Wheaties this morning.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) Yeah, just how we thought Marte getting roughed up in the first game of the KC series would show Ozzie not to use Marte late in the game. That hope lasted about 24 hours. To my way of thinking, the situations are a little different. I still believe in Marte's stuff. I am not so sure of El Duque.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:19 PM) The old guy on the mound shouldn't be starting over McCarthy. His ERA now is just about 5. Perhaps this will be a blessing in disguise. This performance might hasten the permanent arrival of McCarthy.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 03:16 PM) HOLY f***ING s***!!!! I hate our manager, plain and simple. Duque should be pulled right now. I feel a little more apprehensive about the old guy on the mound than Ozzie.

Should be 3 home runs after that one.