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QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 05:27 AM) Scherzer still throwing 98 in the 8th. Stud. He's better than Verlander right now

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 05:02 AM) Exactly. They cannot beat KC or Detroit. Just pencil those games in as losses. Sox will be lucky to win two of their next six games. No matter who our hitting coach is, the offense is home run or nothing, which is fine when we are blasting home runs. The team can't get runners in from third base with less than two outs in games that matter. The team can't move runners. The bullpen remains crap no matter who the manager is or how much power Coop has. I think KC and Detroit are putting this Sox team out of its misery. It's a very very mediocre baseball team. I think Ventura will be manager of the year for getting it as far as it has gone. The starting pitching is average at best and the bullpen is one of the worst in baseball and the lineup is all or nothing HR wise. It's pretty bad when the Sox have no chance each and every time they play KC. No, it's really not. I think people underestimate how much injuries have killed the depth on this team.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:37 AM) I would definitely agree if the statement looked like this. Their individual stats haven't been terrible this year, even though Reed is easily the worst of our relievers now.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:21 AM) You gotta chill out...we haven't played well for about 10 days. That's okay. We haven't been healthy either, hardly seen anything from Dunn and Youk is hurting as well (I realize he just had a child). Let's see how this series ends and how we play the Tigs at home. It's easy to read into everything that happens into the final month, but this season is more than that. We've won some huge games and have shown some major cajones. Those things still count when we can't pull through. Don't forget to look at the whole picture. Dismissing all important wins as mere happenstance and seeing every failure as proof of our mediocrity doesn't make any sense. If you were a baseball player with that attitude, you'd be Gordon Beckham. Well, if you look at the whole picture (stats on the year), you'd see that something killing the Sox is their bullpen management.

QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:20 AM) I don't recall any KC player being brushed back or even shown a message not to dig in I believe every homer Cain's hit against the Sox this year has been on sliders.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:16 AM) LOL! Kenny wanted to show everybody in the off season how smart he was by bypassing Sandy Alomar Jr. and hiring somebody with no coaching or managerial experience just so Don Cooper can have more power. Now we all are paying the price. Serves Williams right. Great post as well

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:16 AM) Ramirez rips a homer to tie the game the previous AB. Notorious fastball hitter, Mr. Ramirez. Beckham, all season long, has been hitting about 0.050 against anything over 95 MPH. Herrera, 96-101 MPH fastball. Beckham, DEAD. Surprise? Shouldn't have been. If you bunt with Ramirez, then you have Johnson come up for Beckham. They had a LHP warming up, so either you get them to bring in the LHP (and then you can use Flowers, who's great vs LHP) or they walk Johnson to bring up De Aza/let Johnson face the righty.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:14 AM) I blame the green manager. :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:13 AM) Glad to see gross overreactions in the game thread. So please tell us what's been said that's completely false?

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 04:10 AM) Should've been all over that one. Yes he should have been

Damn jinx of the bullpen thread from a month ago

Don't forget that Flowers is up after Rios since AJ was PR for

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:04 AM) So tomorrow Chen and his 5.5 ERA mows down the Sox, then we get swept Sunday. Pennant races are so much fun. I think they're score a lot off of Chen tomorrow

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:03 AM) KW has to be so pissed right now. Losing to the pissant Royals again. Maybe he should have brought in a legit back-up 3rd baseman during waiver period?

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:01 AM) RV in the post-game presser "It was one of those where you hope Addi can hold it....blah blah...." It's the first time all season where it seemed they were intentionally not pitching Myers cause the contract clause (since they had Axelrod warming up)

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 03:00 AM) Robin Ventura is choking in the pennant race. If Detroit was not obvious it is becoming so now. It started in Baltimore letting McLouth face Myers.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:59 AM) At least he doesn't start every hitter with a cent cut fastball... oh, wait. Unless his slider improves, he's not closer caliber in the majors. He has nothing that changes the hitter's eye level at the plate. I wouldn't be sad if KW trades him while he has value this offseason for something of value (ie: not Nestor Molina).

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:58 AM) If that's the truth then a lot of people need to apologize to Robin and crucify Coop. Honestly, if it's true Cooper calls all the shots, then I don't want Ventura as the manager. The manager should have final say, no matter what.

QUOTE (G&T @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:57 AM) Coop handles the pitching staff. He's done a pretty bad job this year

ERA almost over 5, BAA around .325 since the ASB for Reed

QUOTE (danman31 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:56 AM) Addison you used to be cool. What happened to his stuff? It hasn't been the same since like May. It's never been as good as advertised, unfortunately

I really can't believe Ventura thought Reed was a better option than Myers.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:55 AM) Reed just isn't that good....plain and simple. Yep

Holy cow is he bad. Yost is DESTROYING Ventura tonight. Notice he didn't have Cain bunt?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 8, 2012 -> 02:53 AM) And here we go. One of the lease intimidating closers in baseball. I'd rather have Valverde