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Offense looks like it doesn't want to be there

I kinda wish Rios was playing, as he's been the most interesting aspect of the team of late.

April 13th: After throwing a stressful career-high 34 pitches the night before, Ozzie has Sale start the 9th inning with a 3 run lead against the A's. Sale struggles and can't get an out, and Sox lose in extras. May 6th: With an open base in a tie game against King Felix and the Mariners, Ozzie lets Humber pitch to the only hot hitter on the Mariners at the time (Justin Smoak). Smoak doubles, and even though the Sox tie the score the next inning, the Sox go on to lose on a walkoff single. May 20th: After Santos blows a one run lead with 2 outs in the 9th against the Dodgers, Ozzie allows Santos to start the 10th. Santos clearly has nothing on his fastball, and the Dodgers smack him around the park for an easy extra inning win. May 28th: This game saw two huge blunders. First, in the 7th inning of that game, Ozzie (or Omar) has the 2nd baseman covering second on a steal attempt by one of the slowest base runners in baseball instead of staying in position with C. Patterson (a lefty hitter) up. Patterson hits a routine grounder to where the 2nd baseman should have been, and it goes for a hit. Toronto ends up taking a lead after that inning. That game goes to extras, and with a LHP on the mound and runner on 3rd with one out, Ozzie lets Dunn bat instead of Quentin. Sox lose June 4th: Against the Tigers, with 2 outs and man on third, Ozzie lets Crain pitch to maybe the 2nd best hitter on the planet in Miguel Cabrera. A home run into the right field bullpen later, the Sox lose an important game to the Tigers. June 10th: As Sergio Santos is one out away from a win against the A's, he has a complete meltdown. He allows 4 straight batters to reach with 2 outs, and clearly has no offspeed pitch and his fastball is straight as an arrow. With AJP begging Ozzie to pull him, Santos stays in the game to allowed a go-ahead 3 run double to Scott Sizemore. June 24th: In a scoreless game against the Nationals, Ozzie allows our worst bullpen pitcher (Bruney) to pitch to the red-hot Michael Morse with an open base and two outs. He homers, and despite Teahen's heroics, we end up losing the game in extras. July 17th: With the Sox looking to build momentum after the ASB, Ozzie leaves Humber in one batter too long to face VMart with runners on 2nd and 3rd, 2 outs. VMart singles in both, and Sox go on to lose by one. July 26th: In another important game against Tigers, Ozzie leaves Peavy in to start the 6th inning when the Sox are up 2-1. Not only does Peavy allow 3 runs to score, but Ozzie leaves him in to face 9 batters that inning. Sox lose 5-4

I approve!

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 08:13 PM) You still gotta give the skipper some credit during that postsaeson run (El Duque vs the Red Sox, Geoff Blum ph in the 14th inn), I don't believe in luck, Ozzie deserves credit as much as anyone for 2005. Well, only reason that game went to extras was the dumb decision to let Hermanson pitch in the 8th inning. That was my only gripe with Ozzie during the entire postseason.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 02:15 PM) A lot of people ripping the guy's production when his production was not the issue yesterday.... Bruney isn't the problem. My guess is that he didn't deserve to be thrown out anyway. It seemed like he said the magic word

QUOTE (since56 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) Death threats? Racist comments? Just make up what ever fits your needs. Seems like all the Guillens have big imaginations to go with their mouths. I can't wait for the mud slinging when they leave town. I hope when the day comes, they just go to Florida so he can manage the Marlins and thank the Sox organization for a great tenure. There would be nothing to be gained by the mud slinging, and it would be silly on anyone's part to get involved in it because you still have things like "10 year anniversary of 2005", etc. If he goes to Florida and leaves on a good note here, I'd have no problem rooting for the Marlins.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:57 AM) I'm thinking if they play their cards right, they can get the 8th or 9th pick next year. I'm thinking 5-6 range

Nice to see Ozzie get Flowers an at bat here for AJ.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 04:00 AM) Nope. Gonna burn Crain. Ozzie is a tactical genius. And then complain that we've had to use Crain too much. Funny thing is Crain was on the radio the other day saying he's felt fine and never told anyone he was feeling tired.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:51 AM) The good news is he turns 35 next month. Still plenty of time for him to improve. KW should be looking to move him on the waiver wire

Thornton is an extremely expensive mop-up man. Sure glad we held on to him.

Seems our players/manager like to argue a lot of calls that were actually correct

Wow, classy by Bruney. Way to sell out your bullpen teammates.

Can we please just give Omar away. No reason for him to take bats away from rest of team.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:23 AM) Is there some sort of thing you can take that has the complete opposite impact that steroids do? I think Brent Morel takes it. I'm not sure he can hit a ball that would even crack a window. It's insane, isn't it. And balta's lost his "Chris Johnson reference" now that he was demoted to AAA.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:21 AM) he has no drive from his lower legs/hips anymore for some reason... Don't worry, Walker's waiting until offseason to try and make changes.

That's the farthest ball Morel has hit to left field in months.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:17 AM) Nope...that's the extent of his power now. Not sure wtf happened to this guy. Nice job Greg Walker!!! So was he just on steroids or something in Toronto, as that's about the 3rd or 4th time this year it looked like he blasted a ball and it went about 300 feet

Excellent game for De Aza!

Please tell me he hit that off the end of the bat?

QUOTE (SpainSOXfan09 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 01:41 AM) I gotta ask the obvious hilarious question now, are we worse off than the Flubs now as an organization? That would be really bad. Yes...worse contracts going forward with less revenue coming in

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 12:21 AM) Does this seem like rock bottom for this organization? Too predictable

Maybe Ohman can make himself useful and get into a fight with Rios.

This is just a perfect game in many aspects.