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QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 05:09 AM) He dove over him and never touched him. The contact was before the dive.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 03:48 AM) Yea maybe we can have a whole teams of .196 hitters who make a ton of errors and K a bunch of times. I'm sure that would be very productive. Can't believe you guys take every thing so literally as if I was saying Morel will have a Schmidt-like career. As I pointed out later, I just want to see people be a little more patient considering he's a rookie. The complaints about him should be way down on the list of complaints. Again, I see nothing wrong with complaining about the approach a hitter had that was so blatantly awful. He's one of those guys you want to understand that it's ok to strike out as long as you're dangerous at the plate.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 03:36 AM) If you made a list of the top 25 Sox problems this year Morel would be about 20th. Disagree with this big time. He was an absolute joke offensively for the first 135 games or so. Just because Dunn, Rios and Beckham have been so bad, it doesn't mean Morel should get a free pass for one of the most ineffective offensive seasons for a third baseman in a long time.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 05:07 AM) That call on AJ Hawk at the end of the game was BS. He gave Sproles a flying knee to the back...it was a blatant PI

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 04:17 AM) Just pointing out rookies don't always set the world on fire. Leave it to some of you guys to whine about a guy still learning. No Schmidt had 80 homers and walks combined in his rookie year? Morel had 10 as of a week ago.

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:51 AM) lol okay. I thought I had a point, but you are right. I actually think he's going to be a bust.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:50 AM) Regarding Morel, I've hated his approach all year, but it's nice to see him finally swing at the ball like a man. I've been waiting for him to turn and burn all year and it appears he is finally doing it (just in time as the season is over). It still doesn't exonerate him from being guilty of being a sally at the plate most of the year, however. Perfectly said

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:47 AM) Fathom is the one whose opinion I respect the most. Well, I do appreciate it, and it is very nice to see Morel letting loose at the plate. If he can give the Sox 15 homers next year, that would be a huge plus. Rongey actually had a great segment tonight around 6:10pm when he mentioned the huge decline in home runs for the squad this year.

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:41 AM) I agree with you about his future, but you can't deny that he has some power. He is perhaps the perfect guy I wouldn't never have bunt. I'd rather Ozzie learn Flowers can't bunt now when it doesn't matter than to have him try to bunt next year when it might matter.

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:40 AM) B-Mo!!! 2nd bomb. Proving fathom dead wrong. Hey, I'm happy for Morel...but really? I do like the fact that Morel is easily now having a better offensive season than Beckham.

It seems like Flowers has been Walker'd. Swing is much longer than what it was when he first came up. From what I see from Flowers at the plate, he probably couldn't hit higher than .200 in the majors right now for a full season.

That's the 702nd ball that Rios has broke the wrong way on.

Man, Rios is just so good at the lazy pop up to the right side where he doesn't know the direction the ball went off the bat. Kudos to Juan and nice big fly by Morel. Oh, please start hitting again Flowers, as you've been terrible of late.

Just how many 5-4-3 double plays has Alexei hit this year?

Letting Omar hit here is just too funny

Haha, you suck Rios. Hawk hates him so much.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:33 AM) Looked like a lotta meatballs. Makes you wonder how bad players in the minors are for him to have almost a K/IP

Axelrod looks to be from the Broadway/McCullough pitching family

Omar got all of that one

Haha, nice defense. Konerko's defense has been god awful of late.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:58 AM) I think everyone including the announcers got on him for being too tentative. Yeah, outside of Sunday, he's looked a little better recently.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 01:54 AM) Alexei swinging out of the zone for that low pitch. We needed a flay ball minimum there AR. Maybe they forgot to tell him that? Can't look up stats, but Alexei seems to have really struggled with runners on 3rd and less than 2 outs this year.

BTW, starting Omar instead of Escobar at 2nd is a disgrace.

That Alex Rios is special in CF. Oh...keep diminishing your trade value Danks

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:39 PM) This could very well be the case. Although I'm not close to ready to dismissing the Twins yet. Thing that really scares me about Detroit is they have quite a bit of money coming off the books after this year. Yep, a lot of bad money (ie: Ordonez)