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Nice meatball served up by Buehrle. You're not going to win games if your offense only puts up 2 runs at Coors.

You could see Alex think about not hustling for a split second there. He's pulling off every pitch right now.

Isn't it 2-1?

Jeez, he juiced that

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 03:00 AM) Again the average 3b in MLB right now has a .680 ops. And Morel's at .560 and showing no signs of driving the ball

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:33 AM) You'd rather have the guy hitting .220 with 6 hr as our version of the league average? Yes, in our offense, I'd rather have the guy who can hit the ball out of the park. It's also probably 99% likely that .220 hitter has more walks than Morel does.

I've said this before, but there's no reason to bat Morel if we're not going to hit and run with him every time Pierre gets on base.

Wait, what happened with Buehrle? I thought he had a double. Also, I missed the Beckham outs tonight. Anything hit good?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:42 AM) You guys know over the last 9 games or so Rios has been hitting really well, I think his average is over 300 (atleast thats what the stat said earlier in the game) I missed the games last week, but was he actually hitting the ball hard? I saw the two homers in Arizona though.

Very nice catch there by Rios to hopefully prevent big inning. Way to shut us up...for a few seconds

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:36 AM) I wish he would retire, or at least officially announce his retirement. It still is amazing that we have so many more years/millions to pay a guy that seems to be going through the motions more than anyone we've had here in the Ozzie regime. For as much as people complained about Carlos Lee, he hustled a hell of a lot more than Rios.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:27 AM) i did too, but i looked at his baseball reference page, and it wasnt nearly as bad as i thought it would be. aside from his last season numbers, he was a effective 5th starter. Hasn't Marquis been better?

Awful, his swing looks like it has about 4 different parts to it.

There's a break. Time for Rios to break it open with a single up the middle

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) Konerko has to go the All-Star game. Period. He's having just an amazing year. Such a pleasure to watch him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 09:47 PM) This is a guy who hit .305 in the minor leagues overall and .322 last year between Birmingham and Charlotte. He's on pace to strike out about 60 times in a 500 at bat season if he got that. If he put up a BABIP of .310 and never homered, he'd hit .276. At this point though, one home run and two walks is unacceptable from your third baseman, end of story as far as I'm concerned.

The least Morel could do is get Pierre into second.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:22 AM) Ramirez or Rios? I'm guessing you mean Rios in CF (not the one with the Russian name). No, Ramirez also

Great job Mark!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:19 AM) Wasn't someone telling us Rios has only two errors to defend his defense last night? If there is no error charged there then he gave up 3 free bases with no error. Hell, Alexei should have about 3-5 more errors this season if not for favorable official scoring.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 01:17 AM) Wow horrible horrible work by Rios. That was a catchable ball. But he only has two errors! Ugh, he's been mediocre out there. Never thought Quentin would be our best defensive outfielder of the three starters, but good for Carlos.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 02:01 AM) loaiza pitched effectively for 5 more years as a starter, and contreras was pretty amazing until injuries and age knocked him back, but he has been a pretty good reliecer for the phillies when healthy. franklin looks done, weaver became an overpaid dodger reliever, marquis never did anything worth noting, suppan couldnt get his era below 7. I thought Loaiza was terrible after his magical season with the Sox? You know how much I despise Suppan though. One thing Duncan is great at is getting his pitchers to use the sinker. Pineiro was amazing with the Cards.

I would like to know what percentage of Sox leadoff walks score (when we're up) as opposed to the league average.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 01:20 PM) Absolutely. It is great practice for selling yourself, and could be the seed that gets you something later. Research and prepare how you could grow into the position, and the things that make your ready for it. Been running a lot of interviews lately, and something that always stands out about the best applicants are those that have a lot of great questions about the company, the position, etc. Like you say, doing research about the company is a must.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 09:49 PM) Hahaha. I did go to all three at home last week, and it wore me the f*** out. Try following the games on an iphone while at Universal Studios, Disney and SeaWorld