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We miss Crain badly

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:15 AM) wow is rios bad. There appears to be no effort at in his game. The novelty of alex rios has worn off. It didn't wear off for you the last three months of 2010 when he was a GIDP machine?

Sox have to play with 20 outs a game for 7 players when Rios/Dunn are both in lineup.

Rios has no bat speed left. He can't even come close to turning on a fastball in.

What a piece of crap. Enjoy the splinters Alex.

Screw it, try a hit and run here. Only chance for Rios to do damage is an inside offspeed pitch.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:07 AM) Looked like the usual slider to me. It was a fastball

Jackson threw some funky pitches that last inning. Almost looked like he tried a two seamer, as he was throwing 92 mph from a weird arm angle.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:02 AM) I still can't believe Jackson's never developed something other than the fastball/slider. Even if he never ever throws a changeup/curveball for a strike, just having something at 80 mph would make his 88 slider and 93 fastball so much more effective by speeding them up to the batter after they take the pitch. He has the arm motion that would make a 93 mph cutter really nasty.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 01:01 AM) You take baths? lol. I haven't sat down in the tub since I was 10. Me and Baseball America and baths = quality time

Whew, thought that was gone. Jackson's hanging a lot of sliders right now.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 01:00 AM) Thanks buddy:cheers You might want to reconsider your thanks. Beckham homered actually

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 12:57 AM) Went to take a bath how did we tie? Dunn and Rios homered

That was a really bad pitch by Edwin. That was a really nice catch by Morel on the next batter though.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 12:56 AM) Is it me or does the 6 man rotation seem to hurt guys in the first couple of innings and they they settle in....except Danks Nice to tie it up but the pen better be ready to do some handy work Interesting, maybe they're too strong? Jackson was definitely firing his slider early in the game, and he usually doesn't reach 97mph until later in the game.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 12:53 AM) For once, I bet he's intimidated by who he's facing. He's been protected from pitchers like this for a month. He just hasn't learned how to hit pitches away from him. As he showed last night, he can turn on pitches coming into him.

I give Juan full permission to get caught stealing here.

Balta...those are the at bats Morel can't have. He doesn't need to be taking a protect swing with 1 strike. He's such a better hitter when he tries to pull the ball.

Now that is some bad pitch selection to Beckham.

BECKHAM

So this is what it's like to play 7 on 9? What a bust...did he really think he'd get a 3-2 fastball.

He is so great

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 01:39 AM) You know the management wants to bench him, at least until Lilly fails. This can help alleviate some of the perceived pressure they may feel to play him. As soon as Konerko is healthy, Rios will be benched. I'm extremely confident in saying that.

QUOTE (mcgrad70 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 01:39 AM) Why can't this organization just go out and sign bonafide stars instead of trying to out-smarted and bedazzled everyone with lightening in a bottle projects? Imagine Adrian Gonzalez on this team instead of Dunn... You mean besides the fact Dunn was a FA and Adrian wasn't? Now if you want to argue about Kenny finding creative ways to bloat our payroll, that's a different topic.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 01:37 AM) Would we have benched him if we had another OF on the bench? Haha, yeah right...someone on the Sox getting benched due to lack of hustle?