fathom

Dumb 0-2 fastball down the plate. Guarantee our hitters would have seen an offspeed pitch.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 01:50 AM) It's not really simple, though. Dayan is only one man. And even he's slumping now. - Bench Rios, platoon De Aza and Lillbridge - DL Dunn, call up Viciedo to play DH - Fire Walker - Trade Danks

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 12:48 AM) elrockin is pretty much the lone 'optimist' left. Greg Hibbard says hi!

Bucket, you've fallen off the deep end haven't you

Gavin with really good stuff so far tonight. Be nice for him to go on one of his hot stretches for the next few months.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 12:41 AM) If Cleveland had same scoring opportunties as Sox tonight it would be 3-0 at least. After seeing this lineup, I'm more confident than ever that Tigers are going to win this division easily.

2 for 35 for Rios with RISP and 2 outs now? Also has a nice .445 OPS on the road.

Haha, he is so terrible. That was a massive meatball. Here's an idea...bench him

Very nice swing by Dunn. Looks more balanced tonight.

Konerko's swing is pathetic now. Seems to be cutting it short far too often.

I missed it, but why was Pierre unable to tag up on Konerko's deep fly?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 12:27 AM) Would Ozzie be fired if he insisted on having Brent Morel leadoff? Would he get fired for insisting on batting Juan Pierre in the clean up spot? If the answer is yes to either, shouldn't he get fired for insisting to bat Dunn 4th after all he has seen? Who knows if he is correct, but Cowley was saying today that Ozzie is keeping Dunn 4th as an F-U to Kenny for acquiring a slugging DH when KW knows Ozzie didn't want that.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 12:23 AM) With all the hope and promise of getting better in 2011 - we continue to get worse. I didn't think it was bleeping possible. When you have such god awful mechanics like Rios does, there's no reason to really think it will get better. Dunn actually took better swings in his first AB, it's just he has mediocre power now it seems.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 01:20 AM) That was pretty predictable. 4 stranded through 2 innings. Carrasco has no command, but I guess it's bad luck...hitting bullets all over the field again.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 12:17 AM) 3 pitches Teahen chases so many offspeed pitches with two strikes, it's amazing. For someone with no power, he has very little plate coverage.

Maybe the worst AB of the year for Rios. His head couldn't have moved more in those last two swings.

What a sad lineup for Cleveland

Nice pop up to right by Quentin

Ball just doesn't jump off of Dunn's bat anymore

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) Thanks for that stat. Another example of us eating our own on here. Or maybe wanting a little more consistency from someone who has the talent to play better than he does? He's made some huge strides this year though (hitting LHP and defensively)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 10:19 PM) I am overwhelmed by the staggering profundity of your artfully crated retort. Yes, the guy coming off a terrible injury, and who by the way has started to hit quite well lately, and was already known to be raw on drafting him... is "awful". Thanks for adding to the discussion. Wait, 1 for last 22 with 11 strike outs is nothing "hitting well lately". Virtually every scout that's seen him this year is very worried about him. I still don't get the whole injury angle either. Yes, I could see his speed being negated due to it, but you can't blame all this striking out solely on him missing a year. Strike outs were an issue with him coming into last season as well. I still have slight hope for him, but at this point, projecting him as ever being a MLB quality player is an extreme longshot.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) Beltran is also going to cost a team a lot more than Q. I really don't see why he should. He's a rental who you can't offer arbitration to.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 06:36 PM) Yep and I didnt expect top prospects for either. I would take what you get for Jackson and hopefully you atleast get something decent for Carlos. Based upon the lack of pitching available on the market, it would be silly to just give up Jackson for anything you can get.

Cowley was saying the same thing about Quentin and Jackson possibly being on the way out. Pretty simple, if you don't get a good package for Quentin, you don't trade him. There's plenty of other at bats you can find Viciedo for the rest of this season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 12:33 PM) The funny part is all of mine are news articles, and very few of them are optimistic. Exactly..the news stories surrounding this team are negative, for the most part. Thankfully, should be some more interesting stories in the next 10 days.