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Castro sure does like to take a lot of strikes. Seems he's struck out a ton looking this year.

Rios with no chance on any pitch on the outer half. At some point, you have to tell him his ridiculous stance needs to go.

I'd be game for Crain taking over in the 7th. Humber's gotten away with a lot of hanging pitches tonight. He did make some good pitches when he had to.

Great pitch to Kemp there. Don't hang anything to Uribe please!

Crowd booing Dunn, and they probably don't even know about his struggles vs LHP this year. Morel took some really good swings in his last AB. Huge inning for Humber here.

BECKHAM!

There we go Castro!

Beautiful swing by Rios! Big at bat here for Ramon.

It's a joke that Lillibridge isn't playing every game against LHP.

"As Quentin, another pop up"

Lilly has nothing on his pitches. It's games like this I wish Viciedo was on the roster so Dunn can't continue his 0 for the season vs lefties.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 21, 2011 -> 12:17 AM) Can't be afraid in the 1st inning. Should have nibbled. No, he should have pitched around. Humber almost looks too fresh, as his velocity is higher than usual. This Dodgers lineup is terrible, and only has two guys you need to be careful with. When Hawk calls out your strategy, you know you messed up.

Smart job pitching to Kemp with a base open.

Is Lester hurt? His velocity seems way down. It's amazing to me the production the Cubs have gotten from Baker and Reed Johnson this year.

Wow is Buckner a terrible announcer.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:15 PM) not defending Juan's D at all this year, but his horrible play souldn't take away from how awful Pods was in the OF, many of the balls Juan got to and looked fairly routine and got, Pods would have sped his wheels and not even got a chance to make an error Last year, I'd totally agree with you. This year, it seems his range is non-existent. It really seems like he's lost two steps from last year (where he had lost a step from his Marlins days). Even on his leadoff double yesterday, he had no chance for a triple on a liner into the right field corner.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:01 PM) How dare you forget poor lf defense. You disappoint me. I was considering typing that, but Pods never dropped fly balls like Pierre has. I still find it ironic that Pods made a game saving catch at the wall in Game 2 of ALCS against none other than Orlando Cabrera.

If Dunn doesn't hit a home run off of Garland tomorrow, then I give up hope he's going to hit 35 homers this year. I'm pretty sure he hit 3 homers in a game against Garland last year.

I don't mind honoring these guys, but I think it's ridiculous that Jerry Reinsdorf told Juan Pierre to honor Scott Podsednik all season by getting caught stealing and picked off twice a week.

I like the idea to recognize these two guys. Uribe is definitely someone who seems to be more popular with Sox fans now than when he was actually on the Sox. It doesn't hurt anyone to do this, and it's not like we're recognizing Timo or Luiz Viczaino.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 20, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) Some vicious rumors about why Vince didn't like Randy. Who knows if they're true but if they are you can't fault Vince. Ha, I remember that thread about wrestling urban legends. Maybe the greatest message board thread in history.

WTF was that on The Office last night? The show really should have ended when Michael left.

He's the one all-time great I was always hoping would come back to the WWE in some capacity.

RIP Macho Man

Big double play by Gavin