fathom

Hopefully Pena can fool them the 2nd time they see him.

Does Rios ever hit line drives to right field anymore? Seems like he's opening up so early, and if he makes decent contact, it's off the end of the bat towards left. His plate coverage just seems way off.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 05:13 AM) Here comes our singles hitting machine. Lets hope he hits one here. Probably won't score Therapist

Lillibomb has turned into Lillibrutal...on his way to a sub .200 average. Good thing we rested Beckham's old knees for game 2.

Gosh, it's fun watching Castro swing the bat.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 04:58 AM) Which pretty much makes no one available for tomorrow. We have an off day Monday at least.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 04:56 AM) So who the hell comes in once Pena is gassed after 4? We used pretty much everyone earlier today. Linebrink for 2, Thornton for 2, and Putz maybe

Wow, so Andruw doesn't swing the bat once and gets called out on strikes. I LOVE seeing him face RHP. Ozzieball cost us a run there, BTW.

Yay, more Ozzieball!

Nice inning for Pena, come on offense, keep it going

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:23 AM) But remember he was to be our answer at 3B and was even signed to an extension. Yeah right! It's sad what we have to show for the 5 big trades we've made in last two years. Who would have thought Pierre would be the best trade?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 04:20 AM) Get two strikes on Teahan and thrown any type of a breaking ball and he is dead meat He really does strike out far too often for someone with no power

Hey, he swung this time! Teahen's sure making KC fans miss him.

QUOTE (stretchstretch @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:16 AM) I'm about out of analogies, superlatives, sarcasm, etc on this team and season, just too exhausting riding their roller coaster. When it's not your year, one needs to know when to cut their losses, so that's what I have to do now. May and June were pretty nice once I tuned out of the Sox and had literally lost count of how many games back they were. I could put my energy in some productive matters, and not spend nights in anxiety or days replaying what went wrong, just moved on. Is it possible they can rebound, well yes, anything is possible, but it's certainly not worth the price of admission at this point. Tonight's game for me spoke more volumes than any past this season. It affirmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are unable to win past the halfway mark in a game, so if by some absolute miracle half of MN goes on the DL and we slither into the playoffs, it would be a waste of a spot since we'd be massacred by the AL East opponent. It would be better, and it pains me to say this, have 3 teams from the AL East in the playoffs, at least fans would get to see teams fight to win games, and not have their manager pitch to an unconscious hitter who single handedly brought his team back, when first base is wide open with men on second and third. I still hope they make it but can't spend the remainder of this month and September agonizing in vain I will say this...one more bad week for the Sox, and KW needs to be looking to deal players instead of acquiring guys off the waiver wire.

The curse of the Swisher trade struck again tonight, with Betemit scoring the winning run.

SSI, did you hear the inning in which Frank and Hawk were saying how great Walker is at buying into his philosophy of hitting?

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 02:51 AM) Man Gregg will be crying because you are talking about how fat Bobby is instead of how "Great" he is..... Greg HATES Kansas City, so I'm sure he's not too happy right now. However, he's just waiting for someone else to not blame Jenks, and then he'll say that's a great post.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 02:49 AM) No criticism. Our entire pen has pretty much sucked for the month of August. You can't keep blowing late leads like this. I wonder how many games we have blown late in the month of August thus far. It has to be around 6 or 7. We've lost 7 times in a month in the opposition's last AB.

QUOTE (BearingPro @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:48 AM) Looks like Jenks has gained 50 lbs since April. I think he ate his wife, which would explain the medical leave.

I'm kinda surprised Flowers is still batting .222, as he seemingly never gets hits anymore.

I'm waiting for the inevitable criticism by Ozzie about Sale.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:43 AM) His stuff has varied from outing to outing this season. That's the problem. His sinker was on tonight and he was unlucky to not get Aviles out. To blame Bobby is poor considering the 5-1 lead that was blown in the 7th. It was a terrible pitch to throw to Bettancourt. It was right in his wheelhouse. I don't care if Jenks has tough luck come his way, etc. anymore. Plain and simple, he needs to do his job and he's f***ing failing big time.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:40 AM) First one to tell me why Garcia was allowed to let the tying run come to the plate . . . gets a big 'ol prize! Ozzie's gut...go back and look at this thread. You're so right, no f***ing chance he should have let Garcia face Aviles. That decision cost us this game, IMO.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 03:40 AM) How the heck is that a mediocre pitch? He dominated the first 2 hitters with it. Because we've seen it get destroyed all season. When he was going well during interleague play, he finally started using the 4-seamer/curve as his only pitches. Since he left for bereavement leave, he hasn't been the same with his pitch selection.

When oh when will he learn that Jenks is absolutely worthless in non-save situations? I'm so sick of Jenks losing us games because of his inability to step up in these situations. Good riddance in 2 months Bobby.