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Nice job Freddy, get us going Juan

Beckham with a real good defensive play to bail out an Alexei blunder.

Looks like our scouting report forgot to tell our hitters that Humber throws an offspeed pitch. He had a 6 K/9 inning rate in the minors. 9 up, 9 down...not the same focus that they had at the plate vs Twins

Before Hawk calls him Cy Humber, can someone send him his mediocre AAA stats this year?

Nice Freddy!

Freddy throwing 86 mph batting practice already. Ozzie has to have a long leash on him tonight due to the DH debacle.

Wow did Rios look bad at the plate there. I hope it was due to the shadows, and not because he's just clueless.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:24 PM) Cause it's too early in the game. No manager pulls that crap that early in the game. A starter starts and plays. Late inning pinch hitting is regarded as fine; early inning pinch hitting goes against baseball's unwritten code. But I thought you liked Ozzie cause he doesn't care about baseball's "code"? And BTW, I still think your reasoning is awful. It was the 5th inning for your platoon player. Not like it was the 1st inning for one of your everyday starters.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 10:51 PM) Cubs trying to blow a 5-1 lead in the 8th. Now 5-4. Man, are they brutal. Conrad is so clutch, it's crazy

Wow, I'm used to negativity, but this is extreme. We're still playing the Royals, and don't forget we get to face Humber. Good news is that Twins are winning 7-3.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:55 PM) Your guys' beef is with him being on the roster; mine as well. If he starts the game, he plays the game. You don't make lefty-righty pinch hit moves in the fifth f***ing inning. You just DON'T. He should not be on the roster; but him being in the lineup, he must bat in that situation. Why you can't you make moves?

Jackson's already had one incident this season that caused unnecessary stress on his arm. He didn't exacdtly respond well to that.

Good for Ozzie! I'm proud of him.

Sox should DL Garcia if he struggles in game 1 in order to bring up another reliever.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 08:12 PM) No, you don't. Mid game is too early to remove a starter. You are right. The mistake is playing him in the first place. No, mid game really is not too early to remove a starter. It's the f***ing American League, you don't need a bench full of players for moves later in the game.

Twins up 2-0 in the first already. That team is just destroying RHP

Ozzie Guillen said "I hope his husband is ok"

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 05:01 AM) How do you know? http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...,0,802156.story

Sounds like Sox are extremely pissed off at Joe West.

Joe West doing his best to ruin our bullpen this season. I bet we see Pena start tomorrow.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 01:03 AM) How idiotic is the umpire and grounds crew for letting this game actually start just to be delayed 10 minutes later? What the hell was the point of that? It's terrible...absolutely inexcusable

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 01:01 AM) He's only thrown 7 pitches. But he also threw a lot of pitches to warm up prior to the game.

4-0 Twins leading already

2 hour rain delay? You cannot put Jackson back into the game, so it looks like we'll just destroy our bullpen tonight.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 02:45 AM) Hopefully Putz just tweaked it and came out because it was a big lead and he figured no need to push it. He couldn't push off his right leg, so the lack of velocity is worrisome.