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So the Mets face Kershaw, Vogelsong, Lincecum, Cain, Halladay, Lee and Hamels in consecutive games. Yep, that's 7 straight all stars they face.

I get the feeling the Sox are getting close to benching Rios one way or another. He just doesn't hit line drives. Everything is either a rolled-over grounder or a lazy pop up.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:38 AM) Great night all-around. Make it one time in 25 games we scored more than 3 runs against a starting pitcher. I don't know how long it's been since a team put up such a mediocre stat line.

Walkoff grand slam for Hafner.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:34 AM) Been a Sox fan for 20 of my nearly 28 years on this planet, and I've never seen anything like Dunn. I can't find a word in the dictionary that appropriately describes him. I'm just praying he retires at the end of the year.

Any chance Dunn is a freak and has two appendixes? He needs to be benched!!

Our third base production is comical this year.

Santiago's fastball looks a lot like the Johan Santana fastball of old.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:21 AM) the hand loop is back He just can't barrel-up a fastball

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:13 AM) Paulie turtling in the clutch. WTF What happened?

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:11 AM) Honestly, if Ozzie can't figure out why the Sox can't beat the Twins (or why as a team manager he can't get the heads right on these guys/can't motivate them) and just throws his hands in the air and shrugs, recommending they just "play through it" then maybe we need a new manager. It's that freakin' simple. Another other coach in the MLB or anyone in a management position at ANY JOB would be replaced already.... The way this season is going, it seems hard to believe that either Manager and General Manager for the Sox/Cubs should have a job at the end of the year.

QUOTE (onedude @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:05 AM) If you bring up Viciedo for Dunn, might as well bring up De Aza for Rios....HOLY s*** We are going to have to pay a team a ton of money to take Rios. At this point, you have to wonder if he'll still be in baseball by the time his contract ends.

0 for last 3 games for Dunn since he homered against KC. Rios has 1 hit in last 6 games I believe.

Dan Bernstein is so right...you just have to bench Dunn and try to actually win games instead of letting someone who can't even hit the ball play every day.

Nishioka is messing us up tonight.

Omar trying to pull everything tonight. It's almost to the point I want to give Beckham a chance at the 2 spot again.

There we go Teahen!

Same freaking approach by Rios...do you think our batting practice coach has an ERA below 3?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 01:30 AM) Weren't the Cubs down 8-0 just a few minutes ago? Yep...Carlos Pena and Aramis are out of their minds the last few weeks.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 01:27 AM) I curse the new hyperbole law. Brilliant handling of his pitcher there...would have been fitting if he got hurt.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 01:19 AM) Are you Jay Mariotti in disguise? Huh? In no way was I saying the bad F word. It was me trying to say Fire Ozzie Guillen without breaking the "no fire" streak in the thread. Sorry if any confusion.

Can't believe he's keeping him in. Take him out of his misery Ozzie

Wow wow wow....let the booing go nuts

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 01:21 AM) Seriously, Morel, offensively, is real, real bad. The position overall sucks this year and his OPS is still like .100 points below league average. He might end up being about average during his career, but this year, his offense is amazingly awful

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 01:20 AM) I swear, I'm about to start rooting against the Sox just so my sig comes true. Ozzie can take his moronic lineups, poor pen management and stupid quotes somewhere else. I dislike Ozzie as much as anyone, but this just isn't the Sox year so far. No manager in baseball could have this group of players playing hard. Something that's interesting to think of is that maybe the Sox need to go away from bringing in guys with a reputation of not being "winning" players. Dunn and Rios definitely had that reputation coming into the year.