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Well, that was pathetic by Alexei. I doubt Omar can catch up to the fastball. Probably rather see Teahen here.

Wow, excellent bunt...thought for a second he'd beat it out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) Good AB alex... now stay out of the DP Aj. Sadly, he's going to be asked to bunt here, and Aj isn't very good at that. Maybe Walden's bad defensively and throws it into LF?

Oh boy, here comes the bunt. Nice AB by Rios.

Where's Aardsma when you need him?

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 09:39 PM) 2 innings in a 2 run game is mop up duty? Maybe.. Just MAYBE they're trying to keep the game close, instead of putting Ohman or Pena out there.. Huh? Never said it was bad to get him an inning today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 09:39 PM) Yes. From 2004-2005. He's since averaged 4-5 per year. Anyone else you want to judge based on what they did in 2004? nope, good to hear he's improved with that. I didn't really follow him after he left the Reds...heck, I forgot he was ever on Arizona.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 09:37 PM) Why is Jesse Crain being used as the mop up on this team? Guillen seems like he was unprepared and thus so was his team for the season again. No idea, but don't even get me started on Crain not being used on Wednesday to start the inning.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 09:36 PM) Just like Jim Thome, he's notorious for being a bad situational hitter because people only pay attention to the bad situations and expect him to succeed 100% in clutch times otherwise they boo. His career OPS in high-leverage situations is higher than medium-low. Anyone who writes and believes what you just wrote deserves ridicule. With Dunn, I was talking about his inability to hit sac flies, etc. Didn't he go like 2 years without one?

QUOTE (dpd9189 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 02:25 AM) Starlin Castro continues to impress. This kid is a good looking ballplayer. Kinda sad that he's already better than Gordon Beckham

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 08:32 PM) 14 K's in 33 at-bats you pegged it other day when you pointed out it seems he can hit when the situation dictates nothing he can do can do any real damage. If you're talking about the Felix thread, I was being sarcastic. However, he's notorious for being a bad situational hitter.

This would be a good inning to get Thornton some action instead of making Crain unavailable for tomorrow.

Well, Dunn's honeymoon lasted 3 weeks. Fans booing him after another strikeout.

QUOTE (DukeofChicago88 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 08:25 PM) No one here thinks Crain could handle being a closer? I think he's shown he can handle pressure situations. He has a much better make-up for it than Thornton does.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:52 PM) This is your definition of getting hammered? We're going on an 11 game in 11 day road trip following this one, we don't have an offday in about 3 weeks, and Ozzie's an idiot for not going to his bullpen. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT. Well, it's just proving he was lying out of his ass on Monday night about the plans they designed for him coming into the season.

Scioscia just shoved it up Ozzie's ass with those pitching changes.

Haha, so Buehrle starts the 7th inning when he's getting hammered at 90 pitches? Ozzie's such an idiot.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:46 PM) I'm almost happy that i haven't been able to watch any of these games. It really seems like i'm not missing much. This series has been disgusting. Bad execution, bad defense, bad at bats, bad pitching, bad managing.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) It is like watching the same movie over and over again. I am sure the fire Greg Walker talk will start 2 minutes after this game is over. This slump has nothing to do with Walker. Slumping against some of the best pitchers in the world is excusable. It's the bullpen/Ozzie's fault we didn't have more of a cushion to be over .500 right now.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) When the alternative is Buddy Bell, I hope this team starts winning to save Guillen's job. Buddy Bell's worked hard to get us the 29th ranked minor league system!

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:33 PM) It's really time to stop expecting much of anything from Peavy, especially him being a top 3 starter. If you are relying on him long term you are going to be severely disappointed. Thank you...it's really sad what's happened to him.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:25 PM) You have to hold on to Ramirez, Beckham, Santos and Sale...and many would argue now's the time to trade Alexei if you rebuild. I still think that new contract's favorable enough that you could go into rebuilding with the middle infield set for the next half decade. That's a good starting point. Not that it would happen, but if those 4 are the ones you build around, that would be the worst team in baseball. Konerko's obviously not going anywhere, nor is Dunn for at least 2 years.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:12 PM) CQ is one of the first guys I would like to see traded. He has little value supposedly, so rather keep him and put him in LF.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 07:07 PM) MB is a nice guy but he is not worth anything close to what he is making or will be asking for it is time to move on in 2012! Don't worry, he won't be back

Way to pull that outside slider/splitter Carlos