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Needless to say, this is a tough inning for Gavin. It's crazy how many leads we blow at KC. Probably more over the last 5 years than any place besides Minnesota.

Rios definitely slumping...pulling off way too much.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 01:54 AM) Why is it that certain people appear from nowhere w hen the s*** hits the fan a bit? You know I'm consistently on no matter what, just had to move around a lot of furniture tonight to make room for the nursery.

Wow, that was terrible base running by Viciedo

Viciedo has a beautiful inside-out swing

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 02:42 AM) So three bad starts in a row from our staff .. wow. The Sox play so s***ty against the AL fixed

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 01:41 AM) This is not the same Gavin Floyd we've seen in the past three starts. Where are the Ks? Cause the NL truly sucks against offspeed pitches.

What an awful effort by Floyd this inning.

Gavin really has to learn how to pitch from the stretch. KC right back in this game.

Recent history at KC suggests Royals will make a run in this game. That Kotsay DP really kept the Royals in this game.

It would suck though to have to give up Hudson to get Dunn when we could have just had Thome for a million dollars instead. I'm all for upgrading the offense, but you have to do so without giving up Hudson/Viciedo/Flowers. Trade Danks 2, he sucks anyways.

I can't be the only one that feels like giving up Hudson and/or Flowers for 3 months of Dunn is way too high of a price? Will Dunn be a type A FA though and cheap enough to offer arbitration to?

Not the news I was hoping to wake up to, as Broussard has consistently said for a while that LeBron to the Bulls is the most likely scenario. Broussard supposedly is close to LeBron. Something that is also worrisome is that some feel that WWW is the one who's telling everyone that LeBron is coming to Chicago, but WWW has lost some of his power within LeBron's inner-circle.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:07 AM) Hahahahahahaha! Got a big kick out of this, Fathom. Good to see you still with a sense of humor while living with a pregnant woman....props to you! 6 weeks left and counting...she's an amazing person, handling it much better than I would.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 04:01 AM) unfortunately we were told prince isnt going amywhere, which either means they arent trading him or we have to overpay And they wouldn't trade Fielder for Danks since they know it will cost them a fortune to re-sign him. Prince will go to some team with top-notch pitching prospects.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:00 AM) And LaRoche just blew a game for the D-Backs on defense, horrible throw scores the tying and winning run in the bottom of the 9th. 2006 World Series type game

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:00 AM) Linebrink for Brennan Boesch! Ha...love it!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:58 AM) Zumaya just f***ed his arm. Down on the ground and done for the season, is my guess, PEDs is a terrible thing. How many freak injuries can he have before realizing his tendons are too tight.

Comical bottom of the 9th for the Dbacks vs Cardinals

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:53 AM) The problem is that to be proactive is going to cost us a lot right now. I can live with moving Flowers but I do not want to move Hudson. I think it's either time to say "f*** it" and go for broke or we stand pat for 3 weeks or so. As I told you, it would be a huge mistake to give up Flowers or Hudson for a rental right now. There's no telling if we just go back into our struggles in the AL. Unless it's for Prince Fielder, Hudson is untouchable for me.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:53 AM) I assume you are calling for Dayan. Cause there's no other spot Oz is going to find offense with this bad offensive roster. DH!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:51 AM) Four hits ain't gonna cut it. The NL win streak was wonderful. It got us back in the race. Now if KW would make a couple decent moves we might stay in the race. Jones, Kotsay, Juan, Beckham, AJ still are not hitting. If Dayan isn't going to get a chance, we at least must acquire a decent DH type soon, soon, soon. Again I take nothing away from the great win streak. But we still have not near enough offense to beat AL teams. great post!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:48 AM) The scary thing is that the correction is well underway for Rios, his numbers are coming back down to his career norms and we still have a ways to go until they get there. I'm not sure we can survive a Rios rough patch, even if Quentin is tearing the cover off the ball. I said earlier in the game, but the time is now for KW to be proactive. By the magic of something, we're back in the race. Don't let it slip away though! We probably can't afford to fall back 6 or 7 games again, especially with the Twins having resources to acquire a SP.

Greinke is going to dominate the Sox on Wednesday I have a feeling, so tomorrow is huge!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 03:41 AM) I'm amazed that you have yet to land a gig as a hitting coach. Well, it's pretty f***ing obvious. If I was the hitting coach, I guarantee you that I would not just use the line "it's all mental". There's some fundamentally-flawed mechanics with guys like Beckham.