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I really hope Beckham is ready to play tomorrow. The Legend of the Lillibomb is fading away.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 03:20 AM) Bah, he's been helped by the rest of the pen so much that you can't care about that number. I'm simply thinking of trade value in the offseason.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 02:17 AM) Did I see Linebrink at 97 there? At the rate his fastball is going up, he'll be throwing 102 by the end of September. ERA almost under 4

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 02:17 AM) with the exception of you, of course I highly, highly doubt I was the only person that thought Garcia was a bad match-up vs the Twins tonight with this warm weather and Twins swinging the bats well.

The last two years, Rios stole 56 bases and was caught 13 times. This year, he'd matched that total of caught stealing and only has 24 steals.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 03:11 AM) 5 runs by the 6th off Baker? I would've taken it to start the game. Who knew Freddy would take a dump?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 03:10 AM) And yet, we're above .500 on the road, and coming into today, teh Twins had the exact same road record (and home record) as the Sox. I didn't say we're a terrible team on the road...rather, we've turned into an amazing home team. The quality of our at bats at home is fantastic.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 03:08 AM) This level of offensive production would have swept the Orioles. Watching this team play games at home, as opposed to on the road, is like night and day.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 02:07 AM) Let's not forget how B Jenks helped jump start their run by blowing the save in the finale of that 4 game series...thanks alot fat boy. They swung the bats pretty good the first three games of that series as well, but there's no denying that the Jenks game can be pointed to as the turning point of the season if the Twins win the division.

Pena's done a good job as an innings eater out of the pen this year in a role he was never, ever supposed to have. There's a big difference between being a good pitcher, and doing a good job in your designated role.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:58 AM) Or we could have signed Thome and just kept Hudson in AAA all year or used him right now to give Garcia a break. And there's the added benefit of he wouldn't have homered off of Garcia. Sigh. Well duh, rarely do you see a manager make a personnel mistake that changes the tide of the division so significantly. I despise the fact that we got rid of 6 years of Hudson, even if Jackson has looked good.

This Twins lineup is just ridiculous basically since the start of the 2nd half of the season. Not an easy out in their lineup.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:37 AM) Would we have gotten Jackson if Peavy didn't get hurt? Probably not and Freddy would still be the #5 starter. And we could have used Hudson to get a big time bat or had him lurking in case Garcia got in trouble.

The good news is that Garcia will not get to face the Twins next week. I really hate how we had our worst pitcher going in the first game of the series, but just like everything else, Ozzie's the one in the spotlight now. I'm happy to hear a lot of people in the media starting to ask questions about his lineup decisions and style of play.

Way to go CQ....and let's get the pen involved in this game.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:46 AM) I've been saying it for a while. Losing Peavy hurt us a LOT more than people made it out. Yep, hurt our offense and pitching

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 12:42 AM) Man, tonight is a great reason why losing Peavy hurts BAD. Haha, just saw this after posting the same thing in game thread. It's really amazing the domino effect that injury has had on our chances this season, yet it's so rarely talked about.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 12:44 AM) Jesus... I'm still at work, but I'm glad I didn't rush home to see what you guys are looking at. Freddy getting shelled huh? Well this is making the Edwin Jackson trade look even better. NO ONE should be complaining about that anymore? Imagine having Freddy as your 4th starter with an unsure rookie at 5... I don't think we'll ever understand how crippling the Peavy injury was to our season.

On the bright side, if we can comeback to win this game, this would be our season changer like the Twins got by coming back to beat Jenks.

QUOTE (Real @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:40 AM) He's garbage, watch him pitch and you'll see his era is smoke and mirrors, we'll go up and out in the next inning and Ozzie will concede defeat by running Freddy out there again to give up 4 more Batting average against rising close to .300. Good thing is management saw this coming, so I don't think they'll leave him in to die the rest of the season.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 12:37 AM) Twins have sure come to play and with two homers are going to show us they can play our game at the Cell too. Question is can Freddie regain some control over this thing before he gives up 4 or 5 runs in an inning? Twins have come to play ever since the Jenks letdown. If they continue to hit seemingly over .500 the rest of the way, you tip your cap to a superior team.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:35 AM) nice brawl right now CIN vs. STL What happened?

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:33 AM) lol anyone going to say Season Over yet?

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:32 AM) Get Freddy the f*** out of this game, he is going to get killed. Cooper planned out the rotation a few weeks ago for the rest of the year, and we ended up basically giving up a game letting Torres start in order to let Garcia pitch tonight.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 01:32 AM) And they're not even all that sound right now - they're missing Morneau!! Still a pretty damn good lineup now that Mauer is Joe Mauer again. Hopefully we stop pitching to him with an open base, as he's just red hot right now.