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Harrell isn't making it out of the 4th. Throwing a ton of pitches for most every hitter.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 01:34 AM) And another AWFUL lineup choice by Ozzie, no reason to bat AJ anywhere BUT NINTH tonight assuming IF you think he should've started to begin with...this is my problem with GB batting ninth right now as well, when he is now hitting the ball well... I was just thinking that it is crazy we have our worst hitter batting 6th.

Feels like we really just let Anderson off the hook big time in that inning.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:31 AM) You f***ing suck AJ. BUT HE'S THE STARTER!

Wow, he's so f***ing bad. Good thing we can't play the hot hand.

Too early in the game to PH Castro for AJP? AJP needs to cash in here.

Beautiful AB by Rios, as he took those nasty sliders very well.

Oswalt would have declined a trade.

Did what he had to there. Hopefully Anderson is very rusty.

Wow, his secondary pitches are awful.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 01:14 AM) Way to get the double play ball, LH. Nice job by PK there. I'll say one thing about Harrell, his fastball has a ton of movement. He's throwing really hard right now, so he's probably overthrowing.

Viciedo just cannot make plays at 3rd base. With a sinker baller on the mound, Vizquel really should have been playing 3rd.

QUOTE (Allsox @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:49 AM) Heard this on Boers/Bernstein and they thought it be might be Carl Crawford coming here with Dunn going to the Rays in a 3 way. Take it for what it's worth but Crawford would fit Ozzie's ideal ballplayer. No, it was just an idea that someone suggested to them. No source, and not a real rumor at all.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:43 AM) So Mike Scioscia is also an A--, because Derek Lee refused to be traded to the Angels? Wouldn't you rather play in the city where you have a 95% chance of making the playoffs/World Series, versus a team that has a 50/50 chance at best to make the playoffs and is missing one of its top starters for the remainder of the season, also knowing that Guillen is likely to leave you at DH instead of allowing you to play 1B in deference to his captain? D. Lee's decision had everything to do with his daughter. Also, this is not the first person to decline a trade to the Sox in the last couple of years.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:29 PM) Oz? Serious question. Who? Yes, Ozzie. Runner-up for manager you'd least like to play for. Personally, I think it's bulls*** as he treats his players very well. However, the reputation he has is obviously hurting.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:29 PM) Well, if I wanted to win a ring, I'd definitely pick the Yanks over us. They have to be the huge favorites. I guess it depends on what his motivation is. Berkman wants his ring this year and then just head back to play for Houston

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:26 AM) lol@Ozzie the GM. He'd piece together an offense that would make this year's Mariners look like the '99 Indians. For those that are just viewing this thread, it's being reported that Berkman declined a deal to come to Sox.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 12:24 AM) Lance Berkman=Douche BNightengale #mlb Curiously, Lance Berkman had recently exercised his no-trade rights for possible deal with White Sox before accepting Yankees' trade. When are people going to realize that a certain individual in the Sox organization is causing players to not want to play here?

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 11:22 PM) I don't believe that for a second. Ozzie wasn't being sarcastic there - no way. =P Cowley said he was being dead serious, and that was Ozzie's justification for never wanting to be a GM.

And I'm also thankful someone else reported the story on here about how Ozzie wants a roster full of guys that can't hit home runs, and in his ideal lineup, Pierre would bat 4th.

Don't know if it was stated on here, but the Myers stuff was supposedly BS.

I heard all the stuff on the radio, and my prediction is Adam Lind or Jose Bautista.

How can anyone say KW's made a worse trade than the 2 Swisher debacles??????????

How does fangraphs rank all of Jackson's pitches? I know scouts were raving about his slider to start last season.

I really think it's likely KW is using people like Santos and Flowers and Morel as trade chips to find a bat, and they really want to keep Jackson in the rotation.