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Gotta love the replay of the Lillicurse play. Only reason Rolen tried to get to 2nd was Lillicurse did a terrible job at getting in position to throw the ball (common theme with Sox for a while).

When you're mad about how bad this team is, just keep this in mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liS3kGvQ9Bk

Gavin's absolute lack of command on his fastball has made him a joke of a pitcher this year. No doubt in my mind he's given up more hits on his fastball than any pitcher in baseball this year.

And that's the Gavin we've learned to hate. Grooves the first pitch fastball to a lefty.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 17, 2009 -> 07:02 PM) What the heck was that Fields? Unless Rios is Joey Gathright, seemed like Fields should have had a shot at him at 3rd base. Rios got out of the box very slowly.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:00 PM) He's been sinking for a while now. I think it's time we pull him out of the water before he drowns to death. Agreed, he needs to get some confidence. Going 0-4 with 2 K's at the MLB level isn't going to help him.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 17, 2009 -> 05:25 PM) Nice, Birmingham now has officially the sickest lineup: 1. Danks, CF 2. Beckham, SS 3. Flowers, C 4. Allen, 1B 5. Viciedo, 3B 6. Gartell, RF 7. Cook, DH 8. Shelby, LF 9. Retherford, 2B That's awesome...only one non prospect in the bunch (Cook)

Wow, Corky's ABs haven't even been close. Hell of an idea to play him against the toughest righty in baseball.

It really is time to send down Fields.

That was one of the worst ABs I've ever seen. Should have known he couldn't get the job done, as he's been allergic to hitting the ball with any authority to the right side all year.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:52 PM) Oh man, Thome just got a 3-1 cookie and whiffed on it. Same pitch, hit it hard off of the wall.

Nice job by Gavin pitching over the leadoff single. Can we get another hit off of Halladay today?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:47 PM) Getz is a rookie. Rookies struggle. Completely agree, and he should get the whole season to show what he can do. However, you know better than anyone that Hawk's the spokesman for the organization, and he's been all over Getz.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:44 PM) Who do you guys have close games after we trade Jenks? Just curious. Thornton

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:43 PM) Hawk needs to shut the f*** up. I love Getzy. Oooh and I'm a dumbass, I just remembered I had paused my Sox game at the beginning and that was why my feed was so behind. Getz is going to find himself in the utility role pretty soon if he doesn't get it going. With them keeping Alexei at SS, you'd have to think they'll put Beckham at 2nd base if they're still down on Getz. I can see Nix getting a ton of ABs at 2nd base as the season goes on.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:42 PM) So if we had to blow this team up and keep only 2-3 players, it'd be hard for me to convince myself on any of them. Quentin, Danks, and Thornton (assuming you trade Jenks)

Ouch...Getz is 1 for his last 20

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:40 PM) Betemit plays against tough lefties. I really don't understand why they even bother with him on the roster. Would have been better bringing back Brad Eldred. Hawk is getting really frustrated with Getz. You can tell he doesn't like him right now, as he got on him about a fly out to the warning track.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:37 PM) That was an awesome Curve Gavin threw to Lind to get the whiff. 2 quick outs now as Rolen flies out to CF. I just want to see Gavin get command of the curve he can throw for a strike early in the count. Gavin's curve has still been dominant this year. He really should throw it any time he gets 2 strikes on the hitter. If the hitter does damage on it, good for them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:35 PM) He's the same as he was when everyone was making a big deal out of him, except he's not hitting all the homers. He really had never hit homers at that pace previously in the minors and he probably will hit homers more frequently than he has this season, but his performance is really not shockingly worse than before. The thing that frustates me is we acquired Betemit to fill in for Fields against tough righties, especially when Fields was struggling. Now, we are in that same exact situation, and Betemit doesn't get playing time because of his poor defense. The question is: where in the hell is the scouting of Betemit that should have been done to show he's a bad defensive player? Must have been the same scout who said Swisher and OC would be amazing clubhouse people.

Armando Galarraga has just imploded for the Tigers lately.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) So I really don't like Fields anymore. He looks 100% lost at the plate. Could you imagine how low his batting average would be if he didn't have all the bloopers in the first few weeks? He has only a handful of hard hit balls all season.

7-8-9 all have struck out. At least our pitcher saw some pitches to make Roy work.

6 pitches, 2 strike outs for our awesome bottom of the order.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:27 PM) Is my feed on a major delay or something, its 2-0 with 2 outs? Delay...Gavin threw the ultimate meatball to Rios.