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Holy s***, what a terrible at bat by Crede. These guys have no confidence at the plate.

How can you not hit 87 mph fastballs right down the plate?

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 8, 2008 -> 07:34 PM) i completely missed it coming out of ST, but KW has dissapointed me with the bench. That is going to rear its ugly head even more when the Sox play in NL parks Having both Ozuna and Ramirez on the bench is killing the bench.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 8, 2008 -> 06:29 PM) When you have a pitcher who is as calm as anyone, taking a bat to a heater then you see frustration. I could just imagine what Ozzie told Buehrle after that. "Don't worry Mark, we'll change the line-up tomorrow so the leadoff hitter has a .310 average (OPS, of course)".

Nice 3-2 pitch by Danks.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 8, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) Javier is the best right now. Danks and Floyd are pitching equally as well. The rest, okay. Buehrle and his 5.81 is not okay.

How in the world are they missing these pitches? Anytime Ozzie wants to shake up the 3/4/5, that would be fine with me.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 8, 2008 -> 07:17 PM) at least Jim is seeing some pitches Who cares about that today. Slowey's only going to go 5 innings or so, and the Twins bullpen is completely rested.

Thome has fouled off so many mediocre fastballs the last month or so. Hopefully his bat speed picks up.

Slowey throwing a lot of very hittable pitches so far.

Quentin hit the crap out of that ball to get it over Gomez's head.

Ramirez with a sharp grounder back to the pitcher.

QUOTE (rangercal @ May 8, 2008 -> 06:38 PM) I'm sure we could have got him for even less than that. But yes, that would have been a gem of a deal. No, this past offseason.

QUOTE (rangercal @ May 8, 2008 -> 05:16 PM) I don't expect the sox to get any "top prospects" for any of the listed players. But, it would be nice to pick up some low risk/high reward projects that teams may have given up on . Some examples of the last couple years would be Brandon Phillips, Gavin Floyd, Carlos Quentin, Josh Hamilton, Oliver Perez ect I always wanted to see the Sox get Brandon Philliips in a deal for Garland.

Frank just needs to go away.

So if it is 69-59, how does that impact the delegate race?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 8, 2008 -> 05:14 PM) Apparently it is 69-59 for Clinton. This via MSNBC, not links I have seen yet. How does that impact things for Obama?

I assume no deal will be made by the Obama team unless it doesn't really hurt him in the long run.

Well, at least we didn't see this monster tonight...(he has to be a C cup) http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo;_ylt=Avu...105&prov=ap

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ May 8, 2008 -> 04:24 AM) Heh. Last time I'm optimistic about this offense

QUOTE (JFields27 @ May 8, 2008 -> 05:21 AM) Hernandez is going to need like 8 bags of ice on that arm Those dolls are going to need like 8 bags of ice for their ass.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ May 8, 2008 -> 05:17 AM) I never kept up on him back in Oakland, but my impression by everthing I heard about him was that Swisher was a damn good hitter. Great, NOW they start hitting... Swisher's a career .248 hitter.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 8, 2008 -> 04:18 AM) Yo fathom, is Reed Johnson still a "superb" pickup? You had me rollin' when you said that s***. Yes he is...when they start playing him against lefties only, he'll get his average back up into the .280 to .300 range. He's proof though of why certain guys should never be full time starters.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 8, 2008 -> 05:16 AM) Bottomline is if Ted Lilly is your second best starter, you're not much of a legitimate contender. There's no way in hell Dempster is going to keep up anywhere near the pace he's on. Lieber and Marquis both stink. No telling when Rich Hill will be back up. Sean Gallagher? They really have no pitching depth. And it'll be next to impossible for them to trade for any good pitching before the trade deadline. One, what they hell do they have that anybody would want (the days of molesting the Pirates appear to be a thing of the past)? Two, you have to go back to the Astros and Randy Johnson in 1998 for the last time a "contending" team was able to land an impact starter in-season. It doesn't happen very often. I bet Sean Marshall is in their rotation by June.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ May 8, 2008 -> 04:15 AM) Thome, Konerko, JD, Swisher, AJ, Crede (maybe), are... or at least WERE at some point all very good hitters. Don't deny that this offense is way too good to be hitting this poorly. Swisher and Crede aren't what I consider very good hitters. Heck, I consider OC a better hitter than Swisher.