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QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:54 PM) Didn't he pinch hit for Matt Stairs? Since becoming manager Matt Stairs probably scares Ozzie the most of any hitter. Yep....you know I've been saying that since day one of his career. I'm pretty sure Ozzie pulled our closer in the first game of his career in order to get the lefty-lefty match-up against Stairs. I'm so pissed off that we didn't let Logan face Lind. If Lind beats Logan, then I'll be the first one to say there's nothing you can do about it.

A great way to fix our bullpen would be to have Logan face lefty hitters in situations where you know they won't get ph for.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:51 PM) No. The Sox couldn't find a spot for a guy like Perez anyways. We need more grinding OF's. Perez would have been such a perfect addition to this team to give Thome a rest against southpaws every once in a while. I don't care how Thome does it....but he needs to start contributing against LHP.

FWIW, Ozzie said yesterday that he knew Wells was going to be brought into the game to PH.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:50 PM) If the Sox lose today, they will be 1-6 on the roadtrip, and will have had the lead in all but 1 game. It is amazing to me the lack of action with the bullpen. It's amazing to me that no one has lost their job so far this year. This team is bad, and sucks in virtually every aspect possible. I bet the Yankees are going to be scared of facing Day, Prinz, and Buckvich this week.

Anyone think we might have to consider making Thome a platoon hitter in the next few years? He's a freaking joke against southpaws now.

How about some predictions for this inning? - Thome vs Downs: 3-2 fastball taken for a strike....Thome starts jogging to first - Dye vs righty: gets up 3-1 in count, chases ball 4, and then pops up to center - Konerko pops up 2nd pitch, does suicide shrug.

QUOTE(PoopsThompson @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:44 PM) To be fair to Day, he's only had one outing so far, yes? Wasn't Bobby Jenks' first outing in 2005 less than stellar? No, he faced Tampa, and he was good. He had a few bad outings early on against Oakland and Boston.

Is it me, or does Day's slider absolutely suck?

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:40 PM) ...and because it got screwed up, Ozzie is going to force everyone to practice it for an extra hour before each game. I know you hate the idea of bunting, especially in front of Thome.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:39 PM) God's doghouse is growing by the minute. Who's in your doghouse right now?

I really just love the smallball try there.....nothing like giving up the out to get to Iguchi and Thome, someone who can't hit lefty pitching. We played right into their pitching change. Why not let Terrero bat against Downs instead of Owens?

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) Shades of Pods in the 2005 WS Good call! I was watching the game the other day. Always fun to watch the greatest closer in World Series history.

Owens seems to have the fundamentals down that our minor leaguers are known for showing when they get promoted to the majors.

Haha, what a f***ing joke. This team is a debacle.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:33 PM) It's insane that our bullpen is performing like this at the exact time we are performing against other teams' bullpens. 0-56, 5 walks Yep, it really is. It's the Battle of the Bullpens, and we're getting humiliated. QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:34 PM) Oh come on. That's a little extreme. Cooper had tired starters and Raines left on his own terms. He wasn't fired. Raines was fired....Ozzie admitted it a few days ago in the Trib. He said he wasn't getting the job done.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:30 PM) If its Walker's fault the offense sucks, why wouldn't it be Cooper's fault the bullpen sucks? 2 baseball geniuses, 2 guys who know more about winning and good players than anyone else in the universe, KW and Ozzie, said the bullpen was one of the best in the game coming into this season. They have to be either at the bottom or right next to it now. Coop can't fix 'em. Cooper should have been fired after last year....but it sounds like Tim Raines was the scapegoat for our disasterous 2nd half last season.

QUOTE(GOD @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:27 PM) this isn't Ozzie's fault anymore. It doesn;t matter who we put in their gonna blow it. Oh and scoring 3 runs a game isn't gonna get the job done either. We don't seem to have problems hitting in the first three innings. No offense, but that's a lame excuse. He had a chance to put our toughest pitcher against lefties into the game to face someone who can't hit lefty pitching. He, or Cooper, didn't do it, and we probably just lost the game because of it.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:25 PM) Our manager was ejected...he is probably drunk as a skunk in the clubhouse right now Wow, I totally forgot that.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 07:25 PM) Who pitches the 7th and 8th though? This bullpen is a moot point. Doesn't matter....if they get the tying run to 2nd base, you have to play the match-up there. I can't wait for the Ozzie apologists to defend that move.

Lind's OPS against LHP is below .400.

Unreal.....how does our manager still have a job? Seriously, put Logan into the f***ing game to face the lefty there.

And now Logan is warming up? That 2-1 pitch was a meatball.

This is unreal....why can't we get the 3rd out in an inning? I'm not sure why we have Logan on the roster if we're not going to utilize him against lefties in big spots. Check out Lind's splits....he sucks vs LHP.

Logan should be getting up to face Lind this inning.