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QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:10 PM) I dont understand how you can hold your head up like this. I would be f***ing ashamed of my team and the effort if I was out there right now. Don't worry, our AAA pitching staff is now loaded for years to come.

I'd love to know how many hits were averaging against starting pitchers this year.

Have no fear, we got Cintron/Uribe/Sweeney up next inning. QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:04 PM) Excuse 1 - Weather Excuse 2 - Injuries Excuse 3 - ??????? The Answer - Greg Walker sucks as a hitting coach Excuse 3 = never could get into a rhythm due to weather and injuries.

QUOTE(diegotony06 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:03 PM) Watching this teams offense is absolutely painful. Something has to be done, because the weather excuse is no longer available We'll hear the injury excuse for the next month, guaranteed.

It's too bad we spent about 3 million to upgrade our offense after they showed signs of aging/slowing down throughout the entire 2nd half last year.

Greg Walker really needs to be fired.

Dye's approach today has been to take strikes, swing at balls.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:56 PM) Goddamn, I'm tired of hearing Hawk talk about how a guy has ten pitches because he "does different things" with them. This is the worst I've seen Escobar against us in a while. He doesn't have his good forkball.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:53 PM) So who got in the way? Might have been Kevin Hickey. I heard he's been dominating our hitters during BP.

Tigers win on a walkoff by Inge. Every Sunday home game seems to be a walkoff.

Who was that dumbass coach who didn't get out of the way?

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:49 PM) More than 5, depending on how much longer Detroit, Cleveland, and Minnesota continue to spin their wheels. Cleveland's spinning their wheels?

Wow, excellent catch by Sweeney. Quite the turn of events.

Prediction time: how many games out of the AL Central lead will we be after this long road trip?

And this game is about over. At least Sweeney fits in perfectly with throwing to the wrong base.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:40 PM) Paul will be fine, he's the least of my worries. We need to hope he doesn't have an Aramis Ramirez type of season from last year where he struggled so much at the beginning of the season when Lee was out. He needs to pick it up now, as this offense has struggled for far too long this year.

QUOTE(hi8is @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:39 PM) if he had erstad steal while mack. was up, he could had advanced to third with his grounder to first... then scored on konerkos pop up. Ozzie would rather have his #4 hitter try to bunt than to have his #2 hitter (who hits a ton of balls on the ground) try to create some offense with the hit-and-run.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:39 PM) Erstad is the only hitter we have hitting over .250 (not including injured players. Yet we think calling up a AAA player who is hitting around .250 is going to help us. We need to acquire a new hitter soon, as this lineup has no life in it.

Jeez....PK has been worthless outside of one game. He has more shoulder shrugs than hits this year.

More incredible contributions by our bench players. Ozzie really should try the hit-and-run more with Mackowiak at the plate.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:20 PM) Because the offense has anorexia, this season is over. I wish I could see something that would make me think we can win over 85 games this year.

They really do act like Erstad's family members by trying to make excuses for why he would do something bad. QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:18 PM) How was the stolen base call at second? He was safe...had a terrible slide though. He went on first move by Buehrle.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:14 PM) With everybody else being so bad, it is easy to forget how bad Crede has been. I think this is proof that he could never be a 3,4, or 5 hitter/the big hitter on any team. He's not getting on top of anything. Even when he hits it good, it's just a warning track fly ball. The only time he's hit line drives is on his 2 strike protect swing. Ha....pathetic all around. And kiss my ass Hawk....that's about his 10th mistake out there. QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:15 PM) Bad 0-2 pitch call That would be AJP's specialty.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:12 PM) Since Erstad is our best hitter right now (gasp), why not bat him third and put one of the lesser evils in the lead off spot, like Iguchi, Uribe (he's like our third best hitter right now), or Pablo. I am not particularly fond of the idea, but something needs to be done to shake things up. Something needs to be done, as the PK/AJP/Dye combo won't work.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 07:08 PM) Man, we are so horrible right now at the plate. can't move runners over, not hitting line drives, no walking, its getting down right sad. We have a guy that all he does is roll over and hit grounders to the right side, yet we have him square around to bunt. The fact Ozzie said he's going to play more smallball now with Thome out is a scary thought. Crede with an out in the air for the 500th time this season. Thankfully we didn't give him a new contract.