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QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 17, 2007 -> 03:23 AM) With the amount of research Hawk spends on the history of baseball, I have to believe this is a greatest team to ever have a slump like this. It is....Dick Williams confirmed it for him.

Contreras got by a lot longer with his mediocre fastball a lot longer than I thought he would. Our starting pitchers are getting into a bad habit of giving up runs right after we score them. Oh well, I'm happy with a split today.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 17, 2007 -> 03:20 AM) When is this f***ing team going to hit like a medicore team. They're missing three main offensive players, all of whom have injuries that shouldn't bother them when they return. They'll be fine....there's too much talent.

I like the managing by Torre here.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ May 17, 2007 -> 03:14 AM) i cant stand mental errors We really should be winning this game tonight.

Nothing like trying to take third on one of the strongest throwing arms I've seen all season. That would have been a good running play if the game was tied when Mackowiak hit that ball. QUOTE(greppson24ottondo @ May 17, 2007 -> 03:10 AM) does ozuna watch the game while he is on the bench. we've seen cabrera show off his arm three times today. unbelievable Ozuna's turning into quite the base runner. Two miserable plays by him in the last few days.

Nice job by Ozuna? Are you f***ing kidding me. I hate this team.

Pathetic at-bat....good thing PK doesn't care if he strikes out more this year.

Hell, put on a hit-and-run here.

Now that was a horses*** swing by Dye.

This is the best offensive team Hawk has seen to be in this big of a slump? He must have a different perception of our current talent level than I do.

Let's get some predictions for this inning: Erstad: grounder to SS Ozuna: grounder to 3b Dye: 3-1 grounder to SS.

Listen to Grandma Erstad make excuses. It's f***ing sickening.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:52 AM) When was the last time we scored 10 runs. In a week?

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:48 AM) There's something to be said about the team's baseball IQ when your players are taking huge HR cuts with no outs and two men on against a tough sinkerballer They weren't huge though. PK took a nice swing, as he was able to elevate the ball. He's a bad match-up against Wang though, as he knows if he hits the low sinker, it's an automatic double play. Mackowiak had a good approach at the first pitch, he just popped it up. QUOTE(ROC Sox Fan @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:49 AM) That's a fair ball. Even the Yankee announcers admitted it. They were just impressed Ozzie didn't argue. It was foul....tell the Yankees announcers to go back to fellating Clemens. At least during the corpseball era, they'd break out once or twice a week and score 10 runs in a game. These guys are consistently mediocre.

Why did we move Uribe back down in the order? He seemed to be having very good at-bats in the #2 spot.

QUOTE(Grindersrule @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:44 AM) No props for Joe on that play? Which play? QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:45 AM) You're on to something here. They should do one with Pods, but have those little arrows point to different parts of his groin: "Pulled left abductor" -- "Strained right abductor" -- "Hernia" Then flash to: "Groin on 'em on. Groin 'em over. Groin 'em in. Sox." This would be a good ad. Is it me, or is this Pods injury very peculiar? He's going to end up missing about 50 games due to this injury, and that seems like a ton for a strained muscle.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:42 AM) PS: I hated those homerun swings with runners on. Pathetic. I thought the swings were actually fine.

Sometimes you have to laugh that not only are we giving a lot of at-bats to a struggling utility player, but he's also batting 5th in our lineup. I'm shocked we have the record we do with the mediocre lineups we're putting out on the field.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:40 AM) Lovie + Sox = Nice. Wasn't he recently at a Cubs game?

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:38 AM) What kind of package do you think we could've received for Crede this past offseason? Cue ridiculous Angels trade proposal in 3....2....1

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:37 AM) Crede's popup + Wang's sinker = screaming line drive? Please? He usually looks good against him. If the field wasn't wet, that ball might have hopped over ARod's head. So far, Mientkiewicz makes the tough pick, and we don't make the big defensive play.

I hate watching this offense. Can it please rain all three days this weekend?

Nice swings so far this inning. Please avoid the triple play PK.

Good job Pablo! Someone finally noticed that Wang is not throwing a sinker on his first pitch to each batter.