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Have our pitchers pitched over a bad call by the ump once this year? Thornton's the leading candidate for the Politte/Shingo award.

Haha.....good managing Ozzie. Not only that, Dye is out of the game now also. What a terrible manager we have....it never stops.

That's been a f***ing strike all night.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:20 AM) Thornton just doesn't look confident. His velocity is down, and his pitches are up.

Thornton continues to throw fastballs down the plate on first pitch. My brother referred to him as a pitching machine right now. Good thing we didn't have MacDougal facing him. Just walk him here.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:18 AM) Is anyone else worried that Pablo is still out in the field? It's cause we have Erstad in at DH. No other options to play in the outfield really.

Oh boy....shades of Pablo doing his best Bobby Wade imitation in LF came to mind.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:16 AM) Ozzie again. One too many batters. Why was Vazquez even pitching there? I thought it is easier for a reliever to start an inning instead of coming in with RISP. Ozzie has a habit of leaving his starters in too long at KC. It's been a huge reason for their late rallies in years past.

If you have MacDougal warming up, he should just start the inning. QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:14 AM) Why was he in there to start the inning, he was pitching on gas as it was. Because then he couldn't bring in Thornton to face the lefty.

Not sure why we let Vazquez start this inning. He's over 100 pitches. Let's see how badly he can manage our bullpen tonight.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:12 AM) Yeah, that Soriano deal sure is paying off. Maybe Texas will sign him to some crazy contract. The Cubs offense will be superb when the wind is blowing out during the summer. It's just that their pitchers aren't going to be nearly as good as they have been with the change in conditions.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:10 AM) I disagree. He was still swinging-and-missing, but he was hitting the ball with more authority. I thought most of Anderson's homers took place when his batting average was extremely low.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:06 AM) Jason, I hope you're right. I was hoping this offseason we'd deal Jose with his new high(er) value. For two years now, I've been hoping to go online during the offseason to see we traded him for Adam Dunn. QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:08 AM) I think A-Rod has played himself out of the Sox reach. He is going to command a ton of cash. Cubs fans are already pencilling him into their lineup next year.

Good job Javy! Aardsma start the 7th?

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 04:00 AM) Who knows. I want Dye to stick around because if the Sox get rid of Dye this outfield will look absolutely horrendous. It is already pretty bad overall (luckily Erstad and Dye are both pretty good defensively, even if Dye is a bit slow). And the idea of the club losing Dye and having both Sweeney/Anderson in the outfield with Erstad or Mack would make me absolutely vomit/cringe. That would be a flat out disaster. You'd think people would have learned there lesson after seeing BA struggle in his first full season but I guess not, people still seem to think you can just plug in a guy from the minors and expect him to produce like his minor league stats indicated. I got news for people...very rarely does that work, usually at best it takes guys a couple years to develop and even than there is a good chance they don't pan out or at least don't come close to reaching there minor league production. Absolutely....I said it earlier tonight, but our outfield next year might look very ugly. The thing is, it will be much harder to make any improvements to our infield to make up for the loss of offense from the outfield we'd see. Keep it down Javy....a few curves left up this inning.

Hate seeing a HBP on an 0-2 count. Keep him in the park!

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:55 AM) But why hate on a guy because of the situation. And no, I don't think BA should be the everyday starter. In a perfect world maybe Erstad is a backup, but you know what, when he's healthy he's still a pretty solid role player (in fact a pretty good role player). Sure he's no star, but every good team needs good role players and Darin is exactly that. I just worry about how Ozzie uses him. A great example of my concern is how he let him face a good LHP in 7th inning with a RISP in a tie game when he had Ozuna on the bench. The whole 6 million dollar option is scary also.

Ozzie wil let Javy start this inning likely. Can he keep the ghost of the 6th inning away?

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:52 AM) Join the club...its fun, especially since everyone hates him on here. The thing is, I like Erstad. I just hate the role he's in/way Ozzie uses him. He'd be perfect as a 4th outfielder if we had a better outfield.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:51 AM) Wow, we caught a break!! Nice hustle by Anderson. I take it back. I thought Shealy had missed that on first view. Would have taken a dive by him to keep it in the infield.

Wow, we caught a break!! Nice hustle by Anderson.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:49 AM) Pretty solid contact. I'd hate to see what good contact looked like.

It's amazing hearing Hawk talk about Erstad. He sounds like someone's proud mother.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:45 AM) He's had chances to show improvement and he hasn't shown any IMO. Even when he had a good month (July, August) he didn't look any better. You know better than that. He's bad. I'm confused....I'm basically supporting everything you're saying about Anderson.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 03:44 AM) Well, he'd have two factors working for him here. First, the Sox tend to do a very good job of keeping injury-plagued players healthy, and he wouldn't be playing on turf everyday anymore. And I know his AOL IM screen name!