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QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:09 AM) You have to give Burke a lot of credit for sticking it out. He's 35 and this is the first season he was on the major league roster on opening day. He's still a .333 career hitter in the majors. Hey Hawk, that pitch wasn't even close to the others.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:08 AM) It may have been a little low, but he's doing you a favor throwing a low fastball down the heart of the plate. JD could have hit that ball hard if he wasn't focused on hitting it into the LF upper deck. Dye's trying to pull everything. He had such great oppo field power last year. Have there been any opposite field homers by the Sox so far this year?

Javy stays out there....can't get the win if you're not still on the mound.

How did this team go from being so good around this time last year to so f***ing bad right now? This is why you don't trade veteran players for minor leaguers 2 years away from the majors (unless you're in rebuilding mode).

Pathetic AB Jermaine. He's had too many ABs this year where he chased the 3-1 and looked bad on the full count. At least he'll be happy in Texas next year.

Ha, that pitch was over his head.

Wow, interesting idea of throwing a first pitch breaking ball to a power hitter looking to drive the ball.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:03 AM) This is why Tizzle is asking for more power arms. The only thing he's doing is throwing 96+ gas by hitters. If he makes a mistake, percentage wise, he'll get away with it. You mean 93 mph on the Sox then?

Hit a bomb here Dye, it's our only chance to win.

Cintron continues his horrible play. If we had any other back-up SS, Cintron would be a candidate for our annual DFA.

Most teams have at least one power guy they can bring off the bench. We have to have the worst bench in baseball this year.

Ugh, horrific AB by Erstad. Man, the talent is just oozing for us right now.

There's also a talent issue going on right now. We're simply not designed to hit LHP, and in this division, that's a death sentence.

We now have a 4 game consecutive streak of Hawk mentioning the 67 season. I won't be able to watch the game tomorrow, but will someone please monitor this?

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ May 2, 2007 -> 03:48 AM) Wow, our team f***ing BLOWS right now. Have a good year, Cleveland. We're dropping the fight. Our hitting is going to have to pick it up, because I just looked at the team batting average page, and we've faced basically bad hitting teams all season so far.

Fantastic game for Mackowiak. Great decision to play him Ozzie, we can always count on you to help this team get out of a slump.

Remember when we first got Uribe, how he'd drive the ball to all fields?

Good job AJ

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ May 2, 2007 -> 03:44 AM) Ozzieball was a myth, no doubt. And HR's are great. But when every memeber of the team has the same horrible swing, it creates some problems. Like when they face future Hall-of-Famer Cy Durbin. Ozzieball = have 3 relievers have career season.

Does Crede ever hit line drives anymore?

FWIW, can we please stop piping fastballs to Sexson on the first pitch? I think AJP took one too many chairshots.

Wow, another fluke play in the mode of Sunday's double play. I like how Terrero got behind the ball. First time I've seen that by a Sox player in ages.

QUOTE(bmags @ May 2, 2007 -> 03:38 AM) how is this possible to be this bad offensively? Did you watch the 2nd half last year? People never realized how bad our offense was, as they'd rather blame the pitching.

We make it seem so hard to ever throw out someone stealing or throw out someone from the outfield. Do other teams get to use 80 foot base lengths?

QUOTE(Mr. Showtime @ May 2, 2007 -> 03:32 AM) The trading deadline for this team is going to be a very huge deal this year. If we're not going to play well this year, I'd just as much hope we're 8 to 10 games out by the deadline. Dye and Buehrle are almost definitely gone after this year, and we could get some good players if we're to trade them in a few months. It's not necessarily that I don't think this team couldn't make a run this year, but the other teams in our division just seem better than us. This offense has carried over from the 2nd half of last year.