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Look for Masset to start tiring now. It feels like the Indians have 15 players on the field now, and the Sox have like 5. Good call on the pitch out! Nice to see some proactivity.

I hate Ed Farmer with a passion. He's the worst announcer at projecting what's going on I've ever heard.

Nothing like making outs on the bases with your 3-4-5 coming up. Even though it's worked out ok, I hate having it be AJP/Uribe/Pods/Erstad in a row against LHP. That's not going to work out well.

Sickening...everything that can go wrong is going wrong.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:57 PM) Where in the hell did Juan get patience? Maybe his cell mate was Rickey Henderson?

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:55 PM) And everything just comes up a little bit short. Did anything change from the 2nd half of last season? And that's now 3 fly balls that Farmer made sound like they were gone for sure.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:53 PM) This is going to be one of those years where everything that can go wrong goes wrong. Injuries, s***ty pitching, crazy plays in the field. Everything. That's why we just need to survive during the first month. I don't care if we start off like 10-14 or so, we just have to avoid a 6-22 start, etc. It will be very intresting to see if Ozzie can keep his composure if we start off horribly.

Here's where we need to get some production from the bottom of the order vs LHP (starting with Iguchi/AJP, Uribe). Those guys didn't help out too much last year.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:49 PM) Fix't.. You make me feel like jphat sometimes.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:47 PM) this team is f***ing horrible. Its getting hard to watch. If Buehrle is out 3 months or so, this team will be closer to 72 wins than it will 90 wins.

Good grief....our pitching is utterly pathetic. These guys just don't fool many hitters, and they fall behind in the count a ton.

Iguchi stinks vs LHP. He gets away from going with the pitch to the opposite field. We really need him to improve vs lefties.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:40 PM) Sizemore is ridiculous 2nd best overall player in baseball, and he's just going to get better.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:39 PM) same here. Haeger gets my vote... hmm, looks like we shoulda taken a Long man in the bullpen huh? i'm a little bit sick of that man... he's got MVP written all over him Haeger should have made this roster out of ST.

Gotta stay positive, as Buehrle is the one person who seems like he could handle an injury like this and recover the fastest.

Either Haeger or Floyd will have to face Oakland next. That's a bad match-up for either guy, as they're a patient team. We just have to survive this first few weeks and try to reverse this momentum a little. It's too early to panic yet.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:35 PM) Whenever you are feeling down about the division, just remember three names 1. Joe Borowski 2. Sidney Ponson 3. Chad Durbin Gavin Floyd John Danks

Too bad we don't have Haeger available to go 5 innings. I honestly couldn't imagine a worse start to a season than what we've seen.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:23 PM) I was at the game yesterday in the upper tank, and Thome's HR looked like a double in the gap. It was a positive to see him turn on the pitch like that and hit the liner. He did that so often to start 2006, but as his wrists got bad, he rarely turned on the pitch with power. And I think it was santo = dorf that said it, but that Sizemore homer was very similiar to Pods walk-off.

Oh how I long for Eduardo Perez. Good job though Pods.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:18 PM) Let me just say this, if Scotty can keep stealing bases, and Erstad can too, things will be dangerous.. the question is how long will it take to gel? This pitching staff needs its mojo back.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:16 PM) It was lost in the sun. Was it really?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:16 PM) No matter how much I dislike him...I have to raise the name Tetrahydrogestrinone. I love Bonds....there, shoot me.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 06:15 PM) In the AL, Marquis would have a 6+ ERA, and we already know what Ted Lilly does. Yep, if I recall correctly, Lilly was better than any of our starters last year.

The Indians have the the two best hitters in all of baseball in my opinion not named Albert.