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Tied! We finally capitalized on a hanging offspeed pitch.

Some pathetic swings on hitters counts. There's been 3 times tonight where one of our hitters could have easily taken one for the team.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:18 AM) I didn't get a chance to see Vaz last start, what did he do differently that was effective? Did he stay away from the curveball, or did he just not flatten out sliders? He relied a lot more on the high fastball.

Isn't a pitcher saying that velocity doesn't matter like a guy who believes a girl that size doesn't matter?

I'm not getting my hopes up for the playoffs until we show in the 2nd half of the season that we can compete with good teams. Garcia is consistently throwing 87 mph tonight. What a joke.

Nice 2-0 swing PK. This game has the feel of a Yankees blowout. We're doing everything possible to give the Yankees this game.

No DP here Paul!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:06 AM) Stop sayign that...Ozzie will start him in CF as a platoon for Anderson, because Anderson can't hit righties. You know it's bad when Balta is so upset and pessimistic. You were always arguing against me last year, now you're sounding like me.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:04 AM) It would be REALLY nice to get someone on for Thome here just to keep Wang from getting comfortable. Thome's been great all year against sinker ballers.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 01:01 AM) This team is showing a lot of signs of frustration. Lots of bats getting flipped. Quick Ozzie, turn up the music! They've been showing this frustration for over a month now.

Way to pull the pitch off of the plate superstar.

How confident to you feel with Freddy facing the Tigers and Twins in his next 2 starts?

At least Buehrle, Garcia, Vazquez, and Contreras have been consistent in giving up their 5 runs a game recently.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 12:55 AM) We could easily have 5 runs this game but we seem to want to mess up. We're going to need 10 to win this. I'd be so thrilled if Garcia never started another game with the Sox.

BTW...I love the first pitch fastball down the plate to ARod.

Garcia doesn't have a chance in hell against a good hitting team with this stuff. His stuff is weaker tonight than it's been in a long time.

Can we please pull Garcia? He's throwing junk down the plate every pitch. The guy is done with...send him to the DL, and the trade his ass in the offseason.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 12:47 AM) Good, now we get to start the next inning with Podsedjoke leading off. Seriously, I would have liked to get Podsedjoke's AB out of the way there. Sucktron strikes again! Lose the stupid nickname for Cintron. He just had a 2 rbi hit. Show a little class.

Man, stealing really seems so hard when we try to do it, but so easy when teams do it against us.

Wow... a clutch hit!

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 12:43 AM) Totally agree. He's usually good at the plate. He's very, very streaky.

Posada's great stop on the first pitch to Mackowiak could have been a huge play in this game.

Some nice hits this inning, but I'm sure glad we substituted offense for defense.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 12:32 AM) "If you're goin' against Freddy, you know to look for a mistake, and he's gonna give it to you" - DJ, summing up Garcia's season. DJ has been ripping on Garcia's approach since about the 2nd inning of his first start.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 12:32 AM) what has dissapointed me about Ozzie this year compared to last year is he is putting people in situations to fail this year. Last year I thought he did a good job of figuring out what people did poorly and protected them.