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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:46 PM) Dont worry, Ozzie in the pregame was talking about Vaz going to the 7th. Maybe Ozzies gut told him something, or he needs tums. I understand Vazquez going into the 7th inning today, after the crap our bullpen/Garland pulled yesterday.

This ump isn't doing Vazquez any favors.

BTW...the 3rd time through the order is lurking for Vazquez. Hide the women and children.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:41 PM) So Chen's hanging breaking ball gets the outside edge yet Javy's fastball doesn't? I thought the same thing.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:39 PM) He looks stiff at the plate. When he sees a low pitch, he's not getting down far enough to hit it squarely. And then, he's jumping at the high pitch. He'll be fine...but we need his bat to heat up again. Like I said.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:38 PM) Pk looks like he is not seeing the ball very well right now He looks stiff at the plate. When he sees a low pitch, he's not getting down far enough to hit it squarely. And then, he's jumping at the high pitch. He'll be fine...but we need his bat to heat up again.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:36 PM) You are forgetting the Boston series when a ball that Mack should of caught landed between he and Cintron and that lead to a rally. This lineup sucks today. You should know me well enough that I was being completely sarcastic. It seems like every game Mackowiak's in CF, something bad happens.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:34 PM) Kalapse, dont you love how the baseball gods work. No matter what you do, when you start a player out of position the ball finds him. This is the first game where it's really burned us though, so I'll give Ozzie the benefit of the doubt.

QUOTE(iguchi=dank @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:33 PM) All of us need to shutup about chris young, most people thought it was a decent-to fair trade when it happened. Certainly not a "terrible trade" when it happened so there is no reason to beach about the guy we lost There were plenty of people who HATED the trade.

Couple of hard hit outs for Conine so far. Hopefully our offense will get that run back now.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:30 PM) Chris Young better suck and not make the Majors, otherwise this has just been an absolute terrible trade.....and that could be an understatement. Even if he doesn't make it to the majors, this has been a disasterous trade so far. And here comes the daily Vazquez beach about close calls by the umpire phase of the game.

Vazquez's arm angle against lefties is just awful. Everything is tailing up and away.

Vazquez doesn't do much to help himself out, does he? Is there going to be a celebration if he hits the century mark after today?

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) I'm sick of this bullspiff. Ozzie must be clinically retarded. Why, when we're in a tight WC race, does he put scrub lineups together? We need to keep winning. And he's pitching to Tejada with an open base and a slow batter up next.

Ha...keep embarrassing us Ozzie with Mackowiak in CF.

Keep walking their leadoff man Javy...it's going to make that 100th loss of your career a lot more likely.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:20 PM) Abreu's 2006 are not that impressive. I don't think this trade is a big deal either. He still gets on base at a huge rate. With the hitters the Yanks have around him, it will just give them another tough out. Who would you rather have out there, Abreu or Guiel?

Sunday lineups always produce big run totals, don't they? Lets see if Vazquez can go through their top of the order without allowing a run.

Chen's in a pretty nice rhythm now. It feels like PK and Dye let him off the hook in the 1st.

Uribe's playing with a tender lower back? Seems to me like he probably should have been given the day off.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:14 PM) That was nasty. How about some more innings like that plz? ^^^^^

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:12 PM) If I were a Phils fan, I'd be pretty pissed off. It's obvious that the managment is cutting payroll, yet they did it after giving us $22 million. I wonder which A-Baller they'll dump Lieber for. Yeah, you would have thought they'd get someone who can possibly come up in 2007 and contribute. Henry is probably 4 years away from the majors.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:11 PM) With the Yankees picking up Abreu and Lidle, the Sox should really make a trade to bolster the offense or starting pitching. The scary thing is that ESPN today thought that the Twins might lead for Soriano now.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:08 PM) Couple of questions... 1. Why the fish is Mackowiak playing in CF today? 2. Why the hell is Mackowiak batting sixth today? 3. Why is outfield defense unimportant against a team that doesn't strike out often and almost always put the ball in play? If you know this much, then why aren't you managing?

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:07 PM) The back-up CF issue needs to be addressed. I don't know how many times Mackowiak has to show you he can't play CF before Ozzie and KW realize something needs to be done about it. It's happened for over 100 games this season, I'm not confident anything will be fixed. It sounds like a broken record, but our outfield defense has been absolutely awful this season all around.