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QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:20 AM) Do you BA naysayers f***ing get it yet? Yep...we need a brand new center fielder.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:29 AM) The other way to look at it is, if Brian Anderson were showing a bare minimum of success at the plate, they'd never have to pinch hit for him. He isn't, so you pinch hit Mackowiak. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's exactly what I said earlier. Anderson's struggles at the plate are f***ing this team over big time, and a result is Mackowiak having to play in CF.

Time for Ozuna to steal 2nd base. Knowing our luck, he's going to get called out.

SWING THE f***ING BAT!

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:27 AM) They were shading him the other way, which they should have with Jenks on the mound, he got around well on a poorly located fastball. Anderson may have caught it but I doubt it. Again, we will never know despite the definitive statements in this thread. Anderson's defense has taken on a Chuck Norris like mythology on this site.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:25 AM) And what a horrible move that was. You need BA's defense, especially late in games. Didn't you see my post foreshadowing what would happen? Nothing's going right, and the ball's just seemingly finding Mackowiak at the worst times.

Pods with a horrific game tonight.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:23 AM) And this team's problem is NOT offense. You know that. Defense is much more important. BA's helping this team a hell of a lot more with his defense than he is hurting it with his bat. Yes, but when you have a man on in a tie game in the 8th, every manager in baseball is going to make the switch for more offense.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:21 AM) No. Ozzie should have kept his starter, the better CFer in the f***ing game. And that's where the problem is. No one has confidence in Anderson at the plate, and how can you blame them?

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:19 AM) I don't understand why BA was taken out. I don't know if he would have gotten to that, but I feel much better in the later innings having him in. Cause we were actually trying to score in the 8th inning. If Mackowiak pulls that ball, everyone's saying it was a great move.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:19 AM) If we lose this, that's another game -- the third, by my count, in the last month -- that Mack's glove has cost us. We're either going to value defense and leave Anderson in during tight games, or we're going to keep dropping games because our defense has a hole in Centerfield when Mackowiak steps in. Poor Mackowiak....is it his fault that Anderson has been a debacle at the plate? I'm not blaming this loss on Ozzie...but everyone move he's made recently seems to have back-fired.

The outfield, in that situation, has to be playing no extra base hits. If a ball gets over your head, it better be out of the park.

Wow....that's why we need a brand new center fielder. Ozzie has been seriously out-managed tonight by his nemesis.

Scott Rolen....what a brutal error.

The longer this AB goes, the scarier it gets.

Two different zones in the last few innings.

Kinsler with two huge swings. Very scary in this situation.

Good catch by Pods.....I think

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 03:07 AM) It's going to take a HR to win this game with Texas' bullpen. I just hope we don't have to overuse our lovely pen tonight. We need to get Ozuna into this game ON OFFENSE! Where the f*** was that pitch?

Hawk...you suck!

One of the better ABs from Uribe in a long time. And Mackowiak is in, so let the b****ing about his defense in the 9th inning begin.

Why do teams ever throw a 3-2 fastball to the Sox?

Good inning by McCarthy.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 02:55 AM) Hawk is prone to hyperbole I thought every "best I've ever seen" character was Jim Rice or Yaz?

QUOTE(Chet @ Jun 3, 2006 -> 02:55 AM) Hawk, I beg to differ on the Jeff Nelson move last inning and I am still smarting over The Boone Logan Experience. If it was Garcia on the mound, Ozzie would have left him in for 2 more innings.