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Garcia is a f***ing choker. He's our 5th best starting pitcher right now.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:30 AM) ain't no dead arm. it's location and his breaking ball ain't sharp. rooney and farmer said his heater is 93 or 94 For some reason, he thinks he can keep challenging Hafner with a flat fastball down the cock.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:29 AM) balty 2, yanks 0 bottom 4 Devil Rays 4, BoSox 2 bottom 3 chance for this to be a good night -- but freddie better turn it up Long, long, long way to go in both of those games.

Not a very promising start. Garcia putting us in an early hole was the worst thing that could have happened. We should be thankful it's not 3-0 with the junk he was throwing up there.

Should have been strike 3

Seen this s*** from Everett before.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:24 AM) Gooch wasn't even close to catching up to that 1 He strikes out on a ton of high, hanging sliders.

QUOTE(rudylaw @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:23 AM) For both teams? Garcia didn't throw pitches close enough to be argued either way.

Milwood's going to shove it up our ass with this strike zone. Hopefully our players will adjust and not get down 0-2 every time.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:16 AM) get somebody up in the pen. garcia ain't got nuttin When both your manager and pitching coach ask if you're injured, isn't that pretty obvious the pitcher is running on fumes?

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 12:15 AM) Freddy looks like he's got nothing tonite so far. Who comes in if he starts getting shellacked?? He'll have to give up 10 runs to not pitch 6 innings.

Absolutely awful focus out of the box by Garcia again. We're lucky it's not 3-0 already.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 08:02 PM) What's the logic behind that one? A psychologist would have a field day with some of the defense mechanisms I've seen by people on this board lately. My personal favorite is that the Sox have nothing to lose.

That's about as dumb as the people who think the Sox are better off not making the playoffs instead of winning the Wild Card.

QUOTE(VAfan @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 05:53 PM) The Sox have nothing to lose. And if they play like it, I think this Sox team is still destined to do something really great - win in the postseason. Because this team plays its best baseball when no one, absolutely no one, thinks they have any chance. The Sox have everything to lose the last two weeks of this season. The next 3 years of this organization could be shaped with what happens in the next 14 games.

This series is a good time for two of our so-called starts, Garcia and Pods, to step up their games. It's obvious what Garcia has to do. On the other hand, Pods is finally facing a team with a poor throwing catcher. Pods has got to get his confidence back on the bases!

It's too bad we're not in the NBA, as the NY Knicks would sure love to take Duque's contract off of our hands.

Rangers will want Contreras, and not Duque. El Duque has absolutely no trade value this offseason. I would do Contreras, Marte, and Sweeney for Blalock and another player. That would significantly upgrade our offense, and we'd be getting maximum value out of Contreras.

With the intensity and momentum the Indians are bringing into the Cell, I don't care what he has to do, Garcia has to come out of the gate with focus and concentration. The last thing we can afford is the Indians to put up a 3 spot in the first inning.

It's Garcia

Dusty's letting Zambrano throw over 120 pitches into the 9th inning for absolutely no reason.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 08:41 PM) Oh come on, it's football day...you mean you weren't sitting there with a bag of chips flipping back and forth between the Sox game and the Patriots/Panthers game? I polished off like 2/3 of that damn bag. And sometime around inning 7 I stopped flipping channels, except during breaks (no ad dollars for those Twins broadcasters) I don't like to eat during Sox games. I was flipping during the early part of the game with the Bears game, but I realized the Bears game was over, and our game would be close.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) When Marte throws strikes between 93 to 95 mph...he is virtually unhittable. He threw strikes, with the fastball, 93 to 95. Marte's big problem had been his slider, and the lack of control he had on it. In order to throw it for a strike, he had to hang it. He stuck with fastballs today, and he seemed to have a less violent delivery.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) took you a while. let's just say you guys aren't quick to come around when we win. Yet, if we were to have lost you guys would have made 3-4 negative threads by now. I'll speak for myself, and say that after sitting in the same spot on my couch for the whole game, I needed to stand up, breathe, and get something to eat.

I'm not a fan of Ozzie at all. However, I give him credit for sticking with his gut this wknd and letting Marte gain his confidence and become a difference maker again for this team. That's the epitome of the "win or die trying" attitude! Also, it seems as if Jenks has become our closer. I don't have a problem with that at all. Our hitting still sucks, but at this time of the season, all that matters is the W or L.