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Where has all our power gone?

Rowand's looking better at the plate, but he's still not driving the ball to the opposite field like he did last season. Rather, he's rolling over on a lot of pitches on the outside corner right to SS.

What's really frustrating was that Saarloos was terrible today. He had no control the entire game. A patient team who utilized smallball (now isn't that ironic) could have scored against him every inning.

QUOTE(Tannerfan @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 09:00 PM) Sit him down now. Let Carl play right, and Gload can DH. Switch that around to Gload in RF, and Everett at DH, and I agree with you.

Don't worry, Dye would have to go 0 for his next 50 before KW made a move. You do remember how long Clayton was allowed to prove he was an awful signing? The dumbest thing about signing Dye to a 3 year deal was that we have Anderson in the minors.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:58 PM) I would've much rather had Timo up there. No s***. Especially with Street's slider, a lefty is a much better bet against him.

f*** you Dye! Great job by Ozzie having Dye bat 5th.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:56 PM) Who? Timo? Forget it. I know, he won't be PH for here. It does illustrate why you don't have your worst hitter at the moment hitting behind your 3-4 hitters.

If Dye takes a first pitch fastball right down the plate, I'm going to be quite pissed.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:55 PM) Dye now gets his chance to GIDP. Dye should be PH for here.

Great job by Everett there. Konerko needs to be smarter in those situations.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:53 PM) What happens if we get a lead in the top half of an inning then the game needs to be called? This game won't be rained out.

Drive the ball Paulie. Harris would have been gunned out at 3rd there if he went.

Way to hit the ball hard Willie! Really would like to see a steal attempt or hit-and-run.

Garcia is definitely playing with fire today with his high fastballs.

Saarloos tried to walk the world that inning, but we didn't let him.

Pods looks like s*** up at the plate.

Am I the only one who thought Garcia had a lot better stuff when we traded for him last year than he does now? I'm still not sure how he's getting guys out. His pitches don't seem to have a lot of bite or crispness.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:31 PM) Poor pitch there. With 2 outs and a 3-2 count, you don't mind walking the A's 2nd best power source. It's ok though, we're going to have to score more than 1 run to win this game.

Come on Garcia. He needs to start getting the ball down, as he's gotten away with some meatballs up over the plate.

We have another 2 years of this buster Dye??? No wonder the A's fans were booing him last night.

3 double plays today in 4 innings.

Good AB by Everett. Hopefully PK will keep this ball off the ground though.

My satellite froze real quic, but was that as routine as it looked on the freeze frame?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:16 PM) Yep. It was more of a puzzled question. I don't think we should be playing/defending for one run so early in the game. Oh well