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Why does it seem like a lot of our guys aren't even swinging with authority tonight?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:41 AM) I totally agree. Aaron hits lefties well. Mike Wood comes on for Anderson. And Everett is pretty bad against lefty pitching. His approach isn't good from that side.

More material for my campaign to get Rowand in the 3 hole against lefties. I can't see any reason why not. Rowand is great against lhp.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:38 AM) Every season it seems we have the: "The Sox need to beat the weaker teams" saga. Everyone is going to have an off-night, but if we ever want to compete with the back-to-back-to-back AL Central Division champs, we are going to have to get the W's against the team's we should be beating. The Twins destroy teams like KC. That's why we have so much trouble hanging with them.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:36 AM) We got f***ed against Sarloos. How did we get f***ed? When he was in the game, we kept hitting into double plays and not once did we try to create something offensively by putting a runner in motion. The Crede thing sucked, but we still would have needed a base hit to get a run in.

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:32 AM) Most of our team appears to be in that mode. There have been some horrible swings on Anderson tonight. Thing is, Anderson, to put it lightly, sucks. We lost to some crappy starters in the last week, especially Saarloos and Robertson. Both games, like tonight, we just played station to station and got some poor at bats from our big guys.

Konerko has got to get away from trying to pull every single pitch.

I'll say this every game against a lefty until it changes: Everett should not be hitting 3rd.

If you get two players picked off on the same play, you don't deserve to win the game. That was our only real sustained threat in this game besides for the quick 2 run blast by Iguchi.

QUOTE(quickman @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:24 AM) Buerhle has been s*** the last two games. Somethign is not right. Why was Cotts warming up? I assume Buerhle went to ozzie and told him something. Cotts was probably just getting some work in.

If we can only score 2 runs against Anderson, we don't deserve to win. Anderson has been throwing just as much junk as Buehrle has been.

Buehrle's changeup has been s*** tonight.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) WTF Mark, why are you even giving Sweeney pitches to hit? I swear that Ozzie is more scared of facing Matt Stairs than he is of Mike Sweeney.

As I was saying. We'll never learn.

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:19 AM) Based on how he hits us, is there a hitter in the bigs that you like to see less than Mike Sweeney? He's not the best out there, but he absolutely kills us. And we always let him beat us.

Ah, the old lazy pop up to the right side. I used to call that the "Graffanino special"

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:16 AM) With the exception of Gooch and Dye, our offense looks clueless tonight. Crede and A.J. have awful bat speed right now. I know they're both banged up, but they're barely getting the bat through the zone.

Like I was saying, way to come close to hitting a homer Iguchi!

Hit the ball on the ground Pods!

Mays is getting rocked for the Twins. Westbrook finally getting some run support.

Konerko.......use a level swing! After having a good AB, he swung straight up there. Also, where did Rowand's power to the opposite field go? Seems like he has warning track power this year after being able to get those over the fence last year.

The funny thing is that I wanted to just have a nice game tonight, like Sunday, without anything to complain about. Then, they go and do that s*** in the first inning, and totally pisses me off.

That play is all the fault of Tim Raines. He's the one who has to tell Everett that Sweeney is behind him.

Twins are down 2-0 in the first also.

Wake the f*** up Everett and Raines. That's about as stupid of a play I've ever seen.