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Hernandez's slow curve has not been effective tonight. Indians have a much better approach against him than the Twins did.

Hernandez against a lineup full of lefties is a difficult match-up for him. He has to rely a lot more on his fastball against lefties, and that's not a strength in his repetoire.

QUOTE(ZeroHour @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 12:29 AM) Not necessarily off topic becaue it was brought up but...our 3b "situation" Im going to say it again. Ryan Freel. The guys a scrapper and definitely stuck on Cincy's bench. Im a little less high on him now with that DUI business, but you have to admit that he would be a nice fit statistically. Freel has a drug problem. In the minors, he had a problem (this was like 3 years ago).

Wohoo! Nicely done by PK. Elarton has nothing on his pitches.

BTW, I like what I've seen from Willie so far.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) No one said that. What I am saying Carl HAS to play the OF. To spell all 3. THERE IS NO REASON WHY TIMO SHOULD GET MORE ABs THAN CARL. Absolutely no reason. And by saying Carl shouldn't play the OF, that's what you are doing. You are saying you favor Timo in the OF over Carl which is absurd. No, you're saying Timo is a backup outfielder, while Everett is not an outfielder. Since when do you put totally inferior players in the field just to play them? I honestly think we're a better organization than to have to do that. Everett makes Sosa look like a very good outfielder.

Carl isn't bad defensively like Carlos Lee used to be like 3 years ago. Everett is at a whole great level of awfulness when he's in the field. We've been winning games because of our pitching and defense, not because we're out-slugging teams. Why not play Gload in LF, PK at 1b, and Everett at DH? If Everett just messed up some plays in the outfield, I would have just marked it up to an Ozzie mistake, and not mention it but once after the play. However, Everett got injured, and it could be a shoulder problem that really impacts a player's swing. Everett is injury prone!

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 11:41 PM) Why the hell are you getting mad at Ozzie? Where do you expect Carl to play when Frank comes back. He sure as hell isn't going to be DHing a lot. Carl needed to get work in in the OF. Oh well, s*** happens. In no way is this Ozzies fault, period. All I know is that Everett is an absolute disaster in the outfield. In a way, Everett/Ozzie/KW got lucky that Frank was hurt, so they don't have a 4 million dollar bench player. A pitcher won't have a lot of success with Everett in the field, especially someone like El Duque who gives up a lot of flyballs.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 11:37 PM) Were you complaing before the game? On last nights game thread, I was saying how we need another right handed hitting outfielder. Someone mentioned Everett, and I said he should never be playing in the outfield, as he's an absolute disaster out there. So, to answer your question, yes I was complaining before the game.

Seriously, what was Ozzie expecting by putting him in the outfield? Everyone in baseball knows that the past few years, he was the worst outfielder in baseball. Not only that, Everett's not exactly someone who's learned to avoid injuries. And what do you know.....one play hit to him, it cost us 2 runs, and he hurt himself.

If Everett has to go on the DL, we might be the worst offensive team in the majors now.

Ozzie's tinkering is out of control, and it's only the 9th game of the season. Now, we just lost our best hitter by far this season because Ozzie's a f***ing dumbass.

Nice one Ozzie, you dumbass. If you're not going to play Gload or Timo in the outfield, then there's no reason to have them on the team.

I hope that one play shuts up anyone from ever saying he should be in the field again.

That's why you don't play Everett in the f***ing field! Absolutely no f***ing excuse for him to ever play in the field.

Tough play for Uribe there. I'm still concerned about his fielding, he seems 5 times less confident in the field than he was last season.

It's Hermanson

Just like to say thank you to the Indians for messing up that bunt. There's no reason we didn't use Harris in that situation either to bunt or on the bases. I'll take it though.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 01:51 AM) Did Pablo get hurt? No, he was pinch hit for by Timo with Miller on the mound, who's a tough righty. It was the correct call.

I agree it will be Hermanson. The Indians have their 1-2-3 up next inning, and all of them are lefties.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 01:49 AM) Was he? The Indians announcers aren't really saying much about it. I thought A.J. came up short on his slide, and Boone tagged him out before he actually reached the base.

That's my boy Uribe!

He was out, terrible slide.

Holy cow did we get lucky there. A.J.'s slide seemed to take forever. We need to get this run in here.

Ozzie.....let Willie bunt for Crede if you're going to call for the bunt! If you're not going to use Willie to bunt or pinch-run, there's no reason to have him on the roster!