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Juan Uribe = brutal at the plate. It's becoming obvious to me he's the weak link in our offense, and not Crede. That was a huge play in this game.

QUOTE(wsox08 @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 03:12 AM) hate him?? Yes, I hate Timo. I dislike basically everything about him and his situation on the Sox.

Not often will you see Joe Crede intentionally walked.

Even though I hate him, good job by Timo there. He just bought himself a roster spot for the rest of the season.

Everett or Dye should be hitting here. OMIT TIMO!!!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 03:09 AM) Do you ever think we are going to win? Let me think.....yes

Hermanson is warming up. For some reason, this game reminds me of that Padres Saturday night game on WGN that he blew earlier this year. Hopefully, I'm completely wrong.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 03:03 AM) Curses are no excuse for poor play. This being said for the 1093448457239528th time. Nuke, I know. It just seems like everything that can go wrong, does go wrong in Oakland. I'm all for Politte staying in next inning, but I bet it will be Hermanson. Personally, I think our best bet would be with Cotts next inning, but that's just me.

Sensational inning for Cliff there. Lets get some insurance runs here, because Chavez, etc. vs Hermanson scares me.

How will the curse of Oakland strike tonight? This definitely won't be easy.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:33 AM) Our 1-2-3 hitters look absolutely terrible up there tonight. I don't understand why we bat Harris 2nd, just cause he's taking the place of Iguchi. It's ridiculous to have two slap hitters batting 1st and 2nd in the order. Pods and Harris aren't the second coming of Pierre and Castillo.

Even though he popped it up last night, I would like to see Pods try to bunt for a hit more. He's not exactly tearing the cover off the ball at the plate.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:28 AM) Garland throwing his changeup is so pretty. That pitch has become so good for him... Agreed. Garland in the past used to always seem to hang (too high) that changeup in crucial spots, and usually paid for it with a 2 or 3 run homer against him. I have so many memories of Hawk just being pissed off that Garland threw a high changeup to a lefty, instead of getting beat with his sinker.

Good catch by Pods out there. Takes a lot of concentration in that area to stay with the ball.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:22 AM) Man, Oakland got lucky there...terrible control on the field there, Sarloos had no reason to be over there like that...it's the pitcher's job to call people off. I disagree, that was a very good play. That was great hustle by the pitcher to get over there. Chavez and Kendall had a lot more ground to cover on that play than Saarloos did.

Good job by Crede and Rowand of not trying to do too much with these meatball pitches.

f*** you Timo. I'm so happy we're playing him instead of the red-hot Everett.

Twins won 4-1 tonight. Lead is 9 currently.

Good inning for Garland. After last night's debacle, it's just nice to see a pitcher throw strikes.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:11 AM) You can't have a 3-0 count and strike out. That's the worst, especially striking out looking. Our power hitters like to take the 3-0 pitch, and then swing wildly at the 3-1 pitch, which in a lot of situations is going to be an offspeed pitch. Prior made our big hitters look silly by taking advantage of some poor strategy.

Dear offense: Please wake the f*** up. Against a pitcher who relies on a sinker, we can't play for the 3 run homer tonight.

I understand that Ozzie wants to play as many lefties as possible against the RHP, but why not just put Everett into the outfield instead of playing Timo? Everett and Dye have been our two best hitters lately...and both are sitting tonight.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 12:48 AM) Tadahito's been pretty bad for awhile now. (.244/.319/.354) in June pretty much sucks. Not to mention his RISP avg (.226/.278/.339) -- This is really troubling because he was well above .300 before june. I like what we've seen from Iguchi, but he was bound for his stats to drop significantly from the early part of the season. He was finding every hole imaginable on the field for about 3 weeks, and that resulted in his batting average shooting over .330 for a little bit.

Big game tonight with Tampa rolling over for the Twins again. We really need to win at least 2 of the 3 against the D Rays next week.

We have a Timo sighting tonight!!!