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QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 11:12 PM) Awesomeness. Their screener just hung up on me. I asked if I was going to be allowed to ask a real critical question or would Bagdad Bob get all mad at me if I put frown in his happy loss post game palooza.

QUOTE(Drew @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 11:08 PM) I want Thornton to have the ball this game at the top of the sixth, lefty vs. righty be damned. And I want Jenks up in the 9th, because he has the best chance of holding the lead. Those two moves and I think we're looking at a winner tonight. We should handle Javy just like we handled El Duque down the stretch run. The minute he shows one crack, bmac comes in the game. He is the bridge to the back end of the pen.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 11:07 PM) "There was nothing wrong with the decisions in the 6th." - Rongi, sure thing Chris. PFB is in full effect. Ozzie could take a gun and start shooting up the crowd and he would spin it as some of those people were probably old and would of died tomorrow anyways.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:51 PM) Did Ozzie dive across the plate for a ball clearly outside and poke a three-run homer for Minnesota? Did he hit the hanging slider from MacDougal when the best the Twins could do against Mac's fastball were bleeders back up the middle? Jesus, shut up already and credit this loss to absolute lack of luck. So you would of went Cotts and his 8 ERA for August in first out of the pen, and then Riske over McCarthy.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:47 PM) Do you want to trot out MacDougal in the 6th? Ozzie was absolutely right in putting in Riske, and it was pure luck that Torii dove across the plate for a ball that was a good two-three inches outside and punched it into the seats. McCarthy is on the team still yes. I guess pure luck is a hitter with 2 strikes taking the ball to right. That has never happened before with the twins. They never hit oppo with 2 strikes.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:45 PM) Absolutely PITIFUL loss. We could have pulled within 4 1/2 of Detroit and seperated a game between ourselves and Minnesota. Our players choked tonight. And wouldn't you know, we're out of the wild-card lead as well with Santana pitching tomorrow. I suppose this begins the fatalism within Soxtalk. "Santana is pitching, there's a "L." They better win. This game is similar to the series in Minnesota with Bonser. First game should have been ours, but instead, was a loss and set the tone for the series. Need to rebound tomorrow. 2 strikes with the twins or tigers. They shorten their swing, they put the ball in play up the middle or to the right. 2 strikes on the sox, either they pose statuesque and walk back to the dugout taking one down the cock, or they swing for the fence and look stupid on a low and away pitch. Its the same approach we have seen for years with 2 strikes. Our team is a f***ing softball team.

QUOTE(cgaudin @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) We let too many opportunities slip away. I guess no one should second-guess Ozzie for leaving his starters in too long from here on out. That bullpen can't get anybody out. Yeah because putting a guy with an 8 ERA in August is the first thing you do after your guy puts a dude on first. We have a guy named Brandon McCarthy that is pretty tough. And he allegedly is our long guy.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:36 PM) It was a quality curve ball..thats how. If he was throwing that same curveball to Jason Tyner, he fouls off like 5 of them before he puts it back up the middle. Our approach at the plate since the ASB is horses***. We have a bunch of men trying to play softball. Trying to put every single ball into the jetstream. 2 strikes and they still have home run cuts. I want someone that can teach our hitters how to battle on 2 strikes. 2 strikes is an auto out with this team.

Nice job dumb fan. Our hitters cannot hit a low and away pitch. They can only pull and lift now. The twins just won the series.

And another hitter takes another pitch down the middle for strike 3. A twins hitter battles that and puts it in play. Maybe walker should go back to the old drawing board with our 2 strike defense.

This perdicament tonight is dedicated to our management team and their lack of execution of a game plan. Thank you Joey Cora who would wave a 90 year old granny with a walker around third with the ball just past the the SS with a charging OF. The BS of it takes a perfect throw and a perfect execution. Well we must run into perfection all the time, because our guys are meat left and right because of waving wendell. Ozzie has his pen up in the 6th becaue the pumpkin will go poof at the 6th. Yet he decides to go with Cotts. Cotts who has a 6.23 ERA since the allstar break Cotts. That 2.62 WHIP looks hot also. And his ERA is over 8 for the month of August. So lets ride the crappy hand. Lets use him out of the pen. That makes sense. He gives up a single on cue. Brandon McCarthy has a 3.23 ERA since the allstar break. You need to put his mug on a milk jug because he is missing.

Against the twins you throw away until you get 2 strikes, then bust them in. Against the sox you pitch away until you get two strikes and then bounce one into the left handers box.

2 strikes and they go back up the middle. Our guys will break their ankles trying to hit it on the dan ryan and K.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 10:06 PM) It would be huge for the Twins to win this game. They now have a comback in their back pocket, along with Santana going the next day.... We need to win this game. Must win. Tell Mr. Cotts comes out as my first pitcher out of the pen manager.

Is Brandon even in uniform tonight. Does Ozzie think we have him redshirted like in college football.

Taz corkscrews himself into the ground, on one knee pulls the outside slider and hits it to the SS for the inning ending putout. I wonder why our team pulls the ball so f***ing much. When we play the Tigers, the Twins the As the Redsox the minute you get to two strikes look out. They think oppo and make it tough to get them out. We swing for the fence and K or pull it for a weak dribbling grounder.

Well it looks like we are going to the 9th tied in a game that we should be up by a few runs if we had any coach but Ozzie. Neal Cotts our worst reliever has the most appearances of 58, more than Bobby Jenks even. Brandon has 43 appearances. He must of kicked Ozzies dog.

Maybe next year our hitting coach can cover not swinging at s*** low and away that isnt a strike. That is after there is an entire field to hit too class, outside of the field you pull too.

Crede needs to come through here.

Hit the f***ing ball, get a run. Send prancing pods to the bench. Move the butcher of CF over to Left where he belongs, and put BA in center and all balls at least get caught by competent fielders.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 09:45 PM) The Twins had no problem with our 2-3-4 batters, can we do the same with their 3-4-5 battters? Their 3-4-5 hitters are not trying to park every single pitch on the Dan Ryan.

It would be a shot to us and to the twins if we actually tried to hit line drives next inning, and strung a few hits together. I know it goes against our whole offensive strategy of lift and pull and pose, but it might win a close game. Just a thought. Pods prances over and make an easy catch look hard.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 09:43 PM) After reading about this game I'm very happy I missed the first 5 1/2 innings wendell cora killed another rally thats pretty much sums up our first few innings.

The magic potion for our right handers especially Senior Pull It only. Low and Away its like Kryptonite for our right handed hitters.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 09:40 PM) I can't help but to keep thinking of Cora's gaffe earlier. I am more upset at why Cotts and Riske were option A and B out of the pen with a 2 run lead in a must win game.