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QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 08:38 PM) Nice to see the Heat fall to Milwaukee tonight. I think the Bulls are fairly safe with that 1 seed in the East. (knock on wood) Bulls clinch the 1 with a win tomorrow.

He's been doing it for at least as long as he's been here and with as fragile as he's been, he would've got hurt in this area already if this was a legit concern.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:51 PM) I think he was at 95-96 once or twice even. He was last night too.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:37 PM) A great example of this is Brian Anderson. Didn't help that Brian had one of the biggest mechanical flaws you'll ever see in a hitter.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) Anyone who watched Tough Enough knows what this is. My buddy from FCW knows most of the kids on TE. Thinks it is awful they picked that bunch. He was a finalist for the show but passed on him. I loved TE back in the day and watched the first episode on Monday, it was enjoyable.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) Thornton really didn't make any bad pitches in the 9th today. Butler hit a good pitch down and Kila simply reached out and poked a pitch out of the zone for the double. The hitters adjusted to him, he just has to adjust back. The hit Kila had was a bloop but it wasn't a good spot for Thorntons fastball. That pitch was too far down in the zone which allowed Kila to poke it into left field, if Matty throws that pitch at the letters it's a He Gone.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:12 PM) I am going to try not to let the bullpen struggles get in the way of the wonderful fact that we won. 7 innings and 1 earned run from the pen today, not exactly struggling. Yes, Matt allowed the one in a save situation but overall the pen was great today.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:02 PM) Really wish they would have won one before the sox played them. The odds... the odds. Agreed. QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:02 PM) I hope Milledge doesn't touch the OF too. Although maybe I'm being too quick to judge him. He misread Gordon's double and also looked worse than Carlos out there. For the sake of keeping Carlos healthy and hitting well, it might be smart to DH Quentin. No, he was horrendous out there on opening day too. It's not just misplaying 1 ball, he gets bad reads on EVERY ball in the outfield, he's terrible out there. QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) The two players look nothing alike. Morel has done nothing but put up good at bats all season long. Anderson, on the other hand, had no idea what a good at bat was. Agreed. I wasn't too high on Morel's bat coming into this season but I've been quite impressed with him at the plate so far.

Alright, time to score some runs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 01:46 PM) So with Humber going today, will he be available to start on the 9th? Yes.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) I didn't understand the rationale of giving Butler anything to hit in that situation. You had a lefty on deck and an open base. You're usually not going to put the tying run on base, though the situation really did change when the count went to 3 and 1. Chris got beat by the count, plain and simple.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 01:39 PM) I know that but they atruggling to be a team a home that can esily lose 100 games and the D'back starting pitching has shut them down and they suck. That's quite a ridiculous way to look at things.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) We are just having TERRIBLE at bats today. Ya, this is a rather pathetic display by the bats today. Francis is quite hittable right now we're getting nothing. Jeff made a beautiful pitch against Pauly with 1st and 3rd and nobody out back a few innings ago but besides that our hitters just aren't having a good day up at the plate.

Just reading through the first few pages of the game thread and yes Milledge is horrendous in the outfield, you could have just watched opening day and figured that out, he's completely lost out there. And for whoever asked if he's worse than Pierre, considering Juan is a good defensive lf and Milledge is terrible, I'd say the answer would be yes. Anyways, it'd sure be nice to get some runs now.

Besides the stupid bunt a couple games back, I've been happy with Ozzie so far this season. Good lineup here. EDIT: Though on 2nd look I'd much rather have Lastings dh'ing.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 11:03 PM) Some positives: Sale failed. He needed this. Time to get hungry boy and earn some real cred. Beckham continues to roll. Tcq? Rios is in the game now. Floyd going deep with 1.5 pitches working. None of this will matter when we start a 25-5 run. Sergio and Jesse were fantastic.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 09:58 PM) That'd be OK as you say. But if we lose tomorrow. The first road trip is a fat grade of D, considering the competition. And either way it's 5 games. I sure as hell wont be happy with a 2-3 start but it certainly wont be time to panic.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 10:55 PM) Yes, yes, yes. Up two in the eighth, gotta win. Sucks to be 2-2 vs. Cleveland and KC. Gotta do better than that. Still early, though. You win tomorrow and you're 3-2 on the first road trip of the season against lesser competition, that's a perfectly fine trip to start the year. Calm down. This was definitely a bad loss but it was one of our better pitchers who got beaten by the count in this game. It happens unfortunately.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 10:51 PM) So, who wants to justify Ozzie not putting Thornton in there? Anyone? You planning on using him for 2 or 3 innings? You really have to wait as long as possible to put him in the game in that situation.

Extra innings were absolutely brutal and Sale got beat by the damn count, if he gets ahead of hitters he's going to be unhittable, and I have no doubt that will be the case this year. On the other side of that, Pena is definitely garbage, you knew this game was over once he came in. It sure does suck to lose games like this but hopefully Mark gets us back on track tomorrow.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) I would be absolutely shocked if he is a first round pick. It is more likely he isn't drafted at all than he goes in the first round. He'll be a first round pick.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 02:52 PM) KC is a much more rounded out team this year... a bit under the radar. They could easily be .500. No.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 04:48 PM) It doesn't work often, but you have Vizquel and Pierre hitting behind Alexei. I'm just chalking it up to non-execution more than a bad managerial move. But if he decided that he would never call for a bunt unless it's for one run in the 8th or 9th inning, it wouldn't bother me either. And Alexei never executes sacrifice bunts, you'd think after his first 3 years with the Sox, that would be something that Ozzie would have caught onto by now.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 05:33 PM) I'm going to give Ozzie a break. If Alexei gets the runners over, chances are he comes back with Omar trying to do the same thing with a squeeze play. And if that worked, everyone is happy. Alexei just didn't get the job done in a close game where Danks and Masterson were both pitching well. Now if it was Vizquel and Pierre on 1st and 2nd, I wouldn't want Beckham to sacrifice with his live bat and Dunn and Konerko coming up behind him. No, it's a common theme around here that people are pretty unhappy when we try to bunt with no outs and 2 people on early in a game. Not to mention, it NEVER and I mean f***IN NEVER works for this team. It's one of those things your manager has to realize at some point but apparently he doesn't learn. Vizquel and Pierre should be the only two people ever trying to sacrifice bunt on this club.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) They only beat Duke by 1 in the final 4. But that Duke team was also loaded with Deng, Williams, Redick, Duhon, and Ewing. I still wish that Illinois team had been on the other side of the bracket from Duke and UConn because they would have had a great shot at making the final 4 with how they were playing at the end of the year. Duke was winning that whole game too and were up by like 10 with 3 or so minutes left before UConn made quite the come back. And ya, Emeka was hurt for a decent part of that season iirc which derailed them but then they ran through the big east tournament and were pretty much the favorites going into the NCAA's.