Rowand44

It would be nice to see Brandon have himself an easy inning.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 6, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) Inning over, 8-2 score. 3 more outs! 9-2.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 6, 2006 -> 07:30 PM) Gooch had a great day at the dish, 4-5 on the night. I love it when you analyze.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 6, 2006 -> 07:26 PM) For the record, BA now has a better BA then Juan. Ok, not anymore.

For the record, BA now has a better BA then Juan.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 6, 2006 -> 07:05 PM) Did that work for anyone else? Yes, yoda is a roof.

QUOTE(farmteam @ May 6, 2006 -> 07:32 AM) Really? Who moved into the MidCon then? No one iirc. For some odd reason, CSU decided to go the independent route.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 5, 2006 -> 11:52 PM) Casey's General Store. It's not deep dish, and it's not in Chicago, but it is delicious. They have pizza in Iowa?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 5, 2006 -> 11:50 PM) Are you saying Chicago State finally puts it together this year? Well duh, now that they're an independent I don't see anyone stopping them.

QUOTE(Drew @ May 5, 2006 -> 08:45 PM) Due and Uno are the same thing. I have to go with them, they've been doing it before anyone. And I still think they do it the best. Due's is much better then UNO's when I've had both.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ May 5, 2006 -> 11:45 PM) I'd rather trade Gordon. (hell he has more value and Deng has been semi-injury prone so far during his short career) Deng is gonna be a friggin stud come 2-3 years and is only 20 years old right now. But I'll tell you what. If they want Deng instead of Gordon and take Garnett... I would do it even though I would hate it. I highly, highly doubt Gordon has more value then Deng unless NBA gm's are complete retards. Ok, maybe he does have more value.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:52 PM) Anyone watch the Cavs-Wizards game? The whole game was awesome and back and forth. I did.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:46 PM) Still anxiously waiting on my scores.... You got a 29.

This must be an important victory if Heads is using the powers.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 5, 2006 -> 10:15 PM) Oh, Christ...another minor leaguer? Sorry, but, this is not the time to be breaking in rookies. Jenks was a fun story last year with his 100mph fastball and that hammer, but, unless Tracey has some velocity I am not aware of, give me some major league talent...the last thing this team needs is another kid to piss down his leg in the late innings. Tracey does throw hard, obviously not Bobby hard but I think Sean will be one hell of a reliever for us, THIS year.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 5, 2006 -> 10:06 PM) I was talking to Steve about this too, but, there seems to have been a noticable drop-off into terms of the catching corps calling games this year. Does Widger even call his own game anymore? When he has been paired with Garland and Buehrle, you can tell the two aren't in sync. It's all Dan Patrick's fault.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ May 5, 2006 -> 10:02 PM) Alright let's say that's your plan...where do you go BMac? Not cricizing, just asking. Does he sometimes get the 8th? 7th into 8th? I'm still unsure what the hell to do with Politte.... I was going to say bmac in the 7th once he gets himself back together. I just believe that Neal and Bobby our are two best guys and they should have the 8th and 9th.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:56 PM) then establish the rest of your roles from there. Right now we've played a month and there are zero roles in this pen besides Man Soo Lee. This right here imo is the most important thing. Establish some roles in the pen. To be honest, I think it should be real easy for the 8th and 9th innings. Go Neal to Bobby, your two best relievers in the last two innings no matter what. From there establish roles for the other relievers. Like Brian said before, there is a human element to this game and I think that when a guy knows his role, he'll be more comfortable and because of that, more successful.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:50 PM) I was at work watching the game, and I was thinking, "God Soxtalk has to be ugly tonight....." I'm surprised it isn't uglier to be honest. This is one of those games that hurt like crazy as a fan. I feel like throwing up right now and I'm not usually a person who goes nuts after a loss. Tonight just feels bad.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:46 PM) Plus, you need to make your calls before the result takes place. Had Thornton went 1-2-3 with 3 k's, i still would have disagreed with the call. Hindsight's 20/20. Unless we have a closer by committe, give the ball to Jenks in the 9th. The one exception i would make is that if there is a NASTY (read: Hafner, etc) lefty leading off the inning, i'd led COTTS face him to start off the inning. Otherwise, quit screwing around. Finally, there is a difference between blaming a loss on someone and criticizing someone. Just because the loss isn't 100% on Ozzie doesn't mean one can't criticize. That's like saying "we won the game, so the manager must have made all the right moves." Well that's the thing, like I've said many times already, this loss is not on Ozzie at all. I'm just tired of him f***ing around in the 9th inning, it's frusterating as f***.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:39 PM) Just curious, has Ozzie deemed Jenks the "closer" this year? He's said something to that effect in spring training.

One person I'm not blaming for this is Matt. He did his job and he's been pretty solid, he just shouldn't have been out there in the 9th, he's not a closer.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 5, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) and if Thornton could have gotten an out or two, everyone would have been saying that was the right call. This isn't true at all. People have been complaining about this for a while now. Hell, go back to the first Cleveland game, Ozzie did the same s*** and got Bobby into a jam that he was able to get out of but people were still pissed off about it. This one is on Bobby cause he was horrible BUT if Ozzie continues to do this s*** in the 9th, he's going to blow a ton of saves for Bobby. Even the best of closers usually allow a baserunner in the 9th and that's why they need a whole inning. If you keep putting your closer into a jam, he's going to blow many more saves.

This loss is on Bobby. That being said, Ozzie does have to stop dicking around in the 9th, enough is enough.

Game over here.