Princess Dye

Thome still has that eye edit: dang only 4 walks this yr

note to AL pitchers: you can throw strikes to Lillibridge, you know

havent read the thread but lets evaluate Jenks' performance how was the contact people were making off him?

Danks pitches around two walks Is this the year we finally have a no-doubt ace level guy?

jeff cox is great

Splendid, old replays of Cliff Floyd destroying a Linebrink pitch

Danks gets Bartlett to pop out to AliceAy, in on the fists

He shoulda challenged Zobrist again

QUOTE (tommy @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 06:29 PM) Can you guys be more descriptive for us not watching? Gameday is way behind. AJ and Alexei singled and both advanced on a wild pitch. Then BA popped up shallow left....Getz flied out. They both worked their at-bats a little i believe.

Against a not so great righty like this, it woulda been nice to have Wise healthy there at the 9-hole. He hit .261 against all righties last yr FWIW, which aint much but is somethin

Lets get this guy nervous. Alexei and AJ on the basepaths, a welcome foreign sight

Thome probably should be out on that one

Owens has hit .286 against Nieman albeit in 7 ABs. I wonder if Ozzie will play him Thome has faced him once and it did not stay in the park.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 09:28 AM) And they always give us trouble even when they suck. They look like they may stick around for a while. Crede will wish he went to his hometown team

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:10 AM) Well, that, and everytime James Diego decides to talk in 3rd person and tell everyone how they are wrong about Dewayne and when he give out really bad acronyms. Other than that, its kind of dead He's talking in first person actually

Nice to know what's going on in Cowley's mind these days It's hilarious but Rowand would come here and leadoff. He'd pretty much be the Coco Crisp everyone wants up there, but better at it.

Are you talking about 'swing looked better' or as you put it 'performance' b/c regarding the latter, when Brian does get an extended look, I dont know if there's discernible improvement. Actually had 89 at-bats from May thru June last year... 18 for 89. Whereas towards the end of the year, his obp actually went up when he was getting more sparse at-bats. game log http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/game...6&year=2008

Macdougal "let him hit someone" as if he's capable of that kind of location

Tigers gave up a guy who throws 94, right? I doubt KW would want to give up something right now that he could later package with Poreda to bring in a real player.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:03 PM) PUT THIS GAME ON THE DEFENSE, COMPLETELY. JD gets to that shank down the RF line, and Josh completes the double play, it's still 0-0 and we're in it, although with Galarraga our offense might need 18 innings to score. i dont know if i'd use the word 'completely' the Dye thing was annoying but I'm not sure Quentin gets to that either, one of those will be our RF for the forseeable future so we have to live w/ that

This team built for offense cannot keep doing this to me with 0-run performances.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) It's like no one on this board notices Wise and Owens can't hit, either... until we find a "legit" CF/leadoff hitter BA should be out there, period. Oh, typical. Jose pitches pretty wlel all game and as usual we miss offensive opportunities. That's what we get for scoring 10 the other day, I suppose. The one issue I have is BA supporters say all he needs is consistent at-bats. Who's to say Wise also couldnt use consistent at-bats and make improvement? Some guys figure something out about hitting at 30. He hasnt had the regular at-bats at the major league level that Brian did. Granted, Wise didnt rake in the minors and never deserved it. But if he did something in the clutch last year for a playoff team, why not an extended look. I only say this b/c the options are so dim. Unfortunately now we wont know. But I just dont get how people will complain about lack of consistent at-bats for their own guy, as if he's the only one who could ever improve that way.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:15 PM) So does Wise, and he was given a shot. So does Owens, and he has been given chances. It always seems like BA is last to play, and only if absolutely necessary (Wise injury, Owens sucking in AAA). I just want him to be given a chance like everyone else, because he definitely plays the best D out of the bunch. Owens has 380 career at-bats, Anderson has 600. Owens is older. Everyone knows Anderson was the higher ceiling prospect than the track star. Owens wasnt even played in meaningful games with any regularity. Brian was. I'm all for Brian playing more. As far as Wise, people who say Brian earns it each spring have to hand it to Wise who earned it in the Spring. If that doesnt come into play, then we're looking at Wise vs. BA: two guys who have a career or not hitting. I just cant see the conspiracy against BA.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) Now I see Ozzie having an excuse for playing Owens or Pods. Strikeout in a big situation. It seems anything is enough in Ozzie's mind when it comes to not giving BA chances. We're already talking as if it's Owens and Pods who have been playing this whole time. BA and Wise were chosen. Lets not strike pre-emptively here

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