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At least Ozzie realizes you can also rest players during blowouts as well.

What are we, 1/1/2 out with Tiggers loss and a win from us?

I'd say let him go 7, let Politte pitch the 8th, and if he does well, trot him out for the 9th. No reason to stress Vasquez in a blowout. Save his arm for (hopefully) October.

Now we just need Vasquez to not s*** the bed.

f***ing Anderson clogging the bases.

If Uribe can just be the same damn 260/300/420 hitter he's always been, I'll take it.

what happened?

I think the server just s*** a brick.

Against Randy Johnson of this year, that isn't a big lead at all.

Sox fans and people like David Pinto, but he isn't exactly "mainstream".

It's going to be nice to have the top of the order up in the top of the 2nd, woohoo.

Exactly. Give it up for one AB. He's widely considered the best defensive SS in the AL. It's not even June.

I thought this was "Pale Hose Talk"?

The only thing sad about this is that CY YOUNG voters use "wins" as a measure of success. Once we get away from meaningless stats counting in the voting, then this won't matter at all. I'm not sad for Count, I'm sad the team isn't winning well pitched ballgames.

It's a bit early to predict that from Thornton, don't ya think?

Bench Uribe!

This is the show, no excuses.

Why BMAC didn't just start the inning is beyond me. The bullpen only has 3 guys that can be counted on right now: Jenks, BMAC, and Cotts. Thornton is shakey, Politte is s***, and Nelson is washed up. Ozzie needs to start using BMAC as the "bridge guy" in the 6th and 7th.

I have confidence in him.

Looks like Ozzie's screaming woke Uribe up...

Can I get a report from someone tuned to the game of how Garland's stuff looks? He looks great on Gameday.

Rancid is totally unity man.

I guess this is where we fundamentally disagree. I think no amount of Ozzie yelling will makes players play "smart" baseball. I think "smart" baseball is something good MLB players learn way before Ozzie Guillen. IMO, if they haven't learned it already, they never will. I'm not exactly against these comments from Ozzie, but I just think they won't make the team play any better. IMO, he'd be better off taking all, or at leat a large part, of the blame for himself.

Almost everyone with half a brain--not just James--now realizes that OBP is way more important than AVG. Furthermore, OPS is way, way better than AVG. BA projects for at leastn an average OPS for a CF.

"Lackluster" is just another word for regression to the mean. It's amazing what happens when the offense isn't scoring 6 runs a game on a daily basis. Do you really believe a "rah rah" talk from Guillen is going to make the bullpen pitch better? Or turn Anderson and Uribe into sluggers? Those are the big two problems with this team as currently constructed. You can laugh all you want, but Ozzie screaming isn't going to fix a lack of production. This isn't football, where level of emotion/intensity produces tangible benefits. Baseball, I would say, I much more like golf. The key is consistency and mental fortitude.