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QUOTE (greg775 @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:23 PM) Santos is our closer. He can't pitch this early in the game. 5 outs is a lot for a regular closer. You don't do that against the dodgers in may.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:23 PM) And yet many people were fine with him being our closer cause his stuff is so nasty and it allegedly didn't matter that he's a lefty. Who on earth expected natty to completely melt down this year?

Wtf was that 88 mph 0-1 pitch?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:21 PM) Why not bring in your best reliever in the most important late inning situation? Santos?

Thank god. Now JC gets Uribe. He can get the DP on the slider if were lucky.

WALK KEMP.

"Cmon Matt, what's the matter with you"- angry fan.

Last year Pierre gets that.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:14 PM) Thornton got screwed on that 1-1 pitch. I would have much rather had Crain in to face Gwynn Jr. Hasnr Crain worked a lot lately? Or am I jut drunk and low on blood?

Damnit matt

QUOTE (fathom @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:13 PM) In the minors? Yeah. There's plenty of pop there. He just takes time to get he kinks out at every level. Which is why the benchings piss me off so much.

QUOTE (Real @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:07 PM) Humber, my goodness Humber is NOT leaving the rotation. Sorry Edwin.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:10 PM) Morel doesn't have enough opposite field power to consistently hit the ball over the right fielder's head. I like his swing more when he tries to pull the ball. Give him time. When I saw him last year he banged 2 off the right center wall.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:09 PM) Maybe so but when he was on the Sox any leftie would get him out rather easily and then I recall the Thorton at-bat last year. I am sure Dunn's career average against lefties is higher than .000 and it is a small sample size but it seems like an odd coincidence The Thornton at bat was a complete shock. I don't think Jim hit lhp last year either.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:02 PM) I love watching the sox in pitching duels with hot garbage. A near 5 era in the NL and we are clinging to a 1 run lead based on beck's jack. Be happy we have a hit against Lilly this time.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 20, 2011 -> 10:00 PM) I will continue to say that there is something in the way Walker works with LHH as they are incapable of hitting any type of LHP. Thome and now Dunn are easy examples. Hopefully Walk can get to work on the three practice swing Rios and getting him hitting....... The Sox at home swing from the heels and thus hit high fastballs and hangers in the air on the infield. Thome was always 150 poitns of ops worse against lhp. Even in Cleveland.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:55 PM) This is an actual condition? Yes. Just about everything te body/brain does, sometimes it gets screwed up and can't stop doing it

Q darting to swing a much better bat. At home even.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:52 PM) So we bench young players for a few days for success and we punish the team by making sure we generate lots of outs from the top. Correct.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:46 PM) I just am not sure that I would say Kobe was better than Magic, so that is the end of the argument right there. He wasnt.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) How long is it going to take before viciedo is in lf and Pierre is somewhere else. Nothing like handicapping your team with Jerry owens. Longer than you think.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:36 PM) Shaq dominated Kobe's era. Kobe happened to play on Shaq's team for about half the time. Kobe had about 2 years post shaw and pre Lebron where he was clearly the best. He just had a weak team around him.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:37 PM) Is it just me, or do those Dodgers jerseys look very cheaply made? They look like the numbers are pressed on, not sewn, and they are so thin. In an LA summer, you want a light jersey.

"Come on Adam hit the ball!" - some kid in the crowd. My wife said "awww"

Pierre, that was one of the weakest...ever...