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Anyone want to bet that Abreu breaks his 150 at bat homerless streak this inning>

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) What's Torre angry about? Where Cintron was standing at the box? Out of the back side. Torre waited until after the hit to complain.

Oh wait...now Freddy Garcia has to pitch with a lead. And Mack is in CF. Uh-Oh.

Thank you Alex. Thank you Bajenaru by the way.

BRIAN ANDERSON CAN'T HIT RIGHTIES! YEAH, I KNOW BJ RYAN LOOKS LIKE A RIGHTY, BUT IN REALITY, HE'S A LEFTY WHO THROWS WITH HIS RIGHT HAND!!!

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT MACKOWIAK'S OFFENSE??!!??!! (answer = win)

Ok, I feel like Fathom today...who bets Wang gets out of this with only 1 on the board?

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:37 PM) Mack? He does play the field, and we can't give it to a DH.

Come on Joe, make it a 9 game hit streak.

And it's a 2-1 White Sox lead. Oh wait, our left field and center fielders struck.

"If you're goin' against Freddy, you know to look for a mistake, and he's gonna give it to you" - DJ, summing up Garcia's season.

First home run in that kid's MLB career.

Runs given up by: Freddy Garcia: 1 Rob Mackowiak: 1 Scott Podsednik: 1

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:26 PM) Am I the only one that showed him not round first base very well, and he was watching the ball far too much? Nope. He hit the gas between first and second.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:23 PM) Bash me all you want but I wouldn'd be sad if Guillen wasn't around next year. I find him to be completely useless as a manager. Preaches pitching and defense yet keeps sending out an inept backup out to CF while we have one of the best defensive CFs in the game and he hasn't learned one thing from mismanaging the pitching staff for 4 months. I think it's worse than that. Last year, Ozzie's act kept all of the focus on him, instead of the team. This year, Ozzie's act seems to be getting to them. He can't keep them fired up, the trade deadline rolls around and they all lose focus...it's just like they've been in a daze for a month now.

Anyone want to bet that the double by Podsednik is the last hit we get today?

Maybe if Ozzie gets thrown out...Raines will put Anderson in for Mack.

Get him on...get him thrown out at third.

Looking up "Hit Men" in my rolodex...printing picture of Rob Mackowiak...

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:14 PM) It seriously is amazing. When is someone going to tell Ozzie that you can't keep putting a corner outfielder in CF? Maybe if we start calling him a backup infielder, Ozzie will catch on?

Anyone think this inning would already be over if Mack was not in CF?

Seriously, F*** Rob Mackowiak and Ozzie Guillen. I'd rather have Timo in CF. Jesus Christ.

QUOTE(soxunited @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) If a mistake is made by him in the field, you can bet his mistake is going to cost them more than one run. Because as we have seen in the past, Freddy pouts and loses focus when mistakes are made behind him. You know how Bill Simmons coined the "DLowe" face? Well its time for the "Freddy" face. Usually I like to count them as direct and indirect. As in, the 2nd guy who got on base when Garland was pitching and Mack was in CF against the Blue Jays in the first inning got to first because Anderson was not in CF. So instead of man on first, 2 out, we had man on 1st and 2nd, 1 out. Then Glaus hit a bomb. The one run was directly attributable to Anderson not being in CF, because that guy wouldn't have been on base. But on some level, there's the indirect runs scored because who knows how Garland would have pitched Glaus with 2 outs and no RISP. Or, like with Vazquez in Baltimore, Mack gives up 2 hits, one of which led directly to a run, but both of which led to the pitcher needing to throw more pitches, and suddenly, Vaz collapsed late in the game. You can't say Vaz wouldn't have collapsed without Mack in CF, but it sure didn't help matters. I really want to go all Tonya Harding on Mack, and it's not his fault at all.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 03:48 PM) But Buehrle really gave up 6 runs in 6.2 innings. No, Buehrle gave up 3 runs in 6.1 innings. Ozzie gave up 3 runs in .2 inning.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 03:59 PM) I agree. Hell sign both if need be. We need to restock the farm and we need to get some guys with dominant potential in it. No more Lance Broadway's please. Yeah, no more Pitcher of the week awards!