Milkman delivers

QUOTE (WCSox @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) I foresee Kenny having to procure bullpen help by the deadline. Uggh... He will probably have to get more than one reliever, at that. I fear Thornton's one trick pony show is over.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 03:32 PM) I don't think he did, but it is certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. Everyone has to be looked at with a skeptical eye, and that's unfortunate. But that's what happens when steroids hits a game like it did baseball. I honestly think there's no way he didn't.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) OK - I went down the rabbit hole for a little while with the google advanced search. And now I forget what I read about the roids issue (was a pretty hot topic a few years ago), but I didn't make a Manny alegation that I was able to find. Milkman and Steff did have a little fight in regard to ARow. Started slow, ended with Steff calling Milkman a douche. I will have to remember not to use google adv search again as it would lead to hours of unproductivity. Clearly I lost that argument.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 12:24 PM) This tends to happen more when you've got a lot of leads, obviously. I don't think that's a good way of judging goodness/badness, as you're punishing a good thing. Now, it would be great if we could keep late leads. That's super-frustrating. We might be about to see it again.

Something better f***ing change soon. This s*** is way out of hand. It's astonishing how bad this bullpen is.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 12:11 PM) Yeah, I know it was H, but glass syringes didn't fit as well. Isn't the one part glass? LOL I haven't done heroin in quite some time, forgive my ignorance.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 11:49 AM) Don't throw stones if you live in glass bongs? Pfft, bongs? More like syringes.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 11:55 AM) In a wind blow USCF that doesn't mean it was smoked, not in the least. And for the 90th time, Matt looked like crap on Monday, no doubt but you can't really put the loss on him when it wasn't his doing that allowed the run to score. It's the same as when Jenks loaded the bases up and Santos allowed a run to score. Jenks didn't get the blown save, but he deserved it. Thornton was going to blow it either way.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 11:46 AM) Nice to see Alexei having a solid month of April. It's great to see. He could end up having a monster year if he plays normally for the other months of the season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 08:02 AM) The sad part is that we get a walkoff homer and the thread is now 14 responses long. Yesterdays post game threads are now 75 and 142 posts long. Soxtalk really does love losing... I'll be honest, I didn't post in this thread because I didn't watch the end of the game. As soon as Peña gave up the lead, I turned it off. I couldn't stand to watch the bullpen continue to do what it had been doing.

I base it on how many games they snatch from the jaws of defeat in comparison to how many they snatch from the jaws of victory. In recent years and seemingly continuing into this year, we've blown more games that we were winning than we've stolen.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 09:53 AM) That ball really wasn't smoked but the wind was certainly playin havoc on it. That being said, that's definitely a catch he has to make. Juan's biggest attribute to us is the fact that he's normally an above average lf but so far this year he's cost us two games out there with his glove, this just can't happen. As others have said, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in left because he's been so good but this kind of crap can't happen anymore. He's had his two big f*** ups in the first week and a half of the season, he pretty much has to be flawless out there the rest of the year now. GTFO. It was about 3 inches away from being a homer. QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 10:28 AM) With the way hitters are crushing him...do you really believe he would have made it out of that inning? I don't, and I love me some Thornton. Thank you for saying it so simply!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 11:29 AM) Because he hasn't done anything for the Rangers org either? Of course he has, but he has no right to throw his coach under the bus. We've seen bigger names and no-names pass on the opportunity to shirk the blame to someone else. It's what you do.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 03:32 AM) Josh Hamilton is an idiot! He broke his arm on a terrible slide, and blamed the coaching staff. Learn to slide, Junior! Lift and tap.. LIFT AND TAP! Don't land on your arms! After all of the chances and patience he's been given by the Rangers' and other organizations, maybe he should shut the f*** up and focus on not mainlining heroin while his arm recovers.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 09:35 AM) Type Illuminati backwards in your browser and then add the .com Haha, what the f***?

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 11:03 AM) Norm MacDonald's Sport Show is so awesome. You have to like Norm to enjoy it because it basically is all him, but I'm a huge fan and it did not disappoint. Agreed, although I'm not sure if the skits are going to be consistently good.

I remember saying that Rowand was an obvious juicer years ago and Steff tearing me a new one because there was just no way it was possible.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 05:26 PM) He hasn't been touching 91 for a long, long time now. And he's been more or less hitting 87 this year, he's freakin fine. I kind of agree with J4L, I wasn't in an uproar when we pulled Mark but I certainly disagreed with it. Either way, the defense in the end is what once again let us down(though Matt looked awful last night). Ugh, I hate when people place all of the blame on one person when multiple people were at fault. The defense AND Thornton let us down last night.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 03:42 PM) Eloquent retort... Because it was a stupid argument and deserved no eloquence in response. You're not a bad poster, but that reasoning was terrible.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 11:56 AM) Last night, needing a single for the cycle in the 9th inning of a blowout game, Sam Fuld legged out a double. In further evidence of what's wrong with this country, almost 1/4 of survey takers on Si.com say they would have stopped at first. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/extr...ight/index.html I'm pretty sure Valentin did the same thing in 2000, and it would've been his second that season.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 03:24 PM) This Bin Laden is free out there and we are prosecuting a dude for using steroids, GTFO here. Haha, wow! Moronic as hell.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 11:27 AM) Really? I've read the Mr. Perfect jokes on here before but is this really the case? I DO know he's dead, if that's what you're asking. It's an inside joke.

You'll never convince me that Ozzie is a good in-game manager. He's a good players manager, but his in-game decisions are bad. Despite that, I completely understand and agree with the decision to remove Buehrle last night in favor of Thornton. It's necessary to limit MB's pitches and we needed to see if Thornton had it in him to close. Now he's proven that he cannot and he shouldn't be trusted in that scenario anymore. We just have to hope that Ozzie also realizes this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 07:34 AM) Broken left thumb for Furcal. Rafael Furcal. That's a name I don't think I heard once last season.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 12:07 AM) You responded to my post to those people. If you want to remove him from the closer's spot after three games, I can sort of understand after going through Jenks the past couple years, but people have this idea that Matt Thornton all of a sudden loses his talent in the 9th inning. Removing him from the 9th isn't going to make everything better with him; he's the same pitcher regardless of inning. I understand your point. To me, it's not about putting Thornton in the best spot for him to succeed, it's about getting the best option at closer in there.