Milkman delivers

This team just doesn't have the hustle it did last year. They don't seem to put as much effort into anything they do. We were hungry last year and we kept pushing for more.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) Is our team unable to take extra bases? Are we that slow and tired? We are extremely fishing slow (I typed fishing). Station to station constantly. Don't move 1st to 3rd, don't score on singles from 2nd. Entirely one dimensional.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) The trade itself doesn't worry me one bit. We're still the more talented team. Now, our own team definitely worries me but the yankees still don't. Can I ask why the Yankees don't worry you? They just swept us with guys named Guiel, Cairo, and Cabrera starting for them. They haven't missed the playoffs since I can't even remember. They just added a guy with the 6th highest OBP in all of baseball. Their starters have even been better than ours. They worry the hell out of me.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:41 PM) Who the hell is "drooling over Fields in left"? If Young was still with this organization, no doubt in my mind he would be up by now replacing Podsednik. I guess he doesn't know that I've been one of the main proponents of trading Fields for any kind of pitching help.

You're fooling yourself if you think this trade shouldn't worry us. One of our 2 main rivals for the WC (the only race we have a shot in) just improved tremendously. And they've already stuck it to us once this season. Plus, they haven't missed the playoffs in how many years? KW needs to make a move, or quite possibly we're screwed.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) There were plenty of people who HATED the trade. And why should we not be unhappy about it like this guy says? Whether we agreed with it or not, it's still a very bad trade.

I'd gladly give up Garcia/Vazquez and ANY one prospect the A's want for Zito. Does anyone actually expect us to win with Vazquez pitching AND the Sunday lineup in there?

Ozzie should wear a skirt and pom poms in the dugout, because all he is is a cheerleader. He is just a terrible, terrible in-game manager.

I'm sick of this bullspiff. Ozzie must be clinically retarded. Why, when we're in a tight WC race, does he put scrub lineups together? We need to keep winning.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) One of our starters plus a top prospect for someone whose going to leave at the end of the year is too much. Why? Our starters suck (at least the ones rumored to be involved in this deal). Zito would help us much more than the garbage of Garcia/Vazquez. Zito pitches well for us hopefully for the rest of the year, maybe we win it all again, he leaves for free agency, and we plug McCarthy into his rotation spot next year and we still have 5 starters. A prospect is worthless to our team this year, so who gives a spiff. Like I've said before, it's not like any of the prospects we trade away end up biting us in the ass later. If it happens this one time, then OH NOES!

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:16 PM) that damn Ford commercial with the guy from American Idol. Oh, I've hated that commercial since the first time I'd seen it.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:11 PM) We did. I thought the Angels offered exactly the same as us, and the Orioles slightly more?

With the Yankees picking up Abreu and Lidle, the Sox should really make a trade to bolster the offense or starting pitching.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) I was thinking the Angels offerd PK a 5yr/65M contract and the Orioles offered even more. Aren't we giving him 5/65, the same as the Angels offered? And the Orioles, I believe, offered him 5/70. A home town discount that is not.

I'll bump this up so more people can vote. Dye is extremely disappointing on defense this year. Luckily he's having the greatest offensive year of his career.

In every single aspect of the game, we're the polar opposites of the 2005 team. We were good at fundamentals, defense, and pitching last year while being bad on offense. This year, we're bad at all of those things and good on offense.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 01:00 PM) Team speed generates a run for the Orioles this inning. Way to go Javy! Two attempts to turn a DP, didn't get either. That's another problem we're having this year. DYE IS fishing SLOW

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) How can you complain about our normal 3/4/5 when they haven't played together for a whole game in this series? I'm not really complaining about them because I know we would be nowhere without them. I'm just pointing out that they have a tendency to fail consecutively.

Another guy going 1st to 3rd against us...just saying.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:55 PM) Except the first guy (AJP) did come through. Alright, our normal 3-4-5. Sorry I didn't clarify, jeez.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) Should have gotten more that inning. I'm still not sure how Iguchi wasn't able to go from 1st to 3rd on AJP's single. Lets go Javy! We're so station-to-station now, it's bad. Besides Pods "stealing" 2nd earlier, we only move one base at a time. Pods didn't even score from 2nd on Iguchi's single. Our speedy leadoff hitter can't even score from 2nd.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:51 PM) uh, JD isn't slumping (unless you call his day yesterday a slump), and Thome isn't in today's game, but walked 4 times yesterday. Yeah, but it always seems that, whenever they come up with no outs and the first guy doesn't come through, they all just fail.

Wow, do our 3-4-5 always slump at the exact same time?

Glad to see the off day did PK some good. He can be extremely bad sometimes. And I think the record for consecutive hits may be 8 only?

Call me old fashioned, but I believe our speedy leadoff hitter should score from 2nd on a single.