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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 03:27 PM) So apparently Ozzie doesn't care about giving us a shot in the 9th? The pen got pretty well fried last night.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) I guess there's too much traffic on all those Royals fan boards. Glad you're enjoying the game thread. Nah, you can by the background of the picture that they are all at the games. All 8000 of them.

Did we fire Greg Walker?

So with Humber going today, will he be available to start on the 9th?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Why? His ratings were falling off a cliff, which is why Fox decided not to renew his contract. IIRC his ratings were still way higher than anything MSNBC was putting up.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 01:56 PM) The six runs are not the issue it was getting shut down late in the game like the 8 pitch 10th or 11th that is leaving a bad taste with me and now the K with 1st and 3rd and nobody out. These are the games you need to make up ground that the Sox do not and then wonder why they can not catch the Twins. Nah, that is all because we don't think happy enough thoughts when we play the Twins...

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) He was better with Milwaukee, no doubt. But you'd have to expect the ERA to elevate a bit after three years in the relatively benign and often punchless NL Central. Before that, in the AL West, even more pitcher-friendly. I will agree he never showed that dominant slider, probably from overuse and overthrowing it for 3 years there and with OAK. And, for most of his post-Brewers career, he's been a pretty consistent 3.40-3.50 WHIP guy. Not much of a deviation. I would bet that ends up trumping what at least 3 of our main bullpen arms do this season. Jesus. That is Jaime Navarro country!

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 01:53 PM) Wow, game 5 and the sky is falling already? It was already falling in game one. Where have you been?

@ESPNChiSox Viciedo reinstated from the DL. Going to Charlotte.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 12:50 PM) Ozzie just interviewed on 670. Adam Dunn told him he'd pinch hit today if Ozzie would let him. Yeah, he won't be out long. [insert Jay Cutler joke]

Milledge

Boyz II Men is touring again? Sweet!

Yikes this was almost dead...

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 11:56 AM) Besides the stupid bunt a couple games back, I've been happy with Ozzie so far this season. Good lineup here. EDIT: Though on 2nd look I'd much rather have Lastings dh'ing. The crappy thing is that he called the perfect squeeze, which would have been the game winning run last night. That bunt just had a bit of side spin and came off of the grass and went foul.

Out with the old, and in with the new!

At least he bet on his own team...

Herb Lawrence Dis Kenny Williams is an idiot. How do you get player like Dunn? He knew that he had an appendix which makes it a 100% more likely to have a appendectomy than a free agent that doesn't have one.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 10:58 AM) Sweet f***ing Christ, back off from the ledge everyone. We haven't even played a f***ing home game yet. We lost a game in extras last night and now Dunn is out 5-10 and you'd think the season was already over and we had the worst bullpen in the history of the game.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 10:15 AM) Lets just not turn Sox park into the drunk fest known as Dodger stadium, where in the past 2 years a Giant fan has both been murdered and put into a coma. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 09:14 AM) Well with Dunn out, and the lefty pitching, I'd expect a lineup something like... Pierre, 7 Beckham, 4 Rios, 8 Konerko, 3 Quentin, 9 or 0 Ramirez, 6 Teahen or Milledge, 0 or 9 Castro, 2 Vizquel, 5 Teahen is a lefty but they will put him in there to get some at-bats, so I'm not sure if he plays or not. Rios hasn't had a day off but he finally had a game with the bat yesterday, so I doubt they sit him. I missed the part about us facing a lefty. Scratch the Teahen comment and paste it in when we face a righty again.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 6, 2011 -> 08:59 AM) The other problem looming is we don't exactly have another El Duque available to shift into the bullpen anywhere on a Sox major or minor league roster. With the payroll already at $128 million, what are the odds that JR would take on another $2-3 million for a veteran middle reliever/5th starter type at the ASB? Hmmmm.... It depends on how many people have shown up at the ballpark to that point.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 12:01 PM) I'm thinking Sox split by taking one of two. I blame you for Adam Dunn's appendix.

Remember early start today, so get your picks in before the first pitch!! http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80958

BTW, this totally means Teahen in the line up at DH to be the lefty bat in the 5 spot, if not the 4.

If it was TCQ he would have just pulled his own appendix out and then gotten back into the batters box for the next pitch. Dunn is a wimp.