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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) I really wish we had a better option for #2 hitter. It hurts to see that really all the options are so bad at getting on base for Dunn/Konerko. I feel like that's going to be a common theme all year. De Aza should do fine as a leadoff hitter. Ideally, Beckham is the perfect #2 hitter, but ya.....

At least it doesn't effect his glove.

Morel looks really, really bad.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 02:14 PM) I'm all for solving the Rios problem, but let's not freak out over everything that goes wrong in the first game as if that's a valid sample size We scored like 15 runs last year on Opening Day. Wasn't indication at all of our offense that season.

I smell a "Don't stop now, boooooys!" in our future.

Chasing bad pitches. Eww.

Come on Alexei, gapper somewhere.

Does anyone else have a sense of calm come over them when PK bats?

I guess I should have predicted more XBH.

Morel really pulling his head off the ball, like Hawk said.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) I was being a smartass previously with Morel but a bunt there by Beckham wouldn't have been a bad idea. I agree there. Maybe help him get his confidence up a bit if he gets him over.

That 1-1 pitch is also a ball.

That's 5 inches inside. Awful.

You're welcome.

Viciedo XBH here. Book it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) Texas is loaded. If we win two games this series it may be cause for wild drunkenness. ? It's 1-0 after 2 innings. They scored on a 2B-bunt-sac fly.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 01:32 PM) Agreed. I was thinking of that until I saw all the pop-ups...let's see how it progresses throughout the game and if they keep the same strategy. Even if they pop up 10 more times in this game, if they work the count, things will even out. And as the season wears on, those pop ups become line drives.

Most important thing I'm seeing is more patience at the plate. Yeah, they've popped out a lot, but it's far more important in the long run if the lineup gets into a habit of making pitchers work and getting deep into counts. Alexei and AJ aside of course. But that'll be that way all year.

AJ also in midseason form.

That was an extremely quickly manufactured run.

Adam Dunn OBP: 1.000

Was that AB by De Aza better than any Pierre had as a White Sox player?

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 02:39 AM) Guy Pearce looks like a very convincing action hero. I've seen him in so many movies but I still always see him as Fernand Mondego.

Done, done and done.

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