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CRAP. Let him swing.

No bunting here. Stay aggressive, let Wise swing with how he's been hitting this game.

Donnie Veal needs to be ready for Fielder. Not Septimo. And not quite time for Thornton, either. Although Robin's going to be tempted to use Matty. Interesting decision. And please don't use Omogrosso or Marinez against Cabrera when you have Jones, Crain and Myers, among others.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 02:05 PM) This is a different year. He didn't care much of the time last year, and he didn't care much his final days in Toronto. There is no doubt he's very graceful and that will give an appearance he's loafing, but last year he did loaf, and Ozzie even pulled him for loafing. For one game, when he basically had no choice with the media all over Rios and Ozzie on a daily basis about his putrid (at the time) OF play and overall lack of effort/concern.

That's the slider he can't go to when he's behind in the count...or throw consistently. It's actually a tighter, harder breaking one than Addison's.

Garcia is like Mike Alstott. He can really move for 240+ pounds.

Great play to follow it up, but Tigers' defense lets them down again. Whatever happens the next 16 1/2 games, Alex Rios is your MVP for the Sox. That one play right there, his hustle to get right into Infante and upend him......never in a million years would have happened in 2009-10-11. Still only 2 for 9 with RISP but we'll take it, after being down 3-0 early.

HUGE TAKEOUT BY RIOS. Amazing play bails out the Sox.

DAMMIT. Crap.

Swung at ball 4 and escaped. Really thought he was history on that slider. C'mon AJ and Tanks.

Let's get the damn lead now please. Don't stop now, Rio (Farmer's pet word for him this year)!!!

That would be shocking to see Benoit enter the game in the 5th. Leyland managing like this is the deciding game of the World Series.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 01:43 PM) We play against Young 19 times a season. 0-2, throw it in the effin dirt 18, but yeah. You would think either the players or scouts would be able to see a FREAKIN' TREND.

Get out of this with only one scoring, you take your lumps and go back and take out Fister. Need to get Boesch... Alright. It's still manageable. Still, STUPID STUPID STUPID pitch call on 0-2. That's the problem with Reed and Jones, and why they're giving up more hits than IP. They just can't consistently control their offspeed stuff.

HANGER. Predictable.

You could see just a slight ripple in the bag and he turned around right away because he couldn't believe the call. Just no way he was safe. Nathan Jones. Great against lefties. Bad against righties. We'll see if Robin's stubbornness works out this time.

Fielder was OUT BY A MILE. WTF?????????????

Jones? Omogrosso against Cabrera? Septimo? Some curious bullpen options for these games used by Ventura in the middle innings. It would be nice to get Miguel out every once in a while. He definitely deserves to be the MVP.

Two times now against the Tigers that YOUK has ripped balls to the left side of the diamond in key situations and ended up with nothing to show for it. Can't believe Peralta was playing so far into the hole there. Perfect positioning, because he has almost no range.

HUGE hit there by D-Weezy. Wow. That feels like an elephant has been lifted off their shoulders.

That's ONE way to score, lol. Still no hits with RISP. C'mon Wise. Game tying single would be absolutely huge here.

Solid AB from Viciedo there again. But yeah, he sucks against righties and always will for the rest of his life because 23 year old hitters don't have the ability to improve or make adjustments.

Steve, Viciedo would have been out at 3rd, and out at home. He would have run through a stop sign from McEwing and everyone would be screaming that he took the bat out of the hands of YOUK, Dunn and Konerko. He had a great jump from 2nd and Joe still stopped him right away.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) Only the dumb ones want him gone. If you're tired of the strike outs without the big production that should come with them, then Viciedo is your man Gee, good comparison. A 23 year old not far from being a rookie entering 2012 versus the highest paid DH in baseball and a veteran in his 30's. I would bet they both have pretty similar numbers with RISP or 2 outs for the year. HOW ABOUT WE GET SOME PRODUCTION FROM PAUL KONERKO? Nobody wants to discuss the elephant in the room, which is that Konerko's not close to 100%, AJ is fading again and we just don't match up with Cabrera, Fielder and a clutch Delmon Young (at least against us) comparatively.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) Only the dumb ones want him gone. If you're tired of the strike outs without the big production that should come with them, then Viciedo is your man Gee, good comparison. A 23 year old not far from being a rookie entering 2012 versus the highest paid DH in baseball and a veteran in his 30's. I would bet they both have pretty similar numbers with RISP or 2 outs for the year. HOW ABOUT WE GET SOME PRODUCTION FROM PAUL KONERKO? Nobody wants to discuss the elephant in the room, which is that Konerko's not close to 100%, AJ is fading again and we just don't match up with Cabrera, Fielder and a clutch Delmon Young (at least against us) comparatively.