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Farmer and DJ claim the press box was warned, lol.

Dunn going to 1B when he's out. This is about as bad as Josh Hamilton last night. 6 K's for CY MacAllister.

Well, it only counts as one loss...baseball cliche. Not good when your ace loses to the #5 of the opposing team. I guess the same thing happened when we beat Felix with Axelrod.

Well, what can you say? There's not much to comment upon. Can't fix Dunn, but they are going to have to extend less patience to Viciedo and Flowers, to start with. 430 feet. Hope Sale doesn't get hurt here. Stupid to do that. Get outs, Chris!

Well, this is discouraging. Coming into the game, the biggest positive about our franchise was having an ace in Sale and yet we haven't even seen that in evidence. Hopefully just the proverbial April dead arm...otherwise, yikes!

High change-up to Sox Killer Ryan Raburn. Yikes. This is bleak.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:20 PM) 3 to 4 years unless he quits. If this season is like the last 6 weeks of the 2012 season....then Ventura won't stay around if he's not enjoying it at all.

The bigger question is how long they stick with Flowers...unfortunately, we don't have a lot of good options. Theoretically, it would go to Phegley or Anderson (internally). Thank god for Mark Reynolds playing 1B or it might be 3-0 now. 11 consecutive retired. Keppinger breaks the string finally. Keppinger almost back to .200 now, at .190.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:16 PM) Serious question, how long of a leash do you think Ventura has? The entire season. Unless he resigns first for the "good of the organization" or "because his heart's not in it enough and he's not fully committed."

Bourne looking for the curve, got a FB.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:10 PM) If the Angels lose a few more, I have a feeling this place is going to become sciosciatalk.com Dave Martinez talk is more fun. Plus, you can always throw in the Ryne Sandberg angle to annoy Cubs' fans. "There's a reason Bourne is hitting first. Because he can." Great analysis, Farmio.

Nice defensive reaction by Gillaspie.

That's 8 in a row for CY MacAllister. 9 in a row. But hey, Adam Dunn ALMOST hit a homer his first time up. That counts for something. Not sure what, at that salary.

Everyone in the entire organization except for maybe Rios can be blamed for something, and Reed. From Ventura on down... Even if we wanted to trade Viciedo now, we couldn't get anything back for him. Not even another minor league version of Tyler Flowers. Benching Viciedo and playing Wise gets us what exactly?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) This is unacceptable. Plus I do not like Steve Swisher's son very much It actually hit the wall first, then bounced down off his glove. A play that probably should have been made though, but it happens on the road when you're inexperienced and everything's going wrong that can go wrong, seemingly.

Ugh. Viciedo should have gotten back to the wall faster....found it, and then went up for the wall instead of drifting. Sale is just lacking in stuff today. That's the second "fastbal" that Swisher has hit hard. And still not getting the key outs from a pitching standpoint... Mark Reynolds with a stolen base? OUCH.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) He has Dylan Axelrod type junk today...unbelievable, 11 games into the season. Like that scary Rangers' game last year when the velocity drop was so noticeable. DJ and Farmer not saying anything at all about it. His top FB's been 92 today? Is that right? 77 on the curveball.

I just caught the last second of the call...but either Rios or Dunn is 0/7 with RISP. I guess 0/8 now with the error?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 02:32 PM) That bunt was an inch away from being a hit. I can live with that one. That was a rough AB for De Aza, nearly perfect bunt, raked a ball foul, then fooled completely on that last pitch. The point is, DeAza came into that at-bat as our best hitter with RISP. When you bunt and pass the buck to the next hitter, it doesn't send a good message to the rest of the line-up...even if it does happen to work, it puts pressure on Keppinger when he's been struggling out of the gate.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 02:29 PM) Here's a question...if Flowers totally flops this year, how do the Sox acquire a catcher for next season? It would seem trading for someone would have to be the way to go. Trading Ramirez, Thornton, Crain, Floyd...although not sure any of those options get it done. Maybe add in a bullpen arm and one of our surplus minor league outfielders.

Might as well have had Flowers bunt there, lol. What the heck is DeAza doing? NO MORE BUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's the only one hitting decently (3/7) with RISP, along with Paulie. The team is at .145 as a whole.

Thanks Tyler.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 01:30 PM) Of course he isn't. What bonehead franchise in any collegiate or professional sport would put some one in charge with no previous experience? The World Champion Cardinals? As long as they're not looking for him to manage their real estate investments... Don "The Bear" Haskins at Texas Western?

http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/team/rost...ve.jsp?c_id=cle WHERE IS ANYONE NAMED KEVIN on the roster? Can't believe Ryan Raburn is hitting 3rd...Brennan Boesch and Raburn both with different teams this season.

Last time I checked, Zach MacAllister. Unless he changed his name.