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QUOTE (Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) Is there a coherent thought in this post? Did you just contradict yourself half way through? Ozzie should have either made the move one batter earlier or just left Gavin in. Right handed hitters bat .298 on Ohman on the season. He would've been better off sticking with Floyd or a batting tee. No, there's not. It was supposed to be Chris Rongey's future predicted response in the post-game to complaints Ozzie made the wrong moves with Floyd and the bullpen. Guess I did a good job. By the way, it would be nice if our leadoff hitter could actually steal a base when we need to get a runner into scoring position and pick up a run at a time to get back into this game.

CLE was trailing 9-3. Now it's 9-4 with the bases loaded and NO OUTS in the bottom of the 8th.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:45 PM) So he let Gavin face a lefty and brought in his LOOGY to face a righty. Try defending that Rongey Blah blah blah it will be. We can't use Jesse Crain at that point in the game and Hector Santiago was overextended the previous game. It's a 162 game season, you can't use Crain/Sale/Thornton/Santos in every game. You have to be able to trust your relievers, so on, so forth. It's kind of ironic that Ozzie valued Brian Bruney "too much" to waste him in the early innings when that will probably end up being the turning point of the game. Forgot about Bruney.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:43 PM) See ya Ozzie. That should be it for him He's too busy on Monday and Tuesday with "Ozzie Camp" at Bulls/Sox Academy. $225 bucks a pop for attendees. He can teach them how to retain a managerial job even when you're an abysmal 7-30 against your main rival.

Well, this has to be the low point of the season. I know we were 11 games under .500 earlier, but this game was ours for the taking and the pitchers completely wet the bed.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:40 PM) Ohmsn brought in to face a righty?? Is Ozzie trying to get fired? Who can you go to there with Santiago out of action?

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:39 PM) Yeah...but they turn that on 98% of the rest of the leagues players. That dude is lightening fast. Did seem like Gordo got it caught in his glove a bit though...but they turned it pretty quick. Still gotta make the pitches tho.. Farmer and DJ were both blaming that one on Ramirez for letting the baserunner get too far in on him on the takeout slide and not forcing him to hit the deck.

Well, there's just no excuse for a guy hitting .164 to beat you. I can't imagine what will happen when we have to face "real" Twins hitters again like Kubel, Span, Delmon Young and a possibly healthy Morneau.

Goodbye, Gavin. You're not too far from Javy Vazquez territory now.

Have to get Tosoni here. Luke Hughes is a pretty decent hitter.

Can we please have all facets of our team work together once this season? I guess it happened Opening Day. That's about it.

Same number of hits in one inning there as we had all yesterday against the Twins.

Who are these guys? Fathom's 25+ game streak of not scoring more than 3 runs against a starter is now officially broken.

Quentin and Alexei absolutely own Blackburn. He's a high fastball pitcher...without the dominating velocity to pitch up there. You need to lay off those pitches and force him to come into the strike zone. Nice to see Alexei back in the 2 hole again (finally). Rios' whole left side is flying open and he's flinching on most pitches. UGH!

Atta boy, Adam. Fought off some tough pitches...Blackburn and all MLB pitchers are trying to bust him inside and then get him to fish outside the zone.

Konerko with the nice gesture of buying a catered dessert tray for all the administrative/PR/sales staff to share in gratitude for the PaulStar campaign. We're not going to take it, no we ain't gonna take it, we're not going to take it ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dee Snider, Twisted Sister.

If you decide to pitch to Cuddyer, you simply don't come right at him with a first-pitch fastball right over the heart of the plate. He actually didn't take a great pass at it, but still wonder what AJ and Gavin were thinking there.

Why was Ramirez assuming that was a HR? He didn't even bother to cover 2B. Sheez. You've got to be kidding, Gavin. Fastball right down the middle with no movement to Cuddyer. You have to be more careful, he has been their best hitter the last month.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 07:03 PM) Well thats why this thread is "what trades you would make" which obviously most of the moves won't happen (hell I agreed with nite about a firesale, and that is NOT my M.O.) And Christian just doesn't have a spot to play yet (which couldn't be said with Cook when there was like 3 spots open with players not hitting) Like i said though, I view Danks very, very highly. Thought he was a stud prospect back in the DVD days in Texas. Unless he wants 80+ million, you move him, but if he makes Buehrle money, I'd keep him. And s***, totally forgot about Sale. Yea.. you keep him too. So you would give Danks $75-80 million and 5 years without blinking? That's just a notch above Mark's current salary.

No short-season games???? SLACKER!!! Viciedo 1 for 2 so far. Keenyn Walker's debut...either tonight or probably tomorrow's game. He was supposed to fly from Salt Lake City to Big Sky Country Friday morning.

ARLINGTON - Josh Hamilton could hear six-year-old Cooper Stone screaming for his dad after the man tumbled over an outfield railing and fell 20 feet onto the concrete below. Firefighter Shannon Stone had called out to Hamilton for a foul ball in the second inning of Thursday night's game. Hamilton tossed it to him, but Stone fell as he reached for it and died an hour later of blunt force trauma. Hamilton says he remembers the man's fall "like it happened in slow motion." He also remembers the screams of the little boy who came to the game with his dad in hopes of catching a ball. Hamilton says he can't stop praying enough for Stone's family. The reining AL MVP is playing in Texas' game against Oakland tonight.

SoxAce, you can't keep Danks around and pay him superstar money....not with Dunn, Peavy and Rios still on the payroll. This is going to have to be a return to the pre-2005 thinking again. How can they split/allocate resources so you can get 4-8 players to contribute for the same amount of money you'd pay Buehrle and/or Danks. You've also got to make a decision about trading Carlos Quentin to free up more salary room, because he's one of the most tradeable assets in the current market for power hitters. Reed better have some totally nasty, dominating stuff that you would project him over Santos at this point. 17/20 save conversion rate is about as good as Bobby Jenks ever put up for us. But yeah, if you build around the core of Konerko, Beckham, Ramirez and Viciedo, that's a pretty good start. And we've got some new pitching assets in Humber and possibly even Hector Santiago, along with Sale. Christian Marrero seems doomed to the same fate as David Cook and Maurice Gartrell with our organization.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 05:33 PM) Personally I'd love to see him catch fire 10 days or so before the trading deadline...I mean go on an absolute tear!!! Even if he hit 8 homers in 10 games, nobody in MLB would be willing to take his contract until/unless he proves he's fully back over at least a 2 month timespan. And we'd still have to find another LH power hitter. Not like they grow on trees.

F--- Derek Jeter and A-Rod for skipping the All-Star game. This is the one big chance for MLB to really capitalize on the national spotlight and his chase for 3,000 hits and he'd rather "rest" with Minka Kelly. If he's healthy enough to play all the games this weekend (tonight's already a rainout), what's the excuse? What's the point of even having the fans vote if the players don't show up if they don't feel like it? C'mon boys! Reverse the curse, TRY to do SOMETHING differently, at least.

And the fans are supposed to buy into the fact that removing Cora will make any difference? I can't think of one "Fire Cora" thread or "Fire Baines" thread in the history of SoxTalk. If they do replace Joey Cora, it better be someone like Robin Ventura...although I doubt he's ready for a full-time role. Probably Buddy Bell, yikes! McEwing?