joejoesox

CARLOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, our hitters are completely baffled. and yet, it's because they don't realize what's happening here yet it's really easy to see he isn't throwing hardly any fastballs, it's all sliders and changeups and curveballs. brings me to my post yesterday about how to successfully OWN our lineup, don't throw many fastballs. change speeds and throw breaking pitches.

we already lost this game. how do i know? because masset couldn't shut out the twins.

i'll take a weak single by Morneau with nobody on, any day of the week let's get the fish and score some runs. edit: HBP, forget that idea. Masset is a little hyped up right now, he needs to calm the f*** down.

That DEX commercial that was just on, the kid that was in the commercial is also in one of my favorite DCFC videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaKp-6izq0Q interesting and off-topic lol

more of the same, guys. same offensive (there is duality amongst this words meaning) production that we saw yesterday, so far. the only difference is that we scored our 1 run earlier

Nick Swisher. Rally Killer. 2 down.

Nice Oppo-hitting, Toby. Hall has been hitting pretty well in his limited chances this year

Twins swinging at a lot of first pitches, we're gonna see a more patient team coming up in the next few innings. I hope Nick throws more strikes to take advantage of the situation, if that's what happens

nice hit brian, shortest swing i've seen him take all year.

Masset gives up 1 run, but I really liked what I saw from him.

Masset throwing 94mph out of the stretch, interesting

NICE PITCH. 2 down. Can we avoid the 2 out implosion and escape unscathed?

possible big inning incoming~

one thing i've seen our hitters do fairly consistently all year long, even into tonights game, is blast balls deeeeeeeeeeeeeep into the OF, if they aren't hit all the way out. imagine how many runs we would score on those deep-ass fly balls to the warning track if we had guys on base more? Dye, AJP and Thome (i think those were the ones) all did that tonight, except nobody was on base to advance our big boppers are hitting the RBI-type hits, except they aren't driving in runners because there aren't any runners to drive in summary: we need certain guys (swisher, cabrera, uribe) to get on base so the RBI guys behind them can drive them in or advance them on the base paths, once we start hitting higher than .220 this should start happening, but WILL these guys hit for sub-.250 again in 2008 is the question, if they do (doesn't look like it'll change at this point), then the problem needs to be addressed whether it means getting a new hitting coach or ozzie going crazy in the clubhouse ala Leyland, or whatever other ideas you can come up with. point is, something needs to be done, these guys are too good of hitters to be hitting .220-.230 for back to back seasons guys i'm talking about mainly are paulie, thome, swisher, and cabrera, the 1 through 4. they need to be getting on base more.

do we face Cy Blackburn this series? so many Cy contenders this year, will be a difficult voting process.

game. are any of you guys shocked? especially those of you "Come on, it's only the 5th inning. Plenty of game left." most of us saw this coming from the 3rd inning.

an aj Bloop followed by a CQ blast would be so amazing

Boone is a really nice option out of our pen, except for that one game against Baltimore last week, he's been pretty awesome.

the losing streak might start tonight. i'd say we could easily get swept this series and possibly lose a 4th or 5th dropping us a game or two below .500 sad. ozzie needs to do something, make a change for the sake of making a change if anything. just do something different. because this is 2007 all over again. the ENTIRE LINEUP (sans Quentin, and Crede) IS SLUMPING AT THE SAME TIME. COINCEDENCE? Unlikely.

OC = worthless.

LOL Swish gets a hit off Neshek. Go FIGURE!

oh, how i'd love to see us light up Joe Nathan tonight, it's pretty ironic that we probably have a better chance of hitting Nathan than anyone else in the Twins BP, or Bonser throw us fastballs joe

nice job, boonerz

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:14 PM) We just need more hits. Walks is great and all, but unless you have Quentin getting HBP with the bases loaded, you need to be able to drive runs in. I would bet we lead the league in fewest amounts of hits that scored runs in the past 3 seasons that weren't homers. actually we probably have the fewest hits per earned run of any team in the last 2-3 years, someone should check that out of its possible lol