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Morel having a good night. He's been more and more impressive. Pierre can't run any more.

WHY IS MOREL BUNTING?

Oh Alex, just when I thought you might be coming out of it...

Great Cesar's ghost, both these teams are TERRIBLE.

Quentin at .216/.318/.378/.697 in the last 2 weeks, not including tonight's 0-3.

Rios looks like he's seeing the ball well. It'd be nice if he could start hitting consistently.

Pena is doing basically what I had hoped Dunn would do - fight off pitches until the pitcher made a good pitch and struck him out, walk, or hit a rope somewhere when he finally got a mistake.

It's about time for me to turn this one off. More boring, frustrating baseball after the first inning. Hopefully we can bounce back and win the series, and keep playing decent. Sometimes I'm surprised that we've been playing pretty well since May, since in some games it seems like we're one of the worst teams in baseball.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) "Look at the play by Pena..." IT WAS HIT RIGHT TO HIM! He had to move a foot to his right. I think Hawk was counting on Pena being in shock that a ball was hit sharply by Pierre to him, instead of a weak grounder to 2b or short.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:10 PM) One positive (if there are any), our middle relief is looking better and better.Mostly I think it's that the Cubs have an awful offense.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:05 PM) AnyoneIt definitely looked like it was on the back of the plate when Soto picked it up. It was certainly close, though.

I keep hearing we don't want to bring up Viciedo because Pierre is on an MLB contract, and the team doesn't want to lose money. Isn't Viciedo also on an MLB contract, since we signed him out of Cuba? Aren't we paying him $4 million to kill AAA? I realize Pierre isn't really an issue in this game, but it's been on my mind since listening to Rongey yesterday.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:00 PM) Dunn juist amazes me. 3 at bats and 3 k's and Zambrano is a righty pitcxher with nothing on the ball according to you guysAnd this is a team and pitcher he's hit well in the past.

6 runs on 7 baserunners for the Cubs. Castro and Pena with 3 rbi each.

Castro again. Sometimes I forget how frustrating Floyd can be.

Rays Pajama Party

PIERRE WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR LILLIBRIDGE MAKING THAT CATCH.

We had 3 or 4 good chances to pull this one out. You knew the longer this one went, the more likely the Jays would win.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 28, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) Who the hell is Luis Perez? A guy who throws a bunch of slow garbage and goes right after our hitters. I don't think he's thrown anything over 82 mph.

Man teams are just going right after Dunn.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 26, 2011 -> 10:20 PM) No he didn't but he did hit him on the elbow, it was a foul. Right now I seriously hate Derrick Rose. f***IN HATE HIM I don't blame Rose so much. First time in the conference finals, and he's only 22. He had a ton of pressure on him as this team's only offensive weapon when the other team was playing good defense. We saw in the Indiana and Atlanta series that he sometimes couldn't do it all. Someone else needed to step up, and they didn't. We also really need a good offensive game plan for next year, because we can't always rely on Rose in the playoffs, as this series showed.

QUOTE (daa84 @ May 26, 2011 -> 10:16 PM) if rose fouled D wade on his 3....lebron fouled rose on the last 3 Definitely. Rose was hit by both defenders. Still, a terrible offensive possession and a ginormous choke job is to blame for this game.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 05:32 AM) If we pool all of our Soxtalk resources, think we could buy the Dodgers? We could run it my committee, we'd win a WS every year. Yes. Yes we could. And we'd be the only franchise to trade players, and fire the entire coaching staff after a 3 game losing streak.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 11:39 PM) lol. that would take some kind of miracle involving the use of chloroform in a sign-and-trade and I'm not even sure it can actually be done but I'd jizz myself. Not like Joakim Noah is chopped liver but the Bulls would be a juggernaut... fun to think about, anyway.I was more hoping we'd get rid of Boozer somehow, and since this is a ridiculous fantasy scenario with no chance of happening, that's absolutely what we would do.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 11:04 PM) Whatever with this discussion. What happens to Dwight Howard is the Magic happen to lose in the first round?He signs with the Bulls?