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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:49 PM) Blevins warming up if Nate can escape Dunn will have no chance if we do get there.

Big AB here against Cespedes. Jones has control issues, don't fall behind against this guy.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:45 PM) Not really, actually. For the most part, they are amazingly organizationally correct. I'm sure they don't tear the team apart or anything, but guys like Brenly have ripped the Cubs before. It's not totally abnormal.

De Aza's had some awful luck today. Good to seem him get a walk.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:42 PM) Hawk and Stoney's oomment there about the team sucking today shows why they are better than almost any other crew in the country. What announcers in this day and age can say that? None. I don't watch local broadcasts of other teams much, but I'm sure they do that as well.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:42 PM) Fuentes/Figeuero/Blevins Fuentes pitched already I think.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:40 PM) They were just making fun of him. Out of uniform, he looks like the guy who runs your IT department. Or Harry Potter. And he picks Welcome to the Jungle for his walk-up music. Only player in the majors who wears prescription glasses. Are his eyes just that bad or does he not like wearing contacts or more protective eyewear?

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:39 PM) Jones, Santiago and Stewart left in the pen. You would assume that Stewart would go last since he is the Sox long guy and would be out there for the duration if it got to that point. Jones will have the 12th if we don't score. If it gets down to Stewart, we're probably losing this one.

Don't suck Morel.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:37 PM) Let's win this game already. It's Oakland, I don't think we're gonna pull this one out, just because you know, it's Oakland.

Good job Ohman.

Eric Sogard looks like somebody from elementary school with those glasses.

Come on Ohman, don't walk the glasses man.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) Bad day not to have Crain available. What's wrong with him? He didn't pitch last night. It seems like we've used him sparingly this year.

Where's Jesse Crain when you need him?

Oh crap, it's Will Ohman. There goes this game...

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:29 PM) Yep, should have been Lillibridge. Eh, wouldn't have been that much better. Brent strikes out a ton too.

Viciedo just chases everything.... What happened to the patience he developed last year?

Here's your time to shine Dayan.

Awful call by the thid base ump on De Aza, he clearly was bringing the bat back. Home plate umpire even said he was hit to begin with.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:28 PM) Have you been watching Morel play at all this year? Yes, even the worst major league hitters can hit the ball somewhere if you give them a fastball down the middle in a hitter's count.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) This is the perfect time to say, every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut. That line is a statistical anomaly and will NOT hold up. The only reason I looked those numbers up was because I remember Morel actually driving some guys in when there were RISP. Turns out my memory wasn't horrible.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:25 PM) You know damned well the odds are he was going to whiff. In a 2-1 count where it would have been a 3-1 count if he didn't offer at that pitch way outside the zone? I really doubt it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:22 PM) His statistics clearly say otherwise. Morel's hitting .286 with RISP this year. .333 with a man on third. .667 with man on third less than 2 outs. Small sample, but hey, he's excelled in that sample this year.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) How is that Ventura's fault? I think it was a great call. Morel was up in the count, as bad of a hitter as he is, he still had a chance at putting a ball in play somewhere.