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Oh Mark...AND on the first pitch of the AB. We should have just bunted him...attempt to play add-on with Peavy looking so good.

JFP!!!

Cecil with about 70 pitches through three. He'll be lucky to get through five innings.

RBI number 5 for Gordon

Hit the damn ball too hard lol...

So many pop ups to shallow right side for Carlos.

Nice swing there by AJ...

Home Runs...thats how we score.

HE MURDERED THAT BALL!!!!!! WAY TO GO PAULIE!!!!

They're making Cecil work. 20 pitches now.

Please look better Gordon...please...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2010 -> 06:08 PM) Doesn't seem like Peavy is comfortable, as he keeps stretching out. And oh boy, Pierre just loses an easy foul fly ball. I thought the same thing. He keeps stretching out his arm.

Wow...good start for Juan.

Looks like another thin crowd...

Becks back in, batting second. I bet that one night off did him a world of good.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) Ozzie will be in "moderate/medium-high" trouble if this season spins away completely and we lose 90 games. KW's trouble with JR, about 2-3 on a ten scale. I'd put Ozzie at 6-7, with the possibility of escalating to 7-8 with more games (losses) last night due to atrocious decision-making. BTW, AJ's 10 and 5 year rights kick in before July, I don't know the exact date, but trading him gets a heckuva lot more complicated after JUNE. Ozzie won't survive the year if he acts the way he did in 2007, when it almost seemed as though he was trying to get fired with his big mouth as the season degenerated into a 90 loss campaigne.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2010 -> 03:20 PM) But you really think the Orioles are going to come in and win three in a row against MINN on the road? I would bet against that happening. Of course, it's baseball, anything is possible, but Baker's not too shabby either. I guess I shouldn't have said the match-up "favors" Baltimore, but if you looked at the two pitching match-ups coming into the day, the one that REALLY didn't favor Baltimore was Liriano vs. Guthrie...which they have already won.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2010 -> 03:10 PM) Why would Kevin Millwood be favored over Scott Baker, pray tell? You mean the Kevin Millwood of about 5-7 years ago? Then I would happen to agree with you... Millwood has actually been pitching well this year. He has gone at least 7.2 innings in 3 of his 6 starts, and hasn't allowed more than 4 earned runs in any start this year. If he can pitch close to the way he has all year, Baltimore should scratch enough runs home vs. Baker.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ May 8, 2010 -> 02:56 PM) Not too difficult to "out manage" this team. Such a stupid argument, not a manager on f***ing earth would have done anything with this team. That may be true...but when your team is already bad, getting outmanaged just multiplies the problem. Lastnights game was a great example of a win that thanks to Ozzie...ended up being a loss. The team isn't good enough to outperform Ozzie's head-scratchers anymore.

An opportunity to gain some ground. Twins lose game one of their DH... It was good to see Liriano get hit. A Baltimore favored pitching matchup for the nightcap as well. Baker vs. Millwood... Peavy has admitted to scoreboard watching...he should be all the more juiced tonight with an opportunity to get a little closer to the Twinks...I'm trying to keep it positive.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 8, 2010 -> 12:51 PM) 6:05pm WGN WGN AMERICA! I actually get to watch as opposed to listen.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) I would give KW so much credit if he just got power hitters at all 9 positions, and then tried to outslug everyone. No more slap hitters, no more bunting. Thats another thing this game highlights...we shouldn't bunt. We actually executed a sacrifice in the 9th and we just can't get a big hit...whats the point sacraficing people over for .150 hitters?

Ozzie tried so hard to get fired during that abortion of a 2007 season...KW gave him second life...what to do now?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:19 PM) f*** that, I'm more pissed about the 8th. Buehrle let them tie the game when he had no business still pitching. Agreed...thats absolutely right as well. He makes so many questionable calls we have to debate which are more detrimental to the team. It's unbelievable.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:15 PM) Putz has been great this year. You can't criticize Ozzie for every call he makes. Had Putz had a 1-2-3 inning you would have thought Ozzie was a genius. This is incorrect. The game is on Ozzie...but not because of this inning. Thornton should have had the ninth. He continues to pitch Jenks in tie games in the ninth...its baffling.