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Nice hit by Crede...nice job by the Orioles LF actually busting his ass down the line.

Ha...way to pick him up Gload! That was a harder play, and he came through. Will someone please explain to me why Crede and Uribe are throwing like Freddy Garcia now?

Gload has more unsuccessful scoops this wknd than PK does all season.

Well, Vazquez is now in the 3rd time through the order. I'm sure glad our defense is picking him up today though.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:48 PM) I would rather have a consistant approach when there are men at 1st and 3rd with one or no outs. The home runs are nice and all, but having him constantly pull the ball to the 3rd baseman for the 6-4-3 DP in big inning siutations are a bit more frustrating that the gravy from the solo homer he gives us. Hit it when men are on. And the home run or nothing approach isn't going to do much when we face Santana/Liriano, etc. Gload can't scoop for crap at first.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:46 PM) Dont worry, Ozzie in the pregame was talking about Vaz going to the 7th. Maybe Ozzies gut told him something, or he needs tums. I understand Vazquez going into the 7th inning today, after the crap our bullpen/Garland pulled yesterday.

This ump isn't doing Vazquez any favors.

BTW...the 3rd time through the order is lurking for Vazquez. Hide the women and children.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:41 PM) So Chen's hanging breaking ball gets the outside edge yet Javy's fastball doesn't? I thought the same thing.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:39 PM) He looks stiff at the plate. When he sees a low pitch, he's not getting down far enough to hit it squarely. And then, he's jumping at the high pitch. He'll be fine...but we need his bat to heat up again. Like I said.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:38 PM) Pk looks like he is not seeing the ball very well right now He looks stiff at the plate. When he sees a low pitch, he's not getting down far enough to hit it squarely. And then, he's jumping at the high pitch. He'll be fine...but we need his bat to heat up again.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:36 PM) You are forgetting the Boston series when a ball that Mack should of caught landed between he and Cintron and that lead to a rally. This lineup sucks today. You should know me well enough that I was being completely sarcastic. It seems like every game Mackowiak's in CF, something bad happens.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:34 PM) Kalapse, dont you love how the baseball gods work. No matter what you do, when you start a player out of position the ball finds him. This is the first game where it's really burned us though, so I'll give Ozzie the benefit of the doubt.

QUOTE(iguchi=dank @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:33 PM) All of us need to shutup about chris young, most people thought it was a decent-to fair trade when it happened. Certainly not a "terrible trade" when it happened so there is no reason to beach about the guy we lost There were plenty of people who HATED the trade.

Couple of hard hit outs for Conine so far. Hopefully our offense will get that run back now.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:30 PM) Chris Young better suck and not make the Majors, otherwise this has just been an absolute terrible trade.....and that could be an understatement. Even if he doesn't make it to the majors, this has been a disasterous trade so far. And here comes the daily Vazquez beach about close calls by the umpire phase of the game.

Vazquez's arm angle against lefties is just awful. Everything is tailing up and away.

Vazquez doesn't do much to help himself out, does he? Is there going to be a celebration if he hits the century mark after today?

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) I'm sick of this bullspiff. Ozzie must be clinically retarded. Why, when we're in a tight WC race, does he put scrub lineups together? We need to keep winning. And he's pitching to Tejada with an open base and a slow batter up next.

Ha...keep embarrassing us Ozzie with Mackowiak in CF.

Keep walking their leadoff man Javy...it's going to make that 100th loss of your career a lot more likely.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 06:20 PM) Abreu's 2006 are not that impressive. I don't think this trade is a big deal either. He still gets on base at a huge rate. With the hitters the Yanks have around him, it will just give them another tough out. Who would you rather have out there, Abreu or Guiel?

Sunday lineups always produce big run totals, don't they? Lets see if Vazquez can go through their top of the order without allowing a run.

Chen's in a pretty nice rhythm now. It feels like PK and Dye let him off the hook in the 1st.

Uribe's playing with a tender lower back? Seems to me like he probably should have been given the day off.