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In a very similar situation against the Orioles this year, Jenks struggled against the hitters he's going to face this inning.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:16 AM) Carl walked 42 times last year... ...Jim Thome had 42 walks on June 1st. Well done

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:15 AM) Anything which prevents Ozzie from starting Mack in CF is a good thing. An outfield of Mack/Anderson/Dye would be our best in terms of offense and defense.

Some bad luck on that vicious rocket by Dye. It's ok though, we had two bloopers benefit us that inning. QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:14 AM) Why can't Mackowiak get at least a few starts out in LF this year? Just see how it works out. He can't POSSIBLY do worse than Pods does. Mackowiak is better in every single possible aspect right now.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:13 AM) Thome hitless yet 4 runs scored. Are you saying that Carl Everett could have never done that? Tigers up 6-0.

Excellent! 8 of our offensive hitters have had an excellent day today. Nice aggressiveness this inning.

Ah...the Pods special. Wraps up an absolutely pathetic game for him today.

QUOTE(iguchi=dank @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:08 AM) ozzie and KW deserve credit for sticking with brian and I'm gonna give them both props right now to counter all the hate lately Good point Hey Pods...if it's a hit-and-run, and you have 3 balls, you don't have to swing at a pitch over your head.

Blah...you're swinging the bat well today, swing away Juan! Anderson gets his revenge with that blooper. Can Pods please do something useful?

QUOTE(JimH @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:01 AM) Double stupidity there, frankly. One, whoever called the slider in that situation. Two, MacDougal for agreeing with the call. The White Sox seem to have a bad habit of their pitchers getting beat on their 3rd or 4th best pitch and it has to stop. They need to go right at guys instead of throwing all kinds of pitches hoping these hitters will get themselves out. Be aggressive. From everything I've heard, if we're relying on MacDougal to show good decision making on the mound, we're going to be extremely disappointed. QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:03 AM) And why wouldn't they? Since when does 1 game change anything? It's soxtalk....don't you know that anyone can be DFA'd, and everyone is on the market.

What are MacDougal's career splits vs LH/RH?

Please don't let Roberts catch up to the high fastball.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jul 30, 2006 -> 12:00 AM) I'm starting to think the tigers might be for real Starting?

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:59 PM) The pitching staff makes me cry ... They throw way too many poor pitches when they have 2 strikes.

Why do you speed up his bat? MacDougal's curve/slider is definitely not his best pitch. Time to bring Thornton in to face Roberts.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:54 PM) I thought millar used to kill us 2004 was a long time ago Nice play by Uribe...good thing Hernandez is slow. Wow, that was extremely close to a situation where the bat would have hit the ball all the way by the shortstop.

Ugh...first pitch fastball. We're making their hitters look like world beaters. Is Thornton available?

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:38 PM) How do you figure? Both Anderson and Dye have plus arms... And while Pods arm is below avg. not so much to make us the worse throwing or even close to it. Now on the first part of your statement I agree 100%. Well maybe the Reds are pretty piss poor too with Dunn and Griffey. It's weird with Anderson and Dye. They have strong arms, but just don't throw people out. Anderson's arm looks good, but he hasn't perfected the one hop throw yet to a base.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:50 PM) Alright, 6. More. Outs. Any chance it will be easy?

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:47 PM) With the haircut, I think Crede resembles Widger. I thought that was a bad omen. Way to come through. We broke the Curse of the Widge last night.

Hey...great job Joe! He was patient, and took a great swing. Lets add one more.

QUOTE(tealeafreaderii @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:45 PM) how bout you cut him some slack... its 100+ degrees out there and he has been squatting in catchers gear for 7+ innings... and he is perfect at the plate. He's a catcher...part of his job is to catch the ball. He's done a great job at the plate today, but he could have made a better effort on that pitch in the dirt.

Crede's likely going to get some high fastballs by Hawkins here. Lets hope he takes a nice, level swing. QUOTE(iguchi=dank @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:44 PM) detroit looking strong again, glad there doing this to twins and might not be as hot for us 3-0 Gotta admire that they get a leadoff double, and within 5 pitches, they have a sac bunt and a sac fly.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:42 PM) Agree 100% there. Sure it wouldn't have been easy by any means, but he gave it a bullspiff effort. We had an epidemic of 2 out wild pitches last season. I think Contreras and Garcia were in the top three in WP all season.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 11:41 PM) Well I certainly can't criticize Pierzynski's hitting today. 5-5. And here comes LaTroy. Yeah, AJP has looked great at the plate, spreading the ball out all over the field. This would be a huge 2 out hit for the Sox. Sadly, Crede looks like he has no chance right now.