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Wow, that was a huge break right there. Rowand needs to get the job done here. No one run innings...we need 2 or 3 here.

Very nice AB by Ozuna there. I have a feeling Ozzie will try and get creative with Timo here.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:45 PM) AJP has thrown out 7 of 30, I know that catching for Freddy, Contreras, and Hernandez doesn't help him at all, but 7 of 30? That's like 23%, that's awful A.J. rarely has a chance with those guys on the mound. My biggest concern with A.J. is simply catching the ball. He seems to have a hard time catching the ball sometimes, and it's hurt us in a few games. However, this is clearly our best catching tandem in a long, long, long time.

Ozuna's glove looks mammoth.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:44 PM) Our pitchers hold runners like our hitters hit line drives. Good, accurate analogy.

QUOTE(mreye @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:38 PM) Why? This lineup can't win? Why watch? Why are you reading the play by play here if you already know the outcome? Of course this lineup can win....but it's a case of a manager having absolutely no clue how to adjust a lineup when he doesn't have regulars in the game. Under no circumstance should Timo Perez ever be leading off or batting 5th. I don't care if he hits 4 homers today, that's not a good managerial decision.

The question I have is that Dye was a late replacement for Everett in the DH spot. Why not let Widger DH today? He's been one of our best hitters lately. I know Ozzie has gone with some stupid lineups in the 3rd game of the series this year, but that was when we had won the first two games of the series. Getting swept by Tampa wouldn't exactly be good for this team's psyche.

QUOTE(mreye @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:35 PM) I should go back and count the optimistic posts since the first pitch. As someone said earlier, the optimism was thrown out the window when we saw what our lineup was today.

Every single player seems to be swinging out of their ass. Greg Walker has to be held responsible for the s*** that's happening with a lot of our hitters. Simply a terrible approach by way too many players.

DJ asking for the baseball gods to start helping us out? In all honesty, I think the baseball gods have been more than helpful this season. Seems like we have got a lot of breaks so far this year.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) Can Ozzie crack walker in the back of the head and tell him to stop teaching the dip the back shoulder and elevate. This flyball to the track crap didnt work last year when we had thumpers on the team. Exactly. As I was saying last night, just look at how Dye takes pitches. He has terrible form at the plate right now. He needs to get his lower body into the swing.

Konerko and Dye are hitless in the Tampa series so far, and the only hits Everett had were two infield hits.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 11, 2005 -> 06:25 PM) Carl f***ing Crawford That was a fairly easy play. You should be saying Jermaine f***ing Dye.

Dye's so off-balanced at the plate that he can't even capitalize on hanging curves. That's about 5 times in this series he had to swing all arms at a great pitch to hit.

This is why Dye shouldn't be in the 5 hole! Absolutely no excuses for this.

2 flyballs to the track already today.

Not this same old s*** again today with every deep fly by the Sox getting caught 2 feet in front of the fence.

Why do people think Everett is being pitched around? From my viewpoint, Carl gets as many good pitches to hit as anyone on our team. Everett's problem lately has been that he's fouling off the fastball right down the plate, and then he's chasing bad pitches when he's down in the count. Everett's patience has never been good, but it's been horrible lately.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 11, 2005 -> 05:51 PM) Ozzie you f***er, why take our Spods, who should steal bases on a terrible catcher and a slow delivery pitcher??????????????????????????? There is a reason why we have jumped on top of TB in the first 2 innings, and that is SPODS It's so Ozzie can let his boyfriend Timo leadoff the game.

El Duque against the lefties, and with their speed, is a recipe for a very slow game today.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 11, 2005 -> 05:26 PM) Here are the lineups for todays game. YUCK YUCK YUCK Ozzie what are you doing? Timo our very slow RF is leading off. I would rather have Pablo lead off. Dye is DHing. We may score 1 run today. Chicago White Sox Tampa Bay 1 Timo Perez, RF Alex Sanchez, DH 2 Tadahito Iguchi, 2B Nick Green, 2B 3 Aaron Rowand, CF Carl Crawford, LF 4 Paul Konerko, 1B Aubrey Huff, 1B 5 Jermaine Dye, DH Damon Hollins, CF 6 A.J. Pierzynski, C Jorge Cantu, 3B 7 Juan Uribe, SS Chris Singleton, RF 8 Joe Crede, 3B Charles Johnson, C 9 Pablo Ozuna, LF Alex S. Gonzalez, SS Really would have liked to see Pods playing against a righty pitcher and Johnson catching, who I'm pretty sure can't throw for s*** now.

Part of the problem right now is that Uribe is batting behind so many guys that can't get on base at all right now. Thus, he's rarely in a situation to drive in runs.

- Pods - Iguchi - Uribe - Konerko - Everett - Rowand - A.J. - Dye - Crede

Interesting that both pitchers they suggest the Sox might take are Illinois high school products (Mt. Carmel and DeLaSalle). Carillo was on ESPNews a few weeks ago, and he said he was a Sox fan, FWIW.

The thing is, we're basically playing with house money with our incredible start. Instead of waiting for this team to lose 5 or 6 games in a row, Ozzie should get creative. The current lineup is certainly not clicking in terms of producing a lot of motion on the bases and smallball. Something I've noticed is that besides Pods or Iguchi, we do a terrible job with situational hitting when we have runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs. I've seen enough weak pop ups or routine DP balls to last a season in the last week.