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QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:40 AM) And if he had hit that to someone, you would have complained he did not take the first pitch in a clutch situation Funny thing is that everyone got mad at me and some others when we said there were some serious problems with our team and our manager. However, everyone thought we were nuts because we were 16-4, how can this not be an incredible team? It's not even that we're not hitting homers, we're not getting any extra base hits. Our offense will suffer even more without Uribe, who's our most dangerous hitter against good pitching.

Honestly, why keep Timo if we're not going to use him in situations where he's supposed to be the man? It's not like Timo is going to ph for an infielder in this game.

This teams is pissing the living s*** out of me.

If Dye drives it to RF, Farnsy will supply the power.

I'm so f***ing sick of Dye taking first pitch fastballs down the plate.

We need a wild pitch.

If Timo's going to be on the roster, you might as well use him in golden situations.

PH for Dye here! He won't touch Farnsy.

f*** you Konerko. That was a great pitch to hit.

PK has no chance on a slider if Farnsy throws it here.

PK looks awful at the plate right now. Stop trying to hit homers every AB!

Kudos to Willie though for his play at SS so far. I'm proud of him.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:25 AM) I thought a small ball team would be fine against these types of pitchers :banghead whyyyyy? :banghead Because we're not playing smallball right now. Look at our lineup? Does that look like a team that can consistently score runs? I hate to be so negative, but our stretch of good luck seems to have ended, and it's back to reality. Our offense isn't good.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:24 AM) Its the same thing as last year. Our goofy hitters fall in love with pulling the baseball and the entire offense looks terrible. We made every crap soft tossing Plus 7 ERA pitcher look like Cy Young because we got pull happy. Corpseball is back. At least corpseball had power potential. We now have one homer in like 70 innings.

Vizcaino had a 6.39 ERA two seasons ago. Ozzie has to be careful with him, especially since he's lost 3 mph on his fastball. He's a slider only pitcher now.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:21 AM) That crazy loss against the A's has really sent us in a spin .... urghhhh I disagree. We were lucky to win the last two games in KC. Our supposed main hitters are in massive slumps right now, and we're not doing anything to generate offense.

Someone needs to tell Ozzie that Vizcaino is not good against righties compared to lefties. Right now, Politte is throwing the ball a lot better than Vizcaino.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:15 AM) THAT IS WHY WE NEED THE BIG HURT BACK NOW I wouldn't count on him being back this year. Unfortunately, the prognosis is poor.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:13 AM) We have a great offense when we hit the ball back up the middle and the other way. Our offense blows dog balls when we get pull happy. Under no circumstance do I consider the Sox to have a great offense. If we're not going to try and make things happen when we constantly get leadoff hitters on, I'd rather we go back to the big bopper approach.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:11 AM) no, we haven't. That's why all those stories are being written about the Sox not being for real. I have no faith in our offense at all right now. The Tigers have tried to hand us many runs this game, and we're not capitalizing on the chances at all.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 02:09 AM) f*** the offense just can't get it going against this bum... Two straight games where the opposing pitcher had absolutely nothing, and we still couldn't do s***. It's not like we're hitting a lot of rockets. Very few hard hit balls. We're built to play smallball, but Ozzie's sitting back and waiting for the 3-run homer.

We've had the leadoff hitter on all 4 innings so far. It's like we're playing for a homer or double play.

Robertson has had no control at all tonight, yet all of our 3 outs in the 3rd inning made an out on the first pitch. Also, I'm getting sick of seeing guys, especially our righties, try and pull every soft pitch that's outside.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 10:32 PM) Uribe's not going to the DL. He says he's fine, and wanted to play tonight. Schnieder is just being cautious. That's not what someone in this very thread just reported was said on the radio. They said Uribe was DL bound if he wasn't feeling better tomorrow. Trust me, I hope I'm wrong. Uribe's our most dangerous hitter.

Well, if Uribe sounds like he's going on the DL, and Ozuna's hand is swollen, it's going to be a while before either of them are close to 100 pct. I highly doubt anyone would claim Timo, so we could get him back off the waiver wires if KW and Ozzie can't live without him.