southsideirish71

Oh Christ, the appendage aware manager is taking out Thornton who is around home plate to bring in Mac who is a bit how should I say it wild around the strikezone. QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 05:23 PM) Why is nothing ever easy in Oakland? Seemingly can't retire their team 1-2-3 in order past the 6th inning. Now if Thorton was facing us in that same situation. You would of seen 7 pitches and the inning would end.

It literally has to split the plate, and be mid thigh high for Blue to call it a strike.

Ingest Feces Oakland.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 05:20 PM) Wow...that looked like strike 3. It was, the fast ball confused the ump.

When i see a game at Oakland I feel like I am watching the bobsled runs or a US soccer game with all of the goofy horns, cow bells, kazoos, waving of flags, and dressing up like its Halloween. Oakland and San Fran is a very odd part of the country.

I guess if the catcher moves at all, its not a strike. Wierd rule, and here I thought it has something to do with with the white plate and something about knees to nipples.

You need to throw strikes against the As. They have 2 guys that can beat you with talent, the rest are a bunch of pests.

Thornton is out in the 7th.

I missed the part of baseball instruction where instead of striding towards the pitchers plate, you turn your front foot point it towards third base and step in that direction.

Someone needs to drive a 7 inch spike through the front foot of Uribe, so he can keep it from spinning out and doing his tazmanian devil routine. GIDP to the pull side. What a f***ing shock. How is this possible.

Walk number 30K for today.

Konerko with another pathetic AB. Nice approach Mr. Pull.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 05:07 PM) Seriously, did you even look at the replays of Frank's swing there? He barely got that pitch, and he just muscled it out. Seriously who calls a breaking pitch away on Frank with a man on.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) Cotts is warming up? What in the hell is going on in our dugout? The Mensa candidate running our club is still making decisions on the bullpen.

The book on Frank Thomas at this point in his career. You pound him in, and in, and in. He is an exceptional breaking ball hitter. He is an exceptional mistake hitter. Yet for whatever reason we go against the grain and try and get him out with one of Javys breaking pitches.

Obviously Fox Sports crew, its not about did we win, its about do they have it on tap is what Ozzie is worried about. We lost, bartender pour me a cold one.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 04:52 PM) You know...back when we had Ordonez/Thomas, any time they'd walk Thomas to get to Ordonez, you just knew Magglio was going to crush the ball solely because he didn't like being shown up by the intentional walk. Ordonez and Thomas has nice line drive swings. Ordonez and Thomas hit the ball gap to gap. Its hard to beat that with RISP. Thome is Rob Deer, pull and lift and hope for the carry. He may dong you, but more often than not he will K or popup.

Thome needs to think line drive and not granny here. And he of course f***ing kills the inning on the first f***ing pitch he sees trying to drive it out. Worthless rotten approach.

Now they walk Dye to get to Mr I hit lefties well Thome.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 04:47 PM) Anyone else believe a good relay nails Anderson easily at homeplate? Cora is lucky. And how about Uribe not reading a ball that Anderson appeared to have known off the bat it was a double. Its misplays like that that help Cora believe in his dumb run them until they are out strategy. Uribe is a bad baserunner.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 04:46 PM) Hmmm...another pitcher that relies on off-speed stuff making us look foolish....notice a trend here? Fire Greg Walker. This s*** has gone on long enough, I seriously wonder if our hitters even have a plan going up to the plate, honestly all I think they have in mind is "PULL, PULL, PULL!" We should have 7 runs up against Zito with his horrible control today. He walked how many guys and got out of it inning after inning.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 04:45 PM) sandy alomar!! makes up for the 4th Hey he hit a nice gapper. Very nice. Way to make up for the last time up. Konerko and Thome see what the bottom of the order just did. Try and man the f*** up.

Brian Anderson tells Ozzie Guillen to kiss his offensive ass.

3 hits into the 6th. Another Cy Young performance. It seems day in and day out we run into Cy Young. Cy Tavarez, Cy 2 last names in Boston. Its just not fair. I mean how do teams get hits against Zito, or score runs. I mean the 9+ era in his last 2 starts and the terrible home ERA must be just insane. Holy s***, the blind squirrel and his .077 finds a nut. Our 4th hit. HOLY s***!!!!!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 04:32 PM) If our pitching hadn't wet the bed prior to August we'd be sitting where Detroit currently is. Hell, if Mack hadn't played so often in CF I'm convinced we'd be tied with Detroit at the worst. Check out when we started losing and playing sub 500 baseball. That was right around the Boston series when we stopped scoring runs. When crappy pitchers with 8 ERAs started mowing down this team. We had a 6 game Wild Card lead at the break, and a 9 game lead on Minny. The pitching might of f***ed us for the division, but our offense s*** the bed an completely ruined the wild card.