southsideirish71

We score 1, and then poof Vazquez gives up a 4 spot. I am glad we picked up this guy. I had to look twice to make sure Felix Diaz wasnt out on the bump. This guy sure is the million dollar arm and the ten cent head.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Aug 19, 2006 -> 01:51 PM) Thome is the biggest reason we run less, that and Dye's success. You just don't want to make outs in front of those studs on the bases. It was different last year when we had less success out of 3-4-5 That and the fact that Pods isnt the same runner. I think he never recovered from his hernia last year.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) A bit of a rest for AJ, and I would rather have him giving AJ a rest than the Widge of '06 Our guys must be the most rested bunch of guys in all of baseball. Our starting day lineup plays together as a group about 20% of the time. They started getting their days off on game 2 of the season.

A double play gets us out of the bases loaded with 1 out. Wow glad we are fighting tooth and nail here with the Tigers, no that isnt a tigers uniform, its must be the Yankees...no....KC...let me look that up. Ah the worst team in the AL.

Mark walks Sweeney to get the bases loaded to get to Tehan. This is fugly.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) Get McCarthy up in the pen. A starter will need to give up a even dozen before Ozzie takes him out before 5.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:40 PM) Someone needs to take out Gruzielanek, that guy is KILLING us Someone needs to make a pitch. When you groove fastballs or meatballs over the middle of the plate any hitter can look like Babe Ruth.

Mark plunks the lefty ala Marte. Next guy singles. Man on first and third for Sweeney.

Anyone confused on why we are in a dogfight in game 4 to salvage a split against the worst road team in baseball when we are at home.

Its a swing for the fence day. We will be real productive as long as Odalis lays meatballs over the plate.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:26 PM) Nice job Mark. Let's get the run back. 2 home runs by the Royals already and Ozuna hit one. I wonder how many of our guys will be in the dip the back shoulder, pull and elevate mode. Its why we got shut down the last 2 nights.

One turn through the rotation our guys look good, 2nd time through the rotation and it looks like s***.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) Lumsden was traded to KC for Macdougal Flash of all people knows the status of our minor league system, especially pitchers. He forgot to put the /sarcasm

Buerhle gives up another meatball.

Yeah lets hit home runs. Its the way this offense clicks.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:10 PM) If we go on to not make the playoffs, that Joey Cora play sending home Iguchi on Tuesday night will be one of the turning points of the season for me. Actually for me it was game 2 when Ozzie stopped playing his regular lineup in 80% of the games.

JOO BISH!!!!! Happy Birthday to the guy who makes Chat the place to be and the last bastion of profanity on this site.

Hit the f***ing ball, catch the f***ing ball, throw the f***ing ball. Its a simple game. This is the royals. Lets salvage a split for the love of all that is holy. Lets stop making crappy pitchers look good. At least its Odalis Perez, and they have heard of him. Maybe they will actually try today. The key to todays offense is working the count, hitting line drives, playing good defense, and playing smart. Lets not do the following, lift and pull trying to hit the Dan Ryan, kick the ball all over the field, and throw a meatball on an 0-2 count. If we can avoid this, we should be fine.

I have a question. Before his time on the DL. Contreras threw his forkball over the top. He threw a hard 95 to 97 mph fastball. And then would drop down on righties from time to time to give them a different look, and then would use his slider from that angle. Now after the DL stint. The counts is throwing pretty much side arm all the time. His fastball is down to 91. And with his drop down, the ball seems to sail up in the hitting zone a bit more. He cannot get ontop of his forkball anymore and its either hanging or not dancing. Now for my question. If you are successful at sometime for a long period of time. Why in the name of God would you decide to completely change how you go about it. Either that bone spur still hurts, or Cooper and Ozzie need to get Jose throwing over the top more

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:54 PM) How many times has any team swept a four game series at home in the past 20 years? It happens less than 5% of the time. Well the twinks just swept these same cagey royals at Kaufman in a 4 game series. The Tigers have beat them 11 out 12 times.

Pods on the game tonight. Well the ball didnt bounce our way tonight. Pods catch the f***ing ball, dont worry about it bouncing. Just catch it.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:42 PM) I was prepared to lose one game against the Royals, and I figured it was Vazquez. Honestly, that loss did not bother me that much. Did you really think that Hernandez and his 8 ERA would shut us down at home and go deep into the game. I mean if we lost 6-4 or something its understandable, Vaz put us in a hole. But when we lose 4-2 and we struggle to hit a crappy pitcher its pretty sad. I didnt think we would lose a game to the Royals when we beat Redman in game one.

The PFB show is brought to you by skype. Nothing like your postgame show being brought to you by a piece of shareware, written by the same folks at KaZaa. QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:35 PM) Count the number of unacceptable losses in the last 19 games. I count one. Last night was acceptable???? The best O in the game, going against a pitcher with an 8 ERA, and the team they are facing is what 14-40 something on the road.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:25 PM) Let me ask you this, Irish: Save the first two weeks after the all-star break, and the brutal showing the last two nights, when exactly has this offense looked like corpseball? I am not saying that this team overall has shown corpseball offense this whole year. But one of the tenants of corpseball was playing like s*** against the worst teams in baseball. That is what I am talking about. We play them like Freddy pitches against them.

The PFB show is pretty funny tonight. someone called up and asked why is ozzie resting so many of his starters. PFBs answer. Well there was a right hander starting. Oh so you start a corner OF in center because he was born with the left appendage as his primary appendage. Awsome.