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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 09:24 PM) I don't care if Pierre gets gunned down. He should be running. I sort of agree. Smith doesn't have a very slow delivery though. Pick your spots, I guess.

We continue to get calls.

Very good inning by Santos.

And just when I say that, he throws a change to get a K.

Santos throwing nothing but fastballs.

Cubs fandom intelligence fail... 35% in a CSN poll think Marlon Byrd will hit the most homers for this team. Unless Lee and Ramirez both get hurt, I really doubt that.

Alexei had two cookies and missed them both. Oh weather, why must you suck so much?

Holy crap these umpires are bad. What's funnier is that we're still not winning.

This team still sucks at situational hitting. Surprise, surprise.

Masterson was pretty good tonight.

Michael Brantley is starting to annoy me. He's like a left handed Carlos Gomez. And Andruw made a pretty bad throw. I'm pretty sure Rios makes a better throw there.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) I stand corrected. Do you guys think he can stick with the big guys coming straight from AA ? No. He has bad plate discipline.

Either Kotsay or Teahen.

You can definitely argue that.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 04:14 PM) Ozzie said that he asked the players and they consensus was that is was Jones. Maybe 5 years ago. Jones is one of the best CFers in this past decade.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) Our best defensive alignment is pierre, rios, and jones from left to right, i have little doubt. I'm rather high on jones defensively and think he will be more than fine (plus defender) in center when out there. Now do i think rios should be in left in favor of jones? Not so much, it's borderline asinine. Hopefully though jones pulls back two at the fence today and makes ozzie look like a genius, it wouldn't hurt my feelings any. In regards to dhing pierre. I would really have no problem with it if pierre was batting ninth rather than first. But it is what it is. Our problem is this now guarantees our worst hitter in the first place the most plate appearances, and now he has a pretty mean handicap against himself. The problem is dhing is incredibly hard and makes even the best of hitters (vast majority of the time) worse... considerably. I see it like this, carlos quentin dhing would hurt us more offensively than pierre dhing ever could. But then again you have to consider the defensive differential between the two, which does come into play. Positional adjustment in runs per 600 PA. This too. This is why you don't put some bad hitter at DH and just say whatever. It's because the average DH is much better and your team is losing out on production if you put a crappy hitter there. More so than putting a crappy hitter anywhere else. That plus the fact that Pierre is a better defensive outfielder than Quentin makes this a really bad move.

Just Cause 2 is a lot of fun.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 02:40 PM) no reason to boo the guy. he was here for a few seasons, had some nice moments. but it was all at the end of his career. he wont go down as a sox legend. i consider him more of an afterthought as a sox player, sorta like a zisk or gamble. I was being sarcastic, lol. I wouldn't boo him. If you want to blame anyone for him being on the Twins, blame Ozzie for being ignorant and Williams for lacking balls to override Ozzie's ignorance.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 02:31 PM) I don't have a problem with DH'ing Pierre, you take your weakest outfielder out and you replace him with Jones, while getting Kotsay out of the lineup. Pierre's got the weakest arm, but he is not the weakest outfielder. That's Carlos.

Hochevar was throwing gas last night. Got it up to 98.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) I'm not a fan of Quentin sitting for 30 minutes between his at-bats. He'll go nuts. Although I do think that Carlos is a maniac, I don't think one game at DH is going to hurt him. Considering his past health issues. Plus, switching outfield positioning like this is never a good thing.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 02:20 PM) Will Sox fans boo Thome like the Indians fans did? Just like we boo'd the hell out of Crede when he came back last year.

I think I should make another thread titled, "why Juan Pierre should NEVER DH". But I'll save myself the trouble.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 01:43 PM) Jones is playing today. Woot! Pierre dh Beckham 4 Quentin 9 PK 3 Jones 8 AJ 2 Rios 7 Teahen 5 Ram 6 Is he seriously DHing Pierre? Face palm* If you're going to DH anyone, DH Quentin. And what the hell? Rios has been great these past two days in center. Why switch him to right? I'm getting sick of Ozzie flipping things around when they've been fine.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 02:20 PM) Well the Indians had about 15 lefties in a row coming up. Plus since Jake could only go 5 we had to go deep into the pen. The other choice was Linebrink or Santos and I don't think Ozzie has any intention to use Santos in a meaningful spot. Williams scares the hell out of me. Thornton should have been in there against guys like Sizemore, Choo, and Hafner.