Gene Honda Civic Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Does Anyone understand why COLON didn't plunk Jones when he came back up after he took that curtain call. I mean he took a curtain call in a 4-2 game in the THIRD!!!! THIRD INNING!!!! 6 more innings to be played. I mean I thought this team was deflated, but that was HUMILIATING. Not the outcome, but the lack of PRIDE. We were in a pennant race you can't let your opponent show you up like that, Especially after Dustin Mohr's comments last week. Any self respecting manager would have odered his pitcher to bean that guy the next time he was at the dish. One more reason JM has seen his last season on the south side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I didn't understand why he threw him umpteen fastballs, especially after Jones hammered that one fastball early in the game. Then the 2nd at bat he gets him on two and goes with one more and bam. I like Jacque Jones though and hell, I even like Mientk and Pierz. If they were Sox we'd love them. They are scrappy guys that can piss you off and do everything good. Its that all around "good" that makes the Twins a good team. The Sox have that great offense, but they aren't all around good. And that offense is "one" dimensional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboz56 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I didn't understand why he threw him umpteen fastballs, especially after Jones hammered that one fastball early in the game. Then the 2nd at bat he gets him on two and goes with one more and bam. I like Jacque Jones though and hell, I even like Mientk and Pierz. If they were Sox we'd love them. They are scrappy guys that can piss you off and do everything good. Its that all around "good" that makes the Twins a good team. The Sox have that great offense, but they aren't all around good. And that offense is "one" dimensional. Agreed. We need some scrappy guys on the Sox who just get the job done. Forget the 40 hr's Thomas has, he couldn't get a clutch hit to save his life. However, in the right spot, every player on the Twins can come up big. This season, the only player I can say I'm actually pleased with is Carlos Lee. Thought he played hard all season and improved dramatically. Everyone else was far from exceptional, especially Magglio, who is one of my favorite players, but he didn't come up with a damn thing in the Twins series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Tizzle Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Forget the 40 hr's Thomas has, he couldn't get a clutch hit to save his life. Thomas is the definition of cluth for us this year. Granted this series, when we needed him most, he didnt show up. But there's three instances where he single handily won the game for us: July 2 against the twins, game against Angels where his 2 2 run HRs were the total offense, and most recently against Clev. when he hit a go ahead 3 run home run. Im sure there's been others. And don't forget the corpseball days of summer when the sox were in the midst of interleague games. When playing 1B in the series against LA, Arizona, Padres he was coming through for the Sox. I do agree with you that all these homeruns dont mean s*** if you cant come through in the most important series of the year. I dont understand how frank can hit a handful of groundballs this whole year, and this series hit 2 or 3. Little too late to be changing his approach to the game....... The only thing the Sox can play for is pride, and even that would require winning 9/10 remaining games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKongerko Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Colon in his last few starts has thrown about 95% fastballs. It got him 3 straight CGs and some very good outings. At least he is getting beat on his best pitch instead of those games where teams were hitting his changeup or curve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 What ever happen to the Twins players being all pissed off at showing off after Homers? Oh I forgot they are a bunch of f***ing hypocrates :fyou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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