: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:11 pm  

spooky wrote:

The Yankees have been very impressive - hardly surprising with their roster. One thing I've noticed is that they seem to have a much better team spirit than previous years. It may be due to the new players recruited but I think that management have most likely relaxed their attitude also.

I'm not expecting much out of our series with them this week. Our best chance of a win is actually against Burnett on Wednesday. We seem to perform better in afternoon games and Romero will want to make up for his blow up on Friday. After that it gets no easier for us as we travel to Tampa. It;s going to be a looooong week.

It's because of good clubhouse presences such as Tex and Swisher.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:40 pm  

The White Sox claim Alex Rios off waivers and we let him go, with nothing in return. The genius that is JP Retardi strikes again. Apparently it's to free up some salary to give us more flexibility - shame you didn't think of that less than 2 years ago when you offered Rios that big money deal eh JP?

Add this to the Frank Thomas and BJ Ryan fiascos and it's amazing that he still has a job.

I can't wait to see who this clown signs in the off season.

: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:30 pm  

WOW - I wasn't expect that last night.

The cynic in me would say that Cito getting thrown out of the game and Butterfield making all of the Bull Pen decisions played a big part in this victory. Our relief pitching was very effective. A few timely hits also helped.

: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:20 am  

Back to what we know last night, a bit of controversy regaarding Posadas HR though. Ande hasn't posted for a while?

: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:42 pm  

Mark wrote:

Back to what we know last night, a bit of controversy regaarding Posadas HR though. Ande hasn't posted for a while?

I can understand why Cito asked for the replay because from the dugout it must have looked close, but the TV footage clearly showed is was just beyond Inglett and over the wall when the fan caught it. Wasn't even a close call.

I suppose it was a bit much to expect our BP to hang on to a 1 run lead against the Yanks 2 nights running, but why Cito left Jesse Carlsson out there after giving up back to back homers is beyond me. His management of the BP is just awful.

Another bloody day game today which means I don't get to watch it as I'm stuck at work Romero vs Burnett too, should be a belter.

: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:13 pm  

Mark wrote:

Back to what we know last night, a bit of controversy regaarding Posadas HR though. Ande hasn't posted for a while?

Been out of the country.
Wow we have gone downhill after that 5 game losing streak. Bleeding A-Rod.

the Yankees are coming on strong but theres time yet.

: Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:00 pm  

We suck in extra innings. Our bats are so unclutch it's ridiculous.

: Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:44 am  

Shane Victorino is a girl.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:20 pm  

Brandon League & Vernon Wells

I could probably add Cito to that list because of his over-use of League and Carlson and his refusal to drop Wells down to 8th or 9th in the order.

: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:54 pm  

Nice to see Travis Snider back up and making his presence felt already. Just a shame it had to be at the expense of Joe Inglett, who was riding an 8 game hit streak at the time. Given the lack of production from the majority of our bats, it seems like a daft move when we could just DFA Millar, who's bat is obviously not trusted enough by the manager to pinch hit for a guy batting below 200 in the final out of a 1 run game ..... even though they'd already taken our 1B nam (Overbay) out for a pinch runner which would have required Millar in the game to take over 1B should we have gone to extra innings.

I'm not saying Millar would have hit the ball, but he's supposed to be a DH amongst other things. If you can't trust a DH to pinch hit then what fooking use is he? Oh that's right, we need a righty for 1B because our manager had decided that Lyle Overbay can't hit lefties (despite the fact that he hits them just as well as Millar does)

The mind boggles, it truely does.

Add to that our inability (or unwillingness) to sign 3 of our top 4 draft picks and I'm about ready to tear my hair out. What a useless fooking organisation.