Worst Game of the Season

The Sox lost 10-7 last night in a game that was excruciating to watch. Ozzie Guillen decided to start Timo Perez at 1st, which cost the Sox 2 unearned runs when he was unable to come up with a low throw that my mother could have caught, and also had the bright idea to use Kevin Walker in relief with a 1 run lead. The only thing Walker was effective in doing was making sure that lead evaporated in his 1/3 of an inning pitched.
These are the kind of managerial decisions that Sox fans will be putting up with for years to come, as the Sox this week signed Ozzie to a 2 year extension that will keep him in town until at least 2008. You can't deny that he seems to get the most out of his players and they seem to love him, but he makes bonehead moves (a la last night) way too often. These are the types of things that can not happen in crunch time late in the season or in the playoffs. I think it would have been wise to wait and see where Ozzie has led the team when all is said and done at the end of the year. I'd be willing to bet that ANY manager in baseball would have the led the Sox to at least as good a record, if not better, than we have right now with 5 starters performing the way the Sox starters have performed. To me, Ozzie is just one more person proving that common sense isn't so common.

On This Day: In 1941, Lou Gehrig passed away at age 37.