Wow. Just wow. After a middle reliever gave up a grandslam to Konerko (the whitesox best hitter) with two outs in the bottom of the 7th, i sat there stunned. It's so painfully obvious that you bring in your ace reliever there. The game is going to be won or lost in this at bat. I was blown away that someone who has spent their entire life in baseball wouldn't think about this logically. Lidge is the ONLY choice. Buck and McCarver, an inning later, start to hint that maybe lidge should have been brought in. Of course, they use the typical "outfoxed" technique of saying "some may say" that you should bring lidge in. Buck responds with "but his answer would be that the 7th inning is just too early to bring in your closer. Yes, he's going to go 2 innings tonight, but the 7th is just too early". They almost got it. But of course they were 100% wrong.

And, does anyone else notice that this thing that tracks the pitch is way off? On bagwell's hit, it was clear that he reached outside to hit it. But the little graphic showed it as inside. I started keeping track, and it's very obvious that they are registering pitches as way more inside than they actually are. Why isn't there someone sitting in a booth somewhere franctically calling I/T saying "oh man, we need to fix this, this is so embarassing". How can they show off this new technology (which is just espn's k zone) and have it consistently wrong. Am i the only one noticing this?