Crede's incident was the 6th time a Chicago hitter was hit by a pitch in the series. The sad thing is that not a single A was hit by a pitch in the series. I was thinking there would be some retaliation.

Yeah, maybe the Sox should hit an A's star on the hand and put him on the DL for six weeks.

Besides, getting hit by Zito or Duchsherer probably doesn't hurt. :-)

Their homer announcers apparently think there's some sort of anti-White Sox conspiracy going on. Talk about annoying...

Really, a rule that is not enforced is a rule in name only. That's the worst call I've seen all year, especially after so many Sox have gotten hit this series. I'm an umpire, I'd know. That may be the call by the rule book, but that wasn't the right call, and Joe Crede paid the price.

And do you know why we had to play Crede at Short? Because Tadahito Iguchi's knee was injured when he turned a double play at second base and the A's tried to break it up--good clean baseball, nothing wrong with that. 1 middle infielder down. It happens.

Then, Juan Uribe avoids injures his groin by...you guessed it...avoiding being hit by a pitch. I'm starting to get worried now. 2 middle infielders down.

And lastly, Pablo Ozuna injures his forearm being, yes, hit by a pitch. 3 Middle Infielders down, and say hello to our new shortstop, our old third baseman.

Seriously, that umpire is lucky Joe didn't take his head off after that HBP.

Of course, as I often point out in games I do, Umpires don't lose games. And when it comes to the Sox, Chris Widger and Jermaine Dye lose games. And Ozzie Guillen. Shamefully bad management of this game. Awful.

We're not so good that we can give games to the A's on a silver platter. We need to win the close ones, and can't give up these errors. If there is an Anti-sox conspiracy, they've obviously got Ozzie, because despite those atrocious impersonators of Umpires on the field, the manager lost this one.

Ah, someone's still harboring a Chavez grudge. Well, that wasn't intentional, but if these hits are retaliation for that one, they're probably fair--if a bit delayed by 11 months. HBPs happen in baseball...Yes, even to the Athletics.

I'm not holding a grudge. Just pointing out that being hit could have effects much worse than giving Jermaine Dye one inning to make errors at shortstop rather than right field.

The call does happen-- you just have to see enough games a year to have a chance to see it. I've seen it called maybe four or five times over the last five years, but I've averaged maybe 1000 innings a season plus Sports Center most days...
I even saw it live in a minor league game once...

What'll drive ya crazy is that it doesn't usually get called in the clearest cases-- last year I saw someone just stand and take it on the shoulder without flinching, let alone trying toget out of the way, and get first for it. On another occasion someone got hit by a pitch which was about 6" over the plate and at least technically a strike. More than a few guys hang a plated elbow out in the zone and spin their shoulders around while leaving the arm there to get hit...

Now that I've seen the tape, I'm 100% with the ump. That was the most extreme case I've ever seen-- he just leaned down and stuck his arm in the way of the pitch...