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Fox 9 o'clock news -- they just went to commercial, with the leadin "which ballpark has more crime?" -- I'll try to watch but I flip channels too damn much.

Everyone else who you are competing against in the AL has to play teams from the NL also.

Is there any reason to think that this team, or any AL team for that matter, can get through the Yankees?

Rowand got completely clowned by Zambrano in last weeks game. There's no reason to think that he would have done any better today when Zabrano's stuff was even harder to hit. Why pick on the only guy who actually did anything to today offensively. If it wasn't for gload this game would have been a shutout.

I'm sure the sox could have won two games in a row getting dominated by pitchers. The defense did not cost us this game, why bother dwelling on it... Just hope they got all of their defensive miscues out of their system like they did in the first series of last Cubs series. The sox got outplayed in every phase of the game today. There's no reason to believe that one simple line-up change would have been the difference to victory.

The Correct numbers are like this... from 1997 - 2003 the NL has bettered the AL.. They have won 30 more games over a span of 1699 games, or 1.77%. This season the AL is 18 games up in 210 games, or 8.57%. Overall the NL is 12 games up over 1909 games , or 0.628%

YEAR American League National League 1997 97 117 1998 114 110 1999 116 135 2000 136 115 2001 132 120 2002 123 129 2003 115 137 Totals 833 863 EDIT == That math is wrong -- I just read the Table wrong... IT's even less of an advatage... Correct numbers in post below

Currently the AL leads the NL in interleague play.

Best quote from the game "IF he gets on, maybe the next guy can hit a 4-run homer, with 2 men on" WTF was that

Definitely... Plus, as a probably playoff team, his bat will be invaluable coming of the bench in late game situations.

Gload's a great hitter, on a team full of great hitters. In his last two games he's proven why it's hard to get him in the line-up... He's a liability defensively in the outfield. It would be great to have him in the line-up everyday, but that would mean having to sit one of the Konerko/Thomas tandem, and with both of them playing like they are, Ross will rightfully only play about 1 game per week.

yeah but he only had to dive because he didn't run hard to the ball.

Russ Ortiz -- I don't think that deal is dead yet From another post:

Purely speculation on my part... I know we had scouts wathing his last outing in Baltimore... Yankees had scouts there too. Tonight he's going against the fish... 4IP so far, 2H 1BB 6K's 0ER In his last two outings he's 11IP 9H 3BB 10K 0ER He's on his way out of town.

77 RBI in 75 Games --- You wouldn't be complaining if he was on your team.

Have I been living under a rock, or is this kid just putting up monster numbers this year? He actually has 29 HR's already. This is in the phillies system... A 1B who's stuck behind Thome, who's signed long-term. Eastern League » Reading Phillies 4/8 to 6/29 AVG G AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB SO SB CS .307 75 283 53 87 77 17 0 28 29 91 0 2

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More bumpage -- And this isn't me picking on ABOZ... One bad loss creates a thread like this, but a series sweep vs. our division rivals is likely to get everyone around here a little too high... There's still a ton of baseball to be played and anything can happen. Here's to a 2 game lead though.

He's yet to have a 1-2-3 inning in Florida... Who's surpirsed???

Nope -- I'm the only special one around here. Besides there's only 3 off days in the second half.. There's no room on the calendar.

I was just updating it to include my BDAY -- They may not have been available when I was uploading the new ones.

If you only knew... I did everything but the calander while drunk tonight.

Couldn't find any good pics of Freddy in a WS uni... Went with a little 4th of July theme for this one. 1024 x 786 800 x 600

reschedulement --I've got to use that one in a sentance sometime this week.