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Foolish me...God, school is really getting to me. I'll have that up later tonight.

Good work as always Alex I'm looking forward to seeing how that staff does in Bham. It should be pretty stinking good. And Rex pointed out to me that they got a lot of veteran bats, so once again it should be a team competing for the postseason.

While Sweeney may move to 1st, soley because of the strenght in the outfield (I still find it unlikely; I think Reed is moved to 1st before he is) but since he is an outfielder I wanted to keep him at that position. Also, I like Lopez more as a prospect then Gray, but I think Gray is one of those guys that will rake the ball. It was hard seperating what I think a guy can do in the majors with what kind of numbers and play they will have with their specific team. With Lopez, I think he'll improve offensively while Gray will hit the cover off the ball although I agree he has some definate concerns defensively.

I Think no matter what, unless you got Gagne or a healthy Rivera or Percival, you feel that way in a sense. He pitched good today and I can only hope he regains the form that led to him getting 4 straight 40 save seasons. Here's to his 5th (not straight) 40 save season.

Koch has to over come this, he pitched good to Beltran who then got a single. Now its Beltran.

3-2 on a fastball down. Koch hit 96 on that one.

s***, another pitch that looked like a strikeout. It was an inside fastball. 2-2

1-2 (fouled off a low fastball).

1-1 now. Nice inside fastball by Koch.

Two outs, Graffy grounds out softly to Uribe. One more to go, and you want to get Berrora, cause Beltran, Sweeney and Juan Gone follow.

BULLs***...that was a freaking strikeout.

2-2; Velocity has been at 91 for the past 3 pitches.

1-2, Graffy chases a high fastball.

0-1 on a fastball (95).

Koch got a little too much of the plate on that one, but Guil flies out to mid center. Still a solid pitch, it had a lot of action and ran back over. Now Tony G gets his turn.

Fastball for a strike (94 MPH)

Damn that was a nice fastbal with some good tailing action (95 MPH), but was a ball. Now he's behind 3-1.

1-1

Come on Koch. 1st pitcher registers at 91 MPH.

Well the Sox will have to settle for a 1 run lead. Lets see if they can do it.

Rowand missed a phat hanger and pops out.

Crede always kind of looks asleep at the plate. He'll get things going.

Ya, first thing I noticed was he wasn't even close to dragging his knuckle on the mound. I also noticed his velocity was up about 2 MPH.

Damn, Crede hit it hard, but right at Sweeney.