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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 03:09 PM) I guess I shouldn't have made fun of anything Zumaya might have done to cause his freak injury. At least he lasted more than the four starts you claimed at the start of the season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 03:38 PM) Really? Really. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you were to erase thronton's outing on june 8th against the tigers, in which he gave up five earned runs in 1/3rd of an inning, his ERA would be sitting at a cool 1.58 compared to 2.86.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 02:30 PM) I was at the game last night, and there was a lot of booing for Andruw Jones. I was proud of the fans for that. This isn't a shot at greg, as even I excused Jenks for being rusty. However, there was a ton of tension in the stadium during the 8th inning, even prior to Threets coming in. Hell, the PA didn't even have Jenks music ready to go. It was like when Wild Thing entered the game for the Indians in Major League 2. Major league 4 just may happen. If and when they do it, they are pretty much pretending like 3 never happened, and they are hoping to bring back the main core.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 03:13 PM) Trying to think of a bad Nolan movie? Following, Memento, Insomnia, Prestige, Begins, Dark Knight, I enjoyed them all. ''Following'' very well might be most impressive of the bunch... considering what he had to work with. Very first movie? $6,000 dollar budget? Outstanding.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 02:53 PM) Yes, because I'm a "hater". It was a Sammy Sosa special: do everything wrong until the last second then fall down/dive and make the play. It's like watching Nate McLouth in CF; that dude makes an inordinate amount of diving catches, unfortunately it's because he's getting to the ball late, this won him a gold glove much like Quentin's ability to make moderately difficult plays look impossibly hard have won him Hawk's heart. Jermaine did the exact same thing with high flyballs to the track, lucky for us I don't think Quentin's nearly as bad as Dye. Dude, stop hating. You heard ace, didn't you? Hawk himself said that it was one of the greatest plays you will ever see a right fielder make.

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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 05:36 PM) Mark Kotsay needs to be the first to go. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) Jones has put up a sweet little .138/.248/.230/.477 number in his last 101 PAs, and .075/.213/.150/.363 in his last 47. You think he's suddenly going to snap out of that and go all retro-Andruw and hit 3 homers against Greinke or something? Kotsay is the best option at DH.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) Was this supposed to be in green? Or did he punchyou in a bar? Or yu jealous of his hot wife? I have never once used green. Nor do i intend to. It's for imbeciles that cannot comprehend sarcasm and need to be led in the right direction. Though, knowing the green system that is here, i just pretend everything you say is in green, and that you don't believe any of what you say. It makes things much easier on myself.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) Egg on your face when HoT FiRe takes him deep. Stop.

There cannot be a former player i will dislike more in my lifetime than scott podsednik. Quite the task at hand for all future players, let me tell you that much. When i see podsednik's name is brought up? I cringe with disgust. When i see his face? I look away, grab a garbage can, and vomit until i can vomit no longer.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 04:53 PM) Obviously it depends on how deep in the playoffs you go. My guess is each game is worth $2-3 million in cash. Not sure how the playoff media revenues work. Then there is the additional season ticket sales you make the next year. My guess is a playoff appearance can be worth upwards of $30-40 million if you win the whole thing. Maybe $6-10 million if you go out in the ALDS. Probably $14-20 Million if you go out in the ALCS. And $20-30 million if you lose in the World Series. Look at in this order. http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?opt...s&Itemid=39 http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?opt...s&Itemid=39

It's nice when a run down is executed well.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) Omar with the soft single, just what we needed. Cmon we got to hit a bomb or 2. I thought you hated home runs? What happened there? OOOOOOH they can only win when they hit home runs! 7h3 $µ(|{

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) 3 weeks ago 50%+ of the game thread posters would have said the same thing. Game thread posters? Closer to 90%.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) Ballgame? It's the 5th inning. Those are the types that should not be allowed to root for anything.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) This is annoying. Welcome to most days prior to roughly two weeks ago.

f*** ozzie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Moron!!!!!

Stop it.

It's pretty sad how many people have had to question/verify whether or not it was sarcasm. Really sad even.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 07:47 PM) Soxnet.net game wrapup. Fix it.

The sox are 9 wins away from tying the franchise record set in 1906.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 05:30 PM) Care to elaborate? I think it's a combination of things. Inexperience is one of the biggest factors against him at this point. Which santos leads the league in, far and away which heavily factors against him. How will he be able to adjust to all of the adjusting against him? He has never had to go through that, at any level, let alone in the majors leagues on a team hoping to contend. At times in absolutely huge, vital situations to get out of. Thus far, he has pretty much been nails in that aspect. It doesn't change the fact that santos is rawer than raw. His whiff rates for every single pitch he throws, is below average. Not something you would expect out of a guy who throws his fastball at 95.7 on average, now is it? People see a big fastball and the ''ooohs'' and ''ahhhs'' get thrown all about. Velocity is far from everything. His fastball whiff rate is at a disgustingly low 6.2 percent. His slider, which appeared to be excellent the first month or so, now sits at 23.3% ... 28.7% is league average. Don't get me wrong, his slider is still a terrific pitch, regardless, but his fastball severely lacks. It lacks to the point that it almost negates his slider entirely. His lack of overall control makes his change nothing more than a show me type pitch, in my eyes, though up until this point it's acted as a plus pitch for him. In the long run, i just don't see that as the case. Pounding the zone with strikes, or at least offerings near the plate, has still got to be worked on big time, instilled into his muscle memory. His control was shockingly good the first two months, so much so, that it was very deceiving to his actual ability. The santos of june is so much closer to his ability than the first two months, it's not even funny. Play around here... combine it with brooks baseball... and you never have to go any further to find out what you want to know about any specific pitcher, or think you know about a pitcher.