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QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 02:40 AM) B-Mo!!! 2nd bomb. Proving fathom dead wrong. Hey, I'm happy for Morel...but really? I do like the fact that Morel is easily now having a better offensive season than Beckham.

It seems like Flowers has been Walker'd. Swing is much longer than what it was when he first came up. From what I see from Flowers at the plate, he probably couldn't hit higher than .200 in the majors right now for a full season.

That's the 702nd ball that Rios has broke the wrong way on.

Man, Rios is just so good at the lazy pop up to the right side where he doesn't know the direction the ball went off the bat. Kudos to Juan and nice big fly by Morel. Oh, please start hitting again Flowers, as you've been terrible of late.

Just how many 5-4-3 double plays has Alexei hit this year?

Letting Omar hit here is just too funny

Haha, you suck Rios. Hawk hates him so much.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:33 AM) Looked like a lotta meatballs. Makes you wonder how bad players in the minors are for him to have almost a K/IP

Axelrod looks to be from the Broadway/McCullough pitching family

Omar got all of that one

Haha, nice defense. Konerko's defense has been god awful of late.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 02:58 AM) I think everyone including the announcers got on him for being too tentative. Yeah, outside of Sunday, he's looked a little better recently.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 8, 2011 -> 01:54 AM) Alexei swinging out of the zone for that low pitch. We needed a flay ball minimum there AR. Maybe they forgot to tell him that? Can't look up stats, but Alexei seems to have really struggled with runners on 3rd and less than 2 outs this year.

BTW, starting Omar instead of Escobar at 2nd is a disgrace.

That Alex Rios is special in CF. Oh...keep diminishing your trade value Danks

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:39 PM) This could very well be the case. Although I'm not close to ready to dismissing the Twins yet. Thing that really scares me about Detroit is they have quite a bit of money coming off the books after this year. Yep, a lot of bad money (ie: Ordonez)

QUOTE (Cali @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:35 PM) Anyone else get a feeling it's gonna be the Tigers and Indians the Sox will have to battle with in the upcoming years in the central? Seems like some lean years coming for Minnesota after a pretty incredible decade long run. Mauer and Morneau look like walking (sometimes) injuries waiting to happen every game. Seems like every year they could plug anyone in from their minor league system and they'd immediately have an impact, but that's not happening this year. Of course they've had to plug in A LOT of people with all the injuries. With the money Tigers are supposed to have available to spend on someone like Jose Reyes this offseason, there's no reason they're not the heavy AL Central favorites for the next few years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:22 PM) Unless you look at their stats. Seriously? Benoit's been sensational since the ASB, Coke's been very effective as a reliever, and Valverde has been perfect. I wonder how many games they've lost after leading going into the 8th this year compared to the Sox.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 06:16 PM) And handing the ball to the worst bullpen in the playoffs. Al Al, Coke, Benoit and Valverde isn't that bad

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 06:08 PM) Let's say we took 2/3 from Detroit over the weekend, something that people say we would have had to have done in order to be in this. They would be currently at 78-64, and the Sox would currently be at 73-67, 4 games out (3 in the loss column). Does anyone really believe that being 4 out with 3 left to play with Detroit, as hot as they are, that Detroit could be caught even if we had taken 2/3? For the record, I did believe that the division was bad enough to win with the Sox's slow start, but I also believe our pitching set us up to go deeper in the playoffs than other teams. I still will never understand this line of thinking this season. To me, Tigers are so much more set up for a playoff series with their rotation than Sox are. I found the stat about Scherzer on Sunday night intriguing in that he's so hit or miss. In the playoffs, Leyland can afford to be much more aggressive and proactive in pulling him if he doesn't have anything that day.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) We're drawing conclusions about the effectiveness of secondary pitches in 8 outings by a sinkerballer, only half of which were starts? Well, we always talk about the eye test and the metric test...and those stats confirmed that Stewart's curveball is extremely mediocre. Nothing frustrated me more with Garland than when he got hammered on his offspeed pitches when they clearly weren't close to being as effective as his sinker.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 04:56 PM) Having 2 of the (legitimately) worst players in the league and a near historic "worst season of all time" by a offense-only position ultimately doomed us. Our pitching and defense were fine for most of the season. We had 5 black holes in the lineup for most of the season. Detroit will win 1 playoff game that Verlander pitches, I refuse to believe they were "better", if we had even 1 of Dunn/Rios/Beckham show up this season, we win. It would have had to have been Dunn that had an average year for him. I think a "good" Beckham wouldn't be enough to put us over the top.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) I completely agree with this. Getting swept in Detroit was about 40% of the story over the last month, but Detroit's hot streak had much more to do with sealing our doom. Yep, and you could see the hot stretch coming from a mile away for them. They had a very easy schedule the last two months of the year.

Matt Moore...couldn't have been more impressed with him when I've watched him pitch.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 7, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) When are people going to finally admit that Detroit going 19-7 over their last 26, even besides the sweep, might have SOMETHING to do with the fact that our season is over? For me, it's the fact the Tigers are the better team, and they made some really solid acquisitions the last few months that added even more to their insane lineup depth and solidified their starting pitching. That has more to do with the fact the season is over, and to be honest, I think the Tigers might have possibly won the division even with Dunn/Rios having solid seasons.