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I love Rose's answer about how he knew it wouldn't count "I've been playing basketball all my life, and I know with 2 seconds left, you couldn't dribble as much as he did".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 07:28 PM) I take it the Captain hit a 2nd while I was watching the Bulls? Lots of people probably missed that home run on TV.

There we go Gavin!! Throwing all of his pitches for strikes right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 06:43 PM) Well, there's a curve ball. MUCH better

Wow, sick release

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) I love what our 1-2 and 8-9 hitters have done so far this season. Bodes well for when you have a stud #3 hitter back

Excellent...steal 2nd

That a boy Brent!

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 07:34 PM) Anyone watching the Chicago broadcast know what happened to Hawk and Stoney?? What about them?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 07:28 PM) Gavin doesn't look very good so far. Thrown one offspeed pitch for a strike. Made a great 3-2 pitch though!

Gavin doesn't look very good so far. Thrown one offspeed pitch for a strike.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 07:19 PM) Beckham did not have 6 RBI last year until May 9. Gordon did not hit his 2nd home run on the season in 2010 until June 25. I haven't seen him take one of those god awful off-balanced swings he took last year. Every swing is compact and dangerous.

KONERKO!

Beckham!! This wind is crazy today.

Nice play by Beckham to save a triple.

I was at the game, so it was harder to tell just how good or bad Humber's stuff was. I saw the replay of the Damon and Upton strike outs, and those were some filthy breaking balls. Oh, and the Fuld catch was even better in person. You have no idea how much ground he covered cause they were playing Pierre very shallow.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 10, 2011 -> 04:55 AM) Ryan Franklin is having a worse season than Matt Thornton so far, or so it seems. Um, yes. 3 blown saves all with 2 outs.

Can't recall last time I saw a team with worse mojo than the Cardinals. 3 games they've lost now this year when leading with one out to go. Rasmus drops a fly ball to lose the game tonight. Their offense is dreadful. That franchise needs to trade Pujols!

Gonna be a weird bullpen game for us with Thornton and Crain likely out. Pena and Gray likely to get a few innings today.

Well, I'm done talking about tonight's game and Thornton as a closer. Unlike last year, there's no doubt in my mind that Ozzie will be proactive in making any needed changes. Still a lot of positives about how the offense looks so far this year, but we need Humber to earn his spot on the roster tomorrow.

I was going to say: Peavy Floyd Sale FA Prospect

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 04:19 AM) I don't think you can just say hitters sit on one pitch in the 9th exclusively. They've been sitting on that one pitch for years and they haven't had much success with it. If you think it's a mental thing, that's fine. But Thornton's been in much higher leverage situations throughout his career where the game was even more so on the line than starting the 9th inning with no outs and nobody on. I don't think you can really call Thornton weak minded after all the situations he's been in where there was absolutely no room for error. I hate the cliche, but everyone who's ever pitched/manaaged in the majors talks about how hard getting outs 25/26/27 are compared to every other out.

Some of those closers with high fastball percentages also have lights out secondary pitches they use for strike outs, like Bell and Broxton with their sliders.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 05:08 AM) One look at his FIP solves whatever issues you're talking about. Thornton's FIP in the 9th is 2.78, even lower than his ERA (this actually doesn't care what errors were made behind him). His FIP in save situations is 3.11. His career FIP is 3.5, so it's not like he's been absolutely terrible in these kind of situations. Huge difference in mentality between getting situational save opps and 9th and being the designated "closer". No one is saying that Thornton is done with as a reliever, but his closer mentality should be in question.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 05:06 AM) I missed the game. Can somebody explain to me how we gave up 9 runs to this offense? To be honest, this was a horribly disappointing loss. We should have been up by 5 or 6 runs after 5 innings, as Shields was terrible. Danks then lost it in the 6th and 7th, and was left in way too long by Ozzie. Crain saved us, but Thornton's fastball was flat as can be.