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QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 05:45 AM) Who says I'm negative? I'm the only one who had a ! at the end of mine.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 04:43 AM) freudian slip?? No, trying to be funny

I'll take it!

FWIW, I believe Lopez is the best hitter in baseball with 2 strikes. He showed it that AB. It will shock me if Clement gets Beltre in.

Great base running by Beltre, and OC boots the ball at SS.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 05:38 AM) Dear god I f***ing hate small ball, Lopez puts himself in a big hole because he f***ing sucks at life. I was thinking the same exact thing.

YES!!!! Great job by the bullpen. Considering what went on today, it could have been much worse.

Thought that was a blooper by Cintron off the bat.

Ugh....Anderson playing at the fence on what should have been a routine fly ball.

Terrible AJP...way to try and pull that pitch.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 02:05 AM) They have, arguably, the best CF prospect in baseball and THE best catching prospect in baseball. Wieters will be the #1 offensive prospect in baseball in postseason publications.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 02:04 AM) It's hard for me to believe the Orioles have the best anything in baseball. Roberts/Mora/Markakis/Huff is a solid 4some.

Alexei's awesome. Johnson is a huge groundball pitcher, so AJP will have a difficult time not hitting into a DP.

Lance Broadway hasn't swung the bat well tonight.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 03:01 AM) Wow. Those guys were getting solid wood on Thornton. Those are some of the best fastball hitters in baseball.

Great job Thornton! Dye scared me out there.

Great reflexes by Crede. Fastball pitcher against fastball hitter. I'd pitch around him to get to Scott.

That was a very difficult play by Crede. Hernandez scares the crap out of me, as he's had many clutch hits in the past.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 02:51 AM) OMG. Watch Dotel f*** everything up again... How many 0-2 hits must he give up before realizing he needs to waste a pitch?

What a terrible 0-2 pitch to Mora. Ozzie needs to just let Thornton start an inning.

Yikes, that doesn't set up well for the bottom of the inning.

Feels like we're really missing out on some insurance runs. Thome has got to pull that ball on a 2-0 count.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 26, 2008 -> 01:40 AM) If you said "Jim Thome is not clutch late in games" I'd actually agree with you. When you say "Jim Thome is not a clutch hitter" I greatly disagree. He really is pretty bad late in games, that I can not defend but he tends to come through big in the first 6 innnings. There's just something about Jim Thome (probably all the K's late in games) where people tend to forget all the times he comes up big in close games while a guy like Joe Crede who's "clutch" stats aren't all that impressive is considered one of the best clutch hitters in the game. (it seems like every time Joe Crede comes through with a big hit it's memorable, which leads me to believe that he's more "memorable" clutch than he is "consistently" clutch but that's a theory for another time) So really it's all about the wording. If you remember, I used to have the stats for Thome from 7th inning on in my sig. Great answer!

CQ does a fantastic job of taking 3-2 offspeed pitches.

Wow, what a fantastic pitch! Way to go Dotel.