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Now its time to see what arsonist comes in and how they handle the situation. I figure the runner in scoring position is going to score. Just hopefully he doesnt invite 4 to 5 of his friends to run with him.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:46 PM) Indians are playing some great baseball right now. If we're in a situation where we have to win 2 of 3 to make the playoffs, that might be difficult. If the improbable happened and we choked this away, someone needs to lose their jobs. There is no reason what so ever that we lose this.

Well thank god we dont have to face a pitcher of Davies caliber in the playoffs. My god, that would be a quick exit.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:35 PM) Thats the only mode they know, and it got them to the record they have now. Kenny needs to get some personnel in here to fix this for the future. Its okay to have a power core. But having a bunch of guys swinging for the rockies doesnt lean towards consistency.

The team that is chasing you lost tonight. So instead of attacking, and putting it to the 5th place team in your division less than 10 games to go. You go into, well the only way we can score is if the ball leaves the yard mode. Sad.

Attention softball players. Kaufmann is a large park, your usual bag of tricks of dipping the back shoulder and trying to launch it doesnt work here. Stop making this pile of crap look good.

Our offense needs to get their heads out of their asses. Davies sucks, he is pounding the zone with fastballs. They should be crushing them.

QUOTE (Felix @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:55 PM) When Mackowiak was out there, there were tons of posts each day asking for the head of Ozzie for marching him out there. Funny how the defense (and offense for that matter) is worse, but there are less posts given the players name. Griffey should be on the bench. There is no reason with a big ball park like this, we are playing Griffey in CF. Anderson is a good matchup for Davies. He throws a fastball.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:50 PM) I never thought that with curveballers. Sinkerballers? Yes. But the curveball has to have bite and command. I don't think he looks terrible, by the way -- I'm just not sure I agree with you comparison. when you throw a curveball, the key to to keep your chest back, and then pull down with that pitch. When you have too much strength a lot of times you fly open, and dont finish the pull down. The curve gets a hump back motion, and hangs. The only thing with fatigue that I will agree with you is the ability to keep on top of the pitch. If your mechanics are good, the drop in velocity will allow the curve to bite more.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:49 PM) Ugh, I can't even really get mad at Dye for falling on his ass there... that was way too far into right to think about Griffey backing him up. I am surprised it took this long for someone to hit an Inside the Park dong with Griffey and Dye patrolling CF and RF.

Well I have seen it all. Wow. Can we put a non geriatric in CF so if the one in RF falls over and dies someone can pick the ball up.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:39 PM) It just never seems like pitchers are effective down the stretch when they pitch on short rest. Even C.C. was mediocre today. I would agree with power pitchers. But curveball pitchers are much better with a little arm fatigue. When they get geeked up, its a bit worse. Thats when they over extend. But when their arm is a little tired, the ball drops a bit more. The only key is keeping ontop of the curve. If they drop down and get more side to side action, then he is going to have problems. But he is over the top looking good.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 06:36 PM) Ugh, I hate the idea of pitching these guys on 3 days rest. Why Gavin looks good so far. It was a pitch down, away and hit drove it to left center. Its not like Gavin is wild, or his velocity is down.

We are going to win this game. Davies has no control on his breaking ball and is grooving the zone with his fastball. Pretty damn straight.

I hope that the Rays push on to win that division. I like our matchup with them in a short series.. I know they play well at home, but if you remember that 4 game set that we lost, ever game was winnable.

Gavin was pretty funny with his look out there in disbelief that nobody caught that ball as it hung up for a bit. He took care of Shealy so it doesnt matter.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) I think we've hit the point in this thread where I like to say Did anyone read where Palin is going to be a grandmother, even though her teenager isn't married?! GILF

HIT THE f***ING BALL. THROW STRIKES. CATCH THE BALL NO BUNTS NO STUPID s***. That is all.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 08:38 AM) They did only just sweep Seattle though (can't remember who they played before that) so we should give them a little more competition. Its real simple. Our hitting needs to wake the f*** up. Lowest OBP in the AL in September, near the bottom in all categories in the AL in September except for homers of course. The Relief crew needs to man up. Start pounding the zone with strikes. Start executing. Its money time.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 07:55 AM) Let me chime in here since I'm in somewhat of a position to know. The government, well more specifically, intelligence agencies, don't arbitrarily read your e-mails... ever. First off it is a waste of time and valuable resources to be coming through a bunch of random innocent people's e-mails/listening to their phone calls/other forms of communication. Secondly it's a flagrant violation of intelligence oversight laws. The only way this can happen legitimately is if there was suspicion you were working with a foreign intelligence agency or were communicating with international terrorists. A long time ago, like during the Nixon administration, there wasn't anything protecting the government from overstepping its bounds, but there is now, and there's a lot more institutionalized protection now. Mistakes happen sometimes, but they are identified and corrected too. The other aspect to this is the police and the FBI, I'm sure you already know how that works though. The same general rules apply. Just from a logistics standpoint its hard to just grab it all. First thing you need is choke points to have data collection devices to grab it all. Considering that most of your traffic traverses peering nodes and doesnt touch the NAP points on the net it makes it harder for the massive collection of data. In the end, the government and the federal law enforcement agencies are using some sort of packet capture engine that writes this to a local disk such as in a Calea configuration. This would be specific deployed packet capture based on a filter. Copying this information across the internet takes too long, and would be way too inefficient. One thing a packet capture appliance has, is a limit on the disk space. As a person who has run full packet capture just on a company network, you can fill even a large disk array up in short order. Its not just an issue of their integrity or ethics, its logistics of just trying to capture that much information and where one would use choke points to see the data they are looking for.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 09:38 PM) So, just to change gears a bit, who else has a problem with the fact that governor Palin's emails being posted online is a bad thing but the government reading all my emails is a good thing and worthy of the support of both of our presidential candidates? No because I choose to use a strong cipher and good key control on any items I wish to keep private. Simple commercial technology for less than 100 bucks can buy you all sorts of privacy for online evesdroping. Yet its better to transmit, and then worry about the government spying on your personal emails. Meanwhile your privacy is more at risk from the malware you are exposed to, the trojans your machine gets, or the "free" search product that people install on their laptops. Your privacy is up to you. The technology is there to make these items hard to break. The bad guys are using it to hide from the government. And they are looking for them. Not for you and your personal emails.

Well considering the offense has taken the month off. They should be rested. Maybe they can hit the ball a bit. The Royals have hit the ball well this month. We maybe need to actually score runs to win games.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 08:46 PM) How or why the Yankees want it more than the White Sox, I'll never understand. Maybe they're simply not good enough. Thome and Griffey, we read about them being so excited to get to post-season play...where are they? Our offense collectively is one of the worst in the AL in September. The entire team seems to be taking the month off. they better learn how to hit soon or its going to be hard to win this thing.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 08:31 PM) So I just saw that Buehrle is pitching tomorrow. Why are we not pitching Danks on his normal rest? Magic 8 ball.

Well our team in September is last in OBP, 2nd to last in OPS, 11th in runs scored and 12th in Batting average. Our offense is white hot right now.