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QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 12:39 PM) Pirates have the second best BA at home in the NL. They must know where all the little holes are or something. But seriously, that surprised me. You realize that they get to play against these crappy NL teams a lot. If the sox were in their division, they would win about 130 games.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 12:35 PM) Jesus. WTF is up with Jose? He got injuried. Decided to change something and add a new arm angle. And his pinpoint control he had before he got hurt is gone. He is 2-0 on everyone. Now Farmer is all over the fact that we are pitching away a lot today.

Its time for Contreras to shut down the mighty Bucs O. Sweet swinging Jose Hernandez, of the I strike out all the time Hernandez's, should be an easy out. Cancel the Allstar start. Guillen to the mound.

Santana deserves to start the allstar game.

Widgers CERA entering this game is 5.17

Next year we need to upgrade at backup catcher. Everytime Widge calls a game, its the same f***ing story. The pitcher throws a ton of pitches to the outside corner, and doesnt adjust. Every pitcher that goes with Widger looks bad.

Farmer on the radio just said, Contreras is pitching away. Well thats a f***ing shock, consider that Widge is in there. LOL Has he setup the chair yet on the outside corner.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) Contreras giving up a hit to Jose Hernandez? I think that proves he's struggling right now. Jose Hernandez can hit fastballs, but not breaking pitches at all.

QUOTE(Melissa1334 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) 2-2, whats been up with jose? he hasnt pitched that well since coming off the dl, hes been a differnt pitcher.... He has a new arm angle that has added to the mix. I dont know if he quite has his control yet. But having Widger behind the plate today doesnt help.

2 strikes and we give him something to drive. Widger behind the plate, shock.

Okay Count, lets pitch like an ace. f***ing defense has been a bit poor today so far.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) In terms of actual smog, the area I'm in is sort of interesting, in that you have everything that the industry in the area (large oil industry) has put out, combining with the wind-blown dust that China naturally produces like crazy (the Yellow River, or Huang He, is yellow because of this wind blown dust, the wind produces a plume that goes out into the Pacific for hundreds of kilometers). So honestly, I'm not sure what is smog and what isn't. We spent 1 day in Beijing about 5 days ago, and again I couldn't tell if I was looking at smog or actual weather, because it started raining after a couple hours, so while there were low clouds, it could very well have just been rain. Thus far though, I'd say that in the cities, the skyline seems to resemble L.A., in that you only get a very limited view of the buildings around. IT could be better than I've seen though, dunno yet (we get another day in Beijing in about 6 days) Suzhou is right next to Shanghai. Suzhou is also interesting because its their version of Silicone Valley. Its a real high tech city. My new macbook was built at the apple plant that is a half a mile from our plant. You are getting to see a lot of China that I didnt get to see. Make sure you post pics when you get back.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 11:37 AM) Interesting thing is, once you get past the spots on the map that are just like 100 people, it seems even the small cities are 250,000 people. Everything is a "big city" here compared with the U.S., there's just that many people. You're in what would be a small city, you walk down the road, there's internet cafes, a dozen brothels within a few blocks, business districts, bazaars, and so on. The run down areas where the workers live seem to surround these central areas where we're staying, but everything seems to join togehter in a big city form. Have you seen the people spitting because of the smog, or is the city you are in not as smoggy. They are actually working on an awareness project now, to clean up this behavior before the Olympics.

Baseknock Pods. Okay lefty on the mound, stay on first.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) Ok, I don't know how the Hell, I'm pulling this off, but it's currently 12:20 local time, I'm in the middle of an internet Cafe in the city of Korla, China, i have 4 large chinese Beers in me, and I've actually got Gameday open for Jose shooting for his 10th win, and I'm posting in the game thread. This is damn amazing. Kick some ass Jose! Actually the chinese have a great internet infrastructure, outside of the fact that you have to run through government controlled content filters, and the central firewall farm. We were able to get DSL at our plant in Suzhou with 2 3 meg circuits for dirt cheap. Their internet access for dialup is funny, you dial a 3 digit number and that is how you connect to the internet. Hope you are away from the big city there.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 10:22 AM) Duke worries me. If they take him the other way, like they did late in the game they will be fine. If they try and pull everything, this will be a low scoring game. These types of left handers, you have to go the other way. If its a righty who pounds in, then you can pull and elevate. I think facing last nights starter will help us a lot.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Jun 29, 2006 -> 09:04 AM) This morning I was dreaming of watching the Canes play the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals and as the game ended, my dad walked in wearing a Canes jersey and eating a cup of ice cream. At the second I saw my dad in my dream I was awakened by the phone. It was my mom and I needed to go to Christ Hospital to get my dad. My dad is an insulin dependant diabetic. As he was leaving work (at about 1AM), he felt a little light-headed and ate a piece of candy which usually solves things. It didn't this time. As he got off the Orange Line at Pulaski, he felt worse but thought he could make it home. For some reason he passed home and ended up westbound on Southwest Highway in Hometown. Sgt Russell found my dad collapsed on the side of the road (only blocks from the hospital). The only word my dad was able to say was diabetic and apparently kept saying that over and over again (he didn't have his medic alert bracelet on last night). Sgt Russell called an ambulance and it turns out his blood sugar was 26. They got him to the hospital in a matter of minutes and his sugar dropped to 16. Talking with the doctor, had Sgt Russell not found my dad when he did, he would have died within the hour (at the most). We are at least sending a card to Sgt Russell to say thanks - I wanted to send something with it, but really do not know what to send. There has to be a God and I feel an afterlife as well because for my dad to hav gotten where he was and still have been found and yet still managed to say what he did when he was on this side of a diabetic coma as well as starting to have seizures, my dad's parents had to have been with him - I know they wouldn't have left him alone in his time of need. As far as the officer. A card to him, or a note to the chief of police commending the officer for helping your dad is also good. Police get a lot of complaints, but rarely do they get some of the accalades. These small tokens are appreciated more than anything. Police do a great job in our society, and a few bad apples have dragged their image down. I am a diabetic, not insulin dependant. I carry glucose tablets with me everywhere I go, and also my accucheck meter. I would suggest that he keeps those with him instead of the candy. Candy still is a complex sugar, and needs to be broken down where as the glucose tablets are a fast acting sugar and gets into the system quicker. Going low scares me the most now that my blood sugar is in check. I went low once, and the feeling is hard to describe. Its scary. I am glad that your father got help, and I hope that he keeps his sugars in control and keeps healthy.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 08:06 PM) Hernandez' GB/FB took a hit tonight Hernadez looked like junk tonight. All I kept on thinking, how far would that fly in the cell. I say pass. NEXT

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Ugly but who cares. The bullpen continues to be awesome. Bobby needs a day off or two, he's pitched in 6 of 7 games now. And great clutch hitting by Ooooooooribe. Give Thornton the 9th tomorrow night if need be. Let Bobby rest it up.

Hopefully the O can give Bobby the night off tomorrow. He has had a lot of work lately. Nice win. It was nice for the O to show up, eventually. Hopefully they take that gameplan against the next two starting pitchers.

It was a poorly executed curve there by Bobby. If it had some bite, he would of got him. Its time to bear down.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 08:20 PM) indeed, if we could get Oliver Perez, for say Rogo + mid level pitching prospect would you want Kenny to pull the trigger? The only question with O Perez. Isnt his agent Boras. Hopefully Bobby gets Joker here and starts this inning out right.

Our pen has been looking good lately. The power arms at the end of the pen, might make it hard for people to get good ABs.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 08:12 PM) Where was that. Everybody was walking back. Everyone except the ump thought that was a strike.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jun 28, 2006 -> 08:07 PM) I think some of the credit goes to the pitcher, IMO. Luckily he started leaving that breaking ball up in the 7th. That and we started to hit the ball the other way.