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1. Austin Jackson ® CF 2. Omar Infante ® 2B 3. Miguel Cabrera ® 3B 4. Prince Fielder (L) 1B 5. Delmon Young ® DH 6. Jhonny Peralta ® SS 7. Avisail Garcia ® LF 8. Brennan Boesch (L) RF 9. Gerald Laird ® C

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 02:31 PM) If your cable company happens not to carry the NFL Network, are there any "unofficial" websites that might happen to have a live stream of the game? Check firstrowsports.eu, myp2p.mu, vipbox.tv

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 02:04 PM) Hell no man. I have to work tomorrow morning. No class until 1 for me

I would suggest walking around the neighborhood, preferably alone

Delay the start until the end of the Bears game!

Verlander career postseason ERA - >5.5 Career August ERA - 4.2 Career September ERA - 3.8 JVINAA

Real question -- why did Detroit use Benoit last night?

Lefties are 4/26 against Leyson Septimo after last night

QUOTE (juddling @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 06:06 AM) I don't watch the show but i guess an actress from Newsroom accidentily posted a topless pic of herself on twitter. Never heard of this chick before and like i said I don't watch the show. For those interested in such things.....NSFW QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 10:02 AM) She's not attractive, and I hate the show, but that's still awesome. Best comment: "Moses?" "Yes, Lord? "I have a message of great importance to impart to you! Listen and remember well!" "Oh, yes, Lord!" "There are no accidents when it comes to uploading nudes of oneself to the Internet." "Yes, Lord! I hear and understand!"

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 09:42 AM) I can probably choose anyone from the rotation in '05. Contreras or Sweaty Freddy come to mind. Contreras reminds me of Gavin Floyd in some ways. I don't think Jose was influenced at all by game situations and that allowed him to occasionally dominate when it really counted. The only thing that affected Jose's pitching was his ability to throw strikes, particularly with the splitter. When he didn't have it, he really didn't have it and little things like moving to the stretch could really f*** things up. The main difference between he and Floyd is that Contreras happened to basically calibrate everything perfectly for 18 months before coming back to earth very quickly. Gavin has never had an extended, consistent run but has been on the whole a more effective innings eater than Contreras was (minus about a season and a half of dominance)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 01:27 AM) Peavy is an OK pitcher, nothing special. He's worth the going rate for No. 3 starters, whatever those guys get on the open market. I guess to be fair he's a 2 or 3 starter. I happen to think he's more a 3. I'll be shocked if he gets huge money, but I guess Boston has the money to give him now. There's a good argument to be had about whether he's a 1 or not, especially for those that believe that not every staff has a "true" 1. He's easily a number 2 this year, he's been one of the best starters in baseball. You can speculate about whether it will last, but he's been immensely valuable this season.

How the f*** am I supposed to stream the Bears and White Sox at the same time?

In Weezy we trust

I hope it rains tomorrow because I want to watch the Bears without slighting the Sox

The cool thing about next year is that we very well may have some money to spend, particularly if you don't sign AJ.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) He threw, what, three pitches last night? The warmup pitches and things like that are still roadblocks to recovering a sore arm. Again, I don't know but it certainly is possible that he didn't want to pitch today.

This team needs to get healthy and/or steroided

I'll add that this rebuilding rules

I miss healthy Dunn. This team doesn't get far without him this year and we are quickly sliding without him in the lineup. I know he's inconsistent but hot damn I'd like to have just one of those 4-5 HRs in a week type of stretches that he gives us.

I'm just glad we can put serviceable 5th starters out there...that used to be a freaking nightmare

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:44 PM) If Donnie Veal wasn't God's gift to LOOGYS, then I might agree that Ventura had no other better options. Very well may not have been available. I feel like when I've said this in the past though, that player immediately starts warming up

I'm not completely sipping the Tigers kool-aid, but the perk of having several big star players on your team is they can carry you. The problem with having s*** surrounding them is that these few players are the sole determinant of your success. We've been getting beat by their studs and that stinks...we've got that cool "6 guys with 20 HR" and overall more balanced approach that has helped us string together a very nice season. Unfortunately there just isn't a guy or guys to put the team on their backs for us. This is really kind of why it sucks to not have Dunn around because he alone could change a series like this with just a couple swings of the bat in the way that basically no one else on our team is likely to.

If we're seeing the return of PK there may yet be a positive to this game

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) Where the f*** was Veal? Septimo has shown that he's terrible in close games. Not only will they lose tonight, but now they have to use an inferior starter this weekend instead of Santiago. Must have needed a breather. Septimo has been effective since the return off the DL but it never should have come to that. Santiago is plenty stretched out and I am not in favor of putting a middling RHP just to face Miguel Cabrera who is basically going to hurt you no matter what you do. Let Hector (who can be effective against RH batters and has the stuff to get them out consistently) take his chances against Cabrera and then have him try his luck against Prince with the L/L matchup.

Lots of baseball left, boys. Including a game vs this same team featuring our best starter!