Jake

Lucky for us that Avila is slow as sin

Got f***ed on that call. Gavin is going to have to get his s*** together out of the stretch. This is the flipside of retiring 11 in a row.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) He had a hell of a start, too! You know you love him

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:21 PM) Your boy Zach Stewart is facing Charlotte tonight. My brain just malfunctioned

Really impressed by PK yanking that high inside 96mph heater.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:18 PM) You do realize that suggesting he sit against a pitcher who mows down righties is not the same as platooning, right? Thought not. Hey if everyone else can trade, DFA, retire our players when they do something bad I should get to exaggerate when they do well!

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:15 PM) ????? No one has ever said that I saw his splits against righties being quoted in another thread today.

Platoon Youk! Can't hit righties!

Healthy Gavin = good We could use his right handed presence in the rotation next year. I might give him that $10M and give Peavy a nice pat on the ass on his way out

Gavin looking DIRTY

We have to make Scherzer throw us three strikes per AB. If he does that, well then we're probably f***ed

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 11:55 AM) Gone. Ban yourself

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 08:52 AM) AS you know Android is an operating system and the iphone is a device, and the most widely used device in the market today. You cant compare android with the iphone, you can compare the sense or the samsung models with it for a fair comparison And Apple's roots are the people who wanted to be different and cool, up to a few years ago, now its "mainstream" and the "cool" guys are off being different with something else. Its fine with me, I like Apple for its intuitive designs and flawless hardware/software integration. This. If someone wants to top the operating system(s) and the way in which it/they work virtually flawlessly with their devices, go ahead. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 12:59 PM) No that's already the case since "android" isn't a phone it's an operating system. There is no "android" phone. Herein lies the problem. I asked an iOS app developer why he wasn't doing an Android analogue of his app. He showed me pictures of what a normal set of testing devices for iOS looks like -- few different iPhones, few iPads, iPod touch. Then he shows me what Android testing looks like -- hundreds of devices strewn across a room. You can't hope for flawless hardware/software integration when there is so much hardware, all coming from different manufacturers and always trying to be different from the last. Apple doesn't take change lightly and it allows them to have this seamless use of what is already a superior operating system across their various products.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:53 AM) It wasn't Al Qaeda as far as anyone's reported. That doesn't mean we can't say it was Al Qaeda!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:55 AM) Apparently I am the only Sox fan who was OK with Youk bunting there last night. I thought it was a good move. Youk has looked pretty terrible in the past few weeks with the bat, and if it is executed properly it takes DET by surprise, you lose the force, and you may even get a hit out of it with Cabrera at 3B. It didn't work. But I really don't get putting in Liriano there. If he's in he bullpen, he needs to be in for long relief in a game not very close, at least at first. That was a bizarre situation for him to be in, I really don't understand it. I'm with you. Youk should have bunted. Soxtalk seems to know whether he is able to bunt, yet we don't have a clue since we never saw him bunt at a strike. I have to assume the person or persons that had Youk bunt knew whether or not he is able to do it. Youk never bunted at a strike so it is pretty difficult to know whether he is a competent bunter. We can tell that he was not competent when it comes to pitch selection, which makes me dubious that he was suddenly going to snap out of a slump in that AB.

I think the brain trust believes that Dan Johnson f***ing sucks and doesn't deserve starts, regardless of matchup. I think I agree.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 12:42 AM) What is it currently? Same? Yup

While people have made great points about branching out, etc. I'll add another thing: find a way to really value your alone time. Take up projects of any sort of nature and make it so that when you have nothing to do, you can look forward to a night of doing this thing. Soxtalk is such a thing, even. I also have gotten into fitness and enjoy using a message board to further expand my knowledge in that arena. I have my own blog and I write for Flapship. Knowing/assuming that I will be an academic (and specifically, a Film Studies Ph.D) allows me to build a viewing and reading collection that fulfills me. There are also things that make me feel "fulfilled" that are as basic as organizing and cleaning my living space. I used to not do these things but actually having the time to be neat and proud of my space and some of these semi-frivolous endeavors makes me enjoy my alone time as much as I enjoy being with friends.

If you gave today's Jake Peavy the stuff of San Diego Padres Jake Peavy, you'd have something amazing. At this point his pitching acumen and general execution are excellent, but his stuff isn't quite good enough to make up for the few mistakes he is bound to make throughout a game. Against a team like the Tigers in high leverage situations, the hitters rising to the occasion will sometimes trump his smart pitching because his stuff isn't as good. The real problem, in my estimation, is that his fastball doesn't sink anymore. You can see this borne out in his GB:FB stats. Last I saw, he was in another world compared to other similarly successful pitchers...giving up many more flyballs. This Jake Peavy that is not as good at striking people out AND not as good at getting ground balls is more likely to be touched up as the stakes get high. However, with all that said, I trust him very much in these key games. I want to see him out there. I know we'll get a chance to win and I know he won't be afraid.

Not choking =

My belief is that Youk may very well be able to bunt. You don't need to bunt often to be able to bunt effectively. I think Youk and Robin both believed that he could bunt. Youk's pitch selection cost him a chance to prove either way. If his pitch selection on bunts against him was that bad, why do you think he'd have hit successfully?

My belief is that Youk may very well be able to bunt. You don't need to bunt often to be able to bunt effectively. I think Youk and Robin both believed that he could bunt. Youk's pitch selection cost him a chance to prove either way. If his pitch selection on bunts against him was that bad, why do you think he'd have hit successfully?

That was a bunt situation and Youk isn't going to try to do it unless he thinks he can. YOUK failed, not the manager. I will add that the umpire didn't do us any favors in that AB either. Bunting is very easy to do and I'm sure Youk said he was able to. Unfortunately he tried to bunt a difficult pitch to bunt and then took a strike. That was Youk's fault. He hasn't been hitting that well and we needed to get out of the double play and get two men in scoring position. Not terribly happy with the Liriano decision since it worked so poorly, but I sure didn't expect it to be so bad. I thought his great stuff might work for him in such a short term situation, but it did not. He got a fairly quick hook. We just got beat today, fair and square. Not much our manager could do about it. Fister was lights out and we were lucky to get a couple runs off of him. Peavy pitched well but made the same two mistakes Fister did.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 10:47 PM) He really has turned into Javy Vazquez, hasn't he I swear the same few sentences used to be written about Javy on here. Javy had one of the top 5 fWAR for pitchers from 2000-2010 IIRC As far as managing, the only thing that bothers me is the Liriano move as that was clearly a failed experiment. I know why we used him there but it doesn't look good when it goes that poorly.

I was fine with Peavy's effort. He more or less dominated with the exception of their two best hitters getting to him once each. I would have hoped for about one more inning, but that wasn't in the cards.