Jake

Get Nate that win, boys!

Keeping Butler in the ballpark is a borderline success

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 08:58 PM) AJ's pitch selection is just stupid. Beckham with a terrible throw home. Looked like Beckham didn't expect to throw home for some reason.

I'm going to stick with my assessment of "leave Liriano in"

he gawn! This MLB Memes page on facebook is pretty funny, a ton of Juan Pierre memes for some reason. Me gusta

Whether Francisco gives up 2 runs or 0, I'm equally perturbed by bad baserunning. It doesn't have much of an effect on whether I give up on Franky's outing after 5 innings, 2 runs Also

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) It's 2 runs. I'm not going to freak out yet.

Alright, not a big deal.

Well Francisco, you're allowed to give up runs. Just not this next one.

I'd like to see him look at home plate before he pitches.

Nate Jones, also known as the answer to every question that involves which pitcher to bring into a game

Okay, unjinx achieved

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) And the tying run to the plate Hasn't got an out since that posting, lol

AJ's blocking is for s*** today

Liriano looks nasty

Yeah I think Alexei has paid enough of a price by having everyone see him look like an idiot out there.

re: Rios play If you see it from another angle, Rios saw that Guthrie was guarding the plate with his glove right near the ground so he was trying to not slide right into the tag. He actually dodged the initial tag attempt but barely missed the plate on that same stride. Also, AJ had terrible form blocking that "wild pitch" and that's why it got away.

Have to slide into home, pitchers don't know how to tag on a play like that

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 07:36 PM) I love the bunt fathom has been hacked

MLB.tv says it has had "too many attempts by this email/pass combination recently"

Anyone else having problems with MLB.tv?

The things I hear complaints about with Hawk the most are things that don't happen that often. Even before that epic ripping of Wegner he had drastically reduced his criticisms of umpires. You go weeks/months without hearing a word about Yaz. While his superlatives about players are sometimes false, they are nonetheless reserved for a very select few. It may annoy you every time he does that incorrectly, but don't act like there's a player on every team that he thinks is the best ever. YOU think that because you think him complimenting a player means that. I feel like some Sox fans watch the game, don't listen to Hawk at all, and just wait for him to do something "wrong." When they only take note of the things they don't like, that's all they think exists. It's very similar to the way we like to say certain players are worthless in game threads.

The main question with Youk is not his "loyalty" but rather whether he would give us a fair shot at signing him as a FA after we buy him out. I don't think he'll get nearly that much as a FA and I don't see any FA options coming soon. The main issue will be the years, I suppose, but I don't see anyone giving him many years either.

Something to consider re: lefties John Danks RHB: .252 LHB: .269 Jose Quintana RHB: .277 LHB: .256 Hector Santiago RHB: .212 LHB: .202 Chris Sale RHB: .212 LHB: .224 Our lefties don't have LOOGY type stuff (sans Sale, but he clearly dominates both kinds of hitters) and I think that shows up in their splits. Quintana throws a cutter inside to righties (Buehrle) as his primary out pitch. Danks uses cutter and/or changeup to righties as an out pitch. Santiago uses the screwball and fastball as out pitches. All of these pitchers' best out pitches work better against the opposite hand hitter. Looking at splits for other teams doesn't necessarily account for the individual repertoire of THESE lefties, since a couple of them hardly even use a curveball, for instance.

Foam rollers > all