Balta1701

Well now I definitely feel more confident that governments won't abuse these anti-terrorism powers.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 04:24 PM) Logan Morrison is one of the most average replaceable players in baseball. Considering he hasn't had a season where he played more than 123 games and will play fewer than 100 in both 2012 and 2013, he must be, because the Fish have had to replace him a lot.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 04:14 PM) And it shows how easily bullpen arms are overvalued. How? Hector Santiago has been, um, starting. You may have noticed him starting the game today and throwing 6 innings.

And a nice finish for Hector.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Hopefully we get to see Petricka today I'd think we'd almost have to with Santiago at 105 pitches after 5.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) Illustrates the limits of WAR pretty well. Yeah I know, it's hard to believe Morrison has any worth whatsoever.

QUOTE (beautox @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 03:48 PM) I would really like to see the sox change their OF alignment to De Aza, Garcia, Viciedo Barring trades, I wonder if they won't try this next spring.

Another 2b for Garcia.

HR Alexei have a day #10.

To answer Hawk's question, a 93 mph fastball is 1.75 feet ahead of a 90 mph fastball by the time it reaches the plate.

this is a fun stat actually...Santiago has been worth 1.5 WAR this year (and that's after being stuck in the pen for more than a month). Logan Morrison has been worth 2.0 WAR in his career.

Willingham is just hammering the ball off of Santiago. Might be an error on De Aza there

Ichiro is 5 hits away from 4,000 career between the U.S. and Japan.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) Ichiro is 6 hits away from 4,000 career between the U.S. and Japan. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 09:07 PM) Are you accusing him of PED use? Oops, wrong thread, my bad.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 03:01 PM) All I have to say is wow. If Tank figures it out next year. Him and Garcia might have the liveliest bats in the AL. The ball just flys off their bats. This is why I am excited for next year to go along with this pitching staff. Then lets dream about having Abreu in-between them

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) Great opposite field swing by Garcia! If he can do that and learn to pull/hammer the inside pitch...there's not going to be any way to get him out. That was stellar plate coverage.

Helluva swing by Avisail

Another RBI for Alexei

Yeah, they gave that throwing error to Viciedo but the ball was right on the money, Gordon just took his eye off it.

Ack Gordon, giving away another base.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 02:33 PM) Trade Ramirez and start Semien at SS would be a good first step. Assuming that Semien doesn't get off to a slow start when he makes the jump to the bigs...like most guys do.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) BALK! And the balk turns into a run on Ramirez single.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 10:18 PM) So ARods lawyer is saying that the Yankees tried to get the surgeon to botch the hip surgery, among other things(like withholding a MRI so ARod wouldn't know how bad his hip was) Seems like he really is putting himself out there for a slander lawsuit http://deadspin.com/a-rods-new-lawyer-clai...p-su-1160389221 I have no clue how a professional organization could have the lawyer of one of their players publicly accuse them of that and then keep that player in the lineup.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 01:42 PM) The guy can get on base. Why has he only played 49 games this year?

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 06:24 PM) Haven't been paying attention, but has Victorino given up on being a switch hitter? Lol just noticed him facing righties all day & he was batting right handed. Or maybe he is just doing it at Fenway with the monster in LF? apparently he has a hamstring injury and if he hits left handed he is more likely to aggravate it so he's only hitting right handed for \now