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QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 11:55 PM) Does any other team even want AJ? Seems like his personality would only mesh in Chicago. The Dodgers and Blue Jays had competitive contract offers out on him last time he was a free agent.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) Supposedly, it's going to be Santiago. Think Veal might be the better choice....let Hector continue to start at CHAR, and we've got the long man (for now) in Humber over Axelrod. If nothing else, Santiago's been pitching like he doesn't belong in AAA.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) Thornton's fastball velocity was already down before this season...it's not due to his workload in 2012. It has been consistently declining inch by inch over the last couple of seasons. 2007: 95.7 2008: 95.3 2009: 95.7 2010: 96.1 2011: 95.8 2012: 95.2 Pitch F/X #'s.

Did they at least do a better job of shooting it? i.e. avoiding the "Rapid fire camera changes substituting for excitement" that the last one was loaded with?

Rested Reed pumping it in at 96, with a solid slider...just one pitch down the middle.

Sigh. Reed was looking so good until that pitch.

Nasty slider is nasty.

That's 3 hard hit balls today by Viciedo.

LOL That would only ever happen with AJ on base.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) Because in the grand scale of things a church is basically nothing. Germany killed millions of people, Soviets lost almost 20million people, the US nuked Japan 2x at who knows what cost. The US turned Germany into rubble over time. The nuclear weapons over Japan likely killed at least 250,000 people directly, then tens of thousands more over the years from radiation poisoning. The official estimate is 150k for Hiroshima directly and 75k for Nagasaki. Edit: oh, and the firebombings of Tokyo earlier that year probably killed more in 1 night than those 2 bombs combined. And about 20+ Japanese cities got that treatment.

Man, why is he still in th ere...

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 04:07 PM) Yeah, I'm totally good with Sale just ending it right here. 100 pitches, been sitting for like 20 minutes. With the way Humber saved our pen last night, we can go Septimo, Jones, Reed from here on out. Robin will probably give Sale 1 more inning.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 03:06 PM) The point of the piece was all about the British since the Games are in London, so yeah, that actually is how they concluded the piece. The praised England for hanging in there til we got involved. When it came time to talk about our involvement, they did show our factories churning out ammo for Britain once FDR decided we better support them. And the piece hurried up and ended indicating we got involved after Pearl Harbor. It pretty much made it clear the USA involvement was the key, though. They made a big deal out of Churchill staying after FDR and finally getting to him through religion. Churchill played some religious songs for FDR and it really touched FDR according to the show. They had some older guy from England on who lost his mother in the nightly German bombings who was 7 at the time and they asked him if he came to peace with Germany. And he said yes because he visited there and met some people who also lost close relatives. It was pretty emotinal. The guy is about 80 or 90 and still carries his mother's picture and he started crying. Obviously his life wasn't the same without his mother. The show concluded with Churchill's quote about "never have so few done so much for so many" or whatever that famous quote is. To the history buffs: They talked a lot about the overnight bombings and Germany blowing up a famous church. How come the world wasn't more outraged and how come England didn't send some bombers over to Germany? Did they have no bombers? Were they sitting ducks for Germany's planes? England (and later the U.S.) bombed the crap out of Germany. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died. These days we'd probably consider it a war crime. Deservedly so. Probably thousands of churches were hit, just because there were few buildings in Germany that weren't hit before the end. The guy who planned England's strategic bombing campaign was named Arthur Harris. He became known first as "Bomber" Harris for his advocation of strategic bombing, and later, "Butcher" Harris for the things that it did.

Viciedo officially starting to hammer the outside pitch again.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 03:28 PM) Big time slider! Not convinced he's not hurting though. I'm sure it's one of those ankle rolls that takes 5 minutes to really get over it.

Christ, that's 10 K's through 5.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 03:23 PM) This has a patented one mistake costing the Sox the game feel to it. There you go.

Aw crap.

SOMEONE COVER FIRST!

Decent hit by Tank. He's getting to the outside pitch right now but he's just not getting around on the inside pitch right now.

Sale's basket has a bottle of Crown Royal in it.

Was that a changeup? That was mean.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 03:06 PM) I thought it was a decent gamble to send Beckham. No 3rd base coach is perfect. I think McEwing was hoping they'd go after Rios and he could sneak Beckham home.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) mayors of major cities banning a company is a ban. there is no way around it. boycott = fine. ban = illegal. I don't think anyone here has supported the Boston/Chicago Mayors in their statements, if I'm wrong please tell me...and I'll note that the poster was wrong.

Beckham seemed like he was running in quicksand on the way home.