Balta1701

Pathetic that Fox won't cut in for this at bat.

There's 20. Now here's the challenge.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:52 PM) Fox had that fastball at 94. Alright. Pitch F/X agrees and also had him at 94 to Ackley there.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:51 PM) plunk him twice That gets your pitcher thrown out. once = plenty.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:48 PM) Can't fault the Japanese players for bunting, that's what they have been trained to do their entire careers over there. And Danks should plunk him in the back tomorrow.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:46 PM) Fox so annoying. Please save us from the tyranny of more Red Sox-Yankees. Repulsive. Here's the link for people to complain to FOX about not getting this game. Here's the link for the MLB version.

Well, the Ichiro challenge is on tap 3rd this inning.

Just flipped to the FOX blowout they're still showing and they were actually talking about how the guy on the M's tried to put down a bunt to break it up.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:42 PM) I was annoyed when Olivo even faked a bunt. Definitely annoyed when the guy actually tried to put one down. Well, we've got a shot to plunk the guy tomorrow.

So was that one of those "Bunt attempts that people would look back on and be annoyed about"?

that's 57 pitches for 18 outs. He's got the pace down so far.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 05:35 PM) Viciedo now down all the way to .186 and should sit tmrw for Fukudome. Beckham parked at .184. White Sox doing their usual mid-game thing of sitting on a lead and not adding more. This is what I was afraid would start being said sometime in April. Thankfully, Robin has stubbornly stood by the other struggling people so far, needs to completely ignore everything you just said about Viciedo.

How many consecutive outs does it take for Fox to cut away from a 7-0 blowout in a Yankee-Red Sox matchup and go to another game?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 04:50 PM) Why would you throw him a 3-1 fastball? Because you don't want to pitch to Pierzynski wtih teh bases loaded?

Yawn, Konerko with another 2 hit, 2 RBi game. Do something I don't expect!

Another inning with singles for both Beckham and Morel.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) Sounds like they have really worked on the slide step, especially for Gavin. He's been working on that for a few years but every time he'd go to it he'd miss the strike zone badly and wind up walking the guy.

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Here's the link for people to complain to FOX about not getting this game. Here's the link for the MLB version. As usual, I've just sent 2 complaint emails begging FOX to put their local broadcasts on the Extra Innings package. They're renegotiating their contracts with MLB soon, so join me in begging htem to stop giving me Boston/NYC.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) I don't want anybody to be the closer. I want Santiago pitching in the highest-leverage situation vs LH batters and Crain pitching in the highest-leverage situation vs RH batters and I want Thornton pitching in the second highest-leverage situation in both cases. With every young Closer we've had, AJ has tried to make them use the fastball to set people up and then saved the offspeed stuff to put them away. If the kid struggles to locate the fastball, AJ tends to keep calling for it. Santos and Jenks got that same treatment, even though both of them could use their great offspeed pitches (Slider, Curve) to get strikes earlier in the count if it was called for. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but the only bullpen guy who immediately comes to mind as using something offspeed early in the count when AJ is behind the plate is Crain with that slider. Everybody else, I seem to recall AJ focusing on fastball first.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:52 PM) My order would be: Vacation: New York >>>>> Los Angeles > Chicago >>>>> Miami Live: Chicago >>>>>>> Los Angeles > New York >>>>>> Miami Does the "Living" list take into account the odds of the entire area being destroyed in a natural disaster?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) Why not? They're a finesse team that isn't very good. Actually seems like a perfect match up to me. The last times they played the bulls, it wasn't a lot of finesse, they cranked down on the defense pretty hard and went after the Bulls. Since Rose wasn't in shape, that generated a ton of turnovers and another Rose injury.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) Really? One was entirely sarcastic because he got a single. Off a lefty!

QUOTE (Cali @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:47 PM) I just heard Rizzo last week on MLBNetwork on XM saying he was going to shut him down at 160 no matter what haha. We shall see... What they need to do is give him a start off every month at least to keep him from building up those innings. That way they might have a little wiggle room at the end of the year. If it takes 170 to get to the playoffs, I defy anyone to prove in advance that those 10 innings are any more risky than the 40 before it, but you don't want him hitting 150 in mid-August and making it a legitimately hard call.

QUOTE (Cali @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) It's not about how good/bad the Red Sox are, it's how popular they are. And that popularity will NEVER go away.... not in our lifetimes. And they're always gonna be relevant cause they can always spend spend spend... The advantage that they used to have on spending is starting to go away, between big increases in revenue sharing, big local TV contracts, decreasing importance of selling out your ballpark every day, and the luxury tax (That Boston became desperate to avoid this year).