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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:50 PM) Savior. For a moment, I thought you were highlighting that because I'd misspelled it.

Even more fun...Teahen, Beckham, Pierre, Vizquel. That's due up in the 9th.

Crap. That's some range on Bernadina.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:43 PM) This should be the Elf but whatever at this point. I mean, the one problem there is that we pretty much would have no backup OF after that. But yeah, you can't bat Dunn here.

Well, here comes K #4.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:40 PM) It's like he walked into a scantron test knowing nothing, but instead of just marking the same answers over and over again, he's filling in a random one every time. In that case he'd still be hitting .250. Or at worst .200 if there was an "e" option on every question.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:38 PM) Looks like only lefties can hit it out today. Damn I wish we'd paid like $15 million a year to a lefty to do that.

Nice catch chris, just be a little more careful there.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) Hernandez should NEVER strike out 9 players in the AL. No excuse can justify that. Hell, it's been 6.5 years since he struck out 9 players anywhere.

F*** the Wind.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:27 PM) 9 freaking strike outs for Livan? Seems like one of those games that afterwards, the pitcher will say he simply pitched the way the scouting report told him to. Prior to today, his season high was 7 strikeouts in a game. The last time Livan Hernandez struck out 9 in a game was September 26, 2004. I had to scroll back through 8 years of game logs to find that.

Come on Carlos, we need a baserunner. Seems like the wind has decided it's going to be hard for a righty to tie this up on a HR.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) Obviously I mean it worked out for Hudson and his success. I only care about whether it works out for the Sox...which means when a guy comes up, he needs to be ready to contribute and dominate right away. If he takes any time to develop, he's going to get benched or moved to garbage time or traded, and then we'll start hearing things about his attitude. If Reed came up and walked too many guys in his first 3 outings, we'd never see him again. He needs to be ready to come up and do what Sergio and Sale did last year...overpower people right away and consistently.

Nice pitching Chris.

C'mon Chris, help Philip out

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:17 PM) Can't pull him with no one ready in the pen. But at the same time, he probably should have had someone ready. Humber simply fell off a cliff. This is not the first time Phil's hit a wall right at 100 pitches. Ozzie not having anyone up is just a mistake. You don't pull him before the HR, but after the guy walked that should have been it.

Great job leaving him hung out to dry Oz.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Phil is tired. You can see it in his mechanics. Seems like Ozzie had no one up coming into this inning. Which is hanging on the coaching staff...that means they didn't know their pitcher despite 3 months in the season.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Are you saying they're quants working on derivatives? Long Term Capital Management Group? Counting cards in Vegas? Most of them these days get multimillion contracts from Goldman to find ways to screw everyone else, yeah. Or they do astrophysics.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:13 PM) There's a reason he was a top prospect. Bad pitch-call. I never agree with the people who blame pitch calling for a bad result. That was a terrible pitch selection. Changeup after the last changeup was blasted, when the Change is his 3rd best pitch?

Ok, we can never have Philip throw more than 99 pitches in a game.

Crap crap crap crap crap

There was a hold your breath moment.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:07 PM) Say what you will, but these are time-proven statistics created by some of the smartest math people in the world. I give all the credit in the world to these stats...but yeah, I've gotta dispute you a bit there. The B-R guys are very good. The world's best math people are a different level.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 04:04 PM) Beckham and Dunn just baffle me this season. Dunn baffles me. Beckham, the technique issues are pretty obvious. Dunn looks just blind.