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Lucky that wasnt a better change.

Hey a baserunner! Ends a streak of 16 in a row retired.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 11:08 PM) Rios hot stretch lasted like five games and even then it's not like he was driving the ball. It's so obvious what two changes need to be made before we are ten out again This season is the managerial staffs chance to sink or swim.

Christ, 14 in a row retired, one damn hit again.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:38 PM) And it takes pitcher-independant variables in to consideration. Edwin has been rather unlucky this year, which Humber has been rather lucky. Edwin's xFIP is 3.54. Humber's is 3.98. Just to be clear, I am not saying EJax is better than Humber, because I'd much rather have Humber right now, but I'm just trying to calm all those people down who are clearly overreacting about Jackson right now, especially that ridiculous post about not trading Lucas Harrell for Jackson straight up. People need to back off some. The problem is, he's been like this his entire career. The only stretches where he hasn't are 2 stretches where he put up babip numbers near .225.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:35 PM) how come no one blames Coop for the EJ trade, I pretty sure Kenny pulled the trigger cuz of Coop. I believe Cooper had no idea on this one.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:30 PM) We are paying him $8.35M, and he has been worth $7.7M less than half-way through the season. Again, I probably shouldn't say these things.... Really, this is just saying that te metric overrates the strikeouts. Jackson has been our 2nd worst starter.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:17 PM) Somehow, Jackson will get $7 million from someone. He's like the "nice" Randy Moss who will keep getting fresh chances until he loses his stuff that all those scouts drool over. He'll get more than $7 million but he won't get the long term deal pitching like this. Unless he does a 2nd half of last year stretch, he'll get paid like a short term back of the rotation starter until he snaps off that one great year.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:16 PM) Yet Boras will still get some team to hand over a significant amount of money for him. Boras might have to do the one year deal with Jackson.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 10:13 PM) Someone in a pennant race will pay the price for EJ...........Sox cannot even get to .500 they have no reason to keep him. If the price is a talented player, no they won't.

Man Hudson is throwing one solid 2 seamer up there.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:59 PM) ohh great let the f***ing Joe West show begin That was the clearest balk you'll ever see. He'll, ej balked twice there.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) he is doing fine but he can not hit 5th he has 19 RBI and don't say it is because he is hitting behind Rios and Dunn He's hitting 5th because of rios and Dunn killin this team more than AJ.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:54 PM) pierre and aj are killing this team aj can not hit with runners in scoring position he has 19 RBI his career high in RBI is 77 A lot of guys are killing this team. Aj isn't at te top of that list.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) Alexei please stop trying to bunt. Watch some Tom Emanski videos with Fred McGriff....so you realize the bat must be out in front of you, and stop stabbing at it. Catch the ball with your hand and deaden it. Just don't break a finger. I think 2/3 of his bunt attempts are trying to draw the 3b in. He does the fake so often.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:30 PM) Not to mention AJ and the Angels. Contreras lost to Byrd, we were VERY VERY close to being down 2-0 in that series. We made our own breaks too, but every possible thing that needed to happen broke our way from the end of that game through Game 4 of the WS. 2008 was a fun year too, because of Quentin, Ramirez, Danks and Floyd all emerging, but let's not pretend we were anything close to a dominant team coming down the stretch. Dude... We weren't dominant down the stretch because Q wasn't there.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) Or he'll revert back to his s***tiness from last year and most of this year. He did the same thing last year too, just didn't get started until midseason instead of early May. He was on fire down the stretch.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 09:08 PM) He still is not very good. Sub-.700 OPS on the season, can't throw a runner out if the bases were 180 feet apart and his OPS drops to .569 with runners in scoring position. Those numbers are still controlled by the fact that 1/2 of the season was April. If he holds average Aj numbers for the next 4 months, then you won't have the small sample sizes to complain with.

So why do the Feds insist that it didn't happen? Most of the other embarrassing things about that day came out, why would they deny so hard on this one issue?

Can't do much with a detached lat.

QUOTE (Bighurt52235 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 08:20 PM) Theres just not enough force behind it. I honestly dont think anyone could drive one into the outfield with a broom handle. It would also break. Any thing you use has to be rigid against shear stress.

Argh! Now I'm going to need Jake Peavy surgery!

This analysis needs to be seen. The only player from the White Sox on their list is Jake Peavy.

You might have some trouble actually. If it's built well, it might be hard to throw that thing into the window.

At least everyone in the lineup earned their playing time with their dominating offensive show in Minnesota.