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QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:59 PM) IIRC Guthrie is harder to hit as the game goes on. His weakest inning this season is the 1st inning, but his best inning is the 3rd inning, so his 1st-3rd inning and 4th-6th inning averages are pretty similar.

That's Mark's 2nd real solid play coming off the mound a long ways.

Why would you run a Wrigleyville sports commercial during a Sox game? That just offended me.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) Wow Konerko...he's just giving away at bats now. He's looked flat out bad the last 2 ab's. Maybe if we rested him more, by like putting Kotsay at 1b or something.

This is the count where Rios gets thrown out stealing 2b.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:45 PM) Tie game! Rios FTW. Technically isn't it Rios FTT?

The HBP turns into a run.

Another out given away on the basepaths. At least Vizquel got to 2nd. Is there any advanced metric that measures outs recorded on the basepaths?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) It's tough though when you're in a race. You can't risk getting people suspended on putting on base runners in close games. I am definitely with you that something needs to be done (as the Sox always seem to get hit more than they hit others), but you have to pick your spots. Some of us not hitting people is us having really good control pitchers not named Bobby Jenks though.

Hawk please don't encourage him to try to take 3b, not after already failing on that last time. At least wait until there's a righty up.

That really wasn't a great jump by Pierre either, just a terrible throw.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) I wonder if Showalter told Guthrie to throw at Pierre after that stunt in LF at the wall? That would be a reason why. WTF was that by Pierre anyway?

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:38 PM) Did Hawk just say that the fastest player he's seen down the first base line was Mickey Mantle? Yup. I'd have to say Ichiro but I haven't been around as long.

Just what we need, to lose Beckham.

There's the Kotsay I remember!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:23 PM) Meh. I'll take flexibility over those numbers. You have to be darn flexible to be thrown out at 2b by a mile. Otherwise you'd stay at 1b.

Nice work to pitch around the leadoff baserunner.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) That DH with the OPS over .930 of theirs started the rally. Not possible. The only job for a DH is to be an excellent fielder.

That was a solid play by Mark.

Really ugh at bat for Konerko there.

Thank God for ball 4. That would have been out by 8 miles.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) We've hit a ton of liners and we have 4 hits... The O's have hit one line drive, they have 5 hits and a run... All of our "line drives" have been those weak floating up there type though.

These balls just seem to be fluttering in the OF today.

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 10:10 AM) I thought the prevailing theory was that Truman feared Russia's advance into Japan which would prolong the war and give them another country. So Truman wanted the war to end immediately. This was the thought about 10 years ago anyway so I have no clue whether it holds any water. A lot of people over the years have speculated that Truman only dropped the bomb in some fashion because of the Russians. You can find reasons to believe that, but it's not a theory I buy into. The U.S. really just wasn't as scared of the russians in 1945 as hindsight suggests they should have been.

That baserunning was Kotsay-worthy.