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86 pitches through 6 for Lilly. 10 of them to Alexei there.

First hit wins, ok?

Man, almost hat that one.

G!

Really? The actual rulebook says that the first hit must be a clean hit?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) Pretty much every ESPN baseball broadcast is isn't it? This is unusually bad.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 09:15 PM) I don't know if it was, but I do know that Lilly is a miserable prick. I'm calling them out on Soxnet for this.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 09:14 PM) These HBP are getting out of hand. The Cubs have hit the Sox what, 6 times this series? The team that has hit the sox the 2nd most? Cleveland. 4 times. In like 10 games.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 09:14 PM) Ah Lilly, you piece of s***. Did y'all decide earlier that the HBP on Pierzynski his first AB was on purpose? I thought it was.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) Why the hell is Carlos chasing high fastballs? I don't think he's been seeing the ball well all year. And I'm not quite sure why.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 11:09 PM) Nope. They use Plus/Minus to evaluate catcher defense at this point. Fangraphs updated UZR for catchers significantly this year.

I'm not sure which is worse, Soriano against a changeup or Josh Fields against a fastball

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 06:03 PM) Didn't realize Danks had slumped all the way down to nearly 660 OPS, that's not so good. Morel really really struggling, something like 6 or 7/42 so far out of the gate. Might have been rushed a bit. He was rushed a bit but he earned it. Let's let him struggle.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 05:19 PM) It sucks that he has to sit in AAA when hes more than ready to be in an MLB rotation.. Really, he's still working in AAA. His slow start shows that. He didn't start the season off like Stras.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) of course, this is what I want. To push up to around .500 and float around there being vaguely competitive only to lose the division by 8-10 games but be able to say we had another winning record. If this team got to .500, that would mean that they finished the season 9 games above .500 after June 1.

Small oil spill in utah, but in urban area.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 08:50 PM) Wrong, again. 2018-2019. But the Excise tax doesn't kick in for anyone until 2016-2017.

Even when he doesn't do anything, I love it when they get the Paulie chant going at Wrigley.

LOL at Miller getting the year wrong on the Cubs's last series win.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 07:27 PM) We're all supposed to sit, join hands, sing kumbayah, and praise green. That's the new way of peace in Amerikkka. The kids should have opened fire in response. That's the Kap way.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 05:36 PM) You forgot the part where he bends to the unions, who own most of the so-called 'Caddilac plans' and exempts them from paying the taxes of their plans. For about a year.

They really needed a good homestand and they didnt' get itl

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 07:43 PM) Chad Qualls can make anyone look good. No one more so than Paul Konerko.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 07:04 PM) Yes, and which, by the way, was lifted almost immediately by one George W. Bush in the aftermath of Katrina. Here's the bottom line. You put aside the political favors and BS in a time like this. Somehow, our genius of a f***tard president hasn't figured that out yet. Sorry Kap, but as you said in the Arizona thread, the law is the law. Lifting that law would be an illegal act. And we don't want to give the impression that we just vehemently enforce the laws regarding brown people regardless of the situation but then throw those laws out the window the moment we want to start doing some union-bashing, now do we?

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Jun 12, 2010 -> 08:14 PM) HAHA I know Chase isn't Barry Bonds!! But I know he's good at being a catcher ..he needs to get his batting up, but other than that, he's great. His fastest time throwing a runner out at 2nd is 1.82 ..and that was from his knees. Ramon Castro calls him "Bazooka" LOL ..The year he was awarded the Gold Glove, (2008) he Owned a .990 fielding percentage as he committed just 4 errors in 418 chances. These days on baseball message boards, you're going to get called out if you start talking about fielding percentages. We want his UZR.