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That was a solid swing too. Fairly quick despite getting the arms extended.

YES!

Jones better take the bat off his shoulder at some point this AB, unless it's a 6 pitch walk.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 04:06 PM) FWIW, I'd rather take Pods over Slappy right now. Isn't he cheaper at the moment too? Yes. But he wouldn't have been cheaper than Pierre at the time we made the trade...the only reason Pods was signed for the deal he was is that no one else would have him.

Please shorten that swing Jones, please?

SOB, it's Jones!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) Can you imagine had Paulie homered there how mad the fans would be? How dare the manager keep him in so long?? And on and on. Blackburn didn't even get to 100 pitches, and he managed to save the Pen in case this goes to extras.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) If Mirales comes in, I hope we see Nix or Andruw hitting. This is a good point. What's the point of having a platoon DH if you never use the righty? Anyway, I don't want to see Jones, as awful as his swing looked the other day.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) I don't know why Sabermetrics has to rule everything. I'm sure the right thing to do was not let Mark pitch the eighth and he got out of it fine. There's got to be some stat somewhere that indicates Mark after 95 pitches sucks or something like that. Or most pitchers suck after 95. My eyes give me Pods over Juan. Actually, on pitches 100+, Mark is typically better than he is on pitches 75-100. His opponent's OPS drops from .751 to .688 after pitch 100. And my eyes tell me I hate seeing Podsednik picked off and on the DL.

Quentin ripped that single. Really quick.

Man, Pierre really is playing like a scrub.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:55 PM) BTW, did Thome get a big ovation on Friday night? It was good sized, most of the park stood, he tipped his hat, there were probably a few boos but they were drowned out. It wasn't going "Frank Thomas" crazy, but it was a good showing.

Mark!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) I'm on a bus back to school. Robbed of my extra innings package, and resorted to ESPN gamday off free wi-fi. Kotsay, hit a homerun? Really? Yes, really. 3 small ball home runs today for our 4 runs.

Take that, Bat.

Wow, 3 popups by the Twins that inning. It's like our guys switched dugouts!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:32 PM) In one of the most HR friendly parks in baseball and this team keeps trying to build a small ball team. Just makes no sense. Because we've seen how this park can get into the team's head and how their approach degrades when they come home, the last couple years.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) This is the first time Ive heard that, when did he become Josh Fields? They want him to shorten his swing somewhat, from what we've heard.

Becktackular!@

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:22 PM) How much patience does Reinsdorf have watching all of this unfold? For Reinsdorf? Semi-infinite. He's put up with 2 years of VDN for crying out loud.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) With rumors of how down the organization is on Flowers, just how awful was the Javy Vazquez trade to the Braves? Hell, dumping that Contract...then finding a way to massively hurt the Yankees?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 02:46 PM) Every single game you can expose the young core to the feeling of playoff basketball, the better. I would rather see Rose learning how to win against guys like LeBron and company than staying at home and hoping the Bulls sign a free agent. Even four games is something. And maybe they win a game or two, put the fear of God into the Cavs like the Bulls did to the 'Stons a few years ago, and look like an even better FA destination.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 12:33 PM) Jones is awful in KF. It's Kotsay's natural position.

Mark!

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