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Minnesota's going to have a real shot at Cleveland's bullpen. 70 pitches for Lee through 2.2 innings.

Cliff Lee has had 1st and 3rd, 1 out in 2 striaght innings.

QUOTE(kevo880 @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 03:45 PM) Jeter isn't as good as Juan defensively, your right. However he does bring his all every single day to the ball field. He is a true player. a complete player I never said Jeter wasn't a decent player. However, I was responding to specifically this clause in your previous post: If we want to take into account offense, then yeah Jeter is more useful than Uribe. But if you want to talk defense at SS...Jeter comes in pretty near the bottom of the list. He's probably not the best defensive SS in his own starting lineup.

QUOTE(kevo880 @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 03:10 PM) No offense, but Uribe is not the best defensive SS in baseball by any means. Yes he is very good and I have been amazed by him countless times, but there's no way any of you can say he's irreplacable. You don't think Jeter is better than him? I'm not saying to get Jeter because I know that couldnt happen, however I am making the point that he isnt light years above many people. I wouldn't mind at all getting a SS that is a slght dropoff defensively that would bring more consistency to the plate. Are there really people out there that would rather have Uribe than Jimmy Rollins? come on be serious. Jeter is no where close to Uribe defensively. Fewer attempts than Uribe, more errors, RF and ZR massively in favor of Uribe. Using the stats ESPN gives me, Uribe has the #7 Range Factor and #3 Zone Rating in baseball this season. Jeter comes in at 20 and 21 in those 2 stats. Uribe IMO has it within him to be even better than he was this season. He's had some silly errors/mistakes that have hurt his numbers, especially when it seems like he's distracted due to his performance at the plate. He has the potential to be the best defensive shortstop in baseball, and I think that in the 2nd half of last year he probably was, but he still has some work to go. But there's absolutely no way on God's Green Earth that Derek Jeter is a better defensive shortstop than Juan Uribe. Jeter is the classic example of a guy who can make plays look hard that other people could make look easy. The numbers have said that throughout his career. There are even years where with the same pitching staffs, his backups wind up recording more outs/game than Jeter does.

Boof on the mound for the Twins.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/0....070138889.html does anyone know if he has a son or someone who is succeeding him? somebody should make a move soon and topple n. korea. From the article you cited: From Wikipedia

Here's the link

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) If he wants to pitch, fine with me, he will have to retire at the end of the year if he does. The twins shouldnt ruin arms just to make the playoffs. He's retiring at the end of the year anyway.

So I don't have a link on this yet but here's the rumor about what the MRI showed:

147,000.

The one thing that bothers me a little bit about Uribe is that his salary gets a little more expensive in 2008 than I think he's worth. $5 million option that season, with a $300k buyout ($4.15 million in 2007). If his defense doesn't stay a little more consistent than it has been this season, he might not be worth that. But I would still be quite willing to live with him out there if he could get himself finally into a defensive groove like we've seen from him before. We can afford to have 1 or 2 positions that aren't producing dominant numbers for an entire season on offense as long as our others are doing so. Uribe's numbers this season would not look nearly as bad had it not been for the horrid start by Anderson and the terrible season by Podsednik. Hopefully those 2 should be corrected by next year, via winterball and a new LF.

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 07:06 PM) Ed Schultz is pretty good though. He's on during the day, so i never listen to him. Ed Schultz is not actually an Air America radio show. He's a left-leaning talk show host who finally was able to get syndicated once a few stations started picking up AAR, and he was good enough that the stations that weren't 100% AAR but wanted left-leaning listeners to occasionally tune in started grabbing him.

QUOTE(Molto @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 05:19 AM) Where the Twins screwed up is not noticing his delivery. Then again, doesn't look like many did. I think a lot of people actually noticed his delivery. I find it pretty hard to believe that the only people who notice that he has a really wild delivery are posting at a White Sox message board. I'd say it's probably more likely that the Twins have tried to get him to make some changes as he came up through the minors, but didn't want to do too much to risk making him not as good of a pitcher, a-la Kerry Wood.

I try to rigidly enforce that superstition in game threads as much as possible when and if there's a potential no-no going on. Never works, but it's always fun to do. I also sort of enjoy Farmer and Singleton's casual attempts to talk around it. Would I be annoyed if an announcer started talking about it? No. Why? Because somehow the fans are going to figure it out, and if there's a perfect game on, the fans who just turn in won't necessarily know that the pitcher hasn't walked anyone unless you tell them (Walks aren't a standard part of the scoreboard). Farmer and Singleton have a habit of saying "zeros across the board" or something like that, which is vague enough but still says waht is going on. But to spend an entire column ripping on an announcer for actually saying that a pitcher's been perfect? Yowza. That's what I call a slow news day.

QUOTE(cgaudin @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 07:46 AM) That scrub makes over 4 mil a year? Cheeses-H-phawking-Cripes! I thought he made 1 to 1.5 mil. Get rid of that turd. Garcia will be gone after the season. That's what 10 million saved? Pods is gone, he would have been at around 4 mil with arbitration so you save that much. Get rid of that chump, Uribe and you save another 4.15 mil. That's a total of about 18 mil. Sweeney replaces Pods, and I think he'll do at least as much as Pods has done this season, certainly hit more than 3 HR's. Hate to keep Anderson but I don't see an alternative. BMac will take over Garcia's spot. That leaves SS open for a quality player who can be aforded about 15 mil. I know it would break the bank but Miguel Tejada could help a ton here. How much is he? He's getting 11.8 mil this year, a PHAWKING bargain. But I think he'll be asking over 20 mil, that's just too much, IMO. I think Julio Lugo of the DevilRays would be perfect in White Sox garb, and he'd only be at half of what Miggy would get. Who else can we get? First of all, no one is going to give Miguel Tejada $20 million a year. Secondly, Miguel Tejada is not a free agent. He is signed through 2009. He would only be available via a trade. Third: Given that the Angels reportedly offered Ervin Santana and Erick Aybar for Tejada, and the O's turned it down, it's doubtful that we actually have anything that could acquire Tejada, unless the O's rank McCarthy far ahead of E. Santana.

ESPN is talking about Tommy John surgery already.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 03:22 PM) This is becoming a theme in this series. Non-HR production. I like it. I'd have liked it more if we could have put 4 runs up last night.

Yeah, so Freddy did ok. Nice to see a few hits too. 9 runs, 15 hits, 0 home runs.

Farmer says that Tim Salmon is coming up...at which point Singleton says "Fish", and I just burst into laughter.

QUOTE(letsgoarow @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) ok i mean try fields in lf on fri I wouldn't mind trying his bat out there...but I think I'd rather him practice in LF a few more times before we put him in there to actually start a game.

Fields into LF. Sweeney into Right. Cintron at 2b. Stewart catching.

QUOTE(GOD @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 03:09 PM) This team feels like they're about to make a sick run these last 17 games. Possibly like 13-4 or 12-5 which should get us in the playoffs. God I hope so. Cotts on.

Hit for Sweeney...Sweetness

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) I just got home. I didn't know the game started already. Someone wanna give me a recap and score? No.