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QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:23 PM) Yes, but with Vazquez's style, for him to go 8 innings after striking out 13 is damn good. If he would have K'd 13 guys last night, he would have thrown 200 pitches. ...or a different ump.

QUOTE(fullcollapse @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:21 PM) does anyone have ball stike totals? his control seems much better than the first two innings or so 47 strikes. 24 balls.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:21 PM) Last Saturday Wasn't nearly this efficient.

71 pitches for Jose through 7 innings. That's the best pace I've seen from any of our pitchers all year.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:16 PM) No, I'm not even watching the game (and can't). I posted it as a joke I'm not watching that game either, and I'm more surprised that you're joking.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:09 PM) Crap.. Grossman just got stretchered off Took him long enough.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 07:04 PM) Last year 3 rookies threw 200+ innings, their names? Gustavo Chacin, Joe Blanton and Scott Kazmir, how are they doing right now? And even beyond that...all 3 of them had thrown more innings the year before they hit the big leagues than JV did.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 06:58 PM) The WCIU gun blows ass but if it's at all accurate he's been sitting between 92-95 and popping it at 97 on occation. This guy will be having elbow surgery fairly soon IMO. Man, I would ring the death knell for Detroit no matter how far ahead they are if that happens. You guys, just on that, are making it sound like JV might have a DL trip coming up for him. Leyland better hit that bullpen RIGHT NOW. Edit: Hey, cool, 15k posts.

Ledezma up in the pen.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) Fastball in the low to mid 90s. LOW 90's? Ouch, if he can't gun it up there, Detroit is officially in trouble. The Rally AJ.

QUOTE(beautox @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 06:55 PM) ZOMG WHY IS THOME IN THE 3 Hole??????/green It matters a lot more with a lefty on the mound.

QUOTE(iguchi=dank @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 06:54 PM) verlander is losing his fastball. he's almost done Seriously, what's he been throwing tongiht people? Some of us just got in and have Gameday. Does he look like the innings/rest are getting to him? Aside from the 90 pitches in 4.2 innings?

Shame Jim Thome isn't hitting for power any more.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) Apparently the announcers only question the opposing pitcher's drop in velocity. So Verlander's velocity is down? I just got in...I can only look at the stat sheets

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) I couldn't have said it better myself. Uribe's play is the best defensive play in franchise history. I wonder if ESPN will then do the top 3 home runs in franchise history? Damn, I can pick 4 from just last season, and I wouldn't have a clue which to eliminate.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 02:12 PM) He just doesn't look right at the plate right now. When he came to bat with the Sox down a run against Rivera vs. the Yanks the other night, I wanted him up, but for some reason, I could feel he was going to make an out. Rivera is absolute murder on lefties. For example, this year, lefties are hitting .194 against Rivera, with 0 dingers and a dominant .451 OPS, while Righties have a non-great but better .254, 2 home runs, and .652 OPS. Lefties simply have no chance against him.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 01:58 PM) that new GM of the Royals is from the Braves organization right? If so they might be the twins 2.0 in our division in a couple seasons. Yes, he comes from the Braves, and he's doing a good job IMO thus far, but that team still is in trouble just from the inconvenient fact that there isn't a lot of talent on that team to deal. You can only get so much for Mike Redman, for example, which is one of the reasons that he wasn't dealt at the deadline; you can only get so much for a 5th starter, especially when Kip Wells and Corey Lidle already are on the move. That team needs to think of itself as the Brewers...stockpile talent, don't rush it to the big leagues, occasionally sign someone and make sure to get something in return for them, and don't let people walk as FA's. As weak as their system is right now, if they do things right, and the rest of the division makes a few mistakes, in 5 years, they could be at the top.

As long as Rob Mackowiak is not considered to be an every-third-day center fielder, that article is right on the money.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 12:29 PM) without question, Uribe. But I don't think it's a fair comparison given the number of plays involving a SS. And Abreu nearly beat out a sharply hit ground ball to Cintron last night after Alex took an extra step to load and fire. Juan's got a cannon - we miss him. So, Uribe's been out for 5 games or so...can you point to a single game where Uribe being out has cost us a run on defense? I don't think I can. However, in the last 3 times Mackowiak has started in CF, I can point to 1 instance in each game where him being in CF has directly cost us a run, and several others where him being in CF has either made the pitcher work harder or made a situation for a pitcher worse and wound up costing us runs that way. It may just be because of the much larger difference in performance between our "2" center fielders, but I feel a lot worse when Mack gets a start than I do when Cintron does.

This season, Brian Anderson, because Uribe has not been as good as I'd hoped he would be after seeing him in the 2nd half of last season.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 11:37 AM) im thinking he's just getting tired. He did have basically a week off also. Thome will be fine. And I bet you'll be surprised how soon he'll be fine. He's just in a little bit of a rut right now power-wise.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) There is one bit of logic missing here though... the enemy we are fighting doesn't care about total fatalities as much as they care about making a huge impact on the USA both ecnomically and having a big show to prove to the world that they can take on the Great Satan and we are powerless to stop them. They have no interest in killing people one by one. They want to kill 10000 at a time, once, not 50 a day. The amazing thing is though, if they really wanted to bring this country to a standstill, they'd be able to do it easily with just a few per day, as logn as they happened in this country. We're damn lucky they haven't figured that out yet.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 11, 2006 -> 09:22 AM) How would you repsond to this . . . The risk on the street is greater for the individual. You are correct that a bomb on an airplane would be more likely to kill a group of people. But for the individual, does it matter if they were the only ones killed by a car bomb, instead of one of a hundred that were killed on an airplane? Isn't this about protecting individual lives? Doesn't the person on the street also run the risk of knives, guns, cross bows, traffic accidents, etc? I'd be interested in adding up airplane fatalities through terrorism versus car bombs, suicide murders, etc. Well...when you count Iraq... Seriously though...yes, in terms of total numbers killed, there are more people killed walking down the street by terrorists than in planes. But in terms of per capita...there are quite a few more people on the streets of the world every day than there are flying in planes. Like 7 billion versus a couple million. So the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack will almost certainly go up considerably the moment you step on a plane.