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QUOTE (smalls2598 @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 09:59 AM) I was over in the Diamond Club reading the thread on the Royals, and there was the trivia question about Floyd Bannister's birthplace. Curious, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Turns out Bannister is in the list of Top 100 Strikeouts of all time (#99). And who is #81???? Javier Vazquez (actually, the list is not updated...Javy is now #80) Javy has 23 K's this season. If he once again gets near 200 K's this season, he has a chance to move all the way up to around to 60th of all time. Of course, there are a few active guys ahead of him: Andy Pettite, Kenny Rogers, Tom Gordon, Hideo Nomo (wow). Anyway, that's my random stat of the day. Here is the current list. Baseball-Reference.com rocks. Javy is also the youngest active in the top 100. Pretty impressive.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 12:23 PM) Can't make any complaints about the bullpen except for Masset being on the big club. Octavio, Boone, Thornton Jenks and Linebrink have been rock solid. Did MacDougal go somewhere?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) Here's the issue with that though. Coming in to the season...I believe most people looked at our April schedule and said that April was the hardest part of this year's schedule IIRC. Yeah but I don't know if that's how Power Rankings are determined. I really don't know if CBS follows any formula at all but if they do, the Indians, for example, would appear to have faced a very difficult schedule and lost to good teams while the Sox appear to have beat bad teams.

I feel like a lot of this has to do with strength of schedule. I haven't checked other teams, but the Sox have played 9 games against teams that are 5-10. I realize that the Sox were partially responsible for that, but I doubt the rankings take that into account.

One more Boone

Logan with a K on a bad bunt attempt by Hannahan.

Logan on to try to clean up Mac's feces.

How fast until this game is out of control?

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 10:21 PM) I absolutely LOVE how everyone responds to things on this site. It's been a couple of weeks into the season, that's it. I guess we should have dumped Paulie the first time he went into a slump. Hilarious... That's actually the first time I've ever said that. The Red Sox benched Ortiz, so why the hell not?

Wow. So apparently the Tigers can only win after they get yelled at.

Oh god. MacDougal.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 10:17 PM) Your right on that call. You can only hope that he puts it in high gear on this one though Thome has to sit. He's had 2 RBI's since the first game of the season. He is totally lost. I think some of the umpiring got in his head and he's losing his strike zone judgment.

Throw it in the dirt. THome has no clue.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 09:14 PM) Embree please revert to W-Sox form Alan Embree...NOW Would it matter? Thome is lost at the plate.

Base hit for Cabrera. Embree will face Thome and strike him out.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 09:11 PM) Hawk freaking out over a ball hit to the warning track... As soon as he says "stretch" you know it's not going any where.

Swisher with a flyout to the track. Hawk, once again, has no clue where the ball is.

Juany with a fly out to right.

Juany won't get cheated trying to get this one run back. Smith is out. Casilla is in.

I love the fact that DJ pronounces "Octavio" differently every time he says it.

Hey PK got over to that one. 1 out.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 09:00 PM) The list of unknown scrubs having "one hell of a game" against the White Sox over the last few years is pretty long. That may be true but it's not like he's wild. He's working his pitches.

Dotel to pitch

Wow. People can say whatever they want about the offense tonight, but Greg Smith is having one hell of a game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 14, 2008 -> 08:55 PM) I like Crede in this situation. The situation is fine. The pitcher though...