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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 03:19 PM) Rios just played that ball into a triple. Peavy's fastball looks pathetic again. Pulling in the infield in the first inning. That says it all, doesn't it?

LOL with Kotsay and hitting it every time to the second basemen, on about 20 bounces.

Strange to see a well-known Gold Glove 3rd baseman boot one like that. Oh, wait. That was just Kenny Williams who thought that.

Alright, total pet peeve here. So Ramirez is running to 3rd base, the ball's in right field, and he turns his head almost all the way around to look behind him. He's done this since he got here. USE YOUR COACHES. It's like when he does a spin coming across the bag, trying to turn 2. DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. What in God's name do our coaches do?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 07:59 PM) Santos pitching is Jenks 2005 excitement level right now First time I've seen him. His stuff is unreal.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 09:39 PM) Teahen, Jones and Rios all hitting in the same game? The Sox have to win this. I'm looking at Jenks and don't see someone who looks 25 lbs lighter than last year. Agreed. I also think A. Jones has put on a few lbs since the spring.

LOL at Hawk.

LOL at Hawk.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 08:52 PM) Definitely not. Unless Nix stops hitting homers and becomes "grindy" C'mon, guys. Nix is a terrible shortstop.

QUOTE (Real @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 08:42 PM) Yup, I'm ready for a few games without Alexei. He can take his annual slow start and sit down for 2 goddamn months.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:18 PM) He must be injured, not be able to pitch in the AL, or is on steroids. Call off the season and his contract, pack it in boys. Well, you do have to admit, it's a little disconcerting to see the fastball where it is. It looked better last September, but maybe all the time off last year was the difference, and here he's in dead arm from spring training. Kinda strange, though.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) are you forking kidding me????? 89 and then 90 right over the middle? Yeah, I think Hawk is missing (or obscuring) the point here. It's not that Peavy is hard, hard, hard. It's that the difference between his fastball and slider is about 1 mph. His fastball blows. That's physical, I'm afraid.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) Well, that sucks. Also, Carlos Quentin can't throw very well. That's not good for a rightfielder.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:12 PM) he said to the press the other day he doesn't let his catchers call his game....peavy says he puts so much work into prepping for the game that hes not going to trust someone else no matter how good the catcher is..... right now his stuff looks extremely flat He's always had a jerky motion, but he looks like he's all arm right now. Okay, now a home run. I think it's fair to say that Peavy sucks tonight.

QUOTE (Bhay99 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) come on peavy....what are you doing Peavy has nothing.

Interesting by Jones -- swinging from his heels until 2 strikes, then a nice, short stroke up the middle.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) I couldn't see the third base coach in the shot, did Hardy get sent, or did he run a stop sign? Anyone know? Couldn't tell if he sent him, but I did see one interesting thing on the replay. Just after Hardy rounded third, and Teahen turned to look at home plate, the third base coach JUMPED INTO FAIR TERRITORY, right at third base. It honestly looked like he was trying to trick Teahen into thinking that he was the runner.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) The point is he shouldn't have that many ABs. He should be batting 9th, or not be starting. Fine, but you can't make the case that he makes more outs than anyone else based on him batting leadoff and playing 162 games. That's all I'm saying.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) I think Pierre playing every day is an out machine. Pods while a bad defender was a hit machine. Alright, Pierre isn't great, but I HATE the too-often heard statement "Juan Pierre is an out machine." Yes, Juan Pierre is not a high OBP guy; for what it's worth, most of the time, Pods wasn't either. The difference is that Pierre plays 162 game a year, and he leads-off in every one of them. So, yeah, he's going to make a lot of outs, because he's going to bat nearly 700 times a year! So to simply call him an "out machine" is a truly undisciplined way of using sabermetrics.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) Terry has his "guys" that tell him all Indeed. Terry hasn't broken a story in 25 years, except in his head.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) I heard B & B on the Score saying that they've come to the conclusion that Flowers is not very good at baseball, and that they should trade him NOW while they can still get something for him. Depressing. Hearing B&B use their phrase "not good at ____" is about as tired as lazy Terry Boers calling someone a "dope" or "retard" instead of actually making an argument. Try something new once every five years, boys.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 5, 2010 -> 12:41 PM) Bad throw by Becks... Alexei didn't make it any easier though. Bad play all around. Seriously, what in God's name have they worked with Alexei on? That spin is the exact same thing he was doing all of last year, costing numerous double plays in the process.

This is just a tremendous bummer. Does it make me a bad person that I'm watching tonight's game and wondering why it had to be Mitchell and not, say, Lillibridge or something?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:18 AM) Dempster has to be one of the most annoying nerds I've seen on the Cubs. From his pointless glove flipping to his Word Series Guarantee, the Cubs brass should gag the guy. It's rare that you'd ever say that a guy deserved an injury, but I think that it's accurate when it comes to Dempster's last year. He fell over the dugout fence because he's a Wrigley Field show-off, who needs to shout "look at me" to the fans at the park. For years, he was Cub funny guy with the local media; then he needed something else to occupy his attention-starved time. That's why he would do his stupid hop over the fence, and that's why he fell and hurt himself. It's the same phenomenon as the Soriano hop and the Zambrano break-the-bat-over-his-knee bit. Try baseball, gentlemen.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Feb 11, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) If that wasn't the case yesterday, it is today. Whining attitude certainly doesn't help. Well, JD almost got it right. The arrival of Rios did affect his numbers -- but not because he lost playing time. Fact is, he pouted. Big-time. That seemed pretty clear, just listening to him and watching him at the time.