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QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:53 PM) Save him for what? If you pitch Broadway, you won't need to worry about a close game. Bottom-line, if Broadway's in the game, it's already over. Have the effective pitchers ready for tomorrow.

AJ better start going oppo.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:50 PM) If Vazquez can't go, you better bring in Richard. I think they're saving Richard for the 6th and 7th in a close game, against Mauer and Morneau. You won't see Ramirez or Boone in this series. That's my guess.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:50 PM) Just like how they can't bunt? They should do a drill where they repeatedly bunt into a rundown. That ought to cover everything.

Surprise, surprise. Javy is running up his pitch count. What a piece of crap this guy is.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:42 PM) This is making me miss Garland. At least he manned up in the big games in 2005, more or less. He had one sort of rough start in the WS, but we came back to get the victory. Garland took a lot of heat early in his career for being soft. But by the time he was 26 (5 years younger than Javy), he was one tough, cool mother.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:40 PM) Just remember this...our dumbass manager adjusted the rotation schedule so he could have Javy pitch here. To start the series, no less. Yeah. No need to pitch Danks up here.

He's opening his shoulder again, and that's putting those pitches up in the zone. I love the shot of Cooper; it's like "What the f*** we can do with this f***ing guy?"

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:38 PM) Theres your changeup Hawk. Now shut the f*** up. For once and for all, Javy Vazquez just doesn't have that good of stuff. That pitch just plain sucked. Period.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:37 PM) That's the Javy I like That's a Mariano Rivera-style pitch, breaking back over the plate.

QUOTE (tommy @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:35 PM) Throw a f***ing strike, please. It's all about being aggressive, Javy-style.

Now Morneau gets the Hawk slurpy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:33 PM) Griffey outhit Anderson in batting practice. But Ozzie didn't let Anderson use a bat.

QUOTE (Sox It To Em @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:32 PM) Not to beat a dead horse but remind me why Griffey is playing over Anderson again? Ozzie knows that Anderson would've hit into a triple play.

QUOTE (Sox It To Em @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:30 PM) DP. Bah. 1-0 I wonder if Griff rolled into any double plays in BP.

Hawk praising the Griffey batting practice session.

Jim Thome is like a young Jim Thome.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) I have about 4 times this year.... Apparently, Hawk has taken your e-mails as a personal challenge to praise the Twins even more.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:22 PM) This is why I have the radio on. Too bad it doesn't sync up. By the time Farmio is done with the call, the TV should catch up.

Hawk, YOU are poetry in motion.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:15 PM) we need JD in this series I think that JD has needed a few days off for about 2 weeks. But Quentin is hurt, and Funnyman Nick Swisher sucks, so there you are.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 23, 2008 -> 07:14 PM) Wow long swings tonight. JD -- mystified by changeups on the outer half, perplexed by fastball in same spot.

QUOTE (G&T @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 02:09 PM) Swish with a hit. Swish! Now don't be too funny over there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 01:55 PM) Between Swisher and Ozzie, this is the loosest, most motivated team in history! It's the kind of team that makes me want to run a marathon or something. Damn, I'm fired up just watching their joy and energy.

QUOTE (G&T @ Sep 21, 2008 -> 01:53 PM) His season has to rank as one of the worst in franchise history, right? Right up there with Cory Snyder, except with about double the at-bats and triple the funny.