Friend of Nordhagen

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:19 PM) Is this the first time you have seen Javy pitch? How many implosions do you need. If it quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, sometimes its a duck. It's a Javier.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:18 PM) Is it too much to ask for our 12 million dollar pitcher to actually pick us up one game, and not be "the rally kller?" Repeating: Chris Young last night -- web-gem, stolen base, run driven in.

A-Rod goes deep. 5-2 Yankees.

Leyland is going bananas. Apparently, he thinks Randy Johnson got a better strike zone than Bonderman.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:13 PM) Thank God we got this guy. He has stones of steel. What a great pitcher. Yep. By the way, Chris Young had a web-gem last night, drove in a run and stole a base. Good stuff.

QUOTE(G&T @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:12 PM) Come on Javy You can hear the discomfort from the fans. I think they've seen Vazquez pitch before.

Javy nibbling like a squirrel . . .

This is a good test for Javy.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:07 PM) Keppinger Ahhh, Keps.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:04 PM) well buck walked....its up to someone named jeff keppinger C'mon, Keps.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:02 PM) emil brown leadoff double off of santana...moved to third on a grounder by shealy....get him in john buck... Today I love those guys. Tomorrow I will loathe them. QUOTE(kwolf68 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) I think Pods should get 1/4 RBI there for not striking out and at least putting wood on the ball

Dye being Dye-like.

QUOTE(kwolf68 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) I think it is time to pull the plug on Pods...he is utterly worthless out there. Well, the good thing about Pods is the consistently upbeat mental approach. I never get the sense that he gets into funks.

Pods shrewdly moves the runner with a 14-bouncer to 2nd.

Note to file: my preseason prediction for Brian's average was .237. Perhaps he will surpass that.

He should bunt.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:53 PM) anyone have a breakdown of his 2nd half numbers? It's a complete 180 in his approach at the plate. last night when he fell down 0-2 with the runner on 2nd he did an excellent job of getting him over. I think of it more as a complete 540.

QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:51 PM) Particularly to his right. I meant to his left. To our right. Either way.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) He's got a couple of nice plays, but i think that's a real stretch, his range isn't that great. Particularly to his right.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:48 PM) Is it past 75 pitches already? Welcome, SSI-71. It seems that, for both of us, Javy's appearances are appointment-viewing.

QUOTE(beautox @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) well seeing how Cotts has been "teh sux" lately, and Boone is deing really well down at AAA as their closer i want to know if he could take his spot, if cotts can't turn it around. If we were to make the playoffs, with Owens being on his "rehab assignment", I think the deal was that that preserved a roster spot for someone not on the 25-man at midnight tonight -- not just Owens -- if we wanted to add someone. I don't understand why it works that way, but that was my understanding. Am I right? We'd have to drop someone, of course.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) yeah he does...its his best pitch...i hope he uses it like he did against toronto that one time I remember that time.

"That's just Javy being Javy."

I think Ross would've been safe there if he hadn't rounded second base half-way into left field. Still, I think you send him there. I'm okay with it.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) And you all know what's best about tomorrows game? Mark Buehrle is the pitcher responsible for avoiding a sweed, avoiding a 2/12 game deficit in the Wild Card, and avoiding an EMBARRASING three game sweep at home during a crucial stretch of baseball. Knowing how these games have progressed, I'm sre a loss will occur in the most excruciating way possible. Who knows? Maybe the Tigers are in free-fall. QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:58 PM) Who knows? Maybe the Tigers are in free-fall. I know. I'm grasping.