Maverick0984

yay Dye, you are so sexy

at least Konerko had a more professional at bat there...

after a shaky first batter count makes the next 3 go down rather quickly.

we have to get to october in order to be tired in it....

oh well, least we got 1

yippie, make it a big painful inning for them!

inning #2 faired a bit better

i am amazed

anyone else just crossing their fingers before every pitch?

i am not liking what i am seeing on gameday

bonderman definetly seems to be commanding a little bit better

\"you people\" i\'m watching at work, who the hell are you talking to?

i\'m watching mlb gameday and they placed the circle close to the fence, how close was granderson\'s fly ball to out?

at least thome stood up there for a few more pitches....

i have a feeling none of our starting pitching will be traded until the offseason, if then.

dammit, find some holes

c\'mon AJ, pick him up

actually, Garland\'s last 3 starts were pretty swell

after 1 inning, Garland is up 1 pitch on Robertson

honestly, how stressful can his job be that he would need so much vacation time....what a douche

\"as of late\" looking at his first half numbers as a number and nothing more is not doing what he\'s done justice at all. your analysis in that respect is flawed. you should notice the large increase in production, his numbers SEEM low only because he started out slow, which was attributed to jitters/1st year starter/and what have you. He\'s picked it up tremendously, and while i don\'t have the exact numbers, i feel just as confident with him up there as some of our other hitters now. replacing him would be a HUGE mistake, and even talking about it is a slap in the face at his come back and the already various peopel saying that no trade would be made.

why is everyone so worried about CF all of the sudden? wasn\'t it said Anderson was the guy already, and he hit great in June, finally coming out of his slump? and his defense is just spectacular, not sure why we would want to trade him or replace him.

damn the yankees suck...they're dragging us down

I already said, many pages ago, that your count in steals not meaning anything is beyond bull. Him scoring after he steals second has nothing to do with him, he is counting on the people behind him after his steal to hit him in....had they hit him in every time, your argument would be completely invalid since he\'d produce 100% of the time, but clearly it had nothing to do with anything he changed. Stealing bases has mental effects on pitchers that cause them to make mistakes if they are thinking too much about the base runner. that is some knowledge you would have gained from playing simple high school baseball...aparently you never did, or you missed that day. it is beyond me how you can try and disprove the importance of steals and baserunning. All you proved was that you can add and do percentages, the data tells us nothing. for the love of god, please don\'t say you proved anything ever again in accordance with that \"stat.\" if anyone had responded to my previous post saying something similar, i\'m sorry, i didn\'t feel like going back to look for it, it was some time ago, and i remember checking a page after and it hadn\'t been responded to.

not pointing to anyone in particular but in general, alot of the \"arguments\" expressed here are just personal opinions based on mostly incomplete observations. the % of us here that have seen EVERY single play is very minute and those saying he\'s horrible might have very well missed some of the better plays and those saying he\'s wonderful might have missed some of the bad plays. it\'s difficult to argue opinions because of this, and because everyone has their own opinion, that should be blantantly obvious. that being said, those using opinions to argue anything at all are being completly asinine because they have nothing to back up an opinion with. this arguement to pick out one: \"i see him take horrible routes everytime\" is just stupidity, unless you have been to every game and witnessed every hit out to him, you simply cannot make this argument. Same goes for the flipside, you cannot say he never takes bad routes...thats what erks me about many of the arguments on soxtalk, so many people use over exaggerating words like always/never to try and prove some point, when they have no real basis for using that word. Pods seeing lots of pitches is a good thing, it doesn\'t matter if they are on 2 strikes or not. Forcing the pitcher to throw lots of pitches tires him out faster and he\'ll start to feel that come the 4th or 5th inning. I wish all our batters saw as many pitches as he did at times, case in point, a select few that swing at pitch #1 . but hell, if they get a hit on that 1st pitch then great, but in MOST cases, seeing as many pitches as you can is GENERALLY a good thing. anyway, i tried to be unclear as to those i was referring to, but i needed to vent, i\'m at work, i\'m bored, and want to go home .