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TEX/DET shaping up as the defining series of the early season in the AL....games at Detroit in April weather, so theoretically an even match-up Ivan Rodriguez will officially retire MONDAY as a Ranger in Arlington. Sure-fire HOF? He was always suspected of PED's, along with Piazza, but never proven, right? I remember always calling him I-Roid, at least, when he was much bigger and putting up those monster offensive seasons.

Bartolo Colon had a stretch against the Angels where he threw 38 strikes in a row. Pretty amazing. Wonder what the record is?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 06:12 AM) What the hell is going on with AJ? Offensive juggernaut and throwing people out? He better be careful or the Sox are going to give him an extension. Dunn looked better. That double to the opposite field was awesome. It was funny to see no one out there. One camera angle made it look like the outfield was empty. Shift be damned! What else can be said about Peavy. He has looked great all season, and his last two starts have been dominant. Is he back? Let's hope. He got a bit lucky on the 2nd CS, because the ball bounced right off the batter and into his hands or the runner would have easily been safe. But the first one was nice. Flowers is 2/2 in throwing out runners. I think combined between the two, better than we did the first three months of 2011.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Apr 19, 2012 -> 03:51 AM) The jakemeister!!!! Heard dj and farmio saying the rios is looking better, that his approach seems better so let's see. Adam with a double off a lefty! And I think de aza could probably hit lower in the order someday Mitchell's the best candidate we have right now, and he's at least 1 1/2 years away. Encouragingly, he does have 11 walks to go with 17 K's (way too many) in 53 AB's. But similar XB power/pop.

“I feel so blessed," said Peavy, emphasizing the word 'blessed.' "I sent a text message out and that’s the word I used. I said I’m so blessed to be happy. I know it’s been a long grind with you guys and the fans and everybody to get me to this point, but I am healthy and I don’t know what I can or can’t be after what I’ve gone through. But I can promise you my effort and preparation is going to be there and we prepare between starts with the work with A.T. (conditioning coordinator Allen Thomas), and we prepare with the video work and had a game plan. "When you go out there healthy, you have a better chance of worrying about that and executing than when you’re not and worrying about everything else but that. I feel very blessed to hopefully stay this way for the majority of this year and give my team a quality effort every fifth day.” chicagotribune.com/sports

If Guillen needed a cut man in his corner to stop the bleeding from the Castro controversy, Buehrle was the perfect candidate. Whether they're on the South Side or on South Beach, Buehrle always has had his manager's back. "I hope he doesn't change," Buehrle said. "He's just going have to watch some of the stuff he says. I don't expect him to be any different than he has been his whole career managing." Paul Sullivan/tribune Cubs looking like being swept is a good possibility, just gave up the early lead and now down 5-3 and sinking further and further record-wise.

The Red Sox have responded so well to that "teachable" moment so well! Now 4-9.

A 31 year old journeyman pitcher is going to block Rienzo. Seriously?

Train Dreams-Johnson State of Wonder-Patchett Lost Memory of Skin-Banks Salvage the Bones-War The Marriage Plot The Pale King-David Foster Wallace Has anyone read those books? Opinions? Has anyone here ever made it all the way through Infinite Jest? War and Peace was bad enough, sheez.

Tied for the AL wildcard (with AA's Jays) still. YAY!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 11:22 PM) Whose name would they put on the ballot then? Every team has a representative for each position. The other Brent? That's who they would undoubtedly go with, it would be pretty shocking to see McPherson there.

Can they retroactively take his name off the ballot? I don't think they've started the printing process quite yet, have they? There has to be some kind of deadline when the names are submitted, maybe the 1st of May or the 15th?

Cain and Cliff Lee locked in a pitcher's duel in SF, still 0-0 in the 8th.

Mitchell with his 3rd stolen base, 17 k's in 53 AB's. Saladino scuffling like Morel. Carlos Sanchez with another hit and run scored, double. Conor Jackson down to .234 and cries for his promotion are quelled with the Dunn hit off a lefty.

We were outdrawn 3 nights in a row by a Royals team that had an epic meltdown against the Indians this past weekend and has been in the process of losing six games in a row (now 3-8).

.256, 4 HR's, 12 RBI's. The bomb he hit against E. Santana went all the way over the first bullpen on the fly in Anaheim.

I guess because Ohman was completely ineffective and RV didn't want to let the Orioles think they had a prayer of getting back into this game. But yeah, it's a problem if Ohman or Stewart or Nathan Jones can't give you an inning here. Not sure why they didn't go with Jones over Reed, though. Of course, the Royals can never hold a lead against the Tiggers. Why should we expect it to change? Strange ending to that inning. I guess this is the game for our infield to make some errors.

Phegley/Flowers splitting catching duties in 2013 or does one get the starting job with the other as a back-up? Only one on the major league roster? Neither? AJ back, as unlikely as that seems.

Baseball. Feeling good again tonight, think if only we'd managed to take one of the first two, we'd be sitting pretty at 7-4. Always hoping against hope that Beckham, Rios, Dunn and Peavy can turn it around. Then you get these LITTLE glimpses and it sucks you back into believing they could be competitive for most of the season, because of that starting pitching mostly. Then tmrw, on another ledge again if they only take 1/4 at home against the O's.

Poor Brent looks to be the only whipping boy after tonight's game. Beckham had a key RBI, Rios is getting on base, Dunn with 2 walks and the bases clearing double, Peavy looked strong again... Whereas Brent had one of his two worst games of the season (the other was in Texas where he had 4 K's, an error and then messed up the potential double play that led to the winning RBI from Michael Young).

GET HIM OUT OF THERE, PLEASE. Okay...that's enough. 108 pitches. 8 K's, leaving with an un-Peavyesque 2.75 ERA after 3 starts. By the way Royals, it would be nice if you beat the Tigers at least once in 3 games, especially at home.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 18, 2012 -> 08:03 PM) Hawk has a crush on Hazel May. Where did she go? The new Red Sox girl isn't so bad, as brunettes/redheads usually have a way of at least APPEARING to know more of what they're talking about than the Erin Andrews types. Although I really liked Laura Okmin (sp.)? Are we the worst 6-5 or 7-4 team in baseball history? It sort of feels like that. Maybe the Padres a couple of seasons ago.

Maybe that will quiet all those pressuring Ventura to bench or PH for Dunn against LHP. As for Morel, praying and miracles are needed.

18 k's in 38 ab's, if he goes 2 for his next 2, he'll be batting .500 in striking out, that's quite hard to do. Even for Adam Dunn.

And Morel continues to be Debbie Downer for the Sox.