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what happened? catch by who?

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:41 PM) Wow, that's not the Joe Mauer that rescues babies from waterfalls. and dates models/actresses/beauty pageant winners, baptizes orphans in the 3rd world while also supporting a foundation to provide mosquito nets to prevent the spread of TB, malaria AND finds time to do the New York Times crossword puzzle everyday faster than Mike Mussina and Ken Jennings. He's Tebow and Tyler Hansborough before they even existed...

Well, "Sizzler" is considered elegant/fashionable dining here to Thai people in many of our malls....and Shakey's Pizza does very well in the Philippines. To each his own...one man's Denny's is another's Ruth's Chris Streak House.

I know the overall head-to-head between the two teams over this decade was either tied exactly or just within a game or two of .500, one way or the other.

Thome has been pretty consistent against LHP and RHP this season compared to the usual disparity.

Strange stat...Alexei 4/9 in his career against Blackburn with 4 BB's already. But only hitting .233 vs. RHP. Ramirez has to be up over .400 against LHP then...

Detroit has put up a 5-1 lead, we need to hold serve. Pods doesn't like the ball down and in at all, unusual for a lefty but with his movement in the box, tougher to do much with that compared to pitches up and away.

Wow...didn't realize Blackburn was close to sporting a sub 3.00 ERA. He's definitely been their best starting pitcher this season, along with Perkins.

Looks like Danks will get the fifth and be on a tight leash starting the 6th.

78 pitches for Danks...my gametracker got behind so I switched to ESPN. For some reason, can't get MLB.com to come up at all so can't listen to the game, which sucks.

Somehow we're still in this game....obvious key will be the bullpen holding down the middle innings somehow. And the Twins' bullpen is a shade of its former self, so we can continue to get to them.

Want to see what Pena and Poreda can do in an important game against a rival on the road in a hostile environment...to see what we actually have with these two guys right now. We know what Carrasco is capable of and incapable of...

QUOTE (nastymasty21 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:12 PM) how many pitches does Danks have? Hes really throwing a lot Danks had 58 freakin' pitches to get through 2 IP. Pretty impressive feat. Alexei Ramirez all the way up to the .280 mark with about 40-45% of the season left to go. Nice recovery.

2008 1-8 2007 4-5 2006 5-5 2005 6-3 2004 6-4 04-07 combined at HHH=21-17 2003 2-7 2002 3-7 2001 2-7 01-04 combined at HHH=7-21 2000 4-2 33-48 coming into 2009 season playing at the Metrodome In other words, if we played a full season of away games at Minnesota (162 games), we should go 66-96.

Don't see JR and KW investing $125-150 million into Joe Mauer when the Yankees will throw it at him to replace Posado or whoever is catching there in 2010.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:48 PM) That's how I feel too. Except I also feel that way about Span, Harris, Punto, Mauer, Gomez, Kubel, Cuddyer, Crede, Blackburn, Baker, Nathan, Liriano, etc. It was a lot easier to hate Torii Hunter, Jacque Jones, Rivas, Mientkiewicz and AJ (ESPECIALLY THOSE TWO), LaTroy Hawkins, JC Romero, Steady Eddie Guardado....but could never really hate Santana or Radke, you just had to respect those guys. Oh, and Redmond, Blanco, Matt LeCroy, Lew Ford, Jason Tyner, Jason Bartlett, Denny Hocking and any other unidentified Piranhas I left off the list. Don't hate Punto because he sucks so bad offensively I want to see his silly slides into 1B just to laugh at him. And hating how Nathan was automatic death for us when he came into a game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) Funny, as that's my same attitude about Quentin. Call him up, and if the pain is too much, shut him down for the season. Then we bring in Juan Pierre when McCourt agrees to eat 80% of his contract as a favor to JR and Ozzie has his NL team with Juan, Scotty Pods, Getz, Beckham, Nix and Ramirez to utilize as he sees fit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:42 PM) Crede with a bad decision there, as he would have easily got Thome out at home. Oh, and I just got a call that Colon's fastball was at 84 mph yesterday. AKA a Charlie Haeger fastball. As slow as Takatsu would throw the frisbee, somehow at his age he could still get the fastball up there at 88-91.

I thought AJ was Anthony James?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:39 PM) Must be nice to have a SS that has range to his right. Very nice play by Harris. Blackburn's going to get 20 grounders today it seems. Ironic. The rap on Harris is that he sucks on defense, which is why they signed Punto to "secure" the position defensively with his -600 OPS. So Danks has a fullblown mental meltdown like Sam Witwicky and we transform horrid defenders into Gold Glovers just by playing them in the HumptyDOOM.

Is Blyleven still doing that stupid "Circle Jerk Me, Bert!" stuff after all these years?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:35 PM) pitching Richard on 3 days rest was absolutely idiotic It does seem if we brought up a random minor leaguer like Ely, Cassel, Harrell, Omogrosso, etc., they couldn't have done a whole lot worse yesterday than what Clayton came up with.... I still won't equate the rotation juggling with the level of anger I had not letting Buehrle start at Yankee Stadium in the late summer of 03.

Ascencio did it with 16 pitches for the Royals, but not to start a game. UMM...mixing the rotation to let Danks (who was pitching so well) face a team he SHOULD have a bit of confidence against isn't the problem. We changed our rotation around down the stretch last year and had starters going on 3 days and we somehow made it to the playoffs. It's not Ozzie's fault Danks has morphed into Rick Ankiel or Dontrelle Willis.

I dare you to give up a Grand Slam here Danks....

Pull dee strings, Eddie... Martin Landau in Ed Wood.