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QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 05:57 PM) What game are you talking about? Last nights game was against the Yankees. Jorge Cantu is on the Devil Rays. And Elvis night was against the Mariners. Im kind of confused about your statement. Sorry, the kid who plays 2nd, Robinson Canu. Maybe if they had announced the game properly I would have remembered.

QUOTE(Frank the Tank 35 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 05:44 PM) Just so you get an even perspective, Rooney and Farmer harped about it longer than usual as well. How did they fit that into the Golf and Rock and Roll show? Worst broadcast of the year, they missed entire at bats. I had to look it up on GameDay to see how Cantu got on 1b, for all I could tell from the radio he just parachuted in with the Elvis'. Terrible, lazy broadcast. Not calling plays is like a batter not running out a ground ball.

If this team continues to plays as well as it did tonight it will win a lot of games. No compliants.

Interesting line up for Yankee Stadium, Ozzie's already thinking the bullpen matchups, also note that we get our favorite umpire crew: Chicago White Sox Scott Podsednik LF .281 Tadahito Iguchi 2B .287 A.J. Pierzynski C .274 Paul Konerko 1B .265 Timo Perez DH .217 Jermaine Dye RF .268 Aaron Rowand CF .289 Joe Crede 3B .250 Juan Uribe SS .242 Orlando Hernandez P (8-4 4.69) New York Yankees Derek Jeter SS .312 Robinson Cano 2B .291 Gary Sheffield RF .305 Alex Rodriguez 3B .315 Hideki Matsui LF .300 Jason Giambi DH .293 Jorge Posada C .254 Tino Martinez 1B .223 Tony Womack CF .240 Mike Mussina P (10-7 4.05) Umpires: HP: Hunter Wendelstedt 1B: Mike Winters 2B: Bruce Froemming 3B: Jerry Meals

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QUOTE(redandwhite @ Aug 5, 2005 -> 01:25 AM) It's funny how I could say the sky was blue and I would still get a hard time from some of you clowns. When you wrote your post it was black. I just looked out the window and it's grey. So you are wrong again!

Bruce Levine mentioned today that in the mid '90s many batters started diving over the plate. I know there was a period when you couldn't hit, against a Greg Maddox say, without diving because they were calling strikes 6" outside. From the games I watch I don't think this is so true any more, but many guys do still set up right on top of the plate and lunge. So part of huge increase in HBP might be from the way they teach hitting now. I could probably create a table of hitting coaches, teams, start and stop dates and calculate the frequency of HBP by player by coach rather than league or team, but that would be too nerdy.

I heard the Buehrle incident during lunch on the radio and Rooney was livid. He was teed about the ejection but said if you got rid of the DH you would get rid of these shenanigans. I was just watching the game on replay and Hawk went off on the DH too. This got me to thinking, if the DH causes more hit batters because the pitcher never comes to the plate, you would think the number of hit batters would be a lot higher in the AL than the NL. You would also expect to see this change to occur with the introduction of the DH in 1975. So I dug out my RetroSheet database and queried the number of hit by pitch by year. I divided by AB’s because there are different number of teams in each league and compare the number of at bats per hit batter each year. I find very little difference between the leagues since the DH was created. But there is a huge shift in the number of hit batters starting in the 1990’s. Before the 90’s a batter would get his about every 190 AB’s on average. In the 1990’s it fell about 120 ABs and in this decade is in the 90’s! It’s not the DH; the increase is in both leagues. Body armor and improved helmets? I know umps are calling HBP if it as much as brushes a baggy shirt, did they only call when they could hear the sound of meat before? The advent of the ‘warn both benches’ system (open season until you get a warning)? Ideas?

Jamie Burke Ross Gload Ben Davis Joe Borchard Willie Harris These are guys who were contributors to the 2004 team and are now at Charlotte. I think that KW/Ozzie deserve a lot of credit for improving the bottom of the roster to the point that these guys can't get even back on the team. Widger and Ozuna are new guys who have made valuable contributions, hopefully Blum will too.

God Bless the Chicago White Sox

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:21 PM) No, you start with 163. He was right. Yep, 48 gets you tie. duh Thanks Milker!

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:05 PM) Magic Number is 49. Am I correct? G- Sox Win- Min Loss=M Number 162-66-48=48 If I'm doing it right its 48! God Bless the Chicago White Sox

Red Sox's Clement injured by line drive FRED GOODALL Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement was hit in the right side of the head by Carl Crawford's line drive Tuesday night and carried from the field on a stretcher. Clement could be seen blinking his eyes when he was placed on the stretcher, and the Red Sox said he was conscious and alert as he was taken to the Bayfront Medical Center near Tropicana Field for further evaluation. "He had some numbness throughout the site where he got hit behind the right ear," said Lt. Rick Feinberg of the St. Petersburg Fire-Rescue. The hospital did not immediately comment on Clement's condition. After he was hit, Clement remained on the ground and barely moved for about five minutes before he was lifted onto the stretcher and immobilized with a neck brace. Replays showed the force of Crawford's liner knocked the All-Star pitcher completely off his feet. The ball caromed off the back of Clement's head, just behind his right ear, into short left field for an RBI single in the third inning. Concerned teammates gathered around the fallen pitcher as medical personnel attended to him on the mound. The crowd cheered as he was carried off, but his arms remained strapped across his chest.

KC Weather: Tonight: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low near 60. North northeast wind between 8 and 16 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Looks OK

Complete Lineups. Chicago White Sox Scott Podsednik LF .299 Aaron Rowand CF .287 Carl Everett DH .261 Paul Konerko 1B .258 A.J. Pierzynski C .245 Jermaine Dye RF .261 Joe Crede 3B .251 Willie Harris 2B .205 Juan Uribe SS .232 Freddy Garcia P (9-4 3.6) Kansas City Royals David DeJesus CF .291 Terrence Long LF .279 Mike Sweeney DH .305 Matt Stairs 1B .258 Emil Brown RF .288 Mark Teahen 3B .256 Angel Berroa SS .262 Ruben Gotay 2B .242 John Buck C .233 Zack Greinke P (3-11 5.66) Umpires: HP: Tim McClelland 1B: Chuck Meriwether 2B: Mike Everitt 3B: Tim Timmons