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At least Pods found a nut.

After all his suck this year, Egbert puts together a nice start, allowing just one unearned run on two hits in five innings.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2009 -> 06:51 PM) Really? I mean, Pods has never been the fastest guy despite the steals. He has good speed but great stolen base technique; that's how he was so good. Wasn't Anderson a track runner in college? That's just my guess, I'd be surprised if a healthy Pods couldn't outrun BA in a 60.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 25, 2009 -> 06:43 PM) Even simpler than that: it's ref***ingtarded to platoon him when his platoon partner is a 32 year old bad baseball player and of the two Brian is the righty which means the 32 year old gets the majority of the starts. Well, that too. Let's do a little compare and contrast. Better average: BA Better power: BA (despite it being way down this year) Better on base: BA Better baserunner: BA Pure speed: Pods Defense/Arm: BA Honeys: Pods (Quality) BA (Quantity)

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 25, 2009 -> 06:07 PM) So if you were KW, you would release Wise and/or Pods and just give Anderson the job (against all pitchers) for the remainder of the season? We might as well...especially if Pods shows no ability to steal a base besides getting picked off and being in the path of the throw or waiting to play against first baseman who throw like Frank Thomas to second. Well, it's ref***ingtarded to platoon him to start against just lefties when he's hitting them at .200 and righties at .320 so far this year.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2009 -> 12:34 PM) So I know the draft starts on the 9th, but what time does it start that day? Wondering if I should take that day off from work. Isn't it usually early afternoon?

Cora's the one doing it tonight.

What a f***ing joke. Brian has been giving some of the best at bats on the team the last few games, he had an awesome game yesterday, and you're benching him for the 09 version of Scott f***ing Podsednik.

Pitching right now on Big Ten Network, some nice breaking stuff.

Charlotte (19-24) @ Columbus (22-22) Jack Egbert (1-0, 9.00) vs. Kirk Saarloos (3-4, 4.42) 5:35 PM CT Audio | Video Box Birmingham (29-14) @ Tennessee (20-21) Aaron Poreda (3-4, 2.53) vs. Casey Lambert (3-2, 1.91) 6:15 PM CT Audio Box Winston-Salem OFF Kannapolis (20-23) @ Delmarva (22-18) Charlie Leesman (4-2, 2.79) vs. Nathan Moreau (0-1, 8.68) Box Greene CF; Garcia 2B; Kuhn DH; Morales RF; Gilmore 3B; Shelton 1B; Short LF; Larson C; Escobar SS

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 24, 2009 -> 08:50 PM) We disagree on Hudson and Gilmore, but I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't get the Allen thing most of the board has. He's a good prospect, but I'd put him at the top of a second tier.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 24, 2009 -> 06:37 PM) The Post-American World is a great read! Zakaria is a brilliant guy. The book is a smidgen outdated I suppose, because it was published shortly before this depression or recession or whatever it is, but most of what he says still is pretty relevant. I'd definitely recommend it. I've really enjoyed the stuff I've seen him with on television.

Be a hero, Brian.

That last run was totally on Fields. Not a difficult ball for even an average 3B to get in front of.

Fields really should have been able to get his glove in front of that.

For f***'s sake.

Brian's just gonna have to walk us off.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ May 24, 2009 -> 03:08 PM) As an old man I'll have the toughest time of all trying to explain how Nu-metal existed, as well as Scott Podsednik's baseball career. He literally hit that ball 12 feet, 4 inches of which were in the air.

Wow. No words even needed for whatever the hell that was.

Christ, Brian didn't even square that one up and it flew to the track. He's seeing it well.

Heh, 12 hits in 7 IP, but I'll take it. Another great start from Mark. Nothing really hit hard off of him.

95 dollar bill.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 24, 2009 -> 02:29 PM) Come on Paulie. Start hitting well with RISP again. He is doin ok.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2009 -> 02:23 PM) I know his pitch count number isn't high, but might be time to pull Buehrle. Put it in the hands of Dotel, Thornton, Linebrink and Jenks. Let's get another run or two and get another inning out of him.