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Cool Mark Teahen! I am so glad Ozzie decided to flip Teahen and Morel in the lineup so that way Teahen could be the one to come up with RISP and ground out instead of Morel coming up and having a much higher chance of succeeding..... f*** it, what do I care, games don't matter anymore anyway.....

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 11:25 PM) So I went back and looked at the play clock in the upper right-hand corner on the fake FG. It looks like the ball was snapped literally as the clock hit double zero. The ESPN/ABC clock was about .3 seconds fast. In the picture provided you can see the stadium clock at :00, and the ball not yet snapped. They were about .5 seconds late, which isn't much, but it's still late.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 12:51 AM) How do you pronounce that? I always thought everyone said "E-R-A". I have never heard anyone say it as a word. lol, I was thinking the same thing. I've never heard someone say it as in the phrase "This is the end of an era". I mean, when I was a kid it confused me, but now I know the difference.

I say O-P-S, on-base, slugging%, U-Z-R, ware (WAR).

I predicted 86 wins at the beginning of the year, so 7-7 is what we need to get there. I'm looking pretty good on that one.

Ho hum....

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 10:57 PM) That was a blatant delay of game. Yep, but like I said, all I can do is laugh. No sense of getting pissed that we just got f***ed over by the play clock in a season that was never actually going anywhere. 4-7 or 5-6, it won't matter in the end.

LOL ending to ND/MSU game. I'm an ND fan and I can't do anything but laugh right now.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 05:42 PM) Thing is we fell out of the race so rapidly that Manny didn't get the chance to help or hurt us. Yeah, we went 7-0 with Manny to start, and then now we are like 2-9 or something. I didn't see people saying we were 7-0 because of him, so why are people saying we are 2-9 because of him? He hasn't been on the team long enough to have that big of an impact. It was a bad acquisition in the end, but not because of anything he has done or hasn't done.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 05:49 PM) Wow, fans are booing Manny big time! I wonder how Greg feels about this, being that he hates Manny, but also being that he thinks booing a player is classless and makes our fan base look bad.

Infante sure looked real good in this inning. Has a very, very solid looking change-up that I don't know if the Tigers hitters even made contact with. Was throwing it about 86, which is 11 MPH slower than his fastball, which is "supposedly" the optimal speed difference between a FB and CH. Not sure why, but that's just what I've heard.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:41 PM) Fans always find that appeasing. They think he really cared. I just don't want him to be a headcase and freak out about games, especially ones that don't matter anymore.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:29 PM) First HR Sale gave up in the majors, correct? he was due. Yep. Then he came in the dugout and slammed his mitt down at the bench. Not sure I want to see that out of him.

Ouch, Sale just got tattoo'd by a Scott Sizemore (WTF?) homerun to LF. He crushed it.... Good job by Leyland going for the righty-lefty matchup by taking out Rhymes.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) Still a longshot with KW, but maybe... just maybe.. well... slightly... we might be looking at those two in our IF, with the Cubans. How has Morel looked BTW? I have not watched this game of course, but still would like to see how he's adjusting. Hasn't had many opportunities today at 3B, but has made them all smoothly. At the plate he has looked calm, and really yet to make a bad swing. He really looked nice stroking that double to left-center field gap. One-hopped the wall. His 3rd AB he was frozen on a big hook by Verlander. Not much to do w/ that pitch. I'm pleased.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:00 PM) Why not? If the Ozzie/Walker haters used the same standards and apply them to Coop, he should be the out the door. Outside of having a reputation most on this staff (long term) have shown more signs of regression. So his reputation has overshadowed his works. The pitching staff is the #1 reason why they might finish in 2nd and hopefully not 3rd. Because I would rather have Cooper as our pitching coach than LaRussa as our manager.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) Yuck. Well, it's not like we are going to move Pierre anywhere. And quite frankly, he has been a pretty decent player for us.

Morel. Sweet, quick swing on a double to left-center field.

LOL at the announcer (not Gracie) calling AJ the Pierzinstigator.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 04:14 PM) Well, I think we can at least say Colby Rasmus wouldn't be signing with the White Sox at any point. I have been thinking about how great it would be to add Rasmus since that "trade me" incident. Pierre-Rios-Rasmus OF would be great.

Man, the umpire is giving Verlander any call he wants. Konerko and Manny both strike out looking at pitches out of the zone, and both walk away disgusted..... Has to be feeling good to be Verlander right now.

Also, any reason why Beckham hasn't played the last 3 days? Just giving him a break to not risk any injury and let his hand heal? That's what I assume....

LOL Teahen would be the one to break up the perfect game. I was rooting for a strikeout.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 08:22 PM) Season ovah. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...ox&did=milb J4L is fist pumping like a mad man right now.

I don't want LaRussa if it means no more Cooper like some people are saying.