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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 10:13 AM) Including the All Star break, 11 days off in the month and a half between the middle of July and end of August. They should be properly rested for the stretch run. I noticed the final day is a Monday, but I thought they said it would be Sunday, September 29. Seems this may be inaccurate. We'll see at noon. It would probably be a mistake to have your final day of the season up against Monday Night Football. I think a Tuesday or Wednesday would be better. Look how 2011 worked out on that Wednesday night. That worked out pretty well.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:59 AM) With the emphasis being on winning your division, beating your divisional teams seems like the best way to earn it. Yeah, I wish they would change the empahsis to being one of the top 5 teams in your 15-team league. But that's just me.

Here's the Rays schedule... http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/rays/content..._medium=twitter 6 of their 19 off days are in August. WTF?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:47 AM) So they are changing from 18 games per year vs each division opponent to 19 games. That's 4 more games per year against division opponents. That's 2.5% of the schedule that is switching to division games. Hardly worth complaining about. I complain about 18 too. I hate the unbalanced schedule. I hate divisions. Especially now that 5 teams qualify for the playoffs.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:20 AM) Sept. 12th. First place 2 game lead. I'll take it every year. It feels like we're being led to the gas chamber. I just don't like how the rest of the Sox and Tigers schedules match up for the Sox. They have that edge, for whatever that's worth. I'm thinking a 2-game lead after this series, we'll lose Game 163 at Detroit. A tie after this series, we're dead meat. 4-game lead--we have a very good chance to win the division. In the end, if the Sox go 5-13 against the Tigers, we deserve to lose and they deserve to win. But if we're playing 19 games a year against these same 4 teams, you better damn well have rosters that can beat these teams if you intend to make the playoffs.

MLB releases the schedule at noon (ct) today. They're going back to 19 division games, so it could be 10 games at Comerica next year. I seriously hate 76 division games. Especially since the Sox can't seem to beat them. If they don't have players that can beat these teams, then they have to change the players.

I've been saying forever the Sox need at least a 3 game lead when the Tigers series is over. Since 3 isn't possible, it's going to have to be 4. These next two games, in my opinion, are must-win games. And if you don't think both are must-win, but also don't think the Sox can beat Verlander, then this game tonight is definitely a must-win game.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 11:36 PM) The Phillies & Brewers are both only 4.5 games out of a wild card spot Now it's 4 games. Stl 75-67 - LA 74-68 1 Pit 72-69 2.5 Phi 71-71 4 Mil 71-71 4 Arz 70-72 5 How awful is the National league, by the way? There are 4 pretty good teams, a layer of crap, and then a bigger a layer of crap. Unless it's the Pirates knocking off the Braves in the Wild Card Game, I hope the Braves win that game.

Kind of late in the game for this debate. He's got four more regular season starts and then he's either pitching in the playoffs or he's getting $4 mil to probably never pitch for the Sox again. Just hope for the best at this point.

I'm pumped for a great Peavy start tonight. Let's get after it.

Charlotte- Rienzo http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...chraaa_pawaaa_1 Winston-Salem- Johnson http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...wswafa_lynafa_1

I think Floyd should just go ahead and win 9 games in a row between now and November 1st. That would be swell.

AL East-- NY 79-61 - Bal 78-62 1 TB 77-63 2 AL West-- Tex 83-57 - Oak 80-60 3

When Sale beat Moore 1-0, and Dunn hit the homer. I liked that one.

Quintana may have brought back my optimism. The Tigers have scored 6 runs in the last 4 games on the road. Need Peavy to keep it going,

No Sully mention? C'mon Hawk.

Great job by Quintana. I really didn't think he had it anymore. If he found his second wind and Floyd comes back strong Wednesday, my optimism may find its way back. Still gotta get those easy runs across home plate.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 10, 2012 -> 05:37 PM) Guys on CTL are giving Youk some crap about not being with the team yesterday. Supposedly the baby was born Friday and both baby and mom were fine and healthy Saturday morning. It's one of those things where it's just better not to say anything even if you're thinking the same. First child for Youk (her second), plus he's been banged up, I don't have a problem with him missing the weekend series that should have been a Sox sweep even without him. But in general, unless there's a complication or something, it should be a 2-day thing. I don't know what's going on with Youk's situation, so I can't judge him. I have a much bigger problem with Alexei Ramirez showing up late Sunday.

Tigers, Sox, Tigers, Tigers Prove me wrong.

Former Sox product Kent Gerst was found dead in a creek in Missouri. He died in a fall, it looks like. http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/337453/3/...fall-from-bluff

AL East: NY 79-61 - Bal 78-62 1 TB 77-63 2 AL Wild Card: Oak 79-60 +1.5 Bal 78-62 -- TB 77-63 1 LAA 77-63 1 Det 73-66 4.5

Add another quality start for the Tigers to go in the loss column. 55-24 (.696)

Sox vs KC 1-1 (0-2) -1 vs Oak 2-1 (2-1) -1 at Tor 2-2 (3-1) E at KC 2-1 (0-3) -2 vs NY 2-1 (3-0) -1 vs Sea 2-1 (3-0) E at Bal 2-2 (1-3) -1 at Det 1-2 (0-3) -2 vs Min 2-1 (2-1) -2 vs KC 2-1 (1-2) -3 vs Det 2-2 at Min 2-1 at KC 2-1 at LAA 1-2 vs Cle 2-1 vs TB 2-2 at Cle 2-1 Tigers vs NY 2-2 (2-2) E at Tex 1-2 (1-2) E at Min 2-1 (2-1) E vs Bal 2-1 (1-2) -1 vs Tor 2-1 (3-0) E vs LAA 2-1 (2-1) E at KC 2-1 (0-3) -2 vs Chi 2-1 (3-0) -1 vs Cle 2-1 (1-2) -2 at LAA 1-2 (0-3) -3 at Chi 2-2 at Cle 2-1 vs Oak 2-1 vs Min 2-1 vs KC 3-1 at Min 2-1 at KC 2-1 And now it's down to 88. AL Central Baseball!!! Woo hoo!! Both teams 15-16 in the last 31. 23 left. I have the Sox going 13-10, and the Tigers going 15-8 to tie at 88-74. I doubt either will make it there now.

Prince K's

Cabrera walks of course.