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QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 04:33 PM) And xFIP down to 3.95. Johnson actually had a 3.5 FIP heading into this game. I gotta imagine that's going up after this one with his 5 walks. Edit: yup, it went up to 3.9.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 04:30 PM) Why was Cole mad? Prolly an inside the Parker if Gomez didn't stare. Pitchers don't like it when you admire your home runs.

Tank with his first homer.

Huge hit by Semien. Had the Sox not gotten anything that inning, Texas probably would have come back and tied it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 03:59 PM) Was that even reviewable Only whether or not the pitch hit him.

You gotta wonder why they made check swings non-reviewable.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 03:56 PM) Whaaaat the crap is going on...are they saying he...like...leaned into the pitch? Like Crede in Baltimore several years ago? No, they said he swung at the pitch on the appeal, which he clearly didn't.

So, um, what are they going to review...? All they can review is whether or not the ball hit him.

Check swings should be a part of replay...

lol that's a swing? Bulls***.

Everything's gone right for the Sox the past inning.

Kouzmanoff's had a bad day at third. Edit: just realized the ball hit the bag, not Kouzmanoff.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 04:38 AM) HAWKS WIZARDS LOLZ The NBA would love that.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:59 PM) It's just been growing inside of me, and too many mimosas are bringing it out. I guess I just don't care to look into the future. I choose to enjoy Tyler and Dunn hitting .300+ right now even though I know(even without advanced stats) it's not gonna last.....I understand fangraphs, but it seems to take a bit of fun out of the game. I think there's a difference about enjoying a player you know who's going to be good vs. enjoying a player who you know is going to regress in the near future. I don't like getting my hopes up.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:52 PM) Has he always been such a tool, or only since he learned how to hit? He's become a more egotistic ass since he's learned how to hit. But he's always been an ass.

How the hell did Johnson get through the first 2?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) It's annoying in the context of the way it's being presented. It's as if we shouldn't care that our guy just got on base because advanced stats says it's not gonna last forever. I want Flowers to succeed as a player. But when I look at it objectively, I still don't think very highly of him, even when he's almost hitting .400 this year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:47 PM) The longer it goes on, the better the chance he will finish pretty high above normal. Even if it's around .350, he might be a .250 hitter, which I'd be fine with. But you have to realize that luck is not a skill. The chances of Flowers replicating his high BABIP in following years is pretty unlikely.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:44 PM) No but is shows the flaw in sabermetrics attitude towards strikeouts. You don't have to hit the ball on the screws every time to reach base and ultimately score runs. Many of Flowers hits were hit poorly. More poorly than many outs he has made in his career, but you give yourself a chance putting it in play. Which Flowers doesn't do a lot of since he strikes out 35% of the time. It sucks to be a debbie downer about Flowers, but the regression is going to come and when it does, it's going to suck.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 02:42 PM) This, I'm finding this BABIP stat highly annoying. It's not annoying, it's just the law of averages. Over the course of 2000 some plate appearances, no hitters are going to have half of their balls in play turn into hits. Many would be extremely lucky to have 35% of those fall. It's just not plausible to have half of them turn into hits. Flowers isn't going to have a .567 BABIP for the rest of the year. What he's doing now just isn't sustainable. There's nothing annoying about it, it's just reality.

Carlos Gomez is a total ass. http://m.mlb.com/video/v32232541/milpit-be...ples-in-the-3rd

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 12:43 AM) Meh, it says it will only knock off a couple points temporarily. That's not a problem. It stays on for two years. And depending on how many hard inquiries you have in a certain period of time, it can decrease by more than just a few points. Case and point: my credit score dropped around 30 points after I got a loan for my car and applied for two credit cards in about a one month period.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 20, 2014 -> 12:03 AM) I don't even know what that means. https://www.creditkarma.com/article/hard_in..._soft_inquiries

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 03:28 PM) Well, I guess I've waited as long as I can for a PS4 The Show bundle to be announced. Apparently Meijer is having a deal where if you sign up for a credit card, you get 32% off your purchase, big ticket items included. Seems fishy, but I am going over there to check it out anyway. May come home with a PS4 tonight after work. You better buy a lot of stuff. Usually, whatever you get discounted isn't worth the hard credit pull.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 19, 2014 -> 08:19 PM) lulz.. Pacers down 20 with 5 min to go Nevermind the Bulls playing the Pacers in the second round, they might play the Hawks instead.