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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 09:20 PM) Fathom, what do you want Ausmus to do? Can't take Verlander out. Verlander won't allow it. Just like Peavy. Let Krol (a lefty) face Eaton... Krol's a decent pitcher.

Verlander's just not the same pitcher. He's still got good velocity, but his location with his good fastballs is all over the place. He has trouble putting hitters away.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 08:40 PM) LOL at Hawk going nuts over De Aza's routine catch. I think Hawk thought it was going to be smoked off the wall. lol that was about as routine as a play could get.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 06:56 PM) Reports now of the heat big 3 all opting out and taking reduced salaries to get Carmelo Anthony to join them. I think that happening would finally cause me to stop watching the NBA. That'll never happen. Plus, I really doubt Melo is going to take a 50% paycut to be LeBron's wingman. The Player's Association will also have something to say about it.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 07:51 PM) Huh. Shows what I know. I always thought the guy who did the wavy arms thing was the guy to get it. OFer does have priority in that case. However, Lexi had that easily.

Jesus Christ De Aza...WTF?

I'd trade Noah for Love in an instant. Noah's stock is never going to get higher. He just came off a season where he made the All NBA first team and won defensive player of the year. He's going to be 30 next year. Kevin Love is 25, offers way more on offense, is a monster on the boards, and can definitely improve defensively under Thibodeau.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 11, 2014 -> 11:04 AM) Holy god what a throw For real, he threw that ball 100 yards on a line.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 8, 2014 -> 04:45 PM) 5 game minimum. All because he thought Donaldson tagged him too hard. Prick. Let's not forget he would have thrown his helmet at Donaldson if his momentum didn't carry him towards the ground. What a douche.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 05:02 PM) I'm having the most first-world problem... I'm pretty sure my HTC One is water damaged and bricked. In this case, my dad is happy to use his upgrade to get himself a One M8 and give me his old iPhone 5. ...and good god do I not want to use an iPhone. The daily frustrations will kill me. But I can't turn it down, for now. Bleck Something similar happened to me recently. My Nexus 5's power button decided to go crazy, turning it on and off constantly. Unfortunately, I had no backup phone as I had sold all of mine. I bought a Moto X off Amazon for $340. Then Motorola had a 32 GB Moto X for $385 that I could customize and I decided I'll buy that and return the phone I got off Amazon. A day later, I contacted Google about the issue and they replaced my Nexus 5. So now I have too many phones... But a serious alternative, if you can spend around $350, is to buy a Moto X. It's a good phone with a few drawbacks (the camera is horrendous and the AMOLED screen sucks in bright conditions), but it's pretty much stock Android and you get great features like Touchless Controls and Active Notifications. And unlike the OnePlus One, you can actually buy one. Of course, the other alternative is a Nexus 5 or even a Moto G (Moto X without Active Notifications or Touchless Controls). They did just release a Moto G with LTE and a micro SD slot for $220 on Amazon, that's pretty enticing.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 07:42 PM) dont know if its just me, but i thought nothing of donaldsons tag and no reason for to machado to get so worked up about it? play I swear, baseball players get offended over nothing these days. That wasn't even that hard of a tag. And Conor Gillaspie should watch what Donaldson did on that play. Cause that's what he should have done last Monday, except Conor didn't even have to tag the runner, all he had to do was tag 3rd.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) Given the knowledge bomb Hickory Huskers just dropped, I don't see why we'd go underslot at #3. Leave that to the Marlins. Give me Sands at 3 and 4+ can be undersluts I don't care. What's an underslut?

We played one of the better teams in Austin tonight and won in 9 innings. Time expired after 5, so we played 4 innings of 1-pitch ball. Our pitcher only walked one and our defense was brilliant in the extra innings and we pulled out a 18-16 win (we were up 16-2 at one point). We had gotten beat by these guys 30-3, 20-4, and 17-10 the last 3 times we played them, so this was a really satisfying win.

I think Nola is the safe pick at 3, but is anyone concerned with his durability? He's not a real big guy (Chris Sale is at least tall, Nola's 6'1) and his arm angle and mechanics seem iffy to me.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 01:46 PM) In today's sad society, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a factor for some. Heh, reminds me of the Moneyball movie where the old scouts were asking about a prospect's girlfriend.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 10:35 AM) I'm getting closer to buying a wii u over a ps4 with all of these mario kart reviews. But I know in the end it's going to be a waste of money. For my gaming habits, which are limited these days, it's basically 2 mario games, mario kart, and maybe, maybe the zelda game if it's amazing (which the reviews will all say it is, despite the last couple being lame and boring). I'm torn. Yeah, that's why I don't buy Nintendo consoles or handhelds anymore. You basically get the console for one game (Pokemon for handhelds, Mario-related games for the consoles) and then there's almost nothing else that's good for it. I really wanted to buy a 3DS for Pokemon X and Y, but then I remembered that I don't think I'll ever play anything else on it. I had a Vita and I barely played it. So it definitely didn't make sense to spend $180 on what's basically a Pokemon machine...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 10:21 AM) Start back and off in the box, adjust forward with the pitch. That's the great thing, you have plenty of time to adjust. I already do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 09:22 AM) Its slow pitch softball. Almost any pitch is a hitters pitch. Not really. Everyone's different, but I struggle a lot with pitches with high arc or pitches high and in. Throw me a USSSA-style low pitch and I'll hit the daylights out of it. That's the difference for me.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 12:15 AM) Bela has a FIP of 2.91 this year His SIERA is even better. He's been a bit unlucky so far.

3 games back of Detroit, 1 back of the last WC spot.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 12:15 AM) Sox win 2-1 ..........1 bad bad inning from a sweep! More like one bad decision by Conor Gillaspie.

The team with twice our payroll has the same record as us, lol.

I'm happy with 2 out of 3, but we could have easily swept these guys.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 11:55 PM) Ump cost the Sox that run. Eh more like Leury did. If he doesn't let that ball get past him, Gordon is on second at best, not third.

Kerwin Danley's not having a good night behind the plate. I think not being able to keep track of the count says a lot about that.