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That bunt was awful by Gordon. You can't pop up a sac bunt.

Sale sure pitched himself out of trouble today.

Knicks just traded for Felton. I guess this means Lin will go to Houston. Two of the most famous Asian players ever will both play for Houston, interesting. The Rockets have the Chinese market in their hands.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 08:48 PM) Like Lefebre just said you need to wrestle Jake to get the ball out of his hands. It's a different standard when he's on the mound. I'd have less of a problem if he wasn't throwing badly. Two on, nobody out.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) Come on, get him out of there. Sox are going to need Peavy during the 2nd half, and having him go 120 pitches in starts is just asking him to wear down. This is the second game after the ASB, if we can't use our bullpen now, when can we use it?

Why is Peavy still pitching? The entire bullpen was not THAT taxed last night. Thornton threw one inning, Santiago threw to one batter.

Tank!

Orioles walk-off!

QUOTE (johnnymick @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 03:24 PM) Cleveland loses. Phew.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) So apparently people are freaking out about a rookie who has a 86.67 SV%. A lot of those saves were in one run situations as well. It's not like he's been handed 3 run leads the whole time.

Wow that scared me. Toronto still with a 2 run lead.

Toronto's closer is in.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 02:59 PM) who would you rather have, Beckham or Kipnis? I think just about everyone would say Kipnis.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 14, 2012 -> 02:22 AM) Well you clearly didnt see it but Reed didnt suck. Reed didn't seem to be really on his game. He was throwing 93 MPH fastballs up there at times and he simply didn't have his slider.

Hell of a job by Beckham and Axelrod in the last 3 innings.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) It doesn't mean much really. A lower D rating is better, but D rating is a stat that is influenced heavily by the other players on the team so it doesn't tell you much about individual defense That is its flaw. Boozer had a 95 DRating last year... But the point is, the good defensive players usually have low DRatings, regardless of who they played with.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 02:27 PM) Celtics got Greg Stiemsma for basically 0. His per was 13.62 last year (Asik's was 13.44) The problem with the NBA is that if the guy isnt well scouted in college, many NBA teams just wont even look at them. With Asik's lack of improvement on the offensive end, there is just no way to justify this contract. There are a handful of NCAA players each year who are 7 feet or so that arent even drafted, who can just be a body in the middle. Stiemsma actually had a lower DRating than Asik last year and Asik had a 92, which was one of the lowest in all of the NBA.

Marinez still has really crappy control. Let's see how it goes at the ML level.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 02:24 PM) I will miss the hot sauce lol this team has no outside shooting now. Korver was the only efficient 3 point shooter on the team.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) I get the notion that the Bulls feel like they have invested so much time into him, that they don't want to see him blossum somewhere else, but it just doesn't make sense to me, especially with Taj coming up for a contract. I think pretty much everyone agrees that Taj > Asik.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) So they can re-sign Asik. Awesome. I was hoping to get cap relief + something back.

Ewwww So we basically traded Korver for Hinrich and like $2 million of cap relief.

I swear, the more and more I think about it, the more the Royals are becoming the Twins during their not-so-good years of the past decade, as they always seem to have some sort of an edge against us. The only difference is that they're not that good.

The thought of Bruce Chen dominating our lineup still haunts me.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 02:03 PM) And? I called him slightly better than average. His statistics, as you just cited...actually say I'm wrong...and he's NOT better than average...he's merely average. A 3.82 FIP is not average, especially not in a homerun friendly park like U.S. Cellular Field. Danks has been an above average starter for much of his career and he posted ace-like numbers in 08 and 10.