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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 01:51 PM) He's juicing and will fall apart next year? The second part could come true.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 01:50 PM) God damn Phil Humber. Makin' me look more foolish every start. And yet Dunn has deprived me of my baseball spirit. I'm confident that Humber is Loaiza part 2.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 01:46 PM) In the fangraphs world, Omar has 48.5 WAR in his career. While that's not first ballot, it's at least borderline...and interpreting it is hampered by the fact that there isn't good defensive video for most of teh 90's when he played his best defensive ball. When you factor that in, he ranks well. I'd say 65-75 WAR is Hall of Fame worthy. Considering how long Omar's played and he's still not at the 50 mark, I give him a very big "meh". If he makes it in, good for him, but I wouldn't vote him in.

Wow, Humber's getting squeezed badly in this PA.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) Once guys like Hawk start saying a guy is a first-ballot HOF-er, they're probably right...because the HOF voters are a lot of old baseball people, often like Hawk. lol this has some truth to it.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 01:40 PM) Is anyone else tired of Hawk's constant "First Ballot HOFer Omar Vizquel" talk? It really annoys me when he talks about the guy like he's one of the all-time greats. You could compare him to Ozzie Smith, but Ozzie was a freaking wizard with the glove. He had two more GG's even while playing four less seasons. Either way, I've never seen Omar as a HOFer at all, much less a first ballot guy. Anyone agree? He's not a HOFer.

AJ's been really good lately.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Because no one would be outraged or because the cop would never have said anything? The first.

Who's Hector Santiago?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 25, 2011 -> 12:59 AM) Ilyasova is also a banger down low and will back guys down. Those are things that Mirotic doesn't have in his game. At least not yet. This is what I'm trying to tell you. Right now, his game most resembles Bargnani. As in a big man who spends most of his time on the perimeter and wont get you much more than 5 or 6 rebounds a game. Mirotic hustles way more than Bargnani though. No reason to think he can't develop into Bargnani, who is 5 years older. Ilyasova's not a bad player. I'd say he's not that much worse than Bargnani if you give him as many touches as Bargnani gets. I haven't watched him that much, but from the splits, he is pretty much just a jump shooter. 73% of his shots are jump shots. 27% come from the inside. Those kind of splits aren't what down low bangers do.

At least there's no chance we come back now. One error. Ugh.

The position players must hate Matt Thornton with a vengeance. Because they f*** up whenever he's pitching.

That's game. This game hurts a lot.

There is no way they come back from this one.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:53 PM) Wow, did Bixler get two bases on the throwing error? Brian f***ing Bixler. This makes me sick.

That's the second run we've given them in extras because of piss poor defense. Terrible.

Oh my god...Teahen really? Alexei? Come on.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:50 PM) You talking about at Detroit? It was Todd Jones, and not Doug Jones and his palm ball. Yeah Todd Jones. My bad.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:49 PM) Technically he's slated for Sunday... That'll be tomorrow in 10 minutes. Just sayin' he's been better than Danks lately.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:48 PM) Valverde? Valverde wasn't on the Tigers in 08. Dye hit a huge go-ahead homer I remember. I think it was off Doug Jones.

Here is the great Brian Bixler.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:47 PM) Good thing we have our hottest pitcher going tomorrow. That would still be Humber IMO.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:46 PM) The last few years, the Sox have not been a big "celebration" team. That doesn't mean anything at all. Basically since Swisher left, you don't see any goofiness, etc. I remember the Sox dugout exploded 3 years ago when the Sox scored 3 runs to beat the Tigers in the 9th.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:45 PM) Or what they think of AJ... Which has a lot to do with chemistry.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:44 PM) I can say for a fact that's simply not true. AJ hits a huge homer to tie the game and the dugout isn't pumped? That says a lot about the team's chemistry.