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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 10:12 PM) I'd take Mark Trumbo at this point. Viciedo will hit for a much higher average. He hits too many line drives not to.

Right handed Ryan Howard.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) I hope someone pisses in Washington's coke. And I'm tired of Hamilton, like milkman said he got in cause he was a coke addict. Hamilton's been good this year. Even though he missed a full month.

Spam this s***: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y20...gballot-FV-2011

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 12:00 PM) What are Jeter, Martin and Wieters doing on that team? I refuse to watch that crap. Jeter's an automatic vote-in every year.

Alexei's recent slump must have took him out of the running for a reserve spot. Cabrera and Peralta have far better offensive numbers this year.

Full list: http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/5/31/2199427/...tulowitzki-lead

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 11:53 AM) Its also tough seeing Brandon League make it over Sergio Santos I can understand League. He leads the AL in saves. But Chris Perez? WTF? Santos has been way better. Other than Crow and Perez, I can't argue that the pitchers selections are all that horrible. Gio had to go since the A's had no other all-stars.

Konerko made the final vote.

Aaron Crow made the all-star team? My goodness... If KC gets Gordon + Crow and we only get Quentin, Ron Washington needs to go to rehab.

Cuddyer was probably also selected because he can play 3B and RF.

Humber should definitely be on the team.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 11:23 AM) Pretty ridiculous. Lets hope he gets in through the vote in. But this is beyond stupidity, even tho 1B is stacked, Konerko deserves it and so does Humber, but there are a ton of good pitchers, but seeing Cuddyer make it in front of Konerko is disgusting. Forgot, Congrats to Quentin on his selection. The Twins need a representative. Although I think Span was much more deserving. Swap Span and Quentin and Cuddyer and Konerko and I think it seems a lot more fair.

It's freaking Rodrigo Lopez. Wake the f*** up offense.

QUOTE (High Mileage @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 01:44 AM) The rotation has nothing to do with Super Two. The arms we have just aren't ready. Duffy is learning on the fly, and we lost John Lamb to Tommy John Surgery. Mike Montgomery is having his up's and down's in Triple A. Jake Odorizzi was dominating high-A ball and was just promoted to Double-A. Bruce Chen went 12-7 with a 4.17 ERA for us last year. He's been hurt this year, but he's still pitched well. Paulino has also pitched well for us. Davies is just plain terrible and Francis is a filler... Paulino has some real potential.

QUOTE (Real @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 12:18 AM) Do you really think we had a chance? I'm sure we had talks with Florida but the package was pretty lackluster. Detroits centerpiece was Andrew Miller right? Florida totally bombed that trade. They got nothing out of Maybin and Miller. The offer the Sox had out there would have been a much better return (wasn't Floyd or Danks in that offer?)

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 10:51 PM) Their offense could certainly win them some games as well. Seattles offense last season was embarrassing That Tigers offense is very scary. Although I fully expect Avila and Boesch to regress. I don't see them both hitting .300 for the rest of the season.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 09:32 PM) Bart has a 1.5 WAR... And this stuff with Edwin and his advanced statistics is crazy...so is he incredibly unlucky then or are some of these advanced metrics still a bit questionable? Context is everything. The reason why Jackson has an ERA a whole run higher than his FIP is because he's getting hit hard. He's giving up 25% line drives. So his .340 something BABIP is not a coincidence, per say. Jackson's tERA is 4.28, which is pretty much what his ERA is right now. In cases where guys are getting shelled by high LD rates, it's easy to see how FIP might not work. The same thing goes for Zack Greinke right now, too, but to an absolute extreme.

QUOTE (NIUSox @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 07:05 PM) Plus there are some major shout outs to Aurora on the highways signs in that scene. :headbang I enjoyed that. Although wasn't that scene supposed to be in Washington? The entire plot is full of holes. It's pretty funny.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 06:17 PM) This Phil Humber s*** gets more awesome by the nanosecond. His stuff wasn't even good today, but he got out of trouble when he needed to.

.500!

Darrin Jackson called for a DP and a pop up on the radio. He can see the future today.

Missed it by that much...

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 1, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) Michael Jordan My Dearest Laquette How are you and your family doing, fine I hope. I am in my Adv. Chemistry class writing you a letter, so that tell you how much I care for you. I decide to write you because I felt that I made you look pretty rotten after the last night. I want to tell you that I am sorry, and hope that you except my apologie. I know that you feelings was hurt whenever I loss my necklace or had it stolen. I was really happy when you gave me my honest coin money that I won off the bet. I want to thank you for letting me hold your annual. I show it to everyone at school. Everyone think you are a very pretty young lady and I had to agree because it is very true. Please don't let this go to your head. (smile) I sorry to say that I can't go to the game on my birthday because my father is taking the whole basketball team out to eat on my birthday. Please don't be mad because I am trying get down there a week from Feb. 14. If I do get the chance to come please have some activity for us to do together. I want you to know that my feeling for you has not change yet. ← (joke) I am finally getting use to going with a girl much smaller than I. I hope you my hint. Well I have spent my time very wisely by write to you. I hope you write back soon. Well I must go, the period is almost over. See you next time around, which I hope comes soon. With my Best Love Michael J. Jordan http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont...?urn=nba-wp5843 Michael speak learned good. So MJ was in advanced chemistry, but never AP English. Big deal.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 1, 2011 -> 12:21 PM) No idea what the bolded means... but with similar offenses results-wise, it comes down to pitching (hugely in favor of the Sox) and defense (somewhat in favor of the Sox). So let's play like the better team and win at least two. Offense has been down this year. The Sox have a .314 wOBA. The Cubs have a .318 wOBA. In any previous year in the past two decades (except maybe last year and 1992), those would be in the bottom 33% of the league. But this year, since offense is down, it's right about average.