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QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 07:59 PM) God Bless, Bill Simmons. Haha.

McAnulty looks like a softball player.

Let's see how Gavin reacts to the run support. We need at least one more quality inning Gavin.

Quentin, YES! That should be it for Kazmir. My dream has come true.

Come on Q, take Kazmir out of this game.

Noice!

Kazmir is bad. Why are we not hitting him?

2-1.

Well that sucks.

lol Torii Hunter.

He is McLilli...

Lillibridge = MVP

Andruw's actually being useful.

A.J. almost hit one out.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 06:35 PM) Why ever walk Jones? Kazmir has bad control.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 06:20 PM) anyone have a link to the catch? Go on mlb.com and launch at bat.

Alexei!

lol @ the Knicks.

Holy crap.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) See what you did there ? Why couldn't you say they all have strengths and weaknesses . Its quite possible that these guys have the players respect and can do a good job despite playing a hunch once in a while or going by the book and not having it work out the way you want it to turn out. They have 25 different people to manage with varying degrees of skill . There will always be situation where you have to use the ones at the end of the bench in a crucial situation. Every decision is not cut and dried. You can't use stats all the time to manage people, especially people from different cultures where the only thing they have in common is baseball . It's impossible to get the the results you want because there's so many things you have no control over. All it takes is for one guy to have a lousy day to screw up an otherwise great day or make you look like a fool. The problem is that Ozzie plays hunches too much. His lineup making skills are bad, he doesn't have a good sense of what on base percentage means. Maybe it's because he never thought it was important as a player. He plays way too many matchups with his bullpen (Randy Williams is a great example). And he absolutely hates to play younger players (Viciedo, the whole thing with Beckham last year). It's not so much that I don't like Ozzie as an off the field manager, he's one of the better managers when it comes to that (and that has to do with the whole managing players part). It's because Ozzie is a terrible on the field manager and his perspective of what a good player is is very very outdated. His tactics are old and he makes this team play like it's in the NL. The problem is that we play in the AL and all the other teams are trying to maximize their run scoring while we're giving outs away.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) Except Inge really does suck. Like, a lot. The only thing he sucks at is hitting, and in his good years, he's not even that bad. I haven't busted out the numbers on his fielding because I thought people knew Inge was actually a pretty good defender, but now I don't have much of a choice... As a 3B, Brandon Inge has racked up a UZR of +34.7 at 3B, that's 5.9 runs saved per 150 games. Over the past 3 years, Inge is ranked 8th among all full-time 3B in UZR, only behind names like Longoria, Beltre, Zimmerman, Figgins, Rolen, and Feliz. Over the past three years, Inge also ranks 6th among all 3B in Plus/Minus, only behind some of the names I listed above. What's funny is that over the past three years, Inge is also the leader among all 3B in zone rating, which is the amount of balls the fielder can handle that are in his zone. So your Tigers fan friends aren't exactly right about him being terrible at routine plays.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 05:17 PM) Huh? http://twitter.com/Ian_OConnor/status/17819620738

LeBron and Wade aren't happy with Bosh's "piggybacking".

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 04:36 PM) Except it really isn't. He'll make some spectacular plays at 3rd, but he also makes some dumb mistakes and will botch routine plays. Eh, I think this is the same thought process people had about Alexei. Overall, Inge is a good fielder. If sure handedness was the measure of good defense, Jeter would be one of the best defenders in baseball - he's clearly not.

QUOTE (Real @ Jul 5, 2010 -> 04:49 PM) Prediction: Wade never had any intention of leaving the Heat, same with Lebron, though Lebron actually considered it mildly Could be really devastating for Bulls fans if we end up with Boozer and David Lee, ouch What's the point of getting both...?