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QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 26, 2010 -> 12:26 PM) So, I can remember 1 other time when Buehrle was tossed, when he had that streak of 5+ IP or something. Does anybody remember who the umpire was in that game? Is that the only other time in his career? It was a streak of quality starts.

Joe West sucks.

Historical WAR is now on FanGraphs for easier access (you could have gotten it elsewhere before, but it wasn't as convenient). Now you can see how many wins Babe Ruth was really worth...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2010 -> 12:18 PM) Frank's walkoff bomb was against the Twins the year before I believe, and that was the day after we acquired Alomar and Everett...and the day before the Koch/Crawford implosion. Frank didn't have any walkoffs I can remember in 2005, but he did have a huge 3 run homer against Tampa Bay around the ASB in the 8th inning. I don't think any of us can forget the Koch/Crawford implosion. I think that was when I realized that Carl Crawford was actually good...

QUOTE (docsox24 @ May 24, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) why on earth is that guy swinging at a 3-0 pitch Why should anyone swing on 3-0 when Masterson has bad control? No wonder our team OBP blows.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 24, 2010 -> 06:20 PM) Steve Phillips was on WFAN in NY and said he would trade Stephen Strasburg for Roy Oswalt in a second. Um..... You know, he didn't sound this stupid when he was calling the game on MLB 2K10...

No wildpitch = GIDP. And of course, Kotsay swings on 3-0 and grounds out. What new.

And the wild pitch saves Ozzie.

Only Ozzie would sac bunt up 4-0 and have Acta then walk your best hitter to get to a GIDP machine. We've played this game before and we lost.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) He struggled mightily the last few months of that season offensively and defensively. He misjudged numerous important fly balls, seemingly whenever Jenks was on the mound. I do remember him misjudging that fly ball by Victor Martinez in the Cleveland series. And he also missed a couple of fly balls in the playoffs. But I think those might have been non-routine plays to begin with.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) And he totally hit the wall down the stretch of the season, was a year away from free agency, and the organization thought that he wasn't going to improve for various reasons. His defense was so overrated, IMO. Anderson and Rios make him look like Jermaine Dye out there. From 2003 to 2005, Rowand posted a combined UZR of +36.6 in 390 games and 2889.2 innings. That's a UZR/150 of 17.1, which is definitely elite. I don't think his defense was overrated when he was with the Sox at all...

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) Rowand hasn't touched an OPS+ of 100 since getting that $60M deal. Kenny >> Sabean Rios pwns Rowand out of the water.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:28 PM) He just needs a Dubee to set his mind right. Michael Dubee?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 24, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) I don't have a problem with the school giving out computing devices. I don't think the iPad is the best device, and it seems like it was done, at least partially, as a way to market towards potential students. "Hey, I get a cool iPad if I go to IIT!" If I'm the average person coming out of high school who is not anti-Apple and has been brainwashed to worship Apple by most of my peers and I was having a tough decision deciding between IIT and another school, I'd probably want to go to IIT because of this.

I find it surprising that they have a $55 million payroll...

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 23, 2010 -> 06:16 PM) Yep same here, not old enough to remember 1992, and also got into it in 1994 after going to a playoff win against Toronto at the old Chicago Stadium when I was but a young boy. Between the pretty play we saw quite a bit later on in the regular season and the goaltending, a lot of people (like myself obviously) didn't think this team would be able to win the mighty Western Conference. To not only do it, but to do it by sweeping an outstanding San Jose Sharks team is just incredible. They've made some great adjustments, got hot at the right time, and Niemi has been great obviously as well. The Hawks are a strong favorite in the Stanley Cup Finals regardless of who they play, and let's hope they can keep playing like they are right now, because they will win if they can do so. I would say Niemi is Bobby Jenks and Dustin Byfuglien is Joe Crede. Yeah, I think Buff's big goals are like Crede's big home runs in the WS and his huge double in game 2 of the ALCS.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 23, 2010 -> 10:52 AM) I was pretty pissed off at the response to this. yeah, it could just be a deal with apple, but schools do these deals ALL THE TIME with TONS of other products. However, for all the money the school takes from students to do minor aesthetic updates and to buy more flat screen tvs to up their US and World Report rankings, at least the school is spending the students money on a device that could actually enhance their learning experience, and in regards to ebooks, save them some money. I applaud them. I wish so much of my tuition wasn't used in a way tailored to artificially inflate our ranking instead of saving some of our departments that were producing great professors but completely underfunded and would leave. I'm pretty sure the ever increasing tuition that IIT students have to pay is responsible for some of those iPads, if not all of them. Old school people like my dad (who b****es about dinning hall food prices) would probably throw a hissy fit at something like this. And I sort of don't blame him. It'd be great if the iPad had a more convenient stylus input function. That way, it can be really useful to take notes on, something that I hate to do on pen and paper because I barely bother reading my notes afterwards.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 21, 2010 -> 09:16 AM) So I sent an e-mail to Steve Jobs today. this should be fun. I expect a simple answer "nope" That's a nowhere road. Although it's cool that a CEO would answer emails like that.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 23, 2010 -> 05:50 PM) As a diehard Blackhawks fan for the last 15 years....lmao. nm. I couldn't even post this without laughing. Congrats to the true hockey fans. I think the best way to be a good bandwagon fan is to actually learn about the game and familiarize with it so you don't come off as a total noob. I'm kind of taking this opportunity to do that. I found it cool that hockey also has a sabermetric-like group of statistical analysts. I've been reading some stuff over at Puck Prospectus.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 23, 2010 -> 05:37 PM) Edwin Encarnacion just hit his 5th HR in the last 3 days. Jose Bautista hit his 14th HR (tied with Konerko for the major league lead). And I suggest anybody who really, really likes offense to start watching more Arizona games. Chase field has become the new Coors. Can Jose Bautista be 2010's Ben Zobrist? Utility guy, gets power out of nowhere, etc. It always seems like that Blue Jay team just has hitters that go out of their mind. Last year, it was Lind and Hill. Now it's Bautista and Gonzalez. You can add Wells in there too.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 23, 2010 -> 05:24 PM) The Hawks season is a lot like the White Sox 2005. Fast start, dominating, then near the end of the season a rough patch where everyone was panicking, now rolling in the playoffs. And Niemi is Bobby Jenks/Joe Crede, lol.

Randy Williams should be off this team.

It'd be great to get something for Jenks that's worth while. The Phillies are pretty desperate for bullpen help.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2010 -> 01:53 PM) It's so obvious that Quentin needs to stand closer to the plate. He can't turn on anything with authority, and anything on the outside corner results in a lazy pop up to right field. Hard to get mad about Garcia's performance today, I'm more shocked it doesn't happen more often with his lack of anything on his pitches. He should try opening his stance up again and standing closer to the plate.

Looks like they're out to hit today. But just not with RISP.