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Potential Cy Young (Sale) vs potential MVP (Hamilton) isn't enough reason for a Sox fan to go to the game? This kind of attitude is why Darvish pitches for Texas and not the Sox.

I guess I meant that I can understand wanting to avoid Floyd or Humber if you are flexible about your dates and choose to see one of the other starters. If you live out of town, like me, and are only in town on certain days, then I'm going to the game no matter who is pitching. I have gotten lucky, though, getting Sale for my first game and it looks like Quintana for my second one.

Only going to Wrigley to see Strasburg is different, since you aren't a fan of either the Cubs or Nats. OP has 116 posts here in a little under a year so I'm assuming he's a Sox fan. I can understand wanting to avoid Floyd or Humber, but at least one of Sale, Peavy, or Quintana pitches every series, and if that plus Dunn, Konerko, and AJ aren't enough to get you to the park and you need a specific player from an opponent, then you really aren't much of a Sox fan.

So you're not buying Sox tickets because they won't be facing Darvish?

Commerce Secretary John Bryson has resigned.

It would take a lot more than $1K to buy my kid's name. Add another zero to the end to start, and then I'd discuss it from there.

Judge has thrown out 3 of the 51 remaining counts, so the jury is going to get to deliberate "only" 48 counts.

Here's what's really sad about the situation: Morel and Hudson have combined for a -0.9 WAR, so Youkilis is more of an upgrade that what you'd give up with Thornton.

Well, he hasn't been to the plate since 2009, so even though he bats left, I wouldn't trust him either.

That's the main reason I prefer the club level.

What we learned about Gavin last night: As bad as he's been, he's still way better than Zach Stewart.

No, I don't see ND moving to the Big 12. They will either keep the status quo, join the ACC or, or join the Big Ten.

Maybe that was the entire point of moving Sale back. Sell tickets for Wednesday, then move Sale's start back and then sell tickets for Friday.

Talking about the hitting prowess of Washington pitchers reminded me of a funny story: I was at a Cardinals-Nationals game at RFK (absolute worst place ever to watch a baseball game). Don't remember who, but Washington's #7 hitter cracked a two-out double with the bases empty. #8 hitter was Christian Guzman, who was hitting .189 at the time, and after him was Esteban Loaiza, who was hitting .240. I see LaRussa come out for a quick trip to the mound and I'm thinking, "This idiot is actually going to intentionally walk a guy batting .189." Well, he did, and Loaiza promptly slapped an RBI single to left. Dumbass LaRussa deserved that one.

Nationals = best-hitting NL pitchers, with an OPS of .517 Second best is Philly at .387

It's like the Ryder Cup. If the series ends up tied, the team that already has the cup gets to keep it. Sox already had it, so they keep it even if the Cubs win tonight and the season series splits 3-3.

Notre Dame has committed to 10 additional years of surprisingly good Big East records followed by underperforming in the conference and NCAA tournaments.

Was there every really any chance that he would?

Yes, run support is an issue also, but what I'm saying is that the pitchers' stats seem to suggest that they're pitching better than what the number of runs allowed is showing.

I think this is the problem. Not blaming you DA, because you should be trying to get tickets as cheaply as possible, but if a larger percentage of people are buying their tickets via resale, then that's a lower number of tickets getting sold by the original seller, which translates to lower numbers of tickets being sold. Maybe season tickets need to be priced dynamically and not just individual games. Oh, and start marketing outside the city. Put together bus trips from Rockford, Bloomington, Champaign, Lafayette, Indianapolis, and South Bend. Package includes bus trip + ticket + hot dog + coke.

Currently, Sox pitching is 2nd in AL in WHIP, 4th in (fewest) BB, 4th in K/BB, and 5th in K/9, yet 7th in (fewest) runs allowed. Is there anything to this, or am I just trying too hard to see the glass as half full?

I think an expert on slavery is the best place to direct the question, but I don't think that slave B would be upset that slave A got freedom by escaping. I know for a fact that legal immigrants from Mexico who waded through mountains of red tape to get and stay here are upset that illegals are getting amnesty. It's a different time frame and a different set of circumstances.

Jury has reached a verdict. Not sure when the announcement is expected.

Terrible analogy. Illegal immigrants came here by choice. Slaves did not.

So you've been to my family reunion before?