There used to be a stat that in the NBA, a scoring champion had never won a title. MJ destroyed that. Ozzie wanted to get away from depending on homers even though that and some great pitching got him a ring. Even on this board, homers were considered a bad thing for a while. For some reason people preferred doubles and singles. With a team that's not very fast, its not going to work unless you have .300 hitters with .370 OBP up and down the line up.

 

Some still do when it comes to Ramiriez. I'll take his clutch hitting any day.

 

 

 

It was at a season ticketholder party last year. They sell the same stuff they sell at the Sox garage sales.

 

Thats pretty awesome. At the jersey store I normally go to up there...all they had were a crap load of Favre jersey's on clearance.

Did anyone say he should have been given a major league job? No, no one did. I'm saying that having Johnson start over Viciedo against Fister leads to a better probability of success. I posted that LH batters have a much higher BA against Fister (55 pts) and noted that Johnson has been mighty good against RHP the past several years, albeit in AAA. You just said he sucked. That's great and informative.

Why are Johnson's major league numbers vs. RHP insignificant, but his minor league numbers what you should look at? Last I looked Fister is a major league pitcher, not Jeff Marquez.

Edited September 12, 201213 yr by Dick Allen

trouble brewing

Early turning point of the game.

 

Cabrera vs. Peavy, who wins?

That ball snapped a streak of about 14 straight strikes from Jake.

C'mon jake

Try and ace him inside?

Holy crap that stayed in

HELL YEA JAKE

 

Sit you cocky ass down Miguel

geez he just missed that one

Thought that was gone for sure.

 

Automatic reflex with Cabrera to assume it's a homer.

 

I don't think you would want to bet on beating Cabrera 3-4 times in one game with 92-93 MPH fastballs over and over again.

 

You can get away with it once, maybe twice.

Edited September 12, 201213 yr by caulfield12

When KW gave his intellect comments, most of us assumed he meant the Sox should try bunting a little bit Cabrera's way. Have they done that at all so far this series?

Why are Johnson's major league numbers vs. RHP insignificant, but his minor league numbers what you should look at? Last I looked Fister is a major league pitcher, not Jeff Marquez.

 

I said that in my prior post. The last decent sample size was five years ago. More recent data is more valuable when predicting something.

 

But if you want to say, "Hey, it was in AAA" you definitely can, and I get it. It's a very legitimate point, and trust me, I'm not just writing it off.

You could tell that was in the park by Cabrera's reaction.

When KW gave his intellect comments, most of us assumed he meant the Sox should try bunting a little bit Cabrera's way. Have they done that at all so far this series?

 

I think DeAza and Pierzynski tried last night. Nothing tonight.

haha ok

Yay Becksy!!!

I am so glad to be wrong about Gordon Beckham right now.

Yes!

Beckham has been hitting & hitting WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl

 

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

Beckham with a late season resurgence.

 

Reminded me of Major League movie. "Too high, too high!!!"

STRETCH

 

::barely makes warning track::

These Tigers announcers sound so deflated.....

 

How come Hawk only gets hammered for his homerism?

Beckham the Tiger killer.