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QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) Just once, I want to see Tad argue with an ump. I bet he really curses umps in japanese when he's walking back to the dugout.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) Pods never dropped the bat.. lol Someone posted earlier in the thread it was day-to-day, he'll probably sit out tomorrow. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he sat out the make-up game on Monday also.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:25 PM) OK, for argument's sake, let's just say that Javy has turned a corner. Why did it take so long, do you think? Maybe Vazquez finally decided to let Coop change whatever he thought necessary, whereas before he wanted to pitch his own way? Ever have a bad habit someone was trying to break you of? Every time Vazquez got nervous, or got runners on in his last few starts, he'd get nervous, and his technique would start breaking down. And he'd go back to trying to nibble, and he'd start throwing a lot of balls, and then he'd get hurt. He didn't have the confidence in what he was doing to really focus. I bet that Cooper coming out in the 5th after that walk was really important today.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:23 PM) So....we can get Javy into the 8th. Maybe the 9th from Cotts or Riske and that's game. Maybe even Javy in the 9th if he has a quick 8th. 95 pitches through the end of the 7th. Give him the 8th, or at least let him start it, since it's the bottom of the Jays' order. Let Cotts have the 9th, just to try to give him some more chances to get it right again when the game isn't on the line.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) One game does not a season (or career) make. No, it does not, but when you're struggling, if you make a small change and suddenly it works, the most important thing it does? Confidence. Javy may walk out of this inning feeling like he's found his marbles. And Vazquez + Marbles should scare the daylights out of the AL.

Season high, 10 k's for JV.

QUOTE(GoRowand33 @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:18 PM) is it possible that coop might have fixed javvy You may know by the end of this inning.

So, they don't know it yet, but today is a day that should get the rest of the AL scared.

Happy pitching dance time!

QUOTE(Wanne @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 03:07 PM) What's Ozuna's status? Pablowned.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 02:57 PM) Well, if we let him give up 2 runners, then it's going to be a 6-4 game when Cotts gives up a homer to the first guy he sees Not if Thome has anything to say about that... Anyway, I can live with 6-4 after Cotts gives up the dong.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 02:54 PM) That's why I said we should pull him with the first runner he allows. And I don't care about his fragile little ego. With a 5 run lead, I say give him 2 baserunners.

Welcome back to the good BA.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 5, 2006 -> 02:50 PM) At the most, let him give up one hit in the 6th, then pull him. Ozzie will not send a new pitcher out there to start the 6th. And, interestingly, despite the last few 6th innings, I don't think he should. Especially with a 5 run lead. If he gives up a baserunner or two, pull him. But if nothing else, every out we get out of him saves the bullpen a little more.

APPLAUSE

One more JV...come on...

Man, he really earned that walk, you gotta grant him that.

Shadows starting to creep across the mound

That pitch was just mean...

That's a little better...

Time to get the bullpen up.

No postgame show today.

Heck, with Burnett on the mound tomorrow, it might well be an ideal day to give Mack a shot at 3rd anyway.

Hope he didn't flare up his back.

Santorum's people even did the signature collecting for the green party.