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Omar just saved Thorntons ass

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 30, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) So if Thornton is pitching the 7th, who has the 8th and 9th? Putz and Jenks

QUOTE (fathom @ May 30, 2010 -> 02:05 PM) Be honest, do you watch the games? Between this conversation and the Jenks arguments you try to make, I'm convinced you've bought into Ozzie's philosophy of just reading the back of the baseball card and not using your own eyes. Peavy should have come out after he gave up the single to Upton.. I didnt have a problem with him starting the inning

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) And Jake is one of those guys many would have expected to be included in that list. And if he has 7 or 8 wins by now that means our record against Cleveland would most likely be better too since he would have pitched to them a couple times st least by now. If he had 7 or 8 wins right now he would be one of the best pitchers in the league, I just think that's asking a little much especially when many didn't even know how he was going to translate to the AL.. and while I agree it would sure be nice if Peavy wasn't crap this season, we cant play as bad against teams like Cleveland.. I think thats a little more important..

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:46 PM) So replacing a 3 win pitcher with a 7 win pitcher would make no difference? There are only 8 pitchers in the entire league with 7 or more wins, Cleveland is a team that we should be beating.. its a little different

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:42 PM) If Jake was playing like a true ace and put up David Price type of numbers we might be about 4 games back right now. If that were the case Kenny might have a good case to add one more power bat to make us a contender. Nah, we've lost what.. 6 games to Cleveland already? They might end up being the worst team in the league.. that alone right now is the biggest reason we aren't much closer..

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:39 PM) Hell, at this point why not? If he's got a tired arm, let him work it out if he thinks he's good to go. for as much s*** as hes taken in this thread.. one more inning and he could have given us a quality start, on the road, against Tampa.. Ill take that

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:36 PM) AND THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT NIX SITTING ON THE BENCH WHILE OMAR WAS GETTING MORE PLAYING TIME! Joking? Nix is still hitting .172, to be honest I don't really care for either of them..

how the hell does that happen

Im going to say we dont score here

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ May 30, 2010 -> 01:19 PM) I wonder how DJ Carrasco is doing these days. 29 IP 3.94 ERA for Pitt

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 30, 2010 -> 12:31 PM) Geez, get out of here with your batting averages and RBIs, will ya? lol

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 30, 2010 -> 12:25 PM) Why not? If Justin Morneau wasn't hitting out of his mind, Rios would be the leader in WAR in the AL at 2.6. geez get out of here with that WAR crap aside from Morneau I could prolly name 4-5 more people having better seasons than Rios and deserve way more consideration for MVP

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 30, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) You really have to consider giving Rios some early MVP votes right now. why?

Rios is gonna go 30-30 this year

QUOTE (knightni @ May 29, 2010 -> 01:15 AM) It depend how healthy you eat and your healthy your lifestyle is. The time I tried it, I ended up spending my plasma money on food because your body gets so hungry after you're done due to lost blood plasma. i donated plasma for a full year once.. i was in college and had no money it takes about an hour and they stick a pretty wicked needle into your arm but its not too bad and yeah, you can make some decent money for just sitting in a chair for an hour.. the best part was immediately after we got done we would take the filter out of a cigarette and power smoke it, you could barely stand up after that..

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 27, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) As far as I'm concerned, neither was a balk. Didn't really look like it, but two in consecutive innings? come on now

there had to be something personal involved in this, there's no way Buehrle balks in two consecutive innings..

QUOTE (vandy125 @ May 27, 2010 -> 01:00 PM) Would you say that the system that teams set up to run is partially dictated by the type of home field they have? sure, but that doesn't have anything to do with the relationship of weather to player.. a power running game is a power running game, the Dolphins and Jets both had top 5 running attacks last season.. how? very good offensive lines and good backs.. the conditions of their homes? complete opposites..

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ May 27, 2010 -> 06:34 AM) I dont see why its ok for the conference championship games to be in cold weather environment but not the Superbowl, so its ok for the 2nd most important games of the season to be in blizzards but not the most important As its already been said, those games are played on the teams home field who earned it.. they aren't neutral sites so I don't really see how you can compare the two.. If you are going to put it in cold weather sites, why not just scrap the neutral stadium stuff and just have the best team host it.. then it will at least be in cold and warm places depending on who is there..

QUOTE (hogan873 @ May 27, 2010 -> 06:29 AM) It can rain during the Super Bowl, too. And it has a few times. Yeah it can, but the likelihood of terrible weather in the current cities vs the conditions in New York at 6-7 PM in January-February is a pretty big difference..

In Jenks we trust...

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 26, 2010 -> 11:41 PM) As someone already said, would you have stuck with Shingo as the closer in 2005? I think it was said that he was 8-9 in save opportunities and had a better ERA than Jenks does now. There is a little bit of a difference between Shingo being the closer for not even a full year and the body of work Jenks has done as our closer over the last 5 years.. And again, I don't see why there is some urgency to remove him when he isn't blowing saves yet.. im fully aware that Jenks has been bad this season so far, but he hasn't been costing us games on a regular basis.. These are his save situations.. Including his lone blown save which was 0 IP and 4 R 7 IP - 10 H - 4 R - 3 BB - 8 K This is everything else.. 10 IP - 14 H - 9 R - 9 BB - 13 K Like I said, stop using him in non save situations..

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 26, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) It's asinine to say that Pods hasn't been the better player this year. I didn't say that, I was disagreeing that Pods has blown Pierre out of the water..

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 26, 2010 -> 11:44 PM) And Ive been to 2 of the coldest games in Soldier Field history, stayed for every minute. It was great. Ive been to cold sporting events too, and I enjoy them as well.. however, for competitive purposes and getting the best game possible for the biggest game of the season I don't see why they wouldn't aim for having the best possible conditions.. a couple years ago in a total downpour the Dolphins played the Steelers in a Monday Night "Shootout" that ended 3-0.. it was the most boring game I have ever watched in my life.. i couldn't imagine having to watch a Super Bowl like that