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Anyone still playing Destiny on PS4? Got a 28 Hunter and a 26 Titan. Gamertag is al_magest.

I lurked here for a long time (and WSI, but ehhhhhhhhhh) before creating an account, so I remember Ncorgbl. He was the one who used to call Bartolo Colon "tub of goo", and treat it like it was the best insult ever, right?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 22, 2014 -> 08:28 AM) After yesterday, Garcia now has 168 PAs, the same amount of PAs he had last year with the Sox. 2013: .304/.327/.446/.775 - 5 HR 21 RBI - OPS+ 109 - 38/5 K/BB 2014: .267/.333/.460/.793 - 7 HR 27 RBI - OPS+ 122 - 40/14 K/BB So 12 hr 48 rbi OPS+ ~ 115 over 1/2 a season essentially? I'll take that as our starting right fielder any day.

I thought this was interesting from today's Keith Law chat: Isn't Greg Walker still there?

Jeff has been a league-average pitcher since joining Oakland, which is closer to his career stats than his time with the Cubs. I think at this point you can assume the first half of this year was an outlier. He's not gonna be worth a huge contract.

Dylan Axelrod shutting down the Cubs so far

Baez's first at-bat is a strikeout.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 4, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) And they would demand he gets traded for a closer Addison Reed.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:29 PM) They can't go on a run. I think their longest winning streak is 4.Hard to go on sustained runs when you have the giant starting pitching holes we have had all season.

Tyler Flowers is having good at-bats, even when he strikes out. He fouled off some tough pitches, including high fastballs tonight, and those are things he didn't do before The Magic Glasses. I don't think he's all of a sudden going to be a solid or even average hitter, but... maybe? I can hope, right?

QUOTE (The 815 @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 02:52 PM) Is there a "send mass PM to every user" button?It's probably possible to write a browser extension to mass-PM people.

Good at-bat by Beckham, but flies out to end the game. That 9th inning fell apart because of terrible at-bats by Viciedo and DeAza.

Man, I didn't realize how BAD DeAza is against LHP. That at-bat was almost as bad as Viciedo's.

Twins announcers wondering why DeAza is hitting, since he's hitting .083 against lefties. I don't think we have any outfielders left on the bench besides Leury.

Man, Viciedo looks lost sometimes. 1 out.

Twins broadcast said "don't pitch to Abreu". Pino listened for 3 pitches, then hung a slider for a double down the left field line. 2-1 Sox.

Carroll gettin' rocked. Also, I don't necessarily blame Tank for that one. That wall is stupid.

Didn't Pino shut us down earlier this year?

Wow does Tank look awful

Conor needs to find playing time as a super-sub, only starting against right-handers. 3B, DH, 1B, 2B, LF are the places I'd try him. I really would not mind seeing him slide over to 2B, but I doubt he has the range for it. We do have a glut of middle infielders and I think trading Alexei would be a smart move - I'd also offload Beckham if you could get anything decent for him. You can then bring Gillaspie, Sanchez and Semien into 3B SS 2B and see what you have. Davidson I'd wait until at least next season, assuming at least one of those options fails. Leury Garcia needs some more time in the minors.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 03:01 PM) This tells me that the Sox are looking at dealing a starting pitcher at the deadline.Gotta be Danks. Only other candidate who could bring anything back would be Quintana (Sale's not going anywhere), and I doubt they'd trade him for anything other that completely gutting some team's top prospect list.

2-run oppo bomb by Baez on a high curveball.

Micah Johnson alert (coming up to bat) in the Futures Game. Streaming for free on mlb.com.

Micah Johnson alert (coming up to bat) in the Futures Game. Streaming for free on mlb.com.

@WojYahooNBA Chris Bosh is finalizing an agreement to return to Miami on a five-year, $118M deal, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.