LittleHurt05

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 02:17 PM) Detroit's home record is simply amazing. How are the Tigers doing it? Are the Tigers ultimately Central champs? What??? Lets look at some home records around baseball DET 25-11 NYY 25-10 TEX 26-12 ATL 25-7 NYM 27-11 STL 23-12 SF 25-12 There's about 3 or 4 other teams within 2 or 3 games of the Tigers home record. Amazing.

Deciding between going to the game tonight or tommorrow, weather report looks 50-50 for both games. Hmmmm....

Bowman said that no more trades are needed to stay under the cap & re-sign Niemi & Hjalmarsson. I won't believe it until I see Steegiak in a Hawks jersey come October.

Just watched a bunch of highlights & reactions from Donovan's goal. I'm pumped now, let's get it done! Just hope the refs don't feel pressure to help the one African team left.

Good buddy of mine from college is playing in the main event, he won a seat from one of the online sites. He is trying to get some of us to buy in a percent of his entry to help offset some of his costs. I'm thinking about buying in 1% ($100), but only like 10% of the players win any money, and the lowest prize is just $20k, which would only double my hundred bucks.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 12:27 PM) Johan is looking bad. 36 pitches, down 2-0 and still not out of the first, ouch. I guess the Twins can't lose them all.

8 walks isn't even the record for a no-hitter. AJ Burnett threw 9 walks in 2001, & Jim Maloney had 10 walks in a 10-inning game vs. the Cubs in 65.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 10:40 PM) Haha! Nice! I actually live in Warsaw, Poland. She actually would be OK with me posting it, especially in a small group like this where max there will only be 20-30 people or so seeing the pics. In fact she even told me I could post that one on Facebook but I am not going to do it, since my fellow American friends tend to be more sensitive than people are in Europe about sexuality. I'll probably take down the directory in a few days but in the meantime leave it up for the Sox Talk family :-). And Caufield, indeed, sounds like you've had a good run of it worldwide. There's plenty to explore in other cultures and Eastern Europe is just one of many places to do it! All Sox Talk members are free to PM me if they should ever make it out here! Warsaw representing!!!!! Thats where my parents are from, I was born here, but been out there on several occasions, good times.

TCQ

Konerko

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:24 PM) The attendence numbers there are misleading because of the addition to the ballpark a few years ago. I'll bet if you looked at % of seats filled, it is the lowest it has been for a while. The attendance numbers are also tickets sold, not actual butts in the seats. They have their own ticket brokers they sell tickets to, and with the other scalpers/brokers out there, I bet there's many tix that go unused as well.

SS2k5, you rock!!!! Let's make it 11!!!!!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 05:59 PM) DLee can be seen clearly shouting "that's bulls***" at Zambrano in the clip. And he definitely says "Shut the f*** up" to Z as well

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 09:17 PM) Like Brian asked a week or so ago, why the hell is Billy Wagner retiring? He just violated three Tiger hitters. I watched that 9th inning, pretty damn unhittable. He was on B & B earlier this week when they were in town. They asked him the same question, he basically said that when he was out with his injury, he realized he how much he enjoys spending time with this kids and working on his farm. He's ready to be done with baseball and just spend all his time being a Dad and running the farm back home.

Wow, good work E-Jax, congrats. LOL at Dontrelle Willis, he was the first person running out of that dugout

The New York Metropolitans are my favorite squadron. 1.5 back

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:38 PM) Jackson threw 132 in a start last year. This is the 6th time he's thrown 120+ all within the past 2 years. That doesn't necessarily make it a good idea though.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:45 PM) Poor Rays... lol... seriously There has to be a reason why the Rays are so no-hitter friendly. They are obviously a great hitting team but it can't be a coincidence why this keep happening to them.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) Less people in the world play the sport, therefore the skill level is probably down compared to soccer and basketball which have the best athletes due to the popularity around the world of those two sports. The percentage of people that have played hockey and won a championship is way higher than the percentage of people that have played basketball and won a championship. I don't think physicality has anything to do with how "hard" it is to win a championship but thats just the way I look at the question. If you look at the question that way, then the World Cup is the only answer. More people in the world play soccer than any other sport and nothing else can even compare. That doesn't even take into account that it is only every 4 years. Reading this thread, its obvious that everyone reads the question differently, so its hard to actually agree on a consensus answer.

LOL. Saw "in play, no out" on game day and figured it was over. Error, guess not. Your franchise ace has already missed over a season because of arm trouble, should this guy really be hitting 130 pitches just for a crappy no-hitter?

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:53 PM) Which one will go apes*** over the check? I hope its not Zambrano, the one with the $18 million salary

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:07 PM) Tigers and Twins currently both trailing. Twins down 3 bottom of the 8th, with K-Rod lurking for the 9th

1982

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) I'm shocked the Stanley cup has got so many votes. To me it seems like the easiest. It is by far the least popular sport so not as much competition, plus a ton of teams make the playoffs and any team can win in the playoffs so you don't have to build a great team to have a chance. What does the popularity have anything to do with how much competition there is? You are still facing the highest level of skill in that sport. The fact that any team can win it makes it that much tougher. In basketball, the team with the most talent nearly almost wins. In hockey, you can face some unlucky bounces of the puck or face a hot goalie and your talented team is done. Not to mention, the physical grind that 20-25 playoff games of non-stop hitting and physical play takes on your body as well.

I guess in the first inning, Bob Brenly said "This has been a dead ass team for 3 months now"