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QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 10:43 PM) LOL we're staring at 1-9 It might not be a complete overstatement. Have you seen how we play in Toronto? Screw these schedule makers man. They always put us in Toronto when we can't hit for s***.

That ump missed both of those pitches. According to Gameday, both were strikes and just had the corner.

This is why you don't let Mark Teahen pinch run for Konerko.

Thank goodness we left Kubel on the on deck circle. We're still not winning this game in the 9th, but whatever, lol.

I have a feeling that Morneau is just going to sit on a hanging slider and hit it to the concourse.

Mark Teahen at first? I'm not going to like this.

What is up with all these line drives right at people?

Ozzie uses Teahen to run instead of Nix. What?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 09:40 PM) Great heckler. Screaming, "Hudson, you're swinging too late! Hudson, start swinging now!" I heard that too lol.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 09:41 PM) Has Nix ever played LF? Yes.

Thornton just sawed Span and Hudson off.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) Tie game. Let's win it. Let's say I'm not utterly confident right now. Juan Pierre, baby, why no fly ball? This is Juan Pierre we're talking about. He hits around 55% of his balls in play into the ground.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 09:25 PM) Keep giving those outs away. Pierre is an RBI machine I forgot. Guillen continues to show his inabilities. Speaking of bunts, Ozzie should have tried to squeeze there. After all, I thought he was a man who gambled.

Another wasted double. What else is new?

Come backer...ugh.

Pierre is going to have a real hard time lifting anything up far enough to get Alexei in.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) I will go on the record saying I could see us bunting, but would prefer AJ swing away. It may take more than one run to win this thing, anyway. If it was the ninth inning, bunt. I won't freak either way. As long as A.J. makes contact and is thinking pull, I'm fine with him swinging.

Now this is when you should bunt.

Santos has a deadly slider fastball combo.

Ozzie still hasn't figured out that Linebrink sucks?

Ozzie doesn't care and as far as I know, he makes the f***ing lineup.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) Yeah, what's brutal about it is that it's a balk. But if they aren't calling it, it's tough to steal on it. It does look like a balk, but you can definitely differentiate it. His leg kick is slightly different on the pick off move.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 12:50 PM) Well, I have watched the Indians' broadcast the last two nights and they have been talking at length about the time it takes a pitcher to deliver to the plate. 1.3 seconds, according to them, is about league average. So .9-1.1 is actually very quick. Secondly, they remarked specifically about Perez's pickoff move, and said themselves that it is brutal. They said he shouldn't even throw over there because it gives the runner a chance to pick up on an indicator. So if your stopwatch it right, he has a quick delivery to the plate, but according to those who know best, he has a poor pickoff move. Even still, Ozzie bunted Beckham twice in this situation, so I don't think it has anything to do with the pitchers. Personally, I would have allowed Pierre to steal the base. Does that include the ball to the plate? Because it takes the ball .5 seconds just to get to the plate. I timed from kick to release.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 12:33 PM) OK. I just timed Perez's delivery, got somewhere between .9 to 1.1 seconds (from leg kick to release). Not Mr. Speedy. Pierre's chances of getting a steal there would have been pretty decent.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) Read my previous post. I trust Pierre when it comes to reading moves. He's done this for long enough to know. The amount of time it takes a pitcher to deliver the pitch is far more important in this situation.