That's Why They Play The Games

is on it

We should be closer then we are now

Ironically, I am sitting in the KC airport presently. Items of observation:

-T-shirts of which Jim would be envious (“Nothing tips like a cow”)

-A middle-aged woman going though security right in front of men discovering her computer is not in her bag: “Shit! FUUUCCCKKK!!!”

The Royals deserve to be beaten.

freddy garcia has not been a major league pitcher – certainly not a starter – since he left the sox the first time.

as long as Butler gets buzzed somewhere down the road. I actually found it humorous as Beckham did the limbo. When he beaned Q, it was a little different. That was right between the numbers.

let’s see how it goes.

That any major league lineup is decidedly volatile and therefore it is an achievement to shut them down. Unless the opposing team is extremely good (say the Card’s 3 and 4 hitters) I think park factor is more important than the opponent, again excepting Pittsburgh’s entirely minor league offense. Also 3 hits 1 BB and 1ER, 8 K’s is good no matter what, doesn’t matter what park you’re pitching in nor what team you’re facing.

royals have a good number of lefties in their lineup, against which Count is ineffective unless he’s got his fork.

Contreras is not some young rookie. He may have a good outing or not but he’s capable of shutting down any team at a given time. Its not anyone is looking at this as lost gold or undiscovered gem.

He’s simple. When he limits walks, he’s usually effective. I felt like he was on that way in Oakland before that blowup inning, helped along with the keystone defenders.

IMO he’s one of the worst managers in baseball. He plays small ball from inning 1, he overworks his starters, and he isn’t particularly great at managing the bullpen.

The egregious parts to me though are when you see him put the sac on in a 0-0 game in the 1st or 2nd innings.

I think he knows his guys.

royals lineup sucks.
detroit lineup sucks.

better.

Obviously it would not be hard for the Sox to take over this division. But I believe that ultimately its goin to come down to the head to head matchups between the Sox and Tigers. We have been trading losses with Detroit for about 2 months, neither team seems to want to take hold.

everyone just needs to shut the fuck up and let the computer do its work.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/8/19/995604/btb-power-rankings-through-tuesday

My earlier point, about if Detroit plays .500 ball the Sox need to play .600 (24W/18L), is simply saying that Detroit doesn’t have to get hot, just keep playing .500, while the Sox have to have a decent winning streak, even something like winning 8 of 11 games somewhere along the line.

A few trends, some pretty obvious, over a 162 game season are:

- many bad teams play below .500 and then can be counted on to streak at least once during the year to reach, or reach towards, .500 they then cool off to fall back down.

good teams play .500 most of the time and then streak 2, or 3 times during a season to increase their above .500 record.

really good teams tend to play .500 most of the time but will have 4 or 5 upward streaks.

Winning streaks last anywhere from 10 games to 18 games (and occasionally a few more).

So the Sox need one more streak, hope that Detroit doesn’t have one more streak, and play .500 the rest of the time.

thats just dumb. (as HSA says) any team can do somethin crazy. shit, look at the nationals run recently. i hope that if they do go on a run, is while we are on one, and that theirs is shorter lived.

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

wetter by twista

Now go in peace to love and serve the Q!

The only teams it hurts are the ones willing to overpay for their draft slot and sign international players to ludicrous contracts like the Yankees & Redsox. Another way to level the playing field for the sewer crawling teams like the Pirates & Royals.

Unless they set the 1st pick salary too high, but they could just make picks trade-able. Biggest con is work stoppage for Boras lord of all. Don’t think they’ll actually be able to get every baseball country to agree to a drafting system yet. Seems like development in the minors is much more important than the actual drafted players in the vast majority of cases. (Including the man, the myth, the legend)

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/abolish-the-draft

“Even Cowgirls Get The Blues”.

(Obscure ’70’s reference. But a good read.)

i’m not down with that

Movie vixen and professional thumb wrestler

she is crazy hot.

hip hop
hoooraaay
hooooooo
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I think Ill bounce between the maniacs at lookout landing and whatever the hell goes on at bless you boys.

Barring another pods-miracle

When they flashed the lineup before the game I thought for sure they screwed something up, but no.