Floyd En Fuego! Konerko An All-Star Addition! The Resurrection of Q Leads White Sox To Their 7th Straight Win

This is a good team.

ouch!

Nope. I would’ve lost that bet.

Please Rex

Go payliw!

that the Cubs would finish with a better record than the Sox. Placed this bet at the end of April when I was disgusted.

Now I’m constantly picking my jaw off the floor. I still can’t believe what’s happening.

Now we’ll see if they can finish the marathon strong. Up next, the second half.

At this point, I won’t mind losing that case of beer.

now fun again. This team is fun!

There was plenty of understated excitement when Ely unexpectedly burst upon the scene, going 3-2 with a 2.54 ERA in his first seven starts.

Alas, Ely went 1-5 with a 7.49 ERA in his next seven starts, the latest trouble leading to the Dodgers’ 7-3 loss to the Cubs on Saturday afternoon.

For the second consecutive start, Ely could not pitch out of the third inning. He left after allowing six runs on five hits, three walks and a hit batter in just 2 1/3 innings.

Overall he is now 4-7 with a 4.63 ERA. He is pitching like someone who needs to be replaced, though there remains no one remotely obvious to replace him in the rotation, either here or at triple-A Albuquerque.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dodgers/2010/07/is-the-wonder-gone-from-john-ely-he-struggles-again-as-dodgers-fall-to-cubs-73.html

at 24-5, the only better 5 loss stretch since at least 1960 came in 1983 when they went 26-5.

No fire left in the guy. I want to see him go on a Wally Backman-esque tirade

AJ robbed me from seeing Andruws 400th live but I’d rather have winz

hooray lets keep this going!

I went to two great games two nights in a row, but I’ll be content to watch tomorrow’s game on the TV.

Yes the offense has improved but still go get that bat.

"I gave up a few hits here and there, but it was really just Quentin," Bannister said. "He changed the game."

I’ve long believed that most people who say they don’t like baseball statistics really don’t like YOUR baseball statistics. That is to say that they will mock the seeming obscurity (and the odd collection of letters) behind VORP or UZR or xFIP, but they will be happy to have extensive conversations about a player’s RBI totals, his number of errors, his wins. The latter numbers have the advantage of history, which make the seem more transparent and easy to understand, though this isn’t necessarily true.*

*There really isn’t a statistic out there, for example, that is more convoluted than pitcher wins. Imagine if wins did not exist as a statistic, and some Canadian blogger came up with it. Holy cow, would baseball people go nuts.

Look: Here is Rule 10.17 in the Major League Baseball rulebook, edited down somewhat to make it a bit simpler. The official scorer, according to Rule 10.17 in the Major League Baseball rulebook, will credit a win to:

The pitcher whose team assumes a lead while such pitcher is in the game, or during the inning on offense in which such pitcher is removed from the game, and does not relinquish such lead. That is unless:

(1) such pitcher is a starting pitcher and Rule 10.17(b) applies; or

(2) Rule 10.17© applies.

10.17(b) If the pitcher whose team assumes a lead while such pitcher is in the game, or during the inning on offense in which such pitcher is removed from the game, and does not relinquish such lead, is a starting pitcher who has not completed

(1) five innings of a game that lasts six or more innings on defense, or

(2) four innings of a game that lasts five innings on defense, then the official scorer shall credit as the winning pitcher the relief pitcher, if there is only one relief pitcher, or the relief pitcher who, in the official scorer’s judgment was the most effective, if there is more than one relief pitcher.

© The official scorer shall not credit as the winning pitcher a relief pitcher who is ineffective in a brief appearance, when at least one succeeding relief pitcher pitches effectively in helping his team maintain its lead.

Oh yeah, So simple. And people think OPS+ is complicated? We just THINK of pitcher wins as a simple concept because we’ve used them all our lives. And don’t even get into rule 10.16 — Earned and Unearned Runs. That is 1,767 words of fun.

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/07/11/war-what-is-it-good-for-picking-all-stars/

greinke out of today’s game with shoulder discomfort.

for letting us finish our last round while you went to harass others from the Golf Cart of Authority.

many people on this site give the guy a hell of a lot of shit. Well, look at some of the shit he has to trot out there everyday (Kotsay,Jones,Beckham,Pierre) and compare that to the results we are getting. He’s a very under appreciated manager imo

Omar’s run and Pods’ gafes/nostalgia were highlights. And you can buy your own Jim Beam.

first place by the break, whodathunk?

where is the gamethread for the 2:05 game?