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I think it was Inge.

His fastball looks better than it did last year. If I remember correctly, he was at 88-89 mph in '06, now he is at 91-92 mph.

If Wily Mo Pena had the amount of strikeouts that Jones had? Whoa, just imagine the reaction of the board.

We'll take him over here.

Michael Bowden is definitely a god.

Solid, solid win. Hopefully, we are up at least 10 when they come to Fenway on the 1st.

4-0 ChiSox.

So much for the theory that BABIP is overrated. A .200-.210 BABIP is impossible to sustain.

http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2006/12/thumbs%20up.png Early, but Casey sucks.

Hard to get RBI's when you are batting 8th in the lineup. Please explain to me why he rates as an average CF defensively?

Gift-wrapped.

You asked the question, you got the response. You don't like it? Don't ask the question.

See the surronding example. Maroth is having a bad month, or in his case in 2003, a bad year. The Red Sox slap him around, and those three starts are weighed in on his ERA. Looking at Maroth: 2003: Faces Red Sox on June 25th. Goes 7 IP 2 ER. Month of June stats: 3.19 ERA Faces Red Sox on July 11th and 25th. Goes 14.1 IP and allows 12 ER. The start on the 25th, he is left in during the 6th inning with 100 pitches, and the Red Sox tack on two more runs. Mismanagment of the Tigers pitching staff, may have elevated this number a bit. Month of July stats: 7.20 ERA. 2004: Faces the Red Sox on August 6th and August 27th. Goes 5.2 IP the first start and allows three runs. Throws 113 pitches, Red Sox score all their runs in the 6th inning. Mismanagment. This goes on. Looking deeper, the Red Sox seemed to get Maroth when he was in a pitching slump, or got lucky because Alan Trammell did not know when to pull his starter. Seriously, there are way too many explanations to just say that the Red Sox own Mike Maroth.

Are you really this stupid? Do you take everything so literally? Do you have any deductive reasoning? I am picking the Tigers to win this ballgame. That doesn't equate to me saying that the Tigers are an 100% lock.

Let's say Barry Bonds is in the midst of a bad month. He hits .077, and while doing that he faces a rookie pitcher for the first few times. Bonds proceeds to go 0-6 against that pitcher. Does that mean that the pitcher owns Barry Bonds? No, he said the Red Sox, "owned" Maroth. You can't say that, because of only relevant starts. It's absolutely impossible to clarify that. His ERA was 5.73 in 2003. He allowed 34 big flies. His WHIP was at 1.50. The guy was not a good pitcher. Plus, the 2003 Red Sox offense was one of the best offense ball clubs in the history of the sport. Tavarez is an average pitcher out of the bullpen. He is a terrible starting pitcher. He just doesn't have the stamina to pitch that long.

Sure, they do. But to say that it doesn't matter, is entirely foolish.

Since we are talking about chances and odds, let's review a little bit. I said that we will lose because we have Julian Tavarez pitching tonight. You said that it didn't matter that Tavarez was pitching tonight. Like as in, it doesn't matter that Curt Schilling is pitching, because I can recall a time when the Tigers beat Schilling, or a time where Schilling lost a game this year. It totally matters that Tavarez is pitching tonight, because it severely hurts the Red Sox chances of winning.

Julian Tavarez (Mike Maroth is pretty mediocre too, he's still not Julian Tavarez)