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8-2, final. Say again?

It's 8-1, and he's only thrown 93 pitches. On top of that, the BP had to throw 11 IP last night, and it's a day game. Weren't you warning others about overreacting in the other threads discussing Lowell and Ortiz? Just sayin'.

Just got home from work, anything interesting about this game?

Yeah, my thoughts too, Kilo. This saves them from themselves in RF.

This is exactly what he just asked you to stop doing, empty rhetoric. You are big on not supporting the general complaints you make and failing to specify what you would have done differently to avoid that complaint from happening. No, wishing the solution would present itself is not ideal, but empty complaints don't do a whole lot either.

That's what he's here for, don't believe it when he tries to tell you any different. He'll tell you he hates Yankee boards because of the sycophants, but look at how he posts about their players. Pure ball slobbering adulation for every player at every level. No, what he hates about Yankee boards is what he can't accomplish there. Baiting Red Sox fans.

Swisher's playing well, but that's a good point. Unless the MLB is going to make some Yankee rules and allow them a 10 man lineup, somebody has to sit. Now, early in the season, given Swisher's career splits, Nady sits. Swisher is a .900 OPS player in April, .830 in May, and about .800 after that. Play him while he's hot.

Early returns suggest CMW will have scoreboard operators working overtime this season.

You've faced one decent pitcher. Not saying your offense isn't one of the better ones in the league, but that does play into how well they've hit.

Is there something wrong with what he said?

I'll edit to clarify, but that was for Crunch.

Ah, and the mother's basement cliche enters the discussion. Never fails.

That's why he's called Francoma. When he uses his bench, it's only to rest a starter for a full game. There are very few tactical decisions he makes.

Lentz? Who cares? He's not Reddickulous. Reddick hit HR#3 today, that's all you need to know.

Motherf***er makes a one pitch out in the 8th after Shields walked the first two, then he looks at three with the tying run in scoring position. No f***ing head for the game.

I don't watch golf much, but I'll watch the Majors. The final round of the Masters is today. Phil Mickleson is going apeshit on the front 9. The day started with the leaders at -11, and he and Woods started their round together at -4. Mickleson is about to go -5 on the day through 7. He's throwing darts with his irons right now. Whoa, and Tiger just lipped out a 20+ foot bomb with a huge break. For a sport best situated to inducing naps, this is a doozy final round thus far. Very exciting.

It's 15, but that does not apply when calling someone back up to replace a player going on the DL.

True, but not relevant to a discussion of offensive production, which was the topic.

Intuition is the ability to sense without reasoning. In other words, thoughtless emotion, as I suspected.

IsoP and IsoD are only relevant in the context of what additional information they provide on top of BA. Adam Dunn has a higher IsoD with about the same IsoP as Manny Ramirez in a career comparison. There's no question who the better offensive player is, it's Manny Ramirez because he hits for about .070 more points of BA. The supplemental information doesn't tell us much if we ignore what it is supplementing. Then there's running the bases. This look doesn't account for how 20 or so of Bobby Abreu's singles and walks turn into doubles, while virtually none of Nady's and Swisher's do. If you look at something like RC/G, where Abreu was at 6.2 last year, this compares to Swisher's career highs. Nady isn't even in the conversation without his first half last year. Now, I'm not suggesting that first half gets thrown away, it did happen, but all I'm asking is that you be realistic with your expectations. You are taking career bests from the two guys you support in this argument and throwing them out there as what should be expected. This is coming from the same guy that has written it down in stone that Pedroia and Youkilis are going to be worse this year because last year they set "career highs".

Gee, and I figured it would just help if what you said was actually what you meant. What a silly concept.

This is changing your statement. Before it was "keeping the ball down" vs. "too many pitches up", not "grooved right down the middle". I'll I asked was that the baseballism die. You are closer to agreeing with me than you know it.