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Got squeezed on 1-2, but he recovers and hit 94 with that last one.

That's Saunder's whole '08 right there. No way that s*** lasts for long.

Yay, BABIP.

Chick in the stands behind RH batters with the blue shirt on has massive cans. Saunders is missing everything. Strangely, I'm not expecting our baseball Kreskin to predict bad things from that.

Saunders really sucks. This guy's '08 was a smoke and mirror miracle.

Less of that please.

More of that please, Chavez y Chavez.

I believe I said they should be about even in my response to das when he was moaning about how the Yankees had a significant offensive advantage. Thanks for all this rhetorical bluster where we get back to my original point. Also, you can only play 3 people at LF, RF, and DH. Last year, for the most party, you did it with Abreu, Damon, Matsui+Nady. This year you'll do it, for the most part, with Nady, Damon, Matsui and Swisher off the bench. Abreu is the best offensive player in that group, how is removing him a clear upgrade?

Lowell is 18 months older than ARod, but he's the only one whose return level of play is in question, and he's the one that's actually had the surgery required to make him whole. Massive contradiction. Posada played 51 games last year. It's an overstatement that you get him back for the whole year, and his injury should limit his games as the backstop. Matsui, like Ortiz, is dealing with a wrist and knee injury in the last two years. But Ortiz may never be the same, while Matsui only may lose a little power. Massive double standard. Nady+Teixeira is about equivlent to Giambi+Abreu on paper. I agree it's no dropoff, but it's no sure improvement either, yet you are calling for massive improvement. That leaves Cano, who I agree should be better than last year, but this is no sure bet, just like it's no sure bet that Pedroia and Youkilis can't repeat what they did last year, yet this assumption is gospel to you. Hell, your criteria for optimism with Cano is on their side too, as both have started the year well. But it only counts for Hollywood, right? And, again, with little roster turnover and some give and take on their question marks, the most reasonable assumption is the Sox are about the same. I've conceded and said the Yankees improve by 100 runs, and you still aren't happy. I've taken nothing, given a ton, this puts them at equal, and you still maintain they are clearly better. This is why I'm such a dick to you. Your view on the return from an injury, the possibility of repeating good performance, the likelihood of a rebound, etc, etc, etc, all of it is solely dependent on one thing and one thing only, which uniform the player wears. It gets old.

The same could be said for the Yankee lineup, but I see no objection to me tacking 100 RC onto their total. Interesting.

Leadoff double today. He's stinging everything he hits right now, and he's hitting everything.

Could be an interesting subplot if Tubby pitches in LAAAoA. Of course, their fans cheer when the Jumbotron says so and follows the lead of a freaking spider monkey, so I don't think they payed enough attention in the offseason to put two and two together. On another note, I wonder if a Yankee beat reporter has the balls to ask for his reaction to what happened to Adenhart.

Some will, what will be funny is if you ridicule anyone for doing it. I seem to recall you stating the season was lost in May in a year you made the playoffs.

It's funny how quickly you will abandon stats when they don't tell you what you want. Das, please elaborate on the underperformance and the question marks. Who, by how much? What you failed to account for in your one line thoughtless* reply is that I've upgraded their perfomance by 100 runs on the season from last year, and that just gets them into the same ballpark as the Sox (at least in terms of what you should expect on the raw stats). In other words, I addressed it, but you ignored that. *I call it thoughtless because it's the usual star gazing drivel you get from a casual fan, and maybe that's all you are. If so, just say so and I won't waste my time.

Yeah, he's pretty gifted with the bat, a natural hitter, but he's still raw. MLB pitchers would take advantage of his weaknesses right now.

BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!!!!!

Holy f***balls, does your delusion know no end? There's nothing on a tee. I threw you zinger and you pulled a "I know you are but what am I?" Way to show your 1st grade chops.

No, I'm an *******, but I'm also not the geeky **** with a lame sig.

They get hits like that and the IF hit, and our BABIP sits at like .240 for the year hitting like 20% LD's as a team. Funny game.

10$ this ends up in his sig too. Do you think that's funny, Jacko? Honestly, it's pretty lame.

Yeah, it was outside. Brooksbaseball has it at 1.2 feet from the center of the plate. That's 14.5" when the edge of the plate is 8.5" from center. That's 75% wider than the plate is. Ridiculous.

This place was down for hours for me for some reason. I see Jacko is holding court on the significance of 4 games worth of stats. Never a dull moment. That looked outside.

After going 0-4 last night, Reddick is ripping the ball tonight. 3-4 with a HR and 2B.