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The kid is just on fire right now.

Youks is having a hell of a year. He's a top-flight defender and he's up to .315/15/61 before the break. If he can avoid a second half swoon, he's going to start commanding big bucks.

Sherrill is one lumpy bastard. It doesn't look like he misses too many buffet tables.

Even a s*** eater like Fahey can hit your dead straight heater if you put it on a tee like that, Delcarmen.

TAMI? Could you have come up with a more fem acronym?

I have to remark upon the misfortune I experienced last week. JJ Hardy, by himself, accounted for 41 bases. 41. Of course, my opponent, who hasn't been paying atttention all season, because if he had he would have dropped or benched him, had him playing. I love fantasy sports.

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Don't worry, Maholm looks ready to drive this puppy home.

McClouth smoked that ball. You know, I'm looking at a picture of Veras and then I look up his age at B-R, and I can only come up with one thing. He had to have been born at the same hospital as Miguel Tejada. No way he's 28 with that mug.

Rather than abracadabra, hocus pocus, and jinx, just consider something, this statement might just be true.

They played a game between 4pm yesterday and 9am today?

Rich. Great word, reminds me of the summer of '95, the summer right after I turned 21. Me and my buddies described all good things as "rich" at that time. This was the summer we invented our favorite leisure activity, crispin'. One of the guys parents' had a summer lake house about an hour away near Fredricksburg, VA. We'd go down there every payday weekend with pockets flush full of cash and coolers stuffed full of beer. Crispin' was taking a waterskiing life-vest, flipping it upside down and putting it on like a diaper to create a floating seat, jumping into the lake with said floating seat on, and consuming mass quantities of beer. We'd take the ski boat out on Lake Anna, which has like over 100 miles of coastline, find a boat full of girls, and invite them to "crisp" with us. What a great summer that was.

He's at 104.1 IP over 19 starts for the season. That's 3 months into the season with about 2 months left. Figure another 10-12 starts at about 5 IP each, and he finishes with about 160+ IP with a little left for some September exposure to the MLB when rosters expand. This is what I'd do if he keeps up what he's done thus far.

Do you really think the meeting had something to do with it? Three of those wins were by 1 run. In two of those the tying run was at 3rd with less than two outs and Jason Varitek up. I'd suggest the fact that it was Varitek has much more bearing on the success than the meetings do.

That base clearing double was exactly what the BP needed with Papelbon on the shelf.

Are we only supposed to love our country and those that serve it on specific dates?

Make your out already you replacement level hack.

Too bad Hinske or Murphy wasn't up there.

To be fair, that game was a day game. Yeah, it came on the heels of a holiday weekend, but it's still a work day. That said, whereas they would draw 8 maybe 9K when the Royals came into town in previous years, they only drew 16K on Friday night. By percentage that's a good increase, but that's pretty sad when the team is leading the division with the best record in baseball in July. EDIT: Just looked at Sat and Sun, where they drew 30K and 20K respectively. That's not bad for a 10 year doormat. Looks like the fans are starting to get behind them a little.

Add me to the list that supports this move. Cora's inability to provide above average defense, due to diminished range, off the bench at a MIF position means that he no longer provides what was his only marketable skill. The ideal situation would be to start Lowrie most nights with Lugo on the bench. Late game, he's ideal to PR with and then take over at SS providing additional range in a close game.

Believe it or not, there are a good handful or more of military hair "styles" that you can call out by name when you are in the service, and will get a specific cut that is within regulations. There's the "high and tight", which is really, IMO, a modified mohawk. The high part means you are clipped without a guard all the way up to about the normal area where one parts the hair, the tight means what's left on top is left very short, and, as is the regulation for all military hair (at least in the Marines for males), the area between the shorn and short hair must be blended (progressive length change, a fade). Now, it is this progressive length change, IMO, that separates it from the mohawk, and the mohawk is against Marine Corps regs. Reason? It is eccentric. No eccentric hair allowed in the Marines. Another cut you can call out by name is the horseshoe. You've probably all seen this somewhere before, either in real life or parodied on some show. This is where the hair is shorn about halfway up the sides, then the fade kicks in and from below the hat-line, it appears to be a fairly short flat-top. However, the horseshoe, is a bit different than the flat-top. The difference being that the length of the hair sticking up to make the flat-top is cut to the length that will result in the hair being shorn at the very top of the head. When looked at from above, this cut resembles, well, a horseshoe. For some reason, this style of hair is not "eccentric" and is allowed by Marine Corps regs, provided there is blending. This, to me, was always the silliest option at the barber shop on base. I mean who would elect to look like this..... http://www.rateitall.com/itemimages/57270.jpg Well, apparently our catcher has. At least, when I saw him in dugout shots during this last series against the Yankees, it looked that way. I blame the horseshoe. It's eccentricty worked in the past, but it has clearly lost its vigor. We need more. f*** the regs Tek, we need a mohawk.

Meh, that looked planned. Rally the troops, if you may.

Is it just me, or does he resemble a young John Goodman? I think it's the jowls.