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That was the first ball that I remember Bay hitting to RF. Power the other way isn't bad.

Will Tito PH for Crisp or is he still following the policy of not making any moves after making out the line up card?

4 HRs in 48 innings is not that bad. Quentin is leading the league in Dingers.

You clearly know nothing. Jacksonian predicted 10-12 wins for him this season.

Damon just ran into the OF wall and knocked open the gate on a Tori Hunter drive. He got his glove on it but two runs scored.

Who got the potential winning run in by using his head.

He's injured.

You might have some repressed homosexual crush on Theo manifesting itself in your irrational hatred.

I can't believe that the stupid run down might cost us.

I guess Bostonownsyou is pissed that Pedroia took the bat out of Papi's hands.

Did Magadan tell Manny to loaf to the point where the team had no choice but to trade him.

Smart play by A.J. getting into the run down. Dumb play by our guys.

We only have one good hit. The other two were weak. What a night to get Buehrle. He's got tremendous command of his curve.

Welcome aboard.

Pettitte now has arm fatigue. They were going to skip his next start until Joba got DL'd. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/08/07/2008-08-07_tired_andy_pettitte_still_set_to_start.html

Yes. How could I forget the most obvious of all reasons. Good pick up.

...or it could be that batters had lower OPS #'s because the pitchers were better. They had better and more consistent secondary pitches. Among other reasons, there was no DH. Batters didn't dare dig in the batter's box. Many guys were still not wearing helmets and those that did wore little skull cap helmets with no protective ear flaps. If you watch films from the 50's and 60's you'll see batters bailing out against curve ballers, because they were more vulnerable. There was no body armor on batters. In the 50's and 60's managers insisted that everyone except maybe the number 3 and 4 hitters give themselves up and hit the ball the other way to move a runner along. Are hitters better today than back in the 50's and 60's. Yes. They are bigger and stronger, but so are the pitchers. It's ridiculous to think that batters have evolved in size and strength at a different rate than pitchers. Everything is relative. Today bigger stronger batters bat against bigger stronger pitchers. The difference is that pitchers are conditioned differently than they were 40 years ago.

...or he'll have a better conditioned major league staff that can go deeper into games putting less reliance on a bullpen.