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Well you guys may end up missing Lilly in the series at the end of the month. We may end up going with a 4 man rotation though because of the injuries we're trying to get over, so in that case you would face him. You get Halladay either way though

Forget it, we're keeping Lilly not only because he does good against division rivals, but he's also proven himself as an A class pitcher :harhar: We need some good pitching to keep up with you guys, you know

People like that just need to be deported to the corner of a random 3rd world country somewhere.. Then he'll see where all his bitching will get him. I really hate the crop of pussies that is developing in pop culture these days. Grow a set of balls already... I also agree with the guy posting above me...although more than a couple punches are in order... f**king leech Anyone remember that guy at the regular season NBA game..where Kevin Garnett lobbed a basketball out of bounds and it hit him? I remember his pussy act on how injured he was, etc.. but i just wish that before he got booed out of the building that people would've slapped him around a bit. whatever happened to him? did he file charges? Great now i'm angry....

ST. PETERSBURG -- The seemingly inevitable trip to the disabled list for Gustavo Chacin is rapidly becoming more of a questionable scenario. Toronto's left-hander played catch for around eight minutes on Sunday at Tropicana Field and didn't appear to have any lingering issues from the arm injury he suffered four days ago. Toronto pitching coach Brad Arnsberg hopes to get Chacin back on a mound in the next three or four days. The Blue Jays don't need to place the southpaw on the 15-day disabled list just yet -- maybe at all Judging by this, Chacin's really not too bad. He may miss one start, maybe two, tops. Towers pitched a great game at Tampa. Yeah yeah i hear you saying Tampa is a basement dweller, but they've given all the eastern teams problems and they were trying to take advantage of Towers by aggressively swinging the bats. He had a 3 hitter going into the 9th. Like i said, the game before he pitched well, and i think he will continue to get better. I understand that Toronto's offense can't maintain such high numbers.. but who's to say that their offense can't be on the same level as the Sox or the Yankees? Honestly, i'm a little biased, as every fan is about their team, but when i look at it as objectively as possible, i see around an equal number of solid hitters on each team. I think Rios, Wells, Catalanotto, Johnson and Hillenbrand will all remain around 300 though. They're all very good players. Hill won't get much better, i think so also, but each team has a weak link or two. I hope i'm wrong, because his defense has been very good. The AL east won't have one team with a high winning percentage compared to some of the other division leaders in the league, the competition is just too fierce. I do believe that one of these 3 teams will win the AL though.

Any chance of Tampa giving up Kazmir, by the way?

Burnett's not out for the year. a few months maybe (combined) but not all year. Chacin;s probably going to avoid the DL altogether. the bullpen has two great players and granted, its struggled with some of the pitchers, but i can name 3 that have been good with one bad outing. Besides, name NY's solid bullpen for me? The offence may slow down, but i still don't see it being anywhere less than top 5. Only Adams and Hill are weak at this point. You're focusing too much on the now and not on things that may eventually clear up in the next few weeks. Towers is horrible at this point but his last game was much better. He will have a good game next time up. you can mark my words on that one. Will the Yankees be as consistent? Will the rotation and offence hold up as well? Keep in mind that last year the jays were 2-3 games behind the Yanks before Halladay got injured..and then Lilly.. then it went downhill. Even with the offence we had then, we would have won around 5-10 more games with them both relatively healthy.

one more thing to solidify Ripkens iron man record...with all the illegal substance use in the league, it only helps move that record farther away. Probably in 100 years the best Iron men streaks will be no more than 50 games;)

well if Burnett goes on the DL again after his next start (probably beginning of June) then i concede that he's a piece of s***, regardless of his talent. IT'S SCAR TISSUE DAMMIT! Beckett is a very good pitcher but has been really struggling lately. Maybe something is wrong with his arm? For Rivernator - just curiosity. what do the Yankees have that overpower the Blue Jays, so as to pull away from them and win a title?

It sucks to miss your most consistent player. The Yankees need a class act like Matsui.. well obviously he's not going to be back 100% in this season either way so it's going to come down to who you pick up.. I don't really think it'll come down to replacing him with a farm system player. I don't think Torii Hunter will be picked up. you MIGHT have a chance with stewart though...its tough to say.:dunno: .but obviously there's no limit to how much the Yankees will pay once the farm system option is put down.

Experience is very important. There's no doubt about that. I think Halladay wouldn't have a problem though. I'd take Lilly over Chacin though. Chacin's good but he gets lots of run support as well. Lilly has proven over his last 4 starts that he's an A class pitcher. his ERA in those games is around 2.00 over an average of around 6.5 innings. He pitched the same way in the latter part of last year. As for Chacin he'll probably just miss one start and may avoid the DL altogether. Burnett's pissing me off though.. I swear the guy doesn't have a pain threshold.... Scar Tissue won't kill you unless its really jarring your arm. I think that when the rotation gets healthier it will all come down to power offense rather than the dominance of one (or both) pitchers. I still think at this point our rotation and bullpen beats the yanks

Fair enough, but if (big if) everyone starts pitching healthy i don't think there's any starting rotation that is better than ours. equal maybe, but not better. The only weak link in the 5 is obviously Towers. As for the Bullpen, some guys need to be sent to the minors, but guys like Schoeneweis and Rosario are good, and guys like Ryan and Speier are money.

i think it would be almost impossible for someone to break the ripken record..thats a young career to the end of a long career record... i think this is the hardest one to beat

Only two games behind and with an injury ridden bullpen (or just a crappy pitching performance by *cough* Towers), and with the hardest team schedule for April. Yay! I expect it to be a close race until the end. By the way, i'm new here. I won't be some mindless fan posting insults or whatever, just debating is fine with me. no worries

with the tight competition in the east, every good player/pitching ace/team is bound to have problems. Its a 3 team race unlike almost every other division in the majors