Flaherty starts at SS tonight and homers in his first at bat. Vitters is DHing and K'ed in his 1st PA, and Jay Jackson struck out the side in the first.
How does the first baseman have anything to do with a balk? You can't throw to an unoccupied base. I'm pretty sure that's what got that balk called on Lilly a while back. Lee was in for the bunt and didn't get to the base.
I can see the commercials you see, so I'd appreciate your review. Ellsbury K's, unbelievable You in Columbia this summer? Nope, but I'm just going to assume they're the same commercials in the St. Louis area, mainly because I want to hear you rant about local ads.
They were relatively even with contrasting styles. Spain is one of the favorites to win the tournament, and play an open, attacking style. Italy is a perennial power(2006 World Cup "winner"), and play very defensive soccer.
Torres looks like a HS girl, but he shoved Grosso and smacked him on the face a little bit, so he's cool with me. Poor David Villa, nothing can go right for him today.
Gray said it right. Those are easy foul calls if they weren't in/near the box, so he's afraid to do it. The Italians know it, so they just pack the box and swing away at the ankles of the Spanish.
I didn't see yesterday's outing, but his problem against Tampa was his slider. He hit his spot(or very close to it) with the majority of his fastballs(personally, I think he was getting squeezed a bit), but the sliders were all over the place.