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the angels allowed 639 runs, the lowest total in the AL

i punched a wall and broke a knuckle during game 6 in 2003.

16/18 in Saves with 19 holds though, he's uber clutch. I JUST BLEW YOUR MIND HE'S AN UBERCHOKER HE ONLY CHOKES IN THE BIGGEST OF SITUATIONS, AND HE RACKS UP GAUDY NUMBERS DURING THE REGULAR SEASON AFTER THE GAMES DONT MATTER

THIS PROVES HE'S UNCLUTCH THOUGH

i miss cade mcnown

i got my cards today (mail here at my dorm is real screwy) they are wonderful. thanks again all.

is this sequence following the int better or worse than the sequence where they had like 6 false starts in a row?

Fielding win shares Carlos Lee - 4.0 Scoty Pod - 4.2 Fielding runs over replacement player though: Pod 19. Lee 3. Is that not an improvement defensively for the White Sox? i thought we were supposed to look past the complicated numbers.

if i'm making a list of my five favorite posters here, diffusion is on it.

the cubs are never going to win a world series, might as well make someone in chicago happy and let the sox win

A lot of people seem to think the replacement will be Bob Geren. I won't pretend to know anything about him beyond the fact that he's currently the A's bullpen coach.

As someone said earlier, the best way to learn about how lousy Macha was would be just to go read Elephants in Oakland. Zachary D. Manprin is pretty much my hero. That'd require a lot of work though, so I'll just throw an example out there. Jason Kendall played 150 games this year. Not many catchers do that. You'd think that the ones who do would be halfway decent. Kendall wasn't. He was reasonable at blocking and catching, but he was incapable of throwing. It was absurd. Also of note is the fact that he didn't homer this year. He had one triple and twenty eight doubles. 29 XBH's in 601 at bats. His SLG was .321. His .345 OBP was nice, but when it was essentially the ONLY skill he displayed this year (besides face first tags at home and scoring game-winning runs on defensive indifference), it doesn't make sense to not give him days off. His numbers don't show it, but Adam Melhuse was a hot hitter at times this year. When this happened, he just dh'ed at best. To make matters worse, every single one of Kendall's 601 at bats came either first, second, or third in the lineup. When you add in the fact that, according to BP, he hit into 11 more dp's than expected (29 total!) and that this number is second in the major leagues only to Sean Casey, the playing time he received and the lineup preference he received appears to be borderline ludicrous. And that's just one player. I could write as much or more on Chavez (needs days off due to sucking), Dan Johnson (why is he batting so low in the order), Nick Swisher (he's terrible for extended stretches, let's see some Matt Watson), Scott Hatteberg (should never play), Barry Zito (does he have to go one inning too many EVERY time out?), Ricardo Rincon (should probably never play, this one is on beane too, get him off the team), Huston Street (why is he pitching with such a big lead? why is he going out for a third inning?), Mark Ellis (why did it take 5 months to figure out that he's awesome and should be leading off?), Kiko Calero (got the Michael Wuertz pitching every day treatment at times) and Kirk Saarloos (5 inning pitcher. deal with it. when he throws his 75th pitch, someone should already be up in the pen). On the plus side, the way he chewed his gum was kinda cool, so I'll miss that.

96-66 in 2003 91-71 in 2004 88-74 in 2005 After '03, he lost Miguel Tejada, Ramon Hernandez and Mark Ellis. After '04, he lost Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, Mark Redman and Jermaine Dye I don't know if terrible or sucky would be the proper adjective for a guy working with a 55m payroll. he did a bad job. he played the wrong players. he mismanged the bullpen. his line-ups were ridiculous. the a's won in spite of macha.

i really doubt it was actually a money issue. macha sucksucksucked and now he's gone.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

if lee wins the mvp, he'll just be more expensive when it's time to re-sign him go pujols

i totally forgot to thank the people for donating stuff. my apologies.

ozzie guillen is hilarious lay off

id be doing myself a disservice if i went with anything besides ex-cub factor

at this point i only follow the cubs because i feel like i have to im actually rooting for them to do the stupidest things possible this offseason, just because it will be hilarious the a's are much more exciting and fun to follow as far as the offseason goes. who knows what the heck is going to happen?

thanks for collectively being my bitch

good riddance dont come back next year cubs

cards over yankees i cant freaking wait

im voting for manny in left.