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  1. Western SD Fan
    I have found the answer to all of the struggles of Keaschall, Lee, and Outman! I finally paid attention to the stupid Carshield commercial and they are all in dugout answering the phones for Carshield instead of focusing on the game!
  2. Western SD Fan
    At least the Twins are making the Royals warm up their high leverage arms.
  3. Western SD Fan
    Has someone tried handing Outman a Where's Waldo? Maybe he can focus on that, and it will help him find the ball?
  4. Western SD Fan
    He likely will. It's looking like he is being left out there to die on the mound.
  5. Western SD Fan
    They have been having Altavilla go back-to-back games already in St. Paul so it seems they are ramping him up to join the big-league club.
  6. Western SD Fan
    I know that a position player can come in now, but I hope Shelton does not want this game to drag out any longer than it already will by putting in the position player.
  7. Western SD Fan
    An official game! Alright boys, pack it in and try again tomorrow!
  8. Western SD Fan
    There has been better fielding with the beer league softball team that I used to belong to and half of our roster was 30 years or older.
  9. Western SD Fan
    It's looking increasingly likely that the game will be official before the heavy rains show up.
  10. Western SD Fan
    That may have been the rare occasion where Ryan should have taken charge. Apparently, he was the only one who seen the ball.
  11. Western SD Fan
    59 pitches in 2 2/3 IP? Can't see Ryan going past 4 innings, especially in the inclement weather.
  12. Western SD Fan
    Here's a hint. If you hear a splash, you can quit chasing the ball as it went into the fountains.
  13. Western SD Fan
    Unfortunately, you have to blame that one on Wallner as well. Jeffers may have challenged it if he had both challenges available. The fact that there was only one left. It was too close to risk not being right.
  14. Western SD Fan
    Slightly off topic but I was listening to Foul Territory yesterday and they interviewed Cowboy Joe West about the ABS, and he actually made a good point. From what I know, the ABS only measures the strike zone at the middle of the plate. A ball could clip the strike zone at the front of the plate before falling out of the strike zone or a ball could fall into the strike zone near the back of the plate and neither would be called a strike using ABS.
  15. Western SD Fan
    He must have been the only player in MLB that didn't magically get shorter when they measured everyone for the ABS.
  16. Western SD Fan
    I don't mind Wallner being wrong. I care more that Wallner is not making good choices on when to challenge. Top of the 1st inning with 2 outs? Let it go unless you are 100% you are going to win it.
  17. Western SD Fan
    Wallner needs to be banned from ABS challenges.
  18. Western SD Fan
    What you're saying is that I can start posting my favorite comment from last year again? The ghost of Jamie Moyer could still come back and carve up this lineup at least one time through the order!
  19. Western SD Fan
    60 pitches to start the 4th inning. This may be SWR's last inning.
  20. Western SD Fan
    This may come down to who gets to the bullpen first. As I recall, the Royals don't have a good bullpen either.
  21. Western SD Fan
    Wow! I didn't know that! What other secrets are you hiding?
  22. Western SD Fan
    Listening to the post-game interview with Shelton, Abel was scheduled to come in the 5th inning no matter what happened during the game. I'm in the camp with @Rosterman and had discussed it late in spring training that Abel could have started the year in St. Paul, made one start to get his work in, and then been brought up to the majors to make his next start. This method would have given us another bullpen option, possibly Altavilla, to help out with the bullpen for the first few games. If you do believe that the piggyback idea could have worked, then you had to be willing to pull Abel when he was getting in trouble after you believe he has enough work in. I could forgive the 6th inning although Abel had coughed up the lead. But you had to take him out in the 7th. He had already thrown 47 pitches in 2 innings. By the top of the 7th, Abel had clearly shown that he did not have it today and should have been pulled. I scoured the pitch-by-pitch summary on mlb.com when Abel had an 0-2 or 1-2 count, The O's hitters went 3-8 with a walk, 2 doubles and a single for an OPS of 1.069 and 4 strikeouts in 3 1/3 IP. I'm even a big Abel fan, but he didn't look like he had it today and was probably misused as a piggyback option and I hope this was just a one-off used because they felt they needed to keep Abel on a schedule.
  23. Western SD Fan
    Also watched a clip last night where Jax's pitch crossed up his catcher. The catcher was temporarily an Alto singer.
  24. Western SD Fan
    I feel every inning the bullpen pitches either needs to have the theme song "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi or "Flirting with Disaster" by Molly Hatchet
  25. Western SD Fan
    I know there was a lot of words typed over the last couple of days on Lewis's spot in the lineup and what it meant. I actually didn't mind it. They claim that he is a vibe guy and his spring wasn't all that good. I like the idea that he is hitting lower in the lineup and lowering the pressure to produce right away. This was something we saw a lot in old school lineups. A guy who's a little down, in a little slump, hits lower in the lineup to get himself right so he can produce.
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