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Just a morning conversation thread, really. Not that there's much point since the Shout Box became The Monster That Ate Cleveland er, SSI.
Which raises a baffling question. If the Shout Box is that peachy keen, so peachy keen in fact that it can obviate the very blog it is on ... and that being the best sports blog extant ... why don't we see this Shout Box all over the interwebs?
With a resigned air, the Editor's Choice shouts from last night:
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And that's just what it is, "strike zone fun." In the sense that it's fun to think about the kid who kicked your butt in the third grade. But yeah. Thanks Ice. Please do link us up again whenever it looks good.
The strike zone has been maddening this series. Is that a general tendency in NL-AL games? But Dr. D has to admit, when he saw James Shields' name on the probables, he wrote this one off. His fear of James Shields knows no bounds. What his ERA is after a couple starts, I don't care. If the Mariners are going up against James Shields, I'm staying home.
Under the circumstances, the M's put up a tremendous struggle. Okay, back to tasks of non-Shields magnitude. The Red Sox rotation appears to be badly lacking in James Shieldses.