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  1. 04-09-2006 02:25 PM #1
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    Woody's breaking out the knuckleball now.

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    When Williams takes the ball on Tuesday night in Miami, where the Friars open a nine-game road swing against the Marlins, he'll do so with a weapon that no longer is a secret: a knuckleball so wicked, Doug Mirabelli, Tim Wakefield's personal catcher in Boston, has had trouble handling.
    "He couldn't catch it -- he says it's harder than Wakefield's," Williams said Saturday night.
    Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Douggie better start getting a better handle on the thing.
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    Smoltzie threw knuckleballs in ST.


    I think the knuckler is making a comeback amongst older pitchers.
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    I bet this experiment fails. Miserably.
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    that wouldn't be any different than Woody without the kncukler, so it can't hurt
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    Well, I'm taking RA Dickey pre-knuckler every time, haha. Definitely hurt him to switch to it.
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    At least he's trying it against the Fish........that alone might save him
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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but Woody didn't look all that bad in his first outing. I heard Boch this morning say that he could put Brian Sweeney or Clay Hensley into the starting rotation in Brazelton's spot.
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    Woody looked ok.....the offense really helped him out
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    I would love to see Brian Sweeney get a chance to start. I think he would be a really good young starter.
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    i'll always remember Brian Sweeney for getting his first (and I do believe only) major league win against Randy Johnson getting his 4,000th K
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    Well he'd be hard pressed to SUCK worse than Brazelton
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    I would love to see Brian get a start, I think he's got definite starter capability.
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    Now that Mirabelli's gone, I'd just like to point out that Woody's starts haven't even been caught by Mirabelli at all ... twice by Piazza and once by Bowen.
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    wow, Douggie no longer going deep for us
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    Yea I think I heard about that on 4SD, though I could be wrong
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