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Please give greg credit for noticing the meatball-ish offerings of Nova tonight. Frankly I haven't seen a pitcher this bad in a long time.

Maybe it's too cold to fire a fastball, but Nova couldn't retire Fathom here. He's reminding me of a position player pitching in a blowout. Mabe it's the cold weather.

Ricky would bunt here.

I have a question for PTATC or whoever was a pitcher. A blister to me, seems like an awful problem. I used to get blisters playing tennis and put a bandage on there and that saved me. Of course baseball won't allow pitchers to wear bandaids as they would probably help them get the ball to do wacky things. But what does a pitcher do with a blister problem? Is this something that can be avoided in the future?? I guess I'll google on blisters.

I love Jose. That is all. Nice blast.

Fathom can probably tell me. I just tuned in and that last at bat ... it looked like Nova was just flipping meatballs in there and the guy still struck out. Is his velocity as poor as my eyes suggest? I'm no expert so I will defer, but geez those looked like meatballs that a lousy O's hitter couldn't hit. Strike 3. Tie game.

Just looked at the Game One box score. Time 3 hrs, 48 minutes ... man that's too long for a 5-4 game. Assuming it was a dreadful game with all those relief pitchers for both teams and also the Sox blowing a healthy lead and getting a lousy start apparently from Rodon. Losing both games would be lousy. Please win Game Two, Sox.

You are right. Eloy blows in left so he's the DH now; Abreu is moderately lousy at first so he's a DH; Yonder Alonso is a DH; Avi was our DH cause he stunk in right; Burger is gonna be DH cause he's chubby and not a great fielder and we already have a 3B; Collins is gonna be a DH. So many Dhs.

Thank you sir. I like this post.

I'll agree some of the games have been watchable. The fact we came from seven runs down to win the other night is something I don't believe we've ever done during these tank years. So that was encouraging for us non tank people.

Great post. Sometimes I think that's what our fans want us to do with our prospects, never call them up. There's so much concern about "rushing guys" that pisses me off, ever since Gordo Beckham.

Jim Parque was 5-11.

I said 18-12. Way too optimistic. We are 12-14. Without Eloy I can't imagine us winning much in the entire month of May. I'd give us six wins in May. But I can hope we're better than that.

I was getting around to it. Sometimes I wonder if posters want to hear my opinion if they've heard it before so I try to stifle. Thing is, I never know if anybody reads what I say since I am pretty much despised so it's tough for me to make a call on whether I should post or not. As far as Abreu, I feel the same way about him as Paulie: In my mind, both are lifetime White Sox. I want to keep Jose all the way til he can't hit anymore. I felt the same way about Paulie. It's not Jose's fault that the team has been abysmal with him on the team. Jose like Paulie has proven himself to me, thus I would never want him to be traded. I want him to retire a White Sox just as I did Paulie. BTW there's nobody else on our team I feel fan loyalty to at this point. That's kind of sad the team is at the point almost everybody has to prove themselves. We used to have a few veterans. Summary: Paulie A-plus career in my mind; Abreu B-plus career in my mind but I love both equally and do not wanna see Abreu play elsewhere.

This is about a worst case scenario, him getting hurt already. Oh well, probably best to just shut up and forget about him for 6 weeks. Hopefully that was a fluke injury and he'll be healthy the rest of his career.

Nice win. When you start winning home games like a team is supposed to do, you start to become respectable.

My fave Avi must be slumping of late. He's down to .250; 10 RBI, four homers. Like I said, this means he must have stunk of late. His career shows how hard it is to excel at baseball. He's got some tools but has yet to break through as a consistent star. Had the magical BA two years ago.

I'm so sick of some Sox fans wanting to dump our veteran players who have been here a while. it's the reason I wanted to keep Avi and give him the benefit of the doubt for a while. Avi wasn't blocking anybody. It remains to be seen if this tank/rebuild thing will work. It would be nice to have a veteran around who has been through the dog years like Abreu. Just cause Eloy seems a natural for DH/1B doesn't mean we should dump Abreu. LF isn't the hardest position. Eloy is very young. He might want to work on his defense so he can play in the field. It must be awful being a big league DH when you are young. He's one of the few Sox who have been Sox for a while who are worth a darn. I always laugh at comments about how he's about to get "expensive." If Abreu is so nonproductive and it appears he's only going to get worse with age, why the hell would another team want to pay him??? Why is he going to get expensive if his advanced stats project him to be crap in years to come?

Why is it unreadable? There has been a lot more negativity toward the Sox which is justified completely. If the negatively is what I deem stupid or unreasonable I just read the post quickly. If somebody thinks Eloy has been a bust, so what? They said the same thing about Timmy and Moncada and they are right on track to stardom. ... Cue somebody saying my posts are awful.

I've been accused of trolling regarding my many posts on Nate, but the poor guy didn't have a chance of staying healthy with that herky-jerky ridiculous way he has of delivering the ball. It hurts just to watch him use that right arm. How many times has he been out of action? Just release him and hope for Nate's sake he made enough money to be set for life. I'm disappointed Eloy has high ankle sprain. That's a serious sprain. Can't believe he hurt it the way he did. Fluke injury but disappointing.

That's a fairly bad injury. PTATC can tell us, but I bet you he won't be back until second week of June.

That's a funny nickname when you think about it. Is Eloy a decent outfielder at least on everything but balls hit over his head? Sometimes outfielders simply have trouble on those kind of blasts. Eloy is gonna be a star but like some say, his DH days will be here soon if he keeps risking his health on defense. I still say that's a minor ankle sprain I saw last night. Better be. If he's hurt an ankle or knee badly that will suck.

If Anderson does get hit by the Tigers next time they play, the Sox should not fight this time but just stop the game and file a complaint immediately with the commissioner. Pretty much anything is allowed during walk off celebrations. The opposing team can get into the clubhouse if the don't want to watch walk-off celebrations. Baseball's unwritten rulebook has nothing in it on walk offs. What walk off HR celebration isn't wild?

Five inches?? Will it stick? Would be rather annoying to get in an accident in May for gosh sakes because of snow. It's going to get that cold, cold nuff to snow on April 27??

Great post. Abreu has nothing to prove. He's an excellent player. He's just the victim of the "never good enough" mentality some fans have regarding their own. Grass is always greener regarding other guys.