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Hawk made it obvious he was too good for bad baseball. Hawk's ego was so high he felt he was doing the club a favor broadcasting their games. At least it's the way I saw it. He was OK with Wimpy on the 2-3 games a year but really got bad with Stoney. Like he hated him or something. Now ... Stone remains a gem. Benetti is hugely awesome. Great announcing.

CaliSox. We called it "fastpitch" and played daily at MtGreenwood School. If you called it the same thing, maybe you played against me. Kind of a coincidence we both called it "fastpitch." We also chalked up the wall of the school for strike zone and bought rubber balls (had to be a certain kind of ball to work) at the store on 107th street on the way. It could be 1 on 1 or 2 on 2; usually 1 on 1. Mt Greenwood had a fence that stopped all the ground balls. If you blasted it over the fence, the bike was used as transportation to go get the ball. There were some houses past the fence for rooftop shots. Nobody ever complained. If the ball happened to hit a window, it would not break the window being a rubber ball. Our LL manager would be furious if he found out we played fastpitch or went swimming on the day of a night LL game at MtGreenwood LL fields on 115th St. We also played wiffle and softball on street corners and also played "running bases." Neighbors were a bit testy about the softball as those would break windowns. Hmmm, u have to be from Mt. Greenwood. Neighbors wouldnt get too mad at us tearing up their grass to slide when playing running bases. Unlike today, parents were not involved at all and let kids stay out until dark in the summer unsupervised. Nobody got kidnapped. Nobody got killed. Protective Parents have ruined it all for kids. If we really got lucky, after LL practice our manager would give us one or two bats and two balls and let us stay and play pick up baseball on our own. Most of the time there wasn't a lot of time to get a game in before official games began at 115th fields. As far as Timmy, i don't know. I would think he'll deny using the n word and how the hell they going to prove that??? Believe a member of the royals? Don't think so.

I know I'm prejudiced as I worship Avi, but he's doing very well. .310 batting average with 7 RBI and two homers. OBP of .365. 46 plate appearances against righties and 12 versus lefties. Look, the guy is a major league outfielder who is ABOVE AVERAGE hitter. Not the greatest fielder but not a complete buffoon out there either. I'd rate him overall as "good baseball player." Please put updates of former Sox in this file. Avi baby we love you. Stupid to just give him away when the Sox had/have all that cash laying around. Even you Avi haters have to admit he should have had a chance to be protected by some of the thunder we have in the lineup following the addition of Eloy.

I wonder how he prepared to know all the answers.

Very sad what happened to Ventura. Senseless loss of life. As far as the compilation, like I said, Perez would have gone berserk at Anderson. No doubt about that. Sox and Royals have a lot of bad blood, mostly started by the Royals through the years.

I hear u Soxfan, but you do realize the unwritten rulebook exists right? Like u can't bunt to break up a no hitter after what, the sixth inning? I am a bit surprised pitchers' fist pumping isn't a no no in the unwritten rulebook. I guess since relievers don't come to the plate there's nothing you can do to them. I would assume players yell shit at pitchers who pump their fists wildly after strikeouts though.

It is pretty impressive he hit him in the butt. Just think if it was the lower back! Ouch!

My only beef with it is since it is definitely a no no in baseball's unwritten rulebook, he shouldn't flip his bat ... ever. Because teams have to start fights over crap in the unwritten rulebook. Personally I think it's just fine for a guy on my team to do it, except for that. I mean the Royals assholes are going to call him on it every time. Salvador Perez would have went ballistic. Plus, there's a minute chance the batter misreads his blast and perhaps the ball doesn't clear the fence one time and he'll look mighty stupid posing. Finally, Walter Payton saw no need to draw attention to himself and I worship Sir Walter. Go Bears!

You are wasting your words. Cmon. Like I said celebrating your own home run excessively is against baseball's unwritten rules. Case closed. The fact the Royals plunked TA his next at bat after he did that proves the unwritten rulebook is alive and well. It's not going to change. TA is the one who needs to change.

As long as baseball players will abide by the unwritten rulebook, TA needs to cut it out. Harper too if he does it. You cannot deny that flipping the bat, flinging the bat, running too slow around the bases, doing something wacky upon crossing the plate all are against baseball's unwritten rules. If you break an unwritten rule, usually something's gonna happen. Still bothers me that the shift isn't against the unwritten rules. It embarrasses hitters when they refuse to plop a bunt to the left side and instead embarrass themselves and the game by pulling the ball right into the shift. GO SOX!

The Royals do this every year to the Sox. If there's a series we are going to win, they throw at a Sox hitter and it usually works. I'm sick of KC doing this to the Sox every single year, starting fights. Anderson breaks the unwritten rule and they bean him in the butt with a pitch. Anderson shoulda just charged the mound immediately if he was going to say/do anything. Oh well, it's fitting two very very bad teams are 3-3 vs. each other this year.

Not trying to say I told you so, but I would like to ask last year's Moncada haters why they refused to use the eye test regarding him. I could absolutely tell he was going to be very very good because of the eye test. Of course Eloy passes that same eye test. You just knew the umps were eventually going to give Moncada a break on those blatantly bad calls as he survived a season in which they obviously were testing him. I mean so many of those pitches were way out of the strike zone and yet they'd ring him up. Eloy also obviously passes the eye test and Timmy does as well. Only problem with Timmy is he won't take a walk as we know and the law of averages of putting the ball in play that many more times eventually will bring his BA and OBP down to non spectacular levels. I won't go through the list, but so many of our bad hitters do not pass the eye test. Final observation: Any of you hate the shift on hitters as much as I do? Continuing to ruin the game for me.

I guess it is much nicer beating the Royals than the alternative, but the Royals are soooooo lousy.

Manny Machado has two more RBI than Nelson Cruz. Hmmmm. Manny is human. He's .267, 4 HR, 8 RBI. So he has nine bases on balls. Don't try to tell me his advanced stats are amazing. As of mid-April, Manny is meh right now. Feel better? Now Harper is .268, 4 HR and 10 RBI with a ton of walks. OK, I wanted him more than Manny anyway. Moncada is .323, 3 HR, 14 RBI, just four walks. And Timmy is .453, 3 HR, 10 RBI with one walk. Folks, I still despise Hahn for the rebuild, but cmon, the Manny love is a bit misguided considering how much $$ he's making compared to our stat stuffers Timmy and Yoan!!!! Go Sox. (how do you like greg looking up all this stuff?? Impressive greg?

I wish people would realize Sox vs. Royals games mean nothing, like spring training games. Yes these two teams are that bad. Fathom could have homered off Boxberger who lobbed one in there vs. Castillo. No offense, I want to win every game and I'm glad we won, especially against KC, but you have to realize KC is a different kind of bad. Nothing we see in a Sox-KC game should be taken as reality.

It's a long season. Let's see how he does. Although I despise the talk of flipping players. I do hate this tank/rebuild stuff. We have to go through this kind of year again next year? Great.

Boxberger and Erwin both lobbed pitches up there on the homers that Fathom could have jacked out of the park. Wow that Boxberger guy is a stiff. Ditto poor Erwin S.

Finally I get to watch Eloy bat then leave. Got some betta things to do. Eloy first. Then bye bye folks. Greg hating on the Sox in 2019.

Hey did you guys notice the most famous tank of all, Philly Sixers, has finally angered their fans into a greg-like frenzy? They were BOOING unmercifully during the first playoff game loss to Brooklyn. This tank stuff is pretty annoying, folks. It's still April and our tankers are playing some horrific baseball. We did take 2 of 3 in NY but woulda lost Game One had we played the final 3 innings. Explain the Philly tank, folks .Not working.

He's this year's Shields. Only worse.

I guess I'm in a grumpy mood, but look at the pathetic crowd. And it's all baseball's fault. Who in their right minds want to see Chicago play the KC Royals? My gosh how could the owners agree many years ago to play teams in their own division so many times. It's absurd. There's just no reason for a Chicagoan to even consider going to tonight's game. There can't be more than 5,000 fans in that stadium tonight. Is there 5000?

Geezus they called that a hit. Look, if a guy hits it right into the shift it is an ERROR. This isn't Little League. he hit it right into the shift.

That is an error, folks.

Do the Sox strike out too much or is this modern baseball? Home run or K is all hitters want?

How is that Goose Island section doing at 100 bucks a seat? Anybody sat out there yet? Is it going to make it?