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Nice inning by Nate. He was pretty nasty IMO. Those home runs were bombs. Geez. Frazier has 17 RBIs in April. That is pretty damn good. Looks like Sox hit the jackpot on this FA signing from the NL. Seven homers. Beautiful. Abreu, Eaton, lots of great at bats. Lawrie's home run was a blast. Watch the replay of it. When he hits one he hits one. Nice to stop the bleeding vs the O's. Just think, if Sale is Sale, we may go 2-2 in Baltimore. Pretty nice this time of year when the O's were red hot at home.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:25 AM) Rock's basically saying Eaton took a s*** standpoint in the Laroche situation that he'd probably admit was misguided at this point and the new dudes have changed the culture in the clubhouse for the better. Not sure what you're disagreeing with. I feel like he's downgraded Eaton's contribution. Don't understand why a grown man would suddenly think he had the wrong position on LaRoche's kid just because the team is winning. The team is winning "partly" because of Eaton who is playing very well for four weeks.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:19 AM) Nope. The guys who have taken over wondered why a kid was taking their spots in drills when they needed the reps. They want to win not play in a country club. Eaton was loyal to his buddy but he knows now that this team needed an attitude change. That's my last post on the subject. I mentioned it when it was going on, I've exchanged many PMs on the subject and I think I'm proven right. We can drop it, but there's no way you have been "proven right." Like I said, Eaton has been one of the team MVPs thus far. He came out of the gate aggressive, not acting at all like he was knocked down by the new blood on the team that wanted LaRoche's kid out. QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:20 AM) No doubt, Eaton has been a very good contributor with the glove, arm and bat. To me, it looks like any beefs over the LaRoche saga are a thing of the past. These guys look to be getting along rather well and it's the energy of the new leadership from Frazier, Lawrie, Jackson and Rollins that has made a big difference. The clubhouse is rejuvenated. Frazier was not hitting at all the first two weeks and the team was winning. Lawrie was good with some key hits and defensive plays but his average was around .220 for a good while. Jackson was under .200 for a while (albeit doing some nice things) and Rollins not exactly hitting like a Hall of Famer and we were still winning. Yes I like them all but arguably Eaton, who lost the LaRoche battle, has even been more consistent than anybody mentioned as "new blood." Happy the White Sox are winning, but don't agree it's all because of the new blood. They haven't taken the mound once. The pitching has been old blood plus Latos. Rodon is new blood sort of but has been around a while. Bullpen is old blood too. It's too simplistic to give all the credit to the guys u and Rock mentioned.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:12 AM) No it's not. The new leadership on the team are who complained about it and they were right. They've taken over and this team finally has leadership. Eaton is a good guy and backed his buddy but he knows it was the best thing for the team, now. With all due respect, I think you are crazy. A grown man with convictions doesn't change his mind on an issue like that five weeks later.Eaton has been great this season offensively and defensively. I like Frazier and Lawrie as well, especially Frazier, but what the heck are you talking about?? Lawrie had a huge error the other night. Are you saying Eaton won the leadership battle that night? Please admit your post was a rare horrible one. You can take a Mulligan you know? I've had my share of awful posts before but your take on that seems pretty wrong to me.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:06 AM) And yet it was HR's by Lawrie and Frazier ( leadership regime) that kept the Sox in the game tonight. Pretty sure that's what Rock is referring to. Oh. I get you. Thing is, Eaton had a big part in that win as well. The two warring factions seem to be getting along well enough. Eaton's bunt was one of the biggest plays in the game as well as the two homers you mentioned.

QUOTE (Real @ May 1, 2016 -> 03:04 AM) aren't they paid to actually do their jobs? The pitching has been terrible this series. Yes, but like I said, the big picture is that they've been great this season. Who gives a f*** about 3 games on the road against a good team? We're 1-2 vs. Balt and if we can somehow win Sunday with Sale that's 2-2 on the road vs the O's. Very very nice. I don't like to b**** when we're in first place by 2 games and have a good April like that. If we suck like the past couple years I b**** a lot. Right now, Robin for President and keep it up, Sox.

QUOTE (Real @ May 1, 2016 -> 02:55 AM) Can the pitching stop being f***ing awful as s***? Why b**** after a victory? Team is doing great on the road as a whole this April.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 1, 2016 -> 02:54 AM) Tied for best April ever. The new leadership regime makes such a huge difference on this team. I bet if you had a beer with Eaton today he would admit he was wrong about LaRoche. Is this a joke? I didn't see the humor. I guess you were mocking the situation and praising Eaton for taking the right side on that issue. The players who hated Eaton over that should be liking him now. That was a great bunt, a true team-oriented way to get on base and that catch in right was a hand-woof-em as Hawk would say. Nice grab.

Good job, Nate Jones. I think we have a serious contender. Flaws, of course? But this team should be able to keep competing as a lot of of our key players are maturing right before our eyes. If we can stay in it then make a few moves this time at the trading deadline like KC did last year we will beat the Cubs in the WS.

Eaton may have mis-read that one. Nice grab though.

Nice job by Abreu and Eaton! Hitting to right was great and good speed by Eaton.

Just started watching. Why did the poster go off on Sanchez when he got a double? Did he have a bad error?

Awesome bunt by Eaton. Amazing.

Just put him on the DL and see what happens in a month with the No. 5 starter slot. The fans despise him so why trot him out there to likely fail? The DL he can still get paid and build arm strength or learn how to be a reliever.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 01:47 PM) Whitlock is horrible. He's a horrible journalist. He's a horrible sports personality. All he does is complain and race bait in everything he covers. I'll find the link. But his column ripping the MU student president was awesome. Also he points out how MU as a university has been totally crippled by the inappropriate actions of Black Lives Matter on that campus a few months ago. For starters, read this one. Excellent. http://j.school/post/133025099640/crying-w...es-real-problem This second link is perfection. http://j.school/post/140818405005/concerne...-tacticsresults Here are some of the greatest paragraphs in written history Our best and brightest young people are being used and abused. Addicted to social media and popular culture, assimilated and enslaved mentally, they’ve bought the myth that anti-white is the new pro-black, that improving white people is the key to black progress. They want black lives to matter more to white people than they do to us. Any slight by a white person is a reason to whine, cry and demand government intervention. The Missouri football players and a group of their student peers created a $32-million budget shortfall over “hardships” and rude behavior so frivolous that they’re embarrassing to repeat because they point to a fragility that has never defined black folk. Mizzou’s freshman enrollment is down nearly 20 percent. The interim chancellor, Hank Foley, announced the school will slash its budget 5 percent across the board. There’s no money to pay for the programs and policies demanded by Concerned Students 1950, the Missouri group inspired by Black Lives Matter. The school’s brand has been significantly damaged. What was gained? A Spike Lee documentary? The resignation of a figurehead who will be replaced by another figurehead? Whatever was gained won’t be offset by the hardened hearts and feelings powering The Winter of Trump. The mainstream media, bloggers and Twitter activists who rode Black Lives Matter to relevancy won’t explain the ramifications of childish, emotional and in-your-face civil rights strategy. They’ll say eight years of Obama made America more comfortable with bigotry. They’ll never admit that black rioters, inspired by BLM, burning down a city controlled by a black mayor, black police chief, black attorney general and black city council ripened American voters for Trump. The propagandized code phrase “respectability politics” makes it easy for young people to dismiss the advice of elders and belittle the tactics that helped deliver us from slavery and Jim Crow and would serve us best in the fight against mass incarceration. What’s difficult to refute is the superiority of the victories won by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and our greatest generation.

Is Kainle any good? We gave up a good prospect for him.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 30, 2016 -> 02:48 AM) Those 16 pitches could make the difference between three generations of his family being financially set for life or Conley having to take a real job at age 30. Stop it greg. I know. We're in a new era. Everything is based on money today ... everything. My guess is he could have gone 16 more pitches. Do we have any scientific proof (ptatc?) that anything over 120 pitches is playing jeopardy with one's arm? I'm glad the reliever didn't get it. I hate combined no hitters. I wonder which player you jump on and dogpile after a combined no hitter? The starter or the guy who got four outs? I'd wait til the starter got out of the dugout and dogpile on him.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 01:28 PM) Greg, it's not a matter of getting arm strength back. It's the shoulder/capsule, which isn't nearly as resilient and has proven to be an enigma for even modern medicine and improved surgical technology/techniques. The weird thing is there was a period there where he was consistently throwing 89-91 last year and even touched 92/93 on a few occasions. It's like that version completely disappeared at some point in the last 12 months, never to be heard from again. It's almost like his shoulder has deteriorated or he's hurt another part of his arm/elbow and is compensating for that. At any rate, the end is near. Before the season, I would have said that they would try him over Jennings as the 2nd lefty/long man, but I'm not even sure that's a realistic option at this point with how well the bullpen has been doing and how unlikely it is that Danks can re-establish any value pitching in mop up innings out of the bullpen. Sunk cost. Move on. Thanks for the memories in 2008, especially that Blackout Game. He'll always have that, and 2010 was pretty sweet, too. Both Danks and Gavin Floyd ended up being pleasant surprises and were main cogs in that rotation for a number of years while we held onto our 2005 core (probably too long, in retrospect). It's a sad thing neither Danks or Brandon McCarthy have been able to stay healthy. Both have been snakebitten, especially McCarthy, but he's been able to bounce back when it looked like his career was on the ropes a number of times. I can buy what u are selling Nice post. QUOTE (peppers312 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 06:50 PM) maybe Danks can be moved to the bullpen because he's not working out as a starter. it's a shame, but he's made a ton of money for very little production. i think it's time to give someone else a shot at a starting spot in our rotation. Again, a nice post. Both were non hysterical. I do want to say Danks was NOT s*** last year. He was an OK No. 5 starter a year ago. Check his individual starts rather than quote me some weird stat saying he was last in WAR or something. Danks wasn't bad last year. I haven't seen any of his 4 starts this season so I still "love" him as a fan. QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Apr 30, 2016 -> 01:26 AM) Tonight is what happens you allow losers to play like s*** over and over and stick around. The culture of this team changed last night, and by not getting rid of Danks immediately they may never get back what they had. Every spot on the 25 man matters... This is an insane post. Even if the Sox lose 10 in a row for some reason it's not cause the culture of the team changed in Danks' lousy start.

Mattingly takes Conley out after 116 pitches with a no hitter. I think that's bulls***, although the reliever is three outs away from the no no and they still may get it. You figure it'll take him 132 pitches maximum to get the no-no. I think those 16 pitches are worth the risk of a career ending injury.

I challenge you to find Whitlock's columns on the Missouri situation. He is an incredible writer about race.

If we release him nobody would pick him up cause of the salary, right? That's sad cause I'd like to see him go to the NL. I wouldn't count him out yet once he gets the arm strength fully back. One other thing you guys have to remember ... we have four lefty starters. When you are the worst of the four, it's not easy. The other teams lick their chops that it's not one of the three great lefties. Do Danks a favor and trade him somewhere a team needs a lefty starter. Or put him in middle relief. He's our Danny Duffy. Lose him in the bullpen. Still I can't end a thread without adding ... I love Johnny Danks!

One thing Hawk is going to miss. As we all know, a good season on the road is .500. If we truly are a playoff team, we might finish five over .500 on the road if we're lucky and 20 over at home. That's a great season. Hawk is going to be broadcasting a lot of lousy losses and he won't have any of those exciting summertime home games where our fans are into it and we're rocking and rolling. What I'm trying to say is Hawk could see a lot of bad Sox baseball this year cause traditionally .500 is a great season on the road.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 12:58 AM) Yes he did Where are the Danks apologists now I'm still here. I love Johnny Danks. I do admit, however, I don't want him starting the Sox-Royals game I'm going to in May. Put him on the DL til he gets his velocity back, or make him a reliever (Danny Duffy and Hochevar were starters once as well) or send him down on a rehab assignment. Or send him to the Braves for a Class A prospect. I predict he will win 10 games again in his career during a bounceback season at some point.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 28, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) Thought I read it's his father-in-law Thanks for clarifying. I actually think a father in law situation could even be worse on a husband depending on how his wife is handling it. I would think he should be there for every single bit of the way just as if it was his own dad, just to support his wife.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 28, 2016 -> 01:19 PM) The VP is usually chosen before the convention, but after the nomination is locked up. It's unheard of for a candidate who isn't even the frontrunner to name a VP. Thanks.