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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.

If he died Wednesday, the funeral will probably be Monday or Tuesday. I hope he doesn't think of coming back until Wednesday at the earliest. To lose one's dad is horrific and I'm just assuming they were very close. Rest in peace. Don't even think about baseball for a week.

The Royals look human. Still not a lot of power in that lineup. Starting rotation is going without a true ace at this time. Soria is a weak link in the bullpen. I'm not saying we'll beat them. I am thinking we should be able to hang in there and not have them run away with the division. We shall see but our rotation compared to theirs, I don't see any reason we shouldn't go .500 vs. KC this year. It will be sad if it's something like 13-6 KC over Sox again.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Apr 27, 2016 -> 05:15 PM) Such a devastating situation. He should go away forever. Yes he needs to go away. These cases sicken me. Meghan McCain said it best tonight ... he's disgusting.

Are the Veep's always chosen before the convention? I forget. At any rate, Carly is very very very unlikeable. At least to me. Cruz needs to go away. He's had a lot of chances and can't even provide serious competition to ... Donald Trump?? Then this choice of Carly? Ugh. At least Donald vs. Hillary will be very fun theatre. I mean Donald actually did it. I heard the tape of him today accusing Hillary of playing the woman card. He actually said, "And women don't like her." He's certifiably nuts, but it's gonna be fun.

Nice to see Q win again. What a month of April. Almost perfect, really. You can't expect a much better performance out of the gate than this. Glad the Sox won 3 of 4 to open in warm Oakland. They haven't looked back. Keep it up. Like my friend said, the Robin haters have shut their mouths. This team is amazing.

Cruz has lost his mind. Why Carly? Pick a woman who is in Congress for gosh sakes.

In response to my Cruz question, I said I liked the flat tax but haven't really studied the guy yet. How come people say he'd actually have a chance against Hillary whereas Trump will get annihilated? I wasn't meaning to imply Christians are being persecuted. I don't know why everybody says we are bossy and try to implement our faith on others. I NEVER talk about going to church (except on here lol) and praying and all that stuff. I don't even try to get my siblings to return to their faith etc. I keep it to myself.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Apr 27, 2016 -> 02:35 AM) Yep We'll have to look them in the face and beat them down. Or if we're still in first place, just go .500 against them or 6-4 would be nice. Royals seem to be winning out of habit. I'm not crazy about their team. Let's see if they have the magic again this season or if that starting rotation just plain kills them as the season marches on.

This is too amazing for words. Sox have been consistently good to great so far this season. Several folks have already said it, but this is what it's like when we truly have the best pitcher in baseball. Sale has taken that additional step to where he's not gonna have a bad night like he occasionally had in the past (knock on wood and all that stuff; there is no such thing as a jinx people). 15 hits and even Avi busts loose, perhaps feeling the heat from Robin implying he'd be sent down. One month doesn't mean anything obviously, but I still say we could beat the Cubs in the World Series if this continues and our rotation stays sharp and healthy. Sale, Q, Latos and Rodon could be the foursome to do it especially since we have a good closer and set up man in Albers. Even the guys I started to dislike are doing OK to good. Rollins is hitting .262 and Navarro did well tonight. And Austin Jackson with the three hits. Way to kick some Blue Jay ass White Sox. Keep it up, but congrats on a fine April so far. Even our manager has matured. He's doing a fine job. I had a chicago friend call me today and he said, all that crap about Robin? You don't hear any of that any more.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 06:20 AM) Cruz? You've gotta be s***tin' me greg. If you're jonesing for christian extremism, he's your guy. That's just stupid in a country that has a pretty diverse portfolio of people. Some christians would love that but it would do nothing but cause complete and utter chaos in the country. What about the flat tax? I kinda like it. In this day and age of people getting so mad at believers, it is hard to believe he could emerge as the candidate. I mean I am a true believer and actually am a practicing Catholic, but as a nation I sense people get very mad when they find out you are a believer. People around here don't like hearing a word about God, that is for sure. You can't bring up religion or you better duck (except with your fellow parishioners of course). I was just wondering if there was anything about Cruz I could rally around since it appears he may beat out Trump and I despise Hillary as much as I do.

QUOTE (asindc @ Apr 26, 2016 -> 01:14 AM) Minneapolis Star Tribune rates Prince's albums: http://www.startribune.com/critical-...ums/376785321/ The Tribune has had great coverage of Prince the last week. BTW am I out of line saying Purple Rain is one of the greatest 100 songs of all time in the rock genre or whatever u want to call it?