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Tank catches a break on the made to order double play. The 'hatred' of Buehrle from some Sox fans just floors me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 02:26 PM) A plea of insanity isn't a free pass out of jail. Basically isn't it a stay in a hospital-type setting? Followed by a country club "prison " to make sure he's getting all medicated up? I wonder if he'll be allowed to golf and play tennis?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 04:38 PM) Because we should learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them. That is true. With all these people in our country we have to keep turning to the Bushes and Clintons? Great post about Chelsea. Bring her on right after Hillary's eight years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) He did almost the exact same dive a couple days before he tore his shoulder. The trainers came out on that one and everything, I had noidea how he didn't hurt himself on the first one. He did it again a couple days later and that's when his shoulder shredded. I remember that. He has to learn how to play the outfield that is for sure. I could see him doing the same dive again.

Sox are the definition of a .500 team. It's insane how many times they've dipped up and back.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 05:54 AM) We gotta bean Trout to retaliate for the bean balls that inning. Those were pretty weak bean balls though. We could do it to be bad-asses but I don't think the Angels were throwing at our guys.

That was way inside, wasn't it? I thought so.

Why do the Sox stink when they play the A's and Angels on the road?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 07:56 PM) I totally disagree. If someone wants to give Adam Dunn more htan $5 million next year I'd be happy to let them. $5 million for Adam Dunn, with what he's producing right now, is an overpay to me. It's an overpay I'd consider because of the lack of LHB in our lineup, but I'd certainly consider other options first. Amen. Great post.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 10:01 PM) And Jesus. As far as your Jesus joke ... it's a sad world when I'm not allowed to make the blanket statement: "I believe if more people knew God they wouldn't pull this mass murder s***." That statement by me would cause as much vitriol (sp) and hatred toward me as people have toward this mass murderer. In fact, I would say just as many outspoken people would be upset at me for my God assertion than they are upset at the killer himself. For it looks like the killer already is being billed as mentally unstable and insane which will let him off the hook with so many groups of people in America. Who cares that he's a violent mass murderer, right? He's insane so heaven forbid he be responsible for killing and injuring people and ruining lives of innocent Americans. Read the lawyer's quotes. She's already pushing strong for insanity. My comment is, "Lock the bastard up for a minimum of 60 years." Let him out when he's 85 or whatever if he lives that long. By the way, love this line in the Trib story ... "Local media reports citing unidentified police sources have said Ybarra, who is not a student at the college, was fascinated with mass shootings at other schools, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado." Great. Copycat killers are coming out of the woodwork. My prayers are none of you ever lose a friend to a mass murderer as I have. It sucks.

I see Putin insulted Hillary. Interesting.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:54 PM) I've never seen so much "speaking out of anger" hyperbole in my life, and contrary to pretty much everything you just said, the US is safer now than it's been in decades. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm That being said, I'm not disagreeing that this is a sad state of affairs, but to keep things in perspective, it's safer to live here now than it's been since the late 70's. Safe? Wow, you are an easy grader. Welcome to America. Come back to me in 20 years and tell me I'm right. We're all going to be armed and owning guns and bringing them with us wherever we go. We'll be carrying them like we do our cellphones. You can't tell me right now as I type this there aren't thousands upon thousands of people beginning to plan their own shooting sprees.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) You're such a fan but yet you can't even spell his name right. I'm disappointed in you Greg. Just lazy. Check all my other posts and I bet I never spelled Buehrle wrong. My favorite Sox of all time. a.) Buehrle/Konerko tie. b.) Chet Lemon. c.) Frank Thomas. d.) Gary Peters.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) I'm not greedy--I'll settle for them being only minus-25 over their next 17 games. Sox desperately need to split with Detroit in that 4-game series. Losing 3 or more and forget it, we won't be contending this year with the Tigers in that scenario. Time to play with them on their level.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 07:15 PM) Not really. I endorsed the Santiago trade when it happened. He cetainly hit for a high average in most of his minor league career. He hustles. I said about a week or so ago that he was one bad week away from hitting .240. Here he is. He seems to be struggling. A few weaknesses, so-so arm for sure. Baserunning is iffy...I have seen several instances where he just doesn't get that good jump that superior baserunners have. He probably needs a jolt of confidence. Still improving, hopefully. I just think CF is not a position of strength right now. We have a slug playing left, and Eaton certainly can't make up for that deficit. If Avisail had never gotten hurt, he would help cover up Eaton's weaknesses; that is, he would fit in better. But our outfield is so bad right now with no help in sight, I made that comment about trading Gordo for a CF type a bit impulsively. I meant it, but have not given up on him. Avisail make up for weaknesses of the centerfielder? I thought A. Garcia was a disaster defensively. Is Eaton Aaron Rowand clone? About a .240 hitter who has intangibles?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 08:03 PM) No. Would you want Adam Dunn on a 1 year, $14 million deal next year? Not at his current production, I would not. No way in hell. I can't believe some people are softening on the Dunn issue. One year or two year contract at the most, please. A Keppinger-like deal, please. Or just forget about Dunn and move on.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) It took 1 business day for my speculation to be accurate, at least on the part of the NRA. And Richard Martinez's son hasn't even had his memorial service yet and we have already had another high profile senseless university shooting. What a world ...

QUOTE (soxfan-kwman @ May 28, 2014 -> 05:18 PM) For Ricky Bobby, I mean Adam Dunn you go 4 years $30 mil Year 1 -$9/$8/$7/$6. Decent protection for Abreu. Shake & Bake!! Too much cash. He should get 4 mill a year max for 2-3 years and I kick myself for even going that high. Otherwise let him walk. Nobody's going to pay this guy. What did AJP get this year? No way 9 mill for Dunn.

It's all over. America is officially the worst place in the world to live in terms of people killing its own people (aside from lunatic dictators like the North Korean asshole offing people, etc). This is only going to get worse as the months, years pass. Should be interesting to see what happens as this escalates. I would assume eventually we are all going to be armed with guns as we go to churches, movies, ballgames, malls, etc., and there will be a lot of old fashioned shootouts when lunatic killers try to do their thing at such places. I would think at this rate the arming of Americans to protect themselves will reach a fever pitch before too many years pass. Undoubtedly there will be lots of accidents involving those guys. Maybe even some mass shootings that start when somebody accidentally fires his/her gun in a movie theatre and others panic and shoot the guy/girl who fired the accidental shot. These killings will not stop and can you imagine how many thousands (up to a million??) of sick, and or, desperate individuals are planning their own shooting sprees even as I type this? It's a sick sick USA we live in. (and I'm not even mentioning how we are offing our own environment, though other countries are helping ruin the planet in this regard as well ... good luck to us all as the glaciers melt). p.s. Congratulations and thanks for the students who tackled the bastard shooter. Also the people who piled on to hold him. I like attorneys, but I shudder to think of all the attorneys who will want to defend this bastard as it'll be another high profile case in which they try to get the guy off on insanity.

I'm just sick of people acting like there's something wrong with Buerhle cause he's "not an ace" when there are VERY FEW aces in baseball year in and out.

I see nobody will point out to me who is an ace in baseball since Mark got good. Talking about 'ace' is stupid because there are not many out there and never have been that many since the 60s when the mound was low. As far as Cliff Lee he was 22-3 in 2008, then 14-13, 12-9, 17-8, 6-9, 14-8, 4-4 Oh I forgot records don't matter in baseball. You tell me how he was an ace more than Buehrle.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 06:55 PM) Verlander has been bad for five starts now. Torii Hunter made an error that he didn't pitch over, and now Brett Lawrie took him deep. 6-3 Jays, top 6 Big series next week. Huge. Bad for five starts ... Hmm is Verlander still an ace?

Rebuilding like the Cubs are doing is very boring and painful. Only those totally in love with prospects, I'd call them draftniks, but people got mad at me for using that term, aren't totally bored by it. Hopefullly the Sox won't get to the point they have no good players on the field for 3-5 years like the Cubs. I hate rebuilding and being out of it on June 1. Very sad, though, that WGN is dropping all sports. What kind of station is it going to be? Those bad Matlock shows all day? Wow.

Bella on fire as closer right now. Danks was masterful, too.

Big game for Bella. If he wants to be closer he can't blow this one.