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QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:53 PM) After the first swing by Thames, he should have not seen another fastball. The thing is, the Tigers are team that can pretty much only hit fastballs....its shocking that teams continue to come in and throw that many fastballs to some of there hitters (Monroe/Thames especially who are dead pull all the time, just throw the stuff outside and let them get themselves out).

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:45 PM) Just put this in the GT. Oh, and I have a big bone to pick with Coop. As I said about Walker, I am not one to blame coaches and mangers all the time. The players are the ones executing, they have to hit and pitch the ball. However, when it's a team wide thing, then I start to question. With Coop, it's clear he is just not preparing these pitchers the way they need to be. Mark had that string of like 15 of 18 games where he gave up a 1st inning run. Count has been getting rocked in the 1st. Today, Garland is trash in the 1st, then looks like Cy Young the rest of the game. Something isn't right, and needs to be fixed. I think you are nit-picking. That first inning was not a badly pitched inning by Jon. It was more the Tigers hitters getting the ball to fall in the right spot or just having a real nice approach/swing on some good pitches. Jon has looked really really good all season long thus far.

Cassell has an ERA under 1 and after tonights amazing performance (8 innings, 2 hits and a run) his ERA actually went up to .93.

QUOTE(bmags @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 02:15 PM) not that this should matter to me, but i'm young and stupid, ATH all basically said the no hitter was no big deal. Maybe if you've stop becoming a baseball fan. Skip Bayless was an idiot. He said it was one of the worse no hitters he ever saw. Yes there was good defense involved, but all of the good defensive plays (Iguchi's, Dye's, and Crede's) were pretty much the only hard hit balls of the entire game. So thats a whopping three. Do I also need to mention that for anyone to throw a no hitter you need to have good defensive plays (no matter what the no no, you will see that for it to happen the defense will have to bail the pitcher out a couple times). You want to talk about a joke of a no hitter, lets start talking about the one Josh Beckett pitched a couple years back. And even that was still a no hitter (an amazing feat). Heck there is a bit of fluke to every no hitter, unless of course your Mr. No Hitter (Nolan Ryan). QUOTE(aprindi @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 02:43 PM) Anyone want some pictures from last night???? Awesome stuff and welcome aboard QUOTE(NUKE @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 12:15 AM) Can you tell its Mark's contract year? He's been pitching his ass off this season. He's just pitching like Mark and boy do I love seeing it (and if he leaves I'll miss watching him throw in a Sox uni).

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 08:40 PM) Lucy = stud... finally, we might actually have a bonafide catching spect! Its too early to get there, but I agree if he keeps it up he has the tools to be one of the better catching prospects in all of baseball (and I should warn people that there rarely are many good catching prospects in baseball).

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 20, 2007 -> 11:31 AM) Mark Buehrle's the best. I'll miss him. He'll be missed, but he's already earned a spot in my personal hall of fame of baseball players (while he's no Pedro or Maddux, he is included with those guys as some of my favorite all time players to watch/cheer for).

QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 20, 2007 -> 08:21 PM) I think it's still a little early to say who got the better end of the deal. All I'm saying is so far so good. Bmac didn't look so hot today either. Masset has some really good movement on his heater and a nice looking breaking pitch. He also throws as easy a 94 MPH as I've seen (which makes me think right now that he's taking a couple MPH off his heater, which was advertised as being more mid to upper 90's, in order to get better command/movement). But that 2 seamer he was throwing last night was nasty. Danks has impressive mound presence for a youngster but still looks like a 21 year old when it comes to his command (yes its decent, but its not where it needs to be. The bright side is even without him throwing his curve for strikes he's still rarely getting anyone to square up on him, aside from a few long balls). I'm real excited to have him on the southside (and Massett is no slacker either). QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 10:33 AM) In terms of pure stuff, I haven't been awfully-impressed with Danks. McCarthy's stuff is better, IMO. That said, Danks has been producing. And while it's still way too early to call, he alone may have justified the trade. Danks changeup is looking like its as good as Bmac's (and Mac has a good changeup) while Danks has thrown a plus plus curve most of his career and has much better life and similar velocity (definitely better life). The one thing Brandon has is superior control but Danks has better pure stuff because with the movement he gets his heater mixed with that change and curve (once he starts throwing strikes) its hard not to see why Ken Williams made this move (and thats not even considering Massett or Rasner).

I don't do taxes, but if you sell after two years you get to sell them at the 15% Capital Gains rate and if you sell them before than you'd pay taxes on them as if it were normal income (which would be whatever your tax bracket is and that would be a higher percent). I'm pretty sure those are the exact details, but if ChisoxRd is around he could tell me for sure (because I despise taxes and even though I'm an accountant I have a friend at my firm do them for free for me).

Way to go Yanks and way to go Arod (I'm a big Arod fan).

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 01:12 PM) Its those doubles that say even more than just his numbers, to me. He must be driving the ball really well. I agree that ideally, he gets in a year this year in AA/AAA, then maybe he starts getting MLB time next year. And I'm sure you are right that getting more time starting somewhere is better for him this year than being a backup. But if Hall is out the year, and Molina and Wiki still look bad, and the Sox are in the thick of things... well, I think its something to consider. In those cases you trade for a backup catcher. Jose Molina could come for a fringe prospect (maybe Heath Phillips whom the Angels could consider using as the lefty out of the pen).

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 11:52 AM) How cool would that be, thats a long as flight to go over the atlantic too and you could hypothetically do it in what they say 50 mins? Isn't a flight a decent amount longer than 50 minutes.

What is the real Sawyer? And Sawyer better not die, he's right behind Sayid as my favorite Character (with Jack being a close 3rd).

Using Donny Lucy as the backup catcher this early in his development would be a major mistake. He's finally starting to come around a bit (at least its looking that way) with the bat and it will be huge for him to stay healthy this year and just get a full season of Ab's so he can continue to grow. Than you consider using him next year (possibly) giving him time to get familiar with the Sox starters as a backup before eventually taking over more and more from AJ (in a perfect scenario). Having him at the major league level this year would prevent that (he still needs more minor league AB's).

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 04:34 PM) Are you SURE it's not April 1? From Rotoworld, spot-on reaction: There has never been any team more consistently stupid in setting up a bullpen. The Phils are going to make me look like a complete idiot for picking them to win the wild card. Charlie Manuel is a terrible manager too. Geeze, talk about a waste of talent. QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 08:38 AM) I just have an image of Boras smoking a huge cigar laughing his ass off like master criminal He's going to make a boatload of money this off-season when he opts out.

Wow...a day after the episode and no comments. Either everyone was like me and DVR'ing the Sox game and didn't get till lost till very late or not at all or you guys really didn't like the episode. Overall it wasn't as good as I expected after seeing the preview for the last few episodes. Still, I have came to realize I just have ridiculous hopes for the show and lately its been a lot better and its kind of cool...a new person on the island that is going to somehow know Desmond's girl Penny.

Ya, people send emails and say you'd prefer to have me leading the show with various Soxtalk regulars making guest appearances. Get ER DONE!!!!

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 08:49 PM) And even if we beat Miami, we get DET 2nd round So...both teams are beatable. Sure they are both good teams, but they can be beat and the Bulls have beaten them both this season. If they show up and play good Chicago Bull basketball, this team is capable of knocking out both of those squads.

I'm barely willing to admit I've been to the state of Iowa, let alone an Iowa Cub game But ya, minor league games are a lot of fun.

I wub Mark Buehrle!!!!!!

If the Bulls are good they should be able to go through Miami and anyone else in the East. They had a pretty damn good season considering the injuries and everything else and it just so happened the Cavs picked up one more win. Big Whoop. The real season starts on Saturday.

Holy crap....I had the game DVR'd and just got through it...AMAZING. I love Mark F'in Buehrle.

When I'm gone, instead of having a funeral I want my family to all watch a Sox game (if its during the season) or a Bears game in memory of me. As far as being remembered, I just want to be remembered as a good person, a good father (in time), a loving husband (in time), and a great friend.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 18, 2007 -> 10:22 AM) I've been insanely busy; I'm going to finally listen to this tomorrow night. About stinking time. We even gave specific mention to you during the show.

He should be beaned for the way he show-boated when the team was already up four runs. I was very dissapointed that the next batter wasn't drilled.

Ugggh....last week I had a night I worked till midnight....tonight, I'm just getting home now...and its not even busy season anymore.