Buehrle>Wood

The second lefty should be the long man. There's no room for Paulino, as bad as our bullpen is. I'm not giving any of the righties spots to him

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 19, 2014 -> 05:39 PM) They do. One of the starters is on the way out (injury or ineffectiveness) and the Sox have confidence that someone in the minors who had some MLB experience last year will step up. Rienzo is the first call. The second call will be Surkamp. The Sox didn't even have enough confidence in that he was better than Paulino. Come on mannnnn

Jesus Toronto looks like an absolute madhouse, even outside the arena. Sounds like a case of be careful what you wish for. Raptors in 6.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 19, 2014 -> 04:15 PM) Hahaha. So, in retrospect, if we had actually kept Sergio Santos and Jake Peavy, we would be on the cusp of contention in the AL Central this season. Weird. I remember this board was convinced you can lose 40 percent of your starters and still have pitching depth.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 19, 2014 -> 03:31 PM) Not Chicago radio/media, but GMA is adding Tony Reali as a contributor http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/18/news/compa...tony-reali.json Sad he's leaving pti

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Apr 19, 2014 -> 03:20 AM) He was never a good minor leaguer. He was never a good major leaguer. He is 30 years old. There was no reason for aHilarious te to believe he would do well going out of spring training. There is no reason for anyone to believe he will do anything from this point on. I don't ever want the Sox to lose, but I was hoping that if he was going to lose tonight, it would be the one to do him in. I bet he's gone after tonight. It's hilarious that people thought he would be good. It's hilarious that he made the rotation. Hilarious that he was given the 2 spot in the rotation. Hilarious that He was given a 4th start. Hilarious that he hasn't been outright released yet.

Viciedo

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 04:04 AM) They aren't struggling? Avi's injury is such a downer though. No I dont think so. Our two biggest holes coming in Gillaspie and Flowers have been actually good. The rookies Eaton, and Abreu have been as good as you can expect. Abreu in a small slump but overall you can't complain. Semien has not been good but thats one of many. It's been Paulino, Downs, Belisario etc who have been the culprits of frustration IMO. Not the rebuilding pieces IMO.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 03:59 AM) Dude. The sooner you remember we are rebuilding the better you'll feel. But the rebuilding parts are doing much better than expected. Bullpen has veterans and is the area we spent money on this year. It wouldn't be so frustrating if the rebuilding parts were the one struggling.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 03:55 AM) Hopefully someone asks him when he's going to develop another quality pitcher on the roster after Sale and Quintana. It's been a while. We traded him bro

I'll defend him. Semien needs to make that play and Konerko does if he's 5 years younger.

Defense

Did we drop a lot of in park advertisers or is just me? Bacardi at the park is gone, nothing behind home plate anymore and 200 level adds there are nothing.

Lmfao why would you ever send him on that. Closer than I thought. ..

Lmfao why would you ever send him on that. Closer than I thought. ..

Chances Konerko retires mid-season? I would say his body language shows it but that's also the Captain for you.

QUOTE (beautox @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 02:50 AM) Enter the Semien haters, listen hes got a great understanding of the zone and he watched that pitch outside of it. He is going to be a good player for the sox. I'm not even saying you're wrong but this kind of post has to be a running soxtalk.com joke from now on. It's every ab of his from someone.

Looked like it hit him from my seats

I like the Red Sox strategy of not even trying/swinging to hit Sale and instead get his pitch count up and hoping to see our bullpen in time. It'll work.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2014 -> 01:29 AM) Not a lot of fans again tonight Tons in stadium club bullpen bar and Comcast bar for the hawks, but still this is a disaster.

Anyone know what John Farrell is so pissed about? Spent the whole in between inning out of the dugout barking at the home plate ump.

First big non-od crowd of the year and you're not going to play the player that everyone's going to want to see and might attract that crowd back later on? Lame Ventura.

I wish it was Downs, contract be damned. Veal is fine as a second lefty and has been fine this year outside of the game he was left to die in.

I didn't care for the over managing in the 8th. I didn't stay up after the tenth. Leury Garcia eh?

I'll be there