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RIOS!!

Sale's release seems different this season. Not getting as much torque and whip on his pitches.

Yay, didn't know AJP was one of our outfielders.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 03:12 AM) cub opening day was not sold out two days before the game and there are plenty of empty seats every game. People on stubhub literally are giving Cubs tickets away for free.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 03:07 AM) Juan Walked! And then the smartest player in baseball swung at first pitch instead of seeing if Juan could get into scoring position with 2 outs.

Nice use of Beckham here by Ozzie.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 03:01 AM) Where are you getting that number for Saturday? I was there and it seemed like more than that. That was the number on the video screen they showed.

Oh Sergio...excellent job

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:56 AM) The A's are not a draw and the weather sucks. They drew over the weekend just fine. Come on folks let's ease up a little. Weather was beautiful on Saturday, only 26k. Sunday was even nicer, and I believe it was less.

What was the attendance last night?

Quentin's swing has gotten way too long.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:47 AM) It is a night game in April and Oakland not that big a draw. Sox should not have a 10 game homestand this early in the year anyway. I'm not expecting 30k, but the crowds the last two nights have been really poor. Normally I wouldn't care so much, but with all the emphasis put on it by JR and KW, it's disappointing.

Way to bury that slider!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:45 AM) How would Mike Trout look right about now? I know, I know. Hindsight. But what are you paying your scouts, ect for? He'd probably look like Jonathan Broxton or someone like that.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:44 AM) And the overall negativity of a fan base, because that concerns me about attendance even more. It's really puzzling why fans aren't showing up right now. Won't get much better with Bulls postseason run coming up.

NICE CATCH

NICE CATCH

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:33 AM) I really love Grandpa Grindy. He's not white, you can't call him a grinder.

He hardly hit that, and was 10 feet from the track.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:32 AM) http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/199/payroll.jpg According to Kalapse's numbers (a man who is better at numbers than myself), Rios gets $12mil next year. In comparison, Peavy gets 17mil, Dunn 14mil and Konerko 12mil I cant imagine that the Sox will have 4 of the top 20 paid players, my guess is there are at least 30 players who are getting paid $13mil or more. Sorry, I thought Rios had 14 million due last year

That was awesome by Omar. Santos warming up.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:30 AM) And anytime someone can tell me who in that deep white sox farm system can be a replacement level CF'er it would be great. You free up that money from Rios' contract, and you have a lot more options.

That a boy Juan! Kudos to Teahen for not chasing sliders earlier..he's been giving us really good at bats.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:27 AM) Bullpen needs to be reconstructed. It can be done internally, but are they willing to eat the contracts of Pena and Ohman. Ohman will be ok..not great, but decent, I believe

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Apr 13, 2011 -> 02:26 AM) Point being? Sox didn't give him the deal. They took a shot two years ago, and Rios was great first half of last year. He's a plus plus defender and is a nice bat in the middle of the order. Fixed