southsideirish71

The lineup that Robin trotted out today is in the spirit of Guillen's Sunday lineup. Yes lots of lefties in the lineup but when Kep is your 5 hole hitter you have issues. Hopefully Axelrod has his best stuff today.

Flowers got worked over. Well lets get them tomorrow.

I need to learn Spanish so I can get the SAP feed. Listening to Hawk is painful. Streeeeeeeeeeeetchhhhhhhhhhh

Kepp, if you putt a 1 in front of the 7 and he reminds me of a right handed former Nebraska punter.

Offense!!!!

Hawk is Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty.

Remember last year when were solid defensively.

Having flashbacks to Cy Feldman mowing us down. Hopefully we solve this.

Well Crawford had a s***ty SO performance. He needs to tighten up.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) Guthrie had some awful outings last year, even with the Royals. We're bound to break through at some point. Maybe he hangs around with Cy Chen and they have figured it out.

Dempsey taken down in the box in front of the ref no call.

There are a couple of things in play here. There is the velocity. Which as PTAC has stated is building up the muscle, loosening up any of the tightness, running free and easy during delivery. Then there is command and control. Throwing a strike is control, command is where you can throw the strike to a part of the zone. This includes understanding the way your pitches break or move that day. Command is going to take the longest as his shoulder is still getting used to the motion and he is gaining confidence. Also there is the mental fear factor as well. One of the biggest issues for a pitcher that gets hurt is to distinguish discomfort with pain. Pitching and recovering from a turn through the rotation deals with soreness, thats discomfort. When you feel a twinge or sharp stick, thats pain. Sometimes the minute you feel anything negative you want to back off. I think he will be fine in the end. Its just going to take time to regain his form.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 07:14 AM) The instant results expected are hilarious. If Danks doesn't have an ERA under 2.00 in spring training, 7 months after shoulder surgery, he's toast. Obviously we all would like Danks to get a few more outs. But 88-89 at this point seems encouraging as he builds up arm strength. He's obviously going to be rusty and not have his command, and breaking balls don't break much in AZ. Sale has an inflated ERA. I still think there's a chance he's on the team opening day, but if not, assumming no setbacks,I doubt what you see is what he is and will be. I don't know what people are exactly looking for on this. Velocity takes time. Th fact that he is on the cusp of 90 is great. Command and control is more important. We have some depth in the rotation that can allow Danks to come back n the sox timetable. The thin Arizona air takes breaking balls away and makes Joe Borchard and Brian Anderson into allstars.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 09:30 PM) Ramirez has gotten progressively worse offensively to the point where he put up a lower OPS than the much-maligned (and deserved so) Beckham last year. That's pretty amazing. And of course, he is cuban. Got to get rid of them, huh Marty. Maybe we can package him and Viciedo and get a non-Cuban.

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 10:31 PM) Cool, I hope he does. I wish this took precedence over the MLB teams. I would rather that Konerko go through the proper preparation and get ready for the season than to play in a series of meaningless games in a made up tournament. Look at some of the teams ( Italy ), they had to drag people who are what 4 generations removed from actually being in some of these countries.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 15, 2013 -> 08:37 AM) Emmanuel Saez has an updated paper out looking at income distributions. The top 1% have captured 121% of income growth since 2009. http://www.scribd.com/doc/125269359/Gettin...her-Edmund-Saez Great another study by Karl. Maybe he can follow it up with another cry for 70 to 80% tax rates on the rich.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) Cutler proposed via text and sent his fiancee the ring in the mail. And some people send messages over the big screen at a sporting event and pop the question in front of 40k of their not-so closest friends. Lots of odd ways people pop the question. His fiancee should be the only one that it matters to.

I should see my return back in about 5 more days. I filed as quickly as I got all of my needed documents. It is already spent on a new bedroom set.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Feb 1, 2013 -> 08:03 PM) The IP address may have got him busted but I now think the pictures doesn't tell us much...and it might even lend to his argument with the fact that this Woods guy is a Chicago based 9ers fan like Obama. (Oh how I miss working security) Actually the pictures tell more than you think. According to the metadata, different sources for the photos. Hey maybe a playboy rockstar hero like himself has a series of different cameras and uses different prep methods to generate the jpg. Normally when a normal person takes a picture, it tags metadata of the camera. Oddly only one has this and the rest have all sorts of different characteristics.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 10:53 PM) Definitely. A friend of mine is a teacher and she deals with it all the time. Back in my old-tyme days, if the school sent a letter home or whatever about something i did my parents first reaction was always like "we know you did it". haha. The other side of that is the over reaction. I remember getting a call from the school because my son a few years back in kindergarden was hauled into the principals office because he was playing cowboys and indians with his best friend at recess. They heard the pow pow and he was hauled in. Then they explained to me that if he did it again he would be suspended.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 11:23 AM) I just paid 12 grand for 3 Super Bowl tickets. Sure hope my Niners make it there 4k a ticket. Yeah thats a bit insane for a gamble.

http://www.chicagonow.com/mayor-daily/2013...ghters-hot-123/

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 09:50 AM) COWHER - MUSTACHE - DITKA! HEY DIS IS JIMMY FROM BACK DEM YARDS OVER DER. I HEARD A ROOMER ON DA INTERWEB THING THAT HE IS GOING TO MAKE SOLDIERS FIELD USE CELSIUS INSTEAD OF DA DING WE USE. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT SHIRT TO NOT WEAR WHEN DA TEMP IS ALL JACKED LIKE DAT. DAMN MCKASKEYS SHOULD OF HIRED SINGLETARY, HE WOULD PUNCH DAT CUTLER BUM IN DA FACE WHEN HE TROU A PICK. I HATE DAT CUTLER BUM. DA BEARS....

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 04:44 PM) aren't you and your industry better off if more people are sick more often? EDIT: I'm not saying individual medical professionals such as yourself are bad people, or in cahoots, but the INDUSTRY itself is governed by the same capitalistic principles as our nation. the dollar rules all. I will make sure that I tell my wife, an oncology nurse, that she should be happy that all of her beds are full of people with cancer because its generating revenue. That should go over extremely well after she gets home at 9:30 from her 12 hour shift that is supposed to end at 7pm. You know those dollar signs, I guess they are hooked on that whole chemo scam. Go Company, Profits!!!!!!