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QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 1, 2011 -> 04:25 PM) I know some people have already written off this season....but for the sane ones who realize there's still a lot of season left, get out to the Cell if you can this week on Tuesday and Wednesday for the games against the Twins. Let's kick them while they are down and pick up two big games that could be the difference come September. Also, it'd be a great way to jump start the good guys in black as we prepare for a big west coast trip. If you can make it, please get out to these games....we need some good crowds and 2 W's. Thanks for the pep rally. I say let's go all out and have Brooks issue a black out for the games. That will show the team, the fans, the city, the country, and the planet how hard core we are. You say only the 87 tigers have come back from something like this, I bring one number 2005. Here is my plan for success. Trade for rowand, sign crede, print playoff tickets. Whoop

All In!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:42 PM) Did Hawk just say our starting pitching hasn't been bad? Compared to the rest of this train wreck.

And there is the umpire blame.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:17 PM) Liriano has actually been horrendous this year. He has an ERA over 9. What was Penny's ERA when he shut us down.

Blackburn and Liriano must be pumped about the upcoming matchup. Pad some stats.

QUOTE (Chisoxrd5 @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:00 PM) Anyone else think Ozzie should have left a few more lefties in the lineup given this kids repertoire and the stats after his first five starts? He looks a lot more comfortable pitching to the the RHers than he does the lefty. And the lefty is Juan Pierre. Just a thought. The manager thinks that handness matters in the traditional sense.

You know who I feel sorry for. Brooks who has to market this. The worst scenario must of been a slowstart. I don't think anyone had forecast a disastrous start.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2011 -> 01:28 PM) Yeah, they were talking about that yesterday...how we have given up 43 runs or something in the 7/8/9 innings in 28 games. Personally, I don't think that is outstanding, but I didn't think it was some outrageous number either. Foghorn likes to protect his pets. Foghorns blame matrix. 1.). Luck 2.) weather 3.) umpires 4.) rookies 5.) pressure 6.) pitching ( bullpens ) 7.) defense 8.) non favorite players ( newer non expensive ones ) 9.) random stuff Usually we get how hard x coach works. How hard the players work. Etc Then it just repeats, over and over.

Now foghorn is trying to put the blame on the late inning runs. Let's gloss over the pile of s*** that is our offense.

Let's see if the head case pale hose realize it's may and the bad April evil voodoo is over. 9 games out. According to baseball tonight only the 87 tigers have come back to win the division down 9 or more at this point. Of course they didn't get the memo that we went 25-5 in inter league.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 10:04 PM) Twins lose, Twins lose....yay, we're not the worst team in the major leagues at least until tomorrow. If we were 8 games out to the twins someone might be lose their job. Our crew thinks that they can wake up June, size the dust off and just win. How many years of losing early is a bad thing does it take to fix this.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 09:53 PM) Did the WS REALLY make a Hawk Harrelson Wing at the Cell?? LMAO.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) Have we "ruined" them through poor instruction in the system, or was the talent never really there to begin with? Beckham has hit in the majors. He hit in the minors and he hit in one of the toughest conferences in college. The swing I see looks nothing like what he came up with.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 08:24 PM) I might be alone in this, but I get the feeling the Sox bats aren't all that far away from righting the ship. Well you might be right. June is just a short month away.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 08:02 PM) I can't figure out what has happened with Beckham. He used to have a hitch but in general his bat speed made up for it and he was able to hit to all fields with authority. Now his swing is so mechanical and his posture is just awful that he has absolutely zero bat speed. I don't know who decided to make the changes but imo, they were awful changes and I don't know how he can repair things on the fly. He needs some serious work. Maybe he can quickly reteach his muscle memory with his original swing but the hell if I know. I'm not involved in the discussions that led to these drastic changes to his swing. He had a buggy whip to his swing when he was first drafted. He made a slight adjustment when he first came up and just hit. This swing doesn't even resemble his swing. So either he changed it on his own, and the coaching staff is asleep on the job. Or they changed it. Either way its terrible. He was a doubles machine when he first came up. Line drive and quick hands.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 07:53 PM) Well said..our hitting coach has not "fixed" anyone in a very long time. I still say he did a terrible job with Josh Fields. Well he seems to be a fan of the robotic lower half. Remember Uribe was working with Walt on a timing mechanism in the 2nd half of 05. Seemed to work a bit. The following spring training they decide to change his lower half to a spread stance. Lilibridge looks very robotic in the lower half as well.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 07:45 PM) Beckham is terrible. Unless he learns a new swing, he'll never amount to anything. His new swing is horrendous. He can't even catch up to a mediocre fastball down the pipe. His swing with that long hitch is breaking ball speed. So let me get this straight. We cannot fix major league hitters because their mechanics are impossible to change. But young guys, sure we can completely cluster f*** their swing, because what its fun or something. We go from a video pre-draft talking about a bit of a hitch and some bat drag to this erect statue that can't put a bat on the ball. Great job coaches, you have turned his swing into Brian Anderson's. Awesome job.

Welcome to the inadequacies of fame and fortune and the dating scene. Anyone that believes that a hottie like Kate would give a second glance to William in the real world is truly living in a fantasy world. Hey more power to him marrying Kate is winning.

From a technological standpoint this isnt a huge stretch. Store and forward has been out for a while( forever ). From a data size standpoint its the voice recorder traffic that would have the most impact. The instrumentation data shouldn't be in a format that requires lots of data or packet size. The key issue is around integrity. You can encrypt this and use a satellite connection to spit this out with a second or two delay. You would just need some process to either hash the data for forensic integrity. IPSec has some of this built in, however you want to forensically mark and timestamp records. If integrity wasn't a huge issue you could use a dedup process like a wan/satellite optimization device to keep the uplink clean. With repeatable data, only send changes. In reality from a bandwidth standpoint, this isnt that much of an issue. You see in flight wifi now being offered. The overhead shouldnt be that much more than a few business travellers poking around on the internet.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 08:21 PM) Too lose to Colon with 1 run this may be the worst loss of the year IMO. Brad Penny toying with our hitters with a mid 8 ERA has my vote.

We are unlucky. Running into another hall of famer in their prime. He was painting the black, just hitting his mark. No one could of done better. We salute you Mr. Goo.

Before they put their paws on him... Beckhams swing mechanics

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 07:42 PM) Joba and Rivera in the pen for them tonight? It could be Lance Broadway and Felix Diaz and they would mow down our hitters right now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 07:40 PM) How in the hell do we play in the AL and have 6-7-8-9-1 in the order with 2 combined homers after 24 games? Our manager thinks we are in the NL, he is trying to figure out why he is paying a pitcher who doesnt bat.