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QUOTE (tommy @ May 16, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Why was Alexei trotting back to first? He got deaked by Scutaro.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 16, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) Which round do you think we'll draft this one in? We can draft his youngest next year when he graduates. He is the one with talent.

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 16, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) Suspended? (Sorry, I've been uber-busy at work over the past few days.) Sons Graduation.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 16, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) Does it mean what I think it means? We can only hope.

Interesting little off note. Hawk started talking about how Alexei put on a show in the outfield during batting practice. Then he and Stoney started to talk about how he catches everything in the air. So it has begun.

Pods steals 3rd, catcher throws the ball into left field, pods scores. 1-0

Getz needs to clear his hands through the zone on the inside pitch. Until he adjusts to that, he is going to get fastballs on the inner half.

They should kill this guy today. He has nothing.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 14, 2009 -> 06:29 PM) Anyone have any experience with this program? Rockraines is your man. He is currently doing it right now. I have done only the AB routines from it and they are pretty awesome.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 14, 2009 -> 09:07 PM) Obama to ignore constitution, restore altered version if illegal military tribunals. Here's how this is going to go...it's going to be slightly better than the Bush version, but in the end, the court system itself is still unconstitutional; the President can not create his own court system without approval from the Congress. In the end, a few years down the road, anything these tribunals do is going to be struck down. There's really no way around it. How exactly again is the constitution applied to non-US citizens that were captured in a foreign land. I thought military tribunals are part of the geneva convention. I am sure that we can get an impartial jury of their peers with students from Berkeley.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 14, 2009 -> 01:51 PM) I think if things don't work out, anyone expecting the White Sox to be able to dump their larger contracts for halfway decent prospects are going to be in for a rude awakening. To get anything decent we would have to eat some of the remaining contract. And that is something that we don't do.

Noah is enjoying the offseason Guess which one is Rich, WWTDD.com

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 14, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) Crede's offensive numbers are really not much to write home about so far. Aside from that, is this really necessary? Crede's fanboys are pretty predictable.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:53 PM) I'm gonna kiss you now, but I swear to god I'm not gay.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:12 PM) Bow down to me b****es.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:16 PM) I am fully expecting the chat silent treatment. Maybe Kal will talk to me. Probably not

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:08 PM) the chat crew posts on this thread are awesome Kyyle just after he got the call that he was a mod.

Congrats Kyyle

Gavin's velocity is good, his curve still has tilt to it and his slider is still good. The bad, he is not throwing strikes early in the count where he can use his plus breaking pitch. His fastball while 92-93 is still straight so he gets hit. Its not like he has lost velocity or his breaking pitch has vanished. He starts hitting his spots earlier in the count and his results will start to come better. For the cost of Gavin, and his youth pannicking and giving up on him would be silly. Its not like we are loaded with pitching depth in the minors. Lets see if he can start to pound the zone more with strikes and then lets see what happens. Watching people get so bent over Gavin after 7 starts is funny. Is he an ace, no. Is he a decent pitcher who has the peripherals to have outstanding outings if he has command, yes.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 12, 2009 -> 11:49 PM) Getz has been getting away with his homerun swing because he's just an all around better ball player than Lillibridge. But we need a hitting coach that can actually fix them. Cause Walker ain't getting the job done, and it's gone on for far too long. They need a knew approach and either they're stubborn as muals, or Walker isn't getting through the them. I tend to think it's the later. Getz doesnt have a home run swing, nor is he swinging for the fences. Right now there is an adjustment that has been made on him that he needs to overcome. Line drive hitters, who let the ball get deep on them like Getz will eventually get the inside treatment. Once he learns to get around on that pitch instead of letting it get deep and popping it into left softly he will take the next step. Oddly this is the same approach people are taking with your man crush Sweeney. The chess move has been played, its time for Getz to adjust.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 12, 2009 -> 11:54 PM) Do you honestly believe that Walker is in the cage everyday teaching Lillibridge a long, loopy uppercut swing? You don't think he's telling him to focus on a quick, level swing and keeping the ball out of the air? Walker's inability to get through to a young hitter with a terrible approach is disappointing but I'm not about to dump the blame on him for the failures of a seemingly untalented hitter who really hasn't done anything exceptional at the plate since high A ball 3 years ago. Lillibridge has had this silly notion that he is a power hitter in a 12 year olds body for a while now. It was something that they tried to get out of him in Atlanta, and they still have to get out of him here. It will take minimum of a year to rebuild his swing if he is a willing participant. And so far he hasn't shown the effort or the want to rebuild his swing. He has one marketable skill and that is speed. Him hitting the ball in the air is the equivalent of a power guy bunting. Once he figures that out, if ever he can become a nice utility guy.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ May 12, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) and by the way, since joining Seattle's AAA team, Owens is 10/29 with 3RBI's, 4SB's, 0CS and a .406OBP. If you can't hit in the PCL then you should work at Sportmart.

QUOTE (beautox @ May 12, 2009 -> 04:40 PM) Congrats Jordan, get well soon Slayer. I love the fact that nearly all of our top prospects are in B-ham and growing and playing as one. I wouldn't mind seeing C.J. Retherford behind the dish seeing how we don't know if flowers is going to stick, his bat looks to play at the ML level no problem but we still need a strong internal catching prospect. As for the upcoming draft i hope we go for Brothers, Sanchez and Aaron Miller, would love to see KW and company infuse this great looking core with more polished talent that could conceivably be a year to 6months behind if not less. You keep throwing flowers behind the plate until he proves he can't play C. If you even have the remote possibility of getting a plus stick behind the plate you run with it. Its not like we have had defense wizards behind the plate here. Flowers hasn't played C for that long, the idea of giving up on it this early is silly.

Joe Biden and more of his theories of the stupid. Unions are the way to rebuild the middle class. If you want to see how unions rebuild the middle class just check out Detroit. Start this card check crap and you will have more companies investing in India, China, Russia and other countries who want businesses.

QUOTE (JustWin @ May 12, 2009 -> 02:01 PM) Then they say "stop living in the past". Or I've had some laugh and say "ha, the Sox won the world series and they're still 2nd fiddle to the Cubs." It's very, very annoying which makes the Sox losing/Cubs winning days that much harder to take. A cubs fan telling you to stop living in the past is a joke. This is the same fanbase that kills goats, then hangs said goats from their favorite dead drunken broadcaster's statue. They have destroyed a guys life ( Bartman) because their shortstop couldn't catch a ground ball. They have blown up baseballs, and then have eaten said baseball to kill some mythical voodoo hatchet job. Their entire fanbase believes that a goat of all things is what is keeping them from glory. The living in the past trump card is one that a cub fan cannot throw down.