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QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ May 17, 2013 -> 09:08 PM) He just seems old school. With the no batting gloves & all. uh oh shades of 2005? HAHHAHA Is he not wearing them tonight because I've seen him wear them also.

Replay showed a foul tip.

Flowers's pulling a Pierzynski ??

Conor is my new Sox favorite player . Credit Ventura also.

Late but ... his name is Rios and he dances on the sand !!

I'm so sick of reading about rebuilding . Let's get back in contention and quiet all this rebuild stuff.

Dunn's swing actually looked "pretty" today. Or maybe it was the results. Much like Rios did altering his hand positioning.

If yesterday was the 1st time all season we had back to back games with at least 10 hits then today would be back to back to back .

If the new mechanical Dunn works out it could be very good for the rest of the lineup.

3 runs would've been better thanks Dunn.

Woot !

Even with 2 hits to start the inning I'm still pessimistic. Sigh .

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2013 -> 02:17 PM) Sale for Trout? It would have been better the other way around. Trout for Sale. $3.99/lb

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 11, 2013 -> 08:23 AM) I could not give one damn about the Houston Astros. The Chicago White Sox have 1 playoff win in 7 years following whatever you would call this half-assed strategy they've been using. And you want to make it 1 in 20 years.

Mods shouldn't the title now reflect this ? :5/6/13 RHP Gavin Floyd will undergo season-ending surgery tomorrow in New York City to repair the ulnar collateral ligament & a torn flexor muscle in his elbow. Expected recovery time for Floyd, 30, is approximately 14-19 months. moved to 60 day DL

We need some poetic justice here with Alexi.

Like Hawk said it hit fair and bounced back onto the field fair so how can it be foul ?

Da fuq man , it was fair . how can it land to the left of that fan in those seats and be foul? Robin should ve got tossed. showed his team he gives a damn.

I hope when AJ comes to play in the Cell he gets a standing O.

Reed fastest to 10 saves in White Sox history.

I read the game thread and every post here so far. No one mentioned AJ clearly threw out his elbow since he knows he wears that elbow pad. He was getting on base any way he could because that's what you do when you're down 3 runs in the 9th. Heady player ? No doubt. Fiery competitor ? No doubt. Jerk ? No doubt. Helped Sox win the World Series and became part of White Sox lore, (what little there is) ? NO DOUBT ! Would've got hit regardless of weather or not he threw out his elbow or just stood there ? Questionable. Did Reed throw at him ? Questionable since you probably don't want any runner's on when you're trying to close out a game. Conclusions. AJ getting on makes him a team player . If Reed hit him on purpose that is putting yourself above the team but that's inconclusive. And this kind of stuff has been going on in baseball since the game was invented. Very entertaining. The rest is speculation.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 1, 2013 -> 05:34 PM) I'm SOOO over tyler flowers. Give me Gimenez Platoon time.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 07:20 AM) Umm he said they are without their ace. Danks is far from their ace right now, even if healthy. At best they're missing their #3 or #4 starter. Arguing semantics. Last time Danks was thought to be healthy he was our opening day starter, our #1 starter , the ace of the staff even if not considered a true "ace" . Now while he was injured Sale and Peavy proved better than Danks . I'd even put Quintana ahead of him at this point if he can come back.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 28, 2013 -> 04:58 PM) Let's not make this stretch. Umm opening day last year Danks was our ace. He was the opening day stater. How fast you forget after a good year by Sale and Peavy after the fact.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 27, 2013 -> 01:19 AM) The Braves weren’t the most surprising victim for (Anibal) Sanchez’s feat. As David O’Brien wrote in Friday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Braves’ attitude for this season: “They were going to hit home runs. And they didn’t care if they struck out. A lot.” The Braves arrived at Comerica on Friday night leading the majors with 35 homers. They were fifth in the majors in strikeouts. They’d already struck out 16 times twice this season — and they’d won both those games. “There’s different ways of scoring runs,” said hitting coach Greg Walker, in his second season with the Braves after 8 1/2 as White Sox hitting coach. “This is what the Atlanta Braves chose to do. And I’ve coached teams like this before, and answered all the questions, and seen what works and what doesn’t work. “Last year we had probably as good a combination of leadoff and No. 2 hitter as there was in baseball (leadoff man Michael Bourn and No. 2 hitter Martin Prado), especially in the first two-thirds of the season. Bourny scuffled down the stretch. We did get a lot of early leads, but we didn’t score any more runs than what we’re doing now. It’s just a different style, and we have the potential to get better in (this style).” ... According to Fangraphs, Braves hitters have swung and missed at 11.2 percent of all pitches, the highest percentage in the NL and the second in the majors behind Houston’s 12.6. Twelve teams have swung and missed at 8.6 percent or fewer. Braves hitters have made contact 75.1 percent of the times they’ve swung the bat, the lowest contact rate in the NL and second-lowest in majors ahead the Astros (72.8). Fourteen major league teams were above 80 percent. The Braves’ homer pace projects to 270, six above the record by the 1997 Seattle Mariners. .... Walker was hitting coach when the White Sox led the majors with 236 homers in 2006 and 235 in 2008, and set a franchise record with 242 in 2004. But the White Sox also led the American League in sacrifice bunts and bunt hits while hitting 200 homers in their World Series championship season in 2005, and in 2006 they led the league in average with runners in scoring position (.307) while having four players with 30 or more homers. The Braves rank 22nd in the majors with a .223 average with runners in scoring position. http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/baseball/...btomyajcpremium Other than Jeff Keppinger being acquired, have we seen any changes in the Sox approach? We won another game last night largely on the strength of the home run. There's traditionally been a VERY strong correlation between Sox victories and the games in which they homer at least once. Essentially, the Braves are like the current White Sox, with the exception of having the best player in baseball (for the first month) in Justin Upton. Otherwise, not too many differences. Teams based on pitching first, I think the Braves' ERA was leading the NL, in the 2.6 range. Four of our minor league outfielders are leading or close to leading their leagues in strikeouts (Walker, Hawkins and Mitchell....with Thompson not so far behind). Is there evidence at all in the minors of a changing or evolving philosophy, either in drafting or development? Dick Allen is probably right. There's pretty much ZERO appreciable difference between what Walker and Scott Fletcher (assistant hitting coach with the Braves) and Manto are/were doing. In fact, our OBP has actually gotten worse, led downward by the likes of DeAza, Dunn, Keppinger (so far), Ramirez and Viciedo. Have the White Sox simply ended up "rebranding" the same exact model they've been using for the past decade, and now we're calling it "The Will to Win" all of a sudden, but it's still largely homer-based to win games for the Sox, especially at USCF? Is there a clearly-defined, differentiated offensive approach now with the White Sox? I think Hahn wants more guys on base in front of our HR hitters. We just know he's got too many of one type but as his regime broadens it will become more clearly defined. If anything maybe Hahn will be more aggressive in this regard since I have no idea what he thought or how strong his input was in the hiring of Manto.