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My nun in 8th grade played the Broadway version of JC for her classes as she did for my brother 2 yrs. before me . Loved it since then.

DO you have a Catholic Schhol education like me or just like the musical or perhaps both like me ?

Why should you want to know? Don't you mind about the future? Don't you try to think ahead? Save tomorrow for tomorrow Think about today instead

We'll take it. Somebody hit your grannie !

Tie it up Gavin .

Time to make it 4-3 Eloy.

damn that's 3 outs

Robbed Timmy of a HR that Josh Lowe mf !

Feyereisen was pretty good against the Sox last year.

Let's go !

Pregame on !

It's fun to rack up emoji pts. by making fun of others isn't it ? At least caulfield was talking baseball. You know the thing a White Sox message board was meant to do. What exactly is so miserable about saying other teams might have something to say about Seattle's playoff chances ? He never said he wasn't optimstic because of beating Seattle. You actually seem to be the miserable one. One of the wolfpack of posters who pile on the guys everyone piles on like caulfield and Parkman. Makes you feel like a man I guess, running with the pack and taking bites out of people.

He has made some good moves. He's running more which is what I was begging for last year.He's trying to keep Abreu from hitting into the DPs. You cant argue about BP usage very much because overall, despite the new arms like Crick, Sousa,Banks, Severino and the guys we had last year Foster , Ruiz, Lopez, Bummer, Hendriks only Bummer is looking bad while Hendriks is just a little off. Graveman is looking nails. Some have said it seems like we are shifting more , though I have no idea if its true. There's probably shifting info located somewhere online. Starting pitching has been above average. We get the daily Leury and lineup construction complaints but the results are good so far. Actually really good especially the pitching staff which is kind of shocking given the new arms and injuries. For the 1st 8 games there's not much to cry about.

I think defense is way more important than a lot of people think. It would probably downgrade defense at both 2nd and 3rd base .TB wins a lot on a shoestring budget because they play good D usually and put a lot of lefties in their lineup which is all fueled by phenomenal drafting and development and restocking the farm the minute someone gets pricey. If the Rays had Moncada they would probably be trading him in the next year or so.

I saw that, very nice, but do you really want him to go 7 ? Aren't you worried at all that he won't enough left for the playoffs ?

AAYSR

I actually said the same thing about Conforto pretty early in the off season. But I will have to disagree about Rodon. Sometimes you have to take a gamble and the gamble on Rodon was not overly expensive. A real gamble is signing a great 29 yr old pitcher to a 6 yr $150M contract except there wasn't a great 29 yr old pitcher available except Rodon who because of his injury history was available. You rarely have an opportunity to nab a great player for so cheap . My reasoning always has been look what he did last year when he hardly pitched at all the previous 2 years . And now that he has those 150 innings under his belt, with better mechanics and a better idea of who he is , imagine him at near full strength.

Top 3 starting pitchers Rodon, Lynn and Giolito , which just goes to show you that any pitcher can get hurt but what you want to do is have more good pitchers to overcome one or 2 guys going down. What's comical is you shilling for the front office after a week of games when injury problems and starting pitching depth typically manifests over a longer period of time . Thrilled about having a good early record. Not thrilled about the starting pitching depth and apparently neither are the Sox since they did make attempts to improve the depth if the rumors about Manaea were true.

How much longer would that extra step have taken ? 5 minutes max maybe ? Dude what can I say if people don't want to go through extra security steps that's up to you. We all know hacking is a huge problem and if we don't take the necessary steps to protect our money,identity and privacy things will get worse. Heck with the internet and cell phones privacy really doesn't exist anymore.

Excuse me I was very helpful in every Apple thread explaining how to use this opportunity to watch the Sox on Apple. This I think is the 3rd thread on it and if people had paid attention during the 1st 2 threads instead of crying about what a hassle it is this thread wouldn't have existed. Yes it is some peoples fault for waiting till the last minute then panicking when they couldn't figure it out. I didn't see you in any of the other threads helping people by explaining in simple terms how to get the games for free. Apple products are too expensive for me. Watching these games for free doesn't give Apple 1 damn dime from my pocket or anyone else. That's not the kind of support Apple is looking for. Sure they want you to tune in and watch the game and maybe you'll also check out some Apple programming while you are there . Any station with programming wants you to buy their product. I , for one, appreciate watching free baseball , and I took the time necessary to get it . Apple didn't make it difficult for me .

He did it for 150 innings last year coming off 2 season of barely pitching. Now that he has those innings under his belt he could very well pitch a whole season. But that won't stop the Giants from taking care of him better than the Sox did.

To be fair, Ptatc has not even suffered a scratch yet on the hill. It's a long , long season. Since myself and him have taken up a lot of space discussing this I will say that his position is based on Rodon's injury history and the belief that he has not substantially improved his mechanics. My position has been that Rodon was worth the risk given that most of the pitchers signed this off season in the Rodon range do not even come close to pitching at the level Rodon did last year .Also that the Sox abused him in his first 18 starts with little regard for the fact that he had barely pitched the previous 2 seasons, which given the advancements in biomechanics and his past injury history, was akin to hitting him with a stick over and over and having no concern whatsoever about him making it through the season.

I never said it's impossible for him to get hurt. I wouldn't say that about any pitcher or any player. I said "still " because it's the fair thing to say. The rest of what I said about Hahn still applies.

I have no idea since I cancelled my MLB subscription because of the strike and the fact I can watch Sox games for free on my computer. SO if the Sox play the Dodgers I'll still be able to watch them. All I know is that since I don't pay for anything I never see the Dodgers on free TV except tonight on Apple TV.