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WGN game on Saturday afternoon

Let's sweep them like we did in 2005

Let's win another one and east some Texas BBQ afterwards

We are in the Space City so let's hit some balls to the moon

I take it all back. Lindstrom does it. We win

This is not looking good

Why is it that Lindstrom insistes on walking the tightrope? Lead off walk never a good thing

Al De Aza has not looked good for awhile

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 14, 2014 -> 10:09 PM) I remember imagining the lineups of the White Sox future with the "Michael Young" Gordon Beckham cemented in it for years. Dunn went up to Abreu after his homer and picked his cheeks up to make him smile. Good for Adam. Abreu is all business and all the time too

QUOTE (fathom @ May 14, 2014 -> 10:05 PM) Beast...it's amazing how bad he can look all game, and then blast one. Beckham and Gillaspie are reasons we are in this thing and now Abreu shows us what a real hitter can do. Imagine what he will be like as he sees more major league pitching and makes adjustments

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 14, 2014 -> 10:01 PM) All Beckham hits these day are line drives. This is as good as he has looked in a long time. I like Gordo

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 14, 2014 -> 10:00 PM) I am trying to think of an Asian hitter who used to do it, but De Aza took his left foot (back foot) and stepped over his front foot in some sort of a running swing. Beckham really seems to have more power this year. Lots of deep flyouts, just hit one way out foul and the the three homers of course. Sounds like what Ichiro does and what Podsednik was doing years ago

There ought to be a stat ought there on how many times opposing starting pitchers have both given up homeruns to the leadoff batter in the first

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 14, 2014 -> 08:45 PM) If Beckham didn't have the wrist injury which zapped his power last year, he would have put up some numbers that shut people up. He hit a lot of warning track homers and still was well over .300 with about a month and a half to go in the season until his quad got real bad. It boggles my mind how many just want him to fail. Anything good he does it minimized. Any mistake or out he makes, blown out of proportion. They want him to fail and yet we really have no one ready to step in and replace him either

Beckham

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 14, 2014 -> 05:17 PM) I haven't see this mentioned, but I wanted to mention the conversation that Hawk and Stone were having last night about pitching injuries included an interested tidbit. They both talked about the fact that working with the legs of the pitcher to get more drive and easy the pressure on the arm, isn't really talked about anymore. They speculated that stronger legs would carry a pitcher further and reduce the need to throw as much with the arm. Thoughts? It seems to me that when coaches talked pitching and good pitchers talked pitching they always mentioned the lower body strength and specifically strong legs as the key

Maybe we can win a game and cheer everyone up? Let's go Sox

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ May 14, 2014 -> 01:59 PM) He shouldn't. Johnson is at least a year away from the majors. And, regardless of Semien's ceiling, Beckham is the superior baseball player "right now". I agree with you. Johnson may be even two years away and I am not seeing star potential yet from Semien. He might be better suited for super sub anyway

With Carroll pitching we need good defense and let's strive to bring the offense early and often

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 13, 2014 -> 10:36 PM) By September he'll be the assistant to the traveling secretary. Geo. Costanza has that job thank you very much

Konerko

Abreu

Let's kick Charlie's old mule in the behind as we win and head out to Houston

I don't see Catfish Hunter or Reggie Jackson playing for the A's so let's kick some behind

Shades of Charlie Finley. Let's beat these guys