Jake

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 28, 2013 -> 10:52 AM) Because when I see a guy whose average fastball clocks 97 mph, I know I always think "mop-up man". lol no s***. He has excellent, excellent stuff. His ceiling is absolutely sky high and all we are trying to get out of him is a set-up man. With that said, I think he is near a trip to AAA. He just needs some low pressure opportunities to use all of his pitches and get into a groove again. Worth noting that his FIP is in the 3.5 range, which is very curious.

Yeah they need to quit talking about the dunks, it's silly. We expect someone as big as Griner to dunk on a regular basis. With that said, I might try to follow the Sky a bit more. I like that my town's team has a talent like EDD and that EDD-Griner matchup might be a pretty cool rivalry down the road.

I'm feeling pretty upbeat at this point. I'll be infinitely more heartbroken if we lose it at home, in Game 7. Let's get it Hawks!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 27, 2013 -> 10:36 PM) You're making it too complicated. This was the year they wanted to see if Flowers could be a full-time starter. They're not going to give up on giving him a shot after 2 months. They may also be unsure if they have even seen a healthy version of Tyler yet.

Nate Robinson is arguably the most explosive scorer in NBA history. Look at that fourth quarter against Brooklyn.

Phegley has a lot more to prove in AAA. Look at his career statistics. He's had a lot to overcome and has been aggressively promoted, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need more seasoning. Give him at least another month before bringing him up.

Well, we're not out of it.

Maybe we should have scratched a couple runs across, but we just got beat by a really good pitcher tonight. Nothing to hang our heads about. As Hawk would say, this is one of the 50 you were always going to lose.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 27, 2013 -> 08:24 PM) AJ was better handling pitchers and better defensively as well as with the bat. Flowers has done nothing well and he doesn't appear to be very durable either. Plus AJ was the real on field leader of that team. All indications are that the team was happy to see him leave, and IMO Flowers is the better pitch caller which is why guys like Peavy pretty much demanded to throw to him. Let AJ stay in the past.

It's time for Omo to be preferred over Jones. Nate is an outing or two away from Charlotte. He has got to get things going.

A good splitter is next to impossible to hit/see. If he gets ahead and can throw it anywhere near the plate, our guys will understandably look bad

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2013 -> 03:15 PM) You know, right now...I'm not sure I agree with this. I think we have a good chance that next year, or even late this year, Johnny Danks can be the theoretical Peavy replacement. As others have noted, that still leaves the team with a 4 lefty starting rotation, which is definitely an oddity, but it does kinda make some sense. And we'd still be sitting there 6-deep in the rotation thanks to EJ. That said, if we're 2-3 games out at the deadline, screw it, I want Peavy in my rotation for the stretch. This

The only redeeming quality of potentially dealing Peavy is that we would be trading from organizational strength, so we wouldn't be likely to be screwed without him. It would be very surprising to me if we couldn't have a good rotation without him. With that said, it will almost certainly be better with him.

This came from Nate Robinson's instagram account, apparently

Yahoo! Sportacular > ESPN ScoreCenter. You're welcome.

What would we have to give Atlanta to get Evan Gattis?

Pretty amazing what this Memphis team did AFTER dumping OJ Mayo and Rudy Gay

This is some mind-boggling managing by Redmond

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2013 -> 02:16 PM) Should be everyone except Hector. Hector shouldn't need full rest to pitch in relief. Three days would be enough.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 26, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) Are we sure that was him? Looked like he stopped and started while looking at Super Joe Definitely was not looking at Joe on replay

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) Well, that was a dumb decision to try and make it home by Konerko. Are we sure that was him? Looked like he stopped and started while looking at Super Joe

Gotta hit that catcher there

ADA!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 26, 2013 -> 01:42 PM) Kep just another clueless ab. Whole thing was set up by a horrible call on the first pitch