Jake

We didn't push any pitchers last year. We had a 6 man rotation half the time. We never skipped a fifth starter. We handle those guys with kid gloves.

I was indifferent. I loved AJ, he never wronged me. He brought us a title and a pretty good ballclub in general while he was here.

MATTY ICE

A little 95-96mph for the haters

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 25, 2013 -> 05:00 PM) I don't know a ton about Gunter, other than he was an NDFA, and a side-armer. But man, his K numbers were huge at Bristol last year... made a brief appearance for B-Ham... and was racking up the K's this year too. All with decent control. I wonder what the story there is, seems like an odd release candidate. I seem to remember another NDFA from Samford that threw sidearm...

We can't get smart policy enacted until we move away from political discourse that blames poor people for poorness. Since it is fathomable that a poor person can become rich, the discourse pretty much stops there. Racism is over, poverty would be over if those assholes worked harder.

David Terrell was a bad pick, but still better than Tim Tebow. Cedric Benson wasn't a bad player. f*** Thomas Jones.

Nice play. Watched Youk whiff on a lot of those last year.

Weezy has TWTW

This team needs Gillaspie in the lineup.

That looked like it jammed the hell out of Baker and it still almost left the yard

I wish I could watch this game. NHL Gamecenter acting like "NBC Sports Network" is a national station. National to people paying triple digits for cable, maybe

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) Dunn has more homers this April than last. Following the 4/23 offday, he's been a changed man. Good to see some (presumably) coaching going on. Too bad McEwing's team defense session today didn't have the same positive effects.

haha someone called it. Still good to see Dunn picking it up.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:44 PM) It's scary. I agree statistically things could be pretty bad after the KC series this weekend. The Rangers announcers were just ripping the way he throws. I despise his motion the way he slings his arm. He was embarrassingly bad tonight. Given his control problems, he probably made his motion that way to cut out excess movement. Makes him easier to pick up, unfortunately.

Haven't caught a break yet from the umpiring crew

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:36 PM) Is Tigers bullpen better than the White Sox bullpen? No. Our bullpen is fine.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:34 PM) meh, I'd rather face Beltre. But Jones is pretty much fooling no one this year. They're all sitting dead red. For a guy with a very fast, moving fastball...they have no problem squaring him up. I'm not eager to send him to the minors, but we still need to protect him while he develops his secondary stuff. Meanwhile, a pathetic attempt at that one by Hector. Still Jones' fault, but that ball was close enough to Hector's body that he should have tried to square it up. AND again.

Lots of talk yearning for the return of Gordon...but do you really want to see Gillaspie go to the bench? Do we prefer Gordon to Keppinger?

They always try to have back and forth discussions on OTL, it can't be a surprise that they had a guy bring a conservative religious point of view to the discussion. He speaks for a huge portion of the American public and the viewers of ESPN tend to be hyper-macho guys who may swing more anti-gay than the average American. Unlike most guys you could have brought in there, Chris Broussard knew he was putting his job on the line by saying anything that could be construed as anti-gay. He put it about as gently as a person who is religiously inclined to disapprove of gay people can put it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:28 PM) When you're playing in our 12th or 13th MLB game at age 30, you're not going to get much respect from umps yet. Another factor lost with AJ, that gamesmanship angle with the umps and opposing players. I don't know that that should be playing a very big factor in the MLB. This ump will be held accountable for the calls based on video review regardless of who the calls involved

If the guy should have been called out at home, is it that bad that we didn't cut it? Also, first baseman doesn't normally cut on sure doubles.

Gimenez must have said something awful to that home plate ump. He hasn't caught a break yet

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:22 PM) YAY SABR ANALYSIS VENTURA.... DeAza misplayed it again, took the wrong route and first step was in the opposite direction. MORELAND NOW 8 for his last 19 against lefties. Great work, Ventura. He's also a .607 OPS career hitter against lefties. You have to pick your sample.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 09:22 PM) Hmm. When does Donnie Veal get replaced? Soon. If this was Will Ohman, he'd already be packing up