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Hudson passes that test

Peavy needs to find something soon

Great seats still available

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 05:43 PM) I won't be surprise if it's in the 22-24,000 range tonight, but Saturday and Sunday should be well over 30,000. Buy, buy, buy KW!!

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Romo is overrated because he gets WAY too much press. Things that have nothing to do with his quarterbacking make him a hot topic when he doesn't deserve to be. The true measure of how people feel about you is how much you're talked about and all they will do once the season gets going is talk about Tony Romo and the Cowboys. Paul Konerko is underrated not because nobody thinks he is good, but because nobody thinks about him at all.

Explodo Peavy looks kinda scary...I'll have to go with happy Peavy otherwise the pic looks weird

AJ cleated Zobrist. AJ was hit as retribution. Story over. Something else happened that caused the "extra" to happen. Maybe Zobrist opened his mouth, maybe we're pissed about Gordon being hit, I don't know.

The piece of s*** Chicago Tribune Live had no idea why Hawk would be mad outside of being a White Sox fan. That show is hard to watch for baseball discussion.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 31, 2012 -> 08:56 PM) Carlos Gonzalez was traded twice. I repeat: Carlos Gonzalez has been traded twice. That must mean there are two message boards with stupid threads about what if they had kept him

I bet I can guess how the lineup will look tomorrow..

I was with a group of about 10 Sox fans when the Humber perfect game happened and all we could talk about during that last inning was how not having Hawk on the call was really sucking the life out of it. Watching that link to Buehrle's last inning posted earlier in this thread really shows me why I love Hawk. Hearing Hawk's call makes me as nostalgic as the moment itself... When I was a kid, I was convinced that there was no team for me except the one that Ken Griffey Jr. played on. The White Sox sounded lame. However, my dad continued watching the games and...they seemed so fun. The guy on TV would go off when the Sox hit home runs and, well, the Sox hit a lot of those too I imagine that Hawk is awesome for bringing in the casual fan in like that. He makes you complicit in his fandom. The love for the Sox is infectious, at least as long as you don't have some long held loyalty for another team.

Hernandez's eventual AAA promotion will tell the story. If his stuff is that bad, he'll get shelled against better hitters and small ballpark.

I think the Castro business will prevent Ozzie from getting MOY even if he deserved it.

At this point, we hardly have a clear need. 3B is the closest to it. There are some things that we can see becoming holes, and I'd imagine that will present itself more clearly as time goes on. I sure wouldn't strike quickly to add a player right now while we're so hot and lacking an absolute need (assuming that we should look more in depth at OH and BM at 3B before deciding what to do there)

Porn stars would be at the bottom of my list of people to have sex with

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 31, 2012 -> 04:11 PM) For about a year and a half, he flat out could not catch up to the fastball. No matter how fast his bat speed was in 2009, in 2011 you could throw a good fastball by him and he'd have no shot. He was talking about his running speed, not bat speed

I hope VMart goes to C with Cabrera at 3B and Prince at 1B. That would make it undeniably the worst defensive IF ever.

If the Tigers make the Cabrera/Fielder combo into a 1B/DH tandem, they're going to have a logjam when V-Mart returns. Do they still want him everyday catching? What happens to Avila?

Is there some way I can see what pitches a player hits home runs on? I'm interested in what pitches some of our guys hit out the most frequently (ie, does Adam Dunn only hit home runs on fastballs? etc)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 31, 2012 -> 01:47 PM) Worth pointing out: after that many PA's, Joe Crede was 27. Gordon Beckham is 25.5 currently. This is the most important thing mentioned in the thread. Not to mention how few minor league at bats Gordon has.

Simon Castro has to be in the discussion for top prospect. He may also be on the verge of a promotion in the next month or so.

I think Dayan Viciedo has the potential to be a .300 hitter. He's young, has hardly been completely healthy until now and has carried some rather high averages in the minors before. What makes him different from the free swinger that we characterize him as is that he is willing to take the ball to the opposite field. He wasn't doing that early in the season this year but it was actually a complaint in his prospect days. I remember people saying that he was TOO MUCH of an opposite field hitter. As long as he can keep that balance between consistent contact and hard contact, we're going to have a ton of fun watching him. That 9% BB rate and 16% K rate that he carried over 120 games in Charlotte last year should be realizable at this level. The thrilling thing to me about this hot run by Viciedo was watching the adjustments. It wasn't predicated on him just doing the things that he did well while he was slumping (aka, feasting on hanging breaking balls)...he started hitting fastballs hard and to the opposite field when necessary, he laid off the low breaking stuff (occasionally hitting it, actually), and just generally has been picking his spots better.

I don't have reason to believe that Orlando Hudson can't hit anymore. 34 is pretty early to drop off the map entirely and his drop would have been very rapid since just last year he was a more productive player than Brent Morel. Anyone complaining about Hudson's defense at this point is just grasping for straws. He very well may have 5 balls smashed at him tomorrow and look terrible, but he's done a very good job to this point. One play made him look bad. The other was a play lots of third basemen make -- make a great stop (does the average MLB 3B even glove that ball?) and the throw gets away due to the difficulty of the play. Claiming that he's made a bunch of bad throws that the first baseman has caught is a pretty weak argument and is conveniently not verifiable. He's come in on balls well and made that diving play to his right in Tampa that saved the game for us. This needs more time to evaluate. What we've seen from Orlando so far is not screaming "bench him!" A week from now we may have a very different feeling about it. If the BA stays low, chances are he may not hit unless he's been getting RBIs. If he botches some hot shots to 3B, it may not be worth having him learn the position. We shall see.

There is a pretty significant difference in RBI's that hasn't been mentioned. Anyways...yes, there is a lot to hope for with Gordon since he's 25, talented, plays good defense at a position that doesn't require a big bat, and has recently started putting together much better at bats. I don't see what is useful in comparing him to Crede since we don't know if Crede was ever going to be a good player. He had one excellent season and then (basically) never played again...so we'll never know if that was a blip on the radar or the sign of many great years to come.