Jake

Tag wasn't there, he was safe.

One thought about Dayan...why is Dempster throwing him sliders? That's crazy...can't throw breaking balls in the zone to Dayan.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:20 PM) We watched Juan Uribe be a master of this for years with us. lol yes. Dayan did it in the first, but didn't make contact. Followed it with a single

Perfect bunt!

QUOTE (BFirebird @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) Apparently Castro doesn't like to walk. That ball wasnt even close on 3-1. Some guys get in such an aggressive state of mind in 2-0, 3-1 counts that they fail to make solid pitch recognition

Chased ball four there, gracias

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:15 PM) Why is this game on in Chicago if the FOX games are going nationally. My mlb.com doesn't work because of FOX blackout. That is the exact problem, lol

Way to finish off that at bat John!

QUOTE (flavum @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:11 PM) If it hasn't been mentioned yet, Thom Brennaman is just the worst. No, that spot is reserved for McCarver

lol, Karros talking frankly about the Sox. Would have made more sense a couple weeks ago. They act like Dunn-PK-AJ are the only hitters in the lineup. Leaving out ADA, Rios, Viciedo 2.0, (spot reserved for Orlando Hudson)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:06 PM) Alexei's getting annoying. His at bats are getting better...just not many hits yet. At least he's come through several times in the clutch

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:03 PM) Supposedly he tweaked his swing this offseason and came out of the gate like gangbusters hitting .400+. Then he got injured and missed 3 weeks, so who know if he will keep it up. Noticed that his stats looked gawdy, but no at bats. Interesting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:01 PM) Not in the least. Young is the kind of player you're disappointed if a player becomes, because he has all the talent in the world but can't learn how to hit any way other than "Swing hard in case you hit something". Exactly. Of course we're happy that he does hit things, but he didn't by any means maximize his talent. IIRC, he at least is a good CF defensively

QUOTE (flavum @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:00 PM) Haven't even thought of him this year. Not once. That's because he's still rehabbing...

Dayan > Quentin

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2012 -> 06:56 PM) With all we've gone through in CF it seems like Young would have been nice...but the other half of that story is it pushed McCarthy into the bullpen and they wound up trading him rather than giving him a starting spot. So basically, without that trade, we never get Danks, and McCarthy goes through those couple injury riddled years with us rather than Texas. TANK! Seems like it was a fair trade, I'd say.

HE'S BAAAAAACK

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2012 -> 06:53 PM) I can't believe Fox screws this up. I can't watch the Sox-Cubs game. Bummer. KC-Arizona is on. Why is there not more outrage about losing Chris Young? Who did we trade him for? He's a pretty damn good player. We got an arguably more valuable player in return. Chris Young isn't anything to write home about IMO -- he's an example of a guy that you always hoped would stop striking out, but never did.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ May 19, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) The pessimist in me says he will have that 1 bad inning where he can't throw a strike. Seems to happen every start. Typically it is the type of thing that you can see developing the whole game. No bad signs as of yet.

Danks looking good so far.

Danks put a nice cut on that pitch...who knows, he might be better than Morel (today is the beginning of the end for Morel jokes, make 'em while they're hot)

Good start.

the stock photo of Dayan is hilarious.

good changeup to Johnson. Now keep using that against lefties, too

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 19, 2012 -> 06:30 PM) I believe he also speaks Spanish. If that's the case, he should be fine (unless the Cubans speak Uribe )