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QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jul 21, 2012 -> 08:24 PM) Urban legend. Not an urban legend. I know the guy.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 09:17 AM) Unless Morel is learning 1B and OF during his rehab, he isn't going to be back up with the Sox this season. There's no room on the roster for a bench player who only plays one position, unless that position is C. He will be needed when Youk re-injures his back.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 08:58 AM) And, although his son's condition may have had a small part in his 2011 performance, the fact that he's improved dramatically shows that it wasn't the major factor. His son still has epilepsy, and it's still a hard road for his family. It's not like he said, "To hell with my problems." He worked hard this off season, and that hard work is paying off. Or maybe it explains some of his slumps. It could be that when his son's condition worsens he becomes concerned for his health and he loses a little focus. Hitting a baseball is hard enough in perfect conditions. When you are worried about the health of a child and complete focus is near impossible it becomes really tough. Many people are saying that in the real world people get fired for performing so poorly. These are usually the people at the bottom. There are many CEOs like Dunn that are paid more than him and have had many more years of poor performance lately that continue to get bonuses more than Dunn's salary. Boo all you want to feel that you have some control or say with the team but don't discount the effect that a sick child can have on anyone's concentration at work.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jul 9, 2012 -> 09:50 PM) Not the slowest Sox ever. Harold Baines, at the end of his career, ran at a grandmotherly pace. Marc Hill was slower. I saw him get thrown out at first on a ground ball to the right fielder.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) Why is that unique? Didn't say it was unique. Just a question. Greg seems passionate about the Sox and it's seems odd. I have weekend season tickets and really enjoy going to ball games.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 7, 2012 -> 06:01 PM) I may have to go to some Sox-Royals games at Kauffman this year. The team looks like a contender at this time. Maybe Youk can help reverse the post all-star game hex on the team the last few seasons. So you only go to watch them if they look like a contenting team?

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 6, 2012 -> 11:50 AM) i never read anything on it, or saw when it happend,(saw a video online i think) but what happend between aj and floyd in ny? I don't know what happened between him and floyd. I was referring to the comments from the giants pitcher before the Sox signed him.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 6, 2012 -> 09:37 AM) All that "bad" work ethic stuff just seems funny now. He has been on the DL once in his career and will get pretty close to catching 2,000 games. The work ethic stuff is all wrong. He works as hard or harder than anyone on the field. That stuff was said because the guy didn't like him. AJ is a grade A jerk but is a good ball player and works hard at the game.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 6, 2012 -> 09:34 AM) There's no doubt in my mind, down the Road AJ is a coach in the Sox system. He will not be a coach. No one can stand the guy and no one will listen to him as a coach.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 2, 2012 -> 12:30 PM) Usain Bolt lost twice to Yohan Blake at Olympic trials. I'm betting Bolt still wins easily in London. Don't count out Gatlin. He was awesome in Eugene. The USA has a chance to get 30+ medals with a talented Track team.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 08:41 PM) 2000 team surely.... That team, top to bottom, could rake. Perry, Durham, Maggs, C-Lee, Konerko, Thomas, Valentin. Singleton was probably the weakest hitter that year, Fordyce at catcher, but we added Charles Johnson in trade, who was a monster that season with the O's. That's probably the most impactful in-season move made for a position player b4 Youkilis. Julio Cruz.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 04:07 PM) Danks had a cortisone shot yesterday. Still no word on a possible return or prognosis. This proves that he is still having discomfort and they aren't sure where it's coming from. Cortisone injections are done in bursa and other passive tissues. They are not used for tendons and muscles. They are looking at something other than the subscapularis tendon that was reported earlier.

QUOTE (SpainSOXfan09 @ Jul 1, 2012 -> 12:21 PM) Quick update from MGon on JDanks (Basically says he will continue rehab with no definite return date). PTATC, can you comment on this? Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,1444642.story Article: NEW YORK -- Chicago White Sox left-hander John Danks left the team Sunday to return to Chicago for tests on his left shoulder. Danks, who hasn't pitched since June 14 in a minor league rehabilitation assignment for Triple-A Charlotte, underwent a diagnostic ultrasound on his shoulder. Danks didn't not undergo an MRI since he isn't close yet to resuming his rehab assignment. The Sox stressed that Danks, 27, should be able to resume his rehab Tuesday. Danks hasn't pitched in a major league game since May 19 against the Cubs at Wrigley Field and there has been no projected date for his return. "I think we’re fortunate to be able to think that way with what Q (Jose Quintana) has done," manager Robin Ventura said. "We want to get him healthy first, and it keeps lingering and lingering, and you can’t look at him as we’re counting on him on this date. Every time we’ve done that, it’s been pushed back. We just want to get him healthy and Q just stays in that spot.” Reliever Jesse Crain, who has tightness in the back of his right shoulder, had yet to throw Sunday, and a stint on the DL still seems possible. “I think it’s more he’s gotten a pretty good prognosis of what it is," Ventura said. "It’s giving him some time (to rest), and hopefully that will do the trick. I don’t foresee a DL stint for him.” This is an interesting development. Diagnostic ultrasounds can be used for tendon imaging but are typically used for muscle belly imaging. My guess is that he is still having some discomfort and they are trying other things to determine the cause. The good news is that if they are looking at the active muscle tissue, they do not think it is a passive stability structure like the capsule or labrum. These need surgery to fix. If they think he is ready to begin on Tuesday then they must be pretty sure it's just muscular which just requires rest then strengthening.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 11:36 PM) Happens not uncommonly that using the retrospectoscope on an x-ray shows something not seen previously. Tendinopathy seen initially on contrast MRI allows it to then be localized/visualized on prior plain scan, allowing comparison. Perhaps a stretch (No tendon pun intended.), but not necessarily "nonsense" or "crap." This is true. However, They would have done the same MRI the second time they did as the first for comparison. Since they determined it was a grade 1, the only thing you can really look at for the tendon is the presence of fluid in the tendon. The suscapularis is so small and blends with the teres major and lat tendons that regardless if you use T1, T2 or contrast medium, you really can't "see" the individual tendon well. Injuries to this tendon are often misdianosed using imaging techniques, as are many injuries to the shoulder because of the tight space and many anatomic structures present. I'm not an imaging expert but based on my experience and many research articles I refer to MRIs as "More Radiographic Income" as their true purpose. They can be useful to confirm the physical diagnosis but are not really useful on their own.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 20, 2012 -> 08:12 AM) I remember reading a story about Nolan Ryan years ago being one of the very first guys out there to lift weights. IIRC the Angels didn't even have a weight room, and in the mid 70's he turned an abandoned room into a weight room which he used alone. There was a big school of thought that too much muscle was bad for baseball related activities. Yes. The theory was it made you too "tight" and you couldn't get the full motion you need to throw.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 01:51 PM) Isn't the meaning on those basically identical? A severe strain = a moderate tear? sorry I didn't post earlier, we had a late Lacrosse practice last night. The definitions are sometimes used interchangably but they really shouldn't. From what I read there is no tear. The grade 1 strain means there is no tear. This tendon however needs to be handled very carefully. It is the anterior or front tendon of the rotator cuff. It is responsible for slowing the arm down when he bring the arm back during the windup phase and accelerating the arm forward during the acceleration phase. If there is a severe problem with the tendon there will also be some stability issues with the whole joint because as you raise your arm over your head the humerus slides forward in the joint and this muscle needs to absorb some of that force. The grade 1 is a good sign and the 3-6 weeks time frame is a good estimate. The crap about the MRI being being better than before is nonsense. If it was worse before, he wouldn't have tried anything in the minors. This is not a season ending injury. Once the inflammation goes down and the strength up he'll be fine. It does however have a direct correlation to his decreased velocity not so much from strength but pain.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 03:49 PM) Nobody knows when any of these guys started using. Pretty much in the mid-80's with Canseco and McGwire.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 12:19 PM) Baseball HOF is full of players who cheated to win, its completely hypocritical that they now care about steroids. But I guess doctored baseballs (Gaylord Perry) is less cheating than taking steroids which dont conclusively make you better. It is less cheating than doctoring a baseball, the same as a speeding ticket is less of a crime than murder. Steriods do conclusively make you better. 70 homeruns in baseball proves that as well as performance in most other sports ala Floyd Landis and Ben Johnson.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 10:24 AM) The short answer is nobody was hitting 50, 60, 73 homers a year in the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Ok--George Foster and Cecil Fielder, but you know what I mean. But yeah, we don't know if Rickey Henderson or Paul Molitor juiced at the end of their careers. It's certainly possible. It was institutional cheating. If Mantle and Mays played in the late 90's, they probably would have done it too. He didn't with the Brewers. I was in that clubhouse and would have seen it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 14, 2012 -> 07:16 PM) Trick question. Osama and Hitler are already dead. Yeah, but it would feel real good to shoot either of them.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 06:00 PM) It's definitely working a lot better for the airlines, that's for sure. More people travelling than ever before, fewer airlines and seats, the explosion of "new wealth" in countries like China, India, the Middle East...it used to cost "only" $600-900 to fly from the US to Asia in 2007/2008, and now that price has roughly doubled in the last five years. This is not true. There are many fewer travelers, especially for business. There are many web based meetings instead.This kills the airline industry. There are fewer seats because the number of flights has decreased. The price is increasing in part due to the struggles of the airline industry and fuel costs.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 11:54 PM) I just can't get excited about perfect games and no-hitters anymore. These last 3+ years have been ridiculous. I want steroids back in the game. I couldn't disagree more. i love watching pitching duels and great defensive plays. Of course, I also like 13-10 football games where the defense kicks the crap out of the offense.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 03:21 PM) So no first basemen? That'll suck. It's the new way to increase scoring in the NL. They hate the DH so they got rid of the 1st baseman. This way if you hit groundballs, should increase scoring. They are beta testing it during interleague play.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) The other way of looking at it is he can already be quite successful throwing only fastballs mixed in with a few sliders, then imagine how good he could be with a change-up or curveball (see Buehrle, Mark). Essentially, he's a two pitch pitcher, and it's not like he has Jose Contreras' 2005-06 forkball and fastball combination working out there. Or the patented Cooper cutter.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 13, 2012 -> 11:32 AM) I still contend that new posters will be confused as hell about this. Not if they know their Aztec history, which is a silly question because who doesn't.