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QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 18, 2015 -> 08:26 PM) Kluber to Flowers is completely unfair. Might as well be holding a lollipop stick. lmao, first time I've read that image for a baseball player, love it.

How is your approach to swing a first pitch breaking ball? Go up there trying to get ahead. Take a pitch. It's Kluber, you're not going to hit his breaking stuff.

Tribe broadcast crew laughing their ass off at Flowers.

lol flowers.

I wouldn't be shocked if Alexei is done as a solid starter. He's been awful. He's also old.

that looked outside.

Come on Conor get on.

It would be nice if Kluber got wild.

he gawn.

Sale is really driving with his legs tonight and finishing. Easy to see even to my amateur eye.

WOW. Chris Sale just took a giant s*** on the mound and it was aimed at Jason Kipnis.

La Roche has been fine he's been getting on base and getting some key base hits. The power should come as it warms up. He's a notorious slow starter so to have a 370 OBP in mid may is a positive sign imo.

Tough to get the barrel on Kluber's stuff. Jose's hand eye coordination on that hit was beyond impressive.

I like Laroche trying to jump on him early in the count but come on you gotta do more with those fastballs over the plate if that's your approach.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ May 18, 2015 -> 06:40 PM) Good luck on the finals, but I try to avoid the Sox, personally, if I need to de-stress. I find the games to be ulcer inducing. Usually watch with a large jug of Pepto at my side. The "El Duque Game" took 5 years off my life but the regular season games not so much anymore.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 18, 2015 -> 06:23 PM) Or he could just be on the field watching batting practice, looks like its a nice day and well. baseball! Could be. Seems like nice weather finally in the midwest? Hopefully 25k+ at the park tonight for a Sox winner!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 18, 2015 -> 06:36 PM) He looks so much better going towards the line. There were actually a few catches over the weekend where he got a good enough jump to use his speed to close on the ball. It's ironic I read a scouting report on Avi from 2011 and the report was "strong armed natural athlete in RF that takes great routes but probably won't ever hit enough to be anything more than a solid regular". Not exactly the most accurate scouting report. If anything, it's now "defense won't ever be average so even if he hits his upside is solid regular". I still have hope he can turn into a 4 WAR all around stud. We'll see.

QUOTE (hi8is @ May 18, 2015 -> 05:55 PM) My envy is all yours. Yea I'm sitting at work wish I was at the park.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 18, 2015 -> 05:04 PM) Here watching bp. Melky, Laroche and Eaton swinging now. Laroche hits it out at will. Eaton has more power than melky if this is anything to go by, lol. Eaton owns the farthest hr of the day so far. KW and Hahn watching everything on the field. Was surprised by that. More and more evidence that KW is an something bigger than a "VP" role.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 18, 2015 -> 03:27 PM) I think Ventura did nothing to inspire the team during the rut (it may not have been his fault either), and I think he's doing nothing to pull the strings during their hot streak either. I just can't figure out why he's the manager of this team. At this point you can throw out all that stuff and just focus on the tactical mistakes. Calling for a reliever before the PH was announced (I don't care if Hernandez was unclear, you sure as s*** make sure it was announced before ou signal, why the hell RV was sitting in the dugout and had Cooper go out is beyond me but it seems clear RV was in the dark) and not challenging in Detroit are clear tactical mistakes that should never, ever happen.

It's nice to be excited about the season again. With the way Avi is starting to hit he could be a huge boost. This offense is going to have black holes (catcher, 2B maybe, SS at times) so if a few guys can stay hot together and carry the team for stretches that will be great. Basically the scrubs are going to scrub, the stars need to star.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 01:37 PM) lol. So he should take the umpires mistake, and turn it into an even bigger mistake by getting kicked out of the game? The reality is that the umpire is the final authority and if he screws up, there isn't much you can do about it. Compounding the error by trying to show up the umpire isn't going to help the team, and in fact will probably just piss him off against your team. RV is like the kid that keeps getting in trouble and can't get off probation. At a certain point the kid says "stuff just keeps happening to me I don't get it" and it's up to someone to tell him about the two types of people in this world. RV is one that lets things happen. I'm not harping on some minor point like reliever usage -- this was a huge error. Jim, at SSS, who prior to this year has mainly toed the line of "get him better players" called it nothing less than "Ventura's Bevington moment". The As broadcast crew was shocked as well. It was a bad mistake however it happened and I'm of the opinion that RV will continue to let this sort of thing happen. So Hernandez pointed, how about you know asking him "hey, has the PH been announced?" before you make the call to the pen. The entire thing was bizarre with Cooper on the mound. Is RV too lethargic to even walk out to make the change himself anymore? Just a cluster no wonder RV let himself get played.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 12:30 PM) Dan Hayes @CSNHayes Heard in clubhouse that Angel Hernandez did signal that Stephen Vogt was in as a hitter Fri & reversed & said he was noting pinch runner. If that's the case he should have argued and got him self ejected because that is horse s***. Either way, it's an awful look. Hayes is just carrying the orgs water regardless.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2015 -> 12:29 PM) Which illustrates the reality that things aren't always as simple as they are made out to be. While going by the numbers is one thing, sometimes there are external reasons for not doing stuff like that. He made a pitching change before the PH was announced. That it didn't blow up in his face was pure luck.

QUOTE (scs787 @ May 18, 2015 -> 12:25 PM) Sigh people still see Saturday as a mistake? It would have been his 5th game in 7 days, and he was needed on the 16th as well. If Robin pitched him 6 of 8 days and Rovo got hurt or starter to get beat up a bit, Robin would get roasted for using him too much. It's not that. He got played for a fool by Oakland. Made a pitching change before the PH was officially announced. An error you expect a 1st year manger to perhaps make. Not a guy in his 4th.