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alright, how about a baserunner...

Jose bailed out Micah there imo. Nice pick and stretch not a great throw.

wow. Talk about confidence in your abilities. Chris Sale man!

awful changeup fouled away thank god.

well this sucks.

it's f***ing uncanny man.

eaton just got aced.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 07:21 PM) Didn't catch what happened that inning. Was Sale bad? Wasn't great. Wild. Ump screwed him and so did some bad BABIP luck.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 07:19 PM) Kendry f***ing Morales, are you s***ting me. Off the end of the bat softly hit right in front of Eaton. Pretty s***ty inning couple of soft hit singles, one good hit, some s***ty umping, and some wildness from Christ leads to 2 runs. The ump really screwed him with that 2-0 call.

so many loopers this team f***ing hits man.

How the f*** do you miss that 2-0 pitch. I mean seriously it was right down the middle belt high.

ROBOTS

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 07:10 PM) I don't know why they ever switched it. A few years ago it was perfect Once Adobe got a hold of it it went back to s***. Flash f***ing sucks I can't wait until HTML5 is the standard.

The Royals have a team BABIP of like .500 right?

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 08:05 PM) Hopefully mlb.tv won't be too far behind live play today, I think that is wishful thinking though. MLB.tv has been really awful for me this year. Lots of stuttering and this is on different networks as well. Hope it gets better. It's really infiruorating that I can't hard set teh quality. It always tries to go full HD when I don't have the bandwidth and then I get the spinning wheel and it has to rebuffer. If I could just set "med high" like a few years ago it would be perfect in those situations.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 07:27 PM) I honestly cannot even imagine trying to hit off Chris Sale in 40 degree weather. I mean, you're talking jam shot stingers that last the entire game. I have a feeling he's going to have even more of an advantage tonight. LOL. They should just make the guys do that thing where you spin around with your head on the bat for a minute then try and run to first. It might be easier than hitting Chris today.

It's crazy how poorly compensated the minor league guys are relative to their position in their chosen field of pro baseball. It really takes a love of the game and a helluva competitive nature to keep doing baseball as a job into your mid 20s when your shot at the majors is slim to none. Hell, your shot at anything other than the Independent League is probably slim to none. My cousin played a couple years in the Independent League after a sparkling HS and Juco career but he's a DNR ranger now ffs. The grind got him quick and so did the s*** pay. The groupies aren't that good either apparently. Thanks for the article was a good read.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 04:38 PM) Jose has become probably THE leader of the team. Which is very good. I agree. I think it's good when your best players are also the leaders.

I honestly cannot even imagine trying to hit off Chris Sale in 40 degree weather. I mean, you're talking jam shot stingers that last the entire game. I have a feeling he's going to have even more of an advantage tonight.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 05:53 PM) Wouldn't be surprised if this turns into a 3-game series. Saturday looks raw. what is going on with the weather in the midwest man...snowing in detroit last night and a game time temp tonight in the low 40s again? Just brutal.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 05:17 PM) Is/will be the biggest game of the first 25% of the season imo. Wouldn't go that far but it's def a big game. It's an opportunity to make up some of the ground lost in the first week.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) Four game series. I think it's more of an issue why they're playing down to the Twins....3-3 against the worst team in the AL and 8-1 against the rest of MLB (one loss to OAK). Maybe the same overconfidence that struck down the White Sox against lesser division opponents over the last 10-15 years. 4 game set already with a 2 game set already in Cle? Oh well, at least they aren't playing inter league in April this year like some teams. I think the Royals are a mediocre team that had a hot start. On paper, the Sox have just as much talent, maybe you can say the ridiculous pen KC has is some magic elixir but in a rare moment of agreeance with Dick Allen I will say -- this team got lucky to make the playoffs and they are acting like the 27 Yankees, fans included. The Sox matchup well on paper let's see how it goes.

The Tigers just got swept and the Sox can get within 3.5 games of 1st with a win tonight. This is another big series for the central. With Sale on the mound it's critical to take this first one and at least get 2/3 here. The Royals are a bit of a mess after the Oakland series now is a great time to go for a sweep.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 04:04 PM) I'd love to hear your rationale here. Don Cooper's reputation has reached ridiculous levels. If Cooper told the Sox he thought Q had potential and that he was undervalued -- great. But to credit him with all of Q's success is absurd. Cooper has failed dozens of times with reclamation projects, does he take the blame for those? Of course not. He's just a coach. A good one, but a coach.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 03:43 PM) Seems like this premise has gained traction here but it's just not true, at least if you believe in PITCHf/x at all. His velocity is down 1 MPH here and there, which is consistent with April trends that we've been aware of for years. I think his fastball command has been poor and at 90-92 mph he needs to be very sharp with it. I think part of the "disbelief" about Q is that he works with very small margins thanks to his velocity and it all seems a little too good to be true that a guy with a solid but unspectacular 3 pitch arsenal really is a top 15 MLB starter. Thing is, without pinpoint command he's probably not. We'll see how it goes but I'm not that worried about him. If he regresses to a solid 3rd starter whatever pick it up elsewhere his contract is still an asset.