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Angels pitcher is throwing a pitch that probably hasn't been seen in ~90 years.

Bloomberg and Mayors against Guns apparently received Ricin letters today.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 29, 2013 -> 05:46 PM) Have they had any players-only closed door meetings? Recently?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 29, 2013 -> 03:46 PM) That was coming off the 2008 playoff appearance and a bounce in attendance. With our attendance about the same as last year, we're actually down in revenue, when you consider the lowered ticket prices, Sunday family day rates, parking discounts, etc. They don't have the incoming revenues to justify adding that kind of talent long-term this season. 2008 attendance: 2,500,648 2009 attendance: 2,284,163

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 29, 2013 -> 03:04 PM) That's familiar. I remember him hitting a few of those against us for the Rays. This is the danger with Danks' reduced stuff. Hotter weather, wind blowing out, higher humidity....he's going to give up a ton of homers if he doesn't keep the ball down. He got sent to the minors again during the middle of an inning?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 29, 2013 -> 02:02 PM) But we can still trade cost controlled players for other cost controlled players. I'm sure plenty of teams would have interest in Quintana right now. Perhaps you look into trading him for a young impact bat. Erik Johnson would then replace Quintana in the rotation. I'm not necessarily advocating that particular move, but we definitely have starting pitching we can trade to help improve the offense. I'm not sure which guy it will involve, and I don't know if it will happen this year at the deadline or not, but I can definitely see the Sox being in a position where they need to deal a LH starting pitcher next offseason. If no one gets hurt, they'll be sitting 7 deep in their rotation counting EJ, who can start at AAA waiting on a spot to open up, and then they might even have other guys like Snodgress who could legitimately contribute in the near future as well. 5 front line starters and a guy or two at AAA who can step in is a pretty good scenario. 6 front line starters starts causing problems because someone has to go to the bullpen or get stuck in the minors when they should be facing big league hitters.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 29, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) Then what did they do with the $17M Peavy was making? "I'm here until 2019 and I'm also hanging with Snoop Dogg"

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2013 -> 12:41 PM) Here you go taking both sides. The Sox have to trade these guys, but when is the last time any of these prospects actually was worth it? You keep mentioning the "Cardinals model", the "Tigers model", the "Rays model", yet the model that most closely resembles what the rebuilders here want to do is the Mariners model. The Mariners have been selecting dud minor league hitters for years. Remember Jeremy Reed. Smoak and Montero continue the tradition. One of the ESPN bloggers had a good "Man the Mariners suck at developing hitters" article last night.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 29, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) Any idea what the team is doing with that $6,900,000.00? "hi".

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 29, 2013 -> 09:45 AM) That is a complete invasion of privacy. I have no problems with anonymous surveys to find out drug use amongst students, but using the information to essentially weed out the bad apples is not the way to do it. At that point you may as well just check every single locker and all persons for drugs, booze, needles, knives, and guns. I'm pretty sure my high school did that.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 29, 2013 -> 09:29 AM) I think game 2 would normally be on Monday, but the Rolling Stones will be at United Center Monday night. Who on Earth allowed that to be scheduled and how did they know that Rose wouldn't be playing this season?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 28, 2013 -> 11:18 PM) In the end, if Illitch can win a World Series, he'll inevitably argue all those contracts (Verlander and Fielder, in particular) were worth it. This is correct. But as anyone should know...MLB isn't exactly a foregone conclusion. Big money guys can get hurt and then not come back the way they're supposed to (Victor Martinez). The Playoffs can go insane (See: Justin Verlander versus Pablo Sandoval). It's a very expensive gamble.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 28, 2013 -> 06:04 PM) I would not be so quick to be suggesting a Jake Peavy trade. I am actually surprised we only signed him for two years. Another one I might keep on the list is Floyd. It has been reported that pitchers, especially curve ball pitchers, come back stronger then before when they undergo Tommy John surgery. The problem with Floyd, if I recall what pt said, is that he's going to take a few extra months for recovery because of the nature of his specific injury, so mid-season next year might be a reasonable time for him to be pitching to live batters. He's also...not under contract for next year by anyone, so someone would have to sign him. Depending on whether he really meant the stuff about how comfortable he was in Chicago (particularly with the pitching coach who probably saved his career), I could certainly see him signing a minor league deal with the Sox next year to do his rehab with the org and see if he might be ready to contribute in the 2nd half next year...but that's as far as we can say about him for now.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 05:52 PM) You think I'm the only one who thinks the guy is a stiff? ROFL! You're the only one trolling about it right now.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 04:34 PM) What's his BABIP??? Do they have a stat from April 1 on for being a stiff because that's what he is. as usual, because MARTY SAYS SO!

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 04:26 PM) You quote it all the time as if its the Holy Grail! "Keppinger has gotta hit, Keppinger will hit . . ", ROFL Since May 15, Jeff Keppinger is hitting .317. F***ing Hilarious isn't it?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 04:14 PM) How about your favorite BABIP!! ROFL. WTF does this crap even mean?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 28, 2013 -> 04:09 PM) You think it's impossible to win a World Series next year with a rotation of Sale, Peavy, Danks, Quintana, & Santiago? You honestly think there are no set of moves that Hahn could make to improve the offense enough to win a World Series? And there is nothing you can say which will change his mind or make him explain why.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 04:02 PM) Because selling high on Peavy and Rios is the right thing to do because it is going to be impossible to build a team around them that will win a World Series. BECAUSE MARTY HAS SPOKEN!!!!

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) What's the stat for straight fastball?

The contrast between the 2 previous posts could not possibly be more stark.

Forgive me if this appeared somewhere else, but the headline required sharing somewhere:

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ May 28, 2013 -> 01:11 PM) His goal is to win a World Series. I like his attitude. It sure beats "competitive". The scenario is much different since he feels his days are numbered. The Steinbrener model only works if you have the revenue. I doubt they are losing a lot of money in Detroit. If you have superstars like Verlander, Cabrera and Fielder, how many people are going to stay home. Something the Sox haven't been able to do is have back to back post seasons. Those put fans in the seats. I don't think it's going to be nearly as fun to have that attitude when they're paying the last few years of Fielder's deal.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 28, 2013 -> 11:50 AM) ROFL, you go ahead and wait on Nate Jones and Tyler Flowers. "Look, we developed a mop up man and a backup catcher, hoorray for us!" Because when I see a guy whose average fastball clocks 97 mph, I know I always think "mop-up man".

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ May 28, 2013 -> 11:03 AM) I didn't really analyze the source, just saw it pop up on multiple reputable places. I would think Pierce is still good enough to at least get an MLE level deal, could possibly be more if contenders with cap space whiff on their free agent/trade targets. I'm thinking maybe Dallas, their clock is ticking with Dirk around anyways. Dallas has made it clear their #1 target is a guy named Dwight Howard.