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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 19, 2012 -> 08:04 PM) Delmon Young or Michael Young? Greg, you're drinking too much of Harrelson's kool-aid from the first time he faced us when he was with Tampa. Chris Young. He's mourning the 2006 Young for Vazquez trade.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 19, 2012 -> 08:02 PM) 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 You can come up with other great examples. BJ Upton is another one. Grady Sizemore is another one. These guys manage to cut down the strikeouts by 25% and they win MVP awards, but they can never learn how to do that for some reason. They're nto as good but that's the exact problem some of the guys in our org have. Danks2, Mitchell are that same boat. Great athletes, but the strikeouts are keeping them out of the big leagues.

C'mon John, don't let the pitcher hurt you.

2 very quick flyball outs here to start the 3rd.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2012 -> 08:00 PM) It seems to me Young is the type of player you'd hope Rios would be. Young is a stud. 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".

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:59 PM) I liked that one.

Cmon Danksy, get through the back 1/3 of this order quickly.

THROW IT BACK AND WE'LL JUST GIVE YOU ANOTHER F***ING BALL!

AJP!

QUOTE (BFirebird @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:55 PM) With no Paulie..until they put a lefty reliever in there he won't see a pitch IMO. that's 2 times in a row that one "Dayan Viciedo" has made them pay. Keep walking Dunn. Seriously.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:54 PM) 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. 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!

Dunn takes his 2nd walk.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:53 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. Ozzie Guillen's great friend Javy Vazquez.

Let's go Adam, hurt a ball.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:50 PM) My god I didn't realize how pathetic the Cubs lineup is. And no one believes me when I say that every team has a bunch of guys on their roster that don't seem to belong in MLB.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:39 PM) Where'd Danks velocity go? I'm as close to certain as I can be that he isn't hurt. He can't throw a 90 mph fastball for a strike. I haven't been watching the gun on every batter but the first 2 pitches to Baker were 92 mph fastballs before he grounded out on the Change. 6 outs in a row, nothing hit remotely hard.

Quick 123 for the Danks.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:12 PM) When it says not helpful in grooming young talent that means he's a jerk. No harm no foul if he plays third while Morel rehabs the back. Sad that Morel may be finished (see Crede). I don't think a "Bulging disk" is a career threatening injury.

Two weakly hit balls to start the game.

Rios line drive, catches off Dempster's glove and that deflects it right to the 2b.

Finally got AJ swinging down and in.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:29 PM) This game is looking like regression to the mean time. Hopefully Danks agrees.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:27 PM) They had all the flags out on the field before the game as well.. They had a military thing going on before the game, I get that. Just wondering who paid for that banner. That thing literally cost a thousand dollars to make, or more with that size.

C'Mon AJ....

There is a giant banner on one of the buildings on Waveland saying "Welcome NATO".