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QUOTE (Cali @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 10:00 PM) Beckham, what the f***, man? This should be his final season on the south side. Gotta sell low Kenny, he's just a headcase who needs a new team to maybe change him. It aint gonna happen on the south side. There's no "Selling low" on him. He's a non-tender candidate at the end of the year if he repeats last year's performance.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 09:30 PM) NRO: Open racism bad, open pedophilia okay. Do I not get the reference? Is one of their writers an accused pedophile? Or is this a catholic church thing?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 09:35 PM) Kenny Williams didn't deserve to be retained this year. You can't retain a GM for a rebuilding that is responsible for the worst farm system in MLB. The only reason I ever could come up with for why Kenny was retained this year was that JR told him to do bigger moves like Dunn, in order to give Ozzie a chance to save his job.

It is nice that Robin had someone up in the bullpen just in case. Not sure Ohman is who I'd have had up though. Don't want to see him against many righties this year.

Time for ADA to make up for some of those errors.

Hate this F***ing commercial.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) How many oppo field homers did Morel hit last year? A couple? No more than 3, I'd bet, probably at USCF in the August/September heat.

Brent actually just missed that one.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 09:12 PM) Peavy's bustin out Buehrle speed tonight. 85, 87... Everything he's throwing is a slider.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) AND WHY ARE WE STILL PITCHING TO KINSLER? You know what's a good idea? Giving up free baserunners before Hamilton and Beltre.

Peavy straight up isn't fooling any of these guys. And here come Hamilton and Beltre.

Damnit De Aza. Rookie mistake there. Damn.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 6, 2012 -> 05:32 PM) It's pretty shocking to see something so openly, disgustingly racist. It's coming from John Derbyshire, a frequent contributor to the National Review. But anyone talking about institutional racism are just a bunch of reverse-racist "race baiters" playing the race card. Wow, NRO actually fired him. 1960's NRO is so disappointed in today's NRO.

You can't stop #14 right now. You can't even hope to contain him.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:55 PM) It was a sweet move by Holland, but DeAza seems to be on the move alot these first two games. Some of that I'm sure comes from the dugout.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:53 PM) Are they trying to develop DeAza's stealing ability? Or do they just not realize he's a terrible base stealer? It sure looked like he was going on that pickoff. I think he hasn't seen many major league moves, and that was a major league left-handed pitcher pickoff move.

Well, pitcher robbed TFlow of a hit, and gave a hit to ADA.

I think Flowers did a quality job of framing that pitch.

Is Peavy just throwing slider, slider, slider?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) Getting away with the hanging slider against both Hamilton and Beltre. Got to get crisper with that pitch, Jake. That was actually a good slider to Young. It of course then became a hit.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:31 PM) An opposite field approach is a good one. No one wants to be a pull hitter. Brent Morel was a hell of a lot better hitter when he was working on pulling the ball late last year, and sucked when he was trying to flip it the other way.

Yeesh, Beltre torched that ball.

QUOTE (Sockin @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:25 PM) Robin said during the pre-game interview on 670 that he wants to get everyone in there to get their feet wet. Fukudome and Escobar will be playing the first game in Cleveland. Well, that means if Brent doesn't get his first hit today, he will be in game 4 of the season without a hit, which is when yous tart thinking about it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:25 PM) If Peavy can throw 92-93, that might be good enough. Not quite what he was throwing 5 years ago, but a lot better than 89-91, as long as he's got the movement. His average fastball was 93.9 back in 2007.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 7, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) He's really just evolved into a professional hitter. It's fun watching him work at bats. He got a 77 mph big breaking ball from a guy who had just blown away Adam Dunn at 96 mph, stayed back, and drove it past the SS for an RBI. Fun to watch is right.