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QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 08:26 PM) He NEEDS to switch with Hossa ideally. Hossa is a 3rd liner at this point. I still think Teravainen is probably Toews future RW although he can play center if he bulks up. He isn't tough enough to play on that top line yet. Hossa can still win a board battle.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 06:38 PM) Frazier at least brings it with the glove. Something we couldn't say with the Dunns, LaRoches etc. of the world. Still way too early in the season. Hell, he leads our team in RBIs for god's sake. Frazier's defense has been a HUGE plus this year. His bat will be fine.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 12:34 PM) Lol - such a silly thing to say. No contributor to this thread has acted as if he or she is "miserable", outside of maybe you and Dick Allen, given comments like this one and the overreaction by Dick in his earlier comments. All that's going on in this thread is an acknowledgment by several astute posters of the fact that the baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint. So while the sprint of the past two weeks has been awesome and very enjoyable, there is a legitimate concern about sustainability given this team's shortcomings on offense. You can be a very happy person and have this concern. I knew you would miss the point in order to point us all to how to be miserable about a winning streak. All DA did was post all of the same thing that people hoping for the sky to fall would be posting ahead of you.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) When the team does regress to a more realistic level no amount of preparation is going to make the slide easier. So I'm with SS2k5, rock the wins and enjoy. Some people just want to be miserable.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) Good point but when you've had six losing seasons in the past nine years (historically the worst stretch for the franchise since 1968-1980) its understandable fans get concerned. Mark Why waste your time on baseball at all if your strategy is to be miserable even when things are going well? Just kick yourself in the nuts and get it over with.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) Some of us are not stressing over "what is going to go wrong," but rather over what has gone wrong, for quite a while now. I remember all too well the many games last year, in which Sale and Quintana pitched great, but the offense couldn't score enough to get them a win. The winning record aside, we are just wondering if the front office has sufficiently upgraded this offense enough to reverse that frustrating trend. Of course, the players who are struggling are not likely to do this poorly all season. The question is how much better will they do. What do you expect to get from all of the new guys on the roster? Do you think that Lawrie and Frazier will improve on their career numbers? I certainly hope that we can look forward to better than their combined career .315 OBP, which I pointed out in a previous post. You totally missed the point. The point is to enjoy good baseball.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 10:47 AM) He made contact with the offensive zone and had nothing in contact with the ice on the other side of the blue line. It's pretty simple. Except he wasn't in the offensive zone either. It is stupid.

Instead of stressing about what is going to go wrong, people could just enjoy what is going right.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 17, 2016 -> 01:06 AM) I'm saying after the fact, they had nothing to complain about because that last camera angle made it obvious. They have something to be upset about. Reading the interpretation of the rule reminds me so much of the NFL catch rule, it is sad. Even though you aren't offsides, you are offsides because your skate is in the air? How stupid. Does that mean if you jump off of the ice for a moment, you are off-sides because you aren't touching the ice anywhere? That is why I would be upset. The rule is stupid.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Apr 16, 2016 -> 08:45 PM) https://twitter.com/mkmolnar/status/721510237233131521 That's a good goal? It was definitely over the line. Does it change anything when the goalie intentionally knocks the net off? I don't know.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 16, 2016 -> 03:25 PM) Chicago fans would be doing the same thing if it were the other way around. Also, I'm sorry for you living in St. Louis. I'd be pissed if I had both of those calls go against my team too.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 09:47 PM) Tigers lose 1-0. Twins tied it up. Indians trying to win in the 9th. (They lost) Today was a good day.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 09:41 PM) 1 skate was over the line so offsides? You can have one in, you can't have two in. One in is OK.

If they leave this stand, St Louis is going to lose their minds. What a sequence.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 09:34 PM) I am a hockey novice, what is the exact rule for it to be considered offsides? Two Skates in the zone ahead of the puck being fully past the blue line.

I can't believe they overturned that. I sure didn't see enough to say he was offsides for sure.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) Might have saved a goal there after Corey got nailed in the head. Yep. Didn't even let Tere get a SOG.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 08:42 PM) Sox have the best record in the AL at the moment. I mean, they just need to play .500 ball from here on out and they'd be right in it. 90 wins has to be the goal after this start. Team defense is amazing so far despite the Rollins error tonight. Pitching we know is gonna be good. Offense has an 2005 vibe except not with HR but with contact and good baserunning. 6 over would put them at 84-78. The last wild card in the AL last year was 86-76.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 08:38 PM) I am glad they didn't trade or suspend spSale for popping off to KW. Ha, that is what you took away from tonight?

Oh hey, that Keith guy is back.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 08:34 PM) What's with the jumping He almost overran it.

COME SALE AWAY WITH ME!

Sale challenged him and was a couple of feet from losing.

Worked out anyway.

Damn turnover ends up in the back of the net.