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QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 07:23 PM) Buster Posey refused to accept Cousins' apology? f*** you, Buster. That is pretty immature.

My god, its a peeping Tex!

Kids teach you that skill very quickly

I can't see the Sox first pick being a guy with an injury history after seeing the conversation in the warroom during The Show last year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 07:03 AM) Considering the shape of the Twins, he could certainly get some run at the MLB level too. Which would be when he finally starts hitting up to his potential...

I was rolling my eyes when I asked that.

Great question

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:06 AM) They've already lost me, but I have been thinking of coming back and finding a new team to root for. But like you said, Miami winning would make it hard for me to do that. I'm out until the pre season.

Soxfest actually has game thread duty today. He's got the three game winning streak going.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 07:36 AM) Nice piece on Brent from fangraphs: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/t...nt-lillibridge/ It's Brent-mania Oh this ought to rattle some people... Ozzie is, ugh, right.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 08:02 AM) When Frank Thomas was on Boers and Bernstein, Bernstein asked him if he was surprised about Dunn's slump. Thomas answered that no, he knew it was going to happen for the first couple of months. He blamed it on the transition to DH and said that he himself lost 30 points off his BA during his transition. Being more of a student of the game than a stat-man, the interesting part of that conversation was Frank talking about how the mental part of the game changes when you DH. That podcast is a must-listen.

Eventually it too shall pass.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 12:00 AM) Thought this was interesting. This guy worked inside the Arkansas athletic department for 9 years. link Interesting. I didn't know most of that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 08:29 PM) I dont think it would to be honest. People would still love him. I love his game, but it has forever cemented the reputation with me that my bottle of gatorade has a higher IQ. If you need to have someone else take your SAT for you to get into Memphis? Yeah, that is pretty bad.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 05:48 PM) Thank your lucky stars it wasn't baseball season - your Care Bears obsession could have led you down a terrible, terrible path.... Nicely done.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 07:51 PM) IIRC, he was asked to be the 6th man while here. He had a problem with it. What makes you think that he'll be okay with doing it now? Detroit is going to really, really suck, and he is still going to be a bench player.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 08:37 PM) Discovery tonight is running the story of our tornado outbreak from late April. And I'm still getting over the stress of it last time. It was a decent show. There are ones up for Japan too.

Cornhole is another name for bags.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 03:27 PM) Actually, the company I'm at has been around longer than NASA. For some reason that story reminded me of reading about the Shuttle program looking for parts on Ebay, because they stuff they needed was no longer being made.

Meet you at the Crossroads...

QUOTE (That funky motion @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 10:46 PM) Yes he was a star but not one of the biggest. Baseball people knew how good he was. He was not even on most peoples top 10. It was the difference between being Frank Thomas and Michael Jordan.

QUOTE (forrestg @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 03:36 PM) Can a starting pitcher rally his position players of a game he's pitching to give him enough run support? Blackjack seemed to inspire his teammate to supplant his pitching miscues with amazing run support. I don't get why, but it seems like some pitchers are always one run better than their run support, and others are always one run worse. Jack always seemed to be able to give up one less run whether it was 1-0 or 7-6.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 03:12 PM) Andrew Mason should have taken the $6 billion he was offered from Google and run. He will rue that day. This is why

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 02:42 PM) Trying to predict which prospects succeed and which fail is like trying to pick the winning numbers for the lottery. It doesn't matter for a second where they are ranked. The Sox in 2000 had the top ranked farm team in the country... How'd that work out? The Royals have had tons of prospects in recent years, very few of them have come close to their hype.