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RT @FutureSox Addison Reed with the year's first notable promotion! He is up to Winston-Salem after just 8 innings with Kannapolis. 11 K, 1 BB, 1 R, 4 H

Come on, he would have never made it out of the shire if he wasn't optimistic!

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...car-tissue.html

QUOTE (103 mph screwball @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 01:08 PM) They are too tight. They need something to make them stop thinking about failure. Ozzie needs to go bezerk like Maddon did at the Cell to the point of making the clubhouse laugh. They need to plunk Lopez and clear the benches. The need something unusual or funny to distract them from the fact that they are not playing well. This is why booing them at the Cell does not help even though it is every paying fan's right. They know they are sucking. They don't need to be reminded. In fact booing them hurts the team and makes them more likely to do things that tended to generate boos to begin with. Trying harder does not help. Stress that is too high causes your brain not to work as well and gripping the bat a little tighter can make a difference. Boo lack of effort. I don't see lack of effort. They need to all do a shot of their favorite beverage in the clubhouse before the top of the first. They need Paully to wear a spiderman outfit in the club house. They need distraction and relaxation from whatever works for them. Then a win will happen. Then another....and this part of the season will be a memory and playing and watching baseball will be fun again. It is about time for a nice Ozzie meltdown to take some attention away from the team.

In search the Cup winning puck. Great read.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 12:19 PM) Yeah, I was just reading about that trade yesterday. That's 2 in like 10 years. There have been a hell of a lot more than 2 stars traded within the past 10 years. Does the first Freddy Garcia trade fall there? He was the top starter on the market at the time IIRC.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 12:22 PM) I think he means that he doesn't want to see the package that KW would get for Danks. That was my sarcastic way of saying that.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/04/how-...medium=facebook

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 12:30 PM) Scar Tissue Issues is a sweet phrase That would make a great band name.

QUOTE (Socal Cid @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:50 AM) Big difference in buying low and taking a flyer on someone while paying them a couple of million, as opposed to the rediculous contracts KW assumed in Rios and Peavy. If neither of these two players perform KW needs to go. So you mean like they did with Jose Contreras and Jim Thome. Neither one of those guys was getting paid "a couple of a million" when we traded for them.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:40 AM) The more I think about who we'd have to trade in the event of an actual firesale, the more nervous I get. Hopefully we just play better from here on out and even if we come up short on making the playoffs, we play well enough to convince JR and KW to keep the core together. You aren't excited to see the prospects we could get for John Danks?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 11:07 AM) They switched defenders on him(wasn't Fisher the whole game) and he basically just disappeared in the 4th quarter. Wasn't one of his better efforts, that's for sure. That is a big part of good coaching in beating a superior offensive player. You throw multiple "fresh" defenders at him. Give him different looks, deny the ball, knock him around etc.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 11:16 AM) Which is why the bubble must be maintained at all costs. Scary, all of us pretty much agreeing on that. Yikes. The conspriatilist in me feels that this is why we either let it pop, or help pop it. We eliminate a thread accross multiple sectors. Remember in the 80s when Japan was going to take over?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:21 AM) IMO, China is in the middle of an enormous investment-financed private and corporate real estate bubble. They're building giant condo complexes that sit empty, there's a giant Mall somewhere near the Mongolian border that is practically vacant and the owner is now raising capital to double the size of the place because he's decided the problem is it isn't big enough. Etc. They're somewhere close to where we were in 2006. They can't deflate the bubble slowly, it'll cost people politically. The bubble must be kept going at all costs. There's a different ethos there where they haven't looked on real estate as a private investment like this country has, which might slow the bursting of it a bit, but it has all the makings of a bubble about to pop. I actually agree with you 100%. the problem is that it will be doubly dangerous because of the utter dependence on government in that country. When that bubble goes, it is going to pop a lot of other sectors there. I really feel that it could be bad enough to take down the government like commodity prices and debt did to the USSR.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:00 AM) I don't know how you can give KW "credit" for taking a risk. What he did was to take a huge problem off the hands of Toronto. Similar to what he did for San Diego. Teams do this all of the time. It's called buying low. It brought us guys like Jim Thome and Jose Contreras off of the top of my head.

I can't get over how much Forte and Blake look alike. Seriously he could be your brother.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 10:14 PM) I saw the game. And he was definitely unlucky. But you know better than anybody how fed up I am of this dude. KW took a risk. I'll give him credit for that. But the return has not been worth it. We could always run Macowiak out there again...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 07:53 AM) NOT FOR LONG!!!! EAT IT UNIONS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Wait, where did that come from? It makes up for part of the $60 a month that gets flushed...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 09:21 PM) You're obviously being condescending. But no GM in the central had come close to pulling off as many shrewd (and in most cases straight ripoff) trades as Shapiro since mid-2006. 1: Asdrubal Cabrera for Eduardo Perez 2: Shin-Soo Choo for Ben Broussard 3: Carlos Santana for Casey Blake 4: Justin Masterson for Victor Martinez 5: Chris Perez for Mark Derosa Sure, the Sabathia trade isn't lookin' so hot. And it's still too early to truly judge the Lee trade from their side. But those are 5 terrific trades in a short amount of time. If he had the freedom to spend $100+ million, no telling what he could do. And what has Cleveland got to show for that? We spent all week talking about results, and yet you are praising the Indians? Ok.

So that is two out of 30 teams under MLB control.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 08:11 AM) Someone will likely put in a claim, there's just seemingly too much talent there not to give him a shot at a change of scenery. Looking at some of the god awful players on rosters throughout baseball there's certainly room for him on a few teams. That is kind of what I was thinking. Its not like he has burned through 4 or 5 teams to this point. You have to see if you can solve that riddle because the reward would be huge.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 05:16 PM) Just tell them you work with some company (I went Blockbuster) and you get a discount. 17% just like Marko. We get 18% because the wife is a member of the NEA.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) Actually, here's the one I'm using through the playoffs... Your ringtone needs to be Stacey.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 11:52 AM) I'm guessing that this is the proverbial "bump in the road" that his doc in Chicago warned about, not the shoulder inflammation, which by all accounts seemed to be unrelated to the detached lat. So good, got that out of the way. Now he can pitch through it and hopefully build up some strength. Imagine if you were JP and started feeling a pain in that same surgically repaired spot while on the mound. Must have been pretty frightening. And just as reassuring to hear that there's nothing wrong with it. Honestly, I think this is great news. QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 06:56 AM) For whatever it's worth, apparently the soreness was caused by scar tissue breaking up, which should have been expected at some point I'd think? Hearing that makes Gingers post make a lot more sense to me. I think the shoulder stiffness thing was the outlier, and not the lat.

Once upon a time, about two and a half years ago, the Dems thought the debt and deficit were important too.