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QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 07:13 AM) Ivan Rodriguez. Never caught, but in my opinion as obvious of steroid user as there has been. As soon as the testing and suspensions started, he came back the next season skinny as hell. It was almost comical in my opinion. Yeah, that's him.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:02 PM) Actually most catchers are pretty smart. Cannot remember any catchers being tied to PEDs/steroids/etc. Um....Tyler Flowers.......Whats his name, the big power hitting, strong armed catcher that started with Texas, played for Detroit, Miami (won World Series), Yankees, I think.

Let's hope that Texas whoops up on KC tonight and exhaust their bullpen.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 4, 2012 -> 09:48 AM) Therein lies the dilemma. Have Sale start the opener, and then you can push Quintana back. Do we trust Quintana at this point in the season to go out and beat the Tigers and set the tone in the all-important Game 1 Monday? That means Liriano (coming off a couple of shaky starts), Santiago and Axelrod against the Royals. Or Liriano, then Axelrod, then Santiago, so you don't have 2 lefties two days in a row with similar fastballs. Then Sale/Peavy/Liriano/???? (Quintana/Santiago/Axelrod/Humber) against the Tigers. Dangerous to go into the match-up with Verlander throwing our 5th/6th/7th/8th starter. But maybe a better strategy than using Sale against him again. I'm not so sure that I trust any of our starters (Sale included) to set a positive tone at this point. They are all pretty much hit or miss.

What more needs to be said other than.....Watch out Paulie ! http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2...sp&sid=l122 Dan Black was named Carolina League MVP and selected to the postseason All-Star team.

That's my boy !

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 30, 2012 -> 09:43 AM) @MDGonzales Catcher Hector Gimenez pulled early in 2nd game of Charlotte's DH Wednesday night. Seems likely to be up if Flowers goes on paternity leave I didn't even realize that he was pregnant !

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 12:18 PM) What did Trouts and Harpers routes to the Bigs look like?? Itd be awesome to see Hawk Jr(sorry, had to) take about that same route. Those 2 have showed if you got it you got it no matter how young you are. Hawkins is probably a little too far away for this, but maybe they really want to see where Thompson is at. Maybe K.W. has plans to unload Rios (after a good year) this offseason and wants to get Thompson ready to replace him.

I'm in for an 8 game winning streak starting tonight, anyone else?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:33 AM) Stopping and thinking about this for a while, this is a pretty smart move by Clemens. By pitching this year in the majors, he pushes back his Hall of Fame vote for five years. He gives people a chance to either start to forget what happened, or for the position on the juicing athletes to start to soften up. Good point. The other theory that I would throw out their is that with his enormous ego, he thinks that he has been exonerated of all suspicion now. He could be juicing up more than ever because he has been given new life and thinks that he is above all of that and no one would dare accuse him ever again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 07:37 AM) Boston will either completely mail it in, or play great baseball, after that trade. I don't see a middle ground after that deal. I'm not a follower of "Red Sox Nation". After all of the trades and injuries what does their lineup and rotation look like? Any good?

If we prefer a lefty against the Tigers, Why not have Santiago start Fridays Game. Santiago just pitched a few innings yesterday so Thursday might be too soon for him and I'd rather give any needed starts to Santiago over Humber. I know that Detroit is an all important series, but we can't be so concerned about the Tiger series that we discount games against other teams. Any almost give away loss to the Orioles in this case can hurt as bad.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 11:40 AM) Your only real concerns are Encarnacion or Rajai Davis legging out an infield hit. Rasmus had a small injury flare up and is 0 for his last 26, and I believe 3 for his last 40 with 3 singles. I bet he wishes that the White Sox were coming to Toronto again!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 11:34 AM) What? Who knew that A.J. and Hawk were related?

Maybe you could do something like college football does with bowl games by banning the team from post season play that season. For example, this year the A's & Giants could not participate in post season play. I know that this still affects the other players but there is no way around that. If anything, it would encourage team mates to keep each other above board. Maybe another alternative would be to subtract wins from the team depending upon that players war. I have no idea what Cabreras war was this season, but lets say it was 3. If you take 3 wins away from the Giants it does punish the team, but doesn't totally kill their playoff chances.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 09:35 AM) Unless the team is supplying him the drugs, I don't know see why the whole team and other "clean" players should all be punished. They already are at a disadvantage because this "MVP" player they had is now gone and they have to replace him. Even if the team knew he was gonna get suspended for a month, it's not on them to bench him, it's on the league to get him off the roster earlier. I also agree about the salary stuff. Make it less worthwile financially for a player to juice. I'm not sure that teams shouldn't be punished somehow. To personalize this for the Sox, how would we feel if Colon had beaten the Sox in his start against us last week, or if we had played the Giants this year and we lost a game on a Melky Cabrera walk off. If we then lose the division by a game, I have a feeling that this board would go nuts. I have no idea what the head to head records are this year between the A's / Angels, Rays, Tigers; or how much Colon had to do with the results; but if my team lost out to the A's by one game for a playoff spot & Colons replacement would have gone say 9 - 10 instead of 10 - 9, I would be a little upset. Same goes for the Giants and their competitors for a playoff spot. I do not know what the solution would be, but if either the A's or the Giants make the playoffs this year by less than, let's say 2 or 3 games, someone should be upset.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 10:34 PM) If he can beat Verlander in those 2 games and the Sox win the division I think he wins it. Anyone know if that last start against TB lines up to be Price?? That could decide it right there too. Isn't the voting done prior to the last week of the season? I know that post season stats don't count.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 08:19 AM) In regular season play, #WhiteSox improve to 228-34 when hitting a grand slam (266th grand slam; they've hit 2 GS in 4 games); 28-1 last 29 How does that compare to other teams? That seems like a pretty poor record actually. A grand slam puts 4 runs on the board and it seems to me you should win an extremly high percentage of those games. I guess that it might mean that you are involved in a "slugfest" in which the other team scores a lot of runs too.

This is the first time I've heard that Beckhams range was below standard. I have always heard him described, albeit by Sox announcers, as having exceptional range. In regards to his positioning, it seems to me from listening to the games that he gets to most everything hit his way. A lot of this could be attributed to excellent positioning (even if he has limited range); or bad positioning (with great range). Which is it? On a side note. I am one who rarely gets to see a Sox game and listens to almost all of them on radio. I was on vacation last week and by happenstance, I was walking by a T.V. with a Sox game on. Of course, the one time in over 2 years that I can see a few innings of a game, they are getting blown out by K.C.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 21, 2012 -> 10:44 AM) So that begs another question. Who is the future 1st baseman for the Sox? Is there anyone in the minors who could be that guy? Dan Black! Kind of half teal, he is my AAP so I'm rooting for him to go on a tear.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 04:22 PM) Well, the gamethread is official now. Cali has cried wolf and declared the game over I'm calling it right now. Omeda gets the game winning hit.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 7, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) The only problem I have with Sanchez is.....what's his other tool? Looking at his numbers, he just seems like a 1 tool player, at least offensively. He's got no power, looks like average speed (at least average basestealing ability). So unless he is a plus defender with a good arm, I'm not going to get excited about him. That's one more offensive tool than Mr. Beckham is consistantly showing so far. Last night not withstanding.

QUOTE (daggins @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 01:47 PM) The Danks news makes this prognostication less gloomy. It also makes it seem more likely that KW will sell high on Quitana, maybe to get a bat. It would be great to use any excessive pitching (is there such a thing as excessive pitching ?) that we may have to acquire a good bat. I think that the one thing that the Sox offense is missing is a true #3 hitter. I know that #3 hitters don't grow on trees, but I'm just sayin.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) Thanks for the kudos. You're right, but here's the thing - they haven't even been able to make up 1 measly game, despite playing BETTER than .630, over the past 45 days. I agree, and thank you, you do have a well thought out post. I just think that it doesn't really matter at this point. As long as the Sox & Tigers play everyone else about equal (no more than 2 -3 games difference either way), and the track record this season says that this should happen, then the only thing that really matters is who wins when they play head to head. Another stinker of a series like the last time they played and the Sox are done.

QUOTE (Wagz @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 12:35 PM) Id pay to see that Mt. Rushmore. 35/56/14/21 (coop is probably my favorite coach out there and deserves the recognition he has earned) Also would like Sale to K up 8+ today to show the Royals his arm is alive and still throwing fire. Any particular reason why he needs to show the Royals this? I'd rather he showed the Tigers, Yankees, Rangers, etc. this.