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Yeah, Beckham, Sale, and Morel were all crap picks. Those guys will never make it to the majors.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:20 PM) Wow, what a Kenny pick. A speedy outfielder that strikes out too much, and he plays in Arizona. And his initials are KW

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 09:44 PM) On the season: 29 IP, 38 K, 28 BB. Hilarous. Lindsay needs a nickname. Stats like that practically scream out for a great nickname.

Supposedly, Lillibridge is the most physically fit guy on the team. Very strong for his size.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 12:23 PM) E-Jax to bullpen = epic fail for KW. QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 12:38 PM) I don't know, Humber's success is the reason they are in this situation and that could be looked at as a win. First Law of Soxtalk Posting... Management is only held accountable when things go wrong. Everything else is luck.

Flowers coming back nicely after a rough start to the season. Average up to .272 after tonight. OBP north of .375. OPS sitting at .822 Very good to see.

On the season so far for Steven Upchurch: 24.2 innings... 26 Ks... 2 BBs... 1.82 ERA... .169 BAA... 2.69 GO/AO

Nice outing for Lucas Harrell against the Twins AAA team. 6 innings; 1 run on 5 hits; 9K's; 1BB

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 11, 2011 -> 04:10 PM) I'll cheer on any former Baron who comes back to town. I having a hard time not booing KW Jr. So, you will cheer him when he leaves town and comes back to visit then, right?

5 run first for the Barons against our good ol' friend Kyle McCulloch

But I wouldn't object to sending Sale to Charlotte... making him the regular closer there.

I'm guessing someone (probably Pena) comes up with an 'injury' and gets a DL visit.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 10, 2011 -> 07:43 PM) Danks 2-3, HR Making strides? I'm hoping it's the result of getting used to his new swing. Time will tell.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2011 -> 02:52 PM) To me a more interesting question is does he pass Frank as the all-time Sox homer leader? Or who ends up with more career homeruns... Konerko or Dunn?

500 homeruns gets you in.

Nice article about Wednesdays Hawks-Bulls game. Almost makes me feel sorry for Jamal Crawford... almost. Gotta feel sorry for a guy who got de-pants'd as many times as he did.

QUOTE (Andrew @ May 5, 2011 -> 08:37 AM) First, his ERA looks great because of a CG in Seattle. Take that game out, ERA goes up (still good though, for 6 games).

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 6, 2011 -> 10:29 AM) We kept AJ outta loyalty. He blows. We kept AJ because: - Flowers has not stepped up - Other available options weren't attractive - And KW did not want to go into the season with Castro as the starter Not because of 'loyalty' to AJ.

Fire Walker now. If things don't turn around by the ASB, there will be roster changes. How we finish up the year will determine whether Guillen will be back. KW will be given an opportunity to bring in another manager.

Rock.bottom

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 3, 2011 -> 02:27 PM) He likes to berate people. He not only doesn't help others he tries to make their life more difficult. The classic example is when he was with the Giants and he took a bouncing pitch in the nads during warmups. The trainer asked how he was feeling. AJ still kneeling hit the trainer in the nads and said "it feels like this a**hole" and began laughing about it. I did a little digging a couple of years back to find all AJ incidents that could have classified him as a prick. I posted on Twins and Giants boards and asked for specific examples. The Giants incident you named above is the ONLY one anyone ever could come up with. And the only evidence that it ever happened was anecdotal. Several knowledgable fans I talked to said that never really happened. And that the real reason AJ was not liked is that the Giants had a clique of pitchers with fragile egos and AJ wouldn't kiss up to them. Besides that questionable "incident"... the other things were all game related... like the 3rd strike against the Angels, etc. So I think the myth of AJ's behavior has grown way out of proportion to the reality. There was one game-related one that I loved which probably set the stage for his hatred in San Francisco before he got there. It had to do with a playoff series between the Twins and A's when AJ was still with Minny. I guess he was chirping back and forth with a couple of A's trying to get into their heads while they were at the plate... and it started to get a little heated. Then he came up to bat late in a game and hit a homerun to put the Twins ahead... and as he crossed the plate he turned to the A's catcher and yelled "BOOYAH"... practically inciting a riot. Twins fans remember it (and him) very fondly. They only started to dislike him after he left. So, if this was Politifact... then I think I would find B&B's claim of AJ hatred to be...

QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2011 -> 09:48 AM) Boers and Bernstein have great Sox sources. Heck, I feel like they knew Thome had a pulled oblique muscle a few years ago even before Herm did. Which.... makes absolutely no sense. Since any non-medical person who 'knew' this ahead of time was simply pulling a guess out of their ***... Which B&B do way too frequently IMO. They're great when discussing football/basketball... but seems to me like their sports IQ drops by 100 points when discussing baseball... so they resort to creating controversy to try and keep shows interesting.

I don't believe he's hated. Talk radio people (especially Bernstein) love to dramatize this type of s*** and blow it way out of proportion. No controversy. No callers.

Simple forecasting strategy... Predict Doom & Gloom... When the team is losing, you can gloat and post "I told you so" threads... When the team is winning, point out negatives while claiming you're just trying to provide objectivity and balance out all the kool-aid drinking optimists. Brilliant.

Gilmore playing for the first time this year.