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I find it interesting that they have Kuhn playing LF.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) Man, the political talk radio from "Down South" (BIRM and CHATT) is getting really, really scary. I don't know if I am more afraid of a depression/stagflation or another Oklahoma City bombing. LOL. Yeah, I just listened for a few minutes and shut it off when the host was explaining the few tweaks Palin had to make if she wanted to make another run for office.

Chattanooga @ Birmingham Box Score MiLB Gameday - nice! Omogrosso pitching I LOVE the Barons lineup!! Shelby - CF Beckham - SS Flowers - C Allen - 1B Cook - LF Viciedo - 3B Gartrell - RF Colina - DH Retherford - 2B

Asheville @ Kannapolis Game Thread Radio Link Gregory Infante with the start for the I's. Kanny Lineup Escobar SS Garcia 2B Castillo 1B Gilmore 3B Kuhn LF Williams DH Curtis C Cheatham RF Greene CF

Winston-Salem vs. Kinston (Cleveland farm club) Game thread Radio Link Long pitching for W-S De La Cruz for the Indians W-S Lineup Danks, Jor CF Paiml SS Gallagher 1B Sanchez RF Morel 3B Marrero LF Johnson, L C Lang DH Mollenhauer 2B

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 9, 2009 -> 05:38 PM) I found the Chattanooga (Dodgers) radio feed, but is there one for BIRM? AHA...starting at 705 cst. Jordan Danks K'ed in his first AB for the DASH. Paiml batting second. I think this station... WYDE-FM... has the home coverage for the Barons. I'll double-check.

Yeah, Charlotte's rather impotent lineup got "Hanson-ed" today. Not pretty. - Braves' uber-prospect Tommy Hanson toyed with us... while polishing up his resume before his promotion to MLB. - 10 K's in 4.1 innings. Here's another way to look at it... he struck out 10 of the 19 batters he faced. Meanwhile, on our side... - JVB wasn't too bad. 5 innings: gave up 3 runs on 2 hits; struck out 6 and walked only 2. - Egbert, Link, and Williams didn't do him any favors in relief. - Miguel Negron did his best Dewayne Wise impersonation: 0-4 with 3 K's while leading off and playing CF. Box Score

I like it if it works out. He has decent offensive skills but was never going to cut it as a major league infielder. This is probably his best shot to move up.

Ozzie never changes his mind. /green

Great pitching by KC tonight. Greinke was nasty.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 8, 2009 -> 06:40 PM) Ah ok, not sure where i thought i had heard that about rongey Still though, lets get a sox fan in there. Chris Rongey is definitely a WhiteSox fan. He covers the WhiteSox for WSCR. He's been the host of WhiteSox Weekly for the last couple of years. And he's been doing post-game radio breakdowns of the games; interviews with all the players, coaches, etc., etc. Has been a sub in the radio booth during games... How could anybody say he's not a WhiteSox fan?

QUOTE (False Alarm @ Apr 8, 2009 -> 12:21 AM) i'm troubled by jose martinez's absence from all these rosters... The WhiteSox put him on the Reserve List. I'm guessing he has visa issues and will get sent to Kanny or Winston-Salem when those get cleared up.

Elijah Dukes: A decade of trouble (1997-2007) (This 2007 article from the St. Petersburg Times doesn't go into the baseball problems he had with coaches, team mates, etc... of which there were quite a few. This is just a listing of his legal problems.) At age 22, Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes has amassed dozens of contacts with law enforcement and the court system. They range from traffic stops to paternity suits to his own calls to report being a crime victim to calls others made to report his actions. The following list was compiled from public records showing some contacts with the system. In some cases, records could not be obtained to show the resolution. 1997 Sept. 29: Dukes, 13, is arrested on a battery charge, according to Tampa police records. Because he's a juvenile, no details are available. 1998 Nov. 21: Dukes is again arrested on a battery charge, but because of his age details aren't available. 2003 Dec. 8: Hillsborough sheriff's deputies are called to Dukes' home after he fights with NiShea Gilbert. She says he threw a remote control at her. Prosecutors later drop the charges against Dukes. Dec. 25: Dukes is pulled over on suspicion of careless driving. When a Tampa police officer approaches, he calls her obscene names, according to an arrest report. The officer yanks him out of the car after he tries to roll up his window and charges him with obstructing an officer without violence. He is allowed to enter a misdemeanor intervention program and charges are dropped. 2004 Jan. 30: Dukes calls Hillsborough sheriff's deputies after a fight with Gilbert, accusing her of spraying him with an unknown substance from an aerosol container. He tells deputies he wants to document the incident but doesn't want to prosecute. March 16: Gilbert files for child support from Dukes for their son. A judge orders Dukes to start paying $222.26 per month at a later date. Dukes is already $23,337 in arrears, and the debt is factored into his monthly payments. April 26: Gilbert calls Hillsborough deputies and says Dukes is harassing her and making threatening phone calls. No arrest is made. April 28: Gilbert files for a protective order, also known as a domestic violence injunction, against Dukes, accusing him of peppering her with telephone calls threatening to kill her. She said she also receives threatening calls from other members of his family. A judge denies her order. Sept. 15: Dukes' ex-girlfriend, Carla Bryant, asks a judge to order a paternity test. It shows Dukes is the father of her baby. Oct. 12: Gilbert calls Hillsborough deputies and says Dukes threw a soda can and a candy jar at her. No arrest is made. Oct. 15: Gilbert files for another protective order against Dukes. Oct. 25: Bryant files for a protective order against Dukes. Oct. 28: A judge grants Gilbert's order and bars Dukes from contacting her for one year. Oct. 31: A judge grants Bryant's order and bars Dukes from contacting her for one year. 2005 Jan. 18: Dukes quarrels with his sister, Katrina Evans. Evans tells Tampa police he grabbed her by the throat and punched her in the left arm. Dukes is charged with battery. He does not contest the charge and is sentenced to one year of probation. Jan. 24: Dukes' ex-girlfriend, Zanquesha Jefferson, files a request for prosecution with Tampa police. In it, she says Dukes came to her home and choked her. No charges are filed. March 10: A paternity test shows Dukes is the father of Shantell Mitchell's baby, who was born on June 7, 2004. June 16: Gilbert gives birth again and adds the baby to her child support claim against Dukes. Aug. 8: Dukes is ordered to pay Shantell Mitchell $881.73 per month in child support until $10,871 in retroactive support is paid off. After that, he must pay $734.78 per month. 2006 Feb. 27: Dukes marries NiShea Gilbert. May 1: Gilbert files a petition for divorce, claiming Dukes married her to avoid paying child support. She accuses him of being abusive. June 5: Gilbert voluntarily dismisses her petition for divorce. Aug. 24: Hillsborough sheriff's deputies arrest Gilbert after she scratches Dukes in the back during an argument. Charges are later dropped. Sept. 20: Dukes and Shantell Mitchell reach a settlement allowing their child to live with him for the six months of the year he is in Tampa. Child support is suspended; Dukes informally agrees to pay for the child's expenses. 2007 Jan. 15: Dukes and his passenger, Willie Evans, 23, are arrested during a traffic stop after Tampa police find about 2 grams of marijuana in his car. The case is pending. March 8: The child support case between Dukes and Gilbert is settled through mediation. April 26: Porcia Reneal Daniels files a paternity suit, which includes a test result showing Dukes is the father of her baby born on July 19, 2006. April 30: A Hillsborough County deputy issues Dukes a trespass warning after he shows up at Beth Shields Middle School in Ruskin, where Gilbert teaches. The deputy says Dukes was "very irate." May 1: Gilbert files for a protective order against Dukes. May 14: A judge throws out the petition after Gilbert fails to show up for a hearing. May 17: Gilbert again files for a protective order. May 23: The St. Petersburg Times reports allegations by Gilbert that Dukes threatened to kill her and their children. May 29: Dukes apologizes to "family, teammates, the fans and the organization" for causing a distraction. May 30: Gilbert gets a one-year protective order and says she has filed for divorce. June 13: The Times reports that a teen who lived in the foster care of a relative Dukes told police the Rays outfielder got her pregnant. Detectives believe the sex was consensual and no crime was committed, but according to the police report the incident has prompted a review of the foster home. June 19: Dukes calls a Tampa radio station to defend himself and his family and make further accusations against Gilbert. Rays officials acknowledge they are frustrated over the continued distractions. June 22: The troubled outfielder is optioned to the minor leagues and placed on the temporary inactive list.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 08:34 PM) I kinda like this... he'd be a monster in the field. And our guys might rub off on him. He's not 'immature'. He's not a borderline bad guy. He's a psychopath who took pictures a gun with his cellphone and text messaged them to his ex explaining how he was going to kill her. No.... just no!!!!!

QUOTE (TheHolyBovine @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 08:21 PM) Nothing personal, but you know not what you speak of. Seriously. Dukes runs rings around the organization's current OF prospects, and it's not close. No offense... but no thanks. He's an orange jumpsuit waiting to happen. I would never want someone like him playing for my favorite team. Loser with a capital "L".

Alexei... hands down. Forget the "traditional" thinking that you have to have a bat-control bunting type there. That's more myth than fact. But it is a fact that the #2 hitter sees the second most fastballs of any hitter in the lineup. Picture Alexei getting fed a diet of fastballs with Quentin backing him up, so pitchers wouldn't want to pitch around him. I like it.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 03:55 PM) Getz is not a leadoff hitter, he is a prototypical #2. What does that mean... really? We could go through the whole list of leadoff men and #2 hitters in MLB... and how many of them are prototypical? The job is relatively simple. Get on base. Be a decent baserunner. Do a good job at those two tasks and nothing else matters... for a #1 or #2.

The Twins must have paid him to leave Liriano and Perkins off the list. Otherwise they would be #1 and 2.

Sit back, relax, and strap it down... WhiteSox baseball is coming up.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 12:21 PM) His BABIP was .268. That's well below league average. And his G/F and HR ratios are a little troubling for a guy that had average at best K/9. Like I said, I hope I'm worrying over nothing. The key for Floyd is getting his curveball working earlier in games. When he did that he was damn near unhittable. That's the pitch that differentiates him from others on the staff.

Did my heart good to see OCab bounce a throw into 1B yesterday for an error against the Angels. I wonder if he has the A's scorekeeper built into his speed dial yet.

Great job on the update JPN. With that team, it looks like you're going to have alot of fun at the ol' ballpark this year.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 03:04 PM) I think it is Nathan Jones. ^^^^^^^^^^^ Yep Here's an excerpt from a Baseball America article titled "Sox Boast Wild High Upside Arms". (The two pitchers they're referring to are Jones and Clevelan Santeliz.) Here's what they say about Jones... While 2007 first-rounder Aaron Poreda is widely credited with having the best arm in the White Sox farm system, he does not have the most eye-popping combination of two pitches. That distinction belongs to 23-year-old righthander Nathan Jones, whose wildness has kept him off the radar in tracking the organization's best prospects. Jones dazzles hitters and coaches alike with a 12-to-6 curveball that one Sox official compares to the one that carried Bert Blyleven to 287 big league victories. He combined it with a high-90s fastball, striking out 84 in 66 innings last season. But he finished 2-7, 6.14 at three levels in the low minors, mostly because his mechanical problems often leave him unable to "get it in the cage," according to a Sox official. "I saw three of four guys fall down trying to get out of the way of (his curveball), and they were strikes," White Sox farm director Buddy Bell said. "We like this kid a lot. It is probably going to take a while, but there are kids who just get it together overnight. We'll have a top level pitcher if that happens here." Jones, who stands 6-foot-5, has a great pitcher's body. He is a hard worker with a reputation for mental toughness. He over-processes at times, and the Sox would like to get him to slow down on the mound. He is penciled into the rotation at low Class A Kannapolis, with the plan to get him as many innings as possible in hopes he can develop a changeup and zero in on the strike zone.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 10:44 AM) Alexei->Getz Alexei is not the typical leadoff hitter at all, he doesn't take pitches ... but his aggressiveness and speed on the paths I think would be better for colder weather as a transition to Getz. And because of Alexei's history of being moved around in Cuba, I think he is so tough mentally he would do it for the team. I love the idea of batting Getz-Alexei 1-2 in the order. Have Getz see alot of pitches and get on consistently (as he has done in his entire career). Then Alexei seeing a steady diet of fastball strikes batting in the 2-spot with Q protecting him. I think we'd put up a boat-load of runs early in games if that happens. Ozzie-Kenny, are you listening? Please... please make it happen.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Apr 5, 2009 -> 10:30 PM) what's that? The forum for discussion about the Sox minor league teams and players.