Dick Allen

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 02:56 PM) Drabek can't even successfully eat innings in a 10 run game... The wind helped save him 3 runs.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) Standing ovation for Bryant after he draws a walk Broken bat flare single to center and Wrigley looks like USCF after the Konerko grand slam in the 2005 WS. I think Bryant is going to be great offensively, but it os already beyond annoying.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 02:25 PM) With Trout hitting his 100th and 101st homers last night, I decided to review this ancient thread: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=72142&st=0 That one pick would have been franchise changing. The thing that stings is they were linked to him.

Hawk mentioning,Scott,Ruffcorn. It was a little off as he made 3 appearances in 1993 before makimg the start mentioned agaimst Cleveland in 1994. He gave up 7 runs in 4 innings. Fun fact: Scott Ruffcorn appeared in 30 games in the major leagues. His team's record in those games is 0-30.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 12:28 PM) Well, good game guys, see you tomorrow. Oops

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) Conor really is clueless against LHP. Tell us more.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) I think that was a flop by Adam He told Robin it hit him. It probably caught a little of the hand and knob.

Eaton trying to drive in 4.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) Nobody there to cover 1b...giving Cabrera a shot with a runner on base. Sale or Micah need to get there. Micah was up the middle for the DP. That was Sale"s job.

Las Vegas paid off.

With no spring training basically, Sale is due to get rocked one of these days. Hopefully not today. The offense needs to start scoring runs. 25 runs in 9 games is very poor.

.344 with 4 HR. I think the Yankees can tolerate ARod as lomg as he is productive. I am surprised they took him back, but I don't see why they wiuld make that trade, or the White Sox for that matter. He is 40 or close to it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 08:39 AM) Moustakas and Hosmer might be punks sometimes, but Lawrie trumps them both. And at least Erik was one of the main guys to pay for a huge open bar tab for KC fans at the Power and Light District after a huge playoff win last year... They way they treated that reporter last year was shameful. They were total assholes. You should take your Royals cap off.

ARod .344 4 HR 1.218 OPS I don't think anyone saw that comimg. And Bartolo Colon not only on the wrong side of 30 but on the wrong side of 40, and on the wrong side of 300 lbs. is 3-0 2.25 ERA and has only walked 1 in 20 innings.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) "CSN+2" has been used numerous times in the past; I think on DirecTV it's usually channel "665-2" Yeah, that is one good thing about DirecTV. Big Ten Network during football season can show 4 or 5 games at the same time, I doiunt that is standard with all the providers. I had mine rewired, and it doesn't go out when it rains as much.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 18, 2015 -> 06:17 AM) In reality, Ventura was "safe" because he insulated management from criticism and bought them some time. It actually worked for 4 1/2 or 5 months in 2012, but I'm convinced (like Balta is about Brian Anderson vs. Mackowiak in 2006) that Dick Allen, the former player, or the poster, could have essentially accomplished the same thing by virtue of not being Ozzie and giving the franchise a reboot and a breath of fresh air. The problem is that he's simply not a good enough manager when the White Sox face superior or equal talent that he can close the gap enough...it seems the opposite has become true, he's one of the main (perceived) reasons that a seemingly talented team has been lacking direction/fire/motivation for going on 3 seasons now if you include the crash of 2012 and the beginning of 2015/last two weeks of spring training malaise. Yeah, I am pretty sure a real manager has this team 9-0. While many say not challenging yesterday despite what the video guys tell you cost the Sox the game, the 1 run on 4 hits seems to have been ignored. I am sure that is his fault too.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 08:52 PM) Lets blame Balta instead...thats just as logical as blaming the video guys or all those Sox hitters who have never ever in a million years been able to execute sac bunts and correspondingly never learned (especially) if they were products of our minor league "system" for developing hitters. Why isn't it logical to blame the video guys? You do understand Robin doesn't see replays.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 08:15 PM) He did make the f***ing tag. By "Make the f***ing tag" you seemingly refer to "touching the person approaching the base with the ball". Alexei Ramirez did that. The important point of course is that Robin Ventura's mistakes are everyone's fault except Robin Ventura's™. A little more definitive. It took about 8 angles to finally found one where he barely touched him. In fact you didn't even think he tagged him for several minutes, and that was after reviewing replays. But ignore it, and then it didn't happen. But 1 run and 4 hits. You don't win many games scoring 1 run.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) Oh you are so full of s***, DA. Any close play on the go-ahead run in the 9th needs to be challenged. Especially when your player is telling you he made the tag. So if you didn't see the replay and the guys looking at the reply said he missed the tag, you are going to challenge. Sure. The fact is Robin was a victim of apparently bad information. If the replay guys had the angle we saw him make the tag, they need to be replaced. If they had what appears to be the rest of the Sox feed as both radio and TV said he missed, then it would be understandable. What I don't understand is why the Sox replay guys wouldn't have all the angles that are officially used. As for Alexei, he campaigned for several replays last season that didn't quite go as he thiught. And make a f***ing tag.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 07:23 PM) I haven't even seen the angle where it's clear that Alexei tagged him and I thought he whiffed originally but I'm still waiting on the self proclaimed voice of reason to tell us why there is any harm in challenging there. The video guys told him he missed the tag. That is why. Why not challege a random play in the 3rd innimg if it leads to scoring? I don't understand when someome is told by people looking at the replay, actually getting paid for it, that the tag was missed, why even though you haven't seen the replay, you are an idiot for not blowing them off. I doubt anyone holds themselves to this standard. But just remember if anything ever goes wrong because you were given bad information, you are a stooge. It is all yoir fault, and unacceptable.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 06:11 PM) Yes, if he had walked Iglesias to put the infield back at double play depth. Iglesias is the quintessential contact guy with little pop like Carlos Sanchez. No team plays back with the winning run on third and less than 2 out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:06 PM) Yes. Easiest decision possible. No penalty whatsoever for being wrong, maybe even only a slight chance it gets overturned. No need to even wait for the guys upstairs on this one. It's the 9th inning and that's the possible winning run. Just get out and get the challenge started. Hell, the amount of time Robin waited around for news from upstairs was enough time for MLB to finish most of the replays in NY. If he challenged and lost, then the Sox lost on another bad call they couldn't challenge, if it came out the replay guys told him the tag was clearly missed, Robin would get blasted.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 05:01 PM) That's me mid-inning, before I saw the version that Tony posted. I thought he'd have been called safe because I didn't see the clear replay, but that's exactly the play you're supposed to replay. Aso if you didn't see the replay and the guys watching the replay told you he clearly missed the tag, you would have challenged it?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 04:47 PM) No he did not. It's the 9th inning. There is zero harm to coming out and getting the challenge going on a close play. Even if he thought that the tag was missed he should have gotten the challenge started. Whatever the other deal was, that's the #1, unavoidable thing. A guy got 2nd in the 9th inning of a tie game and your SS thought he got him. You have the ability to ask for a replay. You don't even need to wait for the booth to decide this one. Alexei saying he tagged him didn't stop you from initially saying he missed the tag, and you looked at some replays, Robin didn't. It is the,replay guys' job. He even said if he got a maybe he would have challenged.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 04:47 PM) No he did not. It's the 9th inning. There is zero harm to coming out and getting the challenge going on a close play. Even if he thought that the tag was missed he should have gotten the challenge started. Whatever the other deal was, that's the #1, unavoidable thing. A guy got 2nd in the 9th inning of a tie game and your SS thought he got him. You have the ability to ask for a replay. You don't even need to wait for the booth to decide this one. Alexei saying he tagged him didn't stop you from initially saying he missed the tag, and you looked at some replays, Robin didn't.