Dick Allen

Oakland has a switch pitcher in camp. I hope he makes it. It really surprises me there haven't at least been a couple of these guys around. You really wouldn't have to be that good from at least one side to be really effective.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 01:12 PM) A week ago they were healthy. If it isn't Rose, it will be Butler, or Noah or someone else. It really may be the most fragile roster in professional sports.

Why did Thibs have him in the game? The Bulls have so many players who are chronically injured. It's time for Gar/Pax to shake that up a bit. Even if they were totally healthy for Game 1 of the playoffs, no way that lasts more than a game or two. It is amazing how many games their players miss. Stubhub prices are only going to go lower.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2015 -> 12:54 PM) Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 9m9 minutes ago Jeremy Haber, assistant to the GM Rick Hahn, promoted to assistant general manager. Haber led negotiations on Quintana's 5-year contract. Doug Padilla ‏@ESPNChiSox 7m7 minutes ago Haber led negotiations on Quintana's 5-year contract and leads club's salary arbitration negotiations. Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 11m11 minutes ago Here's more about new #WhiteSox assistant GM Jeremy Haber from last offseason. http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...er-assistant-gm … #WhiteSox have promoted Jeremy Haber to assistant general manager. Had been the assistant to the GM for almost past two years. So he went from the assistant to the GM to the assistant GM.

Cause of death is a tear in a pulmonary artery.

I just read a good, but probably easy for a big White Sox fan, trivia question. There is still an active player who had a teammate who was a teammate of Minnie's.

Minnie had been exercising with the Northwestern Hospital heart patients last year at my health club. He was popular with everyone and a really sweet person RIP

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 28, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) They removed it. A Meniscectomy is a removal. Just the part with the tear. Gar said they shaved it off.

Shades of MB56 ten years ago. That season went pretty, pretty well.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 28, 2015 -> 09:12 AM) I heard a report saying it was just a ten minute procedure. That kinda surprised me. You would figure with DRose involved, a 10-15 minute procedure would take a few hours. All in all, this was very minor. He was starting to shows some really nice signs before the All Star break. I am trying to be optimistic, but you have to figure his injuries aren't just going to suddenly go away. I think a positive is the organization has to know now they won't be able to count on him being what he was for long stretches, and have to figure movimg forward he is probably a 60 game a year guy at most as a 30+ minute player. They can act accordingly.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 01:45 PM) If you did this for a few years for multiple teams, yes I would, and that maybe there was a flaw in your ability to project it per season but that, given a 324 game stretch, you were spot on, I'd say your analysis was very good and would be interested in reading how you came to those conclusions. If I made a 2 year projection at the beginning, I would agree, but year to year with teams that change, to say spot on is silly. Once you are innaccurate, to look spot on, you can't get more accurate, but be innaccurate some more. The projections are fun to look at, and brings up discussion, but to say they are accurate isn't right. It is OK advanced stats is no more accurate in telling you how a season will unfold, than any ither way. If you knew, it would be boring.

Aren't the Dodgers supposed to go like the Yankees last year?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 27, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) 10 years of team performance versus projections This is an awesome article and those who question projections should find this to be a fairly informative read. They are imperfect and are not always right, but they aren't incredibly wrong, especially considering it's something that has yet to happen. Also of note...dis graph Over the last 5 years, the White Sox have actually underperformed their projections by 1 game, which means they've been pretty much spot on. If I underestimate their win total by 10 this year, then overestimate their win total by 10 next year, would you consider me spot on?

Technique can be taught, but if you are really going to steal a ton of bases, you have natural speed, some natural instinct, and you have to be pretty tough with a high pain tolerance. Guys that steal a lot get pretty beat up. Vince Coleman's pointers aren't going to make Adam Eaton a 75 SB guy. They can help for sure. Rickey Henderson was every bit of a freak as a baserunner as Nolan Ryan was as a pitcher.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 03:55 PM) Where has that been reported? TMZ. It happened a couple of years ago. They even have footage of his mom talking about it, although I didn't click on it.

So Dez knocked around his mother.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 1h1 hour ago Friend: and mentor: Josh Hamilton should retire from baseball for his own well being. #Angels http://usat.ly/1BBHJyy Makes sense if playing worsens his chances at staying sober. He probably is go to go in the cash department.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) Scott Merkin, the Sox MLB.com beat writer and a good barometer of how the team sees guys, wrote a full article in the fall predicated on the idea of him being the guy but Johnson not wanting to take if for granted. Bruce Levine (whom I dislike as a writer but he's close to the teams) specifically said that management sees him as the guy. Then there are the facts other have said - he was hinted as a September call-up last year, for example. It's been pretty obvious for a while they see him as the guy, either now or very soon. Yes, and either Merkin, Hayes or Levine reported last September that the 2B job was Johnson's to lose.

QUOTE (Douglas Rome @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 05:31 AM) I never read or heard any details, but the word out there was he was a party boy. I guess you can't hit the big city lights every nite and still be on your game. Too bad, he could resist everything but temptation. thanks, douglas They always said the hardest part of the game for Mickey Mantle was the bottom of the fifth.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 12:17 PM) Any chance they decide they can use Sanchez, Beckham, and Bonifcacio as their bench, basically declaring that they all will "figure out" how to play OF spots? I would guess they would want either Sanchez or Johnson, playing every day in AAA vs. riding pine in Chicago.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 25, 2015 -> 01:43 PM) The White Sox are about to change the feel of U.S. Cellular Field to that of an NBA game to reach a "younger audience". It's really not that different. They have done an NBA style for years. They just hired a guy from the Miami Heat to take over the game day duties. I wasn't at the opening ceremony at Soxfest, but supposedly that was his first production with the team, and probably a sign of what you can expect.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 11:18 AM) This is how I feel too. I feel like if Johnson shows he can handle it this Spring, it'll be his. If he can't, they'll go with Sanchez. That's what I think as well. Just because he wasn't much at AAA shouldn't play a role. Many guys have gone from AA to the major leagues. I think the Sox will be very dissappointed if Micah has a poor spring and winds up in AAA. Now is a good time to break him in. He can hit 9th. I am worried about the glove.

It's nice to know Carmelo is saying a reason he didn't sign with the Bulls is because of Rose's injury history. There was no guarantee he would play for a championship. Of course he winds up injured himself, playing for the team with the worst record in basketball. Carmelo should join the circus as a clown.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 11:04 AM) They've been pretty bad without him. 7-5 now.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 10:28 AM) Tufanos or Fontanos haven't decided yet. You can't make a bad choice there.