Dick Allen

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 05:56 PM) Aaaaaaaand a horrendous swing on a pitch thrown 58 feet..... Viciedo wouldn't have swung at that pitch.

A broken bat bloop to CF would bring home a pair.

Wow that was horrid.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 05:51 PM) There's our break. Why aren't we pinch hitting PK here? They would have gone with the righthander. Might as well leave Dunn in since he is a little looser. At least it was a productive out. As much as a lot of people want to hate him, Dunn has been fine so far.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 10:32 AM) Again, just to point it out, you can be a known cheater with a f***ING MULTI-YEAR BAN FROM THE SPORT and still get a job. But if you lie about getting a piece of paper 15 years ago, a piece of paper that has little to do with your qualifications for the job, you can't. College athletics everyone. Not only that but what is the difference between not having a degree and having one from Kentucky?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) That is the thing. I pay $40 a ticket I spend less in the park as I am pissed I spent $40 on a ticket. I get a free ticket, I spent $60 in the park because....I got a free ticket. I have always had that theory that the White Sox would prefer corporate accounts than indivduals. For one thing you spread it around. It isn't the same 2 or 3 people going to every game who might get sick of ordering $8 beers and eating the same old things. You get some guy who takes his wife and 2 kids with his company's tickets and parking pass, he's already ahead and IMO is more apt to spend wildly at the park.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 08:38 AM) If you do this, and it brings in 10,000 fans to the upper deck, you make $100,000. Now, if you charge $22.50, and that brings in 4,500 fans, you make $101,250. If you average that over the course of a season, you bring in $101,250 more than with the $10 tickets, which means, in the upper deck alone, you make a games worth of revenue more over the course of a full season. Now figure that when school's out and the weather is nicer and the weekends come, the Sox will draw more than that anyways, and the figure I used - $22.50 - is a pretty low figure anyways. Price point maximization is really a pretty simple process and is something you learn in ECON101, and major league baseball teams are going to employ very good economists because messing that up can lose you a lot of money. Yes, but you lose parking, concession, and souvenier sales with 4500 vs. 10000. The problem is, the Sox could give away free upper deck tickets to the past couple of games and be nowhere near capacity in the upper deck. The upper deck at USCF has a stigma attached to it that will not go away. Even though there are many seats far better to watch a game in than many on the lower level, it really doesn't matter. Before they got good again, the Blackhawks used to give away free tickets on Ticketmaster from time to time usually near the end of the season. There still was about 8k at the game.

The Cubs are now considering selling minority pieces of the team to help finance the rehab.

The bullpen has been bad 2 games, and the Sox won one of them. No reason to fret yet.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 05:57 PM) Well now we know Nate Jones problem....injury from spring training came back What a pain in the ass.

Fire Don Cooper. These guys need a different voice. I learned that here,

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) He was looking at his own dugout. Facts suck.

Perkins looks like Buehrle

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 03:26 PM) Stats show he could throw people out, but they also ran on him because he did not have a "great arm." It still wouldnt be my example of a guy with no range with an arm. But back to the game. You would be wrong. His arm strength was above average with crazy accuracy. People would run on him like they run on Tank, because he would be fumbling the ball or taking forever getting to it, and got burned a lot.

Maybe there was a good reason Nieto didn't start today.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 03:12 PM) Soriano is your example the arm? I'd take Jermaine Dye over Soriano every day. Soriano at least had a great arm. He had a few SABR seasons defensively that were outstanding defensively, even though he often looked like he was a Pony Leaguer out there, due to his arm.

One thing you get with young players is some head scratching moments.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 02:35 PM) Farmer and DJ didn't even believe the Twins WEREN'T going to score after Escobar ended up at second. Generally, when someone strikes out but reaches, then escapes a rundown and winds up on second, most people think he is destined to score. He cheated outs twice. It generally means trouble.

The WP wouldn't make the runs unearned, but the error for the botched rundown should.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) I liked Flowers better as 17. Actually, I liked Flowers better as 39. I liked him even better as a Charlotte Knight.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:47 PM) If Flowers ever figures out how to guess right, he can hit 25 HR's just running into pitches. That bat speed tho. To me he's Kelly Shoppach. He'll have one really nice year where things will work out for him, and live off it for 5 or 6 more seasons of rubbish.

It's a good thing Ventura isn't as baseball savvy as all of us message board posters.

Is it time to say "uncle" on the why isn't Viciedo playing yet?

One thing worse than playing baseball on a day like today, is sitting outside watching it.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:28 PM) Semien is nothing but buzz kill so far. Just saying. They should release Beckham and trade Ramirez for a bag of balls. Semien and Johnson baby. #springtrainingstatsareimportant