Dick Allen

The Sox aren't going into a total rebuild, but if they were, Sale should be at the top of the list of guys to move.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 5, 2013 -> 03:47 PM) You don't develop LF'ers. That would be a bad rebuild and one I would not be able to stomach. I sure am glad in 1985 the Sox drafted Kurt Brown a catcher. He never did play in the majors, but it sure was better than picking a LF which the Pirates did with the next pick.

Good hustle from Dunn there.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2013 -> 03:24 PM) Of course, Rios might be our coldest hitter. Not anymore.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) Ventura might actually be adjusting. He didn't force DeAza to sacrifice there. Just let him hit away, despite his nearly 40 K's on the season. LOL. If he had him hit away or had him bunt, if it didn't work, you would have criticized him.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 4, 2013 -> 07:10 PM) After seeing that he sucks in left, it's the manager's job to keep him in CF. I mean, that's his position. If he's going to be an everyday player, he should have one position. This isn't 1B/DH. CF is too important not to keep it consistent. He hasn't been stellar there either. Wise is good in CF.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 4, 2013 -> 07:06 PM) It's okay as long as we don't sit Viciedo to play Danks/Tekotte/Wise in CF when Dayan comes back. We need all the offensive firepower we can get in the line-up. This started last season. If Wise is in the game with De Aza, he plays CF.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 4, 2013 -> 06:56 PM) Ventura's decision. If a player tells you he would be more comfortable in LF, most managers would do the same thing.

When Axelrod isn't pinpoint, he's meat.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 4, 2013 -> 05:29 PM) And Boozer has a slight ankle issue. If he is only 90% and he has to think about his ankle at all, he should sit out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) In all seriousness, it might be time to explore what the market for Derrick Rose looks like. He may never be the same again. I think he will be fine. Does trading a player of Rose's stature ever work out for an NBA team? To me, in the NBA, whoever gets the best player almost always wins the trade. Baseball, football, you can get depth or fill a couple of spots, but in the NBA, you need stars to win. This entire Rose saga has been very frustrating, but if he's great next year, the fans will forgive and forget. I just wonder what he teammates really think. They are saying the right things. That doesn't mean they are thinking them.

There isn't a person around who thinks the Bulls even with Rose 100%, has any chance vs. Miami. I am of the belief if he comes back next year at 100%, all of this will be forgotten. The problem I have is more than one person has said Rose was dominating in practice well over a month ago. Why is he OK to go all out in practice, but hesitant in games? I understand it's not exactly the same thing, however, he's still playing at full tilt against NBA players in practice and he's not scurred. Why is he scurred to play in a real game? It seems to me there has to be something more than he's not quite right, or his new muscle memory BS. Even Reggie said he was 90% last week. Kerr is right, if the doctors say he's not at an elevated chance to get hurt, he owes it to his teammates to play. His teammates still have his back.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 3, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) when the cubs are competitive, the fans show, just like pretty much all Chicago teams. Say what you want about all Chicago fans and being meatheaded, if there is a winner on the field the fans are normally there. The Sox fans are a bit more stubborn than the rest, but we have seen what the cell looks like when the playoffs start. When the Cubs had their run with Piniella, they were probably right at the top in road attendance. And Cubs fans are cubs fans, that's exactly what I am saying. Like i said, they may lose some of the casual wrigley fans, but the team isn't going to fold up because they aren't playing in that s***hole anymore And if they continue not to win like they have been doing, their days of sellout crowds almost daily in the summer will be over. There is a reason Ricketts would rather spend all that money and stay where he's at instead of getting some free land in Rosemont and building his own stadium from scratch, which is something the Cubs would prefer as opposed to the piecemeal plan they have now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 3, 2013 -> 12:48 PM) We'll decide that at the time. Right now we're sitting at a 4 man rotation until Peavy is able to go. Yes. These things always have a way of shaking themselves out.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 2, 2013 -> 08:26 PM) Ricketts needs to get courted by one of the suburbs, have an artists rendering of a park, and a full plan to present as an alternative if he wants to be taken seriously. Otherwise, stfu, people are laughing at your empty threats I don't even think that would be anywhere near enough. There is no way he would replicate what he has in any suburb. Busloads from Iowa aren't going to Rosemont. If the Cubs moved, they would become just another team.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 3, 2013 -> 11:24 AM) Yet they knew about them before she was hired, it was on her resume. Like I said before, I went to HS and kind of grew up with the girl, shes super nice and was just trying to make it in the broadcasting world. Someone posted on another board, to the Blackhawks her videos and slipping up and saying sex the other night is bad, but the half naked girls they have skating around with shovels during breaks is fine. Doesn't seem very consistent.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 3, 2013 -> 10:02 AM) Nothing in my eyes. They're lame but nothing to be fired over. I'm sure she had them on her resume. Shame in CSN for not seeing them before this if its that big of a deal to them. The old videos actually got her the gigs on Showtime and NFL Network. Supposedly, this is all the Blackhawks doing. They were also supposedly responsible for the Josh Mora canning several years ago when he broke the story of Tallon being "reassigned." To me, she seemed at best unpolished, and probably deserved to go for performance. But if the old videos or her slip up the other night had anything to do with it, which seems more than likely, that's pretty lame.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 3, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) Thanks for proving my point? Dominant, not at 100 pitches, and can't finish the inning. Didn't prove your point. If he's not giving up any hits and still averages almost 20 pitches an inning, , he's not going to go very deep into games. I think when he came in the other night and was hit around, it was 86 pitches in less than 4 innings. Also I've seen in a lot of places Santiago wasn't warmed up when he came in for Floyd the other night. This isn't directed at you, because I haven't even seen you mention it, but if he wasn't loose, that isn't on an umpire, it isn't on Ventura, it isn't on Cooper. It is on Santiago. He had as much time as he wanted.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 3, 2013 -> 07:28 AM) He's never been stretched out thanks to the Sox mis handling him BS. He threw 92 pitches in 5.1 while allowing almost nothing. He has to lower his pitch count to go deeper in games. It's not like he's running out of gas at the 50 pitch mark.

One example of this board not being fair to AJ was when those PED rumors popped up last year. Many here wanted them to be true. Said they had to be true. These same people wanted AJ replaced by Flowers, a guy who actually was suspended for PEDs.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2013 -> 02:32 PM) They rushed Floyd back from his elbow injury big time last year. IIRC, they didn't even give him a rehab start prior to rushing him back to face the Tigers in a big game. If they weren't in contention, they probably would have shut him down for the year. If that's true, do you really think the final decision on that was Ventura's? Face it, this team thought his current injury was fairly minor 2 days agao.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2013 -> 02:24 PM) Funny thing is that I wasn't even referring to Peavy's injury when I made the comment about guys being pushed so hard last season and the resulting impact you sometimes see the following year. But who has an injury you can even remotely pin on playing too much last year? Floyd actually pitched fewer innings than any year he was in the White Sox rotation. Beckham broke a bone. Viciedo pulled an oblique. Sanchez and Keppinger weren't even White Sox. Danks injury certainly wasn't a result of Robin running him into the ground. Septimo hardly pitched for the White Sox.

For some reason, a back spasm popping up in May seems unlikely to be caused by pitching too many innings during a season that ended 7 months prior.

I don't see how any of these injuries can be pinned on Ventura. Keppinger wasn't even a White Sox last year. Is his back problem Joe Maddon's fault?

Peavy was scratched tonight. Santiago getting the nod.