Dick Allen

If the season is over in Chicago, its also over in Minneapolis. Of course everyone would have preferred the Sox actually win some games in April, but the season is not lost yet. Its way too early for that. It does suck that you wait a long cold snowy winter for baseball and the team you follow falls on its face before it gets warm, but, and I am a guy who isn't always optimistic, I really think the Sox are the class of their division. A few tweaks is all it takes IMO. One may be Pierre. If he can't steal bases, he really shouldn't be in the major leagues.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 08:52 PM) I'd have Ballard playing on the inside not the outside. But he is quick enough to be a pretty nice DE opposite of Peppers. Very complete too cause he can play the run as well. He tested positive for 420. He's an idiot who cost himself some cash, but a good player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) I'm not saying he didn't break the rules, but the punishment is ridiculous. Think about the guys who throw at people that nothing happens to. Think of players getting DUIs that nothing happens to. But tweets during a game is worth a two game suspension? MLBs priorites are way out of whack. The shot at the ump is going to get anyone suspended whether its tweeted or spoken. It probably would have been a fine and and a warning had it just been a twitter violation, but Ozzie gets suspended almost annually. If he said that about the umpire after the game he probably would have been gone 2 games anyway. Oney couldn't believe the suspension. He said MLB is full of itself. That's ironic.

Lillibridge was spectacular in the 9th.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 08:07 AM) That's just not true. Right now is perhaps the worst time you can try and use for a player's trade value, since we're less than a month into the season. What you can go off of is previous deadlines, where there are usually a few desperate teams trying to stay in contention. Did you think anyone would take on Vernon Wells' contract this offseason? Speculating that a guy is going to be worth so and so at the deadline is just that. What if Dunn doesn't come out of it? Face it, if the Sox are in a position to dump contracts Dunn probably isn't lighting up the scoreboard. The reason the Sox would be in a dump mode was because their high paid guys weren't performing. Those guys don't get moved for a big prize. If you're telling me I'm all wet, you have to tell everyone else their all wet. Dunn to the Cubs? Even you know its laughable. Wells was a headscratcher but that also was one team that might have gone after Dunn, and was done in the offseason when teams have determined their budgets and are putting together their teams. Dunn has been traded at the deadline before for 3 not very good players and the Reds had to send cash. He wasn't owed what he's owed right now. Moreno wanted to spend some money last winter and couldn't get the guys he really wanted. He shocked the world with what he did and got burned. Moreno isn't going that route again, and I doubt any other team was touching that contract.

What's up with the Yankees hitting coach? They can't hit a waiver claim. He needs to get fired.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 05:33 AM) What you're asking people to do is irrelevant. The question is not could Dunn be moved on April 26th. The question is could he be moved at the trade deadline. All sorts of things could happen between now and then. Right, but all you can go off of is right now, and right now no other team would take that contract, and at the deadline still probably wouldn't take that contract. As I stated he's worth more to the Sox than anyone else, and the Sox aren't going to be looking to move him anyway.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 04:40 PM) A deal that would work perfectly for both teams if the Sox went into meltdown mode, Fukodome + prospect for Dunn. Sox get out of the contract and get a building block. Cubs get their thumper from the left side. Its not hard to envision at all. Its revenue nuetral for both teams this year, and Cubs get money in the coming years when they can afford it. It also still leaves them room if they want to go after their big guy next year. Perfect sense. Soriano in LF. Dunn in RF. LMAO.

That was one of the worst throws I've ever seen. Hunting rattlesnakes.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 08:29 PM) If these ESPN guys are right, apparently the Yankees are using this new "advance scouting" technique where they try and use previous opponent trends to try and take advantage of matchups and whatnot. We should try this. From the sounds of it, the Yankees are the only ones that do. Advanced scouting is quite a concept, but I can't see how it will catch on. Just play everyone the same way every pitch. Pitch everyone the same.

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) Maybe for long stretches without an off day though. Humber could get a start every 2nd or 3rd time through the rotation to get an extra day off for the rest of the staff. Rotations always sort themselves out. The Sox won't have too many starters.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) Zero tool AJ. AJ made a good throw, the SB was on Santos.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 08:26 PM) Eric Chavez? Didn't this guy used to be on the Sox? There were several rumors, but they never came true and thank God.

The 9th inning if Santos gets out of this the 9th will be interesting. I'd assume Thornton is getting the ball and he's been dominate after giving up the homer the other day. If he blew another one it would be devastating IMO, but if he pitches like he normally has since he's been a White Sox, it could propel the Sox to some wins.

Humber's right around 100 pitches. I'd imagine he's done. Outstanding job.

They have to go get Humber as soon as someone is ready.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 07:50 PM) Did KW make his speech or whatever today? Yes, believes in the talent, supports Ozzie and the coaching staff, the annual speech he gives when the Sox are struggling.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 07:48 PM) Fathom predicts a Dunn home run this inning If it happens, you're Batman.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 07:48 PM) I expect this to end in the 7th. He's getting near 100 pitches now and he hasn't been on a high pitch count all year. Going out on a limb.

If jordan4life is watching I hope he's OK.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 07:43 PM) Starlin Castro with 3 errors in the same inning. If KW was watching, he got wood.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 07:36 PM) I have a mandatory dorm meeting in 20 minutes. This is going to be a tough decision. Mandatory is optional in college

I wonder if the Sox could force Burnett to wear long sleeves to cover his tats. Even they could I'd do it just to piss him off.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 05:46 PM) so, have Gray warming up in the pen to start the game? That would be awesome.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) Laumann's drafts haven't given me hope that he's the right guy. I like Beckham and Sale but everyone on Soxtalk could have come up with them. Poreda was used to get Peavy, but he's awful. Mitchell is a question mark at best. There's really nothing to get too excited about down on the farm right now. I'm with you, I'm not sold on the current regime until they actually develop talent, but in their defense it does take time. If Jordan Danks panned out, it would be the type Laumann could put a feather in his cap, but the obvious selections, I'm not giving him all that much credit.