Dick Allen

Didn't Anderson have an injury?

Saturday will be a huge crowd. Sale bobbleheads. I just got an email from the Sox, they are opening the lots 3 hours prior to the game and the gates 2 hours prior to gametime. So they must be expecting big numbers.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 4, 2016 -> 10:35 AM) IIRC the Red Sox(and the Yankees) consistently have some of the longest game times year in year out. Its annoying, it isnt just last night The point is you aren't going to have a line up stacked with high OBP guys who are very selective at the plate and not play long games. I would imagine the Yankees games are a bit shorter this year. You just have to hope it's the team you root for that is causing the game to be long.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 4, 2016 -> 10:07 AM) It's not their hitters, it's their unbearable pitchers. The 8th inning, the guy was walking people. The Sox hitters weren't swinging at everything. That slows things up. Plus the replays and the pitching changes. It turns into a long night. The knucker was working pretty quickly considering how many pitches he threw.

It's a catch 22. You want your guys to take a lot of pitches and swing at strikes. Work counts etc. but that also slows the game down.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 4, 2016 -> 09:45 AM) Could you image seven inning games instead? Not this year. That is just when the Sox offense is getting heated up.

I think he refused to go to Charlotte because he knows everyone else would get a shot before he would get another one no matter what he did. His best case scenario was a ton of injuries or poor performances or a September call up. Might as well go home, see if another team with perhaps a better opportunity gives you a call, and/or take some time off and prepare for a minor league contract and a spring training invite next year, and if that doesn't come, or you get one and fail, hit the golf course the rest of your life. Is he still only 29?

Walk up sales don't happen much anymore. I forgot the number but a few years ago I think in 2012 there was a walk up IIRC under 2k, and they said it was the largest walk up of the season. The days of half priced Mondays and bring a Pepsi can for a half priced ticket are OVA! Most get their tickets in advance, and if you are going to go to 2 or 3 or 4 games at most, why would you choose a game where you could freeze your ass off? Until the good seats from the good weather games are sold, the April/May games are going to not be that well attended for the most part.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 4, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) Yes and that's the kind of trade I support and I have consistently supported. Young player for young player....not for a declining vet or a a rent of a career year. Of course I take the good with the bad. You're still whining about losing Addison Reed, which was same philosophy as the Eaton trade. Myers was a decling veteran who wasn't anything special in Houston. What does Myers have to do with Reed? I didn't like the Myers move because he is a wife beater.

There is a reason the Sox sell a Ballpark Pass giving you access to every weekday game in April and May except for Opening Day for $59. The attendance is going to suck on weekdays for the rest of the month. Who cares? Just keep winning.

Danks had the highest ERA in baseball minimum 500 IP from 2012 until now. Lincecum, despite pitching in SF and the NL, was in the top 5.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 3, 2016 -> 10:32 PM) Bassit is a back of the rotation guy. His absence "hurts" is because we're auditioning a few guys for 5th starter likely worse than he is. (and because we went a long time with Danks and Noesi). But, not he's not great talent. This all in stuff for a "star" is generally a poor and losing approach and the net return for the Sox on those trades is atrocious (and yet the Sox keep making them). Gio was the only really good pitcher. Hudson was really good, but got hurt. The next may be Chris Deveniski (sent packing in yet another poorly conceived Williams trade). And the plus side is of the Shark trade is that we have ceiling on our side. Although the odds are slim, we could hit it big with this draft choice. Speaking of poorly conceived trades, your trading Adam Eaton for prospects because he wasn't as good as his numbers and doesn't have the arm for RF will go down as an all time worst.

If Robertson holds them, that would be 5 decisions in 6 starts for Q.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 3, 2016 -> 08:13 PM) Bostons catcher is really having trouble catching the knuckleball I don't think there are many that envy his assignment.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2016 -> 08:06 PM) Wow, I didn't think you were really that petty. Apparently I need to lower the bar. A guy hates Jose Abreu but wants Tim Lincecum. Seems kind of odd to me.

He already said no to AAA . He is going home to Nashville and collecting a $1.25 million check twice a month through September. I think Jordan Danks got released last month.

QUOTE (spiderman @ May 3, 2016 -> 07:31 PM) It clearly takes 2 to tangle and while I'm sure the White Sox would like to improve their current roster, how can they be 'very active'? This isn't a criticism - it's probably tough for other teams to trade core players in early May, but, at the same time, and I know I'm being picky, I can't say a team that hasn't made any moves is being 'very active'. Making a lot of inquiries, scouting targets, in house discussions, and/ or proposals is active, you could be actively looking for a house and not made any offers. Same type of thing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2016 -> 03:13 PM) No one has ever said they "hated" Jose Abreu. Go to the game thread when he dropped the throw from Frazier and Baltimore tied it up. 4/30 post #423 Nightingale was on CSN and said Lincecum really isn't a fit for the White Sox. He thinks he would be very unsuccessful in the AL.

At the season ticketholder pre season party I won $20 in Comiskey cash and a Johnny Danks autographed photo. I have it up in my office. Pretty sweet.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ May 3, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) Or there just went the Laroche money They were paying Danks anyway.

Is Sale now the longest tenured on the team?

The loyalty and White Sox won't eat money cards have been sent to the shredder.

DFA'd is released in his case, unless he retires or the Sox take on a huge contract.

I don't want him but the one thing I always get with Braun, and now Lawrie is when I watch them hit, their bats look like they are about a foot longer than everyone else's for some reason.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 3, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) I hate this argument. Yes, Braun's a douche but this "innocent guy" acted totally outside of what his job required him to do. So Braun's legal team exposed him of his negligence and had the proceeding overturned. The tester made himself liable to penance and Braun's lawyers capitalized on it. Yeah, Braun did some press conferences and probably lied a lot but that's the system we have. If this "innocent guy" didn't want to be subjected to this process, then he should have done his job the way it's required to be done. He called the guy an anti Semite, and if that wasn't douchy enough, a Cubs fan.