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Omar Vizquel cannot be the manager soon enough...give him next year with Birmingham and then make the move.

We deserve it after blowing two five run leads.

Definitely not happening today...getting pummeled. Looks like they will be able to trade Moustakas pretty easily, though.

Oh, well. Got a bit greedy, looking fastball 3-1 but chased it outside of the zone. Why does Engel look like a replica of late Sox career Gordon Beckham? Same number, similar stances and results.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 04:06 PM) Half way home in 2.5 hours. That crazy stat....Greg Maddux started 191 games in his career which were over faster than this game reached the top of the fifth.

Too early to start thinking about another Top 3-5 pick in 2019? Moncada finally made an out. If that crazy ball Granderson trapped against the wall went out in TOR, he’d have two grand salamis already and 4 homers...not to mention just missing a couple due to the wind in KC.

Paging Charlotte. Or Birmingham.

Indians (Mejia) prospect sues over deal that ties up future earnings ($360k of loans for 10% of future mlb earnings) https://www.yahoo.com/news/indians-prospect...-213935194.html

Or our quartet of Mitchell, Keenyn Walker, Thompson and Hawkins...even Mike Jacobs.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 10:59 AM) Cease hit the wall. Keep starting, but he may be David Robertson in the long run. He’s definitely going to need to get more consistent with his offspeed stuff. Same with Dunning, they both can/should dominate lower levels gripping and ripping with primarily fastballs.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 09:26 AM) Um. Yeah. Basically. Let activists do their job and politicians do theirs. That's how things actually get accomplished. Activist politicians usually lose their elections. At that point what good are they? Barack Obama literally was a community activist on the South Side.

Here’s the thing. The Dems are losing the social issues/political correctness battle. Identity politics and obfuscation/diversionary tactics favor the Trump wing...while DACA itself, those particular individuals, are “popular” or poll well, broader immigration policies in general are not. If it’s about kitchen table economics, trade, wealth disparity, rights and protections for women, protection of Medicare/Social Security (safety net), the environment, the $1 trillion plus deficits, the Dems SHOULD clean up. The tax cuts were surrendered by the GOP as a talking point in PA by the end of that race. That was supposed to be their ace in the hole to save an electoral bloodbath. The only thing that can save the GOP would be a miraculous breakthrough in North Korea or on the foreign policy side in general, and their strategy is so scattershot and lacking in cohesion that it’s actually hard to imagine not screwing any negotiation up.

21 pitches. Needs to average 15-18 to go six like his last start (career high, first win in Sox uni.)

QUOTE (MnSoxFan @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 09:07 AM) His error in the 1st already cost them 1 of the 2 runs given up in that inning. What game was that? Cease first K. Breaking ball k in the dirt for K number 2. 96 on the gun in the first. Ahead in count, lost him to a walk for third hitter.

Rutherford walk, Adolfo single...Micker ops near 1.000

What is the opposite of a Bernie Bro in the Democratic Party? Ossoff? Lamb? Cheri Bustos? Feinstein? There’s one problem with all this reasonableness and pragmatism...it’s not coming from the GOP in return. Only obstructionism, even against their own party. That was essentially their main philosophy for 8 years. The Democratic Party needs leaders who will fight for the middle class. Period. Somehow, Trump convinced those voters he would/could do more for them than Hillary. How was that even possible?

There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept. Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW! It’s almost like he’s talking about an outbreak of the Bubonic plague and not human beings...how about the breeding of Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric and Barron through our immigration process, leading to even more grandchildren (aka American citizens )? 7 total grandkids.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 07:21 AM) Moncada just needs to continue getting reps against major league pitching before he figures it all out. Once he gains a better understanding of what pitchers are going to do against him the success will come. His current hit tool is a 30/40 grade, but scouts really feel it will be 60 grade with time. It really can’t be that low...as he’s already putting up average or slightly above average big league offensive numbers for his position. Engel, sure.

Or I can contribute to SoxTalk if they can provide a cost estimate to fix the programming/coding glitch...that apparently only affects iOS users.

Trump?€™s company is suing towns across the country to get breaks on taxes ?€” 'Trump, Inc.' podcast No conflict of interest here! President Donald Trump is famous for bragging about his net worth. Publicly, he claims he's worth more than $10 billion. He even sued an author over the issue and lobbied the editors of Forbes about his ranking on their billionaires list. Yet quietly in another setting, the Trump Organization says the president's holdings are worth far less than he has proclaimed. Across the country, the Trump Organization is suing local governments, claiming it owes much less in property taxes than government assessors say because its properties are worth much less than they've been valued at. In just one example, the company has asserted that its gleaming waterfront skyscraper in Chicago is worth less than than its assessed value, in part because its retail space is failing and worth less than nothing. Since becoming president, Trump's companies have filed at least nine new lawsuits against municipalities in Florida, New York and Illinois, arguing for lower tax bills, ProPublica has found. Some of those lawsuits have been previously reported. At stake is millions of dollars that communities use to fund roads, schools and police departments. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/trumps-comp...nc-podcast.html Trump Asks For Extension To File His 2017 Tax Return https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trump-asks-...-074933021.html

AA 12 51 6 10 17 2 1 1 5 1 0 16 0 0 .196 .208 .333 .541 1.00 Finally got his first walk of the season against 16 k’s in 52 at bats. 2 errors in 11 games...that would be only 26 on the year (over 142 games), that’s really good for AA, fwiw.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/po.../OPS/order/true 14th out of 26 qualified 2b in ops (skipped him over Carlos Sanchez, who hasn't played second this year) 13th in war (0.4) ESPN uses bWAR, apparently his fWAR is significantly higher (0.6)

We are currently on a 46-116 pace, fwiw. Somehow, there are five teams with even worse records.

Anderson now has 6 walks and 16 K's. 50 at-bats. (16/56=28.6%) Moncada, 27 k's, 10 walks, 56 at-bats (so technically 27/66=40.9% Obviously that has to come down to AT LEAST the mid 30's, if not lower 30's.

46,028 White Sox should try that for some of their weekday APRIL/SEPTEMBER games.