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The worst case is Jared Mitchell. The best case is he loses a step, but his game has never been predicated on stolen bases. That said, some hesitation in the outfield and worry in the back of his head about another injury are going to be hard for him to get over. It's just as much psychological as physical.

His style of play was always going to be a high risk factor...even if Giolito is a complete bust (and way too early to declare that), Lopez and Dunning could both be pretty special. "It's just awful," right-hander Max Scherzer said. "Especially when you see the replay, he comes up short of the bag and you see his ankle roll over, his whole leg kind of falls apart. Seeing him in the training room, it's an awful feeling. "You hate seeing your teammates injured severely. And I think that's what happened." www.mlb.com Getting an MRI Saturday...Michael Taylor will have to play center, but he won't hit enough to nail down the position.

We had the same situation with the pen early last year. And all the games without hardly a day off was blamed (by Harrelson) for burning out Albers and Robertson, to name two. But right now, we've got five solid guys in Jennings, Swarzak, Kahnle, Jones and Robertson. Beck and Ynoa aren't a big deal at all, and you always could use Burdi, Fulmer or Lopez down there at some point in the second half. At any rate, we have a long stretch of road games, so the record will likely fall back to sub .500 a month from now, so we might as well enjoy this while it lasts.

Kahnle pitching at same exact time as Kimbrel vs. Cubs. 99-100, Kimbrel at 98-99. The main difference is the knuckle curve.

.388 for Garcia. Last two haven't gone far...

First place baby. The only problem will be that Greg will go from trading Robertson to dealing for a playoff run.

Yackatow... Anderson hit another bomb earlier in the season that the wind killed...don't want to throw him a fastball at 2-0, even at 96.

Huge hit there but Soto after the inning looked lost with the Davidson dp ball. Castellanos might want to hide after the game. Bullpen takes on a much different look with Swarzak and Kahnle dominating.

Complaint about umpiring? DJ really hates Laz Diaz...Farmer, a fan.

No way they play in Columbus. Collins a homer but 23 k's in 61 ab's. At least he walks. Basabe two hits already. Tanner Banks doing well.

Bears should have taken Desmond King...

Avi just 6 behind Harper and Daniel Murphy, 19 RBI's.

Bad luck, wasted opportunity to break the game wide open. Of course, you could say that about both teams.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 28, 2017 -> 05:59 PM) Wow 3 whole Soxtalk members paying attention to the game. Guess Pelfrey pitching means more than the current 4 game win streak . NFL draft? Bulls?

Avi 451 and 448 his last two homers. 6th hardest hit homer in majors on the 93 mph FB. 116 mph exit velocity. Collins even homered tonight. Basabe raking.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 28, 2017 -> 05:45 PM) If you had told me in Feb. that the MVPs of April for the Sox would be Garcias Avi and Leury I would have bust a gut. And Davidson, too. Not to mention Gonzo, Holland and Kanhle.

Frazier' swing finally coming around after the illness that knocked him out for six games... Leury continues to hit well from the right side, around .500. Saladino had three center cut pitches, couldn't do anything with them. Oh well.

Arrieta getting beaten up by the Red Sox. Too bad Sale missed the start against the Cubs by one day.

Abreu out of the lineup. Saladino as DH and leading off. Davidson, Y. Sanchez and Leury in against LHP.

Sale leading Kershaw by 13 k's for first in majors. 2nd in whip to Erwin Santana. Santana actually has been even better, BAA is .116 vs. Sale at .177. Of course, some of those numbers against the Sox, lol.

Worth noting that Mitch Haniger and Kris Davis were both Brewers' property... Tim Beckham, drafted in the same year as Gordon, finally starting to come into his own with the Rays. http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/22682...97733-658620023 Six candidates to be the next Eric Thames

https://weather.com/weather/radar/interacti...true&zoom=8 Looks like that huge front is staying just enough to the south.

You really think 29 other teams would trade for Dunning over Lopez/Giolito based on 4 Sally League starts? Some would argue against Giolito, but Lopez?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/north-...unch/index.html North Korea just launched another missile. Twitter will be busy this weekend from Mar A Lago. Maybe surrounding neighbors can try to cell phone jam that place, lol. Or wifi can be cut by provider to save us from war? Oops, guess he'll be in Harrisburg, hiding from the WH Correspondents Dinner. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/don...-nra/index.html Donald Trump is the best troll in all of politics "I have a feeling that in the next election you're going to be swamped with candidates," Trump told the crowd. "You'll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and you'll say 'No sir. No ma'am, perhaps ma'am. It may be Pocahontas, remember that. And she is not big for the NRA that I can tell you." ("Pocahontas" is Trump's derogatory nickname for Warren who faced a major controversy when she ran for the Senate in 2012 over whether she had Native American roots.) Then there was Trump's reference to former presidential primary rival Ted Cruz, who was in the audience as the president spoke. "Like, dislike, like," Trump said by way of describing the arc of his relationship with the man he regularly referred to as "Lyin' Ted" during the course of the primary race. http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/d...3c.html?ref=yfp Trump's tax cut looks like Kansas writ large. Trump isn’t being quite as generous as Kansas, which decided not to tax pass-through sums at all, but he does want to lower the tax on such income to 15 percent. Pass-through income currently is taxed just like wages, at rates that escalate to 39.6 percent. The result is easy to predict: A lot of people would start LLCs and other entities, turning their paychecks into lower-taxed pass-through payments. “Whenever there are different rates for different sorts of income, individuals can find ways to game the system,” says Scott Greenberg, an analyst at the Tax Foundation. Congress could try to write rules to limit such conversions, but it would have a hard time keeping up with clever tax lawyers. “It would probably leave federal revenue pretty substantially lower,” Greenberg said. When candidate Trump floated the idea of a lower pass-through rate last fall, the Tax Foundation estimated that it would cost the government $1.7 trillion over 10 years. As news of the president’s plan (to exit NAFTA) reached Ottawa and Mexico City in the middle of the week and rattled the markets and Congress, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and others huddled in meetings with Trump, urging him not to sign a document triggering a U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA. Perdue even brought along a prop to the Oval Office: a map of the United States that illustrated the areas that would be hardest hit, particularly from agriculture and manufacturing losses, and highlighting that many of those states and counties were “Trump country” communities that had voted for the president last November. And, of course, the best way to convince Donald Trump to do something—even better than showing him maps, which he loves—is to appeal to his ego. “It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good,” Trump told the Post. “They like Trump, but I like them, and I’m going to help them.” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/don...fta-map?ref=yfp

ObamaCare 47%, Trump 40-44%. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...ut-trump-215049 What the press still doesn't get about Trump. Must read. Long, but detailed. 12. Trump’s success depends just as much on what happens outside Washington. Jessica Yellin, senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and former chief White House correspondent for CNN Political reporters are doing a fantastic job covering Washington, D.C., under extremely challenging conditions. But we still need to devote more resources to covering on-the-ground reality in communities across the country. Consider these recent stories: Jobs: Rexnord industrial bearings, less than 2 miles from the Carrier plant in Indianapolis, is shipping some 300 jobs to Mexico, according to the Indianapolis Star and the Associated Press. After all the television coverage devoted to the president’s negotiations to keep some Carrier jobs in the United States, where are the cameras now? Immigration: Nebraska meatpackers rely heavily on refugees and immigrants to staff their food processing plants. Now, the Omaha World-Herald reports that the industry, fearing labor shortages caused by the crackdown on foreign workers, is considering moving toward machine labor and/or cutting back on production. Travel: In March, USC held a three-day African trade summit with zero Africans, VOA News and the Guardian reported. One hundred percent of the attendees from Africa—at least 60 people—were denied visas, blocked from attending an event meant to give American businesses more investment opportunities overseas. These aren’t just human-interest stories. They’re about the real-world impact of our policies and politics. When they do get national pickup, it’s fleeting compared with coverage of, say, the search for leakers in the White House. Trump’s election was an outside-the-Beltway phenomenon. It would be a mistake to cover his presidency as a largely inside-the-Beltway reality.