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QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:52 PM) Shark Cage is probably jumping tonight!! Speaking of the deadliest predator in the ocean, Richard Dreyfuss from Jaws/Mr. Holland's Opus could manage this current team better, one would think. If he's unavailable, JK Simmons from WHIPLASH. Someone hopefully can wake everyone up from their slumber.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:52 PM) They can spin it any way they want, but they were not prepared for 162 when the season started. I think if Balta repeats that often enough, the mantra will stick. It's like subliminal marketing messages that are reiterated over and over again. How this can't be OBVIOUS to JR/KW/Hahn is beyond everyone...

Abreu just booted another ball....luckily it didn't count, but that ball didn't hit Gose's foot, lol. Talking about how unsustainable the BABIP rates for Gose (440ish) and A.Garcia are....with their high K and low BB rates.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:45 PM) Haha, terrible. Alexei had a terrible plan in that at bat I'm surprised Marty hasn't shown up to say Alexei Ramirez has no trade value, lol. Obviously he's going to rebound somewhat, but there's teams out there like SD and the Yankees/Mets that could really use a competent veteran SS.

More ugliness on the basepaths. Well, Greene just made a better pitch....Ventura trying to force things, they're playing so bad. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. What else is new?

QUOTE (Condor13 @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:41 PM) That was def a play that is not routine and would not have been ruled an error. And Alexei made the play, Micahs speed gave them the ability to get the out Tigers' announcers disagree...and you know they would err on the side of taking a hit for their guy if it was in any doubt.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:39 PM) Not this again... He has the best average on the team and he hit the ball hard. I don't care what his BABIPBIPE is. Garcia's the second best hitter on our team right now....for better or worse.

Well, Greene has given up something like 13 or 15 runs in his last two starts....although he was very good three starts ago against the SOX. If we don't score 4 runs or more tonight, there's going to be a need for something more substantive than patience.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:38 PM) Finally a great play by Micah You mean a great play by Alexei, or it would have been an error on Micah probably.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:37 PM) four innings? four half-innings or 2 innings. yeah, I meant half-innings, lol seems like it's impossible to make THAT many mistakes so quickly in a game

Accountability. Gotta love it. Where can I apply? Who wouldn't want to work for the White Sox?

That's four mistakes already in four innings. Soto, Eaton not going for triple, ball out of Cabrera's glove...averaging more than one mistake per inning. Almost had a fifth mistake if Alexei didn't bait him out there. SHEESH.

Yet another miscue, although that won't be ruled as an error. Avila, for some reason, always seems to kill us despite his low BA's in recent years.

How the hell did Eaton not get a triple? Too conservative there....getting hesitant and playing scared. I'm sure the excuse will be something like he wasn't feeling 100% yet coming back from being sick.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:17 PM) I thought Avi was gonna tackle Adam.... Well, 9 pitch inning. Could have been worse? Well, sure.....with Cabrera coming up, down 3-0 looked inevitable. So there's that.

Next time, you're going to have to start some of their dead-red fastball hitters with an offspeed pitch, Jeff/Geo. At least mix up the pattern, SOMETIMES.

QUOTE (Butter Parque @ May 5, 2015 -> 06:14 PM) Big mistake The manager is in over his head and the GM is a middle-of-the-road politician. Is there any other type of politician, lol?

The one thing the Tigers can always do well is sense when there's blood in the water..."how are we going to lose tonight?" the White Sox players and staff must be thinking at this point...and take advantage of those situations and go for the sweep, instead of being satisfied with 2/3. What are the odds Kinsler also doesn't steal? Rumors around the DET clubhouse that Samardzija has been hanging his slider...and everyone's waiting to jump on that fastball.

That was quick. An error already. SIGH.

As long as there's no perceived favoritism shown to the students that do that....and you might want to think about paying for gas/transport/"tip" if the student does it on a more regular basis. At international schools in China, it's even trickier, because you get invited out by students and their parents all the time. A lot of teachers accept these free lunches and dinners, and they also give a number of expensive gifts as well (usually to female teachers). Slippery slope.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/122308730/jh...-prospects-list Article today at mlb.com about the top international prospects...J.Ortiz, Guerrero, Tatis (Jr.), etc.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 5, 2015 -> 05:04 PM) A couple pregame Hahn clips... The one common point in both clips...it has to get started or turned around pretty soon. You could see he was trying to come up for reasons/rationale for the baserunning and defensive mistakes, lots of theories out there.

2011 5-13 (3-6 at USCF, 2-7 at DET) 2012 6-12 (5-4 at USCF, 1-8 at DET) 2013 7-12 (4-6 at USCF, 3-6 at DET) 2014 9-10 (4-5 at USCF, 5-5 at DET) Overall since 2011, head-to-head 27-47 (11-26 at DET, 16-21 at USCF)

The White Sox: Rank this one under a surprisingly bad start. Nobody in the AL had a better winter than the White Sox, who acquired Jeff Samardzija, David Robertson and Adam LaRoche. Yet here they are, ranked last in the majors in runs scored, 25th in on-base percentage (.296) and 27th in slugging (.341). Then they got their Bermuda shorts blown off over the weekend in Minnesota (well, had they been wearing those ugly old 1976 Sox Bermuda shorts…). For real? No. Expect better things from the White Sox. For one thing, they've endured a funky schedule—rained out in Kansas City on April 25, then having two games postponed in Baltimore because of the riots on April 27 and 28, causing them to play just one game in four days. Just out of spring training, timing is very fragile for everyone this early in the season, and the White Sox will get better. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2453770...redo-we-believe And it's been a sloppy start—witness the fourth inning of Sunday's win over Toronto, when the Indians surrendered six runs and Jason Kipnis said afterward, "We're not good enough to play that stupid." They are not. They also are too good to play that stupid very often. For real? This poor start is not, no. Cleveland is too good not to be a factor in the AL Central race this summer.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2454389...on-on-letterman Will Ferrell brings back Harry Caray to Letterman, had to laugh with references to the 80's and 90's Cubs.