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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 06:22 AM) Then cross him off the list no, this makes zero sense. You dont trade your fifth starter for a guy who might play in 2016 You do when he's a fifth starter who is overpaid and underproductive. It's very simple....that $26 million will go a long ways in fixing the problem of Danks' early departure. And our fifth starter would/could be Noesi, it doesn't have to be Danks. Heck, it could be Erik Johnson, Beck or Frankie Montas, too. Finally, after all these articles about TJ surgery since last year....you really believe that Homer Bailey's going to be out TWO FULL SEASONS? When has that ever happened in the last 10-15 years? Why would teams take Hoffman, Fedde, Matuella, Kirby and Aiken so high?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 06:22 AM) The White Sox do need John Danks or another pitcher. Again, Rodon cannot enter the rotation now and be there at the end of the season. You have to figure some other pitcher will be missing starts, so who do you have? As bad as Danks supposedly is, there were over 600 starts made last season by pitchers who had higher ERAs. And how many of those starts were made by pitchers (with higher ERA's and WHIPs) earning $13 million or more per season? If you were Rick Hahn and you threw that statistic at John Mozeliak and asked what he was willing to offer for Mr. Danks, his response STILL would be how much would you still like to pay for him to pitch for the Cardinals? At any rate, we'll find out exactly how he's perceived around the league in the weeks to come. In all likelihood, guys like Pat Maholm, Aaron Harang, Kyle Lohse or Matt Garza will come into play first. And I would be perfectly content to use Erik Johnson or Montas for the 6-8 starts to bridge us to the end of the season. We are already at 3-4 starts....that gives Rodon something like 18-22, which is quite reasonable.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 06:17 AM) Homer Bailey is about to have TJ surgery too Yes, I know. That's the only way this trade makes SOME sense for both teams. The White Sox don't absolutely need Danks to compete, whereas the Reds definitely need another starting pitcher.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles...0427-story.html As of this exact moment, they're apparently planning to play at either 1 p.m. or 4 p.m. (in advance of city-wide curfew commencing at 10 pm).

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/c...umn.html#page=1 Excellent editorial on Baltimore's past (since 1968), what led to today and where it's going in the future. All "The Wire" fans out there will definitely enjoy it.

The career number for McCarthy is just south of $71 million, btw. Interestingly, his fb velocity has been in the mid 94's the last two years. As Ptac always notes, increased velocities (compared to his career averages) usually play some role in this spate of pitching injuries, particularly TJ surgeries.

I think the books should end with: Danys and Jon together (it makes sense, in that she would have no problem marrying a bastard with the Stark bloodline and her anti-slavery/equality crusade)... Tyrion as the court advisor with one of the witches (go with the Red Witch over Melisandre)...because the religious/spiritual angle is one of the main counterpoints of strength in the story Actually, to keep in line with the story, it would be Tyrion and a street whore with a heart of gold (see Anne Hathaway in Les Miz for reference). Worm marries Danys' "administrative assistant" and has kids through IVF To be serious, the Greyjoy/men of the seas are the only forces right now that would seem to be equal what Danys and Jon could marshal together. Dorne, not so much. Lannisters...nope. Tyrells, no. Roose Bolton/Freys, nope. That basically leaves the Aegon vs. Jon thread to sort itself out...as well as what eventually happens with Sansa and Arya. Stannis is a joke of a leader, too. The only other area of power would be the Aerie...but I'm not convinced of their military strength at this point, either. I would imagine they would probably want to focus on profitability as the show is getting more and more expensive in terms of cast salaries...so that would limit a lot of the sea battles because they're notoriously expensive, time-consuming and difficult to film.

http://m.orioles.mlb.com/news/article/1209...ioles-white-sox The civil unrest that persisted after the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday altered his plans somewhat. Manfred did get a chance to address both teams, but that was about it. When the game was postponed due to safety concerns, he headed back to New York without getting an opportunity to see the game. "I didn't get an opportunity to meet with Mr. [Peter] Angelos today," Manfred said. "I did talk to the players in both clubhouses. I was glad to have that chance. Mr. Angelos and I had some topics we were going to discuss, and we'll discuss those later. We've already made arrangements to do that." http://m.orioles.mlb.com/news/article/1208...-from-the-heart

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 04:41 AM) That discussion has been around since the 90s. You could even say the Life is Immitating Media. The more you show, the more people start getting involved. I would bet well more than half the people looting and stealing are just doing it and have nothing to do with the anger over the guys death. Yeah, I can't remember the exact movie....it was a Jennifer Lopez one, something about a train and kids trying to copy some of the same exact moves from the movie. Money Train, maybe?

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 04:41 AM) That discussion has been around since the 90s. You could even say the Life is Immitating Media. The more you show, the more people start getting involved. I would bet well more than half the people looting and stealing are just doing it and have nothing to do with the anger over the guys death. Yeah, I can't remember the exact movie....it was a Jennifer Lopez one, something about a train and kids trying to copy some of the same exact moves from the movie. Money Train, maybe?

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/120976524/ji...ck-isnt-settled Callis update article on the top 5-10 picks in the first round...

But the spark that ignited Monday's pandemonium likely started with high school students on social media. An online flier advertised a "purge" after school Monday, starting at Baltimore's Mondawmin Mall, The Baltimore Sun reported. The film "The Purge" (actually, there are two films) is about a dystopian future society in which all laws are suspended for one 24-hour period every year. Baltimore authorities got wind of the plans, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said. "We had gotten information yesterday that at Mondawmin Mall, we're going to have a large 'purge' of high school students from across the city," Batts said. "We had pretty close to about 250 to 300 police officers staged in or around Mondawmin Mall at the time the youth got out of school." A case of life imitating art? We always have these debates about violent video games results in "real world" violence, and now we have a movie (seemingly) directly influencing real life events. from www.cnn.com http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...ory.html#page=1 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...ory.html#page=1

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 01:40 AM) when there is oppression, people will get fed up and protest. in this case the actions of the dept of the police is what is or has trigger what you are seeing. what people are seeing is still a continue act of oppression thru police corruption. peaceful protest, to bring this attention of the action of citizens, is them getting fed up. this was suppose to bring it to the attentions of the "powers to be", it was meant to do good. however this kind of thuggery, that was an independent different group, does not justified the senseless need to cause millions of dollars of damages and stealing. just b/c they can. the lack of jobs for economical ends, moving out of the country is not a reason to justify this barrage of needless looting and violence on the pretense of 1 innocent death. there could have been a better why, if these so call peaceful ministers would have insisted on a federal mediation group to investigate this. instead of allowing the police force to so call police itself. nah! there is a genuine lack of confidence in the present form of the local politics. this is the real reason for this. this stupidity of the few police officers, tarnish the rep of the rest of the Police, men and woment who deserves credit for putting it on the line, being front and center between chaos and bedlam and the innocent people, are being looked at as the bad person. i have said this is the past, how to fix it. tear it down and rebuild the system, by a drastic means. by getting the federal group to step in and clean house. That's the point, nobody trusts anything that smacks of Federal intervention/mediation, the police departments won't accept it and it's just not an effective way to run a department...it would be like if a teacher had someone coming to their class and take notes and monitoring them on a class by class basis (to make sure they were teaching the curriculum/syllabus), if someone doesn't trust you to do the job you were hired to do, then there's something wrong with the system. There's no confidence in either local, state or national politicians right now. Certainly not TRUST. This type of incident has happened so many times and been covered up or pushed under the rug that minority communities feel at this point there's no other alternative than attempting to garner as much media attention as possible. Actually, Elijah Cummings is probably the most respected of all, the Congressman who gave the eulogy and who's widely-expected to run for Barbara Mikulski's Senate seat.

McCarthy endured an injury-plagued season in his first year for the Rangers (and his first full year as a starter) in 2007, most notably dealing with a stress fracture in his right shoulder blade that kept him sidelined for nearly 2 months. In 2008, as he developed inflammation in his right elbow during spring training. He began rehabbing between July & August and finished the season making 5 starts for the Rangers. After opening the 2009 season in the rotation, McCarthy went on to pitch 17 starts in a row before undergoing surgery in July.[4] He missed the remainder of the season. He missed the whole 2010 season recovering from the surgery on his right shoulder, though he did make 11 rehab starts in the minor leagues, going 4-2.[2 On September 5, 2012, he took a line drive to the head off the bat of Erick Aybar of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. McCarthy subsequently underwent surgery for 2 hours to relieve cranial pressure after CT scans revealed he had suffered an epidural hemorrhage, a brain contusion, and a skull fracture. In June, 2013 while on the disabled list for continued shoulder problems, McCarthy experienced a seizure related to his head injury the previous year. He was placed on medication and expected to return to pitch as his shoulder allowed. source: wikipedia He'll be fine, with everything else he's gone through. Back in 2016 around May or June.

They could always trade John Danks for Homer Bailey. The White Sox would assume Bailey's $81 remaining from 2016-2019 (Reds would pay 2020 buyout of $5 million or White Sox would pay $25 million for that season). In return, the Reds would take on Danks' contract through 2016 (essentially $26 million). The White Sox would be taking on $55 million in extra salary, paying Bailey roughly $20 million per season. So you could look at it as paying Bailey $13.75 million per year for four years....or they could use that $26 million in "new/created" money by dumping Danks to improve the club in 2015/16 cycle. (Of course the problem is that would make keeping Samardzija impossible....but that's probably true regardless.) 1. Sale 2. Quintana 3. Rodon 4. Noesi/Sox prospect OR use the Danks money for a veteran placeholder along the lines of a Haren/Vogelsong/Volquez/Liriano 5. Homer Bailey Then you'd still have this year's first rounder (likely another pitcher if not Happ or Tucker), Erik Johnson, Montas and Danish for starting pitching depth (not to mention the 2016 compensation pick...or they could end up trading Samardzija for another pitcher/catcher/3B/SS/OF). It's also POSSIBLE Montas and Danish are ready to start for the Sox in 2016...but I wouldn't necessarily count on that happening, either. Plus breaking in another rookie to go along with Rodon in his first full year and Bailey coming off surgery would necessitate adding one more starting pitcher. Finally, it's also another possibility Hector Noesi is still a part of the starting rotation in 2016, but I'm not counting on that, either.

Bulls lucky Jabari Parker is out....there's that. Fortunate.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 08:50 PM) I would have never guessed that a few years after the trade that Iglesias would be a better hitter than Avi. If you look at all his minor league numbers, you'd come to conclusion that it would be amazing if he could put together a 625-650 OPS at the major league level.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles...0426-story.html In case you missed it from this past weekend, twitter comments from Orioles' VP John Angelos (Peter's brother). He (Angelos) said a greater concern of his was "the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the US to 3rd-world dictatorships like China" which he said has sent "tens of millions of good hard working Americans into economic devastation" and "an ever-declining standard of living and suffering." "The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance and other abuses of the bill of rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kid's game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards," Angelos tweeted. Micki38120 Rank 0 Just how much of the Baltimore Orioles' gear and fan gear is produced in Baltimore, or the US for that matter? Change starts by cleaning up your own house first.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles...427-column.html Editorial on the cancellation of the game. Will decide tmrw at 9 am on the status of a possible game at 1 p.m. Other two options are Washington and playing the games back in Chicago.

Yes, the White Sox (marketing department) brought that situation down upon their own heads...and couldn't police/control it effectively. Expecting the Camden Yards Andy Frain/rent a cops/security guards to act like the National Guard or even a SWAT unit isn't exactly the same situation.

There's also a political consideration (in terms of the national perception of this situation) because Cummings right now would be the favorite for Barbara Mikulski's Senate seat... Back to regularly scheduled programming.

Now getting word White Sox and O's could play at 1 pm EST Tuesday. They hope to make decision by 9 am EST Tuesday morning, per source. espn.com

Hasn't this come up before where Cubs and/or White Sox games were played in Milwaukee...or vice-versa, Brewers games at Wrigley or Comiskey? Heck, we had a season or two where we played a limited number of "home games" in Milwaukee before the Brewers came into existence, right?

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 07:22 PM) It would seem to me playing in DC tomorrow isn't likely. Maybe they work that out during the day tomorrow and play two on Wednesday in DC--unless things calm down a lot. Hopefully if there's a single game to be made up, they'll do it on July 3rd in Chicago, and they'll be the home team for one of the games. Then you have to decide whether to do a split DH (1 pm and 7 pm) or just starting at 5 or 6 pm and playing two from that point. Wonder about the turnaround for staffing the stadium with less than 24 hours' notice? Probably would go with the second option, because they're not weekend/big revenue-producing games.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/9963194/ Here's an example from a G20 security situation...where the games had to be changed from TOR to Philly. Seems it's up to all of the clubs involved to work out a solution. In that case, it was Philly being the road team in their own park. They definitely have a series of economic calculations to take into consideration (security, vendors, ticket takers, gameday personnel, etc.)