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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 07:29 PM) So the pitch him carefully doesn't work out, just like I wrote. Still its a much different feel for a pitcher knowing you can walk Abreu if you get behind in the count...and a struggling hitter behind him.

Wow, Flowers actually hit the ball to the right side. Fundamentals do exist.

Pitching around Gordon Beckham? 3-0 greenlight? Guess Duffy was just missing the zone and frustrated. Of course he misses out on the high fastball.

Real entertainment is Rongey doing the game with DJ for some reason.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 07:18 PM) 2nd and 3rd one out 3,4,5 hitters up usually means runs. Unfortunately Abreu hit it to the only place the run doesn't score on the ground. Because they could pitch him carefully with 1b open and induce him to do exactly that....its called strategy. He doesnt swing, they simply walk him and Avi manages to mess things up again.

Good chance tmrw's game is in jeopardy...if Alexei's ball wouldnt have been knocked down by the wind this would be a 5-1 or 6-1 Sox lead since no way Ventura would be bunting there with a 3-1 lead. Well, at least one would hope not. Fathom will be turning over in angst when he sees what happened that half inning.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 07:11 PM) Well, there's always the Bruce Jenner documentary Prefer the current Kurt Cobain one or the Dave Grohl doc (about recording albums in that famous studio).

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 07:12 PM) http://puigdestroyer.bandcamp.com/track/stop-f***ing-bunting WARNING: loud music Methodic Doubt from the Banshee soundtrack would also be appropriate.

Bunting so early in the game with your hottest hitter so they can either walk or pitch Abreu very carefully? Weird. Not the way The White Sox play baseball.

Cabrera was 12/26 coming into that and we bunt him? Then they can be very careful with Abreu....might have been a double play. Sigh. This just sucks. Where's Dick Allen to keep saying how terrible Duffy is right now? Maybe that would help, lol.

Giving KC a liitle bit of their own medicine back. Now lets score him, please. Try not to mess up some fundamental issue of moving him over to third with less than two outs.

Indians destroying Greene at Comerica, 9-1.

Brushed him on the hip I guess...

Right ribcage/oblique issue or the knee. Get LaRoche in there....we simply cannot afford to give runs away. Two plays already this inning that should have been made. Smelling salts?

Royals 16-3 at USCF since April, 2013. Three runs surrendered by the bullpen in 59ip the best start by any MLB pen since 1969.

Rios and Bonifacio at least cooled things down...there's that from Emilio as a contribution.

See, we could basically have Hamilton or Bonifacio. That said, I do hope Avi figures it out soon.

CJ Wilson: Well, you hear the same thing from everybody that leaves. Kinsler didn’t leave happy. I didn’t leave happy. Napoli didn’t leave happy. So, you know, there’s a certain consistency. I think the reality also is that the window that we had from 2010-2011 was probably the best situation that a bunch of people will ever experience in their careers – just based on all the factors. Great players, the players all got along really well, the manager let us play, there wasn’t a lot of intervention during the game because we policed each other. There was a lot of accountability….everybody worked really hard, everybody had fun, but they were doing it in a respectful way, and we developed our own chemistry and camaraderie and it was a very special time in all of our careers. Www.dallasmorningnews.com Back to the topic....leadership....and if Ventura's a Ron Washington type, Hahn needs to find the right players who will create this type of environment. Of course, the key point is accountability. Who is policing the clubhouse with Konerko gone?

Rangers are thin in the OF.....L. Martin, Rua, Smolinski, Choo. Some injury problems...and Rios left as well. Dallas reporters think something like 30-40 cents on the dollsr for his contract is fair....cite overexposure already with Fielder, Choo and Andrus as rationale for taking the risk of adding some more potential offense.

http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/brawl-...-sox-look-spark Hope there's actually some type of plan or strategy for the rest of the season that goes beyond "hoping." Needs to be more belief...certainty...and less maybe. Didnt realize Tyler was such an enforcer there he scared half the Royals away single-handedly. http://www.csnchicago.com/video_content_ty...-against-royals Video

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:34 PM) Personal attack. Suspend yourself please. I find all of this a bit rich. Someone who has been around here since 2013 calling out fair weather fans... I guess listening or watching 162 games a year from China when 30% of aforementioned games begin at 1-5 a.m. Constitutes a fair weather fan. He is welcome to track every single post here, at WSI or even chisox.com since baseball message boards began, since the days of ncorgbl and sat46. He wont find a single one at any other team's board, especially the Royals. Dont understand this WSI groupthink/sheepthink type of mentality...thats why their moderators were always likened to Nazi Germany SS or Gestapo. I actually love that the moderators here have some personality, like Balta, especially his passionate political beliefs...like I used to hold in my teens and twenties. Some really smart guys...that many of us dont always agree with but at least we respect their opinions and their underlying reasons for those opinions. http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...t-hell-out-team I suggest he should call out Adam Eaton, too.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:22 PM) I don't, but I know what Yordano said and did. Is there something he could have said that would validate Yordano's behavior? If you watched this whole game and came to the final conclusion that Robin doesn't have control of this team then I don't know what you've really learned in your 35 years. There was about 10 story lines that you could gripe at. Picking on Robin shows a previously developed bias. I swear to god if Robin just started screaming nonsense in the air like buffoon every third game he wouldn't have one complaint from all of the meatballs that are trying to scapegoat him. He was a silly hire but he has nothing to do with the problems yesterday and away from not calling a replay in DET, he has nothing to do with the problems this season. Meatheads? Really? So only the "smart" baseball fans have the secret knowledge about what Ventura has done so well since mid-September, 2012? You're a mod. I would expect more rationalism and less Chris Rongey, to be perfectly honest.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Caulfield in the "Bench clearing brawl" thread. Yup. Apparently you're of the blind faith this is the 1983 White Sox and can continue to cede game after game in the standings. After seven years and counting, that well of optimism is running just a bit thin.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Turns out, the Sox were out of sunflower seeds and Chris just went over to see if KC had any extra. Maybe personally hand-delivering some leftover Chicago style kosher dogs after the Kauffman ebola laced Buck Night dogs from Aramark last weekend.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) Scumbag pitcher hits our best player, scumbag pitcher tells our leadoff hitter to f*** off for no reason and it's Robin's fault the whole team got involved. That's a total copout. If you want to get made about something from the 3rd base dugout you get mad Sale/Samardzija went ape or that their teammates didn't do better to hold them off. Now you're saying Eaton had absolutely nothing to do with it....hard to believe, knowing Eaton. Sure, we can say 80/20 or 70/30, but nobody can claim to be completely blameless. And nobody forced him to turn around and go back towards Ventura, either. The baseball "code" I guess.