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QUOTE (Tmar @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 08:02 PM) How many homers for jose baez tonight? None until Friday for JAVY Baez and Bryant. Btw, batting Lester in the 8 spot didn't work out so brilliantly, as he left a RISP and LaStella got a hit to lead off the subsequent inning.

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 02:15 PM) well i appreciate your opinion as well. but for me, i just took it as entertainment value, as i said, the ending was not too thought out, or maybe it was. either way, how was it received in the area you live. It did very well in China, but not as well as Gravity, which was hugely popular.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) This umpire's strike zone is huge. Mike Winters

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) I am confused, why is David Ross their catcher? Is it just strictly for Lester? Yeah, normally it will be Montero. This game reminds me of the White Sox with RISP and less than 2 outs...need Juan Uribe or Joe Crede.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 06:40 PM) Yeah after being a big proponent of cubs being better being good for all of Chicago baseball, we are 45 minutes in and I already can't stand it. My Twitter feed is at Card fan playoff levels. The Cubs' line-up really isn't very dangerous except for Soler, Castro and Rizzo. Obviously, you stick Bryant in there for Olt, and Russell for LaStella and things can change significantly. However, the expecations for those young prospects are so high it's hard to believe they can actually live up to them.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 04:23 PM) Apparently Hendricks had/has some good stuff, but he sits at around 87 MPH with his fastball and is strictly a control pitcher. He's got a good change, but nothing special outside of that. Yeah, he was decent last year in 13 starts, but his xFIP was 3.92 and it seems like he lucked out a bit. Rodon, on the other hand, hits 95 with the fastball and has a devastating slider. He's also left handed and was the third pick in the draft. There's a huge talent gap. If you were to tell me you'd rather have Arrieta than Rodon, I'd give that some thought since Arrieta actually has really good stuff, unlike Hendricks. Rodon's already been up to 97 in the spring.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 04:12 PM) Danks had a positve WAR last year and about 20 quality starts, and gave the Sox nearly 200 innings. That is not worthless. Drabek has been worthless, was let go for nothing, and thus far, hasn't shown anything on the major league level to show he can contribute to winning. And lots were wrong about Paulino (having upside) and Noesi as well last year, or Phil Humber in the past (I'm not going to name drop the 20-30 pitchers that have greatly benefited from Cooper's tutelage)...so because other organizations can't get something out of a pitcher, that means they're doomed and can't provide positive value? He has been worthless because of high walk totals, command/control issues and two TJ surgeries. Whether we can get anything out of him is still undecided at this point.

Quentin > Shuck Except defensively and base-running. Well, we all knew something had to give with that crowded Padres' outfield. AJ Preller and Hahn are officially the "most interesting GM's in the world," at least this particular off-season. Where did the Padres come up with all this new-found money again?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2015 -> 10:08 AM) Ohio state won wrestling natty as well a month ago. And Iowa 2nd.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) Yeah, f*** that. I don't give a f*** about conference pride. Congrats to the Badgers but I hate the other Big 10 teams year round, why would I root for them in the tourney? Rooting for Duke is like rooting for the Yankees/Red Sox, Man U, Montreal Canadians, Wal-Mart and Starbucks.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) I would agree with LDF and disagree with your premise a little. Being a fan of baseball, I love going to a game and enjoying the experience. Seeing a well played game out in the sun, is the reward itself. I love the game of baseball. The other side is being a White Sox fan. That is the point you are making and all of the points are valid. but to me it's secondary to the love of baseball. I can and do enjoy a game even if the Sox lose. Well, yeah....I get that too....just watching kids playing Little League games (like the LLWS)....although I draw the line at softball. Field of Dreams, Major League, Bull Durham, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Rookie....I always loved reading about baseball growing up (especially Roberto Clemente), played Strat-o-Matic with the kids in our neighborhood, traded baseball cards (I invested a lot into 50 Hensley Bam Bam Meulens rookie cards, haha), played wiffle ball and tennis/garage ball and stick ball and nerf ball. When I was in high school, and this was the 80's, I'd always look forward to the box scores (California/Seattle games) weren't included...and compute all the White Sox batting and pitching averages. I subscribed to the Sporting News back then. I worked for two years in minor league baseball with the Pirates in the Sally League and will always treasure those memories...things like see Vladimir Guerrero with the most amazing throw from RF to 3B to catch a runner jogging into the base, helping Jermaine Dye call his relatives from our trailer or hanging out with an 18 year old Andruw Jones. Or going to McDonald's and having to help explain to Jose Guillen how to order a hamburger.

That charge on what could have been a 3 point play for WI and then 2 the other way for KY might be the key. KY's not a great FT shooting team (their bigs), right?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12591623/top-25-players ESPN Top 100 players list Quintana, Ramirez, Eaton, Cabrera, LaRoche on the outside looking in. For some reason, Robertson's listed on the Tigers.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansa...le17387537.html Just like in 2005 for White Sox fans...make the years of anger and frustration and almost wanting to give up and throw in the towel and say "sports shouldn't matter so much" worth it all, for that rare payoff when everything comes together and the breaks all go your way. Of course, for teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals...it's an annual expectation. If it's the White Sox, Cubs, Royals, Indians, etc., there's almost no way to describe it because you never in a million years expect it. The only thing I think could top it would be the impossibility of the University of Iowa winning a National Championship in my lifetime in either basketball or football.

If someone's going to delete posts that are started by personally calling me out in a thread with 2-3 accompanying "attacks," and someone doesn't even bother to send a PM, I think a poster should have a right to defend/explain themselves. But whatever. I guess there's only one side of an equation...and anything that goes against that narrative isn't allowed or tolerated.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-012409248.html Bryant billboard will rankle the Cubs a bit...

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 09:52 AM) ok i know i am a weird person with a quirky sense of humor. but i like Caulfield's post. i laugh when he does it and i sometimes catch myself counting the names. it is all fun..... Poor Caulfield he is the abuse puppy today. When I first joined the chisox.com/mlb messageboards, there was this guy (colonel sat 46) who always wrote about or posted the names of Sox players from the 1950's, 60's and 70's, even though they weren't necessarily relevant or germane to the conversations of a decade ago. I appreciated hearing them and looked up all of them to discover more about my favorite team and its history during that time. I didn't really begin to follow the team until about 1979 (the reasons I became a fan were that Claudell Washington was the first MLB player to respond by autographing a baseball card I sent to 35th and Shields, and my FAVORITE Uncle Frank was a blue collar/working class White Sox fanatic.....he worked for the Dubuque Iowa (hams and meats) Packing Company...and my other uncle I wasn't quite as fond of, and maybe nor was my mother...loved the Cubs). So I kind of inherited a fandom that had been a barren wasteland from 1959 until 1983. At any rate, it's my way of bringing up sometimes the obscure players of my youth, the 70's and mostly 80's and 90's....for the posters on the internet who are in their teens and twenties. Maybe 98% of the people will ignore it, but that's not the point, either. Maybe it will annoy or irritate someone. Not my intention...either. At any rate, Colsat46 was very close "online friends" with ncorgbl, who was the greatest internet bully in the history of the messageboards and the reason I eventually migrated away from chisox.com anarchy to wsi and then finally to soxtalk. I was very sad to hear that he passed away at some point around that time. Maybe in his memory, I took it upon myself to do the same type of thing with some of my posting style as he did with his, while maintaining my own sense of style. Maybe it's pointless and young people today only care about what's right in front of them, the future and what happened within their memory or perhaps lifetime.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 03:51 PM) That is my favorite video of his. Wood bat and he just crushes the ball to center. Ryan Sweeney? I'm joking. Not 100% sure about the Splendid Splinter (hopefully not his personality, either), but a very picturesque swing for a high school kid. Nice frame and projectability.

Nicely done, albeit a day late and dollar short in its timeliness, lol. Beautiful to watch, yes...engaging/captivating....it falls short. Aspires to be great, sure. Is it entertaining? In stretches, but the plot just wasn't so simple and concise as Gravity (convoluted would be a charitable word), which, no matter your feelings on Clooney or Sandra Bullock, was MUCH more riveting and interesting as far as a memorable/enjoyable theatre going experience.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) IMO, we should take them as really high variance guesses. I think that, in a way, things like the Rodon projection are the "x factors" in that they can skew the team wildly in each direction. He could really be the difference between being dragged down by a bad back-end or being vaulted to the post-season by an unexpected ace that gets use two or three extra wins in a tight division. Awkwardly timely, here's this article about the "most vulnerable rotations," essentially an attempt to quantify rotation depth this year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-most-vu...tations-in-mlb/ I guess there's my good argument for Dick Allen about the Royals, haha. That Finnegan's one of the top 3-4 guys waiting there in the wings, along with Medlen, Hochevar, Kyle Zimmer, etc.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 09:12 AM) Fine then I will have the last say on it. We are all here glorifying athletes as fans . We speak about them all the time. We pay to watch them perform . My god the things people get annoyed about. Chill out. It's only distracting if you let it be. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. The only important question is whether Ventura, Hahn and Cooper are having this exact same conversation internally...and, with the $28 million still invested in Danks, the answer (at this point) has to be no...that they won't revisit the "Danks issue" until at least the middle of May and/or until Rodon lights Charlotte on fire like Katniss Everdeen appearing on the scene.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 3, 2015 -> 10:42 AM) That's why you get as many as you can. I'm sure the Giants thought it would be Lincecum for awhile. Pitcher's success is fickle. They still won due to the pitching. And Cain. Or even Zito. Is David Haugh getting paid by the Cubs, too? Good God, this doesn't even strike the reader as halfway objective. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colum...404-column.html

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 06:29 AM) i think most here already knows not to get overly excited about this signing. it is confusing move but all i have to do is hope. i know i am not going to put too much faith in Lindstrom, remember he was cut from another team, the sox gave him a offer on a silver plate. i just have to hope in the best. Noesi was cut twice in less than a month before pitching quite effectively for the Sox last year. I think the same thing happened with one of the Orioles' "surprise" breakout hitters in the last 2-3 months....that they picked up on waivers, the name's eluding me right now.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 08:30 AM) Who said anything about getting a veteran. I took that as cutting bait on Danks Do you honestly believe that type of move is possible in April/May? Don't think so. He's going to be first Zitoed/Lincecumed into the bullpen to replace Jennings or Duke, probably Jennings...or used as the long man. In order to try for SOME rebound in his confidence/net asset value.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 08:19 AM) I refuse to take much serious stock in any minor league performance. I think you have to give Danks the month of April to see what he can do. If he isn't a MLB pitcher at that point, then Hahn is gonna have to head up to Jerry's office and beg to waste a good chunk of money. Umm..we already have Rodon, why do we have to spend MORE money to bring in a veteran? Not to mention Beck and Erik Johnson, we're not going to spend another $5-10 million for a back end rotation piece at this point in the proceedings when we haven't the last two offseasons....with Noesi proving the point it's not really necessary, but need good scouting and/or Don Cooper.