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QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:18 PM) I mean deal him before the market gets better. Castro and others are better targets for contenders. Why would the Astros want to trade Castro right now?

QUOTE (Dunt @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:16 PM) This team plays some of the most uninspiring baseball I've witnessed in my 30 years on this planet. Free agents have been complete non-factors outside the bullpen guys. Cabrera's the most worrisome IMO.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:15 PM) I agree with all of this. Putting us back in 2007 mode. Seems we waited 7-10 days too late to bring up Sanchez...cold offensively now.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:08 PM) Yes I do. Maybe his stats arent there yet but I like him to replace Alexei and I feel like this is the time to deal him especially with better players coming on the market eventually. But we haven't really been in the market for the guys like Hanley Ramirez or Sandoval. We can have Beckham/Conor tread water, but it's almost impossible to replace 3b, SS and C quickly or cheaply.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:07 PM) Alright boys, time to score some f***ing runs. Been in this thread for 15 minutes and already sick of the negativity. When you walk 7 and Jamie Carroll's in the game....hard to expect much optimism, especially with the Royals, Tigers and Twins winning. Plus, the A's are basically another version of the Twins, except less hitting after Semien and Reddick.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 15, 2015 -> 10:03 PM) I think I'm one of the few that would like to see the younger guys get some shots this year. I think its time to build while we still have Abreu, Sale and Q under control. Avasail coming around is a bonus as well. I'd like to deal Alexei as part of this. Who? Thompson? Anderson? Sanchez and Johnson? Kevan Smith?

Still in the game but offense obviously needs to pick it up. Avi not being selective in the first, imo, key at-bat of the game. Have to put pressure on the pitcher, not on yourself, with bases loaded and no outs.

More walks. Didnt take advantage of the opportunities in the first. Reddick is tough this year...the end.

"Wow, that was unfreaking believeable." Castro wasn't even going to try to score that time. Never seen it happen where the same precise situation in walk-off position repeated itself two times in a row. Just weird. Who do the Cubs play next, Lillian's Phillies with Grady Sizemore? Is Graffanino still around, haha?

Reverse Brant Brown/Moises Alou jinx. Meanwhile, Bryant almost has five homers in a week.

Thats what would have happened if Alex Gordon tried to score in the World Series. Cubs with another chance to blow it or walk off in the 12th. Soler just had a really tough catch in the sun down the line off the pitcher Worley...Pirates down to final bullpen guy. Little Ceasar's up again.

Interesting the Levine article specifically mentioned how much time Ventura was working with Micah on his defense. Now you have "more hands on" (which flies in the face of spending too much time with individual players) and now no more Johnson. Maybe he was Robin's pet project and Ventura can go back to the bigger picture of managing the entire roster and remembering Bonifacio's on the roster? Whose decision was this, ultimately?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-044426787.html Rockies' announcers go on weird anti-Josh Hamilton tirade

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 14, 2015 -> 08:27 PM) It's official: the Bulls are the 90's Jazz, Pacers and Knicks. They will NEVER, EVER beat LeBron James when it matters. LeBron is eight wins away from bumping MJ from his GOAT throne. You forgot the Craig Ehlo-led Cavaliers, lol.

QUOTE (InTheDriversSeat @ May 14, 2015 -> 07:55 PM) Tom Paciorek is originally from Detroit, but I believe he lives outside Atlanta. I don't think the distance really mattered because Tom was only announcing a few road series per season. My hope is that Aaron Rowand is trying out this weekend for other future projects with the Sox, and that Tom returns to the booth in the future with Hawk when Steve Stone is skipping a road series. Jack McDowell is an anti-ownership guy, just like Steve Lyons but I read somewhere that Steve Lyons is now announcing games for the Red Sox. I had to provide Lyons all the stats/player backgrounds when ESPN was broadcasting selected minor league games in early 1995 (because of the strike) at Augusta....he was a pretty cool guy, I (of course) had to ask him about the time at 1B where he slid into the bag headfirst and started stripping off his pants in front of everyone like he was in the locker room. Probably the millionth time he'd been asked about that one, but took it in good stride.

And Hoiberg's the automatic solution?

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 14, 2015 -> 06:47 PM) yea any talk of "scapegoat" is ridiculous. He's been historically awful. You can't have that. Let's just put it this way. They have zero solutions for the defensive struggles of Eaton, Flowers/Soto, Avi and Alexei in Charlotte or BIRM. They DO have the option of playing Beckham, Bonifacio (not that he's a Gold Glover, either) and Sanchez more often at 2B and 3B. (And no, bringing up Rondon to play SS isn't a solution, either.)

Doesn't Paciorek live in Atlanta? I could be wrong. Or Detroit? I wouldn't want to make that long trip either, unless I was already out in California. Jack McDowell has been on the periphery a few times as well, but perhaps he's too outspoken/controversial for JR's taste.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 14, 2015 -> 07:02 PM) Lots of good arms, but now with Rodon called up, who do you project to be a starter at the big league level? To me, Montas is absolutely a reliever. Danish is 50/50, as he's going to have to find a way to get lefties out. Adams is likely a starter, but he's a long ways away. Nobody besides the iffy possibilities of Erik Johnson and Beck (also more likely a reliever). If you start talking about Winston-Salem, more possibilities but 1 1/2 - 2 seasons away. Actually, other than Fry....not much to be excited about. Dykstra doesn't have overwhelming stuff. Wheeler and Ynoa have their fans, too...but, once again, nobody's projecting Ynoa as a starter anymore.

Is there ANY example over the last decade where we've handled young players extremely well (and, no, the response had better not be Alexei Ramirez or Jose Abreu) in terms of their promotion schedule and development.....??? This feels like 2006, where Anderson's offense suddenly became a problem in the 2nd half when the rest of the team started struggling. Micah became the scapegoat for the bad D, instead of guys like Eaton, Flowers/Soto, Alexei, Avi, Conor, etc. It also feels like a repeat of last season, when they pulled the plug on Semien. The problem is that the young player always suffers when we're selling the fanbase that we're competing...whereas the even bigger problems are never addressed. Oh, well.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?g...&mode=video Trout robbed a home run and then made an even much better play catching a flare and then gunning down Carlos Gonzalez at the plate from medium-depth CF while off-balance. Defense wins! (Poor Rockies, 11 losses in a row now).

The new Mad Max movie has only 1 negative review out of around 120 at RT (and yet there doesn't seem to be a huge buzz about it...maybe Tom Hardy just doesn't have a big enough fanbase/awareness yet?). Pitch Perfect 2, which is widely expected to win the box office battle this weekend, is around 75%, which is still not too bad for a sequel.

It was very hard to pick up in the Quad Cities...especially at night. Nothing like the days of 670 WMAQ.

This move is fine, whatever. They should never have tried it from the beginning in a year they were attempting to contend, though. Everyone throughout the offseason said he didn't have enough AAA success or experience, so why the rush when the defensive fundamentals just wasn't there yet? My biggest concern is that Beckham and Bonifacio play a lot now....the team finishes 5 games under .500 and the organization still has no clue about who should be playing 2B next year and ends up picking up Emilio's 2016 option, lol. Hopefully it's very clear at the end of the year who should be the starter...not one of those situations where we're hoping and praying, like with Tyler Flowers and Conor.