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One of the things that I have not see mentioned as a bit of context. John Angelos is the son of Peter Angelos, the principal owner of the Orioles. Peter, who made his fortune as a labor lawyer (representing people in discrimination cases) was the only owner who refused to field scabs during the 1994-95 players strike: “It’s clear that he had a different attitude from a number of the other owners on whether the course they’d embarked upon was wise,” understates Don Fehr, the MLBPA head at the time. It wasn’t just that Cal Ripken Jr.'s sacred streak would end, as cynics sniped. You’d taken labor’s side against management all your life. Never had a corporate client, you like to brag. “Peter hates corporate America,” says a former associate who spent much of his adulthood working for your firm. “You hear him say it all the time. ‘Those no-good motherf-----s.’ This is a guy who wore short-sleeve shirts to work with a tie. He had his office in a blue-collar section of Baltimore. He was a peasant. A peasant who got rich. A peasant who got rich and bought a baseball team.”[emphasis added] 66 COMMENTS Tip Jar Tasini Apr 27, 12:39p recommend 305 Peter Angelos took on the tobacco industry way back when and won big time. I met him once when I was with my uncle -- a legendary Baltimore trial attorney at a restaurant in Little Italy. Angelos had his own special table but he rarely got to it because he stopped to talk to the "little" people at the bar on the way. Very good to hear his son inherited his good character traits. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/138...er?detail=email http://www.yurasko.net/wfy/2010/08/angelos...ravens-too.html http://wnst.net/nfl/it-was-peter-angelos-v...-ravens-rights/ While it is well established that Baltimore Orioles and MASN owner Peter Angelos hates the Washington Nationals and the greater Washington D.C. region, it is less well-known that he hates the Baltimore Ravens too. The wannabe megalomaniac apparently scuttled a deal with the Ravens to air team programming that had been approved in principle in April. It is alleged that Angelos ended the deal because he could not deal directly with Ravens owner Steve Biscotti, who preferred to delegate the responsibilities to more qualified employees. So, is the lesson of all of this not to take the slights by Angelos and MASN personally because he hates Baltimoreans too? Nah, I think the lesson is that Angelos ruins everything he is involved in and we should still crush him at every opportunity and never buy tickets to Orioles games. The story above is from a Baltimore radio station that dislikes Angelos even more than me.

“It’s going to be an interesting experience, a little bit different, but obviously from a safety standpoint it makes sense,” Sox general manager Rick Hahn said. “Also it helps potentially relieve some of the log jams later in the season in terms of makeup games.” An Orioles spokesman said media and scouts will be allowed to attend, along with an undisclosed number of employees, but areas surrounding the ballpark will be closed to onlookers. The scoreboard will be functioning, but it’s likely many of the other frills of a major-league game won’t be in operation. www.chicagotribune.com/sports http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/makeup...&ocid=yahoo The players and GM, at least publicly, seem to be taking the situation in stride.

Looks like Montas had a new baby around March 8th...maybe some personal issues off the field? No idea.

Springer and C. Carter have been garbage so far at the plate. Looking at their line-up, you would assume that Jose Altuve is their only threat. They've done quite a good job with some guys like McHugh and Keuchel that weren't so highly regarded. Roberto Hernandez/Fausto Carmona's pitching like he did five or six years ago with the Indians. Feldman's been decent. So you have 4 guys in the top 23 AL WHIP's. That's a major reason.

(Bob) Nightengale lists the Cardinals, Red Sox, Dodgers and Blue Jays as teams that could desperately use Hamels in their rotation. The Blue Jays wouldn’t seem to have the payroll capacity to add Hamels’ contract, but perhaps with enough money being paid down, something could be worked out. And for what it’s worth, Amaro did mention Toronto GM when making a tongue-in-cheek comment about his stress levels regarding the Hamels negotiations, stating: “I guarantee I’ll get more grey hairs from my daughter [taking her driving test] than any trade talks with Mozeliak, Anthopoulos and Cherington.” Nightengale adds that Amaro had talks regarding Hamels with a team as recently as Tuesday morning, and “some desperation” began to creep into those talks. www.mlbtraderumors.com Since this article was written, Tanaka also went down for the Yankees.

Greg, did you just watch an episode of the Walking Dead?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-sce...nt-for-baseball Is Kris Bryant a turning point for baseball?

http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ss...#incart_m-rpt-1 Cleveland's NEXT!!!! Have they lost their minds? That has to be the definition of idiocy. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...428-column.html Another heartwarming Baltimore story...

But one tweet got particular attention from activists. Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter and the director of the Truth and Reinvestment Campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, said she was most concerned about a letter the Baltimore Police Department tweeted that indicated a "credible threat" of violence from rival gangs including the Bloods and Crips. https://twitter.com/BaltimorePolice/status/...711198241595395 "I think there is the conversation that happens on social media from law enforcement in many places that some people would say are just lies," Cullors said. "They are putting out information on the one hand and on the other hand propaganda." Baltimore police didn't respond to requests for comment on their social media strategy. http://zh.scribd.com/doc/263262264/Credible-Threat (If you note in the comments, already twitter followers were asking exactly where/how this "credible threat" originated, for some type of evidence or proof besides taking the words of the press release at face value) http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/politics/bal...edia/index.html What a LOAD OF CRAP. Now the public is discovering that gangs never said such a thing. JUST MORE LIES FROM BALTIMORE PD, but what can you expect? They've been spinning this for all it's worth in order to justify the VIOLENCE they have perpetrated against Baltimore civilians FOR YEARS. This is just MORE BULLs*** from Baltimore PD. DON'T BUY INTO IT!! The people perpetrating the VIOLENCE are the very same provocateurs that appeared in Ferguson last year. The people throwing rocks and bottles AREN'T EVEN FROM BALTIMORE - they've been bused-in, and they've been instructed to INCITE VIOLENCE. THEY ARE NOT Baltimore Civilians! Don't buy into the HYPE, people! Baltimore PD is full of s*** and LIES. Whether ANY of that is true or not, the fact that some (or even many) in the African-American community believe it to be possible or even probable shows just how shattered the relationship is...and how little trust there actually is between both sides. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...ory.html#page=1 Analysis of the gang involvement/non-involvement in the riots....some are questioning the "glorifying" of gangs by making public appearances with them constantly in an attempt to demonstrate they're not collaborating or working to "take out" the police

Exactly what I’ve been saying. I follow a bunch of activisits on twitter because I’m cool like that, and they were literally predicting that this was going to happen. Once you started to see the police’s actions, it was pretty clear. This wasn’t a reactive move on BPD’s part, it was an offensive. And it worked like a charm because white America is now shocked that a CVS was burned down and a baseball game postponed, so they don’t give a f*** about the man killed in police custody. Well played, Baltimore Police. To think I wanted to be one of those f***ers back in the day. Oh, to be a college student again. from the comments section there at gawker...entertaining reading http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social...rss=rss_traffic Social media helped Balt police plan for mayhem

Then it's very simple. Name them "co-players of the month." Problem solved. Plus you create twice as many interesting players to follow for more casual fans.

What next, Uribe for 3B? Buehrle/Greg/Ozzie reunion? AJ is streaky...let's just see where he's at June 15th. Perhaps we need to bring back Carl Everett from his docent position at the Dinosaur National Monument.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...0428-story.html This woman from the community center that was torched is incredibly upbeat/positive and resilient in the face of such an event...laudable. No time for feeling sorry for herself or her organization. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore...-son/index.html The woman who smacked her son and cursed at him for participating is now the main story on CNN's homepage. SIGH. http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-condemns...eath-1430246886 In addition to local police, the FBI is investigating the circumstances of Mr. Gray’s death, although “federal jurisdiction in these cases is limited and they are hard to make,” said William Yeomans, who once led the Justice Department’s civil-rights division and is now a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. Investigations can highlight best practices for police departments, but they alone won’t address all the problems, Mr. Yeomans said. “The trick now is figuring out how you convince other police departments to adopt those best practices.” Since last fall, the Justice Department has been engaged in what it calls a “collaborative reform” effort with the Baltimore police department on its policies. That level of scrutiny from the federal government is a step below the pattern and practice investigation that the department launched into the Ferguson, Mo., police department. “The challenge for us as the federal government is that we don’t run these police forces,” Mr. Obama said. “But what I can do is to start working with them collaboratively so that they can begin this process of change themselves.”

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 08:11 PM) Anderson went 2-4, got caught stealing and was ejected by the 2nd base umpire. Seems like he'll fit right in with Vince Coleman eventually.

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...jordan-guerrero I'll go with Guerrero simply because you can never have too many quality lefties...worst-case scenario, trade bait. And he's got youth on his side as well, only 20.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles...ory.html#page=1 This game tomorrow has the "honor" of being the lowest attended game (beating the previous record of 5-6) in the history of MLB. Yay, that's going to put us on the front segment of SportsCenter at least.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 07:36 PM) Tanaka on the DL. Who didn't see that coming? Every GM in baseball saw that coming the day the contract was signed. Bullet (and a huge one) dodged by the White Sox there.

QUOTE (staxx @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 07:46 PM) He's the type of player that could skyrocket on our prospect list with a good season. Speed and defense, i love it. Engel's also kind of similar to Eaton (tools-wise)...but with the pop to hopefully hit 7-10 homers a year? Is that too optimistic? I realize physically he's much bigger (at least six feet) and more reminiscent of Trout than Adam.

LOL. Injury thread updates for Soxtalk posters. I could have sworn I had a stress fracture of the tibia (on the right outside side, maybe 3-4 inches up from the ankle) and that it wasn't showing up on the x-rays (probably needed a bone scan or MRI, but haven't gone back again). Playing badminton very 2-3 hours per night 4-5 days or nights per week after no strenuous physical activity for 5 months at age 45. One night the first time it started to hurt, I wrapped it very tightly with medical tape (thought it was anterior constrainment?) and it was fine until sharp pains the next night that I thought meant it had to be broken, a stress fracture or at the very least shin splints. Thought it might be caused by not wearing specially-designed badminton court shoes...always wear Nike running shoes (lightweight) and never stretch before playing like I should. Now it's about two weeks and the pain has subsided about 90-95% and I feel close to ready to play...as a cross country runner and soccer player growing up, I never had shin splints so I'm not sure how to differentiate between that, a stress fracture, that ACM thing and just my own idea that the tendon/muscle has a tear/strain (or has torn away from a bone slightly) and that the only method to get better is not playing badminton or basketball for at least two weeks. When I flex it up and down "vertically" there's still a little pain but nothing like two weeks ago. But it's the area (lower shin/ankle) that I really messed up five months ago when I landed off balance when I jumped in the air and felt acute pain on both sides of the ankle simultaneously...which bothered me for the next 4-5 months until maybe the end of March.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 06:06 PM) I don't have any good comparison studies (that I'm aware of) for you to look at, but an interesting comparison for you to abstractly think about would be Minneapolis and St. Paul. Obviously comparable for many reasons. Minneapolis is typically seen as the force that only hires ex-military. Interestingly, 94% of Minneapolis officers and 78% of St. Paul cops don't live in their respective cities. The tension between the Minneapolis PD and North Minneapolis (yes, this is the typically poorer and mostly black part of town) is pretty well known. Not sure if it's as blatant or widespread in St. Paul. That's why Kansas City, KS, had a program to provide reduced cost housing/favorable loan terms to their police officers and I'm pretty sure public school teachers as well...to keep them in the community they serve, hopefully fostering and improving their relationship with that aforementioned neighborhood.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Do we know Varys ends up in Meereen? Could he go back when he can't find Tyrion? They didn't re-introduce Kevan on the show for no reason, so I suspect something will still happen to him. Reading that, I can't help but think of White Sox catchers and the fact nobody has a normal name, lol. Nobody has mentioned our "lost knight," Brienne of Tarth...and the differences with the Clegane/s story from the book. Finally, not sure how they're going to reconnect Tyrion's right hand man, although they did at least have him meeting with Jamie Lannister to continue that plot thread (maybe not in a detailed fashion like Martin does).

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 05:46 PM) Ex Machina, wow! Is the lead actress in that film as good as some critics are claiming? Wish I could see it here in China...perhaps it will show up 6 months from now. As is, it's going to get swallowed by Avengers 2 on May 12th. Meanwhile, Furious 7 is continuing to outpace US box office numbers. www.cbooo.cn

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) As far as bad crippling pitcher contracts go, Danks is far from the worst. Just tossing that out there. He's actually underpaid and should undoubtedly get another extension. His WHIP ranks him as a 3 starter.

QUOTE (MDWhiteSoxFan @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 05:09 PM) Is Danks really pitching that bad this year? His first start wasn't good but that KC team was very hot and no one looked good against them on our staff. His 2nd start was bad yes. His last 2 against the same teams his first 2 were against 4.50 era, 1.16 WHIP with 12 k's. I think that's pretty solid for a 4 or 5 starter. He's 99th out of 114 qualified MLB starters in ERA. (Quintana is 108th). OTOH, and DA will love this....he's 69th in WHIP, with Quintana at 94th. This means we're about to get a post arguing that Danks is really a #3 starter and earning every cent of his money, and blah blah there were the same number of starts made by other non-qualified starters with WORSE statistics than John Danks as the possible combinations (a LONG number with 18 zeroes) of ENIGMA CODE hits. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/order/true Noesi would be tied with J. Zimmermann for 22nd worst ERA at 5.23. Of course, Carlos Rodon didn't help his (Hector's) cause by allowing all of his inherited runners to score last time out. Noesi's 1.45 WHIP is worse than Danks by about 0.1

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) In a season where the Sox are actually trying to get to the playoffs, they'd be left needing to count on 30 plus good starts from Noesi and 20 plus from Rodon while he is on an innings limit. They'd be an injury away from putting Scott Carrol in the starting rotation. It would be idiotic. What they have now allows them to, down the road, limit the innings of whoever isn't getting it done out of Danks/Noesi without spending all of Rodon's innings before the season ends. If you're already prepared to write off Erik Johnson, Beck and assume Montas can't contribute anything this season. At any rate, was just trying to think outside the box. Just more of an intellectual exercise. Nothing we say here matters in the overall scheme of things, of course. It's just for fun. Maybe my intention was to rally support to John Danks because I felt sympathy for DA getting picked on such much the last couple of weeks, lol.