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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) Hopefully no one falls off Yeah, keep Sale away from ANYTHING resembling a truck. And now we can dump on Conor Gillaspie's defensive shortcomings.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 02:04 PM) Well, I for one cannot wait to see the players ride in on CHEVY TRUCKS tomorrow. And Rise Against! Rise Against the Machines, Ultron or any team in the AL Central (not named Minnesota)???

Perfect justice in the universal balance sense of things. Paulo Orlando's now getting revenge on his former organization. Rick Hahn's "basking in the sun" moment has lasted all of 15 minutes. Reality beckons.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) I will laugh my ass off if we tie this game up. Literally, it will fall off. Is that Bobby Molinaro or Bottles Blow-a-sav-io?

Conor will go yard here, lol.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:57 PM) Bringing up Rodon won't add anything significant to payroll. Let him start a couple of games at Charlotte. If he is lights out, bring him up. If Sox continue playing like this, someone here (LDF?) will soon be talking about the 2016 draft class. As soon as flavum gives up with his mathematical projections of what we'd need to do to make a run at first place, that's when it is time to give up, lol. I'm sure depending on how Danks/Noesi fare and how Rodon's looking...reality might come sooner rather than later for one of them. Probably Noesi, due to payroll considerations.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:56 PM) Oh no, this 0-3 made me realize some fans may be calling for the Sox to lose as many games as possible to get a better draft pick. NOOoooooooooooo. Please nooooooooo. Greg, stop. The season's way too early for "trade deadline" or firesale talk.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:54 PM) No one cares in the Chicago media right now. The focus will turn to the NBA playoffs, Blackhawks and Bears draft. Yeah, you're right. Living here in China, I'm kind of isolated from that echo chamber. One thing is for certain, though....when you have a child, your perspective about the White Sox starting a season 0-3 changes remarkably. I'm not really even that upset like I would have been in the past. Just kind of....well, been here, done that, nothing new. 2011 should have taught us not to get TOO excited about this team ahead of its 2016-2019 timetable.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:53 PM) So who do we trade Jose Abreu and Chris Sale to? With Rodon as the PTBNL.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) They better not rush Rodon just to cover for the inadequacies of the current staff. That would be completely idiotic. Everyone knew the weaknesses (entire bullpen, other than Robertson, Danks/Noesi, or Tyler Flowers' likely season to come) nine months ago...they're not new. One thing that will be interesting to watch if they just completely tank coming out of the gate is how hot the pressure on Ventura gets in the media. This reminds me of the opposite of the wave that allowed the White Sox to swallow up the Indians in a series not too long ago in the past....where just about everything went right for us and we completely dominated.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) Rodon better keep his bags picked bc he will be with the Sox soon. This pitching staff or coop has to be changed. Get some through the trade market or something That most definitely WON'T happen. There won't be any knee jerk reactions from Hahn...not in the first week of the season. And they're 100% not in a position to add to the payroll.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:42 PM) Then you aren't balta enough. The team really had a buzz or excitement around them the first couple of weeks, largely because of Micah Johnson's play. Then you had the Sale injury...it's hard to say exactly WHAT transpired, but the air kind of went out of the balloon. Now, the focus will be on our starting pitching, defense, fundamentals, offensive approach...bullpen. Every aspect of this team, which will be an overreaction, but that always happenS when you start slowly out of the game as opposed to starting 7-3 and then getting swept by KC. This will be 7-19 in their last 26 games against KC.

Ventura one batter too late to save this game. Danks about to go to 7-1 lifetime against KC.

Danks will finally turn 30 on tax day, April 15th. Seems like he has been around longer than Brian Cardinal when he played for Purdue. On the plus side, Danks has looked good this game....well, UNTIL NOW. OOPS. That should have been the second homer of the game for Sal Perez.

Guerra warming up...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:35 PM) I don't think Eaton is that fast in the basestealing sense. Great catch, though. Micah may never get on base to steal. Who else is fast? 0-3 is unacceptable. Alexei and Garcia, Sanchez will pick up some steals... Eaton is VERY fast, he's just not adept or confident about baserunning. Cabrera can run a bit, too...maybe not like Alex Rios, but he's not a base clogger, either. Tim Anderson's going to a big weapon, too...if he can refine his raw speed and tools with the help of the minor league coaching staff.

Here we go again. 5th time in 6 innings the Royals have put their leadoff man on base. Playing with fire. Cain with 5 hits in 11 AB's. Heck, looking at the Royals' averages right now is like a waking nightmare.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:32 PM) Even if he doesn't get a complete game, were in the Herrera/Davis/holland part of the pen now You mean the 2005 White Sox bullpen magic act. Except the Royals have "repeatability" with even more depth down there this season...with the possible exception of lefty specialists as Collins is out for the season.

Pretty much any team in baseball could have had Volquez 2-3 seasons ago. Unfortuntely, we ended up with the wrong phenom (for us) in Francisco Liriano (in 2012).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:25 PM) Your obsession with me is quite flattering. Give me an address, I'll send you an autographed photo. I'm surprised you are even following this one with Gordon Beckham "unfairly" out of the line-up... If there was ANY time to reassert their presence in this game...this is it for the White Sox, after the Royals couldn't score Orlando there.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) Per usual, your post is incredibly hard to follow or make sense of. You weren't around the last two or three years, I guess. Kind of an "inside joke." Dick Allen's favorite historical topic is criticizing Don Cooper's "greatness" and/or praising Gordon Beckham. Today, as John Danks is his second favorite player....it's essentially impossible to criticize Cooper since Danks is pitching pretty well. Or he'd have to make the case Danks is doing it all by himself, without any aid or assistance from the pitching coaches/staff.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) A slow start would be a killer to any momentum gained during the offseason First big league hit for former White Sox farmhand Paulo Orlando. Congrats...after so many years laboring in the minors, waiting for his opportunity. 400 meter relay sprinter there...I remember all the quotes about him and Anderson Gomes being the fastest players the White Sox ever brought on board, at least international signings. With the current fear Sox fans (and some players) have for the Tigers and Royals....not even to mention the Indians and their starting rotation, it's not going to take much to set everyone into a panic.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Man in 2013 I had season tickets in row two of 102 and just got to watch Cain be a gazelle out there. The guy is a beast. How about a walk? No one on this team is making Volquez work nor did they in game 1 or 2. Are you questioning our team's offensive approach??? LOL. Dick Allen will smite you with another Cooper reference. Of course, today, he's not able to go down that rabbit hole since Danks is one of his favorites.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:14 PM) So far this season, which is just about over for some, 2 of the White Sox biggest run producers have been Flowers and Beckham, and their best starter, Danks. 75% of SoxTalk will still be around in a month, no matter what. The question is whether the rest of the fanbase will be....if they get off to a really slow start.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 9, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) Man, hitting good players higher in the lineup and bad ones lower is not mumbo jumbo. It's the simplest thing. Gordon has a sore wrist...lingering issue. That's part of the reason, and why he's not in the line-up today following a night game. Temperature down 7 degrees in the last hour or so.