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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 05:40 AM) Amazingly inept at the plate kind of like 0/11 with 7 k's(5 in a row) before that triple? Amazingly boneheaded like staring at a ball and posing when you think the ball is out of the park? Premature evaluation. Wait until the entire series is over. You're really going to use a two game stretch to make some kind of judgment? Nobody on the White Sox could have hit the ball 355 feet to RF in that fashion except for Viciedo and Carlos Quentin when he was hitting like a monster/machine and maybe Beckham his first 2-3 months. Say what you want about his posing, but it inspired the team and stadium, didn't it? He has a 788 OPS for the entire set of playoff games. It's not like it has been a complete disaster. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_...louis-cardinals Great storyline now. Who wins? Puig or Beltran? Something's got to give.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 07:52 PM) It is amazing that he still got a triple out of that. I would imagine if he wasn't posing and watching the ball after contact, and hustling out of the box that he could have gotten an inside the park homer. He was MOVING Therein lies the problem with the White Sox. There's a malaise. Except for Sale, there's no player you can ever put together with "amazing" and the same sentence except when DeAza, Ramirez or Viciedo do something amazingly bone-headed, or one of Ventura's managerial moves. Or Dunn/Flowers/Konerko etc., looked amazingly inept at the plate.

Lonnie "Skates" Smith?

The problem is that we need leadership from DeAza....he's at that age where he's going to be a role model to players like Viciedo and Avisail Garcia, and it doesn't matter how much money he's earning, if he continues to make as many mistakes on the basepaths and in the field, it's not going to be good for the organization and developing the right tendencies in our younger players. Of course, that's not all on DeAza, it's also on the coaching staff as well.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 06:27 AM) I didn't know the grandmother, but I believe she is polish, and I've seen her picture, she's white. The parents of the child I know, and both of them are white. Okay, thanks for the correction. http://truenewsusa.blogspot.com/2013/10/ba...awn-police.html This story (starting off with the pierogi/pirogi) and the "comments section," my God, you would believe the US was fraying at the seams looking at this...it's 100X worse than a typical yahoo story in that regard

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 09:13 AM) No one said anything about wanting him during the draft. Every comment made was negative. That's not my point. SoxTalk or the minor league aficionados aren't paid in the real world for results and scouting predictions. The White Sox staff is, on the other hand.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 08:18 PM) It's Lars Von Trier. His fans will see it. He doesn't make mainstream stuff. From what I read, it's borderline porn. Plus it's two 2.5 hour movies. Too much for me. Even if Katy Perry was in it?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 10:46 PM) I think he meant this year's Red Sox team makes Theo look bad. Except for all the reasons that team fell apart two years ago and then under Valentine...85-90% of them fall on Theo's shoulders. This year's creation is almost all on Cherington/John Henry.

I'm trying to make sense of some of the idiotic comments at one of the newspaper accounts in Chicago. The mother of the baby was African-American? If that's true, it puts another slant on this story...some were intimating that the grandmother was racist (from her upbringing in Europe) and didn't want a mixed ethnicity grandchild. Don't know if that's true or not...just speculation.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 10:43 PM) No I am not the problem. She was found with the murder weapons. She said she did it. The relatives of this monster woman know she did it. Thus she is GUILTY at least in the court of Greg and I would make sure she didn't walk for this act. I seriously don't know if I've ever heard of a worse crime than this one and I feel so badly for the family of the baby. You would be screened out before you ever made it to the jury by the defense team's experts who look for any of the signs you're exhibiting. You really would have to be a genius to hide your contempt completely for her and give off the impression of impartiality.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 12:12 PM) Peavy and then theo doesn't look like the almighty wonderboy. Why would anyone give credit to Epstein for the Red Sox winning it this season? It's like them giving credit for Cherington for letting Francona go. There's about 15 other factors involved.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:57 PM) They don't play games on paper, they play them on television (per some TV guy). Or on the backs of baseball cards/Strat-O-Matic.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 08:35 PM) Let's not act like it took 4 months for him to be exposed. June was amazing, July was bad, August was great and September/October has been piss poor. We'll see after next year. He was very good against the Braves in the divisional series. He has been just as bad against the Cardinals. He would have finished around 5th or 6th in OPS, still, if the season was extrapolated out. This is probably what he needed to curb some of his more troublesome instincts....failure on the field, in front of the largest possible audience. I'm more upset we didn't take Wacha (instead of Hawkins) at 13th....then again, like Mike Trout, half the teams in baseball missed on him. And Yoenis Cespedes was closer to being in his prime than Puig but had a pretty bad sophomore campaign. (Nevertheless, he was the A's best player against the Tigers, but it wasn't enough).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:46 PM) Puig with a golden sombrero. Somebody do a wellness check on Caulfield. I'm fine. As good as we think our young pitching is, it's nothing compared to the Cardinals. Everyone missed on Wacha, too. In the end, it took about 4 1/2 months before Puig was exposed by great pitching. The only one who is doing anything for the Dodgers right now is Uribe, and he was bad too in this game. Everyone got torn apart. Just like the A's by Verlander twice. That's going to happen in the playoffs. Great pitching wins every time.

By definition, we usually consider such an act to be that of only the mentally ill or criminally insane. Surely, a psychologist will explain her actions or frame of mind and link it to something from her family past, World War II, SOMETHING...does anyone doubt this? After all, that's the defense attorney's job. And therein lies the problem. If she wasn't or right mind/thought (which nobody who would commit such an act COULD be), then how can she be 100% accountable in the current system?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) I don't necessarily think that's true. I think if you encounter 100 Yankees fans and 100 Mariners fans, the Yankee fans are far likelier to be chock full of douchebags and assholes, but expectations and how fans should act is propagated by the media so much any more that fans have a tendency to act as the stigma dictates they should. Every fan base is going to have dickheads and friendly fans, but there are some that are going to be worse. Around 2000-2002, those Mariners fans were pretty hard to deal with. Maybe have Brett Boone as their poster child didn't help matters, but Ichiro was a lot easier to respect when he came along. I guess for the longest time now, Cardinals' fans have been known as the "best" or most loyal...a lot of it is about tradition and their rich, long history of success, very consistent and strong attendance, the fact that St. Louis is a "small market" and yet the team has done so well consistently (10/14 playoff appearances) for so long again now, McGwire's home run streaks/Big Mac Land....then Pujols and now this generation of players being led by all their young pitching. In the 1980's and early 90's, when I was a huge Cardinals' fan, there was no more player beloved in St. Louis than Willie McGee...Cardinals' fans always had an appreciation for their role players as well, like a Jose Oquendo or Joe McEwing type who got the most out of their natural ability. Another example of a beloved player would be Jim Edmonds or Tom Herr. It's just a totally different feeling and atmosphere there...it's kind of a blend of both Chicagos, where the fans really do appreciate baseball but they're also known for it being a "family" type of ballpark to go to. You very rarely have incidents there, despite the long run of the Busch family running the franchise and Budweiser being consumed all around the park.

Jose Bautista would seem to be another example of someone who just exploded at around age 30 after having early success as a prospect and then floundering. Michael Morse. Domonic Brown and Alvarez this year, along with Chris Davis.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) I think the Tigers are going to get shat on. Not with that pitching staff... Just once, I'd love to see Peavy beat the Tigers in a game that really mattered. But there's no doubt that with Donaldson struggling, and Moss, that really crippled the A's offense, no matter how well Cespedes and Crisp played. And Reddick struggled all season long, so no news there.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 11:25 PM) And 2 years later he has proven that 2011 was a complete aberration. I don't know about that, either. He's been "somewhat productive," but not nearly to the level he was for the previous 5-7 years when he was in his NL prime. Neither one is a good or safe investment.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 07:50 PM) How about this marketing campaign? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/n..._n_4077099.html It will definitely bring more press to the film. However, with this kind of subject matter, no matter who brings the film to the screen (see the relative "failure" of Don Jon)...it's always going to struggle to find a mainstream audience. Seeing those posters reminded me of Michael Fassbender in Shame, haha. For what it's worth, maybe if they put Clooney and Sandra Bullock in that movie, it could do well. She's really been incredibly resilient in her personal and professional life. Ten years ago, I never would have believed she'd still be considered "America's Sweetheart." One of the few negative reviews, interestingly, went on and on about how she has such nice legs for a 49 year old. That was a bit weird. That title has floated around from Meg Ryan to Julia Roberts to Reese Witherspoon and now back to Sandra (she was on the top of that category in her Miss Congeniality/While You Were Sleeping/Speed days.) Who's her biggest competition? Emma Stone, perhaps.

Really like Prisoners. A lot of the crowd (here in Indonesia) was gasping and cringing throughout the theatre watching Hugh Jackson, but we all know "hotheads" like that in real life that always believe they're right (when more than half the time they're wrong). They populate all the Little League, flag football, middle school basketball and tennis venues of the US.

3-0...bungled the double play, low throw from Donaldson, Callaspo couldn't control it on the transfer. Could easily have been no out recorded at 2nd base. That's the weakness of Alberto, he's not a very good defender...trying to get the extra offense into the line-up. Well, it seems the four best overall teams will be in the respective championship series...which is going to be fun. However, hard to root for either the Tigers or Red Sox. That leaves everyone rooting for the Dodgers or Cardinals, who are not exactly the most sympathetic of organizations.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 10, 2013 -> 01:16 PM) The thing I don't think a lot of people understand is that the Cubs could conceivably be really bad for a lot more than just the next 1-2 years. As it stands right now, their entire future depends on having a large fraction of high-risk prospects actually turn out. That format could change of course if they do what they should do and trade some of these guys to fill in their pitching staff, but so far they haven't tried to do that, and Castro and Rizzo at the very least did not take steps forward this year. And their "ace" pitcher. The three players on the major league roster that they needed the most progress from, they didn't get it... That's where a team like the Rays are so amazing....they can take regressions from Price, Hellickson, Luke Scott, Jennings and Joyce, and still make it to the playoffs. Unfortunately, they can't quite afford to cover the depth chart across the board, so they'll always have their limitiations like the early 00's A's and Twins teams.

They're not going to trade for Danks based the the PREMISE he's going to add 2-4 MPH. He's going to have to prove that he can do that, and, in that case, he might become valuable to the White Sox again as one of the anchors of their rotation. Not sure that Ethier makes us much better...or how he does. Now if we were trading for the equivalent of Andre Ethier and he played 3B, CF, 2B, 1B or catcher, okay.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/201...09929/0/SEARCH# The Indians were planning to do the exact same thing two years ago. The Indians explained at the time that Major League Baseball plays a role in determining those prices. It's safe to say that the Indians' low regular-season prices — for which I've praised the team — had an impact on the markup; the team has the fifth-lowest average ticket price this season, according to Team Marketing Report's Fan Cost Index. But still, the increase was staggering, and I wanted to keep my eyes peeled for other potential playoff teams' prices. Like the Indians, all teams close to a playoff berth have announced ways their fans can register for a chance to buy playoff tickets. The Detroit Tigers, perhaps a World Series favorite right now with the way they're playing, have not set prices, a spokesman told me Tuesday. The Milwaukee Brewers have not returned emails. But the Atlanta Braves have set prices for the National League Divisional Series, in which the team is a lock to participate. And the difference is marked. The average NLDS ticket price at Turner Field — where the Braves have the ninth-lowest average ticket price, according to TMR — is $50.45, or 29% lower than the Indians' initial prices. The Braves' postseason average is only 6.3% higher than the team's $47.45 regular-season average price. The largest increase was at the lowest price point, from $8 to $20. (The difference between my calculations and Team Marketing Report's: TMR uses a weighted average based on the number of seats in each pricing category. I'm simply taking the average price of all categories listed on a team's website.) Now, there could be other circumstances involved in the discrepancy: For instance, the Braves have had trouble in the past selling playoff tickets — fans may be a bit spoiled by the team's consistent success, something the Indians have, uh, lacked since their mid-to-late-'90s heyday — and the league may have thought the Indians would draw better, given our desire to see a winner. But the wild diversion between the two teams' approach makes me wonder how much influence the league actually has in the process, to which the Indians alluded last month. Even the Rangers, who went to the World Series last year, increased playoff ticket prices less than what the Indians had planned. According to a team news release, the Rangers’ average ticket price for the playoffs, in nine categories, is $56.11. That’s a 62.4% jump over Texas’ $34.55 average in those same categories for regular season “premier” games. The Rangers had some big jumps, like the Indians: grandstand reserved went from $8 to $40. But their most expensive seat increased only $6, to $75. But still, their markup was far less than the Indians’, and Texas’ average ticket price is 21.4% less than Cleveland’s. (And yes, I realize the issue of Indians playoff tickets likely is moot, now. It was a good summer, and hopefully they can get healthy and make another run next season. But this is an interesting issue, given the sensitive relationship between the team, its owner and its fans.)