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http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t...&pid=150337 Has Kip Wells officially announced his retirement?

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) I can't stand football. I know I'm in the extreme minority but I just think it's the dumbest sport, and all they do is talk football like 9 months of the year. I can't even turn on the radio unless there's a game on. But that's better anyway, those guys are all blowhards. To me, the only thing worse is "Track Talk" about Nascar. Love college football, and used to love the NFL when my favorite team (Dolphins) was good back in the 80's and 90's, but yeah....it's the most inane thing in world, listening to hour after hour of talk about the salary cap and off-season workouts, non-contact drills, etc. I think the NFL is running the risk of over-saturating their audience...it's just too much these days.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 09:00 AM) Best of 21, Hawks vs. Bruins. Spare the city from bad baseball. If it goes 7 games, parade on Friday...that can get the city through next weekend, or talking about the future of the team win or lose on Saturday and Sunday. Then you have the distraction of the All-Star Break and the trade deadline to get you through the end of July. New players to watch from August on, Bears' Camp (god, that gets old in a hurry, hearing them talk about the offensive line for a couple of hours), college football season, British Open and PGA championships, Wimbledon and the US Open for tennis, somehow everyone will survive. There's always summer movies, too.

QUOTE (beautox @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 11:59 AM) I would really like to see Axelrod get traded for a high upside low floor major league player that hasn't figured it out yet someone like the following: moustakas, conger, ackley, montero, or ike davis and a low minors live arm coming back as well. Maybe Ackley...but we might as well just trade Beckham straight up for Ackley, right? Seems that Franklin has won the 2B job over there. And you're definitely not going to get a busted prospect and an arm back for Axelrod. Nor would you get anything but laughs if you asked for Moustakas for Axelrod. And Royals have the best pitching in the AL, or close to it. The last thing they need is Dylan Axelrod. That trade would be the official White Flag on Dayton Moore's GM career.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) Martin is just a 5...average regular. You need tons of high ceiling, proejctable talent. If the Sox acquired Brinson, Gallo, and Alfaro I would do backflips. And while I understand there is a considerable amount of risk, having the "we need to find ML ready talent" isn't going to happen, and it's the wrong thing to do. White Sox fans need to get used to thinking that this team is not going to compete for 3 to 4 years. Still, you do need to mix in a few "place holders" to give fans SOMETHING to get excited about, as the odds are you're not going to be able to acquire only Top 100-150 talent that's still in A ball. It might be more like the players in the line of an Anthony Gose or Brett Wallace, etc. Sometimes, you just have to take your shots with a guy like Pedro Alvarez in a "change of scenery" trade.

I can't believe metrosexuals and Pale Hose Talk have collided in the same biosphere.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 07:18 AM) "I can't believe I read the whole thing." Can't sleep. Still on China time. Jet lag. Oh, well. Only two hours until World War Z(ambrano). Just for entertainment's sake, shouldn't we sign him and put Carlos on our Charlotte roster as a DH just to give Phil Rogers something to write about? He could be like Brooks Kieschnick. One of the 10 options should have been..."The more they suck, the higher Greg775's chances of scoring free tickets increase."

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 07:12 AM) Weird, I'm sure they are completely unaware of his presence and they don't have some other motive for keeping him in the minors and it has nothing to do with the jar of crickets he left in manager McEwing's office. It's another classic White Sox Conspiracy.

Discuss/analyze/evaluate/synthesize. (All those good, teacher words from Bloom's Taxonomy).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 06:55 AM) Hawk hates Ginobili. How reassuring. They're just going to stop making bad pitches and redouble their efforts. Shades of 2007? "Maybe more," John Danks replied Thursday when asked to compare the White Sox's current level of frustration with their 90-loss season six years ago. With Rick Hahn in attendance, the only suspense left might be when the Sox general manager finally begins to revamp the 25-man roster after a sloppy 8-4 loss that completed the Twins' three-game sweep and marked the Sox's seventh loss in their last eight games. The last time the Sox (29-41) were 12 games below .500 was at the end of 2007, when they finished 72-90 during Danks' rookie season. "We truly feel we're way too good to be playing like this," said Danks, who allowed a career-high four home runs. "We feel we're just as talented as any team in the league." ... "When you're not playing well, you can see all the warts and everything else, and you see how hard the game is," manager Robin Ventura said. "You don't take it for granted. You keep playing hard and eventually the sun comes out." But the Sox have plenty of clouds to clear before their first American League Central showdown with the Tigers on July 9 in Detroit. The series originally was supposed to serve as a gauge of what direction they would take before the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline. "We all believe we can turn it around tomorrow," Danks said. "We have to do it soon." Ventura said the poor defense has been most disappointing but didn't hint at personnel changes. "The solution is to keep working at it and put importance on it," Ventura said. "The game has never changed in that way."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-171501654.html Mattingly's also supporting Bochy's idea that it would be almost impossible to pick Puig over players who've produced for 2 1/2 months. That said, if MLB.com puts him into the vote, then all bets are off.

In lighter news, Bryant barely hesitated on Thursday in giving his list of the five greatest players in NBA history, and it’s hard to argue with Kobe’s take. From ESPN 710 in Los Angeles, via For the Win: “It’s not very difficult for me. I’d go Magic, Jordan, Bird, Russell and Jabbar. […] “I will say as the years go on people really forget how great Larry Bird was,” Bryant said. “He was ridiculous. And I grew up in LA — just like everyone else here — hating his guts. Dude — the guy was just money.” Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, and Jerry West (the man that traded for Kobe Bryant out of high school back in 1996) may raise a rightful hackle, but it’s hard to not only take issue with that list, or think of a more impactful starting five. www.yahoo.com Tim Duncan might also say hello, since they claimed he was the greatest power forward in NBA history last night.

"I thought they gave everything," Gregg Popovich said. "That's character. We've got a bunch of guys who aren't going to give in, keep playing with each other, for each other, and really feel the responsibility to each other." There are no measures for character, however, not even in this era of advanced statistics. The cold numbers showed Duncan, Ginobili and Parker shot a combined 4-for-13 in the fourth quarter, with six turnovers. www.espn.com

http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/di...0620/daily-dime j4l will like this article, not because it claims that he's the best ever, but it shows how much he has evolved as a player... that said, we're not here if not for Chris Bosh/Ray Allen (who were both terrible yesterday, but James and Wade compensated) http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id...pionship-appeal Why the Heat championship (and near loss) had an appeal to all sports fans around the globe

Miami needs a player like Leonard who can consistently score inside and outside, but isn't afraid to rebound. If you flipped Leonard for Bosh, they'd be 5X the team. We'll see how well Wade comes back. You're right, at that age, with all that wear and tear...you just never know. The thing is, Miami is going to attract some veterans players who desperately want a ring and aren't making salary demands their primary consideration. As great as Lebron played, and hitting that clutch shot to put them up 4...it's not MJ vs. the Cavs or Celtics. In the end, Leonard played a great game but Green undid it and Battier going off absorbed the loss of points from the enigmatic Bosh.

QUOTE (staxx @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 11:00 PM) True. A player that plays everyday compared to once every 5 games. You also have to think about contract situations though. We have Sale cheap for a long time, Stanton won't be as easy to extend and will be $$$ Yeah, I wouldn't trade Sale for Stanton for that reason. Of course, you might be kicking yourself a year or two from now when/if he goes down to injury, not unlike everyone now being exasperated by the prospect of John Danks stuck on the roster as dead weight for 3 1/2 more years if he can't come back and be productive.

World War Z tmrw. Have been swayed by all the positive reviews. And UNDEFEATED, that's a heckuva sports documentary film. One of the five best, undoubtedly. http://www.mediamikes.com/2013/02/coach-bi...ary-undefeated/

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) Jason Marquis struck him out....he's human! Yep, Puig stands way off the plate. Two sliders, down and away. Had him off balance once he got ahead in the count. He threw all sliders to Uribe.

Where is the White Sox Leonard? Man, that guy is growing up on a national stage. From that draft, Leonard and Faried had more of an impact from 15 and 22 than most of the Top 10 picks.

One Man, Five Tools speed power, fielding contact a cannon for an arm one man, five tools speed power, fielding contact a cannon for an arm one man, five tools f*** the walk, destroy the ball crush smash kill... annihilate one man, five tools http://puigdestroyer.bandcamp.com/track/one-man-five-tools

Homer #6. Opposite field, right center...well, closer to straightaway, about 390 or 395. Struggling at just a .483 average. "He is not to be believed, because this game is just not that easy. Now he and Joe DiMaggio were tied, 27 hits in their first 15 games, however, in his 16th game, DiMaggio had three hits." Vin Scully Dodgers rookie sensation Yasiel Puig has made quite an impression in less than two weeks since getting called up to the big leagues. On the field, the outfielder has more or less done it all. He hit four home runs in his first five major-league games — including a two-homer performance in his second career game and a grand slam in his fourth game. He’s also showcased a laser right arm when his jaw-dropping throw from right field to third base gunned down a baserunner during a game against the Braves last week. Puig is earning plenty of attention, even breaking Dodgers merchandise records along the way, as his legend continues to grow. And apparently, a few Los Angeles-area musicians are taking notice, too. Puig is the inspiration for the newest grindcore rock band, aptly named “Puig Destroyer,” following his dominant debut in a Dodgers uniform. It originally began as a joke, Ian Miller, one of the band’s members, wrote, but has spawned into something greater. The group consists of Miller, Jon Howell and Mike Minnick as drum programmers as well as lead vocalist Riley Breckenridge, who described the new band as a “baseball-themed grindcore project.” What’s more, the band has already begun recording. It plans on releasing a five-track EP soon, which will include its first song, “One Man, Five Tools,” which was released for download on Thursday. No word on if Puig plans to use the 48-second track as a new walk-up song, but you can give it a listen below, courtesy of Puig Destroyer’s Band Camp page. Read more at: http://nesn.com/2013/06/yasiel-puig-inspir...puig-destroyer/

10 1/2 games back of the Tigers...Bailey blew a save at Comerica, Peralta with the walk-off homer.

QUOTE (staxx @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 07:42 PM) personally I think a Sale for Stanton trade would be pointless. You're trading one franchise player for another on opposite sides of the ball. The only argument might be fans would prefer to see offense compared to pitching. Now, we all know you need pitching and defense...but if you're looking at it from a revenue/business standpoint, it's difficult to prove a huge bump in attendance for Sale starts. (The other argument would be health, that Sale's more likely to go down to major surgery at some point than an everyday player, but nobody can be sure or project with 100% accuracy). For example, in Kansas City, there was always a jump of 3-5000 for Greinke starts...or, another example, Halladay in his prime for the Blue Jays when they were consistently finishing at the bottom of the standings.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 07:37 PM) If the Cardinals want to give you Taveras, Adams, Carlos Martinez, Wong and Rosenthal for Sale and Alexei, I would say yes The problem is that a trade like that might get you closer to respectability or a .500 record, but you have to shoot for the stars if you're talking Sale trade partners. The biggest need we have is for a franchise superstar and cornerstone...the type of player that every fan wants to buy their jersey. Unless you're thinking 2-3 moves ahead and are going to package all those prospects for a specific player on another team, like a Mike Stanton...and you can't pull off a trade directly with the Marlins with the system that you have.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 07:17 PM) I don't disagree....but he's literally the only guy on the team that people will actually come to see anymore. You'd maximize apathy within the fan base and depress ticket sales even more. The only thing being the philosophical difference between having a superstar everyday player (say, Puig....if he continues to evolve) and a starting pitcher who only can affect 32-35 games per season. With our offense being in the shape it is, you'd be very tempted...but there's almost no chance of a 1 for 1 trade for a Sale....it would be a load of prospects, and probably end up going down like Maybin and Miller to the Marlins for Cabrera.