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QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 25, 2013 -> 08:00 PM) Lets trade for Nolasco Can he catch?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:57 PM) Oh Juan! Wonder if Ozzie Guillen was watching that play...

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) What happened ? Juan Pierre's arm, lol.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:48 PM) I love how 90% of us in the game thread wanted Reed and RV keeps Peavy in. You could just feel it coming there...either Dietrich or Ozuna. And, just like that, the game's over. Great call to send Wise against Pierre. It would have been a horrible outcome if he got thrown out there, though. Throw sailed just a bit. Great game for Conor. 3 hits, GW-RBI. Maybe...in the end, getting a knack for winning games with hits in RISP will help this team more than closing that game out in the top of the 9th would have...try to look for a positive in what should have been an easy decision to put Reed in there. If it was the 2012 version of Reed....then I could see with sticking with Peavy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:38 PM) OMG a rain delay might happen? Panic! Riot in the streets! Loot the grocery stores! You know you will be responsible for the rain-out tmrw. Just as good...everyone can debate skipping Axelrod or Axe vs. Santiago, lol.

Just 2 homers to 529 career RH batters for this guy....wow.

Reed...you're going up against their three best hitters, theoretically....need to get some oomph on those pitches, don't want someone running into one and tying the game.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:17 PM) Yadier Molina does an incredible job. Matheny lists 16 characteristics that a Cardinals catcher must have. They range from a "high baseball IQ" and "good communicator," to "exceptional flexibility in the lower ½ muscles" and "capable of taking blame even when it is unjustified." How many of these do Flowers and Gimenez have? Maybe 16 if you combine them with all of our minor league catchers...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) Wow, you're kidding, a 40% chance of showers? My god, we need to build a domed stadium in 24 hours! LOL...DJ said he has a "bad feeling" about tmrw. So your prediction is clear and sunny skies...for the record? No rain delays, guaranteed?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) Wow, you're kidding, a 40% chance of showers? My god, we need to build a domed stadium in 24 hours! LOL...DJ said he has a "bad feeling" about tmrw. So your prediction is clear and sunny skies...for the record? No rain delays, guaranteed?

More bad weather predicted for tmrw. 40% chance of showers throughout the afternoon.

Johnson had runners on 1st and 2nd with just one out in the 7th and escaped without giving up a run. Geez, not sure who is more of a disaster, Walker or Mitchell. Walker's down in the 180's, 0/3 with a K and 5 LOB. Semien has cooled off, too. And somehow, Trayce Thompson always manages to put up decent RBI numbers despite his low BA.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Haha How many times have we heard "he's the best teammate, the hardest worker, he's always the first player to the stadium, most respected, etc." Such a cliche.

Dunn on a 1/21 tear. Sigh. So much for his renaissance. 23,705.

We love throwing anyone out on the base-paths, even a 37 year old Juan Pierre.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2013 -> 06:38 PM) Cards are running out of pitchers. Garcia's out for the year, Westbrook's out, and now Gast left today's game with shoulder tightness. They'll probably call up Wacha now. Wonder if a year from now we're going to be kicking ourselves for not trading them Peavy/Crain/Ramirez in a mega-deal. Even for the Cardinals, that's a LOT of (future) salary to take on (other than Crain). But Peavy/Crain....

Alexei warning track power...until June/July/August. Hard to believe Rios' hitting streak is longer than Joe Mauer's career high, which I'm pretty sure is just 14 or 16.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 25, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) Damn Gordo for having a setback It's part of a conspiracy to play as many close games as possible...if we can get confident winning enough 1 and 2 run games and not blowing opponents out with occasional offensive bursts followed by malaise, it would be closer to the 2005/2008 (minus Quentin) teams.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/pr...a85b1f5ac2.html This is EXACTLY what the White Sox need... "In a simplistic way when we graduate players to the major leagues we're in essence putting a stamp on them that they're ready," general manager John Mozeliak said. "George Kissell or some of the other coaches would take the time to explain why you're doing it. It wasn't just the X's and O's of where to stand and just do it ... it always came with a reason. Sometimes those reasons are open for debate. When you look at the evolution of this (manual) you couldn't whip something up today, put a (cover) on it, and say, 'OK, this is it.' This is something that took decades to form. And it's still changing." Matheny described how they trimmed some bunt defense from last year's version. Ongoing editing is how the Cardinal Way becomes a "living" monument. His chapter on catching is dedicated to Ricketts. His goal was to recall and recapture as much as he remembered from his former coach. A few days before his argument with the ump, Shildt took his catchers aside and read with them the chapter, which dissects the position, from exercises to drills to selflessness. Matheny lists 16 characteristics that a Cardinals catcher must have. They range from a "high baseball IQ" and "good communicator," to "exceptional flexibility in the lower ½ muscles" and "capable of taking blame even when it is unjustified." These traits are non-negotiable, he said. "There's a list of them that I believe are not just important, but critical," Matheny said. "They have to be there or it's going to hurt the team, it's going to hurt your career, and you might as well go somewhere else to another position or another organization if those aren't a part of who you are." That is the overriding sense of the manual. It does have the standard baseball drills in it. A reader can see how Kissell breaks down the infield positions into the 11 different plays a third baseman will see, the 13 a shortstop has to handle, the 12 for second base and so on. But there are also lessons that transcend the field. There are suggestions for the man as well as the Cardinal when it comes to "all things that go into how you're defined," Mozeliak said. * * *

QUOTE (Baron @ May 25, 2013 -> 06:27 PM) Getting my first smart phone tomorrow. Any suggestions? Seems the best are the Iphone 5, Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. Most of my Chinese students prefer I-phone 4S to 5. Samsung has a bigger screen, but I've already known a couple of people who have dropped it a short distance and it broke...so not quite as resilient. HTC has the Quad Core tech, and is an increasingly-popular option here.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2013 -> 06:04 PM) Well, Dunn's hot streak was fun while it lasted. Now 0 for his last 14 with 8 strikeouts. At least he has to sit next Wed and Thurs. 1 for his last 20 with 11 K's. The one hit (homer) was the bomb in the first inning against Lester.

Well...another three base-runners and no runs scored inning. I love Paulie...but I'll be happy when we finally move on from the Dye/AJ/Thome/Dunn/Crede plodding middle of the line-up guys.

QUOTE (Baron @ May 25, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) The Marlins are so freakin terrible. They have a lot more talent, though, than the Astros, IMO. And they'll supplement it, in all likelihood, with a Mike Stanton mega-trade at some point.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 25, 2013 -> 05:22 PM) It was European soccer And all the Fox games started at 6 today I don't care if Messi, David Villa and Xavi are taking on an all-star team with Rooney and Christiano Ronaldo, it shouldn't rank higher than baseball. Peavy gets out of a difficult situation with the double play and a K. Bottom of the 2nd. Ozuna continuing to look dangerous.

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2013/05/k...tle-things.html LONG, but excellent, overview of all the Royals' problems, both this season and historically. Poor Chris Getz is one of the targets, justifiably...he's not a legit lead-off hitter and not a starter for a good team. about 1/4th of the article...and this part is just as relevant to the 2013 Chicago White Sox KC and the little things OK, well, I know what comes next. If you have been around the Kansas City Royals for any extended period of time, you do too. The Royals have lost 14 of their last 18 games. But more, much more, 11 of those 14 losses are by two runs or less. Oh yeah, we know what comes next. Lots and lots and lots of talk about … the little things. Get ready for it. There will be closed door meetings. There will be public proclamations. There will be quotes galore. People from the Royals organization will be lining up to tell us how they’ve got to start doing the little things, they can’t keep messing up the little things, they must concentrate on the little things. Those little things will become an obsession, at least for a little while. At some point manager Ned Yost will say he will not put up with players who don’t do the little things. General manager Dayton Moore will say that the team can’t panic, that it’s simply about getting those little things right. Team leaders will emerge to publicly challenge teammates to do those little things. In a way, I agree with the Royals. Unfortunately, we have very different views of what little things actually matter most. The Royals -- and, really, almost every baseball team -- think of the little things as getting the bunt down, moving runners over, getting them home from third, hitting the cutoff man, getting the sure out and so on. Don’t get me wrong, I believe these are all good things for a team to do, important in their own way. I tend to think of them like I think of the little twisty air blower above your seat on an airplane. It matters. If the plane is hot, that thing feels like an important device. But, you know, even when it’s hot, that little twisty blower doesn’t really power the plane. The Royals are always terrible at close games. Always. They have won just 44% of their one- and two-run games since the 1994 strike, by far the worst percentage in the American League.* They have also lost by far the most blowout games of any team since 1994, but let’s focus on one problem at a time. I believe those close games DO often come down to little things, but I just happen to think those little things have little to do with bunting, productive outs or saving/gaining the extra base. *The Yankees have won 57% of their one- and two-run games sine 1995, by far the best percentage in the AL, which could lead to a long post about about mystique and aura and more hosannas for Mariano. But not right now.