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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 02:06 PM) Webb has much better secondary pitches I guess we heard the same thing about Addison Reed's slider, and it was nowhere as good as advertised (like Sergio Santos' stuff before the injury). All I know is Webb seemingly has little command and almost always puts runners on base whenever I catch a game.

Can Mike Ilitch pay a bribe to get the game called before 5+ innings in Minny?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 02:03 PM) I still think it's worth a shot in September to see if he gains a few mph on the heater Petricka has a better repertoire and certainly a better second pitch. Unless Webb's in the high 90's and not 94-96, he's not going to have a very long shelf life.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) RV is so stupid. Webb needs to be closing. I think that was the off-season mantra.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:45 AM) Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 4h Carl Crawford sponsored Chicago's Little League WS team. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/29303480-41...ml#.U_CIwhbgXwI … He picked up families' travel expenses to Williamsport. As well as the Upton brothers and LaTroy Hawkins.

I think it was July 21st, which is about when Cooper left the team. Would have to double check. Stanton hit his 32nd today. Jackie Robinson LL getting smacked around. Must have already used their best pitcher. LV had a pretty impressive (and big) kid there out on the mound.

Well, Baez walked twice in one day (I think the second one was former White Sox, now Mets, pitcher Carlos Torres). Also had a K. Still 22 K's in 55 ab's. Mid 700's OPS. Alcantara's close to getting replaced by Szczur. There's a prospect name. First Samardzija, now this guy.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Zero chance he pitches out of the bullpen next year, not with Boras as his agent. How would that make any sense for the White Sox as well? They need three starters, at least 2. When Sale came up in 2010/11, there were much better rotation options/depth on the roster.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:58 AM) I agree, he'll replace Danks in the rotation in my opinion. Who are they going to trade Danks for, Edwin Jackson? They're not going to simply eat $25-30 million.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:51 AM) The Baseball Cube ‏@thebaseballcube 12h Jim Johnson is back in the big leagues as Tigers purchase his contract. Never would have thought a month ago that the Tigers and A's might be headed for a one-game elimination playoff. They looked like the two favorites in the AL. Obviously, they both could make it...and the Tigers have to be the slight favorites for the division, but there are still a lot of question marks now with Verlander, Sanchez and Soria. Nobody knows how well JD Martinez, Rajai Davis and Castellanos will whether the heat of a pennant race, and rookie SS Suarez has been fading offensively...probably wearing down a bit.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:17 AM) I'm working on interviewing Chris Beck tomorrow (Monday), though I am still trying to work out a time. Assuming I can get it set up, what questions would you like to see asked of him? I've got some in mind, but looking for more ideas. Let's hear 'em! How did Georgia Southern help prepare you for professional baseball?...while it's not a famous school compared to UGA or Ga Tech, it has produced Joey Hamilton/Todd Greene and has had a rich baseball tradition for many decades. What do the White Sox coaches communicate to you about the lack of strikeouts...is there something specific you're working (like Rodon's change-up) on that is cutting your K numbers down from where you'd like them to be (7-10 K/IP)? What are 3 things you feel you need to improve upon to make it to the major leagues and stay there? How have you found the proper balance between "bulking up" physically and what the White Sox strength & conditioning personnel have worked with you on....what, if anything, has changed about your off-season routine?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 09:16 AM) They jump on him for his opinion on Asian(oriental) and Caribbean (you can't walk off the island) players What did he say about Asian players? He loves Ichiro...and was always a big Iguchi fan, Takatsu too, while it lasted with the gong. Because the White Sox used a gong sound, lol?

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 08:56 AM) He retweeted some who said a Hawk was also a racist. What did I miss there? Things like this are why I hate sports talk radio. Yeah, I saw that one, too. Would be funny if it ended up blowing up and kept him from getting his supposed morning show with Spiegel, Two Matts, whatever from 10-1. I guess it's just because Harrelson is old and grew up in (Savannah) Georgia. Not sure where the racism thing came from. Maybe he was still drunk over that time period from the Saturday night 15th Anniversary thing with B&B and wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. Another woman made a comment about insulting your (female) fanbase...someone said something about a bad White Sox team costing him his chance to get a show (not sure what that was supposed to mean).

Matt Abbatacola ‏@MattAbbatacola 12h Too bad the @whitesox allow Ken to use the team broadcasts to be sexist and to express his personal agenda to things not related to baseball

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 02:23 AM) It sure sounds like the cops were brutal and awful in so many ways. Where we are now, though, a person is critical condition tonight because the looters shot one of their own in the street. The cops have to get tough rounding up the looters. Those "Purge" movies are getting closer and closer to reality... Meanwhile, Twitter co-founder/billionaire and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey gets involved with chronicling and supporting Ferguson protesters (good for business or his conscience tweaking him?) http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-co-founder-j...-033543317.html

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2...lb&sid=milb Bryant having an MRI on his foot injury Schwarber's coming back down to earth at Daytona. Soler's still hitting well, though, at Iowa. Nick Gordon and Tyler Kolek haven't exactly been lighting the world on fire in their debuts, either.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/be...ground.cnn.html What I don't get is why someone didn't have the human decency for 3-4 hours to at least cover his body with a sheet or something...anything? It is a bit unreal.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 10:28 PM) I hope they clean house and get rid of all of them, including Webb. Or keep Webb and have him in the minors another year. Nobody in the whole world expected Jake Petricka to be forced into the closer's role as a rookie...it was supposed to be Webb. He was perfectly fine as a reliever (same thing with Putnam) before he was pushed from the 6th-8th into the 9th. I'd also be more likely to keep Guerra than Lindstrom (more expensive) or Belisario. If Matty can't find a deal on the open market and has no choice but to sign something like the Paulino contract, then maybe.

The Royals could definitely use some offensive help. They have Raul Ibanez and his 170ish average in the DH position right now. Things will change when Hosmer comes back, probably...with Butler switching back...despite how well he's been hitting while playing 1B.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 08:32 PM) You sure they weren't talking about Danks? Yep, I'm sure. It was the last inning and Danks was long gone and had pitched "decently."

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 08:01 PM) False I don't know where Farmer and DJ got that idea. They were saying "we have him for two more years, we have to use him and get him back to form" and they don't even have to offer him a contract for next year. Pretty big mistake for the team's broadcasters not to know this.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 08:06 PM) Top 11 is protected. Yes, but today we were out of it (at the start of the day), because 11th is Seattle, and SD and the Mets both had a 1/2 game worse record, so we would have been 12th.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 07:38 PM) Wheeler needs to be moved up. We are bereft of LHP in the upper levels of the minors. Thanks for the vocab word of the day, Chris Sale.

Go Mets! Go Padres! Both will be 1/2 game ahead (or behind, depending on how you look at it) for that 9th secured first round pick YAY! We still have Bellysaurius for 2 more years after this.

King Felix vs. David Price if you get bored with John Danks allowing homers. Thankfully, there's Avisail's 2nd debut. Mariners leading the Tigers by 1/2 game for 2nd WC.