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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:38 PM) Gio's stuff is more dynamic than just about any lefty in baseball. Not named Sale. Imagine if Chris had a forkball/split.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:33 PM) Flowers has been just awful the last 4 games. He's really struggling to get his arms extended against RHP. Facing LHP can't come soon enough for him, Keppinger and Viciedo. Except that theory didn't work too well against GIO for Dayan this time around.

Captain Caveman coming to the dish again this inning. Huge bottom of the 5th for Gavin to hold this to a one run game with the meat of the order looming.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:05 PM) How would you like to have a $130 million payroll with no closer? We can trade them Thornton. The funny thing is Phil Coke was terrible for most of the last couple of years, and ended up being their best reliever down the stretch.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:29 PM) I dont get Gavin...looks good for a while. Makes 1 mistake and then proceeds to crap his pants from that point on. We watched it with Javy for 3 years, same with Floyd from 2009-2013. Nothing new or particularly shocking at this point.

Well, the REAL meltdown would have been walking Zimmerman and bringing Span up to the plate. At least that didn't happen, and Floyd's pitch count is still fairly low for him.

More poor fundamentals letting the runner advance to 2B. Walk Sox killer Suzuki...YIKES.

Haha. Oh, well. SIGH. Hangs a curveball to the guy hitting .148 so far.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:18 PM) He's going to hit way more than that Well, Tanks quietly put up 25 homers. Maybe 30-35 is the betting range or parameter NOW, but I would be pretty shocked by 35+.

Four homers now for Harper. Guess it is only going to take him one year of adjustment to put up a 25-30 homer season. On the plus side, everyone would have taken a tie game going into the 5th, right?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 06:08 PM) Rios may bat .400 this year! Don't jinx him! I said the same thing about Uribe in 2004. Now Dunn will probably hit a solo homer. OR NOT.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 05:44 PM) Dan Hayes is like the awkward art kid in High School. It is tough to even watch. Bring back Sarah Kustok. But she's on to bigger and better things.

Of course, driving in RISP with 2 outs. Not our forte. Always seems to work for the opponents, though. What happened? At MLB.com, it showed the runner scoring and now it disappeared.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 05:28 PM) Now just shut 'em out, Gavin! Surely, you jest? Actually, since it's close to Gavin's home turf, he'll probably throw a no-hitter. Tigers blew a 6-1 lead in DET to the Mighty Jays. The last time I remember that happening with the White Sox was Peavy home game against DET last year where he just imploded and the bullpen (I think Ohman) added fuel to the flames.

Look at how long it has taken Indians fans to come back and support that team after two tear downs. Seattle had a HUGE fanbase a decade ago. Where is it now, without Griffey, the Big Unit, Edgar and Ichiro? Felix Hernandez alone won't get it done. Braves' fans are notorious for sleepwalking through the regular season and not even showing up at playoff time. With all the excitement around Upton now, that might change a bit, although losing Chipper Jones to retirement will hurt a segment of the fans as well. Except for St. Louis and the Cubs and now DET, Midwestern/near Eastern fanbases are NOTORIOUSLY fickle and only follow their teams when they're doing well, although that culture has changed a bit in MIL with the new stadium and change to the NL. The White Sox fans are VERY similar to Royals, Twins, Reds, Indians and Pirates fans. The Cubs/Cardinals are the anomalies, and sometimes we lose sight of that with all the fixation on them because of the local media. We have to take into consideration that we're a smaller market than LA and NY, sharing the city, and also the Midwest has been hardEST hit by the financial recession. Yes, excuses, excuses, I know. Mets fans aren't showing up, and they have a new stadium. And it's not really fair to compare us to the A's/Giants situation because of their stadium/relocation issues. The Baltimore/Nats relationship might be another suitable analogy, though. Even that's not entirely fair, because Camden Yards was perceived as the best of the new stadiums, and ours, originally, the worst or one of the worst.

Maybe Mitchell will end up hot instead of starting out hot and then fading. He has been so inconsistent. And you might as well forget about "hot" springs. Mitchell, Keppinger, Loman...they were all very good in AZ and it didn't carry over at all into the regular season. But yeah, the only prospects to watch are Mitchell and especially Sanchez. Thankfully, Hawkins hit a HR already for W-S. And Mitchell's only a 4/7 stretch from being back at .200. Averages aren't so important until you get into May.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Apr 10, 2013 -> 09:19 AM) My birthday is December 23. For my 17th birthday I received a Brandon McCarthy jersey. I turned 17 in 2006. "December 23, 2006: Traded by the Chicago White Sox with David Paisano (minors) to the Texas Rangers for Jacob Rasner (minors), John Danks and Nick Masset." I think the time to buy a McCarthy jersey would have been sometime in August/September of 2005. Of course, for many of the reasons/players listed above, getting out in front of the crowd, especially with a young Sox prospect...has been a dangerous game with the GM for Sox fans. Imagine buying a Daniel Hudson jersey? Probably would have had to go the custom-made route, though. Or Brian Anderson...Rowand and Crede were popular jerseys, too. AJ.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 10:33 PM) I own a Brandon McCarthy jersey, and I know someone that owns a Joe Borchard jersey. Don't do it, at least not for a long time. Although I did buy a Buehrle jersey in 2001 before anyone had one (his brother told me at a Cubs game is was the first one he had seen and asked me how I got it), and that worked out OK, but it's really rolling the dice. Haha, I know ALL about this. I have a Sammy Sosa grey road Sox jersey that I bought during his rookie season. Other than that, I've done okay. Harold Baines...and Darryl Strawberry/Mets wasn't a great choice in the long term. I'm just a huge fan of the minor leagues...so no matter what happens with Hawkins, I would rather wear one of his jerseys from Winston-Salem or BIRM than practically anyone on the Sox. Part of the fun is discovering a player and jumping on the bandwagon before it hits. Of course, all the hardcore Sox fans know who Hawkins is.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 10:17 PM) I always think about that too. Hunter instead of Swisher probably doesn't have that mental weakness vs the Twins in the late 2000s. Assuming Hunter didn't have a bad 2008 like Swish, they probably don't play a game 163, even with TCQ going down. True that. It would also be nice to imagine we had the horses to trade for Miggy Cabrera and didn't cast Jim Thome adrift in the ill-fated Kotsay/Jones experiment. Brian Anderson develops or Chris Young doesn't need to be traded for pitching. Joe Borchard becomes a star and there's no pressing need for Thome and/or Swisher from the LH side. Theoretically, we could have gotten away with Torii Hunter in CF, even though at that point he was more of a corner guy...especially after some of the injuries. In terms of ability, we haven't let many go that stand out, especially position players. Michael Morse is one, but he was years and PED's away from being a success at the time of the Garcia deal. Hudson, obviously. Brandon McCarthy, although that worked well for the Sox until recently. Clayton Richard...although we'll see how he does with the shortened fences. Frank Francisco, when he wasn't throwing chairs or acting like a lunatic. Getz has done okay with KC but he's more of a utility guy on a very good team. Jury's still out on Cris Carter, another hitter in the "all or nothing" Tyler Flowers mode.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:57 PM) Escobar hit a HR. to the power alley. opposite field. where did that come from? a stiff 20 mph wind to LF blowing in KC The second coming of Andy Gonzalez. Well, from having lived in KC for nearly a decade, the ball can really fly out of there if it's warm enough and the winds don't knock it down...especially down the lines.

Don't forget Faustino DeLosSantos, haha.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) Rios is starting to look like a guy the Sox should keep around for the duration. If the Sox trade him it might put him back in that old Rios funk that he shed long ago. For Rios' sake, and our team's sake, I'd keep him around. He looks comfortable at the plate and in the field and like he enjoys the game of baseball. Remember for a couple seasons straight he was a zombie out there looking like he was stealing money while moping around the diamond. Keep Rios. Greg, he'll be gone after next season. There's no way at that point in his career they'll extend his contract with the depth of minor league outfielders we have coming up. He was a zombie in 2009 (plus, Dye was hurt by that trade and was a sympathetic figure)....great for half the season in 2010 and then HORRIBLE in 2011 and great again in 2012...although, like the entire team, he tailed off at the end.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) I would never trade Rios...because it's only going to be a salary dump, and that's not going to help improve this organization moving forward. Whenever we've done that, whether it was Ray Durham or Edwin Jackson/Teahen, no benefit has ever been derived that was discernible...and the downside of surrendering your best player in Rios for nothing in return is too high. It's a Marlins move. And, Thompson and Mitchell aren't ready to play at the major league level, just as importantly.

Agree... When I went to a game last summer, and was shopping at some of the sporting good stores, there was a complete DEARTH of Sox merchandise, compared to Cubs. If it wasn't for the gangsta rappers wearing our hats, we'd have nothing to feel positive about, lol. Obviously, they were prepared to market Beckham as the new golden boy and that fizzled out. Konerko has never been marketed outside of Chicago. Only by respectful media/announcing teams who always hype him as the most chronically under-appreciated/underhyped star player in the majors. Losing Buehrle and AJ hurt, there's no denying that. But there's just not a lot of passionate Rios and Dunn fans out there. The 2009 and 2011 seasons really hurt Alex with the fanbase, and Dunn's story is well-known and chronicled. There's an appreciation now of Rios' overall game, but not to the point where many would go out and buy his jersey. The only jersey I would buy would be Viciedo or Sale. After that, I'd probably buy a Courtney Hawkins jersey.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 08:40 PM) Yep, season has started. Caulfield is due for some trade threads soon Nope. There's nobody they really can trade, at this point, that would change anything in the overall big picture. Other than Sale. They're just going to have to wait for Sanchez, Thompson, Hawkins and maybe Mitchell or Walker. And see what they have this season in Tyler Flowers. Finally, hope Danks is a semblance of his former self. It's a roster pretty much stuck "as is" for now.