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http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/26/50480...ves-royals.html Story on Ventura's start. The official diagnosis from the club was “lateral elbow discomfort,” on the outer side of his right arm. He will undergo an MRI on Tuesday. The pain did not manifest on the medial side of his elbow, which includes the ulnar collateral ligament, the one involved in Tommy John surgery. The team listed Ventura as “day-to-day,” a categorization fans can only hope is more than a euphemism. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/26/50480...l#storylink=cpy

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 26, 2014 -> 09:11 PM) I don't really care but a MLB marketing department should know better than that. If you listen to any radio broadcast, Farmer ALWAYS goes above-and-beyond to thank servicemen and women, maybe TOO much, if that's possible. He was telling the story about going to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington and witnessing the changing of the guard, etc. Not to mention God, Bless America, National Anthem performed by member of the armed forces, etc. The marketing angle was for it to be a "family outing/picnic/BBQ," obviously. My father was in the military and I would never begin to take offense at that.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:16 PM) Yordano Ventura left his start tonight with "lateral elbow discomfort", MRI scheduled for tomorrow. A serious injury to him would be a huge blow to the Royals. twitter.com/JeffPassan/sta… RT @JeremyJagoda: @you said lateral discomfort though. That would be his LCL or common extensor tendon or a muscle.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:42 PM) https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/470957604802277376 The Sox actually apologized over this. People need to lighten the f*** up. What happened? Sorry, twitter/youtube/fb are blocked in China.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) Jacob Morris went 4-5 with 4 doubles Hawkins' K numbers are escalating alarmingly, though. 17 K's in last 35 AB's. Almost down to an 800 OPS after being around 900 for most of the first six weeks.

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ May 26, 2014 -> 06:14 PM) He's a good baseball player, too. At first I thought it was actor Eric Bana.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:00 PM) We act like a guy who sits low 90s and reaches back regularly for 95-96 while getting a lot of swing and misses with a slider is bad from a LH starter while we all watch Chris Sale in awe Not bad at all, that's Quintana, or Johan Santana, or Liriano, etc. The problem is that his fastball isn't his primary out pitch, it's his slider. From all reports, his FB is a good pitch, but not off the scouts' charts....rather pedestrian, in the same way that Hector Santiago's FB is, even in the mid 90's. Sale has the advantage of his leverage/height/arm angles and deception.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2014 -> 07:19 PM) I say option D, which is acquiring another corner outfielder. Doesn't have to even be someone that currently starts. All I know is that Garcia and Danks aren't logical replacements. The problem is that we don't have replacements (right now) for Ramirez, Beckham, Gillaspie, Viciedo, Belisario, Putnam, etc. I sincerely doubt Hahn will trade any core pieces until at least the beginning of July...and he'll probably wait it out until the deadline. With attendance, we're not going to have a lot of leeway to take on a significant amount of additional payroll, but we might be able to identify another starting pitcher at that time who makes sense for the long and short-term. Agreed that L.Garcia and Danks aren't logical pieces of the OF future, either.

Play DeAza for another 30 days, letting Sierra get his at-bats against lefties. If Alejandro's not hitting at least .225, then there's a decision to make...however, simply to DFA him won't solve their outfield issues like waving a magic wand. If they really want to get creative, they can put Davidson or Micah Johnson in LF, but that's not a recommended approach at this point in their development.

QUOTE (OilCan @ May 26, 2014 -> 10:45 AM) IMHO Aiken and Kolek seem to have more upside. According to BA and MLB, Aiken seems to have more polish and upside than Rodon, and Kolek is the hardest thrower/pitcher than Rodon. Regardless that Rodon has Scott Boras as his agent. Kolek is consistently 95-100. Rodon was down in the low 90's for most of his recent collegiate season, and tops out around 95-96 typically. It's his slider which gets outs, not blowing away hitters with fastball after fastball like Yordano Ventura.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 26, 2014 -> 04:16 PM) Let's make EVERY thread about attendance! Sorry, it's hard to keep track of everything when it's 5:00 a.m. in the morning, you're half asleep and going back and drifting back and forth between half sleeping and consciousness.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) .310/.348/.429 That is his slash line after about 250 plate appearances last year and you didn't think he could hit better than .215 this year. I remember saying .240.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 26, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) No squeeze here, Robin. I bet Sierra's worse than most of the young Sox hitters at bunting. Not his game.

Ventura might let Quintana start the 7th, go after Gomes and Chisenhall and the 9th place hitter. If Gomes reaches, then for the 100th time see if Downs can record an out and do his job for once. Petricka's in...

Ramirez really making a conscious effort there to hit it the opposite way...last year, he would just go up there without a plan at all.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 26, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) .178/.270/.290 Carlton Fisk's slash line on May 27th 1983. I think he wound up 2nd or 3rd in MVP voting that year. Those writing off De Aza might wind up surprised. I think an old Tim Raines is a better comparison.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 26, 2014 -> 01:46 PM) Well he has been good all season so far and AA has always been a Beckham fan and being rumored of wanting him the last 2 years. He's got to have these numbers consistently for at least 250 at-bats before he has much of any value. Unless another team's just completely desperate and overpays.

17,075 on Memorial Day? REALLY? Were all of those fans Yankees' fans the last two days? DJ marketing the Chris Sale start hard, lol. Saying how he would buy a ticket if he wasn't already coming to the game. Great defensive play by Conor, two nice swings by Viciedo and Gillaspie to tack on some more runs hopefully.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 26, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) He's poor on defense and a bad baserunner. Which is still much better than DeAza this year.

Cleveland's had too much good luck recently with another 1st overall draft pick, Manziel...rumors of LeBron coming back, haha.

Get someone up. Last guy to walk scored. Had retired 7 in a row before Brantley. Great arm from Sierra...almost at the warning track there. Did Ramirez miss the bag and tag the dirt instead? Uh-oh. Looks like the runner will be on 2nd.

Just send Semien down and let Garcia play a bit more often. It's not like Marcus is doing anything to help the team offensively or defensively, and he's not like Dyson who can steal bases at will in the late innings, either. Give those at-bats to Saladino. Doesn't really matter. Need to get Semien regular playing time and back into an offensive rhythm, his confidence is clearly down. As far as Tyler goes, he made the mistake of getting personal and using "you" and that's always a no-no, that personal, accusatory tone when getting on an umpire.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 26, 2014 -> 09:16 AM) I've always known that, but teams have to get their wins from teams they're supposed to. It's a rarity to get to the final 30 games of the season and go 21-9 to get in. Basically I look at the season in six 27-game sections. Go 15-12 every 27, you win 90. Anything under, you've got a deficit you have to make up. It just happens this season is looking like 86-88 wins will get a wildcard. We say that every season, but then someone like Cleveland reels off an unbelievable stretch at the end of the year. Dodgers, last year, something like 50-13. Astros in 2005. Tigers and Twins in 2006. 2nd Team in WC position last eight years AL 92, 93, 90, 89 (2010 White Sox 88), 87, 89, 88, 90 (2006 White Sox)=89.75 NL 90, 88 (StL), 89, 90, 88, 89, 89, 85 (2006 Phillies)=88.5 So three 88's and and ONE 85.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 26, 2014 -> 09:08 AM) I know it gets political in a hot hurry, but that line - "you don't think it'll happen to your child until it does" - it's hard not to feel something when you hear that from an anguished parent The family was caring and attentive, said family friend Adam Krentzman. Peter Rodger "is the sweetest, nicest, most genuine, caring person, and he did everything he could," Krentzman said. But after Elliot turned 18, he started rejecting mental health care that his family provided, Krentzman said. "He turned his back on all of it," he said. "At some point, your kid becomes an adult." At 9:17 that night, 13 minutes before the first gunshots rang out, his mother, Chin Rodger, was at home in a western suburb of Los Angeles when her phone rang. It was one of her son's therapists. "Have you gotten Elliot's email?" he asked. Chin Rodger opened the email, according to an account of the night provided to The Times by a family friend. Something had changed. Her dejected son was gone, replaced by a man with a savage view of the world, and a terrible plan. "This is the story of how I, Elliot Rodger, came to be," the email said. "It is a dark story of sadness, anger and hatred." Then: "I will punish everyone. And it will be beautiful. Finally, at long last, I can show the world my true worth." Chin Rodger frantically called her ex-husband, Peter, who was out to dinner. Together, they raced up the 101 Freeway. But it was too late. The radio started barking while they were still on the road — a vicious rampage in Isla Vista, a young man emptying his guns into crowds of pedestrians. By the time they reached the police station there, it was over. On Sunday evening, a crowd prayed in front of the Alpha Phi sorority house in Isla Vista, where Rodger shot three women, two of whom died. There was a surprising amount of compassion for Rodger — for how he lived, if not how he died. "The insecurities and rejection he felt is something I believe exists in a lot of hearts in this city," said Yvette Johnson, 22. "There's this unspoken survival of the fittest.... If you don't fit in a box, you're going to feel rejected." "Some people think that he doesn't deserve love," said Christina Perez, 24. "But we all deserve love."

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2014 -> 08:57 AM) Nice dream. It misses a lot of reality, such as how bad Buehrle was until this year, and we'd be losing $50 million-ish dollars this year, which is never going to happen. Wouldn't that also be the case had we signed Tanaka? A $40 million dollar hit, roughly, in addition to the signing bonus for Abreu...depending on how that's being counted for losses/revenues.