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Cleveland had something like 11,400 today for a Saturday day game. Yikes. Can't wait to see the totals for the next White Sox weeknight/weekday games. Intradivisional opponents aren't going to draw any fans, and few Sox fans care very much about beating the Twins anymore when the Tigers are the barometer for the rest of the AL Central.

Josh Hamilton solo homer follows a Pujols GIDP (Trout Farm had singled to begin the inning). Should have sent Trout...he seems more hesitant to steal bases so far this year, plus he hasn't been getting on base as much to establish a rhythm. 2-1 Astros into the 7th. Will be a battle of the bullpens. Harrell only ended up giving up the one run. Anyone want that Pujols contract? CJ Wilson still hasn't won a game, either. HOU with 213 losses the last two seasons combined. Most losses in back to back seasons since the 64-65 Mets. Went 4-34 in one stretch last year. How is that even POSSIBLE?

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) Agree on Johnson (especially), Beck and Snodgrass. There's hope with some of the young arms. As for Hawkins, what is the reasoning behind putting a 19 year old kid in high A ball and let him flail like that? I don't get it. Doesn't it make more sense to put him at a level where he can succeed and get his confidence where it needs to be? Thompson wasn't rushed like this. He didn't get to Winston Salem until last season when he was 21. He seems to be improving slowly but consistently. Can anybody explain what the plan is with Hawkins? We have too many whiff kings on the big-league roster. We have mitchell who had four more Ks in four at-bats tonight and is never going to be a big-league regular. I really don't get it. They're really basing it on how he finished the 2012 season. If he struggled mightily when he was promoted and didn't finish so strongly, there's no way he's not at KANNY. It's EXTREMELY rare to skip a high school player over Low A. I can't recall the last time it happened with the White Sox organization. Even pitchers like Boone Logan and Scott Radinsky that went to the majors quickly started in Low A, at least I remember Radinsky because he went all the way from South Bend/Midwest League to Chicago in one season. And it's a lot easier for a pitcher with great raw stuff (like Dwight Gooden) to jump than a raw/undiscplined high school hitter who hasn't had the repetitions due to playing multiple sports when he was younger.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 08:29 PM) That isn't his line. He went: 6.0 IP 5 H 0 ER 3 BB 6 SO The Dash only gave up 1 run in the game and it was by Jason Van Skike. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...&pid=571476 Ooops, you're right, that was his FIRST start against CAROLINA, last week.

Astros leading the Angels again. Former Sox hurler Lucas Harrell on the mound, haha. 2-0 Stros in the bottom of the 5th. Angels' rookie Luis Jimenez just got his first major league hit...a blooper to put runners on 2nd and 3rd for LAA. Strikes out JB Shuck to avoid facing Trout with bases loaded. Former Sox Cris Carter with his 4th homer to account for the 2 runs.

Snodgress had another good start, 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R/1 ER, 1 BB, but just 2 K's. 3.27 ERA on the season. Almost everyone in the BIRM line-up had 1 or 2 hits. Saladino's off to a much better start this season as he settles in at this level. Hawkins actually INCREASED his K rate in terms of per AB but not per PA. 2 walks, but he also had one K. Now 16 of 25 outs can be attributed to the strikeout with him. 4/25 on the season (.160). On the plus side, a homer every 8.33 AB. Olacio was hit hard again. Beck had a strange line. 4 2/3, 4 H, 3 R, 0 ER, 3 BB's, 3 K's Seems this is the year when Johnson, Snodgress and Beck ascend past the "old guard" in Rienzo/Castro/Molina/Petricka as Sox pitching prospects, if it hasn't happened already.

At least one or two. And this year, we don't have the obvious Ozzie comparisons....because we're comparing year on year vs. what Robin's team did last year. Basically, it was the same team, except for AJ. You can certainly make numerous compelling arguments for winning 1-2 Nationals games and the first game of the Indians' series. Of course, the Nationals are playing like us all of a sudden. Their announcers would argue they SHOULD have won the first two games of the Braves' series, but they are making mistakes now and the Braves are taking advantage.

If this is a sign of things to come when Don Cooper's no longer around the organization, it's a scary glimpse.

Farmer and DJ claim the press box was warned, lol.

Dunn going to 1B when he's out. This is about as bad as Josh Hamilton last night. 6 K's for CY MacAllister.

Well, it only counts as one loss...baseball cliche. Not good when your ace loses to the #5 of the opposing team. I guess the same thing happened when we beat Felix with Axelrod.

Well, what can you say? There's not much to comment upon. Can't fix Dunn, but they are going to have to extend less patience to Viciedo and Flowers, to start with. 430 feet. Hope Sale doesn't get hurt here. Stupid to do that. Get outs, Chris!

Well, this is discouraging. Coming into the game, the biggest positive about our franchise was having an ace in Sale and yet we haven't even seen that in evidence. Hopefully just the proverbial April dead arm...otherwise, yikes!

High change-up to Sox Killer Ryan Raburn. Yikes. This is bleak.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:20 PM) 3 to 4 years unless he quits. If this season is like the last 6 weeks of the 2012 season....then Ventura won't stay around if he's not enjoying it at all.

The bigger question is how long they stick with Flowers...unfortunately, we don't have a lot of good options. Theoretically, it would go to Phegley or Anderson (internally). Thank god for Mark Reynolds playing 1B or it might be 3-0 now. 11 consecutive retired. Keppinger breaks the string finally. Keppinger almost back to .200 now, at .190.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:16 PM) Serious question, how long of a leash do you think Ventura has? The entire season. Unless he resigns first for the "good of the organization" or "because his heart's not in it enough and he's not fully committed."

Bourne looking for the curve, got a FB.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:10 PM) If the Angels lose a few more, I have a feeling this place is going to become sciosciatalk.com Dave Martinez talk is more fun. Plus, you can always throw in the Ryne Sandberg angle to annoy Cubs' fans. "There's a reason Bourne is hitting first. Because he can." Great analysis, Farmio.

Nice defensive reaction by Gillaspie.

That's 8 in a row for CY MacAllister. 9 in a row. But hey, Adam Dunn ALMOST hit a homer his first time up. That counts for something. Not sure what, at that salary.

Everyone in the entire organization except for maybe Rios can be blamed for something, and Reed. From Ventura on down... Even if we wanted to trade Viciedo now, we couldn't get anything back for him. Not even another minor league version of Tyler Flowers. Benching Viciedo and playing Wise gets us what exactly?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) This is unacceptable. Plus I do not like Steve Swisher's son very much It actually hit the wall first, then bounced down off his glove. A play that probably should have been made though, but it happens on the road when you're inexperienced and everything's going wrong that can go wrong, seemingly.

Ugh. Viciedo should have gotten back to the wall faster....found it, and then went up for the wall instead of drifting. Sale is just lacking in stuff today. That's the second "fastbal" that Swisher has hit hard. And still not getting the key outs from a pitching standpoint... Mark Reynolds with a stolen base? OUCH.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 13, 2013 -> 02:45 PM) He has Dylan Axelrod type junk today...unbelievable, 11 games into the season. Like that scary Rangers' game last year when the velocity drop was so noticeable. DJ and Farmer not saying anything at all about it. His top FB's been 92 today? Is that right? 77 on the curveball.