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70 steals already? Good god, that's like the days of Raines, Henderson and Vince Coleman, Donell and Otis Nixon, Willie Wilson, etc.

It wasn't even a good or entertaining fight. Bradley did next to nothing but just survive and keep his legs under him. Well, it was decent, from the Pacquiao side, and much better than Marquez and Mosley. Pacquiao had Bradley on the ropes and almost ready to go down 3-4 times. Bradley never once hurt Manny in the entire fight, and, for as strong as he looks physically with the carved upper body, "Desert Storm" was about as effective as a pea shooter or Scud Missile in doing any type of damage. It seems Manny overtrained a bit and just didn't quite have enough gas left the final four rounds to mount enough of a threat....but he killed Bradley in rounds 2-7/8.

Upper deck behind the plate are really great seats, as long as it's not cold and windy...or too sunny hot and you're not protected by the roof or overhang. It's the same slant (I think the architectural term is "rake") as Royals Stadium/Kauffman. Now down the lines and at the corners, those seats suck...but still better than many seats in the old stadium, and nothing compared to the obstructed view ones behind the support beams.

Arum will probably sue. Las Vegas just lost a $500 million fight. God, I would never want to watch another Bradley fight, but it seems they already have it lined up for November 10th. The Marquez decision was bad enough last (that one legitimately could have gone either way), but this one was absolutely atrocious. Between boxing and horse racing, horrible weekend for both sports with all the speculation about doping and illegal training methods being the reason they pulled their horse at the Belmont...since he was going to be sequestered/monitored along with all the other horses to prevent any monkey business (Wetzel with Yahoo Sports has a great column). Should have been 8-4 or 9-3, at the VERY worst, it was a 7-5 decision for Pacquiao.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,3532591.story Danks will get two minor league starts with CHARLOTTE starting next week, not just a single one. Quintana with 2 more chances to make his case vs. Humber/Stewart/Santiago for sticking around. Will go against the Dodgers as well.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 11:13 AM) f*** all the Heat hate. You're not a basketball fan if you're not amped up for LeBron vs Durant for the NBA championship. You probably have to go back to 1991 to find a final that featured by far and away the two best players in the world going at it. I can't wait. Barkley and MJ? Not quite sure Charles was still at the top of his game, but close. Malone and Stockton weren't quite at the top of their games, either.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 11:21 AM) @Intimidators Jeff Soptic just hit 101mph on the radar gun. #ZOOM! #blinkandyoumissedit Only 2 hits given up in 20 at-bats, but 3 ER in 6 1/3 IP. 3 K's, you'd expect him to have 9 or 10, but that part of his game will come around as he learns to pitch and not just throw...the same type of transition Nathan Jones went through. Jared Mitchell 1/2 with 2 BB's. Continuing to put up good OBP numbers. .286.

It's like Atlanta Braves fans in the 90's and early 00's. Getting complacent, assuming Sale will win every start now and not so excited unless he records 10+ K's. Maybe when the score got to be 6-0, everyone turned their attention to the Heat/Celtics, the Belmont Stakes, soccer games in Europe, the fights in Vegas, etc.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) f*** the rangers!!!!!!! They're back to back AL Champions, and honestly should have won a least one World Series title. They deserve everyones' respect, until someone knocks them off. Not as much as we gave the Twins, but healthy respect for their accomplishments and front office acumen under Daniels/Ryan. Can we compete with all the teams in the AL East, the Indians/Tigers and Angels? Sure, probably...as long as Peavy and Sale continue to pitch like aces. Although, all things considered, it's hard to place a team with 3 starting pitchers in the 5.3+ ERA range as the best team in the AL. We're also quite unlucky to get the Twins so many times now that they've risen from rock bottom. Two weeks ago, they were one of the worst teams in baseball. Now they're back to respectable and rising.

QUOTE (Jillian Michaels' Abs @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 10:21 AM) Uncle Jerry will probably demand that Chris Sale be shut down so he won't pitch the last month of the season and not win the Cy Young, so they won't have to pay him like a Cy Young award winner. He's (Chris Sale) under team control through 2016, and won't be eligible for arbitration until after next season...however, they very certainly might look to buy out one or two years of free agency, like the Rays and Indians have typically done with their younger players. Of course, the danger posed by not taking his contract on a year by year basis is that he'll lose at least a season or more to Tommy John surgery when/if his elbow goes out. So all things considered, the White Sox are probably best off waiting until at least the end of 2013 before offering a long range deal to Sale...and that also gives them some time to see what direction the franchise and the Danks contracts are going. I think the front office is much more afraid of an injury than having to reward Chris with a new contract or more money. JR doesn't mind paying performance at all, it's underperformance of free agents which tends to gall him the most.

It should read best team in the AL CENTRAL, but I couldn't edit it later, only a mod can do that. It also should read "inevitably" as the fourth option. Obviously, the White Sox are not better than the Rangers, that's a given. I never said 4th or 5th place or the worst team, although the Royals and Twins (recently on an 8-2 run) are both back to being out of contention for the 1st pick in the draft next June.

Discuss/analyze.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 09:10 AM) Yeah, Nestor Molina. Whatever is right. You are making yourself look like an even bigger fool. And I don't think there is any link to Chris Sale returning to the rotation and Dunn, Rios, Konerko, Beckham, AJP and De Aza hitting well. None. Sale doesn't even appear in 80% of White Sox games. The link is Chris Sale is the best pitcher in the AL right now. Jose Contreras was the best pitcher in baseball as well in 2005-2006. You believe the White Sox can just trot out any minor league journeyman and would have won those those same starts...and had the same record, or a nearly identical one. If that was the case, the 2002-2004 White Sox just won three more AL Central championships thanks to your logic...because those teams had all the offense in the world and still lost to the Twins. How can you explain that, when the Twins were clearly inferior, and the White Sox were much better offensively in those years than they have been in 2012. If Chris Sale wasn't in the starting rotation still, the White Sox wouldn't be in first place and would still be a lot closer to rebuilding than adding pieces for the stretch drive. Who would you have started in those 5 games....this pitcher who was going to go 5-1 or 4-2? Should be an interesting answer.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 08:30 AM) Again with Greg Walker. You do need help. Obviously Chris Sale is the reason the Sox started scoring runs. I'm agreeing with you. We'll just ignore April when they couldn't score at all and he was in the rotation. You're truly a baseball genius. Obfuscating again. So Nestor Molina would be 4-2 or 5-1 if he took Sale's starts, too? In your idea, yes. It's the same reason you're going to argue that the White Sox could have just trotted out any minor leaguer in August, September, October, April and May in 2005/2006 and won all of Jose Contrera's starts as well. You believe there's no link to who the starting pitcher is and how the team performs independently. I believe there's a synergy between the two. But whatever.

And Beckham's even showing flashes of returning to his previous glory. Crosses fingers.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 08:16 AM) The answer to question 1, what does that matter now? Question 2, Yes they would. The Sox scored 6,6,4,2 and 10 runs in those starts. They didn't need shutouts, but I'll take the offense riding the inspiration of Chris Sale returning to the starting rotation as the reason they scored these runs. GMAB. You defintely are the Soxtalk version of Mitt Romney. As Frank says, no doubt about it. Just flip flop. Don't try to justify it with things that aren't connected. Coming from the same person who says there's no connection between the results of the offense and who the hitting coach is, then tries to act like Greg Walker miraculously transformed the Braves single-handedly from this offseason's sense of desolation, lol. The White Sox would be 3rd in the AL in runs scored if he was still the hitting coach, too. Sure. You can believe that if you want. It can't be proven to be true or false subjunctively. I'll believe that the White Sox play better when Chris Sale is on the mound, expect to win, and the results would have been dramatically different with any of our minor leaguers out there in his place. But I'll take the Romney comment as a compliment, since Bill Clinton was also commonly accused of the same thing and will go down as one of the most successful presidents in recent history. It's called adjusting your viewpoint/goals/expectations as a result of new evidence.

Jaime Garcia's out for 1-2 months for the Cardinals. +56 RS/RA differential but only a 30-29 record. Talk about Pythagorean not evening out. Crazy.

Well, Molina's given up 90 hits in 69 IP. That's not going to work, no matter how good his control is. Single, double, double, single, 3-0 now against the Barons...still batting in the 1st. 7 hits/15 AB's. ERA back up to 5.06 after getting down to 4.74 entering today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2012 -> 05:28 AM) Can anyone give me a guess about how the Barons starting rotation shapes up right now? Trying to plan pitching matchups for when they visit Tennessee Next weekend, catch a game or maybe 2. Hernandez is out for now, and Wickswat is about to be dropped from the rotation. The past three nights, it has been Castro, Bayne and then Molina going Saturday night. Tuesday is an offday. If they stay on normal rest, Castro would be Tuesday and Molina Thursday. Theoretically, you could catch Simon Castro on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. No idea who they'd be starting Friday or Saturday, Sat would be Wickswat's turn, though, Friday, Hernandez's spot.

http://www.boxoffice.com/latest-news/2012-...-midnight-shows Prometheus expected to make $53.5 million for the weekend. Pretty successful start, will finish 2nd to Madagascar.

Well, you have to do it with Quintana. Volquez does have enough upside to make it worth it, and that allows you to dump Gavin Floyd if you want. It's a crapshoot. Floyd will get turned around eventually, the question is how long. Always tempting when a pitcher with Edinson's talent becomes available to test the "Coop will fix him" theory.

And it has taken KW about 12 years to find two good leadoff hitters, Pods and DeAza. Mitchell's a valuable commodity, especially if he can learn how to steal 20-30 bases. Pair him with Maybin, and you'd have the type of athletes who can cover the gaps defensively and plug the gaps offensively with doubles and triples. Pitching/speed/defense. That's what you need to win in PetCo, and examples like Clayton Richard prove it's fairly easy to find random pitchers who can record sub 4 ERA's in that graveyard. Volquez would be like Edwin Jackson, minus the expectation of being an ace or eating lots of innings. Last fully healthy season was 2008. Padres in the overall scheme of thing don't want to pay Carlos Quentin and Volquez anyway...they'd be much better off with Mitchell for six seasons.

The punchout on the previous AB for Danks was a joke though, the base umpire couldn't even see what happened with the shadows/light playing tricks on him. Tigers with 2 out rally in Cincy to take the lead in the top of the 8th. Double by Boesch, Cabrera walked intentionally, Fielder tattoos a Marshall pitch into CF and Boesch slides through the catcher on a very close play at the plate. Still, the Tiggers' bullpen is beatable this year, two more AB's for the Reds. Verlander with ND, threw a ton of pitches again.

White Sox just passed TOR for 3rd in AL runs scored again. 282-281. 4.78 RPG, on pace for 774 for the season.

19 homers and 45 RBI's for Dunn now on the season. .226