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That looked like one of Humber's under 10 pitch innings yesterday. It's going to take a season or two to "unprogram" this Sunday/getaway day apathy or whatever it is. Take the first 2 games, shut it down. Not good. We still have four more innings to turn it around, but the body language isn't good right now.

When Kevin Millwood at this stage in his career and after all the injuries is throwing harder, that's not so good. CLE 7-1 on the road...against KC, Seattle and OAK. Good team or not?

There Danks reached back for a little something extra on the fastball, got it up to 91. Well, it's still a ballgame, boys. Offense on paper SHOULD be able to score more than 2 runs against Kevin Freakin' Millwood. Maybe not 5 or 10 years ago, but this version of him.

LOL at our defense this inning. Lillibridge misread a ball that he normally would catch at night. Beckham should have taken the easy out at first. Danks/Dunn miscommunication. The previous inning ends with a great defensive play by Ichiro. UGLY UGLY UGLY

19-3 run against the Mariners is looking to be in jeopardy with the White Sox now scuffling...

Glad we invested all that money in Mark Buehrle, OOPS, John Danks. Because Mark actually might have the same average fastball velocity this season. Dead arm period?

Lillibridge with a horrible break on that play. Whether it's the sun, sky/clouds, not good. At least the DP ball is still in play...interesting to see if he bunts them over to 2nd and 3rd.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) McEwing being agressive as always, hey look Brent did something. I think Brent and Gordon will hit enough to stick around. Don't see that too often with 2 outs. Pretty much never, with the runner leaving at contact. And it wasn't even really that close.

Morel actually comes through with a run-scoring single to pretty much every RFer in baseball and Fukudome gets thrown out on a perfect peg. Oh, well. When you're paying Danks this kind of money, you have to go out and beat the Kevin Millwoods of MLB, especially with how bad their line-up is.

AJ absolutely hit that ball on the screws, but right at Ichiro.

Pretty much horrible location there on the cutter which should have been further inside. LOL at the Royals starting out 0-9 at home but ahead of us in attendance STILL by about 500 per game. Granted, they had 6 weekend games and we've only had 3 so that will even out next homestand against the RED SOX.

Great job, Mr. 4th starter Danks. Just joking. Well, maybe not. But Peavy's stopped losing skids three times already this season, fwiw.

Now the next debate will be about benching/platooning Lillibridge or Fukudome with DeAza and/or Lillibridge. No matter what, we can never seem to have a season in Chicago where the youth can play everyday without the pressure of always competing for a playoff spot, lol. That's a good thing, but its cost us so much in development, too. That hair-trigger with impatience cuts both ways, especially the Hudson/Holmberg trade.

34 or 35 consecutive saves now for Joe Nathan in his lifetime against Tiggers. That suicide squeeze actually went off Gonzalez's body, so it should have been ruled foul. Got away with one. Rangers and Hamilton are just too good right now....but Fielder almost walked off that game the last ab with a high fly down the RF line.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 11:45 AM) AJ, Konerko and KW get no credit??? I meant for Humber's acquisition and unexpected success for the Sox, not our season as a whole so far.

Colon was great last time out, and Villone pitched really well, but the Oakland offense is like Seattle's with the exception of Cespedes in the middle who's a threat to hit it out every at-bat.

AJ saying "I love ya, brother!" That was cool. This team really does seem to be getting along with each other better...the chemistry is a lot better. I know, winning makes chemistry, rather than chemistry results from winning, but they're co-correlated, lol.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 08:50 AM) The only similarity is the two teams conducting the deal. Santos was not dealt after finishing out the previous season on and off the DL. Sirotka(and pretty much the entire 2000 Sox staff) ended that season on fumes with all of them taking turns on the DL. And let's not forget, Wells wasn't exactly a steal, both teams received damaged goods, and neither team got a return from either pitcher. If Santos ends up hurt this season, I would attribute it to bad luck, not the Sox passing off an injured pitcher. Yeah, we got something like $4-4.5 million back in insurance payments on that contract for Wells. Wonder what the Blue Jays actually got back...and whether they had insured Sirotka against injury when he was acquired? Guess we'll never know.

QUOTE (mumbles3k @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 02:30 AM) The original MAJOR LEAGUE was so bad, I never bothered with the sequels. I'll have to check that out. That and MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING are now at the top of my list. But I haven't seen a lot of these. Really? Maybe the off-the-field stuff with Berenger and Russo was too much, but it still has to rate as one of the Top 10 baseball movies of all-time. The sequel/s, not so much.

Or another former Piranha...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) I prefer to think of them as great lessons for not reacting like a menstral 16 year old who just got dumped by her boyfriend on prom night everytime the Sox make a move. Sounds like a few unnamed members of the Chicago print media.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 05:38 AM) There was nothing to like about Humber at the time. For f***'s sake, he's still the 5th starter after he put up a 3.75 ERA over 160 last year. I'm certainly not the only one who feels that way. He is a good pitcher. You aren't drafted 3rd overall without having a clue. I just didn't think he had anything left. I was obviously wrong then. 've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again. Don't care. Still awesome. Now, if you'd like, I'm sure I can find a team to dig up a few other posts. I realize its all in good fun, but, being an administrator and all on the site, maybe you should take the high ground in situations like this and let others do the digging. It's kind of like, yeah, KW (more specifically, Hahn and Cooper) were very right on a player/pitcher because they saw him a couple of times pitching first-hand for the Royals against us late in 2011 and they took a flyer on him. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, in this case, we might as well be making fun of the Twins, Royals and A's for all giving up on him...especially Beane and Dayton Moore, who can always use pitching, but Billy Smith (again) looks stupid. The same thing could probably be said if you mentioned the reaction when we picked up Gil Heredia and Esteban Loaiza before the 2003 season. Or Silverio, Gomes and Orlando, etc. Mitch Mustain, the ex Arkansas/USC QB. Did anyone in those threads predict he was going to amount to something? We had at this same debate over and over again about Rios, Dunn and Peavy when they were acquired. I guess it's probably easier for the last five years of KW's tenure to just predict that every single acquisition's going to be a disaster. Lillibridge and DeAza, for example. Did anyone predict 3 weeks ago that Kip Wells was going to return to the White Sox rotation this season? Are they idiots for having done so, or was that thread just filled with cynicism and scoffing? Same thing with Stewart and Molina...for all those betting against KW getting an impact pitcher, is KW going to send out letter congratulating us for being right when neither of them makes it (just an example)...or for posters being upset when Holmberg, Hudson, Gonzalez or Chris Young were traded? I remember fighting with numerous posters and admins for years about Brian Anderson being a bust. Does that mean I should go and dig up those posts? Kind of silly, because we've all been wrong more often than we've been right. If you take a controversial or lightning rod position to spark discussion like J4L often does with his player evaluations, you're always going to be wrong just as wrong as major league teams are often quite wrong drafting in the first round. It's not an exact science, nor will it ever be (see Moneyball). Or maybe there's an even more nuanced situation, like Yoenis Cespedes, where you not only have to consider talent/projectability/video displays against unreal competition, but also our budgetary restraints and those consequences. For right now, every team in the majors looks pretty silly for not having gone stronger after Cespedes. That doesn't mean someone should now spend $30-40 million on Soler, either. Any time a team gives a $100+ million dollar contract, it's easy to say "they're being crazy and responsible," that won't work out. Does that mean we're smarter than Epstein/Bill James/Cherington for being against the signing(s) of Dice-K, JD Drew, Lackey, Beckett or Carl Crawford? We all have our biases, too. I've always loved Cuban players, does that mean I'm wrong about Viciedo because he's been something of a bust so far this season? Well, time will tell on that one, just like Molina, Mitchell, doesn't matter what propect you're talking about. It reminds me of all those acquisitions like Hermanson, Politte, Cotts, Dye, AJ, Pods, Vizcaino, El Duque and Iguchi, Takatsu...none of us could predict that someone KW had only seen on video would make such a big difference to our team in 2005 and 2006, any more than that same person could have predicted similar players like Kaz Matsui or Nishioka last year with the Twins would be such big busts, respectively. And then there are the situations like Takatsu when you can be both right and wrong about a player. Good signing, low risk/high reward, but it won't work over the long-term. Like Fukudome, maybe. If any of us were so great at doing player evaluations, probably we'd all be working for major league teams by now, right?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 02:07 AM) I really wish that Marvel could repurchase the rights to Spider-Man, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Daredevil. Imagine a Civil War movie. THAT would be great. Except please, no connection to JOHN CARTER. That $200 million writeoff forced Ross, the Disney studio head, to lose his job.

Hope this plays out better than the Sirotka/David Wells deal and Santos isn't out for a significant period of time. At least he actually reported to the Blue Jays in shape (unlike Pineda) and pitched for the first 2-3 weeks, and demonstrated the same velocity and stuff he had last season with the Sox.

Maybe it's the idea of team/teammates, not throwing people under the bus, no drama...without all the outside distractions, there's more of an ability to focus on the game and less time for theatrics and off-field drama. We're only making headlines this year for baseball-related reasons, and that's nice to see.