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It's 100% Manto, it's magical medicine ball drill that keeps him from striding too much, lol. Bryce Harper now 4/11, 2 RBI's. Dammit Humber, the last thing we needed after scoring a run is to give a leadoff walk right back to them (see Danks, John for further reference). I'm starting to think this game is EVEN more impressive than the perfecto, because the Indians have pretty solid hitters up and down that line-up. Or he's just getting incredibly lucky, one or the other.

So far, the definition of a gutty performance while "laboring" for 10 outs on 69 pitches, almost 7 pitches to earn an out. That helped, 2 pitches, 2 outs. Now a 71 through 4. Hopefully he can at least get through the sixth and we can score some runs for him. Last time we touched Tomlin for cuatro. Orioles continuing to impress, taking it to the Yanks again, and Brandon Inge and the A's are giving the Red Sox fits. And Adam Dunn runs into an 88 MPH cutter that didn't cut, 1-0 Sox. Atta boy, Donkey Kong. As an aside for Dick Allen, Dunn's current 919 OPS means a lot more to this team now than Thome's did when the average OPS number was 50-75 points higher across the major leagues. That puts Dunn more or less on his usual 40 homer pace, and only 5 behind last year's total after less than one month of play. AJ's returned to earth again and now below .300 for the first time in weeks.

Well, that was a miracle. Humber's all over the place, his pitch count is elevated and still 0-0. This game is a gift fo the Sox if they just rise up now and take it. Tomlin has about HALF the number of pitches as Phil, but pretty much the same net result. BTW, Dunn's "only" ahead of Morel in the K race, 35-27, by eight. Adam now has 19 walks (almost one per game), Morel a measly 4.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ May 2, 2012 -> 06:53 PM) haha yes. promote them to admin! At the very least, make them a fellow mod to neutralize them. Promote them from a beat writer's position to "feature columnist." Make sure their picture is prominently featured at the website and across the social media networks/blogosphere.

So, Greg, there's a member here who we won't name but who has a tendency to attack/mock/deride General Manager Kenny Williams at all turns (hint, his member name has a number the same as Kirby Puckett)....would you consider his posting style to be typical of a "fake internet persona" that was fabricated just for fun and to get our goats or can you actually distinguish that person's "real" writing style, true intentions and not the one they may or may not be projecting here at SoxTalk? Is that a practical and easy thing to do, to ascertain what's truly in someone's meaning when they write or post? Better yet, when you watch Entourage with your family, can you help them to distinguish between him in real life, him acting like he's performing in real life but is actually on a t.v. show and his stand-up performance routines? When does one line end and the other begin? Easy to see which is which? You can't understand why some might be confused, too?

He had the ball fouled off his foot a week or so ago and then he had another problem pop up yesterday. As DJ says, he's "ouchy." Just don't want him to be on his feet any more than necessary for the next day or so.

Barons lost 8-6. Wickswat or whatever his name is won't last much longer down there.

Chris Getz, Chris Getz, yes yes!!! You can put it on the board! LOL, 3-2 lead on the infield single. Royals now 2/13 with RISP. Lawrence, KS loves the Michigan Wolverine. 4 steals.....Peralta/Avila/Eldred in bottom of the 9th. Game over, Royals win 3-2.

And at home, Detroit's a super-tough out, too. Still having nightmares of Aardsma and Craig Monroe against Javy. Not that the Royals have been going gangbusters at Kauffman, since they're 0 for the season there, lol. If Leyland sends Verlander out there to start the inning with 123 pitches already (30 pitches over 95 MPH), he's gone insane. Then again, his last pitch was 100 MPH. Interesting decision, though. Tied going into the 9th. Bottom of order for KC.

POOF!!! Tie game, Boesch now with a 9 game hitting streak, laser into RF bleachers off Crow, who really sucks this year. Poor Royals!!! Okay, no counting on any Royals victory until the game is already over and officially in the scorebooks. Seen that happen about a million times in the last 20 years in KC baseball history. PS: I will argue that the Humber perfecto and any thread with White Sox/1st place was at least 50% of the jinx. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Sox tonight or we'll have to blame southsider. Actually, I would have expected this from GregHibbard, lol.

Who was that big guy we had who threw mid to high 90's with no control (pretty much) and he blew out his arm last year? I think we signed him as a minor league FA. Shane Lindsay? Forgot we briefly used Josh Kinney last year, too.

And to think, Hammel took the loss in a game against a community college game in their final week of exhibition games, lol. Trade/market/hype Jake, Lobster Thief Victim KW! Pretty hard to do that when we're still in 1st place, though.

Or at least remember the depths of depression when we were enduring the 5-19 nosedive out of contention for the remainder of the season and "appreciate the game." Don't have that feeling at all this year so far...looking forward to every game, even after Santiago blew those 2 and going 2-5 against the A's/Orioles when just about every single one of those games was winnable, not to mention wasting pretty darned good pitching by Peavy against the Red Sox. The Royals are "only" 2 innings away from making tonight's game a battle for sole possession of first place. Should Verlander take the loss, that would only be 3 "team" victories overall in his first 6 starts, and his personal record would be 2-2. (Granted, before yesterday's outburst, they were only hitting .211 over the previous 10 games). Still has a very solid ERA in the mid 2's, they're just not scoring for him, Valverde blew a game and Justin took a shutout into the 9th in the other game and imploded.

Toronto taking it to the Rangers for the second game in a row. AA power! How tough is it going to be for three teams in that division to make it to the playoffs? Seems mathematically improbable.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?s...jaxaax_biraax_1 Decent, "quality" start but nothing special. Still has an over .300 BAA and almost 10 more hits than IP. Sub 4.00 ERA and great BB/IP ratio, but nevertheless at LEAST 3-4 months away. Mitchell with his 6th double, BB, and 2 K's. Saladino with 2 AB, 2 runs scored and 3 walks. 5-5 tie late, bottom of the 9th in BIRM.

There's just no way they bring up Molina this early even for a spot start. Not until he becomes much more consistent than he has been.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 2, 2012 -> 11:46 AM) Are you drinking? This isn't about Cooper, this is about Atlanta at least until this point, turning their offense around. You give Cooper credit for every Sox success story, you should give Walker credit for Atlanta's improved offense, not making excuses as to why it has nothing to do with Greg Walker. Currently you are the only one making a Walker vs. Cooper argument. No, you're the one who came out after the recent losing streak and called out Manto, seeming to celebrate Walker (or called out Walker and compared the Braves with the Sox, or vice-versa). So the point of all that gloating was what? But way to deflect by accusing me of drinking, that sure supports good debate here. Well, I guess enough of us rose to nip at your bait to make it worth it, lol. Maybe I actually need to start drinking...this repeated argument loop/deja vu feeling will never go way!!

Never mind. I was being sarcastic...not a Stewart fan, lol.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 2, 2012 -> 11:47 AM) There seem to be a lot of people who don't realize that things said on Facebook and twitter have the ability to spread rapidly and be preserved forever. Especially the Sun-Times' brass, although DeLuca at least had the sense to TRY to get him to shut down his Twitter before the story got picked up...but once Deadspin took off with it (thanks to Sloan Martin and then there was also the previous Joe Forte showdown with "Jessica Danielle" on April 1st and stories of the intern who "outed" himself) and it was all she wrote. The story started gaining steam....then all the local Chicago press picked it up and had a field day, it wasn't unlike that 24-72 hour period with the Ozzie/Castro story where the story just kept mushrooming and there was no way to put the cat back in the bag. That there was no response from the S-T and he kept writing more and more Bulls' stories with seemingly no punishment gave the story even more life the last 24-36 hours or so.

Are they kidding, no Zach Stewart?? What are they thinking?? C'mon, Sox braintrust!

But their circulation passed the Tribune's, lol. IF you count about 40 other locals and free pamphlets and apartments wanted/Thrifty Nickel type magazines, Daily Southtown....

If Don Cooper would have been "poached" by another team this off-season (let's say, by the NY Yankees), there would have been a thread bemoaning it and worrying 5X longer than the current Cowley thread. Nobody would have been celebrating it or saying "finally!" If you want to believe I'm the only one who has ever compared their accomplishments, that's cool. Everyone would have been MORE upset with Ozzie and blaming him for Cooper's departure, etc. How many times do we see "Coop will fix 'em" or "In Coop We Trust" or Don Cooper is the best or one of THE best or one of the top 3-5 pitching coaches, etc., in MLB? Have we ever seen that about Walker? Well, because he found a job, he's great. So did Juan Pierre and Omar Vizquel. Jeff Cox must be bad too, right?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 2, 2012 -> 12:27 PM) We know you're not exactly in our time zone, but people do sleep sometimes! Royals/Tigers is the FREE GAME of the Day and I fell asleep at like 9 pm and just woke up accidentally, lol. The game started here at 100 a.m.

Maybe last year, the White Sox took on their "bad wrestling" personality and tanked on purpose to get rid of Ozzie? And now this year they're showing their true baseball selves and playing up to their actual abilities. How can we prove what was really in their hearts? They just weren't trying (seemingly) in 2011, and now they are....so problem solved. Jake Peavy was just messing with us, same with Dunn and Rios. Like in the parable in the Bible, they wanted to summon all the doubting Thomases, to see how low attendance could go and fan frustration and despair would mount, what valleys could be reached and denials of our Sox faiths uttered...only to come forth and proclaim their true natures to the unbelievers who had no faith without proof. (This is fun...whatever we actually see, it's the opposite that we're really seeing. Good is now "bad" and bad is good.)

Dick, Dick, Dick... It's not EITHER/OR as you always say. Comparatively, Cooper has been a better pitching coach than Walker a better hitting coach. And you will never admit or agree to that basic tenet of Sox baseball since 2003, which is an idea that 98% of the posters here would probably also agree with. Last time, I gave the examples of Konerko, Lillibridge and Carlos Quentin. We can argue this on a day-by-day basis, too. We can say Cubans always start out slow and/or Alexei Ramirez is getting old or his real age is much older than the "official" age, etc. Or that last night was the culmination of months of work for Gordon Beckham and he's going to go on a 2009-ish tear that will have everyone wondering "where did that Beckham do?" for all that time? And then you can respond with some anecdote about something Gordon's father or UGA coach or whatever worked with him over this past off-season...anything to not admit Manto might have had a positive effect on him, lol. Most here would agree things just weren't working or had gotten a bit stale here with the Sox...whereas the White Sox pitching numbers have been up there with any team in the league. Then you'll say that's expected because of Peavy's salary, or Danks' salary, it will go back and forth forever, lol.