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QUOTE (hi8is @ Mar 10, 2012 -> 02:20 PM) Odd, when I listed to the SCORE 670 online - it is just playing something about college basketball. Not sure how to get the game feed from the SCORE. Any suggestions? Yorvit Terrealba with a single to lead off the 2nd inning.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Mar 10, 2012 -> 02:20 PM) Odd, when I listed to the SCORE 670 online - it is just playing something about college basketball. Not sure how to get the game feed from the SCORE. Any suggestions? Hmmm, not sure to get it online unless you pay $14.99 for MLB Gameday Audio. But maybe someone else can help. The games also used to be carried at ilemi.eu, but those are regular season games.

Thanks. Lillibridge overmatched on a high fastball...a little bit far off the plate. Not a single hit for the White Sox since the 4th inning Viciedo knock yesterday. Threatening to be about as boring offensively as last year. Maybe Mitchell will continue to impress, there's that.

I'm listening to SCORE here at 415 am in China. MLB.com has it at Gameday Audio, I think they also have the Rangers' announcers as well.

Axelrod with first pitch. Interesting to see that they're giving Ozzie Martinez more playing time at SS and Escobar/Lillibridge more at 2B/3B. Borbon strikes out, breaking ball. DJ claims there's some pressure on Dylan to pick it up today after getting bombed the first time out. One hit surrendered, but gets out of the inning. Next SCORE radio broadcast is a full week from now. Yikes. More Melton or other teams' broadcasters.

Not Statham's best, not nearly his worst.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 9, 2012 -> 07:46 PM) But we won a game... What I meant was the last time we started out this poorly in the spring, it was 2007. Hopefully there's zero correlation.

The Kid and His Bike is an excellent (French) film. Should be shown to all parents wanting to adopt a teenage child from a foster home.

Quentin was known to have a strong or at least above average arm. We saw glimpses, but never on a consistent basis. As far as Short goes, he was always going to struggle to make it at any position besides CF (where he's not suited) because of his lack of power and relatively low walk rate. He was/is a little bit similar to John Shelby, Jr., albeit with a higher batting average and a bit less athleticism.

There are a lot of analogies with Weber and Tom Davis, although Davis had a track record with Stanford and BC previously. Davis did very well with George Raveling's recruits (almost made the Final 4 and had a #1 ranking in the mid-80's) and then from that point on, the best he could do was usually getting to the NCAA's and losing in the 2nd round to an ACC superpower. Ultimately, it always comes down to recruiting, and when you have Chicago at your doorstep, you have to lock down those recruits. Ultimately, Tom Davis lost his job at Iowa because he couldn't keep Raef LaFrentz, Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison in-state. In retrospect, be careful what you wish for...after Davis led them to the Sweet 16 his final year, there's been a grand total of one NCAA tourney win in the past 10+ years, over Creighton. Then following year, when some were picking them #1 in the country preseason, they totally collapsed with a 5-11 BIG 10 record. In their other two appearances, first round losses to Cincinnati and the devastating loss to Northwestern (LA) State in 2006 when they were up by 17 in the second half as the #3 seed. They hired too "glamour" choices in Steve Alford and Todd Lickliter had the former NCAA Coach of the Year record on his resume, but winning at Iowa is always going to be about recruiting, plain and simple. And they can't hire JUST a recruiter or they'll end up with another version of Ron Zook.

Well, we started out 0-4 in the spring of 2007. That was certainly not a positive harbinger of things to come. Let's hope there is no correlation this time.

Sale threw an 0-2 fastball, center cut, which was Farmer was complaining about. He walked the previous batter on a 3-2 change. Earlier in the line-up, he did K a guy with an 0-2 fastball, so DJ was defending the pitch selection.

How many hits did he have all last season against LHP? Something like 6 or 8?

DeAza better not keep repeating that throw through to the plate and putting runners at 2B when they should be at first still. Saw that enough with Rios last year. Sveum's the 52nd manager of Cubs. In the 1950's, they had "head coaches" and not managers, interesting.

Mike Davis, haha. Steve Alford. Deion Thomas. Bruce Pearl.

After taxes, I make $2200 per month here in China. But I don't have to pay anything for my apartment, no car payments/insurance, internet is free, no house payments/insurance, maybe $15-20 USD for cell phone...I actually end up saving about $1500 per month, on average. If you gave me $50,000, I could happily live for a couple of years on the beach in Thailand, the Philippines, SW Cambodia (Sihanoukville), Nha Trang Vietnam, Penang, Malaysia, or 3 years on the beach in Myanmar.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2012 -> 11:02 AM) The Sox have already been quoted as saying they want their last guy out of the pen to be a multi inning guy. Santiago fits that mold. Two of them, with the other possibly being Axelrod or Castro, and uncertainty surrounding Zach Stewart's future as a starter/reliever.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2012...-and-much-more/ She's getting older....when Mr. and Mrs. Smith came out, she was super hot. Now, a bit less so.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 9, 2012 -> 12:18 AM) That's the problem with the books as well. The original characters just go away and you lose the original connection. The new cousin (whose name I refuse to look up) was absurdly annoying in the most recent movie too. Considering that I may or may not watch another movie if they make one. A Thousand Words 3 year delayed Eddie Murphy project which has managed both 0 positive reviews out of 15 AND a 0.00% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes. That's almost impossible to do. Will probably go down at next year's Razzies as one of the five worst.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 9, 2012 -> 12:18 AM) That's the problem with the books as well. The original characters just go away and you lose the original connection. The new cousin (whose name I refuse to look up) was absurdly annoying in the most recent movie too. Considering that I may or may not watch another movie if they make one. are back in Narnia with their annoying cousin Eustace... He was about as helpful to the movie as Jar Jar Binks was to Star Wars, in actuality, it was a very good performance by the kid, but he was just God-awful to put up with throughout the movie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/opinion/...-choose.html?hp

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Mar 8, 2012 -> 03:20 PM) I like the signing. Its crazy, Perkins was almost drummed out of the organization a few years back and now is its best reliever Yep, although Perkins still has/had more value as a starter, he's found his niche, not unlike Guerrier and Crain eventually fell into... On the other hand, Hoey for Hardy, that was one of the worst trades in recent MLB history! Not so long ago, when they had Reyes, Mijares, Breslow and Perkins, that's about as much LH relief depth as any team in the majors had. How is Denard Span doing physically this spring? http://www.1500espn.com/sportswire/Mackey_...extension030812 One of the more in-depth articles you can read about the Perkins extension and the "Twins' Way" and how they operate that clubhouse...nice to see that Ozzie's not the only one with issues, in particular, dealing with D. Young, Slowey, Kyle Lohse, Matt Garza, David Ortiz, etc.

The shift away from the children in the first movie gradually to Prince Caspian hasn't gone over well. The first Narnia movie was very well received, and the quality has worsened over the last 2. Just like the Pullman series, the market just hasn't quite been there to the degree originally forecast when these films went into production originally. As far as John Carter goes, it's always very dangerous to put multiple hundreds of millions of dollars into a movie without a bankable star. It worked with Avatar, but John Carter seems poised to barely get $20 million this weekend, with Lorax continuing to dominate the marketplace and taking some of those kids/family ticket buyers away from John Carter. Actually, when I first heard the name of the movie, I thought it had something to do with John Carter (Noah Wylie's character) from the tv show ER. That didn't seem likely, but, then again, I'm not a huge comic book/superhero fan, either. And never read the original novel. from boxoffice.com It's Taylor Kitsch's season. Just passing 30, this heartthrob has made his biggest splash playing Tim Riggins in TV's Friday Night Lights and now steals the show from CG aliens, BBC mini-stars and this generation's answer to Xena Warrior Princess. A surprisingly convincing Civil War cavalryman, Kitsch's John Carter loses everything to become an unwelcome prospector and then get magicked onto "Barsoom," (a.k.a. Mars). There, John Carter of Earth meets the Princess of Mars and baddy Mark Strong (resembling a reject from Dark City) to lead many nations and two species into battle for a vaguely identified "freedom." All this while Ciaran Hinds shows too much belly and Willem Dafoe voices a four-armed green alpha Martian. It's got the schmaltz and grandeur of the 80s Clash of the Titans but little of the warm wonder that made that spectacle such an addiction. The seasoned cast are remarkable with their stentorian proclamations of gobbledygook (in King's English, of course) but the spectacle is just a massive event that passes you by—for all its gloss and expenditure, it's missing heart, which is a surprise because it was directed by Andrew Stanton, the man who transformed a near-featureless CG robot named Wall-E into the heart wrenching Chaplin surrogate of tomorrow's distended dystopia. Based on the 1912 serial by Edgar Rice Burroughs that spawned like twenty reprisals, Carter's graphic novel pedigree will earn those pre-fab fans with easy appeal, but may not leave them happy. Predictably brusque and solitary, John Carter is a down-on-his-luck prospector: we don't know he's a highly desirable cavalryman until a blonde Bryan Cranston seeks him out and orders his henchmen to wrestle Carter to the ground. Thereafter, multiple fast cuts move him from an outpost, to an office to a holding cell as quickly and nonsensically as the cut that drops him from an Arizona cave to the sand dunes of Mars. After shaking off the confusion, he learns there are some major advantages to being an earthling on this new planet: particularly, brutish strength and a superhuman capacity to jump great distances. He was valuable on earth, but on Mars he's a mini-god! He's found on the day a community of 12-foot, four armed monsties (led by Willem Dafoe) retrieve their hatchlings from a sand nest. John is spared from death and thrown in with the green slimeballs for cultural indoctrination—he emerges all abs and tunic, magically able to understand the natives, though some words (crucial ones, like Barsoom) remain beyond the reach of translation. It's a world where technology and faith are equally revered and indivisible and where a master race of morphing watchmen manipulate the fates to match the agenda of "The goddess" we'll never meet. The film's biggest (and saddest) crime is malaise—it's not that John Carter doesn't care about what it's doing, it just can't make us care, even though the magnitude of every event, conflict and emotion is as melodramatic as its Victorian roots. Since John Carter first appeared in 1912, one presumes that whatever oddities this story invented may well have been original at the time, but after so many remixes and reinventions of serial content, this "original" just looks like a desperate mash up of curios mined more usefully and intriguingly elsewhere. Tragic, really. While I'm all for excavating bedrock in a field as overexploited as serials/comics, this one didn't reach origin, it just reviewed rubble. And that rubble was showy but even it's made of used parts.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 8, 2012 -> 02:29 PM) I was more thinking about starting position players, starting pitchers and relievers who pitched most of the year. Bench guys, sample size issues come into play. De Aza wasn't around for long and Lillibridge wasn't exactly playing a ton. You are right on Humber though, I left him off. Konerko and Humber overachieved. Among players still with the team, who else that got significant playing or pitching time outperformed their norms significantly? No one. Alexei, Ohman and Crain, all performed around career averages. That leaves these returning players who underperformed, a little or a lot: Danks, Thornton, Floyd, Peavy, Rios, Beckham, AJP (maybe), Dunn So, 2 guys over (one of which had never pitched a full season, so who knows), 3 guys at (and 2 of those are bullpen arms), 8 guys under, and then the guys you just don't know yet (Morel, Viciedo, Sale, De Aza, Reed). I am NOT saying this means everything, it may mean little, but I do think it is an interesting indicator. Agreed, just not sure how much more we could expect out of either Konerko or AJP at this point in their careers. I'm willing to say Alexei should be able to put up a better overall season again, maybe a 775 OPS. He kind of started out his Sox career like Uribe in 2004 and then has flattened out to a pretty predictable trend line in the mid 700's. But Peavy, Thornton, Floyd, Rios, Beckham and Dunn all very easily could be significantly better. Probably not enough to top the Tigers barring some unforeseen injuries, but a team that wins 84-87 games, can definitely see that.

Marinez and Santiago have been some of the rookie standouts so far. D. Heath pitched two scoreless, manned up after taking a rocket off his shoulder and asked Ventura to stay in the game. Nice to see Beckham and Dunn making contact.