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QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 05:59 PM) You can't walk Russell Branyan with a 2 run lead and nobody on You can't have Brent Lillibridge within 500 miles of any major league team.

Thanks, Lillibridge. Don't let the door hit you on your way to Charlotte. Welcome Jayson Nix to the big league team.

Colon, you're the greatest. Wonder if he will make it through 8 innings. Almost scared of Jenks coming into this game and messing it up somehow.

I think the cold weather has something to do with Getz not playing, although it might be so cold he won't be able to feel any of his fingers. Owens 1/11, Lillibridge 5/33 now. 6/44, not so good. .136 and falling off a cliff. Fields looks like crap. Please try Betemit or even Viciedo.

The Corkaroo magic is already gone. Lillibridge really needs to go down to Charlotte and play everyday and work on bunting and hitting the ball on the ground and simply making better contact. He's like Curtis Granderson up there, with the only plus being his speed/defense, which don't help much if you're not on base. They can mix in Nix and the only downside is they have to keep Owens around as the back-up outfielder. This game is being played at the pace of the final game of a minor league season when everyone has a ticket to get out of town that night.

Only 8 pitches that inning. Way to go, Bart. He's really pitched pretty well in 3 of 4 starts, with the exception of the Baltimore game and one pitch by Thornton with the bases loaded against Ben Zobrist. One of the better FA signings (dollar value wise) of the offseason so far by KW.

Konerko is the anti-Dye with RISP. He's really picked up the team quite a bit this year with 2 outs. Nice job, Paulie. Let's get this game and bear down for the King Felix/Danksie match-up.

Possible....Betancourt has a lower OBP than BA by a couple of points. Nice range, JD. I can't believe Branyan has hit 4 homers with how he's looked today. And now we return to our 1985-1988 White Sox offense. Keep those commercials ready to go...if you blink, you'll miss the half inning.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 05:17 PM) Maybe we can have Seattle agree to let Lillibridge hit off a tee. He would still pop it up or hit it off the luxury boxes down the 1B line with that swing of his. We seem to collect hitters with really bad swings (Borchard, Owens, Lillibridge, Anderson, Fields). Or hitters that just try to jack almost every pitch out of the park (Thome/Quentin).

The White Sox offense hasn't NOT been out since Sunday. Ramirez/Miller/Lillibridge. That could be the worst bottom 3 in the AL. I don't know what's "lower" than Winnin' Ugly, but this day might define it. This guy was in the Frontier League....and he's blowing us away at 86-91 MPH. You'd think we were facing Koufax, Drysdale or Sam McDowell out there. I mean, it's cold and dreary, I get that, but c'mon guys.

Will one run win this game, with the cold weather and anemic offenses? I don't know which offense is more horrific looking...at least the M's play defense and are getting very good starting pitching. Josh Fields is taking every single ball into RF, even from non-flamethrowers. That won't work.

Nice to see a little more velocity and then mixing in a few pitches (like the K on Griffey) below hitting speed.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/statistics/...ds/?pl_id=23816 .281 in 30+ ab's with 2 doubles and 1 SB The problem with Pods is he can't play CF, and Anderson is the much better option defensively (and probably) offensively now. The only argument for Pods would be if Getz was sidelined or DLed, but that doesn't look like the case.

2nd game has to be CSN+, because the Bulls are on CSN

It says 405 and WGN, i'm assuming that's for the first game and not the second half of the DH? By the way, who is Ginger Zee? Sounds like a Hungarian porn starlet.

I'll give another example (ejemplo). In Spanish, banks are usually banco, but banque is French for bank. On the other hand, a tank is most definitely not a tanko in Spanish (that's what I was joking about, Vicied-O, Tank-O). I just liked the sound of the two "o's" together...or Cubano Tanko.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 11:10 PM) Good try! Go Cuban Tanko! Tanque de Guerra (war) El Tanque Cubano Cubano, I was joking. I think it's funny when people add vowels to the end of words and think they're getting Italian or Spanish somehow. The noun/adjective structure doesn't work as well, either. Titan de bronze would be Bronze Titan in English, not Titan of Bronze.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 12:25 AM) THis is second go around in AA, correct? Third, technically. Brief appearance in 2006. As far as Montgomery goes, there are some sites affiliated with the Civil Rights movement that are interesting and the Southern Poverty Law Center, if you're into that kind of thing. The Civil War battle of Shiloh was all the way to the northeast of Mississippi/southern TENN, so that's about all I remember from my visit to that region. Huntsville is fun, there's the space and rocket center if you're into that kind of thing. BTW, Dayan Viciedo has his 2nd stolen base tonight. Go Cuban Tanko.

Beckham with two out RBI double into LF corner, scoring Hudson. Still a prospect, after all. Now at .294. Flowers crushed one down the LF line that was "obliterated" according to the Barons' announcer. Just foul. Magallanes and Flowers contesting the decision a bit but settling down after Tyler came all the way to the mound to get a clarification. Cleared foul pole by so much it was very hard to call fair or foul. Missed a home run of "epic proportion" by inches. Flower strikes out on the curveball and glares daggers at 3B umpire who called his ball foul. 4-2 Barons. Foolish manager brings in LHR Maine (related to Mets' pitcher??) thinking to nullify Allen, not realizing Brandon hits lefties better and toyed with David Price last year. It works though, as ball is popped up and run down with a very good play by the SS in the outfield. Kyle McCulloch with four straight quality starts...bring on the Broadway comparisons.

Yep, still quite early in the season. A couple of nights ago, there was speculation about him being demoted to Winston-Salem or being overmatched, two nights from now he might be sporting a higher BA than Beckham and everyone will be panicking about Gordon and asking "what's wrong with Slayer?" Viciedo's defense has solidified, and everyone is raving about his arm as well. Brian Anderson now has a higher OPS than Gordon Beckham as well as Dayan Viciedo. Didn't think that would happen in 2009.

Detroit continues to impress. Verlander finally figures some things out and beats Sabathia, who's going to start receiving boos in Gotham City soon enough. They had Rodney on the ropes (scored two in the top of the 9th) but Posada ended up grounding into a DP to quell the threat. Minnesota is struggling with the Rays at home. Good match-up of two teams with similar styles. Baker still hasn't had a good start. Crede, Cuddyer, Gomez and Punto are dragging that offense into the gutter, along with D. Young. Royals behind newly-promoted Bannister (replacing H. Ramirez in rotation) wipe out Blue Jays. Of course, they got to face the infamous Mr. Purcey. Guillen coming off the DL took him deep twice and former Sox Miguel Olivo also went yard.

QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 08:14 PM) Only if someone gets promoted... and so far none of the Baron outfielders are stepping up. Gartrell is probably the best prospect to be moved, although he's a Tier 2/3 prospect, overall. Five homers isn't bad, though. Doesn't seem like Gartrell will ever hit for a high average, but he was supposed to be on the AFL team before Danks took his place, correct? Danks will probably be on the Winston-Salem roster until the ASB. No need to rush him, and it's a good thing if Danks and Shelby can both play CF for as long as they can, which means separate teams for now, unless they decide to move Shelby back to LF. Shelby undoubtedly needs a full year of AA. Brandon Allen just struck out with the bases loaded (three homers in a week, not bad!)...Beckham is struggling a bit now, down to .284.

Cancelled DH tomorrow starting at 405 with second game starting 30 minutes after the end of first game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 01:01 PM) I'll gladly take Aardsma on this roster instead of some of the crap we have out there in the pen. I think this one was Cooper's decision, based on the fact there was so much resistance about developing David's offspeed stuff. What will undoubtedly happen is that Aardsma will do well for a couple of months in non-pressure situations, then he'll crack (not unlike Boone Logan) and just disappear mentally and not even seem like the same pitcher again for the rest of the season. Who knows, maybe he will just "find it" like Thornton did after one film session and day working with Cooper, but a reliever who doesn't throw 101-102 can't get away with just a fastball. Logan, Sisco and Aardsma are the three "strikes" against Cooper, but it's not like Boone stormed into Atlanta and became the closer there.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 12:53 PM) Absolutely. Ozzie will be the first to tell you he has others tell players they have been traded or released, or sent to the minors. He cannot do it. I'm not a big Ozzie guy, but I don't consider not having the heart to tell someone something like that to be a bad thing . If BA continues to play like he's been playing, even if his average drops, which is obviously very likely, he won't be replaced. Especially by the likes of Dewayne Wise. Good ABs is all he needs. Well, that's different. Because that's the worst thing for any manager, to tell someone it's all over or they're being traded/released. I am sure he really hated being in that situation with Pablo Ozuna. Guillen has remarked about the difficulty of this aspect of managing on more than one occasion. But I can guarantee if Alexei or Brian have to lead off in the next week, Ozzie will be the one to tell them, not Greg Walker, Joe Cowley or Harold Baines.