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caulfield12

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  1. @Philly series 6/5 Kay Luzardo 6/6 Burke Painter 1-6 6/7 Sandlin Nola HOME 6/9 Martin vs. Sale*** 6/10 Fedde vs. G.Holmes 6/11 Kay vs.M.Perez*** 6/12 Burke vs. Sasaki 6/13 Sandlin vs. Yamamoto*** 6/14 Martin vs. Sheehan miss Wrobleski if schedules hold/no rainouts @NYY
  2. To put it in one sentence, he was an insufferable jackass way too full of himself.
  3. Lackey 0/3 R Burress the better game so far today.
  4. Easiest thing is 1B/DH...harder would be 2B or CF/LF. Or you trade Teel for more pitching. No real reason to believe JR will pay Murakami big bucks, either.
  5. Who are the last two Sox picks from CWS-winning teams, Jacob Gonzalez/Ole Miss and Jared Mitchell/LSU? Watching UCLA highlights...aluminum bat one bounce single. Crazy. Fifth seed in the WCC tourney. First time #1 seed in extras in a regional since 2013 UNC FAU. Even crazier Cal Poly beat St.Mary's 14-1 on Saturday night. Hawk was probably pushed too hard...three apearances each of the last two weekends. https://www.ncaa.com/game/6599690/boxscore 10-8 OU over GA TECH in 5th inning "Oklahoma looked like it was on its way to a quick loss. Georgia Tech, which owns the best offense in the country, was well on its way to a blowout win with an 8-2 lead in the top of the fourth inning. Then, the Sooners' bats got hot." Will play again Monday if OU somehow holds on to win...
  6. Didn't he also have an error or a play that he should have made on a bouncer? To make the score 3-2 UCLA? Big Ten baseball not faring well. Oregon still alive?
  7. Whatever you want to say about how much of the talent was Getz vs. Hahn in origin....there really does seem to be so much more of a positive clubhouse environment and team chemistry. A lot of this can be attributed to Venable and the coaching staff...for helping each and every player understand their role and how to maximize their contributions. Guys like Peters Romo Antonacci Meidroth and Nishida (has to get ops to at least 600) immediately come to mind...basically the entire bench as well. The biggest concern right now after Mune/Teel getting back to 100% is still the back end of that starting rotation and the bullpen, although Taylor, Davis and that lefty have stabilized it nicely. The real question is whether a team now held together by duct tape and baling wire can negotiate that June schedule while remaining in touch with CLE and the mediocre WC field.
  8. What have those 12 small/mid market team owners said so far publicly about projected payroll raises? https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2026/05/guardians-payroll-structure-could-be-drastically-reshaped-by-labor-negotiations-paul-hoynes.html Found an article that explains it well from Guardians' perspective. "Meyer, the union’s acting executive director and lead negotiator, responded to the owners’ salary cap proposal by saying, “For generations, our members have fought against cap systems because they harm players at all levels, erode or eliminate contractual guarantees, pit player against player, lead to more work stoppages, not less, and get worse for players over time.” He added, “Caps don’t lower ticket prices for fans, eliminate tanking or ensure teams are run with equal competence. They suffocate competition by offering owners an all-purpose excuse for inaction and mediocrity.”
  9. Are they proposing to get rid of the revenue sharing completely for small markets? And the aggregating of media rights for RSN's across all thirty teams with an equal split versus the Dodgers being hundreds of millions ahead of the field on an individual basis? That was supposed to be a 2-3 year timeframe to wind down where all the teams could be bundled together through ESPN.
  10. Who's the last first rounder the Sox started out wanting to change his swing? Burger had that arm bar thing going at Missouri State, t or h bar, whatever... Can't remember much about Madrigal or Vaughn at draft time...those flaws would later be exposed. Levu continues to look like the best overall UCLA hitter...ofc a power hitting RBI machine vs. middle infielder. Also can't remember the last time the White Sox took a position player that wasn't drafted for need at the big league level...obviously Colson and Teel already in place, not to mention Bonemer/Carson. Everyone and their mother expects a position change for Bonemer, though.
  11. UCLA definitely feeling the pressure. Only up 3-2 vs. StMary's in the fourth. Cholowsky had a ball play him at SS. Nebraska getting rolled today by ASU after losing yesterday.
  12. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/roch-cholowskys-case-no-1-120007754.html There you go. That said, the competition in the ACC across the board is always going to beat the cold weather B10. North Carolina and FSU is way better than Oregon, USC and Nebraska.
  13. https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2013/05/29/players_at_other_positions/ Biggio, Dale Murphy, Carlos Delgado, Ibanez, Daulton Varsho
  14. "Enter Call. The junior, who was credited with the RBI walk to win the Big Ten tournament, laced a single into an unoccupied left field to end it (against VA Tech). Star Roch Cholowsky was the first player to reach his jubilant teammate, seconds later joined by a sea of blue jerseys. They will take on Saint Mary’s at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday for a spot in the regional final against Cal Poly."
  15. I'm certainly not supporting any of the mods lol. It's mostly the fact that nobody can even enjoy the current team on "either side" without being told how we should go about being fans. I've actually shifted to being 75-80% positive recently...but I don't need either affirmation or condemnation, it's not like "winning the internet" earns one anything in the real world. It's also not like winning a fantasy baseball league every year means anything either...it simply means I have more time in early retirement to follow all the other teams and players. I was always anti Hahn too, but that was for personal reasons having to do with one of my best friends' sisters having gone to HLS with him from 1993-96. In the end, ultimately, any praise or condemnation we receive posting about a sport many of our kids or spouses might find meaningless is just the fate of being a Chicago White Sox fan for life, lol...no matter how many times I've pretended to care about other teams during my lifetime, it was just a coping mechanism for dealing with bad Sox baseball. Just like this site. In the end, life is too short to get wrapped up too much in these so called board wars. It's more about keeping faith with those in my family on my mother's side who passed on their love for the Sox to me, even if most of them have already died years and years ago, well before 2005 even. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/nc-states-season-and-head-coach-elliott-avents-decades-long-career-ends-on-a-pitch-clock-violation-in-ncaa-regionals-234553257.html https://x.com/JomboyMedia/status/2060784753393995949/video/1 Glad my 11 year old son isn't around coaches/fathers like this...
  16. Unfortunately, it’s Ishbia dream world to think $425-450 million will go to Mune and Sato… LF Antonacci CF Lackey 3B Vargas SS Colson RF B.Montgomery (M&M Boys) DH Rotating 1B Bonemer C Teel 2B Meidroth/Carlson
  17. Emerson has the prettiest swing. That’s it. And more athleticism (projected) than Cholowsky.
  18. “Extremely athletic for a 6-foot-2, 215-pound catcher, Lackey isn't quick out of the batter's box but can flash plus run times once he gets going. He's very agile behind the plate and should become a solid receiver and blocker once he improves his focus and consistency. His strong and accurate arm is another asset, and he looked capable at third base while playing 13 errorless games there in 2025.” Basically, he has those longer strides once he gets going to make up ground…só that would apply to CF as well. But automatically one of the best CF arms, if not the best. LF Nishida CF Lackey RF Braden would give you the best arm talent of any outfield in the majors. Bonemer has at least a solid SS arm to play either corner spot, if he gets shifted to LF eventually…although here I moved him to second base. DH Antonacci (rotating) LF Sato has RF/3B ability CF Lackey 1B Murakami 3B Vargas SS Colson 2B Bonemer/Antonacci RF Braden Montgomery C Teel Best lineup in mlb potentially Sox at 732 with fifth highest mlb ops already
  19. Seems like every Lackey bomb is 425+ these recent days...
  20. They're not trading Meidroth at this point. That's his best position.
  21. Probably gets the start tmrw unless yet another lhp.
  22. https://www.ncaa.com/game/6599687 GaTech vs. Oklahoma now on ESPN+
  23. That loss will stick with them for years. 26-0 when leading after 8 previously.

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