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Bad situation to bring him in and nerves were obviously at play. I'm still excited to see him...he threw a couple of nice sliders

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 08:40 PM) Predictions everyone? I'll say walk to load the bases and then K strikeout to end the inning Pumped to see this kid finally on the bump in a regular season game

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 03:39 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 1m1 minute ago Robin Ventura: "You think about (challenging) anyway if you get a maybe, yeah you think about doing it. I didn’t even get a maybe." What-****ing-ever. Who cares whose fault it was the most. It's just a rotten loss. I'm bummed, but mostly I'm still puzzled how the ump missed that. He was right on top of it. Leadership 101, pass the buck. Errr...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 03:32 PM) Is that a player publicly calling out his manager within an hour of the game ending? That's quite a look into the locker room mentality of this team, imo. Alexei has been around long enough to know what he was doing in that interview.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 08:35 PM) Working perfect for me tonight, and I'm watching on my PS4 in California. Thanks, bud. Hopefully it'll be fixed tomorrow.

Sorry if this is redundant but I really don't want to read the whole game thread....is anyone else having issues with MLB.tv? I've been on the phone with those jackasses for 90 minutes and their only solution was a factory restore on my PS4 even though it's not working on my laptop or iphone either.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 04:31 PM) but it did go by and johnson wasnt there to get it. And hit Alexei in the head with the throw? Alexei shouldn't have been over there.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 04:23 PM) Not to mention he loves... LOVES Ozzie. Said he wouldn't name names, but there was a series in Tampa when the same Sox players was drilled 3 times and the Sox never retaliated. Hawk said he went into the manager's office and asked if the Sox were going to do anything about it. The manager said he was "filing it".....Hawk and Steve then joked that that file must've gotten lost because no retaliation ever came.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 04:21 PM) Could only be him or Guillen. I'm guessing Manuel. Yeah, you're right....Ray came about in 1998, same year Jerry was hired.

So who is Hawk talking about? Jerry Manuel?

This home plate umpire is brutal.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 03:48 PM) Only 3 hits very disappointing. Apparently 5 hits is amazing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 6, 2015 -> 02:52 PM) The slide was fine. The roll was not. They are supposed to do away with that. Agreed....I was responding to those b****ing about Shark throwing a strike to Perez.

For those not watching, that pitch to Perez was not a bad pitch......low and grazed the outside corner of the plate. Good piece of hitting.

I feel pretty confident about this season. With that said, even if we basically play .500 or a bit below, this will still be a fun season to watch. This is the first season in a while that I can remember not really having a whipping boy chosen on day 1....I mean we've got Gordo and Danks, but one is a bench player and the other a 4th starter, so they can't disappoint much. A lot of young guys we get to watch develop, one of the most dominating offensive players in the game, a pitcher coming up that has scouts drooling...the future is finally bright and if it doesn't happen this season, it's nice knowing that we're set up to succeed in future seasons.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 07:04 PM) Bernie Pleskoff raving about Rodon http://m.mlb.com/cws/video/topic/52577744/...e-sox/?c_id=cws Wow. My favorite part was when he included "other scouts" and then went on to sing the praises. If he does what he's capable of this season, we're looking at a potentially deep playoff run with our SP.

Over/Under/Over I think he's satisfied sacrificing power for average and just picking his spots to display the power.

92-70 and win the Central. Our starting pitching, especially when Rodon comes aboard, carries a slightly above average offense to a pretty good season.

I'm starting to feel bad for these guys on these amazingly club-friendly deals . While I understand what y'all are saying about seeing what Avi can do this season, I think now is the time to strike a deal with him. I think he's going to be a very impactful player and if he plays like I expect him to this season, it's going to be costly to pay him.

Great read....thanks

Jose is easily a top 3 hitter in the league, imo. He had 10HR last April but, outside the power, he hit under .260 with an OBP just over .300 (and just 1 HR in May). He absolutely dominated after that. Post-ASB he slashed 350/432/513. June, July, and August were just phenomenal months. He's going to eventually find that perfect mix of average and power and I think it'll happen sooner than later. He could legitimately put up prime Miggy numbers this season or next. You look forward to his 4th season and beyond and I don't think it's too much of a stretch that he could draw parallels to prime Big Hurt. As Sox fans who watch a lot of games, we saw that he was adjusting to the league's adjustments extremely quickly. He was a rookie....couldn't speak English....had money for the first time in his life....was working on getting his family here....there are plenty of excuses for him to have failed last season and he overcame them all. As he becomes more comfortable, the league is in trouble.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 28, 2014 -> 04:54 PM) The most surprising numbers? 52% of the site is 30 or older. I thought it'd be higher than 52%, considering how long the site has been around.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 15, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) To assume that Johnson will be starting at 2B - unless the Sox just don't give a s*** about his measurable readiness - and Rodon will put up 2 WAR is ludicrously optimistic. This isn't about "what could be," this is about what is the most likely outcome if weighting every possibility based on its individual likelihood. The most polished, possibly best, pitcher in a solid 2014 draft class grabbing a 2 WAR this season is "ludicrous" but a computer program having Q lose 3 WAR for no apparent reason is to be believed? I dig the stats and they do have value, but c'mon.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 05:56 PM) I think those 3 are luxuries. I don't think Robin needs a particularly good year. Frankly, a great bullpen can make anyone a good manager, so if he gets career years in there he'll look so smart. For me, these are the real keys if sox are to jump from a realistic 8-9 win jump to a full 15 win jump to a possible wild card at 88 win: 1. Be remarkably healthy - this team has pretty much zero positions that an injury can occur and the team have an acceptable backup. On this end, and maybe this is greedy to include here, but one of the biggest things that could help this year is Erik Johnson and Beck making huge jumps in Triple A so that we can have that additional depth to bring up if we need burn from a long man in bullpen. 2. Stars need to be stars - Jose Abreu needs a year as big as last year. Sale needs a year as big as last year with more innings. Samardjiza/Q, again, need no dropoff here. We just do not have a deep team to overcome lack of starpower. 3. Bullpen - Robertson needs to be shutdown, Duke needs to be last year Zach Duke, and Putnam/Petricka need to be their June/July selves. Frankly, this I am hopeful for. We killed our bullpen with innings in april-may last year, and throughout the year, with some of our crap starters. Putnam/Petricka were overused, Belli was overused, and then they'd explode. But one thing I've been thinking about is how crucial this year is for our minor leagues. Will 2017 be another 2013? We need to see Anderson, Hawkins, Trey, May, Thompson, etc either be good or turn it around. If Davidson turns around, it would be crucial to future of sox moves. If they don't, we need a bunch of the arms to hit so that we can trade them off. Totally agree on the minor leaguers and hadn't thought of that. Definitely key, especially knowing Sale seems to hit the DL for 2-4 weeks every season with elbow tightness.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 14, 2014 -> 05:41 PM) Those last 2 don't worry me that much. This team could easily get a very weak performance from Tyler Flowers, nothing but a September bullpen stint from Carlos Rodon, and still win the division. You're really high on this team....I like it! I think Flowers is important because the bottom 3rd of the lineup, plus a sort of unknown in Gillaspie, scares me a bit and I think that Tyler offers us the best chance of being the impactful player out of the bunch. I expect a rough season from Alexei. Rodon I chose because I think he could easily earn us an extra 5 wins which would be HUGE in a fairly balanced AL this season.