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But for what it's worth, I did pitch a shutout with 3 K's last night in my Men's league which is a normal skill level for mens slow pitch softball.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 09:53 AM) Yea I'm not believing 6 K's a game either, unless those teams just completely sucked ass. It's a co-ed tournament filled with employees who work at Chilis. The skill level in this tournament is laughable. Half of our team had never even swung a bat before.

Also, just advanced to the semi-finals tonight for our Thursday Men's league. Tournament included 14 teams I think. We came in as the 5th seed. I had to pitch both games today, pitched a shutout in the first game (nasty movement on my pitch), and then we won our second game like 8-7 I think on a walk-off.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 08:33 AM) Really? I live 20 minutes from that park, I have played there many times. We hit our limit everytime I go. Of course, my park in Arlington Heights is 300 No arc limit? What time do you play? 6 to 12 feet. We made it to the Final 4 for the second time, but this tournament was only 32 teams I think. Last time it was 64. We could have played the 3rd place game, but after 5 straight games, we were all dead tired. I pitched every game, had to have at least 30 strikeouts in those 5 games. One of the games I struck out about 12, 10 of them looking. My pitch moves about 3-4 feet in the air, it's disgusting.

I don't see a deal happening here either. If it does, I'd expect 1 or 2 mid-level guys coming back. I don't see the Sox giving him away, when they have the whole offseason to get something for him, and I don't see the Rangers throwing in a top-tier guy either.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Aug 7, 2013 -> 09:38 PM) I am really starting to believe he might be like a Ian Desmond type. I don't what position he will stick at though. Ben Zobrist maybe?

Jim Bowden just made his list of "Five August trades I'd like to see" Rios to Pirates came in as one of them, although he states he can't imagine the Pirates winning the claim on Rios.... "Chicago White Sox trade OF Alex Rios to the Pittsburgh Pirates for OFs Willy Garcia and Harold Ramirez "

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 5, 2013 -> 11:25 PM) Well, considering waiver priority begins with the league in which the player currently resides I'd say that's unlikely. Is that so? I thought it started with the other league first, my mistake.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 5, 2013 -> 09:46 PM) Well it depends what the exact order ends up being when he's placed on waivers. Could be Cleveland, Baltimore, or especially Kansas City. You think the entire NL passes up on those guys? I'm thinking the Pirates could claim Rios before it ever gets to the AL.

Wendelken. 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K. Well....that's one way to bounce back, jeeeez.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 5, 2013 -> 09:56 PM) Yea! I'm hopin for September callups and if they have success they still have to earn a roster spot in camp. No gimmes. September holds no significance for Avi Garcia, but the rest of those guys getting here in September will give us all something to watch again.

Avi is 3/3, triple, 2 singles, 2 RBI Semien is 2/3, 2 doubles.

Chris Beck promoted to AA Birmingham! Excellent news.

Semien is 1/1. Avi is 1/1. Wilkins is 1/1, now hitting .302 Hawkins is 1/1.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 4, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) I think that Thornton trade may become quite the theft Joe Borchard for Brandon Jacobs.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 3, 2013 -> 11:35 PM) He's doing well, but I'm not sure there's too much we can take away from his production this year due to limited innings and relief outings. Next year will be interesting though. Yeah, I am not even following Danish's stats. Of course it's nice to see good numbers, but next year is what counts, when he is back to starting and at max effort.

Probably a Wise move.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 2, 2013 -> 11:09 AM) No one is saying you have to try and sodomize an unconscious girl or anything, but how about you have a little fun with the folks on campus instead of this silly girl back home? I never said I would let her get in the way of me meeting anyone at school, but my point was I am not the type to just go f*** some strange to get it out of my system. I don't do one-night-stands, but I'd definitely not shy away from a new relationship if one happens at school.

My dad is all about this Google Chromecast. Hoping he buys it in the next week or two before I go back to school, I want to try that baby out.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 1, 2013 -> 12:08 PM) Dude, you have your last semester of college in front of you. Go spend the night with a random while it's still so easy. Don't waste it worrying about a young chick who has no idea what she wants yet. I'm not about that life. It'd be easier if I was.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 31, 2013 -> 04:52 AM) Damn, crazy stuff. Hang in there. Did it progress the past few weeks since you last posted? In terms of bf/gf status? We seemed pretty damn close I thought. She would cuddle up on me when we watched movies, we'd make out, she set a new daily alarm to start taking birth control, and she did that right in front of my face, all the signs were looking very good as of just Sunday. Then Monday we tried to hang out, last minute she says her parents won't let her, we get in to a small argument about how it's like the 5th time she has flaked out on plans, then the next day at work (Tuesday) we are fine until she all the sudden blew up randomly over text. It's not that I think she is insane of her to not want to get too close and attached right before I leave for school, but the insane part is that it was a complete 180 from where we were 2 days prior. There was no slow deterioration of talking, no ignoring each other, no signs that she felt this way, then BOOM, I get hit by a truck when she all the sudden say "Yeah, we're done now. I don't want anything else but friendship". I got completely blindsided. QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 31, 2013 -> 01:55 PM) Did you atleast get it in? Oooooh, of course not. I should have just been a real jerk and banged her that night of the party a few weeks ago when she said she wanted our first time to be sober. But no, I'm a nice guy and didn't want to force the issue. But my big question here is, last night she said "I just wanted to have fun this summer, I wasn't trying to have a serious relationship". Then WHY THE f*** would you say you want our first time to be sober and special? If you just want to have fun with me for the summer, then WHO THE f*** CARES? And I don't think it was an excuse, because we were groping each other pretty good, and she kept saying he wanted to f***, but then she stopped it before we went at it any further. Just seems like she must have changed her mind at some point, and in the meantime, I got pretty much 0 physical play out of this 1 month fling. Really hoping come December we can try this again, but it's really hard for me to keep talking to her right now. I'm too pissed to be her friend about this, even though it's probably an awful way to go if I want to try again in December.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 05:50 PM) What's the update chili? Are u dating happily ever after? Funny you bring this up, today of all days. We are done. At least for now. It's been a very stressful day. She almost randomly in the middle of a text convo sent me a huge long text saying how she can't wait for me while I'm at school, she will be too sad without me, she wants this to end now before she gets too attached. Says it's not fair to her or myself that we are away from each other for so long, says she just wanted to have fun this summer, didn't expect us to get this serious, and isn't going to spend 4 months waiting for a guy she has only been talking to for a month. Blah blah blah. Not that she's wrong about long distance relationships sucking, but at the same time, it bugs me that she won't even try to make it work. She just doesn't trust herself that she won't be depressed about not being able to see me whenever she wanted to. I tried to explain that I will be home every 3 or 4 weeks, and that my buddy offered to drive her to school for a weekend whenever she wants, but she doesn't think her parents will let her travel that far (ugh, 18 year olds), and she just doesn't want to even try. I told her I want to try again in December when I come back for good, and she said "Maybe! A lot can change in 5 months". Which to me sounds like a pessimistic comment, not an optimistic one. Oh well, I am super bummed out and surprisingly shaken up by this sudden and cold ending. I didn't think I liked her THIS much, but it's honestly killing me right now. I'm sure I'll feel better in a couple days, but it's going to be really hard going from what we had just as recent as Sunday, to this sudden end of contact. She says she "just wants to be friends" for now, but would still want to hang out when I come home from school. I'm banking on school being a giant distraction for me and not dwelling on this girl too much while I am enjoying my last semester of college.

I can't believe how many people hate this deal, or have any opinion other than us doing very nicely in this deal. Peavy was f***ing injured just a couple weeks ago, he has been injured for half his time in the Sox uniform. We traded essentially NOTHING to get Peavy in the first place, and now we get in return a very promising young OF, and 3 low-level prospects that seem to each have a plus tool respectively. The rumors going around must have inflated everyone's value of Peavy over what was actual. I saw reports that said the best guy the DBacks would relinquish was David Holmberg. I'd take Avisail Garcia over Holmberg 8 days out of the week. If Davidson or Owings were available, then that sucks we missed out, but we also have no idea if Towers only wanted a 1 for 1 swap of those guys, or maybe 1 of them + a low level guy, but the Sox eating $5-10M of Peavy's deal. We have no idea. I am COMPLETELY content with this deal. I think we got a haul very comparable to what the Cubs got for Garza. We got the best guy of all those prospects, the Cubs got the 2nd and 3rd best, while shedding a lot less payroll. It's a trade-off, IMO.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 29, 2013 -> 06:30 PM) At least you're next to Three Floyds. That is something to be thankful for. And yet I've never been.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 30, 2013 -> 01:14 AM) You know what sucks?? I work until 5:30 on Wednesday. F me You know what sucks even more? I'll be moving out of my old apartment at school all day Wednesday. No TV, no radio, no internet, just periodic checks on my phone. I'm not happy about it.