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I'd cut two weeks off the regular season. Shorten the season to 156, for one week off, and schedule 3 doubleheaders per home team (6 total per team). If some small market teams want to have straight doubleheaders as a promotion, great. Otherwise, make them split doubleheaders. They've already made the rule about adding a 26th man for doubleheaders. They should have more of them and get the World Series over with by October 15th-20th.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 10:02 AM) Editors from Baseball America just did their mock draft. Have the Sox picking HS catcher NICK CIUFFO. Definitely do not see the White Sox picking him. After what Lauman had to say about being happy with the organizational depth in the minors. The panel last night comped Ciuffo to Pierzynski...including the personality.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 08:27 AM) The video the MLB Network showed of Wilson last night made him look awful. Phillip Ervin is the best of the outfielders they're considering, in my opinion. I watched that and thought the same. They better not take him. Being that I don't follow amateur baseball, I can only go by what they were saying last night. A couple of the high school catchers look interesting, and you can tell John Hart is really high on Alex Gonzalez, the big RHP.

54-Game Records (Runs Scored- Runs Against): Det 30-24 - (283-215) +68 Cle 29-25 1 (266-245) +21 Min 25-29 5 (237-252) -15 Sox 24-30 6 (186-221) -35 KC 23-31 7 (210-219) -9

At the very least, it's going to be an interesting July once they know it's over.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 05:38 PM) Wouldn't shock me if Cooper is our next manager He's managing Friday when Ventura is away. Parent is managing Thursday, so he's the next Sox manager. Ha.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 05:36 PM) Yup, all 24 year olds that aren't Mike Trout suck. Yeah, that's exactly it.

Caulfield-- I caught myself and remembered he missed time. Calm down dude. And Viciedo sucks.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 05:24 PM) Dude, I keep catching you in these edits. And this is not directed a you, but people wanted to write off Viciedo coming off a 25 HR season as a 23 year old are crazy to me. Give him some time for Christ sake. One week ago people were sucking his dick around here, now some of those same people want to trade him. Baseball is not supposed to be over-analyzed on a daily basis. I was reminding people of hot he was in May 2012. Other than two weeks last year, he was pretty mediocre. I don't like Viciedo as a player, and I don't think he'll improve that much. I certainly don't think he's a guy you want to plan to be a 3-4-5 hitter on a winning team.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 05:23 PM) Viciedo is a career. 224 hitter vs RHP and a .356 hitter vs LHP. Bernstein was talking about his swing this week and how he makes no adjustments with his hands, etc. based on where the pitch is. I think he's a garbage player, but that's just me.

Viciedo on pace for a whopping 12 homers and 39 RBIs. (he was injured though)

Beckham didn't play today, so maybe he said he's ready and he'll be activated tomorrow night.

Royals-- Games 1-27: 17-10 Games 28-54: 6-21 That's baseball.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) And overall his OPS there is .768. He's had a weird career because of his illness. He's good now. I'm not saying bring him up tomorrow, but if Flowers has a dreadful June and Phegley is still hitting, I'd bounce Flowers.

Today is Phegley's 166th game with Charlotte. I'm willing to gamble.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) Tigers are having a rough week. And yet they hit the 1/3 mark at 30-24. On pace for 90 wins. They'll get hot and win 95. But yeah, their bullpen isn't great--lower ERA than the Sox by the way.

I wish it were like the old days when a guy got drafted, you didn't hear from him again for 3-4 years, and you were lucky to see his stats once a week in the Sunday paper. But the internet makes that impossible and it's fun to follow a guy from day 1 of his professional career. Sometimes we need to realize these guys are super young, and haven't played a lot of baseball if they come out of high school. I just hope Hawkins keeps a good attitude, is coachable, and progresses each year. My only beef so far, is the Sox probably should have started him at Kanny at age 19. But we'll see how the next few months go.

Tigers lose. Bullpen couldn't bail out Porcello. Also hit into 4 DPs.

Here's that Hahn interview... http://chicago.cbslocal.com/audio/986-670-...-interviews#986

Sac fly for Phegley. He also made a throwing error. His 3rd error.

Hawkins- K. Welcome back.

Hawkins is off the DL. Dash (28-26) lineup v. CAR: DeMichele-2B, Curley-DH, Smith-C, Farrell-3B, Hawkins-CF, Haddow-RF, Ravelo-1B, Buckner-LF, Herbek-SS/Beck-RHP Game will start in a rain delay.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20130531

Alejandro De Aza LF, Alexei Ramirez SS, Conor Gillaspie 3B, Dayan Viciedo DH, Adam Dunn 1B, Casper Wells RF, Jordan Danks CF, Tyler Flowers C, Tyler Greene 2B

QUOTE (Jimbo1965 @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 11:35 AM) Isn't Ravelo the guy that quit last year? I believe he had to take a leave for a family issue.