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QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:06 PM) All I said was that it was a nice 20 or so minutes for those three guys Gotcha. I'm sure the Rangers said the same thing about Garza... for a nice 20 minutes

Would Jerry cut him with 1.5 seasons left? I don't see him working up much trade value and he is blocking some younger guys.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:00 PM) No, getting a top 40 pitching prospect alone would have been a good trade for Garza. Heck, the Rangers GM has already admitted he made a bad trade. Agreed, but your post was right after Olt's homer against a bum. He is still not a MLB player. Neither of the two are.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:52 PM) The 5 straight strikeouts and a grand slam are pretty nice returns, considering the best player in the package isn't one of the 3 involved (as I'm sure you know). I don't think Olt or Grimm are anything special though, but Ramirez has a great arm and can be a late inning reliever. So one Grand slam against the cross town rival makes a good trade?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:37 PM) Ha, nice trade Rangers. What impressed you more? The .626 OPS before tonight or that straight as an arrow fastball from an A A A pitcher he crushed?

I hope you allow smart phones during Jose Abreu at bats. No project or movie is worth missing those

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:17 PM) We don't have a 4th outfuelder We don't have a 3rd outfielder

23-year old in his first career playoff game scores an OT goal to win 1-0 at the Bell Centre. Hate to see the Bruins win, but that's a hell of a story. That arena is #1 on my list of hockey venues I would love to visit for a road game.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:39 PM) Buehrle, 6-1, 1.91 Bet he ends up 14-10, 3.98 ERA, just a standard Buehrle year.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 8, 2014 -> 06:30 PM) I love Hawk's passion; I love that some of my best memories of my father are us watching games during the Hawk and Wimpie era. That said, he's actively taking away my enjoyment of the Sox the last two years. I've always defended him but I can't defend him anymore. It's amazing that Stone puts up with it. I would have just quit if I were Stone. Once in a great while Hawk will have something original to add like last night talking with Stone about knuckleballers, but those moments are becoming rarer and rarer. Exactly. It is possible to have grown up loving Hawk, to think he is an all-time great, and at the same time to think his time is done and he does more harm than help to Sox broadcasts nowadays.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2014 -> 02:54 PM) Hey let's hit the panic button and f*** up all the lines. Here's an idea, let's put Handzus back with Hossa and Sharp, brilliant. That's a line from practice today, plus moving Toews away from Hossa. OK then. This team consistently performs in spite of Q, and to a degree, Bowman. It's really amazing how much talent this team has to overcome all of it. If they play a couple more bad games, you know that's when 19 and 88 will end up on a line together. It's always his last desperation move

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 8, 2014 -> 04:57 PM) For those of you not a fan of Hawk, it could be a hell of lot worse. I was stuck listening the Cubs announcers Tuesday night on WGN. Granted, the game wasn't the most entertaining but those bozos (whomever they were) almost put me to sleep. When the Sox and Cubs play I purposely watch the Cubs broadcast, as it's infinitely better than our poor washed up Hawk.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 8, 2014 -> 02:03 PM) It's not ticket sales i'm worried about, it's people filling the seats. Almost every year we have teams that aren't expected to make the finals make the finals, and when that happens a huge walk-up crowd grabs tickets from fans of teams that were expected to stay the weekend but don't. That's going to be much harder for people now. Will it be harder for the fans to fill the seats? Sure. Does the Big Ten care? Nope. Like the earlier post said, it's not like Sunday is sold out every year anyway.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 8, 2014 -> 01:15 PM) He might when half an arena is empty for the championship game. How's that going to look on live TV 20 minutes before Selection Sunday starts? No, not really. Ticket sales have zero to do with this decision, even if the game doesn't sell out it could still be a major success to them. It's also a 20,000 seat basketball arena, not a 70,000 seat football stadium. I think you are slightly over exaggerating how empty the place will be. They didn't move the tourney to Pullman, Washington.

QUOTE (farmteam @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) I think he means the secondhand market, where fans of the teams that lost sell to fans whose teams are still in it. I'd imagine that Jim Delaney gives exactly zero s***s about the walk-up secondhand ticket market over the weekend.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:12 PM) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/...cago-white-sox/ How teams overstated Abreu's lack of bat speed to drive down the price. Just came here to post this, good stuff.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 7, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) I just see an issue with this when you have upsets in the tournament, as you do every year. Middle tier teams that may win one game or may win it all. Are you going to get the walk-up crowds that you would normally get in Chicago or Indy? Are there tickets even available the day of? Don't they sell out ahead of time? There really aren't walk-up crowds then.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:03 AM) Round 1 tonight, rounds 2-3 tomorrow night, rounds 4-7 Saturday. Jeez. All this hype and wait time and only 32 picks tonight. The NFL is a monster.

How many rounds tonight? Just one or two?

So the bullpen isn't too bad, but the starters still suck.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) Soldier Field is easy to get to. The metra drops you off at 18th street on the south end and 12th street on the north end. The Bears special train leaves 1/2 after the game ends. I'm sure that's great if you live on that train line, but I live on the other side of town and the Millenium Station on the north end is a mile away from Ogilivie. The stadiums aren't necessarily difficult to get to, they are just very time consuming because they require multiple modes of transportation.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:53 AM) Well yeah you can do that, but it's not exactly quick and convenient. Using google maps, if I wanted to leave from Downers some time after five for a weeknight game, the earliest I can get to the park is a little after 7 and that's with a couple of bus transfers. edit: this is a Chicago infrastructure problem and there's not really anything the Sox could do about it. They do have the Pace shuttles, but those all leave Bolingbrook at 4:15 or Burr Ridge at 4:45. That's true. I don't go to that many games and it's usually on the weekend, so it doesn't bother me as much. I imagine that would get old trying to go to multiple weekday games. You are right about the Chicago infrastructure problem, because the same can be said for the other stadiums in the city. If you want to drive to Wrigley, you have to drive through at least two miles in s***ty city traffic. The only way to get there via public transportation is downtown to the Red Line like for the Sox or the Metra from the NW Burbs, then the hellish packed #80 bus. United Center is at least pretty close to 290 and 90, but it's several blocks from train stations or from downtown you have to take a nearly two mile bus ride. And Soldier Field doesn't even deserve a comment.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:42 AM) It'd be an easier sell if you could take public transportation all the way from the suburbs to the 35th street red line stop. Can't you just take the Metra to downtown then walk a few blocks to the Red or Green Line? That's what I do coming from near O'Hare and it's pretty simple. Or just switch to the Rock Island Metra?

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ May 8, 2014 -> 08:40 AM) I don't think Monica's timing is intended to be pro-Hillary. If anything, I would expect her to lean Republican now. I hear the Clintons left a bad taste in her mouth. Old joke; old story. "Nothing to see here folks. move along now." I laughed.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 7, 2014 -> 10:40 PM) Alright, by around this time tomorrow we should know the Bears first pick. Who do you have? I have my money on Clinton-Dix Wrong thread, here is the right one: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91959