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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 01:00 PM) 17 episodes of a 5th season of Arrested Development announced! Awesome. Hopefully it's not like season 4 and more like seasons 1-3.

So it looks like the new members of the bullpen are all legit. I was a bit scared of Robertson bombing after ST, but he's doing the exact opposite.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 09:13 PM) Robertson seems to try to be Buehrle fast. After seeing Quintana take his glove off, rub the ball, do his little ritual to get on the rubber, then look in for the sign, what Robertson did was a breath of fresh air.

My goodness that was filthy. His curveball to Sands was simply unfair.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) I think there are a lot of people who would rather have the 4 seed. Doesn't really matter to me though, have to beat the best to be the best I think I'd rather have Rose play against poorer competition in the first round to regain some confidence. He usually plays really well against the Bucks. You have to beat Cleveland one way or another to get out of the East. You might as well get it out of the way earlier.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) Sox have 2 good LH relievers been a long time. Probably the first time in 3-4 years, when Thornton was still dominant.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 09:00 PM) jesus cle crew don't even know about his arm slot change. do the least bit of research guys. He throws out of both slots. I don't know if you noticed. In the AB against Kipnis, his first few pitches were all out of 3/4. He went side-arm for 2 straight sliders and Kipnis probably read that and didn't even bother to swing. Good thing he made a great pitch on 3-2.

Duke quick-pitched Santana. He wasn't ready for that fastball. lol

Avi hit that one about 385-390. We need more of that out of him (not for an out obviously). He hits the ball with a lot of authority, it's just that they're usually liners or ground balls.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 08:13 PM) I don't think putting the city name across the chest should be called "dumb." It's unconventional for football. I don't know if anyone else has it.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) my goodness the browns new uniforms are bad. I thought they were just gonna change the hue of color on the uniforms like they did with their logo. Maybe they should have done that instead.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 08:44 PM) Duke and Jennings deserve steak dinners for their work the last two games. The defense has attempted to screw those two over many times in the first week alone.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Flowers really loves that high fastball lol. 1-2-3 in the batting order. Let's try to make the pitcher actually work Eaton's gotta start taking more pitches. Cabrera and Abreu aren't exactly patient hitters. He's the most patient of the bunch. He's gotta make the pitcher at least work a bit.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:58 PM) Flowers really loves that high fastball lol. 1-2-3 in the batting order. Let's try to make the pitcher actually work I think his train of thought is this..."I can't hit it or lay off it, then that means they can't either right?!?!"

It wouldn't be Ryan Raburn if he doesn't get an RBI against us.

Bonifacio has zero plate discipline. He didn't get a strike that entire AB.

Jose's usually very unfortunate in his starts. Not today. He's lucky the Indians haven't plated 5-6 runs yet.

He would have been gone had Flowers made a half decent throw.

Damn it Conor...

I'm not surprised that we're not doing much against McAlister so far. He's had success against us for whatever reason.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 07:06 PM) Can't locate that breaking ball at all. Where is the change up? Good question. Quintana's a Fastball/Change/Cutter guy. He's gotta find his change or cutter the second time around or it's gonna get ugly. When hitters sit on a fastball, especially a 91 MPH fastball without a ton of movement, it's bad news.

Quintana has nothing right now. None of the off-speed pitches are working.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 06:50 PM) I think he needs to pick up the pace from the stretch. I was talking about pitch selection when ahead.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 06:47 PM) Why does Q f***ing nibble so much. He wasted like 3 balls to go full on two hitters. I wonder if it's a Quintana issue or a Flowers/Coop issue.

QUOTE (Chris Sale @ Apr 14, 2015 -> 06:44 PM) Aviles does it again... I feel like playing White Sox buoys his stats enough to make him look like a competent major leaguer. Believe it or not, he only has a .662 OPS against us. That's lower than his career OPS of .692. It's weird because it seems like he always kills us.