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Bryce Harper at #2...? Seriously? Harper's triple slash .273/.353/.476. Good, but not anywhere near #2 in baseball good. He's got a lot of potential, but he's been a MLer for 3 years now and his numbers haven't been that impressive.

iOS 8 gets custom keyboards, sharing between apps, and 3rd party widgets. Late to the party, but it's good to see Apple bringing in useful features that iOS has lacked and needed for a while.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:59 PM) So my 7th grader is saving all his money for XBOX ONE Is it really that much better than the 360 w/ KINECT and if so, why? Graphics wise, yeah. It doesn't really offer anything else ATM.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 30, 2014 -> 02:47 AM) So it's a simple question. What are the odds Indy still fires Vogel and OKC fires Brooks? I doubt OKC will can Brooks, although I do feel like he's holding the team back. I feel that Vogel's job might be on the line though. There's just way too much drama in Indy.

Had one of my better games yesterday. Hit 2 gappers (one only for a single though) and a homer. We had a good effort all around and won 13-3.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 29, 2014 -> 01:00 PM) Eh, you're right. Both B's No, how has Danks been better than Quintana...? Quintana's only had one bad start this year, where he gave up 5 runs in 5 innings against the Rangers. With the exception of only going 5 innings in Houston (where he only gave up 2 runs), he's had a quality start in every other start. That's 9 quality starts and 10/11 good starts. He's been one of the most consistent pitchers in baseball this year. In fact, he's tied with Buehrle for the 4th most quality starts in the AL with 9 (3 guys ahead of them have 10).

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 28, 2014 -> 04:00 PM) Assuming no rainouts, Sale's next three starts would be 6/2 @ LA Dodgers, 6/8 @ LA Angels and 6/13 vs. KC at home. That 6/13 game should have good attendance, most of the outfield is already bought out. That's the only series we play at home in June plus it's a fireworks night. Promo code DPU6 if any is looking to nab cheap tickets for that night. Awesome, my birthday's 6/2.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 29, 2014 -> 12:02 PM) Opening Day Lineup Eaton B- (injury prone, but fun to watch) Semien B- (big moments, not bad for a rookie) Gillaspie B+ (hitting like Gwynn, decent defense, injured) Abreu A (MVP numbers, butcher at 1B at times, but can live with that) Dunn B (good solid season for Donkey-no complaints) Garcia INC De Aza D- (started ok, then has been terrible) Ramirez A (All Star season) Flowers B (Better than we could have hoped for with the bat. Glove needs to improve) Viciedo B+ (probably outperforming what Avi would have done. Very solid.) L Garcia C (he's not expected to do much with the bat. He serves his purpose) Nieto B (Big surprise. Doing ok with Danks starts) Konerko D (A couple big hits, but...) Beckham B+ (where you been the last four years?) Sierra C (we'll see) Sale B+ (He awesome, but I can't give an 'ace' an A if he misses half of his starts) Paulino F Quintana B- (need more innings per start, but very solid) Johnson F Danks B (see Quintana, but great last start) Carroll C (he's another Axelrod, but provided a great game this season) Noesi C+ (he's climbing. Games 55-108, I hope he's an A or B) Rienzo B+ (big surprise. Hope he keeps it up) Webb B- (good arm, needs to throw more strikes) Petricka A (bullpen saver, on pace for 90+ innings) Putnam A (really helped get the pen settled after the terrible start) Lindstrom B+ (did ok. Hope he's back in August) Belisario C+ (was terrible, got better) Not sure how you can give Danks a B, but Quintana a B- with a straight face.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 29, 2014 -> 10:52 AM) An A for Flowers but a C for Eaton? Eaton's slash-line: .267/.329/.342 Pretty MEH. Plus, I had much higher expectations for Eaton than Flowers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 29, 2014 -> 09:58 AM) Yesterday marked the 55th game of the season, 54 being 1/3 of the season. I figured today was as good of a day as any to talk about player performances to this point. The A's Chris Sale, Jake Petricka, Zach Putnam, Tyler Flowers, Adrian Nieto, Gordon Beckham, Conor Gillaspie, Alexei Ramirez, Jose Abreu The B's Dayan Viciedo, Adam Eaton, Adam Dunn, Dan Webb, Andre Rienzo, Jose Quintana The C's Scott Carroll, Hector Noesi, Leury Garcia, Marcus Semien The D's Scott Downs, John Danks, The F's Paul Konerko, Alejandro De Aza, The Incompletes (so far grade in parenthesis based on limited sample size) Erik Johnson (F) , Javy Guerra (B), Felipe Paulino (F), Jordan Danks (F), Avi Garcia (B), Moises Sierra ©, Now let's see yours? I think Quintana should be an A. He's been extremely consistent and currently ranked #18 in fWAR among all pitchers, ahead of both Justin Verlander and James Shields and just behind Max Scherzer. Anyway my rankings: A's: Sale, Abreu, Gillaspie, Ramirez, Quintana, Flowers (low) B's: Petricka, Putnam, Viciedo, Dunn, Rienzo, Beckham, Webb, Noesi (low) C's: Eaton, Semien, Belisario, Lindstrom, Carroll (low) D's: Danks, L. Garcia F's: Downs, Konerko, De Aza Incompletes: Johnson (low D), Guerra (B), Paulino (F), Danks (low D), A. Garcia (B), Sierra ©, Francisco (F).

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 29, 2014 -> 02:11 AM) That's not exactly a reasonable complaint over a video game. The effort it would take for a street for street portion of a city to be remade is simply not realistic and only Chicagoans are going to complain so it's not worth the extra effort for them. The driving is pretty bad though. Why they mapped brake and reverse to the same button is beyond me. I do love the hacking idea and what it opens up. I will happily sink tons of hours into this game. Isn't GTA the same way?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 28, 2014 -> 10:35 PM) You mean you also thought Eaton would make an out and our bullpen would proceed to blow it in extras? Speaking of Eaton, is it just me or does he got 0-fer quite a bit? His good games are good, but his bad ones are fairly bad.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 28, 2014 -> 10:26 PM) I'm not gonna say Noesi is cooper fixed and everything is definitely trending upwards for him, but the guy obviously has good stuff. Sometimes his change is downright evil There was a reason he was a pretty highly rated prospect when he was in the Yankees system. He has the stuff to be a decent ML pitcher.

Gotta enjoy winning against Cleveland after what happened last year. Also: Hector Noesi now has a 4.33 ERA and 4.38 FIP with the Sox in 35.1 innings. Both Rienzo and Noesi are giving the team a chance to win their starts and that's all you can really ask for from your #4 and #5.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 28, 2014 -> 11:05 AM) Also, at the end of the day, I still make the Addison Reed trade, WHICH WAS MY ENTIRE POINT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Addison's a good pitcher, but his pitching motion sucks, he's somewhat inconsistent, and he has issues with the home run ball. He wasn't flawless, not even close and when you can get a good 3B prospect for him in what was thought to be a lost year, along with a few guys in the bullpen that could pitch just as well, if not better, than him (Webb and Jones), then I don't see why you wouldn't trade him.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 28, 2014 -> 06:56 AM) I'm not impressed by Watch Dogs in the least. Hold square and hack things, boom, entire game. The driving is brutal, you can't go from GTA 5 to this. It's inferior in every way, including graphics, despite being on the "next gen". Hold on, I need to hold square to hack something that just popped into my line of sight. It's very different than GTA. I've done missions where I've barely had to shoot people. You get a choice of stealth or going in guns-blazing, which I like. And while the hacking is simple, what did you want it to be? You can't possibly hack things during a car chase with something more complicated and have it still be playable. Things that are annoying with the game: 1) You can't shoot out of your window in a car, this leads to some horrible car chases. I usually have to end up running the guy I'm trying to kill over. 2) The collision physics are total garbage, but it does make the driving much more forgiving. 3) Getting interrupted with online hacking while you're about to go to a campaign mission is fairly annoying.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 28, 2014 -> 09:45 AM) That is going to hurt the ol street cred. Someone's going to bring this up on a diss mix tape, I guarantee it. But maybe 50 cent's no longer relevant enough to diss.

OVA! We got a call on the last pitch, but oh well.

Damn Pauley got robbed.

Strong arm of Beckham.

Aviles bailed us out of that inning.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 28, 2014 -> 12:05 AM) Eaton had a chance with a good throw, but once again, he spiked it into the ground. He also takes forever to release the damn ball since he does that little hop to get something behind it.

Downs is terrible.

Chisenhall now 7-13 off lefties.

Has the forum been really slow for anyone recently? My pages fail to load quite a bit after I post.