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QUOTE (CarlosMartinez @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 04:53 PM) It's new this year. I didn't think you were too far away so hopefully it works out for you. It's a standard def feed but it's better than nothing! Yea I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the heads up.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 04:41 PM) Speaking of attendance, i forgot i have those 2 free tickets for doing the survey but i cant go this month. If anyone wants the code, message me I also have two codes if anybody can use them.

QUOTE (CarlosMartinez @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) Do you get any Eastern Iowa channels in Dickeyville? If so you should hook an antenna up and try and get KCRG 9.2 over the air. They have a deal with WGN to show all WCIU games on this channel or 9.3. You may be too far NE from Cedar Rapids but it's worth a shot. Never tried but I would probably be able to. I never knew they aired them. I'm only a little over an hour from Cedar Rapids, just across the river from Dubuque.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 04:03 PM) What's with all the WCIU games, is it because both the Bulls and Blackhawks are in the playoffs? Dont know but its annoying. I live 180 mi from the Cell so I cant get WCIU but Im still in market for the Sox so the games are blacked out on MLB.tv.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 02:55 PM) I see your point, but that's not a good example because of those, only Crede wasn't already really good or a top prospect. No reclamation projects there. Crede was a two time MVP in the minors, so I wouldn't give Walker the credit there either.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 02:41 PM) Frank Thomas, Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Lee, Aaron Rowand, Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, Jim Thome, Joe Crede...... Just some names Greg Walker coached. According to most here, he was turrible. Completely different scenario. Out of your list, Frank, Maggs, El Caballo, Dye, Konerko and Thome were already established veterans when Walker came along. Frank and Thome were already on their way to the HOF. You could maybe list Rowand and Crede and that would be about it.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 11:40 AM) Okay, some of you guys want to re-define the word 'Rookie', and that MLB should then specifically exclude players from certain countries if the players ever played for one of their top teams. In these politically correct times, I would love to see how this is handled without offending any national or ethnic group. Good luck. For myself, I like the current definition, which means that if you never played in MLB before, you are a rookie. When Ichiro broke in, he was a rookie, end of story, the fact that he was a polished rookie notwithstanding. MLB can make their own rules. If other countries/leagues don't like it, tough s***. They want to join MLB, they play by MLB's rules. Only Japanese born players are eligible to win the NPB ROY. Any American that goes over is not eligible.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 11:04 AM) MLB has fixed the transfer rule http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseba...ive-immediately Nice to see them change something that needed to be changed right away instead of waiting until the offseason.

Giving a guy like Ichiro or Tanaka the ROY award is basically the same as giving Bobby Hull a ROY award when he left the NHL for the WHA.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 25, 2014 -> 10:21 AM) Peavy-Buehrle matchup tonight. Think I'll pull for Buehrle. Agreed. I'm a huge Peavy fan, but Buehrle is my 2nd all time favorite player after The Big Hurt. Hopefully it ends up being 1-0 Blue Jays with Rasmus hitting a solo homer (I'm also a big Rasmus fan).

I think if you sign as a free agent from another country, that was playing in that country's top league and go directly into MLB, you should not be eligible. This would eliminate the proven players such as Tanaka, Ichiro and Abreu from winning the award, but allow amateur free agents who do develop in the US to still win (such as a player like Viciedo). I don't care how long or how old you are before you finally make it to MLB if you developed in this country because you were not playing at the top level until you got to MLB.

Using the fact that a middle reliever has 8 blown saves vs 0 saves as evidence against his abilities to close might very well be the most asinine argument I've ever seen on this board.

Hopefully Johnson can keep building off of his last couple good starts. I'm guessing not a lot of people will be watching this one with the Bulls and Hawks both playing at the same time.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2014 -> 09:45 AM) Apparently in Tampa last night, the umpires lost track of the count. They took it to the replay guys who got it wrong. Escobar walked, but then struck out. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-083141608.html Here's video of it. Absolutely pathetic.

John Kruk retired in the middle of a game. 1995 if I remember correctly. Griffey also retired in June of his last season.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 21, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) Except that it's not, so I'm sorry you don't understand that. Got to love his attitude though. He doesn't like it or understand it, therefore it is wrong.

When your pitchers walk 15 batters and the game goes 14 innings, you're going to run out of pitchers. They don't have an off day coming up otherwise they probably would have used Paulino. What I really think Greg wants to say here is that Ozzie would have never let this happen. Go ahead and say it Greg. We all know what you're thinking.

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Apr 17, 2014 -> 12:05 PM) Maybe it's just me, but it looks like Abreu could use a day off. Put Paulie at 1B tonight. I agree it might be time for a day off for Abreu as he's been struggling a bit the last few. I'd like to see Paulie get in versus Lester and when Dunn is hot you need to keep him in the lineup as much as possible.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 16, 2014 -> 11:50 AM) (To the page one replies) Calm down people all I did was start a game thread. Well do it right or get out!

Back to back WCIU games. That means another game I have no legal way to watch. Oh well, I guess I'll stream it.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 16, 2014 -> 11:05 AM) Anyone watch Fargo last night? I have it on the dvr I wanted to watch it but completely forgot about it. Guess I'll have to catch it a re-airing or wait for it to get on Hulu.

You know, there's a lot of talent on this club. The veterans are starting to play back to form, and the rookies are developing faster than I thought. There's two or three potential all-stars in there. I think we're a contender right now.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 16, 2014 -> 10:00 AM) Yeah, sure, offer him a 1 year/$7M deal. If he accepts that, then fine. I think even if he puts up a good year this year (.850 OPS+), that's about where his market is going to be. I think he'll probably be able to find a 2 or 3 year deal, but I can't imagine any team giving him more than a $7 million/year average based on his recent history.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Apr 16, 2014 -> 09:47 AM) On the other side, if you are the Dbacks, if you can trade someone you see as a busted prospect for a legit ML closer, you do that too. Davidson is doing everything he can to make the Dbacks look good in that trade hitting .224/.321/.347 with a 45% K rate at AAA. I think it was a good trade for the Sox, but there is still a significant probability that Davidson will never make enough contact to be a ML regular. Possibility, definitely not probability. And his K rate is 39%, not 45% so far. K rate is K/PA not K/AB. Pretty ridiculous to make any assumptions based on his 13 games played so far this year. His career minor league K rate is about 25%. Not great, but acceptable if he's going to hit for power and walk.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Apr 16, 2014 -> 08:36 AM) Best case scenario, if he can put things back together you make him a QO at the end of the season, if accepts it you keep him at what will probably be the same salary, if he declines you have the opportunity to add a draft pick. That said, I dont think he finishes the season with the Sox. No way the Sox make him a QO. He would accept that in a second as no other team would come close to giving him that kind of money and if he rejected, no team would sign him because of the draft pick compensation.