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Flowers

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/#contentId=41851158 One of the weirder bobbleheads, but cool nonetheless...David Price's dog Astro on April 21st And the Joe Maddon Garden Gnome http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&new...0Garden%20Gnome This is the best SGA ever. http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/upl...ys-Giveaway.jpg

I've gotten called for jury duty twice and loved it. I get the day off from work paid. My work has a rule that if you serve jury duty in a different county than where work is located you do not have to come in to work no matter how long jury duty last. If you serve in the same county as work, you have to come in for the remainder of the day if jury duty last under 4 hours. The first day I had to go, I didn't get selected so I was home by about 9:00 and had the rest of the day off paid. The second time I had to go, I did get selected and had to sit throught the trial, but it was still only a few hours. Now if we're talking a murder trial or something like that that could take weeks or months, then it would suck.

De Aza

Viciedo

Dunn

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 12, 2013 -> 11:10 AM) Well since Dunn is all or nothing player, he'd do a good job breaking up the "low obp/contact" hitters in the bottom. The third spot in the lineup is for your best all around hitter. At this point that is Rios, certainly not Gillaspie. The fourth spot in the lineup is for your best power hitter, which is very clearly Dunn.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 12, 2013 -> 08:51 AM) Maybe Joe Jackson too? We could use some OBP. Remember, our second basemen just went down too so you may as well bring Eddie Collins with him.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 12, 2013 -> 08:02 AM) I missed "The Joey Crawford Show" in the first half. I don't regret it. Glad its not on Hulu. Honestly, how does that guy still have his job?

QUOTE (Lillian @ Apr 12, 2013 -> 07:17 AM) Dunn has a .186 Batting Average in his 977 at bats in a Sox uniform. That's a big enough sample size for me. 1,000 at bats is enough to evaluate even a rookie. It's certainly enough to evaluate a veteran. I've said it before; this team is not a playoff contender with him batting anywhere in the heart of the order. Manto has to get him to change his approach. It just isn't working. Choke up, use left field more, shorten the long swing, or try anything else. If someone would take most of that contract, I'd much prefer that he be off this roster. Grady Sizemore for the second half of the season is looking more intriguing to me, every day. Move Viciedo to DH, put Sizemore in CF, and de Aza in LF. Lineup: de Aza Keppinger Rios Sizemore Konerko Viciedo Ramirez Flowers Beckham (when he comes back) Yes please can we rush right out and sign Sizemore. That .659 OPS he's put up since 2010 will look really intimidating as our cleanup hitter.

Alexei

First time starting a game thread. Have at it.

Anybody else think it's stupid to have a 7 day DL for concussions only? If they're going to have the 7 day DL, teams should be able to use it for any injury. It can really put teams in a tight spot if they have a couple players nursing injuries that will be out for 5 or 6 games and opening up the 7 day DL would really help that.

Rios

Keppinger

Anybody else hate interleague as much as me? We will lose one of Tank, Konerko or Dunn for each of the three games.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 8, 2013 -> 09:48 AM) His play that year was also closer to his Wizards years than any of his years with the Bulls. He obviously had some great games but he really struggled shooting the ball. 31.5 pts/gm on 48% shooting in the playoffs.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 7, 2013 -> 11:22 PM) That ship has long sailed. There's no way in hell you could expect anybody, even prime MJ, to come back after nearly a year and recapture his former glory in 6 f***ing games before going right to the playoffs. That's a f***ing ridiculous expectation. Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but pointing out that Jordan's double-nickel game was in his fifth game back.

Dunn

Great, first night game of the season and the first game I would actually get to watch, but it's on f***ing WCIU so I guess I cant watch it after all.

Keppinger

QUOTE (Andrew @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 01:16 AM) Why are y'all sucking each other off... Scored 6 runs in 2 games. 11 hits total - almost 1/2 the hits were HRs (mind you - two games at home), and I think only 1 carried a run beside the hitter.... That's not even close to perfection. Two wins at home vs. Royals.....let's not be [Greg775 acceptable choice of word to demonstrate overdramatization without offending his delicate sensibilities] about it. Actually, 16 hits. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a good story.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 3, 2013 -> 04:33 PM) Growing up as a kid playing baseball with friends, girls and guys ,the you have to "tag up" rule was always beyond the comprehension of the girls who obviously didn't know the rules quite as good as the guys did . Runner can only advance on a caught ball in the air as it hits or after it hits the fielders glove. The runner must be on the base to start. Runners do this on deep fly balls. It's called a sacrifice fly when the runner scores . The hitter is given an RBI ( run batted in) and it also doesn't count as an official at Bat (AB) .So if a batter hits a "sac fly" his 1st AB he is officially 0 for 0 though it does count as a plate appearance but it doesnt figure into computing the hitter batting average (BA). Not 100% sure if a batter gets credit for a sac fly if the runner(s) advance from 2nd to 3rd base or 1st to 2nd base. Runners on 1st used to hardly ever "tag up" and advance to 2nd but in recent years you see it more considering on a deep, lazy (hit high in the air where the fielder can "camp" under it) fly ball the chance of it being caught are just about 100% so going 1/2 way down to second is pretty much a waste. Going from 1st to 2nd on a caught fly ball is considered an intelligent baseball play by the runner since the norm is to go halfway or more in case its dropped. The runner has to have the capability to judge the fly ball and determine if there is a chance of it falling in for a hit or going to be a routine catch. Or if the fielder is running in the opposite direction of the base he'll have to end up throwing it to. Like a center fielder running into the gap in right center or left center field means he's running farther away from 2nd base thus taking more time to stop and turn and throw rather than camping under it and already in a position to throw. Sac flies only awarded if the runner scores.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) Posts like this make me wonder if I am watching the same Carlos Boozer everyone else is. In a span of one minute last night Carlos gave away 2 buckets all by himself. Butler dives out of bounds to make a steal and whips it behind his back, Boozer fumbles the ball, falls over and drops it, Miami steals it back and gets a layup. Very next play Carlos gets a rebound and foolishly tries to throw an outlet pass to Deng which is easily interecepted by Lebron, then Carlos doesnt even bother to try and get in front of Lebron and help Taj on defense as he comes in and throws down a dunk to cut the lead to 5. Carlos watched the entire play happen from half court and did nothing. And to say they will be undeniably worse is wrong, that is assuming nobody replaces him. Hell, Taj could replace him and more than make up for the lack of defense. His rebound and put back with 55 seconds left was arguably the play of the game. I really have a hard time finding fault with a 20+ point 17 rebound game.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 01:20 PM) The second-to-last 5 tool player? I very rarely ever see that penultimate used correctly.