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I don't see STL giving up pick #39 for Danks.

Would have been great for me if they did.

That has to be a misprint. Why on earth would you put Beckham at 3B and Gillaspie at SS???

Not a terribly fair comparison given their respective ages during their first 162 games.

Worked out fine for the Sox.

Your opinion or is this actually happening?

I have two very good friends from Valpo who are both huge Cubs fans and it's absolutely killing them that he's on the Sox now.

A category on Jeopardy last night . . .

Probably enough time for a commercial or two.

That actually makes more sense than any other reason that's been given.

I looked up all the open air/retractable roof parks: (14) Face NE (or NNE or ENE): Fenway, Yankee, Oriole, Kauffman, Safeco, O.co, Angel, Citi, Turner, Nationals, Wrigley, Busch, AT&T, Dodger (8) Face SE (or SSE or ESE): Rogers, US Cellular, Comerica, Globe Life, Marlins, PNC, Great American, Miller (6) Face N: Progressive, MinuteMaid, Citizens Bank, Coors, Chase, Petco (1) Face E: Target A NE-facing park gets the setting sun in the face of most of your fielders. A SE-facing park affects LF severely but not RF/CF as much. The north-facing parks seem like they might have the least impact. Clearly teams have avoided anything in the NW/W/SW/S range to avoid affecting the hitters.

After the Hawks and Bulls bring home trophies in June, and the Sox add one in October, there's going to be a lot of pressure on the Bears to complete the collection.

The same error was made in yesterday's game thread and the Sox won the game, so the error needs to remain in the thread for today's game.

Collins and Baines appeared in exactly the same number of games for the Sox. Collins managed a better OPS than Baines while playing a more difficult position.

Yeah, add Hermanson in there. 2005 ERA+: Cotts 233 Politte 225 Hermanson 221

Yeah, on paper this bullpen is better than '05, but the seasons that Cotts and Politte had are going to be hard for even the most talented relievers to reproduce.

I don't like sitting in the upper deck at ANY stadium, but yeah, this one is better than most.

What? You really think he can't go through the entire season with a 0.00 ERA, 0.40 WHIP and 18.0 K/9?

When have they not protected leads? Sox have won every game that they were leading when the starter left the game. There just haven't been very many leads to protect so far.

For each time slot, there are primary and secondary games. The primary game is shown nationally EXCEPT within the blackout territories of the teams involved. In those areas the secondary game is shown. For 4/23, the Sox are the primary game, so everybody outside the Chicago and KC markets will get that game. People in the Chicago and KC markets will get the other game (but should have access to the Sox/Royals game through the individual teams' broadcasts).

Yeah, they don't want to end up having to Strasburg him at the end of the season.

Five posts in and nobody has asked the most important question yet: Will this miniseries have any female nudity?

My best advice is to not live in Dixon.

If nothing else you have to catch the ball and hope you can nail the runner on appeal for leaving early.

I would have to look that up, which I don't have time to do right now, but off the top of my head I'm thinking that if there are no employees and only independent contractors, then it would not be considered a business with employees.