NorthSideSox72

Please stop saying this crap. It is unfounded in anything factual. TJS is a procedure to replace ligament tissue, either from elsewhere in the body or cadaverous material. It is done to replace a TORN UCL. If there is nothing torn, there is nothing to replace. If Dunning has a strained/sprained UCL that did not include a tear, then the only viable option was to try the heal/strengthen route and then ramp him up again. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. You can think the Sox training/medical staff has made mistakes, and maybe they have. But do you really think they would KNOW there was a significant tear, and try to avoid the surgery anyway? That helps literally no one, the Sox or the player or anyone else. There is zero motivation for that. Therefore, clearly there was no significant tear yet, so they took the only medically responsible path available to them. This sucks, but the conspiracy theories are ridiculous.

Link to bracket iowa State a 3-seed in the Ames then Chicago bracket

FYI, the March Madness sub-forum is now open! Go visit for your NCAA MBB and WBB chatter!

First Round Games: Columbus: 1 UNC vs 16 Iona 8 Utah St vs 9 Wash Salt Lake City: 5 Auburn vs 12 Mew Mex St 4 Kansas vs 13 Northeastern Tulsa: 6 Iowa St vs 11 Ohio St 3 Houston vs 14 Georgia St Jacksonville: 7 Wofford vs 10 Seton Hall 2 Kentucky vs 15 Abiline Christian

First round games: 3/19: Prairie View (16) vs Farleigh Dickinson (16) play-in 3/20: Az St (11) vs St John's (11) play-in ...TRUE FIRST ROUND (3/21-22): Salt Lake City: 1 Gonzaga vs (play-in) 8 Cuse vs 9 Baylor Hartford: 5 Marquette vs 12 Murray State 4 FSU vs 13 Vermont Tulsa: 6 Buffalo vs 11 (play-in) 3 Texas Tech vs 14 No Kent Des Moines: 7 Nevada vs 10 Florida 2 Michigan vs 15 Montana

First round games: Columbia: 1 UVA vs 16 Gardner-Webb 8 Ole Miss vs 9 Oklahoma San Jose: 5 Wisky vs 12 Oregon 4 Kan St vs 13 UC Irvine Hartford: 6 Nova vs 11 St Mary's 3 Purdue vs 14 Old Dominion Columbus: 7 Cinn vs 10 Iowa 2 Tenn vs 15 Colgate

First round games: 3/19: Belmont (11) vs Temple (11) play-in 3/20: NCC (16) vs NDSU (16) play-in) ...TRUE FIRST ROUND (3/21-22): Columbia: 1 Duke vs 16 (play-in) 8 VCU vs 9 UCF San Jose: 5 Miss St vs 12 Liberty 4 Va Tech vs 13 St Louis Jacksonville: 6 Maryland vs 11 (play-in) 3 LSU vs 14 Yale Des Moines: 7 Louisville vs 10 Minnesota 2 Mich St vs 15 Bradley

And hey, if the Clones can get past Ohio State and (probably) Houston, they move on to a regional in Kansas City where they travel well. Does anyone have any real idea of Houston is that good? They just didn't really play anyone.

I can't find it now, so probably I was just plain wrong. Somehow that release existed in my head, yet I can't find it anywhere else, haha.

Shilling had a torn lat (a la Peavy). Should be back now, I'd think, or pretty soon.

OK I could be wrong about Martinez being released. I thought he was, but I see now he is active. Weird. That said he probably moves to the pen this year.

Charlotte: Dylan Cease Jordan Stephens Jordan Guerrero* Spencer Adams Ervin Santana or Manny Banuelos* Birmingham: Kodi Medeiros* Jimmy Lambert Bernardo Flores* Matt Tomshaw* Tanner Banks* Winston-Salem: Alec Hansen Lincoln Henzman Blake Battenfield John Parke* Kade McClure Kannapolis: Konnor Pilkington* Jonathan Stiever Codi Heuer Taylor Varnell* Jason Bilous (FYI Luis Martinez was released) I agreed on almost all of yours, except Charlotte #5 and BHAM #4.

That is frightening. We are making the Postal Service make such deep cuts that they can barely function, while the biggest elective spending area (military) is just hemorrhaging cash. Not to mention the control factor here and the potential for all manner of fraud and rogue spending when there is no control.

By the way here are all the player dev and coaching assignments for 2019.

It was Matt Zaleski, and yes he's returning to Winston-Salem for 2019.

I am picturing this conversation as if it is happening in a bar, and it is fantastic. SS2K5 and Balta are off in a corner shouting big numbers at each other, not even noticing caufield yelling into a literal megaphone and wearing a sandwich board that says "I knew TIm Hullett before you were in diapers". A crowd of drunk soccer fans has gathered near caufield and they are all egging him on and buying him drinks to juice out as much entertainment as possible. Chisox378 is sitting at the end of the bar nursing a warm beer and telling the bartender the world has gone to shit and why can't we go back to Mayberry. The bouncer (Mods) are standing there mouths agape like they are watching a car crash, no idea where to even start. Others walk by the bar, see what's going on and juuuuuust keep walking.

Sarcasm? Troll job? No way you are serious here.

This really has no benefit for the Sox, if the deal is $100M for through 2026 as reported (which it may not be). Basically, this buys them one extra year of control, and probably around $30-40M for that one year. In other words, that probably is at-the-money if Eloy is in fact still at an All Star level at that point. What is the value there? The whole point of signing an early extension is financial security for the player, and reduced cost inflation for the club. Eloy gets his security in this deal, but the Sox don't get any discount value. I am willing to be the deal is not these numbers, because no way the Sox would do this deal, no should they.

This was a lot of fun last year. Definitely recommend it! You can pick the brains of FutureSox writers, enjoy the buffet and drinks, all that good stuff - plus $5 per ticket goes to charity.

The affiliates would not get that option. The PDCs specify that the parent club controls the roster of uniformed personnel. But it sure as heck would cause them problems, which I am sure they would express to the parent club (and they could make things difficult in other ways).

Depends on what you are going for, but Shabbona has a rep for showing well on muskies and stripers (stocked) and other bass species. I haven't been there myself in a couple decades though. It's straight west of Chicago.

Yeah I'd say the author wasn't all that knowledgeable on these things, and the wording didn't capture the reality. That's my guess anyway. I can say 100% that at least some of them are on the standard shoulder program, and I have a hard time believing they would leave Hansen out of it.

Pretty sure they do. In fact I know they do, I've had pitching prospects tell me that. I think what the article meant is that they adjusted Alec's program specifically.

1. You are creatively ignoring that Moncada was already in the Majors before he even reached the Sox, and that no team in baseball would have sent him back down 2 levels. 2. K-rates and size of ballpark have zero correlation. 3. An .823 OPS at AAA while playing 4.5 years younger than league average is far above "middling". 4. A player does not constitute a sample, and you also creatively ignore the fact that they have been conservative on most of the farm. 5. Is the stroke survivor line really necessary? It makes you sound like a meathead, which doesn't really help your case.