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CJ Wilson: Well, you hear the same thing from everybody that leaves. Kinsler didn’t leave happy. I didn’t leave happy. Napoli didn’t leave happy. So, you know, there’s a certain consistency. I think the reality also is that the window that we had from 2010-2011 was probably the best situation that a bunch of people will ever experience in their careers – just based on all the factors. Great players, the players all got along really well, the manager let us play, there wasn’t a lot of intervention during the game because we policed each other. There was a lot of accountability….everybody worked really hard, everybody had fun, but they were doing it in a respectful way, and we developed our own chemistry and camaraderie and it was a very special time in all of our careers. Www.dallasmorningnews.com Back to the topic....leadership....and if Ventura's a Ron Washington type, Hahn needs to find the right players who will create this type of environment. Of course, the key point is accountability. Who is policing the clubhouse with Konerko gone?

Rangers are thin in the OF.....L. Martin, Rua, Smolinski, Choo. Some injury problems...and Rios left as well. Dallas reporters think something like 30-40 cents on the dollsr for his contract is fair....cite overexposure already with Fielder, Choo and Andrus as rationale for taking the risk of adding some more potential offense.

http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/brawl-...-sox-look-spark Hope there's actually some type of plan or strategy for the rest of the season that goes beyond "hoping." Needs to be more belief...certainty...and less maybe. Didnt realize Tyler was such an enforcer there he scared half the Royals away single-handedly. http://www.csnchicago.com/video_content_ty...-against-royals Video

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:34 PM) Personal attack. Suspend yourself please. I find all of this a bit rich. Someone who has been around here since 2013 calling out fair weather fans... I guess listening or watching 162 games a year from China when 30% of aforementioned games begin at 1-5 a.m. Constitutes a fair weather fan. He is welcome to track every single post here, at WSI or even chisox.com since baseball message boards began, since the days of ncorgbl and sat46. He wont find a single one at any other team's board, especially the Royals. Dont understand this WSI groupthink/sheepthink type of mentality...thats why their moderators were always likened to Nazi Germany SS or Gestapo. I actually love that the moderators here have some personality, like Balta, especially his passionate political beliefs...like I used to hold in my teens and twenties. Some really smart guys...that many of us dont always agree with but at least we respect their opinions and their underlying reasons for those opinions. http://www.csnchicago.com/white-sox/white-...t-hell-out-team I suggest he should call out Adam Eaton, too.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:22 PM) I don't, but I know what Yordano said and did. Is there something he could have said that would validate Yordano's behavior? If you watched this whole game and came to the final conclusion that Robin doesn't have control of this team then I don't know what you've really learned in your 35 years. There was about 10 story lines that you could gripe at. Picking on Robin shows a previously developed bias. I swear to god if Robin just started screaming nonsense in the air like buffoon every third game he wouldn't have one complaint from all of the meatballs that are trying to scapegoat him. He was a silly hire but he has nothing to do with the problems yesterday and away from not calling a replay in DET, he has nothing to do with the problems this season. Meatheads? Really? So only the "smart" baseball fans have the secret knowledge about what Ventura has done so well since mid-September, 2012? You're a mod. I would expect more rationalism and less Chris Rongey, to be perfectly honest.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Caulfield in the "Bench clearing brawl" thread. Yup. Apparently you're of the blind faith this is the 1983 White Sox and can continue to cede game after game in the standings. After seven years and counting, that well of optimism is running just a bit thin.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Turns out, the Sox were out of sunflower seeds and Chris just went over to see if KC had any extra. Maybe personally hand-delivering some leftover Chicago style kosher dogs after the Kauffman ebola laced Buck Night dogs from Aramark last weekend.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) Scumbag pitcher hits our best player, scumbag pitcher tells our leadoff hitter to f*** off for no reason and it's Robin's fault the whole team got involved. That's a total copout. If you want to get made about something from the 3rd base dugout you get mad Sale/Samardzija went ape or that their teammates didn't do better to hold them off. Now you're saying Eaton had absolutely nothing to do with it....hard to believe, knowing Eaton. Sure, we can say 80/20 or 70/30, but nobody can claim to be completely blameless. And nobody forced him to turn around and go back towards Ventura, either. The baseball "code" I guess.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) If Avi Garcia would have had a hit in either of the two plate appearances before his last AB when he did single, the Sox would have won the game, and your perception on how Robin handled last night most likely would have been different. We played this game of what ifs for a decade with the Twins. We lost. Thats the only relevant point...should have wons go right up there with the Cubs Attendance Trophies.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:10 PM) Is the obvious really worth noting? When we're 5.5 games back just three weeks into April (two teams), notoriously slow starters....and have lost 15 of 18 to one of our main divisional opponents and counting, yeah. That's also assuming CLE is dead...and that pitching staff will keep them in it all year if their offense and bullpen turn around.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 01:04 PM) I just wonder what happened where Sale thought it warranted going to the KC clubhouse. It appears Ventura has an interpreter for his interviews, so I would guess his english is limited. Makes me even wonder if whenEaton was chirping at him, he even knew what he was saying. He obviously knows a few choice words, but it would take more than a few f-bombs to get you so incensed you needed to go over there. I wonder if he tried something in the scrum. Jeremy Guthrie usually is his post-game interpreter.

http://thebiglead.com/2015/04/24/chris-sal...after-ejection/ Sale is managing to look worse than Samardzija by the minute...just wow about that last part. Cant have that from your ace...at all. Even Harrelson with all his us vs. the world bluster will recognize that...one can only hope. http://twitter.com/MimonFishbaum/status/59...1635328/photo/1

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/after-...D1Yq?srcref=rss Time for Ventura and Royals to lose their attitude.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 12:39 PM) Levine is on WSCR now saying that Sale went to the Royals clubhouse/locker room after the incident to look for Ventura. Sale gets into a fight and suffers a labrum/shoulder injury...you might as well stick a fork in Hahn's entire rebuilding plan. This also MUST be addressed by Ventura. The whole "loose cannons are fun until they go off" vibe going on with both Shark and Sale. If Buehrle (or Konerko) were still around he would be sitting Sale down now for a lecture about professionalism and representing the Chicago White Sox and Jerry Reinsdorf. Chris and Jose are the franchise right now. An injury that's not even baseball-related would be crippling.

Love the passion there Lil Bulldog. Its like Russell Crowe calling out commodus/Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator at the end...put up or shut up time. Talk is cheap. Lets see some results on the field, thats all that really matters. It took seven years, from 2001-2008....to finally knock off the Twins (thanks to a coin flip). Lets just hope its not 2011-2018 before we finally beat the Royals again head-to-head.

The point is that its better to isolate it in one thread. Agree with that....and it could go for me talking smack about Ventura, Danks or Beckham as well. Thats why I am deliberately staying out of game threads this weekend...because no matter what happens, Greg and I are both too close to the Royals. My admiration is more along the variety of exactly what Adam Eaton said about them. And the same exact things many of us said about the Twins in the past. It cant always be luck when another team beats you 15 out of 18 games. Now back to Schwarber is the next Babe Ruth/Joey Gallo talk.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 12:17 PM) I hate him as a person but I like him on our team. If he misses two start Rodon will take them. Hes been that same exact character ever since he played for Notre Dame...so pretty much hated by half of America before he ever stepped onto a professional baseball diamond. And some traditionalists just dont like professional athletes with outlandish hair, either. Dayton Moore addresses all the issues popping up this season... The Royals have been hit with 17 pitches, a number which is tied with Texas for the most in bas eball. They also play with a brashness and exuberance that could be construed as off-putting by opponents. “They love to play,” Moore said. “They play with passion. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to do things as a professional. Our guys realize that. Now you have to go out and do it.” Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...l#storylink=cpy Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...l#storylink=cpy

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...le19380393.html Very competent Royals' columnist taking Ventura to task...saying that enough is enough, and, with Shields and Ibanez gone, some of the other veterans and/or Yost are going to have to get him under control (besides Bonifacio in one of his bigger contributions this year).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 11:58 AM) Maybe the pitch to Cain "slipped" like the 100 mph fastball Herrera threw behind Lawrie's head. The question wasn't about Herrera. It was what Samardzija did earlier in the season...before last night.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...le19382550.html This is some pretty hilarious stuff on Lawrie...Pujols, also, isn't backing him up. I will say this: The Star adheres to a strict policy on sourcing, and discourages reporters from utilizing anonymous voices to criticize people. So I am unable to relay the general assessment of Lawrie as a player I heard from various scouts and executives over the past few days. But, man, some of these opinions were hilarious. Scouts know how to talk. Lawrie is 25. He has never played more than 125 games in a big-league season. He has never played in the postseason. He has been traded twice already in his career. So, from the Kansas City perspective, his critiques of their leadership void may ring hollow. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...l#storylink=cpy Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...l#storylink=cpy

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 11:26 AM) As they should. I don't recall Samardzija yelling at other teams or throwing at their heads. What else has he done this year that you consider 2? Hitting Cain intentionally the first series of the seaon. This all goes back to last year and him getting after Cain and Ventura when he played for the A's. There's clearly more than meets the eye going on in terms of the backstory with those three...and the Samardzija also getting after Christian Colon from the dugout last night

At least Hosmer called Sale one of the "faces of baseball" and said nobody wanted to see get injured...

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/b.../OPS/order/true Royals second in OPS for all 30 teams, hardest to strike out. K/bb ratio about three times better than the White Sox.

http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/co...-iowa/26242503/ University of Iowa junior. Looks to go 30th-60th....rocketing up draft boards. Was a catcher until 2012..... Idolized AJ and Yadi Molina.

I bet that was an interesting phone call between Mike and Justin Jirschele (Sox minor leaguer) last night around midnight... Especially after watching his dad get face-palmed when Samardzija missed on Cain.