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Drew Garcia single, Tyler Saladino triple and Gallagher sac fly keys the comeback. Not sure if they'll go with Nathan Jones with his lack of experience, maybe?

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/h...-223719796.html

Flowers with his 3rd homer, hitting .300 now. Sox down 4-3 in the bottom of the 5th. Sale has gotten roughed up, but the defense hasn't helped him much. 4 2/3 IP, 3 ER, left a runner at 2B with a reliever just now coming in... Viciedo 0 for 2, now 4/35. Almost all of the minor leaguers have replaced the starters, so probably not the greatest odds of winning this game. Mitchell with another hit, .333 on the spring. Bruney in for Sale.

Of course, they've said the same thing about Calipari teams (like the one led by Wall) and his Memphis team in the past. Or the UNLV team that lost to Duke, etc. One of those teams is going to have to get super super hot from the outside, and you can't believe they'll not put one of their long, athletic defensive stoppers on Heslip. Perry Jones III has completely disappeared in this tournament. Of course, he'll be a lottery pick in the draft and Acy will go in the mid to late 2nd round.

Didn't even realize Ryan Sweeney was now trying to make the Red Sox until I tuned into the game radio broadcast today.

Jonah Hill > Seth Rogen Saturday Morning Update: Lionsgate reports that The Hunger Games made $68.25 million on Friday. That's the highest non-sequel Friday gross and the 5th highest Friday gross in history. Assuming around $40 million Saturday and $30 million Sunday, it's looking at a $135-140 million landing, higher than even most elevated expectations and hype. Another way to put it in perspective is that more than 3000 shows around the US are already pre sold out. A hot topic at ew.com, is Jennifer Lawrence "too sexy" for Kitness and not young and emaciated enough? Was she forecast in that role largely on a similar turn in Winter's Bone and less on the work she's done such as X-Men since? Finally, 21 Jump Street was very good, it's one of those movies like the police satire with Ferrell and Wahlberg that you expect to be at best so-so and are pleasantly surprised. Casting Channing Tatum against type was pretty brilliant.

Never thought I'd see that, an AJ Pierzynski inside-the-park home run. Hit off the top of the CF fence and somehow ricocheted about 30 yards off to the right of Chris Young. Wasn't really all that close at home plate.

Gavin Floyd was his usual lapse in concentration. It's getting interesting with Johnson/Escobar and Bruney/Stewart/Axelrod/Stults. DeAza and Beckham are going to have to show some pop.

Baylor and UK will be a very entertaining game if Baylor comes out to play and Heslip can get off to a hot start. UNC will be in lots of trouble against KU, assuming KU gets past NC State. Two good storylines there potentially, no matter who wins the KU/NC State game.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-b...ted-on-dui-more

Viciedo 0 for 3, 1 K, 5 LOB, and a fielding error. As good as he was yesterday, he's been bad again today. Officially, he's 4/33 on the spring for a Dunn-esque .121 average.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 01:34 PM) That's what I don't get about this movie. What about this plot draws teenage girls? Just because the main character is a teenage girl? Talk about low standards. The difference with the Twilight series is that it's trending very well with men/boys, as well. That 16-34 demographic, but even a lot of men in their 30's and 40's. The only group it's consistently scoring lower with is men over 50. So while Twilight and Harry Potter will beat it handily the first weekend, that's the main reason it's expected to put up huge numbers over a longer time frame...and also the fact they strategized to bring it out at a time of year bereft of blockbuster films (although there's some overlap with spring breaks for stome students).

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...ws&c_id=cws Williams doesn't apologize for swinging for the fences with big-name free agents/acquisitions like Dunn/Rios/Peavy GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Ozzie Guillen is gone from the White Sox, but certainly not forgotten. And according to White Sox general manager Ken Williams, Guillen's positive contributions made over eight years as manager always should be held close by the organization and the fan base. Williams talked to MLB.com about a text exchange he had with Guillen during this Spring Training in which he thanked the former manager for helping the White Sox achieve consistent success. "I don't know if it was last week or the week before that that I sent him a message, a text, just thanking him for the hard work and expressed to him directly you know it saddens me that things worked out the way they did," Williams said. "But I thanked him for the hard work and all that we accomplished together and I wished him luck. "He wrote back and thanked me for the opportunity to manage the team that he was most fond of. He loves the city and everything. It was a nice exchange." All sides clearly have moved on since Guillen's departure to Florida, and Williams doesn't see a scenario where that peace will change. He also didn't look as his staying in Chicago and Guillen being let out of the final year of his White Sox contract as his personal victory in a power struggle. "It was portrayed as some sort of power play, but I never felt that. It simply is untrue," Williams said. "I had no problem working with Ozzie [on] all baseball-related things. Some of the peripheral things, you know, I think probably anybody would have a little bit of an issue here and there. "You won't hear anything negative come out of my mouth about Ozzie Guillen or anybody that was on the staff. I don't believe that there will be any, at least I hope that people can move on to the point where we can still appreciate all the things that were accomplished here. chisox.com

Entertainment Weekly HomeTVMoviesMusicBooksTV RecapsThe Hunger GamesGame of ThronesMovie and DVD GuideSubscribe to EWBlogs PopWatchKen Tucker's TVInside TVInside MoviesThe Music MixShelf LifeNews Briefs Inside Movies Breaking Movie News and Scoops | Movie Reviews See Categories See Archive RSSMore The Hunger GamesMar 23 2012 12:17 PM ET 549 Share 'The Hunger Games' earns a record-breaking $19.7 million at midnight screenings by Grady Smith Tags: Box Office, Movie Biz, The Hunger Games Comments 107Add comment Image Credit: Murray Close The Games have officially begun! Last night, The Hunger Games grossed a truly staggering $19.7 million from midnight showings across the country — the highest midnight total ever for a non-sequel, and the seventh highest midnight total ever (behind three Harry Potters and three Twilights). After only a few hours, it’s clear that the film is already a smash, and it’s almost certainly headed for a debut well above the $100 million mark. Sure, the overnight figure can’t compare to the $43.5 million that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 conjured up at midnight shows last year (on its way to $169.3 million — the highest opening weekend of all time), or the $30.3 million that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 found at midnight on its way to $138.1 million, but it’s likely that The Hunger Games, which doesn’t have the same amount of built-in sequel anticipation, won’t face the same weekend frontloadedness as those titles. Saturday and Sunday grosses should prove quite sturdy. Back in 2008, The Dark Knight earned $18.5 million at midnight, but still managed a stunning $158 million debut — the second highest debut of all time — proving that not every blockbuster makes a full 25 percent of its opening weekend gross at midnight. Based on this $19.7 million figure, The Hunger Games should take in at least $50 million on Friday and could reach as high as $150 million over the full weekend frame — although that estimation is very bullish. My fellow box office prognosticating colleague John Young is predicting a more sensible $130 million weekend. We’ll have to wait and see see how high it climbs, so stay tuned to EW.com for box office updates throughout the weekend.

Nobody saw THE HUNGER GAMES midnight showing? Movie is poised to break every box office record, with only the final Harry Potter and Twilight franchise standing in its way. I have to confess I had never even heard of this "phenomenon" until a couple of weeks ago, since I'm out of the country, so I read the first two books in the trilogy over the last couple of days and now I sort of understand a LITTLE of the appeal, but maybe not $125-130 million worth. Then again, I was also foolish enough to try to sit through JOHN CARTER, thinking how bad could it be, and it was pretty darned awful, especially some of the fight sequences on Mars/Barsoon and the whole jumping thing got old so quickly, feeling like it was the lamest superpower ever. Shouldn't anyone on Mars be able to jump in a similar fashion?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 07:43 AM) GET OFF MY LAWN AND TURN THAT MUSIC DOWN! Sounds like Clint Eastwood in GRAN TORINO. Actually, I thought it was for his investigative espose of Sox financial issues and consistently stubborn defense of Greg Walker.

All that remains is for John Moores, who still owns 51 percent of the team (with Moorad's group owning the other 49), to find a new buyer, one who can get MLB approval. It's probably better if he finds one who wasn't a player agent, as Moorad was. It's definitely better for him to find one who hasn't annoyed other owners, as Moorad had. According to sources, Moorad had two strong voices campaigning against him, in White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick. Moorad was a limited partner of Kendrick's before leaving to buy the Padres, and the breakup didn't go well. With Reinsdorf and Kendrick strongly opposing him, Moorad faced an uphill battle to get the 22 votes he needed, as CBSSports.com colleague Jon Heyman wrote last week. Sources now tell Heyman that even Moorad's relationship with Moores has soured. Moores figures to come out of this all right, and probably even richer. The strong bidding for the Dodgers has raised expectations for the sale price of major-league teams, and there's even the possibility that some losing bidders with the Dodgers could turn to the Padres. Moorad's contract with Moores gave him another two years to complete the sale i.e. get the votes he needed. But he wasn't getting them, not now and not two years from now. To get in the club he needed approval from those already in. They didn't want him in. http://www.cbssports.com

Yeah, Beckham and Morel looked much better earlier in the spring. As usual, we score 2-3-4 early runs and then the offense shuts down and the pitchers let the other team back into the game. Rongey and Melton are right about one thing, we just haven't had the killer instinct, especially at home, to put our foot on the neck of our opponents and just crush them like we used to do from 2003-2008 when we got off to an early lead. Our bullpens have been pretty good, it's mostly been the falloff in offense and lack of consistency.

Stewart has just been MEEEHHHHHHHHHH ever since we acquired him. Other than those outings against the weakened Twins' line-ups, he has looked more like a bullpen arm with 2 slightly above average pitches than a starter. Maybe he'd be better off throwing in the mid 90's for one or two innings.

Peavy scoreless through 3 IP in the B game. Has a nice string of innings now without a run given up.

Yep, he (Dunn) kept his shoulders turned in went right over the left-fielder, who looked like he had a play until he ran out of room and hit the fence. Would have been further out to that part of USCF, although you can never tell how much the desert air helped. That's at least 3 or 4 hits so far already this spring by Dunn off lefties, less K's, more walks, and I've seen a couple of other good AB's where he went to the track or hit the ball hard to LF against LHPers. Wow, Quintero signed with us in 1997. Always had that great arm and questionable O. Stewart with another questionable pitch lashed for a single.

Rongey talking/questioning about Beckham and somehow Melton doesn't get the hint and keeps talking about Peavy, lol. Escobar a hitting machine in ST. Which of course means he won't hit at all once April rolls around. Battle with Escobar and Lillibridge for the same spot? C'mon Melton, Lillibridge is on this team for sure.

Two former Sox farmhands, Jason Bourgeois and Humberto Quintero (both newly-acquired from HOU), might see significant time with the Royals this year with the Perez/Pena injuries, especially Quintero. Jason could make the team as one of the last guys on the bench. Stewart looking so-so, 1 run through 2 IP. He really needs to hold runners better, as well. As Melton and Rongey pointed out, too many times we gave up uncontested steals of second and third, and those runs always seemed to come back to bite us.

Great sign, Dunn's 3rd homer of the spring, goes opposite field off Bruce Chen...4-0 Sox. Guess Morel's been going through some touchy back issues. And Alex Ramirez's English hasn't improved at all since 2008. I think it's getting worse, somehow. Not the best break for Rios on that ball lashed to RF by Francouer.

Frank Thomas would have been the "Albert Pujols of the American League had he been speedy." Thanks, Melton. And Thomas led the White Sox with his power hitting from 1995 on? I think he's forgetting 1990-1994, because among his 7 best seasons were the first seven consecutive ones, starting with his rookie year. Lillibridge HAS to change his swing with 2 strikes against Chen to get that runner over 3rd with 1 out. Rios with a somewhat surprising RBI single to LF to score DeAza. Konerko with RBI double to RCF gap, Rios scores from 1st easily (Beckham, Viciedo please note that swing). Melton now thinks it's very important to have a fast runner in the 3rd spot to score on Konerko hits, lol.