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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.

Guess there's not too much concern about Viciedo within the organization, he hasn't been in the line-up (except for B games?) for three days now, one was the off-day. Looks like they don't have the feed for the game up just yet at chisox.com?

I'm pretty shocked they're even letting Chen face the White Sox so close to the start of the season. I'd probably hide him in a B game if I was the Royals. Then again, he's already "in their heads," if he goes out and dominates them YET AGAIN, the Sox might as well be psychologically beaten before they ever face him in a game that counts. It seems to me we really roughed him up long in the past, when he was with the Orioles or Braves. Not so much recently.

By the way, starting from 2006-2011, the Royals have made a grand total of $93 million in profits. And interestingly, we're still ranked ahead of the Cardinals, good for 10th place in overall franchise values, despite their newer stadium and 2 World Championships...although losing Pujols has to hurt a little in the short-term, the long term effects of that Angels' contract on the franchise would have been disastrous. The Twins are also greatly hurt by the Mauer/Morneau contracts going forward. Interesting to see how much profit those teams with strong farm systems like the Rays, Blue Jays, Pirates and Padres made. Only the Mets, Phillies and Angels (barely) lost money. The Cubs raked in nearly $30 million in a very down year for attendance/revenue. Forbes says Royals made $28.5 million in 2011 By BOB DUTTON The Kansas City Star By BOB DUTTON The Kansas City Star Updated: 2012-03-21T21:55:49Z JOHN SLEEZER Note: Operating profit and revenue include revenue sharing. Baseball’s most valuable teams (Forbes) TeamOperating incomeCurrent valueChange 1. Yankees$10 million$1.85 billion9% 2. Dodgers$1.2 million$1.4 billion75% 3. Red Sox$25.4 million$1 billion10% 4. Cubs$28.1 million$1 billion14% 5. Philliesminus-$11.6 million$723 million19% 6. Metsminus-$40.8 million$719 millionminus-4% 7. Rangers$15.3 million$674 million20% 8. Angelsminus-$1.2 million$656 million18% 9. Giants$8.8 million$643 million14% 10. White Sox$10.7 million$600 million14% 11. Cardinals$25 million$591 million14% 12. Mariners$2.2 million$585 million30% 13. Astros$24.3 million$549 million16% 14. Twins$16.6 million$510 million4% 15. Braves$20.7 million$508 million5% 16. Nationals$25.9 million$480 million15% 17. Tigers$8.2 million$478 million24% 18. Rockies$14.4 million$464 million12% 19. Orioles$12.9 million$460 million12% 20. Padres$23.2 million$458 million13% 21. Marlins$12.9 million$450 million25% 22. Brewers$19.2 million$448 million19% 23. D-backs$27.2 million$447 million13% 24. Reds$17.1 million$424 million13% 25. Blue Jays$24.9 million$413 million23% 26. Indians$30.1 million$410 million16% 27. Royals$28.5 million$354 million1% 28. Pirates$15.9 million$336 million11% 29. Rays$26.2 million$323 millionminus-2% 30. A’s$14.6 million$321 million5% The Royals generated an operating profit of $28.5 million last season, according to Forbes magazine in its annual “Business of Baseball” report. That profit, according to the magazine, represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Only the Indians, at $30.1 million, showed a greater operating profit among baseball’s 30 teams. Major League Baseball has long disputed the Forbes figures, but they are generally cited as the game’s best financial measuring stick. The Royals’ operating profit stemmed mainly from a low payroll because the club showed only modest gains in franchise value ($354 million up from $351 million) and revenue ($161 million up from $160 million). Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/21/35053...h#storylink=cpy

So, in summary, Terry Doyle and Tyler Kuhn might not have as much of an impact as previously envisioned by some. Doyle has to start out behind Molina/Axelrod/Stewart and probably Castro and Hector Santiago. Behind him, he has the likes of Petricka and Rienzo. But it's nice to have a little depth for a change, just not 100% sure how "quality" that depth is.

YAY, now our net profit margin from 2011-2012 can go up to $10,725,000.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 21, 2012 -> 05:10 PM) According to Forbes. Sox profit $10.7 million in 2011. Team value up 14% to $600 million. Does that count the insurance reimbursment claim for Jake Peavy? Well, let the latest financial "spinning" begin anew. The Royals made $28.5 million in profits. Someone in Lawrence won't be happy with David Glass. http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&rct=...tOg&cad=rjt Brooks Boyer interview on the marketing team's challenges heading into 2012

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 21, 2012 -> 07:37 PM) Ha, I remember that. Hawk was going nuts. Check out the major-league debut of Miguel Asencio of the Royals on April 6, 2002. Ascencio threw 16 straight balls, walking the first four batters he faced... Found it, can't believe it was a decade ago, time flies. I was actually at that game, I just remembered "Miguel" and that it wasn't Batista.

This is like the revisionism after Orlando Cabrera left claiming Williams was a genius to force him to leave when many were sweating if he would actually depart or not and we'd end up stuck with him and an arbitration raise in salary, blocking Alexei Ramirez from SS to boot.

QUOTE (shakes @ Mar 21, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) It's not bulls***. http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2011...his-own-formula http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/feed/2011-...ce-for-st-louis Anyway, it was only a few games, but it was to illustrate that the difference between playing RF and LF is not that much of a change. Berkman said himself he preferred playing the position closest to the dugout. That does it. My new one line response to every post from Marty34 will be "you talk too much at a message board, and your post is simply made up bull---- and disingenuous" and nothing further in terms of elucidation. That will surely help to make this board more enlightening and entertaining.