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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2010 -> 06:17 PM) Pretty much all of their offensive products have failed to one extent or another while in KC. Not completely true. You have Butler and David DeJesus. Going back almost a decade, they had an offensive juggernaut, with Randa, Damon, Dye, Carlos Beltran, Mike Sweeney and Carlos Febles (when he was looking like a ROY candidate, they were called "DOS CARLOS"). Rey Sanchez could play a little SS, too. Angel Berroa, I'll give you that flameout. Hopefully Alexei doesn't follow that career path. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ArBK...manfiring051310 WILL OZZIE GO OUT IN A SIMILAR WAY? Or will it be a messier divorce/parting?

Daniel Hudson so far.... 5 IP, 2 H's, 0 R, 6 K's. Back on track, 100%. Down to a 4.98 ERA and sinking like TMK's batting average. Nevin Griffith looking very good so far tonight as well. BTW, why can't the major league team sport a line-up like this, pretty amazing... Short RF 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .405 Escobar SS 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 .277 Gilmore DH 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .345 Loman 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .276 Lewis LF 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 .362 Sierra 3B 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .316 Bour C 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 .333 Garcia, An 2B 2 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 .323 Greene CF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .346 Griffith P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

Those don't look real to me. More like a bigger version of Lindsay Lohan's boob job. Or Jessica Simpson's sister.

Brent Lillibridge goes yard (#2) leading off the bottom of the first, sparking comparisons with Rickey Henderson, Grady Sizemore and Ron LeFlore. "And the Knights win the pennant, the Knights win the pennant."

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/future-sox...ndon-short.html http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/future-sox...done-at-26.html Discussion of Brandon Short as a prospect. So maybe he's a little like the "black Jeff Abbott" if he keeps this up, lol. Or Jeremy Reed. Perhaps if the Top 25 was done today, he'd be between 8-16, somewhere in that range, based solely on April/May results....? Other than Danks, Mitchell, T. Thompson and Colligan, is there anyone else who arguably is a better "under the radar" OF prospect than Short? Justin Greene? Gartrell?

Just trying out my new avatar to see if it works. Hmmm....not sure why I still have Jose Contreras. Oh, well. Dayton Moore, welcome to the hot seat. Your job is in jeopardy, too. A new GM will be hired before you get a chance to pick another manager. I almost wish they had the balls to bring back Tony Pena, the only "positive" season they had was in 2003 for the first four months before they faded quickly.

I remember when everyone was feeling a bit guilty talking about Hayden Panetierre 2-3 years ago, while her "minor" status was changing. Not that pretty to me. As far as Don's "Robert DeNiro-esque" ethnic girls, I think Gabrielle Union in the movie "Cradle to the Grave" with Jet Li is super-hot. Can't go wrong with Eva Mendes, either, always been a big fan of hers. As for Asian girls (haven't discussed this one here), I'll go with Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li (if you're going for the 35ish looking "cougar" who's much closer to 50), Tang Wei (just check out the movie Lust/Caution "Xi Jie" by ANG LEE), Lin Chiling from Taiwan, Selena Ren from the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E., any of the members of GIRLS GENERATION (my personal favorite is Su Young Choi because of her unbelieveable legs), Wonder Girls (fading a bit in my estimation), Jamie Chung (ex Real World, she has been in a few movies now like Dragonball), Shu Qi (she was in the first Transporter movie), Michelle Wie (I know someone will argue this with me, it's like Don's Serena Williams pick), Sora Aoi, Maria Ozawa, to start out with, just off the top of my head... http://www.chinese-tools.com/china/crazy/2...tiful-legs.html These two sisters, if you look past all the make-up covering their faces (seems both had a lot of acne/skin problems when they were younger), are just average in appearance...but those LEGS, wow!

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 13, 2010 -> 03:33 PM) The interesting thing about the Reds is they have made it pretty well known that they are willing to add help (aka add payroll) before the deadline if the team can stay in the race, which is a new stance for that organization. The other interesting question is why so many other teams passed on Aroldis Chapman at $30 million? Compared to Dice-K, his raw potential would seem like a bargain in hindsight. Well, it's really good for baseball that pitchers like Strasburg and Chapman are coming up with "mid/small" market franchises or ones that are basically operated as such.

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Which is why ARIZ was willing to part with him for Carter, despite his sterling minor league numbers....that and the injury-bug reputation. Well, I'm still not quite ready to go to Fathom's declaration that I'd rather have C. Carter back (instead of Quentin), but the pendulum is definitely swinging. Certainly, we owe the 2008 ALCD at least 20-25% to Quentin's monster year. C. Carter would/could/might be ONE big piece of the puzzle, but unless he's going to put up a 900+ OPS right out of the gate, I wouldn't expect that his presence on the current roster would have made any difference at all, unless he could have played 3B or magically morphed into a LHB who could take plate appearances away from TMK.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/10/19375...ing-royals.html What is truly one of the most amazing and crazy things EVER in sports is the Royals preaching On Base Average and signing free swinging, slow, no walking, strikeout machines. Our Royals are a manic depressed bunch of dudes. One year our bullpen is Ok then they blow and our starters are OK. Please put it together one time. The only way I see the Royals winning is by spending more on FA acquisitions. Until some prospects wow us at the ML level I think that is the only way. from comments section Sound familiar? http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/12/19426...-day-a-bad.html It wasn't mentioned in this article, but I don't think the Callaspo/Getz over Alex Gordon decision is going to go down as one of the best in franchise history either. The long-term benefit of this move was zero from the beginning, and the short-term benefit has been ABSOLUTE ZERO from the get-go.

The best was when he did the mockery/imitation of Sosa's "heart taps" in one of the inter-city series games when he homered. That was classico.

Somebody said about 26 K's and 3 walks so far...something like that.

T. Thompson in that game piled up 5 RBI's, now at 16 on the season. My boy Dayan Viciedo (280/OPS aound 800) with his 7th homer, the power numbers are starting to look encouraging...his prospect "luster" is coming back again. RBI'S, Flowers (26), Viciedo 3 (15), Retherford (10).

Because that would be TOO logical. Well, you should write an e-mail to MIKE GELLINGER with the White Sox (Director of Video Scouting) and see if he'll respond to you... Why not? Probably better than trying to send an e-mail or letter to Walker IMO.

I remember once going to a Royals/White Sox game at Kauffman, fairly sweltering heat but not quite oppressive....I was trying to buy her Lemon Chills and just about anything to keep her pacified, and I had to argue vociferously just to get her to stay for 2 innings. (This is when both teams were actually good, maybe mid season 2003). That was the end of her attending White Sox (or Royals) games with me. I must have gone to 10-15 games per season by myself, I couldn't bear arguing about "when are we going home?" everytime.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 12, 2010 -> 03:50 PM) Let this be a warning to everyone: DON'T GET MARRIED For me, it was don't married to a foreign-born model who cares absolutely nothing about baseball, specifically White Sox baseball. Well, I guess we did have Labrador Retrievers, being history majors, love of travelling and going to movies in common....that was about it. But, in retrospect, it was a great learning experience and true eye-opener for me. If I do get married again, I will at least find someone I'm at least 50% compatible with. BTW, does Quentin have a wife? I think so? Maybe he needs some domestic tranquility OR Revolutionary Road quarreling to get his mind freed and cleared to just see the ball and hit the ball...same as Gordo. I remember when Jose Contreras went into the tank, one of the biggest reasons cited was his divorce and marital difficulties. Marriage seems to work wonders for some players (like Konerko, Buehrle, Thome, etc.) in terms of grounding them.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 12, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) Hey, we are actually going to agree on something. His swing plane is absolute s***. He isnt in a position to hit the ball hard to all fields like before. IN fact his swing at anything on the outside portion of the plate is a completely modified swing in the moment. I'm not sure where this stemmed from, or what adjustments he tried to make in his stance/swing/load, but its not an effective change whatsoever. No, we can also agree that the girl from your avatar is super-cute. Maybe I would fly back from China to see her throw out the first pitch, haha.

Morel 1/4 with an RBI, #19. 800 OPS. Nunez really pitched very well, one of his best, if not THE best start with us. And Salvador Sanchez has come back down to earth. Just can't seem to find much to get excited about with this team. Shelby's now down to .244 and fading a bit.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ May 12, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) because he hit 230, made a zillion errors and was a selfish player who just tried for homers. i cant stand guys like that. I'm not even going to touch that one, I'll probably get banned the way today is going. Valentin was/is one of my 3 favorite Sox players of all time, along with Lance Johnson and Robin Ventura.

It's all about timing. Before, when he had that "lag" in his swing, he was just a split second early (in 2008) and everything worked perfectly. Now, he's just a fraction of a second late, he's trying to cheat and he's getting himself out on pitchers' pitches, fouling off a lot of balls that he used to square up and bust into the seats. The classic "in between" description really fits with Quentin. Someone else had it right, his natural RCF stroke became the infamous pull-hook OR, most commonly, just getting under pitches and popping up a ton of balls into RF and the right side of the diamond like Thomas and Crede would also do a lot of times. The physical ability is still there I think, its just got into his head...the psychological side of the game, 90% of baseball is half mental or whatever Yogi Berra said. Same thing with Beckham, really. Whatever it is, the timing, the stance, the lack of a level plane in his swing, the approach of trying to jack everything out of the ballpark and not adjust situationally but just be like Juan Uribe or Brian Anderson and do the same thing every single time up....it's frustrating to watch for everyone who saw how good he was in 2008, and how far he's fallen. You can't have a corner outfielder with a 650-700 OPS playing his abysmal level of defense (currently) or DHing, but I guess he fits right in there with TMK as a pair.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2010 -> 02:52 PM) All right you two, knock off the personal stuff. I haven't once, and you can look at every post i've made (and there are many since April) gone out of my way to just arbitrarily and capriciously follow someone around in cyberspace and argue with every single post they make, day after day after day. I feel like I need to get a cyber restraining order.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 12, 2010 -> 02:48 PM) lol. What's your problem? You said the Sox almost lured "us" back to caring. All I said was speak for yourself. And you weren't even involved in the post you're talking about now. Paranoid much? What the FUC- does that mean, INVOLVED IN A POST? Are you a MOD now? If Jordan4life determines someone is "involved in a post," he can therefore deem them worthy to provide commentary on aforementioned post????

Would you stop acting like a 12 year old child? Half of your posts the last two months in my direction are criticizing my posting "style." Do you want me to copy and paste all the examples? Did I run over your pet gerbil or something? I mean, can't you find something else to give your life meaning?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 12, 2010 -> 01:42 PM) Thunder said the closer position was overrated. Not every position on the field. Someone said how do the Twins do it.... A lot of role players and journeymen play like All-Stars there, for whatever reason. Really, I don't want to argue about every single post, I'm not in the mood. Find someone else to try to bully around. It's enough.