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Rare 1-4-3 DP when the runner (Ramirez) was going on the pitch. Supposedly this Rhiner Cruz guy (Rule 5 pick) can throw 100 MPH but we haven't seen it yet. Just had a thought of who Morel reminds me of, the actor Edward Burns, a little bit.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 06:55 PM) it was an infield single. As soon as the ball squirted past Altuve into short RCF, it's a play 90-95% of MLB runners have to score on because the fielder's running away from the plate to retrieve the ball and having to turn around and plant/throw back to the plate with no momentum.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 06:42 PM) Nice hustle by Dayan to score that second run That, and he has to be running with 2 outs anyway.

Lucas Harrell made the Astros as the 5th starter over Livan Hernandez. This has to be the most unrecognizable MLB team in recent history, outside of Carlos Lee. Three K's in a row now for Chris Sale, seeming to get the feel for that change-up.

Wow, there's absolutely nobody there. No surprise, Sale's throwing 93-94 instead of 95-98, but he obviously has to pace himself more as a starter. The key's always going to be that slider. Seems he was throwing a lot of off-speed stuff that inning. Chris can't throw 15-25 pitches per inning or it will tax the pen. Great play by Alexei Ramirez or the damage would have been worse than 1 run. Made a diving stop and them threw out the runner from the seat of his pants with a one hop throw. Viciedo's finally up to .200 for the spring.

It basically summarizes where the major league team is at the end of the preceding year, and I would suppose gives a boost to those teams who made significant offseasons additions like the Marlins. "They were able to turn Jose Contreras into a useful pitcher for a couple of seasons." You think? He was only the most dominant pitcher in baseball from July/August 2005 through May of 2006, when he got injured, and perhaps the most important key to their World Series title on the pitching staff. "Williams also should have shown more patience with Javier Vazquez and Nick Swisher — both of whom were shipped out for virtually no return." Getting back Lillibridge and Flowers (if he manages to become the full-time starting catcher) wasn't bad at all, because there was no way he was going to stay on the 2009 team. In many ways, it was just a salary dump. If they want to complain about specific deals, it should be trading for Teahen, extending him, trading Hudson/Holmberg for Edwin Jackson, then dumping Teahen and Edwin Jackson for practically nothing.

So do Rios and Dunn.

"They're getting paid a lot of money to perform," Guillen said. "If they cannot play, somebody will play. They make the lineup. I write it down, and [bench coach] Joey Cora prints it. That's what we do here. If you play good, you make the lineup. If you do not play good, somebody will make the lineup. We'll put in somebody else. This is not an easy job." Had to chuckle about that line. As far as Yankees' fans, you have all the transplanted Northerners who retire in FL, PLUS the fact that the Yankees have always made their spring training home in the state as well as the fact that the Steinbrenner family is from Tampa. Lots of ties to the region. Yankees will always be the biggest draw on the road in MLB, for the foreseeable future.

Probably in 2004 when Takatsu slinging 67 MPH frisbees was the last time the bullpen velocity was down a bit... Yeah, we all remember Nick Masset was supposed to be another high 90's guy when he came over with the Rangers. And ironically, MacDougal and Aardsma (til he got injured) righted their careers after their time on the SouthSide. Bullpens are SO hit and miss, although if you stockpile a bunch of talented arms, odds are something positive's gonna happen eventually down there.

52 IP, 81 H, 43 ER, 18 BB, 34 K's. 7.44 ERA That's what Zach Stewart would have produced last year at the major league level (both TOR and CHW) if you subtract the two times he faced the Twins when they had their AA/AAA line-ups and almost all of their best players were sitting. It's getting close to the time where we have to admit Cooper can't work magic with every single Jeff Marquez or Stewart that comes along. Not because of the 5 runs he gave up today in 2 innings of garbage time, but there's just nothing that makes one believe that he can be a consistently successful starter at the big league level. Let's just call that Edwin Jackson trade what it was. A salary dump to cover the ill-advised signing of Mark Teahen to that three-year extension which was totally unnecessary and unwarranted, based on "hope and faith" from Buddy Bell. Thankfully, we also were able to get something back for Jason Frasor ($800,000 worth of pitching, at least in terms of their signing dollars)...but the ship is sailing as far as Stewart making a significant contribution to the Sox. I'll be the first one to apologize to Zach, but just not seeing it. It sucks we have basically nothing to show for Edwin Jackson. KW can't afford to make that mistake again on Nestor Molina.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 1, 2012 -> 06:31 PM) At the end of the day Zimmerman is going to hell for breaking one of the ten commandments. That gives me solace. You have to look at his mentality, though. As described many times, he was treating his neighborhood like a "war zone" and stepping into the breach where the police were not doing their jobs, in his opinion, or not vigilant enough. (Just wait, when they start cutting back on police officers in the future, with more and more state and municipal budgets being slashed, we'll see more and more of these street vigilantes/citizen posses forming...this won't be the last time). Based on the sheer volume of calls, his level of frustration with police inaction probably reached the breaking point (not unlike the soldier who killed all the civilians in Kandahar recently) and he just let adrenaline and self-righteousness carry him over the edge. In his idea, he was a soldier (self-proclaimed) protecting his neighborhood from invasion. Mentally, he would describe it as self-defense or the same type of thing a US soldier would argue in Afghanistan as killing during wartime conditions. And that's the problem, with so many guns on the streets and the lack of control due to anyone's willingness to stand up to the NRA, these types of situations are going to be the result. Here in China, there are confrontations all the time, and the murder rate would be exponentially higher than the US, except for the fact that nobody but the police and military are allowed to carry guns on them. Multiply "road rage" fatalities by a factor of 10 the way people drive here.

12 Angry Men, SouthSide Version, I can just see it now. Or The Runaway Jury. Can't we just bring in Mark Harmon and NCIS to solve this one? At any rate, the "these ---holes always get away" comment hasn't been countered. Whether he actually made the "f----- c--ns" comment hasn't been 100% validated, but it also seems HIGHLY likely that it was Martin and NOT Zimmerman who was screaming or yelling out audibly. The question, what was Martin supposedly getting away with, exactly? It would be ONE thing if he was a menacing looking 25 year old weighing 225 pounds (that's a whole different thread about the rights of a "strong/fit" black person to not be suspected of being a "menace to society" as we've seen hundreds of times with professional athletes and entertainers being stopped by police for the same presumptions or assumptions Zimmerman was making), it's quite another with a kid of Martin's weight and size. If he was "casing" a house, why would he be doing it in broad daylight? It just doesn't hold up.

Supposedly, Manto's really been working with them on 2 strike hitting up the middle. Mitchell now 10 for 26 (.385), showing off his speed as the Reds made two "unforced" errors with Jared at 1st and 3rd. Thompson with a liner right to 3B, well struck. Ludwick and Heisey homers off Zach Stewart. Now 5 runs given up by Zach in 1 2/3rd's. Might have to bring back Bruney, Axelrod or Stults.

And yet more evidence for Thornton not to be the closer. 2 hits and 2 walks surrendered in an inning.

Wonder if he's related to old Sox 3B Jim "Light My Fire" Morrison?  #71 — Brian Omogrosso, RHP (bio on page 98 of White Sox media guide)  #83 — Trayce Thompson, OF (bio on page 128 of White Sox media guide)  #85 — Drew Garcia, INF (bio on page 286 of White Sox media guide)  #87 — Carlos Sanchez, INF (bio on page 303 of White Sox media guide)  #88 — Christian Marrero, OF (bio on page 295 of White Sox media guide)  #89 — Brady Shoemaker, OF (bio on page 306 of White Sox media guide)  #91 — Jon Gilmore, INF (bio on page 287 of White Sox media guide)  #92 — Seth Loman, INF (bio on page 293 of White Sox media guide)  #93 — Kyle Shelton, INF (bio on page 305 of White Sox media guide)  #94 — Matt Wickswatt, LHP (bio on page 312 of White Sox media guide)  #95 — Phil Negus, RHP (bio on page 298 of White Sox media guide)  #96 — Erik Morrison, INF (bio on page 297 of White Sox media guide)

Mitchell 9/25 (.360) on the spring and opening up lots of eyes again. Viciedo 5 for his last 13, at least up to a more respectable .189, compared to where he was a week ago. Right now, the biggest concern for the line-up has to be Rios, with the pitching staff, no idea what we'll get out of Peavy at this point. Eric Morrison clears the bases with a triple. 11-4 now. 6 runs now and counting.

But has a girl ever been brought up on charges for killing a homeless person? I know many teenagers have in the last 2-3 years, for purposely killing homeless people while roving around in gangs. Sport killings or initiations. Got this in my inbox this morning. Every similar case is coming out of the woodwork. Still waiting for those cases where a white person is shot in their home by an African-American officer. On November 19, 2011, my father, 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., was shot and killed in his home in White Plains, New York. My father was a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections and proudly served the United States of America as a Marine. He stood about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and he suffered from a heart condition. The events that led to his killing began around 5 a.m., when his medical alert device was accidentally set off, sending a call to the City of White Plains Department of Public Safety. Everything that happened after that was recorded by an audio device installed in my father's home as part of his medical alert system. When the police arrived at my father's home, he and the staff for his medical alert service told them that there was no medical emergency and asked them to leave. And yet they insisted that my father let them into his home, banging loudly on my father's door for over an hour. On the recording, the police can be heard calling my father a "n*****." Ultimately they broke through his apartment door and first shot him with a Taser. He was wearing nothing but boxer shorts when the police began their assault against him. Shortly after that, he was shot with two 40-caliber rounds and killed. My family is asking the Westchester County District Attorney to bring a criminal indictment, and we call on the United States Department of Justice or the New York State Attorney General to prosecute this as a hate crime. Will you sign our petition? Click here to sign and please share with your friends: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=273615&id=38...5FMXQ9x&t=3

No DJ, it's not TRAY-CIE Thompson. C'mon. At least it can't get any worse than Melton. Unless he's doing the Brewers game tmrw, we've survived/escaped his "analysis" for yet another year, except on Comcast. Flowers hits the ball so hard it can't quite get out...absolutely hammered.

A BIG/SUSPICIOUS looking stranger following anyone around in a car when you're only age 17, even if it's in your own neighborhood, shouldn't that be enough to freak you out? Can you really equate the Mormons or Buddhists or airline pamphlet hander-outers (my word, lol) with what happened in this situation? If two white Mormon kids not named Tim Tebow were following Martin around asking to talk with him about the Book of Mormon, would they have ended up dead? Let's put it another way. If it's your daughter walking on her way home from school or the convenience store, and this Martin guy is following her, tell me that YOU wouldn't be SUSPICIOUS and want to protect her!! You certainly wouldn't blame HER for the confrontation. So let's imagine Martin as a girl (because there are girls who weigh a lot more), there's just no way you BLAME her for initiating here. In that case, it goes back to being about race again, more or less.

3 run homer off the bat of Viciedo. DJ called it, down the left-field line...one-armed swing. Apparently, there's a wicked cross-wind blowing across the field....off the bat, it looked way foul. Wind playing tricks with the Reds' OF this inning.

8 consecutive retired by Latos. Santiago's Puerto Rican by way of the NY/NJ area, right? Konerko with yet another hit up the middle. Out of the game for Conor Jackson, pinch-running.

Waiting for someone to chime in with a "Peavy is worthless" comment at some point. 4 runs given up, 7 hits. Willie Harris appearance. Hector Santiago with two consecutive K's. It would be ironic if the ace of the team turns out to be someone who wasn't even in the Top 20 or 30 list coming into 2011, and neither Peavy or Sale. That's the fun part about baseball, though.

Morel seems to be through his back issues for now. Already glad not to see Alex Rios' name in the line-up, not the greatest omen for our supposed #3 hitter.

Just wait for Pineda to change his mechanics when he comes back and end up like Jake Peavy. Then Cowley will have another fireable offense, theoretically, to write about.

Brett Gardner AND Banuelos OR Batances for Floyd, Lillibridge and Viciedo That might be a bit more plausible.