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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:40 PM) Since you are just starting, just concentrate on hitting the ball hard, not trying to hit it out of the park. I know you are a big dude, once you "get it", it will be easy for you. Once you start smoking line drives all over, the homeruns will come. I can already do that though, I just want to hit one home run and then I will go back to just hitting line drives. Im just thinking maybe im not swinging correctly since im just used to baseball and not slowpitch softball.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:32 PM) Few questions. What kind of softball is this? 12 inch? What association? If it's 12 inch and it's ASA, what bat are you using? If you're hitting balls to the fence with an aluminum bat, then that is mighty impressive. Getting a composite will turn you into a real good home run hitter. If you're using a good composite bat and you're only hitting to the wall...then stop trying to hit home runs. Yes, they're nice, but your job in softball is to get on base. A team full of guys who get on base at a .700 clip will be way better than a team with 3-4 sluggers who can hit the ball out 25% of the time. Im only trying to hit home runs because I just want to hit one, im the only person on the team who has gotten even remotely close to hitting a home run. After I hit one, I will just hit line drives to short left and get singles or doubles every at bat, that's something I can do every time fairly easily. Our team really isn't that great, we have a bunch of guys who have multiple strikeouts already in just 10 games. Most of our players ground out, or weakly pop up in the infield. We have about 4 of our 13 guys who can hit somewhat decently. It would appear to be ASA

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) My first question would be, does your league use flight resistant balls? and my second would be what bat are you using. Other than that, i would think your timing is just a bit off. I don't know about the type of ball they use I have been using a Psycho.. they have a bunch of bats, but like I said im not 100% sure about what all this softball stuff is just yet

Boy, the soundtrack for The Show is absolutely terrible.

I am on a work team that we just started in March. This is my first time playing competitive softball, but I have played baseball for a good portion of my life so its not much different. We ended the first season 2-8, including a wonderful 34-5 loss in one of those games. I am trying to hit home runs, but I can seem to get the right swing down. Ive hit the fence a few times, and I know im plenty strong enough to get the ball out. Any of you seasoned softball players have any advice for this? I could probably bat 1.000 but I end up popping out to deepish left and left center regularly because I am trying to hit the ball out of the park. Our second season starts Sunday, hopefully we will be a little better than last season.

QUOTE (Tmar @ May 15, 2014 -> 12:34 PM) Bills suck, dolphins suck, bears suck, cowboys best team in league. Oh you mean Cowboys one playoff win since 1996 lolololol

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 15, 2014 -> 12:10 PM) The AFC had 4 of the worst 5 teams in the league last year, and the Seahawks absolutely crushed the Broncos in the Super Bowl, while the week before Seattle and San Fran played a game down to the wire. The Cardinals went 10-6 and missed the playoffs (and could have gone 11-5 and still missed), while the Chargers went 9-7 and made it. I don't think anyone's comparing it to the Eastern Conference, but it wasn't close. The NFC was absolutely superior last year. Well agree to disagree. On the superior part anyways, I acknowledge the NFC was better.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 15, 2014 -> 11:55 AM) I think it's really hard to argue that the AFC was even close. I think the best 2 teams in the NFC far outclassed the teams 1-6 were way better in the NFC and the teams are the bottom in the NFC were better than the weakest teams in the AFC. How can it be hard to argue when the NFC went 34-30 vs the AFC? Shouldn't that right there be enough to tell you that they weren't as far superior as everyone seems to think? And that record includes 3 teams that were 0-12 against the NFC. The NFC had a division winner with 8 wins, all AFC division winners had 11+ wins. The NFC had 3 teams with 4 or less wins, the AFC had 4 The NFC had 6 teams with 10+ wins, the AFC had 5 The NFC had 9 teams with a .500 or worse record, the AFC had 10 While the NFC was better last season, lets not act like the AFC was the Eastern Conference in the NBA

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 15, 2014 -> 10:41 AM) Coincidentally, all three of those teams are in the AFC. And yet the NFC was only 4 games better against the AFC, being top heavy does not mean being weak.

NFC was 34-30 vs the AFC, and that was with the Texans, Jaguars, Raiders going 0-12 combined against the NFC

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 15, 2014 -> 08:49 AM) If the Bills get good play out of Manuel, they should be 2nd in the East. I just don't think any of those teams outside of the Patriots are playoff teams. The Dolphins and Jets both finished one game out of the final playoff spot, and if it wasn't for a choke job in the final two games Miami would have been in. They are no worse than any of those 8-8, 9-7 teams that were fighting for that last spot.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 14, 2014 -> 04:41 PM) Sounds good to me, parameters to be set later. Also, the above, following this post: is hilarious. They had a fluky year in Sporano's first season where they got literally every break imaginable, and then got trounced in the postseason. They've had 1 other winning season since Dave Wannestedt was the coach (meaning 2 winning seasons). That's pretty much right on par with the Bills. I don't remember claiming they were a great team, but they have certainly been better than the Bills over the same time frame. They were 2 games better than the Bills last season and that was with losing to Thad Lewis and those same Bills twice. Now that they have the offensive line fixed, and Tannehill wont have to worry about getting sacked 58 times, they can improve on what was already a pretty good season last year. You may think its hilarious, but you know damn well you would kill for a Bills "Fluky" season where they win 10+ games and the AFC east

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 14, 2014 -> 04:22 PM) You're not winning more than 7 games next year, so there. Also, if you're interested, I have no problem with a sig bet on the Bills winning 7+ games and/or winning more games than Miami. Well, there's no chance they win more games then Miami so that's not really fair to you. Ill go with 7 or more wins, you win. 6 or less, I win.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 13, 2014 -> 12:01 PM) You are still giving up a 2nd round pick at the very, very, very minimum, and likely the 1st, because you have to move up to #5 or #6 to get Evans. The Bucs weren't moving because Evans was the guy they wanted. Yes it's a high cost, but again, wideout was the absolute biggest need on the team. If everything blows up and a new regime is brought in with the new ownership, they have plenty of talent to recoup the cost of that pick. It's a win now move for a team that has talent to win now. People are just upset with it because the Bills went 6-10 last year instead of 8-8 or 10-6 which, as I pointed out, they could have easily done last year. Theres nothing worse than seeing a fan of a lousy team try and say they "have the talent to win now". Buffalo has averaged 6 wins a season for the last 9 years, that's like me coming in here and saying Miami is on the cusp of being Super Bowl contenders. The Bills gave up what is going to be prolly a top 15 pick next year, and that's if they get 7-8 wins. Could be worse if they, you know, do what they always do and go 5-11 or 6-10. So, not even counting the 6 games they have against their own division who was no worse than 8-8 last year they have to play @ Chicago, @ Houston, @ Detroit, @ Denver while getting KC, Green Bay, and San Diego at home. Bills aren't winning more than 7 games next season

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 8, 2014 -> 01:32 PM) OK, I decided to answer my own question. I used the point chart from NBC Sports. Bears 14th pick = 1100 points Jets 18th pick = 900 points Jets 80th pick (Rd 3) = 190 points Jets 209th pick (Rd 6 compensatory) = 7.8 points, total of 1097.8 points I guess if you go "by the book" that would be the deal. Just FYI, but the pick value chart is pretty dated and I dont think used very much anymore.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:52 PM) Nice try, but ratings don't say how boring something is to me. You might be the only person who cares about whats boring to you, clearly, your opinion does not reflect what is reality.

If Jones ever gets an out, that number is gonna go up a bit

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:04 PM) The NFL draft is pretty boring, I'd much rather watch a baseball game (or any game for that matter). If you follow it at all, you know everything about every guy already. What more is there? All you need to see is which team drafts what player, which can be looked at in 2 minutes instead of watching 4-5 hours worth of "action." /takes cover. Ratings say otherwise

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 6, 2014 -> 12:03 PM) So if I have a perfect PS3, what type of money do i get for it? I would say around $40-50 from Gamestop.. depends what model and HD size it is Looks like they will give $140 for a 500GB new K Model

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 6, 2014 -> 10:39 AM) Abreu's in the PS3 version though right? It's been a whole month, he should have been added a while ago. Same with Tanaka. I don't know, I have PS4. I just watched a video of Sox gameplay on PS4 and there was no Abreu, and what I read said that he wouldn't be added to the roster until the first roster update which should be May 8th. I would assume that PS3 would be different since it has already been out, but PS4 most likely doesn't get the same patches as the PS3 does.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2014 -> 10:08 AM) OS rosters always come with two things. A generated player face and not a picture. Unrealistic player faces. Does Jose Abreu have a picture in the game? Does he look like Jose Abreu? My interest in the game this year entirely revolves around him. Jose Abreu isn't even in the game straight from retail. He wont be added until an official roster update, which I believe is happening on the 8th. So again, no Jose Abreu right out of the box. Konerko is the Sox 1B for the time being.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 03:11 PM) This is the part when Steve comes in and cries about me ruining the Purple Wedding on facebook. This is great, unless you were unfriended here too

its not my fault Comcast cant get their s*** together. Ill call them tonight and try and get an ETA

So since there is going to be quite a few of us with Playstation 4's and MLB The Show, how about we get a Soxtalk online franchise set up?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 04:54 PM) Took less time than that for some people to declare that Paulino and Johnson were complete lost-causes. Paulino is absolutely a lost cause. Hes never been good, one outlier year that he ended up with a mid 4 era, everything else is putrid and having any faith that he was going to come in here with a year layoff and be useful was foolish thinking. No one should be jumping the gun on Johnson, but he was awful up here to start the year. No reason to think he cant get it together. Paulino on the other hand, he has no business seeing the active roster again.