Cactus League Game 5, M’s at White Sox

Jay Yencich · March 3, 2011 at 12:02 pm · Filed Under Game Threads 

Edit: Video feed. AWESOME.

Still no radio feed for this. Isn’t spring training supposed to be about the radio? And broadcasters asking “hey, who is this #89 kid?” and then not being able to pronounce it anyway?

SS Ja. Wilson
CF Guti
DH Bradley
LF Cust
C Olivo
3B Kennedy
2B Ryan
1B Carp
CF Halman

LHP French

* This marks the first time we’ll be seeing hearing reading about the double play duo of Ryan and Jack Wilson, which is something that has been talked up a bit as a possibility this spring.

* Felix threw a simulated game and is already well on his way to simulating a repeat of his Cy Young win.

* Omar Vizquel is batting ninth and playing short for the White Sox and at one point we were concerned about his medicals to the point where we would not trade for him. Those years seem funny now.

* Brandon League is working on a slider, which is probably more like a cutter for its effect. He can call it whatever he pleases so long as it helps him improve.

* Aaron Laffey is being looked at as a reliever, after bouncing back and forth between the bullpen and the rotation and struggling because of it. This sounds vaguely familiar.

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10 Responses to “Cactus League Game 5, M’s at White Sox”

  1. bortz8 on March 3rd, 2011 1:17 pm

    Thanks for the video feed, Jay.

  2. jordan on March 3rd, 2011 1:51 pm

    Pretty cool to watch some live baseball again, but man, these announcers are brutal.

  3. jonw on March 3rd, 2011 1:54 pm

    Thanks for the video link, is the lack of radio coverage due to Dave N. not being around?

  4. Paul B on March 3rd, 2011 2:08 pm

    No, the first few spring games are never broadcast, at least as far as I remember.

  5. Mid80sRighty on March 3rd, 2011 2:12 pm

    I have the phone app and not even the away teams have been broadcasting the last 2 M’s games.

  6. Westside guy on March 3rd, 2011 2:52 pm

    Oh man, I simply can’t take those announcers. Jordan didn’t understate it at all.

  7. Jay Yencich on March 3rd, 2011 3:02 pm

    These announcers have had difficulty pronouncing Wilhelmsen.

  8. argh on March 3rd, 2011 3:21 pm

    Just checked the box score and had one of those deja vu/past is prologue moments: Ms score 1 run and leave 13 on base.

    I know, I know. It’s spring and it’s meaningless. But why are my cheeks suddenly streaked with tears?

  9. Westside guy on March 3rd, 2011 5:34 pm

    argh, don’t look at the results. Look into the eyes of the players – be like Wedge!

  10. NBarnes on March 3rd, 2011 10:13 pm

    He can call it whatever he pleases so long as it helps him improvehe actually goddamn throws it.

    Fixed that for you.

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