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I never thought I would see a bigger embarrassment than Bevington managing this team, put Pedro takes the cake. Just an ass kissing moronic joke.

Same dumbass s%*# with this team

As you can see from my post total, I mostly lurk, but I spend a ton of time on this site. Site looks amazing and already runs waaaaay better in mobile. Thanks for continuing to run and support the best Sox site on the internet. 🍻

Yeah I do not get the Piastri/McLaren thing either. McLaren is going in the wrong direction and he will clearly play second fiddle to Norris, so it has to just be a pure money move. There does seem to be smoke around Schumacher getting cut off the raft, as rumor is his contract is up and Haas is taking a wait and see approach. I personally hope they give him another year because he is a fun story, and you almost just ignore last year with how bad that car was and how dysfunctional the team seemed to be with the Mazepins. If that seat does open up, Haas and Danny Ric do seem like a good match. I always wonder if they end up going the pay driver route though, because it seems like Gene Haas waffles on how much money he actually wants to light on fire year to year.

One week of summer break and lots of craziness in the driver market. Alonso going to Aston is just LOOOOL, him and Stroll as teammates is going to be a dream for DTS. Certainly looks like Ricciardo is done at McLaren, although with all the drama around Piastri so far I will believe that is a done deal when it is a done deal. If that is the case, Daniel either goes back to Renault/Alpine, or becomes the ultimate back marker at Williams.

That Zhou crash was really scary. You can see from the live feed someone’s car just flying upside down in the background, really glad he walked away from that. This was one that was definitely worth waiting through the red flag on, amazing action after that last yellow. Super excited for Sainz first win and my guy Mick getting his first points!!! Double points for Haas for the first time in a looooong time.

Your seats look good bmags #jealous Overall some curveballs, but Max is just too dominant. Would like to have seen what Charles could do behind him after that restart as opposed to Sainz, who just couldn’t close the gap enough. Nice race for Mercedes overall, and at this point I’m just convinced Mick is just cursed 😢

bmags it’s your weekend! Are you doing all three days?

Albon clearly had talent in that season and a half he did in the Red Bull, but the way that team runs just eats up any young guy that is not a cyborg (Max). Unless Aston can make some real improvements I wouldn't be surprised to see Vettel hang it up, he doesn't need to put up with that nonsense anymore. If I am Mclaren Ricciardo has to get a really long look, he has been just horrible for them outside of his fluke Monza win last year. I also wonder if there is a possibility of Hamilton riding into the sunset if there is no path to Mercedes being a title contender next year. He is also a guy that looks really frustrated and at this point if he isn't going to get that 8th drivers title there is probably little incentive for him to hang out with a mid-pack car.

Haas had some terrible luck yesterday, with both cars taking damage after that safety car. Feel terrible for Mick, who should have had his first points in this one. Also amazing what Albon is able to do in that horrible Williams car. The pace he gets out of that thing on race day is incredible. They really need to put Latifi on a rocket and fire him into the sun.

Good friends of ours live in the Austin area, so at least the hotel part of COTA wouldn't be an issue for me. I thought about Montreal, might eye that up for next year if the first run tickets aren't crazy expensive. Would love to hear what your experience is like up there in June.

The straights look Monza-esque, visually the whole race will be stunning. Hoping that between with Miami and Vegas now on the calendar that maybe the Austin demand will fall a bit so the tickets are a little more affordable. Miami is already at Super Bowl prices and I can't even imagine what Vegas tickets will cost next year.

D’Angelo Jimenez

“The White Sox’ deal with Robert is similar in situation to fellow Cuban Eloy Jiménez, who also signed a slightly cheaper six-year deal with two team options before ever making a major league plate appearance.” Well researched article here, considering Eloy is Dominican 🙄

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 09:59 PM) The walk hasn't been an "advanced stat" in like 100 years, but thanks for playing. Who said anything about stats?

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jul 10, 2016 -> 10:40 PM) You forgot the IN THE DRAFT part. It is critical we find talent in the field IN THE DRAFT. Tim Anderson is a good start (although he walks less than Bran Stark). That needs to happen ALL THE TIME. How are you not on TV with this sick combination of advanced baseball knowledge, snarky jokes, and ability to always keep it real and not be one of those yucky "fans"? Hope you got a Costco membership, bulk buying Jergens is in your best interests financially at the rate you're burning through it every time someone says the C word.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 10:13 AM) This guy is a troll. I primarily lurk and don't post, but I read this board quite a bit. Ron is a true blue cubbie troll, the good posters on his site shouldn't waste precious keystrokes responding to such poor trolling.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Apr 29, 2016 -> 04:16 AM) a team would take a flyer on him if released, because the sox would be on the hook for the salary. but who needs the 2016 dank aside as a roster filler or replacing an injured starter/reliever? There are four or five NL teams with zero interest in winning games this season who would probably take on another tomato can like Danks for the minimum. He's no worse and likely better than some of the trash being run out there by the Braves and Reds.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jun 18, 2013 -> 11:29 AM) Eh, those numbers are basically equal and only because, by his standards, he had a pretty down regular season. I claim only my opinion, not that its gospel, and I certainly don't believe Hossa is close to our biggest worry, unless he is really hurt bad and misses more games. I do think both Sharp and even Kane have played better, despite all three of them having equal points. But like I said, we need Hossa to play. Hossa is the least of this team's problems. The Captain is completely invisible and Kane's contributions have primarily consisted of dancing into three defenders and losing the puck. These are your supposed to be your best players and they are zeros right now. At least Hossa, even if his scoring is down compared to the regular season (don't ignore the fact that he is also 34 years old).

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2013 -> 08:07 PM) Most everyone would be quite happy if Danks morphed into a Buehrle-esque, #3 starter, middle innings eater...as long as he doesn't become a huge contractual liability/albatross. The primary concern (with Peavy) is whether he can maintain it in the 2nd half. Along with that is the "Big Game" issue, especially against the Tigers. If you'll look at his pitch counts over the course of the 2012 season, you'd almost think he was being abused or overutilized to the nth degree with the thought he wasn't coming back to the Sox in 2013 and we wanted to maximize whatever we could get out of him. So there's always going to be that Verducci Effect concern with Sale/Peavy/Quintana....until they get through the entire 2013 season without any ill effects. So we need to trade Peavy because he MAY wear down later in the season? His replacements will be guys who are coming off of major shoulder surgery or young guys who have never pitched 180-200 innings (Axelrod/Santiago). What point are you trying to make here? How does trading him make the problem any better? BTW, the big game argument is stupid. With Peavy we have a better chance of playing "big games" whether they be against the Tigers in September or against the Rangers/Tigers/Yankees etc. in October. I will take my chances playing big games and hope the horses that got me there perform.

If Dunn and Konerko don't hit like middle of the order hitters we are never going anywhere no matter where they bat in the lineup.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2013 -> 04:15 PM) You know, right now...I'm not sure I agree with this. I think we have a good chance that next year, or even late this year, Johnny Danks can be the theoretical Peavy replacement. As others have noted, that still leaves the team with a 4 lefty starting rotation, which is definitely an oddity, but it does kinda make some sense. And we'd still be sitting there 6-deep in the rotation thanks to EJ. That said, if we're 2-3 games out at the deadline, screw it, I want Peavy in my rotation for the stretch. Why is Peavy criminally underrated on this site? I think people are underestimating how good Peavy was last year and how good he has been so far this year. Yes I know the Tigers lit him up last year but Danks stands as a very very poor man's Jake Peavy. The only year Danks has even come close to matching Peavy's numbers from last year is in 2008, which was 5 years and a shoulder surgery ago. Keep the rotation, buy/trade for bats.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2013 -> 11:00 AM) The Angels haven't drafted well. Just Trout, Jared Weaver and Howie Kendrick....at least in comparison to all the pitching the Cardinals have developed. Even once-a-decade talents like Trout or Harper or Machado can't offset lousy starting pitching. My point is they have drafted franchise cornerstones like Trout and Weaver despite not picking in the top ten. If teams are picking up franchise players outside the top ten of the draft what is the point of tanking? I thought the entire point of tanking was to get high draft picks so you could get good players, if we don't need to do that to get good players, what am I missing? I agree great offensive talents can't offset lousy starting pitching......BUT WE ALREADY HAVE GOOD STARTING PITCHING!!! We have filled the hardest hole, offense can be fixed a hell of a lot easier and more quickly than pitching can. So you stick with this team and try to make shrewd moved to get some guys that can hit on this team.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 27, 2013 -> 10:43 AM) So you are content missing the playoffs the last five years but only losing 80 games? The net effect is the same: Another year, another year sitting at home in October (in fact 11 of the last 14 years, we have been sitting out the playoffs despite arguably the weakest division in that time frame). Why not miss the playoffs while having a plan to be good five years down the road instead of this let's be good enough to be in the race, but not good enough to win the race. I'm probably just a cynic and a perpetual pessimist with the Sox, but there is good reason. I see the same thing year in and year out where they simply don't have enough over the long haul of the season to do anything but "be in the race" only to fall out of it in September. I think in five years both plans have about the same chance to succeed. However under the "re-tool" plan you haven't alienated the fanbase and presumably have some talent on the major league level to work with (if you are winning 80-82 games then you have some guys that can play). Under the set the world on fire plan in THEORY you could end up with the Rays (we will ignore the fact that they were godawful for 10 years before they became a 90 win team) but you also have a great chance to become the Pirates, Royals, Mariners, etc. I would rather delude myself with the re-tool method, because nothing about being out of the race on opening day for 5-7 years sounds appealing to me. All-stars can be found anywhere in the draft, ask the Angels and Cardinals. I would rather do it that way.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2013 -> 10:05 AM) Well, to be more accurate...the false positive is likely to be tearing through the next 27 games and using that as the rationale for gutting more of our prospects for the iffy chances of competing with a flawed team. Let me ask you this Balta. You're one of the minor league aficionados. If you could have a veteran catcher and another reliever (let's say the equivalent of a Joaquin Benoit) for Erik Johnson, Trayce Thompson and Daniel Webb, would you make that deal? If it increased our odds for appearing in the playoffs from 25% to 75%, would you consider it worth making? I thought our system was hot garbage, so why are people worried about trading anything that is currently in it outside a guy like Hawkins of Johnson? I wouldn't do that trade, and if we do make a trade I doubt its going to be one of that ilk. Think of last year's deals for a better gauge of what Hahn is probably looking for, savvy moves giving up little talent for flawed but useful veterans.