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I don’t think I heard it from SoxTalk.... Aside from being Cuban, they are polar opposites. I could see it.

Yeah... I tried to find it but I couldn’t.

I don’t know where I heard this but I always thought Abreu hated Puig. I doubt they sign him if that’s true.

Why would the stat even take positions into account if it weren't meant to compare players of different positions? If you are only comparing 2Bs to 2Bs, there wouldn't be a need to adjust based on positional difficulty.

Lol.... this is a total feel good fluff piece and people are up in arms.

FarWestChicago banned me for some argument I had with him around 2005/2006. I wish I could remember why but I do know that it was something very stupid. Somehow I was able to message Daver (?) and he reinstated me. I stopped reading the boards about a year ago. It dwindled to like 10 people repeating themselves over and over.

What does stealing bandwith mean?

I read "Mieses bats and throws left-handed and has the look of a prototypical right fielder."and thought, it said "Misses bats and throws left-handed and has the look of a prototypical right fielder" and my reaction was "Oh, a two way player!"

Clicked on the last few pages of this thread and i thought I must have an old game thread open. I’m confused why it’s so negative. They scored 10 runs and Lopez looked decent.

The Sosa/Bell trade happened when Rick Hahn was using a fake ID in Ann Arbor. Sosa was like 125 pounds. He played essentially his entire career, retired, became eligible for the HOF in that time period. Half the current players on the 25 man roster weren't even born. But yeah, you are correct. The Cubs and Sox have technically made trades with each other in the past. You've persuaded me. I think the Sox will sign Cole to the largest contract in the history of the MLB because he did it 20+ years ago with Albert Belle. No one can technically say Sox have never spent a ton of $ before. Its not unprecedented.

Explain to me how It doesn’t reinforce his point? Ron Schueler was GM for like a year when he made that trade. 200 times a day, people bring up the fact that the 2008 playoffs was so long ago... but something that happened in 1991 and then again in 1999 is proof that something happens frequently?

Even if George Bell was good, that was during the damn George HW Bush administration. What in the world are people trying to argue? That a trade 30 years ago shows that the cubs and Sox regularly make trades? Has everyone lost their minds?

George Bell sucked but that’s neither here nor there....Before the Q trade, the last trade of consequence between the teams was Garland for Karchner. I can’t believe so many people think the rebuild was some sort of scheme to lower payroll and they will never sign anyone ever again.... they outsmarted themselves and got too cute with Machado and lost out on him. Get over it. Sox fans can be such a group of whiners.

I edited my post after I reread it... I meant the Grandal 25%/75% stuff. Where is that coming from?

Who is "we" Edit: I'm talking about the 75%/25% Grandal thing.