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dude, you get in some weird arguments where you stake things on anecdotal evidence that doesnt hold up much. Just leave it at "they sucked" and its over. Who cares what madden lists them as

I don’t think Reinsdorf is the problem with this team

I'd rather have Eloy.

Gosh, I can only dream of the day when the Sox have an owner willing to pony up for contracts like Carl Crawford, Daisuke, Edwin Jackson, Jason Heyward and Yu Darvish. Those will be the days.

Here we go with a breakdown for where the Sox can/will/might pick next year. The Sox cannot catch Baltimore for the #1 pick. They already have 108 losses. The Sox can lose 103 games at most. The Sox currently have 92 losses, while the Royals have 100. The White Sox can lose a maximum of 103 games if they lose out, so right now, the White Sox need to play 8 losses worse than the Royals over their last 11 games (10 for KC) in order to catch them. If they Sox go 0-13 to finish at 59-103, KC would need to win no more than 6 games (going 6-4) to stay under the White Sox. If the teams were to tie, the Sox own the tiebreaker . If KC loses 5 games or more the rest of the way, the Sox have no way of catching them for the #2 pick. This is the magic numbers to clinch a higher draft pick than each of the teams left competing with the Sox for the #3 pick. At this point the Mets have 82 losses and could in theory still tie the White Sox with the same record, but the Sox have the tiebreaker over the Mets, so they are officially eliminated. That leaves Toronto, Cincy, Texas, Detroit, San Diego and Miami as able to get the #3 pick. Even if the Sox were to win out, the absolute worst they can draft in 2018 is #8. Toronto currently has 83 losses, and the most they can lose is 93 games. A combination of 1 Toronto win, or 1 White Sox loss the rest of the way eliminates them from the #3 pick. Again, the Sox own the tiebreaker here. Cincinnati has 88 losses, with 9 games left to play. The most they can lose this year is 97 games. A combination of 5 Sox losses or 5 Cincy wins eliminates them as the White Sox again have the tiebreaker here. Texas has 88 losses as well, but has 10 games left to play, meaning they can still lose 98 games. A combination of 6 Texas wins or 6 Sox losses eliminates them. San Diego currently sits at 92 losses with 9 games left to play, meaning they can max out at 101 losses. The Sox had a worse record than them last year, so the Sox own the tiebreaker. Chicago need a combination of 9 losses and/or 9 Padres win to pick ahead of htem. Next up is Detroit who has 91 losses with 10 games left to play. They can lose a maximum of 101 games this year. This is also the ONE team left that would WIN the tiebreaker if tied with the Sox at the end of the year and pick ahead of them. The Sox need a combination of 11 Detroit wins, and Sox losses to stay ahead of the Tigers. Finally is Miami who are tied with the White Sox with a record of 59-92. While the White Sox own the tiebreaker here, the Marlins have a make up game with Pittsburgh that may not get made up. If the game is played, both teams have 11 games left, and both can lose a total of 103 games. That means that there needs to a combination of 12 White Sox losses and Marlins wins for the White Sox to pick ahead of the Marlins. Basically the White Sox have to match the Marlins record or worse the rest of the way to at least tie them and keep the pick ahead of them. If the Marlins make up game is NOT played, the Sox have to play at least 1 loss worse than the Marlins to stay picking ahead of them.

It may be September, but he is not exactly doing this off of AAAA pitchers, or rookies. His last two homers have come off of Kluber and Carrasco. Moreover, they were not hit on "off" nights, for those outstanding pitchers. The rest of the lineup wasn't doing much against them.

@Reddy, you can get me the info for these two, as well.

Amend the bill to take out the increase in military spending. Sure, how about Ocasio-Cortez?

Lauri the troll

Sometimes I forget this happened and feel happy then i remember and feel sad. But, I also thought of this bad joke: Folks, let's hope this guy ReAttrache'd that tendon correctly, whois with me.

I pay light attention to the NBA, mostly because Durant, LeBron and the Heat and GSW have ruined competitive balance for the better part of the decade. I hope that both continue to get roasted for those moves for the remainder of eternity. Basketball used to be one of my favorite sports, but LeBron and Durant have ruined it for me. They're both all-time greats, don't get me wrong but both of them rubbed me the wrong way with their "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" moves.

For both. I know, because that is what it was. Go get a copy of Madden 2002 and Madden 09 and they're both listed at 5-10 in those games. I don't think it was a mistake. I've heard stories of people standing next to both of those guys, actually being 6-1 and towering over them. (especially Grossman)

You pay for a ticket for the game, you pay for a ticket to get in there, and you pay for the food and drink. It's nice, I think they give out the memberships free now to full season ticketholders with premium seats, and it comes out to $3-4 a game for partial plans, and not so premium seats.

The low batting average doesn't concern me as much as the quality. The White Sox are currently 12th in the AL in runs scored and above you are telling me that adding Eloy and having Palka and Narvaez for a full season will be "probably good enough"? Seriously, go compare that to the Red Sox with Betts and Martinez, or the Native Americans with Ramirez, Lindor, and Encarnacion, or the Astros with Bregman, Correa, Altuve, and Springer, that lineup is no where close to on their level next year, not with Eloy as a rookie, he'd have to hit like 2003 Bonds to put us in a sentence with them. You add in Bryce Harper and this still isn't a top 4 offense in the AL. And that's still not even talking about the pitching, and I'll ask anyone out there if they think Rodon and Giolito is a good matchup for Kluber and Bauer or Verlander and Cole and or Severino and whoever or Sale and Price. And then on top of all of that, this team is currently at the bottom of the league in defense which Eloy isn't going to fix, so no it's not "Good enough" for next year. In a few years, with Kopech back and more time to grow for guys, and hopefully at some point a breakout year from Moncada, and the boost from the guys currently down at A-ball, then we can start talking about this being "Good enough". The Free Agent market and Eloy aren't going to take a team that is bottom 6 in offense, defense, and pitching and put them in the playoff conversation. Not next year.

That championship in 2021 going to taste THAT much sweeter.

Yes, that's true, however that seems to be the norm, in this era. Even the good offensive teams don't seem to have very many high average hitters. It's a function of all of the strike outs. It's pretty hard to hit .300, when you strike out 25% to 30% of the time. Even that potent Cleveland lineup, is featuring lots of guys hitting below .275. With so many fire ballers coming out of the bull pens, and the emphasis on homers, there just aren't that many high average hitters, anymore. Among all MLB "qualifiers," there are only 50 players hitting .275 or better. That is less than 2 players, per team.

The Grand Canyon doesn't fucking look real as you're staring at it. Before my dad passed, we had discussed doing a Spring Training trip where we'd fly into Phoenix, catch a couple Sox games, drive up to the Grand Canyon (again), go to the Hoover Dam and go up to Vegas for a couple days before flying out.

I'm still literally sick to my stomach over this even happened. Can this team catch a friggin break once in a while? The only silver lining with this for me is when I look at Dylan Cease.

Fangraphs had a good article a couple of years ago about Kyle schwarber. Prospects with major swing and miss issues on pitches in the zone don’t really get better with time. Moncada has major swing and miss issues. Definitely not what I had hoped for after the hype of the Sale trade.

It should be pointed out that each MLB franchise is going up 10% in value every year. I find it ironic that the two previous White Sox owners (Veeck and John Allyn) were not making any money with the team and couldn't put a winning product on the field because they were going broke. You have a situation now where the team is making money but yet the ownership can't put out a winning product on the field. I honestly wish that the team wasn't making money because if it wasn't JR would sell the team.

Apparently, no one who owns shares of the White Sox are in their right mind. JR, then his heirs, can do whatever they want. What is interesting is when board members die, they are replaced by no one. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/whitesox/ct-xpm-2013-07-28-ct-spt-0728-white-sox-chicago-sports-20130728-story.html

I have always believed and heard from sources that JR has complete, utter control of the team and day to day operations. In fact it is written into his contract that he has a free hand without having to consult the other owners. The other owners can offer opinions and disagree but have limited to no power to do anything about the operations of the club including selling it. JR does not need to gain their approval. I know a few years ago a group of other owners got together and tried to force a sale which was quickly killed by JR.

It is way more important than where the Cubs finish this year... or any year unless we are playing them in the World Series.

The Sox future is not riding on whether they get the 4th pick or, at worst, the 6th pick in next year's draft.

If you are a REAL die hard fan, you value the Sox future over the Cubs failure.

IF you're a diehard White Sox fan, you also hate the Chubs, by definition. It works the other way, also. A much more intense love-hate relationship: Bears and Packers.

Picked up Interpol’s new record, Marauder, on (cream) LP, today at the Reckless on Milwaukee. I’m a huge fan of Interpol, I’ve seen them live a bunch so I was really anticipating this record. On first listen, I really like how raw and aggressive this album is. It was recorded live and straight to analog tape. Their music has been stuck in a mid tempo space for a decade now, so it’s nice hearing some more energetic stuff. I do miss the keyboards though. The best tracks are If You Really Love Nothing, The Rover, Flight of Fancy and It Really Matters.

One thing I was curious about was if radio contracts are guaranteed. The reason being is that Spiegs and Goff has mentioned they were still on the Score’s payroll and were just in the bullpen. I think what’s got to be tough for Spiegs is that he had been on air in the slot for so long that when he was the odd man out he lost his job. Unlike Goff, I don’t think Spiegs had lots of political conversation. They did some discussion after the Las Vegas shooting but that was about it. Goff went after some dumb ass callers over some social issues in which he was right to call out bigotry and racism. I understand it is a sports station, but the anthem discussion and racist tweets have a place in a discussion, especially in the age that we live in. Entercom has 670 and the other stations working in concert to do whatever DeCastro desires. I wish I had a good question to ask about DeCastro to make the hosts uncomfortable about him as their boss, but on the surface McNeil and Parkins are unaffected. I do think Bernstein definitely got neutered with the change, which is too bad because he and Terry were on fire when they were together. At least he is analytical in his older age, Mac seems to have lost a step in his discussions with Parkins. That could also be rust, though. Where’d you see that about Goff? I thought he was contributing to Fox 32 and working on Sirius XM radio.