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Lol you guys are nuts. Bennetti one of the best play by play guys in all of sports. The anti-benneti stuff by some is comical and just shows sox fans will b**** about anything.

Benetti is not funny. He gets lucky and says something funny 1 out of 50 times.

That's because you're a nerd.

You actually tuning into the game this time or are you doing your usual spouting just because?

Cycle watch! Go Yoan

Another home run for Jose! He’s so hot the last two months

38 days after Ron did a victory lap while dancing on Jose’s grave and essentially called him utterly worthless, he now comes back with Jose is worth maybe 18 million dollars next year.

Houston has lost 20 games at home and Giolito pitched a CGSO there.

You can hope all you want but awful cheesy jokes have always been his gimmick/schtick. I don’t see him changing regardless of the Sox record.

I guess I love that Masur is always ready and prepared to call the game. He doesn’t miss calls / plays. He is all business which allows Stone to add the analysis. Benetti will miss calls telling his stupid stories and jokes.

He is vanilla. He could add a bit of flair. I agree. But it’s better than overdoing the ridiculously corny jokes non freaking stop all game, every game. It isn’t funny, it is old and boring.

Yoan: .307 .363 .539 137 wrc+ wow.

All I need to hear to know this guy is better than Benetti is both of them. ?

He is way better at college football games. This dude tonight puts him to shame AT BASEBALL. He calls the freaking game properly and he interacts perfectly with Stone without ridiculously cheesy pre-school jokes.

Benetti’s stupid corny jokes being deflected by Stone’s dry humor and sarcasm can only last so long. I love this combo.

It's shocking how bad he is making Benetti look tonight. Even Stone has been very good with him.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. He is mostly all business and informative without the awful corny jokes.

This PBP guy is outstanding. Can we get this guy instead of Benetti please?

Timmy can smell that batting title.

Tough crowd here. Engel gets an LOL for a home run and a "does it really matter" and Jose gets total crickets for homer 33 and RBI 113. U guys baffle me.

I will believe Yolmer is gone when I see it.

Cole wins his 17th and his ERA is down to 2.62. He is pulling a Castellanos. We have no shot at either guy.

Moncada hitting .305 with a .898 OPS right now. Amazing

He’s going to be their 4th outfielder next year. Just starting being at peace with it.

Mendick is ending Yolmer’s Sox career and I love it.

Madrigal + Cruz as a teammate = Altuve ?

Collins and Covey are not major leaguers.

Gordon only wants to play for KC. Switch him out for Calhoun and the rest is fine and within the $ parameters you set. I particularly think Grandal would fit great. Need two of those starters and at least two solid RP.

I can't believe people are penciling in Collins for the 2020 25 man roster. For what? What has he proven while he has been up? He is a butcher behind the plate and has not shown he can hit above the Mendoza line. Let him catch the rest of the games this season and have the opportunity to prove otherwise.

Not sure what you mean by "weird". His players like him and he has produced results. He is light years ahead of Ricky. I'd easily prefer him over Omar and Ricky. I'd probably take him over Girardi as well.

100% agree.

Fitzpatrick is a stud and will easily replace Prince (or Ha Ha) next season. I get where you're coming from in regards to Pace giving away picks, but this deal would be similar to Mack to me.. getting impact talent in their prime (Fitz is only 22). Bears are likely taking a DB next year in the draft with an early pick anyways.

That's a bad idea because the draft pick is fool's gold and that AAV is 200% too high even at 1 year. Teams will just wait like they did this year until after the draft to sign him. And Jose and his agent know that. Oh, I see you just posted that as a follow up. This is the most obvious team friendly low ball scenario imaginable. Offer him 1 year, 1 option year. AAV around 9-11 million. He won't get better than that on the open market.

I don't think he would get offered a QO. If he is offered a QO, 1 of 2 things happens: 1. he accepts or 2. he rejects and re-signs for less than the QO on a one or two year deal. No team is going to give up draft pick for him.

Like with any young man it's never about knowing "exactly what that is" . It's about not knowing exactly what that may become. Chances of AVi becoming anything special are slim as they are with any 27 year old with as many AB's as he already had, But rebuilds are supposed to keep the guys with some potential and not give them up and replace them broken down 34 year olds and a handful of never was'es who didn't process half of Avi's talent.

Seriously? In the game "he won" they beat the worst team in football & he was 10-27 with 68 yards, 0 TD's and 5 INT's. In the NFCCG he was 0-4. Yeah I'm bewildered how they "blew" that game with such a presence at the helm.

Just from looking at your long-ish post on the last page, where you talk about being stuck, I really agree. I've been there too. I came home from Afghanistan six years ago last Saturday. I didn't really want to be full-time in a peacetime army, so I decided to get out and remain in the National Guard in case any action came along again. I didn't know what to do at that point- I majored in criminal justice in undergrad so I thought about being a cop, but I also considered firefighting and air traffic control and teaching. I was truly all over the place! I eventually settled on teaching. I did that for a few years and even got a master's in educational leadership. I then spent a year and a half doing a stateside mission for the guard, and now that is ending. I am freaking out about going back to teaching but my optimism about this business assuages me a bit. I know I can build it up on the side, until it becomes my primary focus, and then I can phase out teaching (and all "normal employment") entirely. It's a little strange knowing that, once I succeed in business (there is no if, only when), my educational pursuits will prove to have been mostly pointless. My wife and I fumbled along, mostly paycheck to paycheck with a little padding in a savings account and nothing going for our retirement, until we sold our house for a massive profit last year. I don't think we even realized what an asset we were sitting on until the check was deposited in our bank account. We had bought that house easy because we didn't need to put any money down because of the VA loan. So we paid off debts, poured money into savings, started IRAs for both of us, and made our current investment based on that. I could have enlisted with no college degree and never have gotten a master's and found more or less the same benefit. My parents pretty much expected me to go to college, and while I enjoyed it, I think it's a valuable teaching point for my own young children that it's not absolutely mandatory for success. Hell, it's a decent lesson for as long as I teach, too. We need to get away from the four-year-college mindset and encourage people to do what suits them. There are multiple pathways to success. I didn't mean for this to be some sort of bio, but the point of all of this is that you can't get too set on any one path. It is OK to walk a certain direction for some distance, then turn around, retrace your steps, and sprint off down another path. I don't want to make assumptions about anyone else's position, but I know this is something I've struggled with in my career confusion. I've got a master's in educational leadership, I need to be an educational leader! That's what I'm working towards! Well, bro, that degree isn't going anywhere- you can come on back if you want later. This other thing might be so much bigger, go and give it a damn shot already. If tearing down the canvas that you already have is what leads to your true masterpiece, then fucking do it. Don't be afraid. Another thing- it is never too late. Personally, I am a big admirer of Winston Churchill. I'm currently reading his biography, The Last Lion. It consists of three volumes, and volume 3 is subtitled Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965. At the end of volume 2, it's May 10th, 1940, and he finally gets the call to become Prime Minister. Up to that point, he was known mostly for conceiving the disastrous Gallipoli campaign and really, really hating Nazis. If he had up and died on May 9th of that year, he'd be known by serious students of British history and no one else. He was 65 years old at that point. His entire legacy centers around things he did after an age that you or I or Jack won't hit for another three decades. So if you want to scribble everything out and start over, get started! There is no such thing as stuck or too late, unless you allow it. Last point I'll make, lest I sound rambling- a few months ago, a guy we reached out to on Craigslist came over to my house to pick up some old furniture that was clogging our garage. I wasn't there but he made some comments to my wife about my Jeep, which I'm trying to sell, and he asked my wife if he could contact me. I figured he was interested in the car so I said yes. The next day, he called me and started talking about his great business opportunity. I asked what his business was, and he immediately ranted to me about the employee mindset that was destroying all of our dreams. Now I feel sorry for a guy who has to cold-call other guys who gave him a free dresser via the internet to lure them into shitty MLMs, and I let him down promptly and politely, but his point wasn't all that bad. The timing was terrible, and you really shouldn't go into philosophical diatribes in response to simple inquiries about what your business sells, but he was technically right- you don't need to work for anyone else. Jack is, by his own words, highly intelligent. You, Beast, seem like a talented individual. I know damn well that I am gifted. Why should my efforts primarily reward other people? I made that exact point when I introduced myself at this meeting today and they asked why I got into this investment- I said that after years of service to others, it was time for my talents to work for me, my wife, my kids. It's terrifying in a way- if you think job applications are tedious or interviews are nerve-wracking, then dumping thousands of dollars of your own money or obtaining financing is infinitely more so. But it gives you freedom and dignity in a way that working for a fixed wage and needing a union to protect your right to take a shit on the clock could never hope to do. The optimism I'm feeling these days as my plan increasingly comes together is one that I don't think I've yet felt as an adult. I hope this reads as helpfully to you and anyone else as it does in my head. If you want precise details on what I'm investing in, I'm happy to share via PM.

Agreed. It could mean he needs another world series now, it could mean he wants to maximize the valuation of the franchise, it could mean literally nothing.

In this scenario, I would say the problem is with nagy. So far he has said that the special team coach told him not to kick a field goal and the low number of carries was because trubiskey checked out of runs and that he didn't say anything to him about not talking to the press. He is getting good at passing the blame.

I'm not sure why you and every other dope are making this into such a big deal. Trubisky said it while grinning and the entire media room laughed. He went on to answer not only that question but every question about the Packers game. This is a non-story.

“Decent” offensive producer?? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think like 2 White Sox players in my lifetime have over 20 WAR in six consecutive seasons, Frank and Mags. Paul Konerko never even came close over any six consecutive seasons. And that WAR number is including Jose’s defense.

That would probably mean no mega-deal this year though. I find it hard to believe you'd be OK with that.

Defensively, he is really good with pop ups and really good throwing to 2nd base on DP attempts. Everything else, he is horrific. But the bat isn't nearly as dead as some here have reported.

I know, that would just be malarkey.

Didn't we answer this question somewhere else in the thread ? Anyway someone answered it and basically it was a non issue at least for public consumption. Puig should not be in consideration. He marches to his own beat , doesn't listen to coaches, runs when he thinks he should run , misses cut off men. Not a good choice.

He doesn't even hit for enough power to be a supersub on good teams nor is he good fundamentally. The Leury's of baseball will always be there. There is no reason for him to be in the conversation.

He has a 82 wRC+ with a BABIP 24 points above his career average this season. Garcia is nothing more than a super sub on a good team.

I wouldnt touch gennett.

A lifetime contract is nice and all, but anything short of a statue at the stadium is a disgrace. He deserves to be right there next to Big Frank