WestEddy

The team is in first place, and hanging on well. Your need to pretend everything is horrible is the textbook definition of stupid. Even though I'm rooting for Adams and want him to shove in Colorado, you don't seem to be crowing about his last outing. You seem to be as fair-weather about the players you pretend to mourn as you are about the White Sox.

Pham already had 10 seasons of service time. Maybe there's a fraction that gets him over the line for some benefit, which would be thoughtful.

If this is the guy he looks like, he probably doesn't make the post-season rosters. If Cleveland gets too close, maybe they have a quicker hook, or he gets an opener, or something.

I don't really have a problem with picking up Urquidy and Castillo. If one of those guys turns into Fedde, that works. Brazoban - I wouldn't call that a bad trade. Looked good on paper, could still work out. Joey Bart was a good pickup. Doyle, he is an elite defensive CF. Pereira wasn't. Pereira can't stay healthy. Mason Adams and Boston Smith is what guys cost. I think it's silly to listen to what Getz said they were going to do, see the moves he made that were pretty much what they said, then come to the conclusion that he's "flailing" because two guys are injured, and another two are struggling/working through changes.

....But the ink used to sign that contract could have been repurposed somewhere else!!! Getz is so wasteful of the resources he has!!

No, I've always stated 75+, probably around 77-78, and it wouldn't surprise me if they finished better than .500. I was roundly mocked for all of that. Beyond that, I'm not sure what you're taking credit or blaming me for. LOL.

No, I continue to answer the people angry that I'm not joining them in screaming about the trade.

Just a reminder, the Sox aren't losing 90 this year, as many barked out in disgust this last off-season. This crow isn't going to eat itself. Line starts to the right.

Sounds like you all have that covered. You're not teaching anybody anything. I watch the games, I read the wrap-ups. Is there a prize for expressing this more vociferously and quicker than anybody else? Seriously, watching a pitcher get chased in the 4th and then commenting, "boy, this guy sucks" isn't really deep analysis.

What's the fascination with that BS? I'm not a knee-jerk kvetch. That's a virtue.

I'll wait and see instead of believing the guy who thought Vargas was a bench bat, at best.

Not knocking them might sound like "Hey, when nobody gets on base, they still drive in runs!!!"

And everybody complains about the signing of AJ Hinch being overruled. I suppose if the bullpen took over and decided they were going to cheat to win, he'd just roll over again. I guess he'd be good that way.

No.

If they did that, I would.

The consistency is that Jo Adell isn't a CF. Luis Castillo is a starting pitcher. I understand why they acquired Castillo. I wouldn't understand why they acquired Adell.

What are they doing? Running simulations to get odds on the success of different options?

Sure. We just played outside all day, every day in the summer. We didn't really like being inside. Maybe somebody would find his dad's Redd Foxx album, and we listen to that.

Yeah, I'm probably being 'online dude' and digging in on it. But I think I have the history of not really declaring something a win or loss until seeing how it works, some.

I was responding to Falstaff playing outside all the time. Space Invaders and Pac Man hit when I was about 15. Intellivision about a year later, or so. There was nothing when I was under 7-11 y.o. Parents wouldn't really let us off the block, so we either played fast pitch, or wandered through the Kresge's or Goldblatt's on Belmont. Or, if I'm missing by a year or so, nobody's parents bought it for them for us to spend all day inside playing video games.

No. They have to figure him out. Maybe there were more cheap, "plug and play" options, but I get what they were trying to do.

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I believe he earns service time while on the 60-day IL.