WestEddy

Or that it was crazy to trade Mead because everybody knew he'd wRC+ 143 by the end of May. LOL.

Rikuu not losing that number!!!

Here's your sentence, Jack: You're insinuating that being elated to be competing is cancelled out by a low payroll. That you'd be at a ballgame and wouldn't even make a sound during a walk-off victory, because nobody on the team has a large enough contract. You just make these weird-ass arguments about nothing. Yes, it would be better to be paying Merrill Kelly $20M to suck than to pay Anthony Kay $5M to actually be a league average pitcher. If only they had a Chris Davis or two on the team so we can really enjoy some baseball payroll. Sheesh. 19 players on the 26-man aren't even in arbitration, yet.

Strange. I don't know too many people whose enjoyment of a winning team is ruined by fixating on the payroll. Would it make you happier if they paid Acuña, Fedde and Osvaldo Bido $30M each? LOL.

Yeah, good on them. They did a lot better than I would.

Bobby Thigpen had a pretty bad year in 1992. That Sox team only used 13 pitchers all season. 1992 Chicago White Sox Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I'd love to see him wind up on a team like Arizona and just crank for the rest of the season.

I preferred his "I'm the only one here smart enough to have an opinion" HBO special.

Mune could have a good half dozen new hand-shake routines to learn by then.

Well, back then, guys sat out with "consumption", or "the bends".

Yes, being in market research for close to 20 years will give one an understanding of statistics.

Speaking of whom, we should probably be getting any kind of news about his status today. He was DFAed on the 25th, they have 5 days to trade him. If he passed through waivers, I'd think that would happen in a couple of days.

It's only 4 starts, but Framber's career ERA in Rate Field is 4.44, and has a 1.438 WHIP over 24.1 IP.

Yeah, the 10-run wins and losses are kind of the outliers. RD was -31 after 6 games. That puts them +32 over the next 51 games.

White Sox reliever Jordan Leasure will be shut down for at least eight weeks - Chicago Sun-Times

me·di·ocre adjective mediocre (adjective) - of only average quality; not very good: I wouldn't call a team that has top 3 players at 3B and 1B, 6th best SS, and a top 10 CF "mediocre". Their record projects to 85 wins. That's a lucky week from the playoffs. The Sox also project to have over a third of the roster clear 2 fWAR. That's good.

The guy was all over everybody for the lack of Lenyn Sosa love last season. I guess crowing about Lenyn's 30 wRC+ in Toronto isn't part of the genre.

You know, having two nickels to rub together seems to be a bare minimum.

I'm getting drunk enough to get wispy watching that.

I hope it's so bad the Sox can sign him to a 15/$15M contract. Then they cure him.