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I was thinking the exact same thing Soxfest! Great post. I was thinking, man I'd hate to have tickets the night he is scheduled to start. He's pretty deficient.

Lopez looks like a flop, hate to say it. Dropped him from all my fantasy teams a couple starts ago. Haven't studied him enough but he sort of blows.

I"m team "White Sox." Never was in favor of tanking.

We definitely have a handful of outstanding players. Lot of work to be done to fill in the holes. Great nucleus though, assuming Timmy's injury was a fluke and he'll stay healthy and Eloy and Moncada stay healthy. Ricky has some pieces to work with. Two outstanding starters right now and one outstanding closer.

What's wrong with Eloy in LF? I see him playing there a long, long time.

How often does that happen? Getting traded is a deep insult to a player. They never immediately return. The commissioner in fact would probably nullify it via collusion. There's no wink, wink like "See you in a couple months, Jose. You'll be back with us next season for sure." It's a deep pain in that you've been traded. You peeps that want to trade Jose slay me. He turns 33 in January. Even if he suddenly hits .150 during his year 33 season, I hope he gets to count a lot of Jerry's money in the future. He's earned it. Sox fans that want to trade Abreu have no concern about clubhouse leaders and fan favorites and intangibles. If we ever make the postseason again, part of the dream of the team will be to get Abreu a ring. Trade him and have no veterans and no leaders and see how far you go. "Let's win Palka a ring, fellas! Let's win McCann a ring! That's the ticket."

If you don't believe in the intangibles of sports and what it means to have an established star, I can't help you. You don't fricking trade Jose Abreu, the heart and soul of the fricking team. If you do, you deserve last place and I mean that. At some point, cold hard stats have to be balanced with common sense.

I'd like to see him go to Gio's high school coach and re-work his delivery. Don't like it. Too many meatballs served up.

This is not a tough decision. You keep one of the best players in your team's history. Geez.

Good job Jose! Way to end it. You sir, are a star! I wonder if there's an advanced stat that gives him credit for that clutch hit. He goes down low and pops it into the seats. Stud!!! Sox win two. Cease and Jose.

Jose Abreu!!! Rather than gloat for myself as I worship Jose Abreu, let me congratulate him on that bullet into the seats and this abovementioned accomplishment. All-Star electors knew what they were doing. Jose Abreu, take a bow baby! You are a true pro and a star!!! Sox win; Jose deserves a beer or three!

Would be nice to sweep this crap team.

I'd take one win from Jon Jay's bat before he's in my rear view mirror. Get on base.

Let's win it for Cordell. He's stepped up in Game 2 as well as Game One.

LOL. You ever heard of a compliment as in "Jack you obviously are a good person." Only you mods who despise me could ever take this comment by me and turn it into a despicable comment. I wrote: "You must be the pride of your parents cause many/most? 19 year olds want to sleep a lot later than you do. You get up early to get to work every day by 8:30 I'd assume. Where do you park in the big city?" I call him the pride of his parents and that's bad. I qualify it as many/most? in terms of 19 year olds wanting to sleep. So would you have been happy if I took out the most with a question mark? Just say you hate me and be done with it. Your examples are silly at best. Now I'm accused of "generalizations." On an opinion board which is made up of lots of generalizations.

All of the time? Here we go again with misconstrued generalizations and inaccurate character assassination statements. I defy you to find a more polite person/poster than myself when I am actually addressing others. Cite specific instances and dates of posts. You may say I generalize about "stat people" or "advanced stat people." I think I have a large sample size of advanced stat people's comments to realize they don't give a flip about RBIs or batting average or wins/losses of pitchers. Or save totals. Those aren't generalizations.

Out.Of.Line. A non slanderous post would be that I remember when I was 19 wanting to sleep til noon during the summer. Hmmm some people can't help blasting others I guess.

Leury, however, has been a nice find. Leury is just a tad shy of .300 and is a likeable, fairly productive player.

It seems like half the home games in Chicago and also KC either have a great chance of rain or it rains. Cmon environment, wake up. It's summer.

You must be the pride of your parents cause many/most? 19 year olds want to sleep a lot later than you do. You get up early to get to work every day by 8:30 I'd assume. Where do you park in the big city? Hang in there, Jack. Sounds like a fairly difficult time of your life. Hopefully you'll find something great before long.

Jack you are obviously a good person so please don't be offended. You seem open thus I was curious about a couple things. Don't answer if you feel the least bit sensitive or offended. I was wondering living with your folks in your 30s ... how that works. Do you have to pay rent? Can you eat their food like we did as kids or do you have to fill the fridge once in a while with your own money. Do you have your privacy? Your own set of keys, etc? Who gets to park in the garage in the winter? Take care. I wish u luck in finding work. Since you have some problems with traditional jobs could you open a pet sitting service? Or something like that? Or figure a way to make money as an Uber driver?

You come in at 7:30 and work til 4:30 so you are a reliable employee. You are still starting a half hour earlier than most folks. I thought 19 year olds were not into such regular hours? Not blasting you in any way just wondering what is up.

Sickening. All things considered, including the fact the Sox play in an awful division, it has been an embarrassing decade. No doubt the Sox need a new owner with deep pockets and new front office and new instructors. Our organization is truly one of the worst in baseball. It's be OK with me to fire all of them except Hahn. Get rid of KW. Hahn of course gets a lifetime pass IMO cause of Eloy and the fact he's not truly in charge. KW and Jerry obviously have a huge say in roster.

I'm thinking some veteran out of work managers and GMs would love to see what they can do with a team with a handful of stars like Gio, Cease, Colome to start with on the mound as well as Tim, McCann, Abreu, Eloy, Moncada, Robert and Madrigal in the everyday lineup. I think Ricky is OK but cmon, take the talent we have, grab a couple good free agents and start winning this weak division for say, 10 years in a row.

Great post. I get most upset when the advanced statters seem to get all worked up the most about how bad Jose is when his batting average starts to dip to .250 or below. It seems that wakes them up. So they ARE looking at batting average. Interesting.