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Man, you are a great poster. I endorse this post completely! Your second to last sentence is my biggest beef with "many" message board fans. I suspect if you are in the stands at a game at The Cell, you'd find 24,000 fans very very pleased with Abreu and wanting to keep him and pay him some dough. On here? Not so much. This sentence of yours belongs in the message board hall of fame. You wrote: "You guys were willing to give a total dick like Machado over 30 million a year for 10 years, but now you're wanting to nickel and dime a loyal soldier who has been here for the worst of the rebuild?" Lovely sentence! I suspect not many posters are sentimental enough about a loyal soldier like Abreu to agree with you, but I do!

I worship this poster! Fantastic post SI1020!

Give him the going rate for 33 year old guys who are productive but not among the top 15 hitters in the game. In other words, give him a lot more than 8 mill. I'd sign him 3 years for 36 million (it's Jerry's money folks) or 40 million. If it were the NBA I'd give him two years 26 million with a team option for year three. Baseball doesn't do that team option thing, right?

If we do have to trade him cause of rebuild-happy fans' demands, trade him to a team that will let him play in the field if that's what he wants. I don't blame him. DH is for fat guys or at least lazy guys. Abreu is no ballerina at first but I've seen worst first basemen. His weakness is he blows when he has to dart to both his left and right. I'd give him a C and could accept a grade of C- or B-plus for his defense at first but he's better than a D IMO.

One thing I got out of this game, you people that want Eloy to DH are insane IMO. He's going to be average to fine in LF. Maybe his arm blows ... we'll have to live with that. Johnny Damon played with a noodle arm forever. There's absolutely no reason to stash Eloy at DH. Also, Lopez appears to be blah at best. Bullpen for him it looks like unless Coop can fix him. Eloy is having a helluva rookie season.

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.