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To those of you who want to trade Abreu: My guess is you are worried about his age pure and simple. Anybody over 30 nowadays is over the hill in baseball jargon. It's sad, really. New ideas about tanking and players being on the decline after 30 are very bizarre. NFL? Yes. It used to be in baseball you could hit until you were 38-42 in many cases. Julio Franco?? Many Hall of Famers. Now? We have a good portion of our fan base who would be thrilled to dump Abreu. I hate to tell you folks: If we ever win the WS we are going to need a few White Sox veterans. We're not going to win it with all young-uns. And it'd help to have some guys who have worn the Sox uniform for a while.

How often does that happen?

Hmmm ... I always enjoy the SNL openings when they are about Trump. Alec Baldwin is a genius playing Trump. It's impossible to be that good of an actor. And I love Kate McKinnon doing all sorts of characters. But this week Stormy Daniels, the real one, was actually on the show. WOW! I wonder if this was appropriate. She is a bonafide porn star on TV. WTF? I don't think SNL should have put Stormy on TV. Couldn't somebody have played the part? They brought in several celebs for the skit like Martin Short, the guy from the Fockers series, Jimmy Fallon. Why the real Stormy??

To the attorneys on here ... Cosby will be sentenced in July. What do you think his sentence will be? Remember he is old. He is not healthy. Now this is for one case, but will the judge pull an O.J./Vegas verdict and nail him for all the other alleged Cosby crimes that could not be tried? I personally think he will get a year in a country club jail/facility. The judge pretty much has to give him jail time, lest the judge be attacked from all sides. However, the judge if the judge goes by her/his sworn oath has to sentence him for ONE CASE. In other words, probation could be possible IMO. Remember this is an old guy, not some young guy. His life is basically over. However, his crimes are heinous. This is a tough call, folks. I think all things considered, he gets a year in jail. If I'm out of line, sorry. I would not be against him getting 10 years no chance of probation. I'm just at a loss for words on this one. I submit to the attorneys on here to give us a Cosby sentence. Thank u.

If we trade Abreu, I will either a.) abandon my Sox fandom or b.) simply cry and get that over with.

Me too. I LOVE Cooper's "mean" comments all the time. I do love the guy. He doesn't suffer fools. He'd hate a guy like Greg. Kudos to Coop. That said ... the reason some fans (and I'm glad to see a lot of board newcomers join me in hating on Hahn and Kenny) doesn't embrace the rebuild or trust the process is it didn't have to be this painful. OK, some of you want THE Nos. 1 or 2 pick which we appear destined for the next 2 years. Some of us don't think there's that big a difference between 2 and 8 or 10. Granted, the idea of No. 1 or 2 now does intrigue me, since our team blows so much. However some of us contend the baseball draft is much different than NFL or NBA. Way more busts. Finally to conclude this point, some of us would prefer the Sox did not save all this cash last offseason. Had they acquired Moustakas, which was easily attainable; had they acquired GOOD relievers not ones named Soria; had they acquired one good veteran starter not named Shields. All it was gonna cost is a few bucks and it wouldn't be THIS painful. We might even sniff .500 which means sniffing the playoffs. All it meant was to spend like a big-city team should spend. So do I trust the process? No. If you held a gun to my head, I would say Eloy, Moncada, Timmy and Kopech are can't miss prospects. I have a good feeling about Cease. But do I think Robert, Rutherford, Burger, Collins, et. all are locks to be good to great, no. If they are great, I will celebrate. But I have the right to be a demanding fan. Kudos to 2005! Bah humbug to the crap we've endured the last few seasons, including this one.

If the knee thing is true, it would be BEST to get it scoped or operated on NOW before he starts to age. Seriously. Assess the knee and if he needs to be Embiid-ed, go for it. Eloy is a big man. A huge prospect. If he has "knee issues" Sox better act now or soon.

I like this Fan O'Faust. He can be my spokesman anytime.

I love Wimpy. I love Hawk. But the "know it all" Hawk of the past two seasons has been annoying. He reminds me of a grandpa who is right by gawd and he says his comments forcibly and you dare not disagree.

I'm sure it's against baseball unwritten rules to ask managers about bunting philosophy. They can show RR all the advanced stats in the world and he'll consider them I'm sure, but tell him the advanced stats say never bunt, I bet even RR would blow a gasket and probably resign if they told him he couldn't advance runners via bunt. What a sport.

Great post. Great post. I applaud the Sox for 2005. I give them credit for that. But this current crap is beyond belief. It's insulting to try to lose. It's obvious Hahn "wink win commissioner" built this team to lose. Any of us could do that. Any of us could get our underlings to draft the best available player. I'll give them credit over the average fan in getting Moncada and Eloy. Nice job there. And Kopech. Good job. I'm not convinced any of the other guys will lead us to greatness. I hope so. We shall see. All I know is the current product is crap. People ask me about the years before the rebuild and if I was OK with that. No I wasn't. And I also blame the front office for that. They are the ones who acquired hacks like Dunn and too many guys to mention who were stiffs.

So all the advanced stat books say teams should never bunt. We bunt all the time. What does that tell you? RR is doing it to help the tank? Or RR likes the bunt?

It's not supposed to. We are supposed to lose. Team wants to lose for top draft pick.

Sox are what the doctor ordered for the lousy Twins. They should have won all 4 games as I predicted. Sox have an abysmal ballclub. Good fans though. Big crowd.

As a regular attendee I thought I'd ask. Do you mind the high prices while watching that crap? Or are you OK with it all?

To be fair, it's all about Hawk right now. Hawk would be crabby with Wimpy on a regular basis, too. I think Stone is really good.

I still say it would be tough to hit and be a professional hitter when the team is this bad. Unless it's been thoroughly explained to players: "Look guys we know we will have one of the worst seasons in Sox history, but that's OK. We want you to approach each at bat like it's the WS." I'd think that'd be tough to do but I guess the Cub hitters maintained focus when they sucked and the Astro hitters too. So maybe I'm wrong.

He needs to go. The first one to get the heave ho. Tonight's lineup blows by the way.

Nor should there be any fans. Look, this product costs MONEY for fans to watch. If a mom and dad take 2 kids, those kids want to drink those 10 dollar cokes and have 10 dollar cotton candy. And dad wants a 10 dollar beer and mom a 9 dollar hot dog. The fans will return when we get good. Until then, they can't expect anybody to come watch this crap.

The right owner buying this team would add a lot of excitement/hope to the south side. Jerry gave us one title; wish he'd sell to somebody with lotsa cash willing to spend it feverishly.

No Tray, any suggestion of bringing up prospects is met with pure disdain on this site. Nope. Nobody wants to see any of the core rebuild guys for some time to come.

At least Santiago is a big league caliber pitcher unlike most of the guys on our staff. Doesn't mean he'll win, but he's a legit big leaguer for sure.

Wow. That's putrid.

They love him because we are rebuilding. Rebuilding is fun. No pressure on a fan. We can lose, lose lose and when Cub fans mock the Sox, we can say, "Hey we WANT to lose. We want to get the best draft picks we can." This rebuild stuff has made Hahn so popular. Benetti said on a podcast Hahn was the most popular person at Soxfest. Fans were just simply worshiping him. The Hahn lovefest will continue forever. If the Sox in 2020 suck they can just say the rebuild is taking longer than we thought. Plus the key players in the rebuild have all the time in the world to get good. Nobody better criticize our young guys until their fifth season in the bigs. Even then I'd bet people will not criticize the key pieces of our rebuild if they are struggling. My point? Hahn should be walking on eggshells and he's not. He's one of the most popular peeps in modern White Sox history.

Sox lineup blows. How big a crowd to see that lousy game?