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QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Feb 6, 2018 -> 08:59 PM) This site is way more enjoyable if you put this poster on ignore. If he's not a troll, then he's the Soxtalk version of a WSCR caller during Mike North hosted programs. I'm not sure which is worse between a deliberate instigator or a natural idiot, but the "ignore" option keeps me from having to deal with either option. I don't know how you could call a fellow South Sider an idiot but to each his own. I'm just a Sox fan wanting to win.

Bear with me please. Jake Burger is 21 not projected to be a big leaguer til he's 24. The new line of thought is you are washed up after your age 29 season. So Burger has five seasons to do something in baseball. Interesting. The way this is going nowadays, not many ballplayers are ever going to compile Hall of Fame-ish numbers. Players aren't going to be getting started til 24 or 25 minimum and will be considered expendable at 30, 31. How did we get to this point there's such a small window for baseball players? Every ballplayer should be furious at the age of analytics. Killing their checkbooks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 04:57 PM) Well at least we've settled it, Greg is ok with Nassar being let out of jail as long as one parent gets to punch him a few times. I don't think I said I wanted him out of jail. If I did, I apologize. Obviously I want him in solitary 23 of 24 hours a day the rest of his life. Give him one hour a day outside the cell. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 12:00 AM) So why do you want him out of jail so badly? 5 posts in a row: "we get it, but the judge has to keep the extracurricular stuff under control or the case will be thrown out on appeal and he'll be released" The next post by Greg: "MORE EXTRACURRICULAR STUFF!!!" That can only translate as you really, really want him out of jail. Why do you want him out of jail so badly if you're afraid of something happening to your daughter? I don't want him released. His crime is one of the worst in the history of mankind. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 07:07 PM) https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-gre...-143647887.html With the F1 girls now being ended...how long before ring girls at boxing matches or even cheerleaders fall victim to the #metoo movement? What about beauty pageants? The SI Swimsuit Issue? Just curious what everyone thinks. Got to get rid of all of that. No more cheerleaders. No more beauty pageants and no SI swimsuit issue. All must go in this day and age.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 05:18 AM) So that means you didn't care about the policies. Why should any of us care what you have to say about them if you didn't care enough to vote based on them? I did. I just didn't approve of Ms. Clinton. Not a fan.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 05:57 PM) Well at least we've settled it, Greg is ok with Nassar being let out of jail as long as one parent gets to punch him a few times. Can you feel the anger if it was your daughter? Sometimes I feel there's no empathy on here.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 04:57 AM) You liked Bernie, so when he didn't get the bid, you didn't vote for the person closest in views to him that had a chance to win, correct? Correct.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 03:30 AM) No we’re not a closer and a setup man away from competing for the division. That type of thinking is what got us stuck in mediocrity for so long. So you are expecting Cleveland to roll again? I'll never get used to this era where we like losing. Drives me insane. I think not contending in this crap division should be a fireable offense on a yearly basis.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 05:56 PM) Because he was just like you. They're getting gunned down in the streets and you wonder why they're so mad. After all, if you went out and shot a bunch of dogs, other dogs wouldn't be mad at you. They should go sit around and be happy that you've been nice to them once or twice and not complain. Here have a biscuit. That's a good way to shut me up. Write a post I don't understand. Not sure of your point. I thought Bernie's policies would be good as far as social issues which is usually a Democrat strength.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 12:48 AM) This is seriously a cliche at this point. Look, everyone from top to bottom of the organization knows this is still another rebuilding year. The young players will learn, grow and go through rough patches together. You seriously think losses with the bad bullpen blowing the games will break them? In this day and age, wins to a pitchers record is about as meaningless as, well, having a dominate closer on a rebuilding team. If you don't want to watch another long and boring and frustrating season, you should tune away from any Sox games in '18. On the upside? We have stock up both MLB and AAA with hard throwing reclamation projects. With the cost of bullpen arms in the FA market, if we can turn 2-3 of these arms into Kahnle, we will have some cost controlled bullpen arms when we're ready to compete. I don't see why we have to have the worst bullpen in baseball. I mean our division reeks yet we make no attempt to improve the worst part of our team. Nobody's ever said on the record that our goal is to lose all our games. Look, Detroit and KC arguably reek. That leaves Minnie and Cleveland. Cleveland is the cliche. The Indians haven't completed the deal and unless they are like the old Braves may be ready to have a bad year and play closer to .500 than dominating. Minnie isn't for real. They are cheaper than the Sox organization. I contend if we actually had a closer, a setup guy and let either Soria or Nate be the third reliever we might actually win the damn division.

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 3, 2018 -> 04:23 AM) What a colossal waste of money that would be (I know you weren’t suggesting signing him). Cooper may be overrated in some areas, but one area where he’s had consistent success is bullpen arms. We should all know that by now. I love Hahn trying to collect as many lottery tickets as possible for Spring Training, see if you get lucky one 1-2. Waste of money?? Why do we care about Jerry's money for gosh sakes? We need some real bullpen arms. It won't help the confidence of our young players at all if they get us a 6-1 lead and our pen blows it from the fifth inning on every night. If our starters can take a lead into the sixth, how frustrating to have a bullpen thais bad. This bullpen is going to be historically rotten. Nate Jones is an injury waiting to happen and Soria is laughably bad. The other guys? Nobodys on paper. I mean if we're taking all season again, fine, but the worst way to lose is to have the bullpen suck night after night. Makes the games insufferably long and boring and frustrating.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 2, 2018 -> 07:08 PM) It would be one thing if he got to the guy, but he didn't. That monster not only committed these crimes, but has zero remorse for what he did. I hope he fears for his life every minute that he's in prison. Did you see a dad went after the creep today in court? Pretty cool. He asked the judge if he could have one minute alone with Nassar and she said no. So he said, sorry, then stormed Nassar. He got off without being charged with a crime as after lunch he apologized to the court and said he wasn't trying to upstage the victims who included I believe 3 of his family members! I hope the guy gets his 20 minutes of fame at least for trying to punch Nassar. Nassar is such a scumbag.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 2, 2018 -> 08:20 PM) He clearly wasn't given a fair shake. After all, take a look at who voted for him - it was all Obama's voters in anyone who deserves to count. I don't understand why African Americans despised Bernie. Makes little sense. His message wasn't offensive in any way. I feel like Bernie mania would have usurped Trump mania in the long haul.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Feb 2, 2018 -> 09:42 PM) This could turn out to be the worse bullpen in the history of the franchise. Trading David Robertson was nuts. On paper this is a miserable bullpen. Nate and Soria are very bad and they are the best of the bunch. Sign Holland or lose 105 games

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 2, 2018 -> 06:38 PM) You're only looking at one year's worth of data....and even then, his second half was a lot better than his first half, even with a bad September: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/...mp;t=b#all_half I'm just trying to use the same standards regarding Avi and Abreu as Hosmer and Manny. For instance except for Hosmer's defense, Abreu looks like the better employee. Avi and Manny are about the same age and one is considered a god and the other a blah.

What about Manny Machado's stat line last season makes him worth all the money he's going to get? If he has an off year it should be interesting to see the excuses of fans still wanting to pay him 30 mill a year. Last year .259, 33, 95 RBI. His OBP .310 with 50 walks against 115 strikeouts. Since everybody's talking Avi's BABIP, what does Manny's suggest for this year? Decline? Or he's going to be great? I mean I like Machado's traditional stats OK enough. .259 is blah. But at a similar age, Avi hit .330 with 18 HRs, 80 RBI. 33 walks, 111 Ks. Avi's BA was much higher, Manny's HRs and RBIs greater. Manny had more than 100 more at bats. Hosmer, who is considered a god and about to make 20 mill or more year hit .318, 25 HRS, 94 RBI, 66 BBs, 104 Ks. He's about to enter his age 28 season and wants 8 years. Abreu hit .304 with 33 HR, 102 RBI and .354 OBP with 35 walks, 115 Ks and he's entering age 31 season. Arguably he's better production than Hosmer only 3 years older.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 07:43 PM) Yeah for sure. And looking at the free agent tracker, you have Morrison, Melky (teammates seemed to like him), Bautista, Duda, Ethier, and Carlos Gonzalez (rotate between DH and OF) just to name some. I wouldn't mind Davidson getting a chunk of the at bats (he'll still get a decent amount between 3B/1B/DH and based on what other positions a new primary DH can play) but I wouldn't be mad if they signed someone else. Or depending on what else comes over, a deal for Kemp. Good point about Melky. If the Sox truly were going to go after a Kemp-like DH, you'd think they'd just sign Melky for a year or two. It's pretty odd that so many players have yet to sign. It's getting late. Normally teams are pretty set by now, just a couple weeks out. Hosmer and Moustakas need to sign with somebody as well as a ton of other guys as you mentioned. Melky isn't that old and he doesn't have a job yet. I guess there are so many rebuilding teams a lot of veterans are going to be surprised when they get zero offers.

QUOTE (Real @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 01:41 AM) SANDERS didn't have the name recognition nor had the corporate media behind him. We also know that Clinton literally funded the DNC herself and had all of the strings of power. Exactly. Bernie had no chance because accept it or not, the DNC and Hollywood and everybody on the liberal side wanted to coronate Hillary President because it was her time, her turn, her career achievement award. Bernie may have had a tough time winning it all because of the Socialist tag but he wasn't given a fair shake. In a way I don't blame the Democrats. You'd think anybody, any candidate, could beat Trump. So give Hillary her achievement award and let her claim what was rightfully hers in terms of coronation. I think Bernie had time to win more people over and I do think Bernie would have beaten Trump. He had a lot of momentum with the youngsters who loved him. Just as Trump mania was understated in the media, so was Bernie mania. I remember Hillary spoke in KC before the election and they couldn't fill bartle Hall. Half full maybe. Meanwhile Bernie came to Lawrence and the building was sold out and lines around the block. DNC didn't give Bernie a chance to sweep the country with Bernie mania cause of the aforementioned reasons.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 09:27 PM) the replies on Ken Rosenthals tweet about this are so stupid. PEOPLE SHOULDNT BE ON THEIR PHONES THEN THEY WOULD BE FINE. Come on now, little kids have been hit by foul balls and bats, and it has had nothing to do with a phone. True, about the little kids getting hit and others just simply not paying attention. However we could start a whole thread on phones. I drove thru campus today and counted 60 percent of all students were on their phones while walking. Six out of 10 is about right. It's crazy how to millenials and those under 25 how their whole worlds are tied into the phone. It's pretty crazy when six out of 10 students on a very cold day were walking on campus using their phone.

Davidson/Delmonico would make sense, especially if we still are trying to lose. Not trying to be a smart ass. Why add some veteran slugging DH. Let the kids bat and if we lose, we lose. Addendum: (My stance hasn't changed. I like to win, but I've accepted the rebuild).

ESPN the Mag has a good article on Nasser. It seems to me he could have been stopped a long time ago. Very very sad. My heart goes out to the gymnasts and I hope they can go on to lead fulfilled lives despite this creep violating them and removing their innocence as little girls. He is a rat. I don't wish for him to be beaten in prison. I'd prefer him be in solitary forever. Or just one hour a day near people; 23 to think about what he did.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 10:19 PM) Would anyone had noticed if they did this but didn't announce it or put out a press release? That is a fantastic post. Now that I think about it, they should have not even put out a press release. Just don't use Chief Wahoo and move on. Excellent take.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:33 AM) This was exactly what Trump and Fox News (certainly after the bloom wore off the rose in 2010) were calling Obama, or worse. Let's not forget that Trump wouldn't even acknowledge for many years that Obama was an American citizen, nor had he the right to be president. Or the times that they said Obama wasn't patriotic simply because he didn't wear an American flag lapel pin. "THIS GUY" was a much more racist term in many parts of the US that refused to believe that an African-American was in charge of their country for the first time after 220 years of white males. Don't you remember "YOU LIE!!!" being shouted at him during a SOTU speech by Representative Joe Wilson, Greg? Remember I miss some of the political stuff. I thought "this guy" sounded weird coming out of Matthews' mouth. It was like some peon announcer on TV was taking a stand refusing to call Trump the President or by his name. I thought it was disrespectful. Not trying to compare to Obama perhaps because I liked Obama. If you say Obama to me I think "White Sox fan" and I think "class act." He is a classy guy IMO. Say "Trump" to me and really I think of the word "chump." QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 02:37 PM) I think it's time I block greg, his posts absolutely make my blood boil. It is not my intent to anger you. Pardon me for thinking "that guy" was weird on a TV show coming out of Matthews' mouth. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 04:05 PM) You are right greg. People didn't refer to Obama as "this guy". If they had, it would have been a compliment. They called him much, much worse. Then they should be ashamed. At least show some respect to the guy "we" elected. He's the US's president folks. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 04:15 PM) Alot of smart people are saying you will thrive under this policy I still feel many hate me because I speak my mind. The world is round folks. Not everybody is meant to agree with each other. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 04:15 PM) Greg, Every day in office for 8 years, Obama was disrespected by republicans, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh...all of the places you go for a few minutes to see what's up. Did you miss it? He's out of office now, but they still give him crap. Maybe not every day anymore. Trump has blatantly lied more than any other president. Why is it bad to call him out on it? Why do they still give Obama crap for saying "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan". Why is that OK, and Trump's big beautiful wall will only cost $8 billion because that is what he does, and oh by the way, Mexico is going to pay for the wall, and now he needs $25 billion for said wall, which he now admits wouldn't be nearly as long or bold as it was when it was $8 billion, since he went on an expedition and discovered there are places on the border a wall could not be built? Well it's OK to disagree with the President of course. I don't remember people calling Obama names or using the "that guy" routine on him. If Rush was calling Obama names well I don't agree with Rush there. I think we can all agree Obama represented the USA quite well. He never did anything I would consider rude or crude. For that I applaud him. s***, I voted for the guy at least once, maybe both times I forget. Or maybe I sat one of 'em out. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:06 PM) There’s no escaping greg. Even if you block him, you’ll see all the responses to his outlandish posts. The best you can do is hope it’s all an act and try to look the other way. Contrary to popular opinion, I do read the responses to my claims on here. I take them into consideration. If it seems I don't, then my bad. It's just when I post I feel strongly about the subject matter. You must at least give me that. I hold my breath until I become passionate about a post/issue. Why can't you accept my posts and realize they are good intentioned.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:55 AM) Baseball Common Sense 101 tells me when you hit .330 you did a lot right and just didn't get lucky. There's a lot to be said for actually watching/studying baseball. Not to the stat lovers (tell me if I'm not allowed to use term statniks; I prefer that one). It's all about advanced stats and Avi doesn't stack up. QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 12:44 PM) He mainly just got lucky. I watched a lot of White Sox baseball and he got lucky on a lot of the nights I was watching. He was a pleasure to watch hit. He had a clue, folks. QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 02:33 PM) Maybe because he was in better shape his swing loosened up , maybe it got a touch quicker. Maybe his knowledge of how pitchers were approaching him got better . Maybe it was all of the above. These are things you cannot measure .The best hitters are smart hitters to go along with their physical gifts. I like this post. QUOTE (turnin' two @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 03:06 PM) Avi could win the MVP, Triple Crown, cure cancer, dress in tights and fight crime by night and control the movement of the heavens and there would still be people that hate him and think he should do more. This is all I've been trying to say. I just want to feel Avi love on here and I don't. No love for his 2017, just saying he got lucky and he can't do it again and he should be traded. If Avi is a bum this season you can pile on me all you want, but I thought he had a great 2017 with no using the word "but. ...." Now if he reports fat and out of shape, fine, I was wrong about him. QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 07:49 PM) some of us will be right and claiming victory and I'd much rather be right or wrong predicting success rather than failure. I won't claim victory; I just want him to succeed and for the Sox to win big. QUOTE (Tony @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 08:27 PM) We’re all rooting for him. I hope so. I don't feel very much Avi support on here. I think Sox fans on message boards follow the cliche. They are much more excited about unknown prospects even though Avi is in his age 26 season. He turns 27 in mid June. It's like nobody is taking into consideration what he did in his age 25 season as being a huge progression. The same people will make excuses for youngsters struggling in the minors like some of our pitchers and make excuse after excuse for them about how they are developing fine. Well, Avi developed on the big league stage last year. If you watched him, you saw a professional smart hitter who hit a lot of lazers. Instead of laying off the inevitable advanced stat "he can't sustain this!" and just flat out support him, there's too much negativity IMO surrounding the guy. Again I take it all back if he gets fat again. I feel the same way about Abreu. Four incredibly consistent seasons and there would have been more joy than angst had we traded him this winter. By the way I will NOT be rubbing it in if Avi remains excellent this season and I'd appreciate if you all resist the temptations to blast him if he sucks. (Unless he's a fat slob; if he's in great shape like last year, please lay off).

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Jan 31, 2018 -> 06:29 AM) It was available for your consumption and thoughts, yet you wait for the review. Why not just watch it yourself and tell us what you thought? Let me guess, you heard it was great from a ®eal news news source. Chris Matthews disagrees - fake news. Matthews keeps calling him, "this guy." It's funny how cocky some people are. Their candidate didn't win so they don't even recognize the winner as President. When Obama won, nobody referred to him as "this guy." If you are an American you have to admit he's your president at least. We voted him in. So he's the USA president. U live in the USA so he's your president. Trump may be a chump but a lot of smart people are claiming the economy is thriving under DT. If we can get him impeached, fine, go for it. But if not he's still the US president until a scandal arrives that dictates he be removed. Just cause u lost doesn't mean u have to call him "this guy."

Just heard he did a great job on his speech and it was a big hit. Hmmmm ... Chris Matthews disagrees.