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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 04:46 PM) United f***ed over my family and I on our trip two weeks ago. I immediately cancelled my credit card and transferred all points. I'm never using them again. What happened? When you get a chance please tell us. I feel flying United and American is scary bad. Don't like any aspects of it. And Delta.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 7, 2017 -> 02:12 AM) You'd be well served to actually read the posts you quote because you clearly don't, seriously, just give up and move on. Either you're getting your jollies or you're impossibly ignorant. This site has so many good posters who present actual facts to support their arguments and it makes for good discussion then you jump in with a high level, obtuse, oh gosh garbage post, congrats that's around 5000 in a row, you're very gifted at not understanding things. Please just stop. Referencing the fact that people hate your insanely ignorant opinions in 1/3 of your posts doesn't earn you brownie points, you just suck. Please, actually do a modicum of research on ANYTHING or just leave. It's not fun, you're just a nuisance. Literally no one enjoys this s***. If you actually gave a s*** about learning baseball you could have here, instead you just tucked your head up your ass and trolled. Weird post to respond to with a freakout. He is 2 for 31 and you'd think the law of averages would prevent such a slide at this point in the season from a .345 hitter, BABIP be damned. I am an Avi supporter by and large. Weird response from you.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:16 PM) Why is it in North Korea's interest to lob a single nuke our way? They already tossed a bomb w/in 300 miles of Japan. One accident and it hits land and there's immediate response. To answer, their leader is a nut who knows he someday will lose power anyway so why not take us with him to his grave. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:24 PM) We've already got two wars that have lasted well over a decade, cost trillions upon trillions of dollars, cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives and sparked huge refugee crises. Why not add a third? Sometimes you have no choice. Nobody wants war. War may be necessary here or to at least seek out Jon Un, kill him, and hope China and Russia don't bomb us over it. QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:42 PM) The bigger concern is NK selling advanced nukes to rogue groups/terrorists. They don't have the tech yet, but they will eventually. Sanctions haven't work. Global intervention hasn't worked. This faux show of military force hasn't worked. We just need to make a decision - are we cool with NK getting that technology or not? If not, there are difficult decisions to be made that would include military intervention. Great post. This is serious. QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:52 PM) It would be very hard to bankrupt US with a war unless the outcome is China winning and putting onerous requirements on US. If China defeated us in war, would they take over our mainland? Man, that is scary. Can you imagine having to go to some town meeting where the Chinese tell us what's up? And they begin torture, etc? s***. QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:55 PM) Regardless of the cost financially. The large loss of human life is what should be considered when thinking about war with North Korea. Very true. We don't want all those people killed in South Korea (from immediate response) and North Korea (our bombs). But think about it, Jon Un could attack S. Korea at any time and it's on. He could hit Japan with a bomb and it's on. He could blow up one of our ships hovering there and it's on. I think we're closer to catastrophe than anybody thinks. Plus Trump is aggressive. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 09:09 PM) What we have been doing hasn't worked at all. It has still allowed them to keep advancing all of their weapons programs, including their nuclear one. It has been a joke. Exactly. They are the enemy and we must treat them like the enemy more and more. The question is ... do we treat China and Russia as mortal enemies as well? Depends on their response over the N. Korea situation.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 08:10 PM) That's the absolute best way to get people killed. There's no real incentive for NK to launch nukes. Everything NK has ever done has been to stay in power. They've seen other regimes fall without the nuclear safeguard. There's no real incentive for them to fire first. And if they do, there's no guarantee that they'll be able to hit the US mainland, but there is a guarantee that they'd be wiped off the map. Deterrence isn't the sexy option, but it keeps Americans and South Koreans and Japanese and Chinese and even more North Koreans from getting killed. With a guy like Trump in power I think it's sooner rather than later something big happens in North Korea.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 06:23 PM) Just stop it. They may not have value to you, but they may have value to other MLB GMs. Now only time will tell on the latter, but to keep pushing that everyone (outside of DRob & Q) is worthless is simply ridiculous. OK. We shall see how it plays out.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 06:21 PM) Anyone you get for Swarzak is probably a long shot to be an MLB regular. But that is better than nothing, which is what you get if you don't move him. That is really all there is to it. OK. I guess he projects to earn decent to good money in free agency since that appears to be what you are saying. The Sox can't just keep him for scraps I guess.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 08:40 PM) I already called him out for this. If that ain't trolling, then god help us all... All I'm saying is his numbers project well as a catcher, really no where else at this time. He also has a good arm. Do you guys deny all these observations? If he keeps this progression up, he'll be a tad worse than Lexi's career, which I guess is still OK. Lexi was reliable. If Moncada and Anderson are as bad defensively as they appear to be, the Sox could be weak up the middle defensively when they have an MLB big-league roster again.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 07:14 PM) Getting somebody that has the chance of being something on your next competitive team is better than holding onto guys that are impending FAs and will 100% return NOTHING. Pretty simple stuff. My question to you is: Do you really believe these players we mention have a chance of being something on your next competitive team? Is a guy like this going to earn squat in free agency anyway? I guess deep down the goal is to lose so many games there's no doubt who gets the No. 1 overall pick cause you guys certainly want to get rid of anybody with a pulse. It will be funny watching Nate Jones close next season. I can buy your premise if the guys we get for Swarzak have a chance to help a contending team someday but I severely doubt that.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 06:27 PM) I say good for Tyler Flowers. There's guys who haven't panned out elsewhere who have done so with the Sox, and vice versa. Hopefully for his sake he'll get a decent contract and make some nice $ for when he's done playing. I agree. He's already done a lot more than most ballplayers, assured himself a great pension and likely a spot on a big league club for a few more years. Good for him. He's way better than the hacks who have replaced him the last few seasons.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 06:03 PM) THEY. ARE. REBUILDING. But if guys have no trade value do you really need 2 scrubs of return to dump in A ball somewhere and release in 2 years? The Sox have two tradeable assets in Robertson and Q and that's it. The rest will bring scrubs who mean nothing to a rebuild. You guys perplex me.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 06:41 PM) He's just a harder guy to make trade talk fun over compared to others because there is probably a 95% chance I'll have never heard of his return. He'll get something, either a reclamation project or a projectable player with high uncertainty, and those trades can sometimes strike gold. But to be entertained by trade talk with him is mostly just scanning random teams top 12-20 players for a trait you like. Why trade guys who have no trade value? Bodies? Sox need a couple closer candidates this year and next or they'll win even fewer than Hawk's coveted 60 games. Nate Jones is NO CLOSER. I don't think the draftniks want the sox to lose 115 games but maybe they do.

I think personally it's time for an official warning. We tell China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea that if there is one more missile test, we will be dropping 3 bombs on North Korea, hopefully where Kim Jon Un is residing. We tell S. Korea to take the necessary precautions. We tell Americans in South Korea it might be wise to get the hell out of there. We cannot risk this any more. The last bomb can reach U.S. soil. We have not developed technology apparently to blow up the bomb in the sky. What else can we do? War sucks but if China and Russia won't get him to stop this nuclear bulls***, we have to try to take out the North Korean president. Otherwise he will lob a nuke at Alaska and eventually our mainland. Do you agree?? They are leaving us with no options.

QUOTE (harkness @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 05:28 AM) 1-5 against oakland... a good thing i guess... It's great if you want your team to be considered the laughing stock of baseball, the biggest joke of a franchise in the AL. San Diego is worse in the NL.

Rabbit's posts don't bother me. I can't think of any that have angered me. The White Sox anger me. The posters don't.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 07:41 PM) Nope. Are you as worried about the 15 other major cities that are more violent or nah>? Chicago better get a better PR department if it's actually one of the safer cities. Because Chicago is the city that is getting the mention as THE most violent city. Trump just sent in 100 experts or something like that to help cure the problem.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 04:18 AM) Is that still you? Has someone hijacked your account? A bot? I always praise their work. I was just as negative as ever in the post IMO.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 6, 2017 -> 03:36 AM) Very likely it won't be anyone near top 10 Exactly. If you were fan of a buyer, would you accept your team acquiring Melky Cabrera? There's absolutely no reason to acquire him. He'll kill a contender defensively and he's an average hitter. He's not exactly fast either.

Phenomenal article. It does make me feel a little better about that horrific start. But the article and the video inside the article were masterful. Hopefully he'll be a good pitcher and Rodon will be as good as he was last start. The sooner we can get rid of Shields, Holland and Pelfrey the better.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 11:28 PM) Eh they're just not good. Does lately include the 2 recent walk offs ? They're playing the same way they have all year. Bad starting pitching and always playiing catch up is difficult. Really bad baseball team. The starting rotation itself is why we're guaranteed last place. The lineup as well. If not for all the bombs (thanks baseball for juicing the ball and good job uppercutting Davidson, Abreu, Melky, Avi, et all) we'd be assured 110 losses. The lineup has been powerful enough to prevent an historically bad season. It's still gonna be very bad though. I can't believe a team can trot Holland, Pelphrey and Shields out there regularly and not lose 110 games.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 07:32 PM) I remember when Sox fans used to say that a playoff appearance was enough. Then it became a World title would be enough. Now they have to win every single year. Knowing this fan base, they would turn into the Atlanta Braves who didn't even sell out playoff games. I think Sox fans would be like Blackhawks fans. Very excited, very very excited to win it all and have three parades in a short period of time. Then be extremely disappointed but understanding after an early exit like this season. Nobody calling for coach's head or blasting anybody incessantly for the first-round loss. I think if we won all those titles we'd be good fans like Blackhawks fans. The Sox current problem is so many lousy years following the 05 title. I mean the 05 title was something everybody still appreciates, but at the same time, the team imploded so quickly and currently is so bad it's difficult to be a good fan. This team is only 7.5 games out. It wouldn't have taken much to contend. But the front office has been so bad they decided to do a slow rebuild at a bad time. Again, it's so easy to contend nowadays and this organization is so far from contention it's sickening. Cheers to 05. Yes. But fans have the right to be despondent at what happened since then.

So 100 people shot over the long 4th of July weekend in Chicago; 15 are dead. Rather than go on a rant about this (I think you all know I am capable of such a rant right now with five or more paragraphs freaking out about this), I would like to ask YOUR reaction. I am sad, first of all, and appalled, second of all and will spare you my angry rant. But cmon. This is ridiculous stuff. Cops say much of it was gang related. I don't like it; the country and world, really, think of Chicago as a horrible warzone. If you want my rant I'll come up with one, but please, what can be done about this??? Is Chicago truly done as a great city because of this bulls***? Are the gangs escalating to the point they will be running all parts of the city before long? Prayers for the deceased and their families. Shaking my head at the horror of 4th of July weekend in the great city of Chicago.

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 05:36 AM) Jerry would die by rage if the Sox handed the Cubs a world series. The Cubs already won one. That was the unthinkable. it doesn't matter how many they win now. Q would help them IMO get their act together. they are going to win that division. Q would be the spark they need and they could give us 3-4 GREAT prospects that help us. We give them a division title and likely repeat WS and they re-boost our team's future.

If marist and mcauley are safe, what about Bro Rice? Is it safe?

With Avi under .320 and looking like the old Avi, I bet you Hahn would trade him. The question is who wants him? Who trusts that Avi has turned a corner?

I don't really care about the upcoming 2 trades but I will say this. Robertson and Q are the keys to two teams' seasons. If the Royals acquired Robertson, they would win the WS again. Royals move their current closer to the 8th and Robertson the ninth and cover the seventh with whomever. Cubs win the WS with Q. He's a perfect fit. he'd stay in Chicago, be comfy and be perfect for that club. Neither will happen, but just saying. If we truly want to fleece somebody and get some prospects I'd trade Q to the Cubs for 4 prospects and Robertson to the ROyals for Bubba Starling and 2-3 others. Maybe Mondesi.