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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 06:04 PM) The latest BENGHAZI! investigation report was released today. Shockingly, it found pretty much no new information and nothing important after 2 years. The government is so corrupt you thought they'd get Hillary on something there? I love listening to Jesse Ventura talk about America. He was a loyal Navy Seal who believed in government. He points out how corrupt it all is with politicians getting paid off. After Ventura won he said he'd meet with no lobbyists because they didn't give him a cent during his campaign and didn't need to listen to anybody cause he wasn't bought. Just the amounts of money Hillary got for speaking, one big lol and to the companies she'll be doing favors for. She's "raised" more money for her campaign than Bill Gates is worth (well, almost). I can't believe there are Hillary supporters out there still. I was reading an Internet ad for Hillary. Somebody was saying they'd vote for her cause she has a big heart. What?? Where do they come up with these things. She's the definition of selfish elitist and she has a big heart?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) I don't want to use more resources on acquiring a reliever until we are 10 games over again. Exactly. Hopes of winning the division disappeared a long time ago. Good luck getting in wild card contention. The White Sox either should sell, sell sell in an attempt to rebuild or make moves based on next season. Sure if you can get a good reliever for nothing, go for it, but make moves in regards to the future not this season. That ship has sailed. Personally I'd trade Lawrie, Shields, Melky, Avi for starters. And also dump Robertson and maybe even Frazier. Sell time.

Not trying to flame millenials here. But I know a guy who is a career counselor for one of the schools at University of Kansas and he said he had three kids call in the last two weeks who coincidentally mentioned their parents. He said pretty much all three had the same message: "My parents were getting on me about not having a job. Can you tell me what openings there are?" I would think it would be kind of scary as a parent to have Johnny or Julie graduate on a Sunday when everybody celebrated them getting their diplomas, then a month later with 23 year old Johnny and Julie sleeping til noon every day and eating a good amount of groceries before heading to the pool then the clubs at night, some anxiety might set in with mom and dad. "Are my kids going to get good jobs or not after securing diplomas?"

It looks like Missouri had to close four dorms and make a lot of cuts because so many kids have bailed on the university cause of the Black Lives Matter aggression. Enrollment will be down drastically so I guess if their goal was to wreck a fine university, that's what is happened from the rich kid staging a starvation protest.

He looks great. Somebody compared him to Soriano with the long swing and the big bat and propensity to never draw a walk. I love Anderson. He's a pleasure to watch run the bases. FAST! But swinging at everything means trouble in the future. Somehow he's got to learn how to draw walks. He has zero walks and had less than 10 this season in the minors with all those at bats. How does a guy draw walks? I dunno. I'd do the same thing if I were a big leaguer, go up there hacking. But hacking won't cut it through the long, long, long season. Got to draw walks, too. But I would give him a grade of A so far, of course, especially considering how many guys start their careers off horribly.

Robertson is doing well again. No reason to not trade him at the break. This time Hahn needs to ROB a contender! You can get a team desperate for a bullpen guy to give up GOOD prospects. How bout a GOOD catcher for starters. Trade him for a catching prospect and others.

I would think the Sabes people would say he's been valuable. An old fashioned stat like batting average doesn't matter much anymore. He produces runs and hits home runs consistently unlike Dunn who hit 'em in bunches.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 01:59 AM) It's almost an exact "Interstellar" ending moment... May 6th, White Sox 23-10 and up 6-7-8 games on the Indians, Royals and Tigers. Here we are, six weeks later, everything's inverted (maybe upside down Inception influence, too)....Cleveland up 5-6-7 on the Royals, Tigers and White Sox. 13 games lost in the standings. Almost the exact same as the 2005 White Sox in August/Sept 2005, except those White Sox were still above .500 and the Indians were just on an ungodly tear of almost .800 baseball. Royals have to trade for another 4th starter or they're toast. Chris Young is simply killing them. Volquez was rocked the night before. Tigers also can't afford to stand pat while waiting for JD Martinez to return. This is what's funny ... the Royals were this bad, this horses*** TWICE prior to the Sox fixing them. They came to Chicago having lost 9 in a row and promtly won 2 of 3 and shoulda won them all. They also were sucking big time earlier when they won all 3 in Chicago and two of 3 in KC shortly after to right the sinking ship. KC is in trouble cause right now they aren't playing any Central teams and figure to stay in the tank for the next couple weeks. They might catch a break if St. Louis really does suck but KC right now is horrific again and doesn't have the Sox to beat up on til August.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jun 26, 2016 -> 02:26 AM) This is the real Trayce. His fluky hitting ended. There just aren't many good hitters out there anymore in the post steroid era. It's crazy. Remember when Eaton was at .320? Isn't he about .250 now and he's a pretty good player. I guess it's why defense and bullpen win games now. The hitting is so bad it doesn't matter IF you can catch everything and you've got 3 standout starters couple with a great closer and at least two EFFECTIVE setup men. That's all you need. Hardly anybody can hit.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 10:43 PM) Who was that team? Just wondering. Sox tied the club record today with seven home runs in a game. Set originally in April 1955 in the Sox 29-6 destruction of the Kansas City A's. Mark That's what the score should be when you hit 7 home runs. Only the Sox can turn a seven-home run day into something worth mocking on Sports Center. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 10:56 PM) On the bright side Beck looked good. It is laughable some here are blaming Ventura. People were calling for Ynoa yesterday. He was the only reliever to allow runs today. Coop has done a hell of a job with his rotation. If Ynoa keeps pitching like that I'm gonna scream, "Oh No" when he gets the call. QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 11:10 PM) are you f***ing kidding me? Man the f*** up. It's all hands on deck the rest of the year. This team just really pisses me off. Not sure if RV is covering his own ass but how about challenging your men to step up when guys are hurt in a big mid-summer game? I honestly question if these guys would p**** foot around like this if RV wasn't such a pushover. The Sox haven't taken the field with the desire to fight in many years, starting with the days of Ozzie's Sunday lineups. He was conceding those Sunday games and we've conceded a lot since (and I worshipped Oz but that was a head scratcher).

The Sox should have runners leading off the bases when they take BP just so they get used to it and hit better with runners on base. 7 solo home runs? Still can't get over that.

It's really not easy to lose at home when you hit 7 home runs. That's a lot of fireworks. The guy we started is not a big leaguer. I wonder if Danks would have worked out his problems by now.

Eaton with a nice HR.

Anderson is a nice player but he doesn't walk much. That's not good for a leadoff hitter. Law of averages will keep his BA way down.

QUOTE (Insp @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 09:21 PM) This thread was going quite nicely before caulfield12 and greg775 showed up to ruin things. I do apologize. I haven't been in many game threads cause this team makes me so upset.

QUOTE (mataipaepae @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 09:18 PM) You don't like to let youngsters develop do you? They should all be hall of fame quality from the get go! I guess I didn't like what I saw there.

Without looking it up, it seems to me the Sox absolutely suck during day games at the Cell record wise.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) Well, he once was the mostly highly-touted arm in the Dominican and received the biggest signing bonus (at the time) in history. So basically, the Joe Borchard of pitching prospects. How did the Sox get him?

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 09:13 PM) His slider might be on par with the best in the game. That last one to K Pillar was stellar My eyes are telling me it's very easy to pick up the ball out of his hand and his pitches scream, "hit me hard."

Boy this pitcher has nothing. Hope he's not a big time prospect.

Six home runs and getting killed. Team Dysfunction is at it again. It's hard to do some of the things this team does.

That sucked. Lawrie with the boot.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 25, 2016 -> 09:06 PM) This team desperately needs like 4 more players if they want to contend. If scores hold true, they will be 7 back of Cleveland It's closer to the bottom than the top. Forget the playoffs. Not this year.

Belt high fastball ... BAM.

Put Lawrie or Anderson in the outfield then and let Saladino hit. Or everyday DH.