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QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 09:40 PM) Please stop, Greg. Stop what? I'll make my posts less antagonistic on this if you think they are, but Sox aren't going to be abe to sign a Gordon or Upton or Cespedes. They don't have the $$ for that. If I'm wrong there, I'll be the biggest Hahn fan forever. Right now, I want Lexi and want Avi to turn into Little Miggy. What's wrong with that take? I'm just $aying a fan is dreaming if they think we can sign one of those 3. QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 09:41 PM) Trayce cant hit, Michah cant field or stay healthy. Montas could be a pen arm. Thats why your responses are off. Overvaluing these players is pretty strange. Rock, you make your statements like they are 100 percent fact. I feel I've been reasonable in my assessment of what I see as an overpay. I already said I want Frazier and Sox need Frazier. I could counter your first sentence with Trayce can field and he looked like a guy who could hit; Micah has always been considered a great prospect though his glove was thoroughly disappointing in his one stint with the Sox and Montas throws 100 and is supposed to be a certain big leaguer.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 09:37 PM) Yep. And just two nights ago he proposed trading Rodon for Frazier. Can you find my actual post on Rodon for Frazier? I'll man up to it if I said it but my posts get turned around ALOT on here and I don't remember ever making a proposal for Frazier officially. Like fathom said if Ethier had also been in this deal I'd have been very happy with it. I just think we ALWAYS overpay.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 09:31 PM) Same. I think Upton, Gordon, Cespedes make most sense for this team in that order. Cmon SoxPride, you know better than this. We made our big free agent signing a year ago. Melky. Sox cannot afford to sign any of those three guys. I pray we sign Lexi right now and hope like heck Avi turns into mini Miggy like he was suppposed to.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 09:08 PM) For an all star third baseman, this was not overpay. Montas, a bullpen guy with promise. Trayce, almost assuredly a 4th outfielder. Micah, a second baseman who can't field and his bat is questionable. This is overpay(!)?? We'll see. I happen to think all three players we gave up are certain big leaguers. It's OK. Sox needed to get Frazier. Without him the infield completely would have blown (on paper). Now it has a chance to be contender worthy. We'll see what happens. But unless you drink Koolaid all the time, it's ok to be "concerned" of an overpay. Frazier is an NL guy. How can a Sox fan not be a tad concerned he's another Dunn/LaRoche? Trayce is a STAR defensive player. He's AMAZING with the glove. Micah still could be special. He could be. Montas could be special. He could be. Don't tell us this is a slam dunk great trade yet. I happen to believe the Sox totally overpaid for Shark and overpaid in this deal. However, I will take the deal because it did not appear Micah or Trayce would have started for this team this upcoming season anyway and the team ON PAPER is currently better than last year's following this deal. Sorry some of us don't drink the Koolaid after Dunn/LaRoche. I am hopeful though and I was major in favor of acquiring Frazier.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 06:19 PM) If they get Ethier and Fraizer for Montas/Micah/Trayce, that's a heck of a deal Exactly. But Sox didn't get Ethier as well. Sox overpaid IMO. It's all up to Frazier to excel and shut up the people like me who said they overpaid. QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 06:37 PM) Frazier for those 3 guys seems like a trade proposal we'd make on here and everyone would say the Reds wouldn't do that I don't know about that. You could look at it the other way. Trayce, Micah and Montas all project to be certain big-league players. Kind of a steep price to pay. QUOTE (longshot7 @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 08:12 PM) He's down on the deal because he's a typical Sox fan, like many on here. I don't know why this is, but we love to s*** on almost everything the front office does. We're not down on it. I'm thinking the infield will be awesome (on paper) if we can re-sign Lexi. Some people like me just think we overpaid again. QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 08:26 PM) He's an all star. We have someone to root for in home run derby. Meanwhile, the team and org. got worse. The Sox had stabilized 3B. The weaknesses were OF defense and a mediocre bullpen. So what did they do? Traded a OF who plays impeccable D and hit nearly .900 OPS. Brilliant! They traded a pitcher who could have been an actual stopper, of which there is exactly one. They cry about lack of hitting, so they traded an IF who can hit!!!! Oh, and they crowded out yet another young IF. 2B wasn't an issue. We had great D there from a YOUNG player (which, I know, is a negative on the Sox). This org's disdain for young players is beyond belief. The irony of course is that at least 2 of those guys, if not all 3, will make the 92 win Dodgers 25 man. But they weren't good enough for the 25 man of Robbie and Cooper's 76 win Sox. Good post except for the fact our infield was looking shaky with Lawrie, Saladino, Sanchez, Abreu the likely infield. Now it's much better with one swoop of Frazier. You have to admit the infield figures to be much more productive with this one trade. QUOTE (venom4789 @ Dec 16, 2015 -> 08:28 PM) How do people not like this deal. We kept fulmer and anderson. Micah wouldnt have started or played for us even if we didnt get lawrie. Trayce is a fourth outfielder and montas may be decent. We upgraded a lot at third. The people mad arr probaly the same people mad about us trading seimen last year. Even though shark was bad i would take a comp pick any day for what we sent to oakland. We're concerned (not mad) because it appears the Sox overpaid as they did in the Shark deal.

Haven't read the thread yet but I will shortly. Well, Hahn is thinking like me and others. With Frazier, the infield changes so much if we re-sign Lexi. It'll be Frazier, Lexi, Lawrie and Abreu. ON PAPER, excellent. Very sad to lose Trayce, Micah and Montas. Once again we overpaid. I realize I got what I wanted (if we re-sign Lexi; ss will be a major weakness if Saladino is there). I did get what I wanted but wow, the overpay! Final comment: I know the Sox are trying now; I realize the lineup is probably worth seeing in person, buying season tickets now (if we re-sign Lexi on the cheap), but it's now up to Frazier to not be the latest NL player to SUCK in a Sox jersey. And if Frazier does suck beyond belief, even though the trade seems reasonable, Hahn should pay with his job. The FO has to get this stuff right and Sox just gave up three TOP prospects for this guy. He MUST not pull a Dunn or pull a LaRoche. He must excel or Hahn must go. Please sign Lexi now for one year and an option.

Is Barry Hinson popular yet? How are they doing this year?

Trump is nuts, screaming at Bush about how he's at 3 percent. I can't imagine that bullying going over well. I mean let's say Bush was at 20 percent and Trump 19 percent. Trump would scream at Bush, "Don't believe the polls! Blah blah." I want Trump to win sometimes just cause I hate P.C. and I hate politics. But he is a rich asshole and rich assholes are pretty much out for themselves. I mean he's lying a lot and winking at us while doing it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 02:58 PM) The Trump candidacy has all but handed the White House to Hillary, which is just depressing. Yeah you are probably right. Coronate the queen now. QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 03:17 PM) Cruz is a very extreme conservative - he's farther right than any other candidate. He's also infamously unlikable. The Republican establishment hates him because he doesn't cooperate with them, preferring to grandstand and cause problems to build his own hype. But, ultimately, he prefers most of the same positions they do, so they'll back him if he wins. Thank you. QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 05:38 PM) I don't happen to like Cruz, but he's probably one of, if not the most intelligent people in any fields. Overall though, he's too conservative for me, but he also just has a face that I can't stand. Kind of like Drose in his mask. Yep...I'm awful and I said it. Cruz just doesn't look likeable. Good post and I respect it, but I kinda get blasted when I imply Hilary's face is pretty grotesque.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 05:13 AM) I can and do deny. Remove Rodon and who takes his place? After Sale and Q, the rotation is very unstable with Danks as #3 and EJ #4 and ? #5. You've taken a potential strength and made it a weakness. You really would give up 6 more years of a 22 year old future stud in Rodon for 2 years of a 3B whom is almost 30 that s*** the bed in the second half of '15? Come on! If you are relying on a regressing Alexei at SS to make the team a winner then why did the Sox let him go? I'm sure they could have re-signed him by now if they wanted him around so why is it they don't want him any more? Because Alexei is regressing and will continue to do so because it comes with age. Removing Rodon, adding Frazier and keeping Alexei around is not the path to contention. Mediocrity is more like it. I give up then if my idea sucks. Cause I see no way we contend with this crummy team we have now. Your post shuts me up. I'm resigned to another s***ty team I guess.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 05:13 AM) It isn't money to spend, Greg. They have to trade for him, and if what they are offering is not sufficient for the Reds, then the trade does not happen We've got some good prospects. This is one trade where we might have to part with a good one. QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 15, 2015 -> 05:18 AM) Plus the Sox aren't the only team that's interested which helps to drive the cost in prospects up. Obviously someone didn't see that the Reds asked for Rodon. I don't really want to give up Rodon, but our organization finally has a handful of stud prospects. We might have to give up two good ones. If the Sox are waiting for all the prospects to become major-league ready, fine. But we've been led to believe this is not a rebuilding thing, but trying to win it. To win it ... I think my suggestion should actually make us a contender. Infield: Frazier, Lexi, Lawrie, Abreu. Outfield: Melky (ugh), Trayce, Eaton (Avi as fourth outfielder unless we can dump him) Hopefully sign a name outfielder. Catcher: The two stiffs. Don't like that position. DH: LaLob. Don't like him, but maybe Robin can at least reduce his at bats and have him be buzzkill only four days a week for the 12 mill? Pitcher: Ding. Ding. We have a winner! Great staff. You can't deny my 3 simple moves (Frazier in trade; resign Lexi; sign new outfielder) make the team contenders. The way the team is now?? Last place.

The way I see it if you can afford it you have to send your kid to private schools. For instance I went to Brother Rice two years and Benet Academy two years. Aside from Rice being all boys, what a great place to be. Great great teachers; hard as hell classes. I actually had to take Latin there and learned Latin for gosh sake. If you want to be a doctor ... what better place for Biology, Physics, Algebra, all those classes. One place that might be better? Benet. What a tremendous school. Great teachers; very difficult coursework (until senior year which was easy like most senior year). Both schools stressed COLLEGE and college prep work. Parents have to have their eye on best preparing their kids for college. The best places IMO have to be private schools. Pay that $10,000 a year tuition baby. It's worth it. (Just my take). As far as Vegas talk ... if u are gonna live in Sin City (yes it's Sin City) then at least move to the BEST school district. Give your kids a chance to not fall into oblivion (drug wise and academic wise).

Very intersting about phone battery life. Mine is down to 60 percent with little use today. Once phone battery life starts dipping is it time to get a new phone? Am I hosed since the battery appears to drain faster than it used to?

I keep hearing Cruz has had a master plan and is the frontrunner now. To any Republicos out there ... I have yet to study Cruz. Is he good? Could he beat my nemesis, Hilly? Is he the one who wants to get rid of the IRS? That would be cool. Can Cruz beat Hilly? For those of you who read my rants, is he the type of guy Greg will get excited bout?

Why can't the Sox realize it's time to acquire Frazier to go with Lawrie? We need Frazier and re-sign Lexi for 5 mill a year for 2 years. Or one year and an option. And by all means open the wallet and sign an outfielder. The Cubs just signed Zobrist, Lackey and Heyward to go with all those young guys. Sure their pitching might suck, but that's a possible WS contender. This is competition, baby. There are 2 teams in this city and one is on fire in terms of fan interest and MEDIA drooling. Sox are not going to get fans to show up to watch the defensive dandies Saladino and Sanchez work their magic at ss and 2B. Barring some unforeseen turnaround, the Sox will blow. But you add Frazier and a name outfielder ... kaching at the cash register. Sox fans will sign up cause we got electric pitchers in Sale, Q and potentially some others! What is Hahn waiting for?? Yes it's $$$ to spend, but do they have an option? It's either spend $$$ or look at 15,000 to 25,000 fans a game all season cept when Cubs and Yanquis come to town.

Giants have Shark and Cueto. Can you say RISKY? One guy (Shark) was not hated by Sox fans, but far from loved. He basically was a very unreliable pitcher who had a few great outings but was horses*** many many times. Projecting ahead, how can you be high on the guy? PASS. Cueto? He was so bad at one point, Royals fans were hoping he wouldn't even start in the postseason. Their only hope was that he'd start pitching like his hype at some point. He was great in the decisive game at home; on the road he was a disaster waiting to happen and again, KC fans wanted none of Cueto in the postseason unless the game was in Kauffman. Is that the type of guy you want to pay that kind of cash?? Can you say RISKY? Pass. Good luck, SF. Maybe the NL will be a cure all and they'll be great. But again, both Sox and KC fan bases would shake their heads and say, 'good riddance' to both of em.

Kansas has a lousy governor in Brownback, ridiculous voters who re-elected him just because he has an R next to his name on the ballot.

Yes maam, no maam is a polite way of answering questions even in this day and age of me, me, me.

QUOTE (Tex @ Dec 13, 2015 -> 09:29 PM) We have a Christmas themed display. Complete with tree and other symbolic items. Cool. This comes with the Greg seal of approval.

If the Royals don't chill out, so to speak, next season, it's time for all teams to fight with them every single series. They won the gawd damn WS. They're not gonna win it every year, in fact, if they lose Gordon and the starting pitching reeks, they probably will dip right away. So if they make a big deal about Lawrie, we should throw at them, fight them, and so should every other team when they pull Royals-type bulls***. They won the title ... it's time to fricking chill out. If they don't chill out they are insufferable asses. Agreed?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 13, 2015 -> 02:53 AM) Ask yourself what you would want if you were in his wife's shoes. Multiple people have asked you that and you refuse to answer I'd never be in the wife's shoes cause that would mean I caught my partner cheating and I would leave her for that for positive. Remember she caught him once red handed. QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Dec 13, 2015 -> 03:45 AM) Had to join this conversation, it was blowing me away. 1. Greg, why in the WORLD would you be friends with this guy? He's doing terrible things to his wife and kids, and using you as an excuse for this garbage. You need to cut ties with this crap as soon as possible. The wife knows what's going on, the husband knows what's going on, so the kids know something is wrong whether the parents want to see it or not. Tensions are undoubtedly building with the wife, and it has a great chance of blowing up in an emotional, traumatic experience for the kids. Do the kids, wife, and yourself a favor, and cut ties. Tell your friend that as long as he's doing stupid s***, and hurting his family, you won't support that. 2. I get the feeling that Greg is a social experiment based on trolling message boards. 1.) He's doing one terrible thing, that is cheating. he treats her very well otherwise and is a great papa to his kids. As far as your last sentence I told him I recommend he see a psychiatrist and he did and now won't go anymore cause the guy was lousy. Then I recommended he stop cheating altogether. the only thing I haven't done is cut ties with him. I don't feel like I should boot a friend completely over this issue. Like whitewashed said, I've made my feelings known and am not condoning this stuff. Do I have to completely not be friends with the guy anymore? I think that's kind of drastic. 2.) I don't know why I'm a troll just because a.) I have differing opinions from most of you and b.) I'm honest.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) For a guy who loves citing the downfall of modern civilization because of the lack of religion, you sure don't mind overlooking multiple commandments when it suits your narrative I agree with Whitewashed's backing me on this matter. ... What am I supposed to do? Bring him a Bible? It's not me doing it. Should I punch him and tell him to knock off his behavior? Whitewashed seems to get it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 02:46 PM) Greg, you are terrible. All you do is make excuses for s***ty people You see things as cut and dried sometimes. Just because this guy is doing this one lousy thing may not mean he's "s***ty people." Not everything is cut and dried in this world. How come you guys won't believe me when I say he's a good dad to the 2 kids and doesn't ever get violent or anything. Basically he's a good provider/good person who does this heinous thing. I wouldn't cheat but some people do. QUOTE (ypres @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 04:38 PM) I get not wanting to tell her and have guilt of breaking up the family, or whatever. But don't you think she has the right to know? She caught him once. It's probably inevitable she catches him again. For me to turn him in, that seems pretty wrong. QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 05:04 PM) It may not be your place to tell but you absolutely should stop being friends with him. Birds of a feather greg, birds of a feather. I rarely hang out with him. I haven't cut all ties with him because of his cheating. QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 06:11 PM) I'd bet your friend made up the problems with the psychiatrist as an excuse not to go anymore. Did he find another psychiatrist? Nope. I don't know why you'd assume that. Some people get pissed off when a professional (psychiatrist) obviously is not doing his/her job, not even retaining any information from a first meeting. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 07:24 PM) I always feel like telling someone it's going on again is much easier than "ruining" the trust in the first place...then it's on her 100% to live with the consequences of staying despite the Near certainty he we will cheat repetitively in the future. This idea that guys can cheat because the girl's super hot and younger and that justifies it more somehow is pretty dubious. Certainly not admirable. Obviously the wife likes him enough to stay after the first cheating incident was uncovered. It's very sad he's cheating. I told him I thought he should get help and he told me the psychiatrist story. I told him he might consider just going cold turkey on the cheating and just turn over a new leaf the rest of his life, in his world telling him he had a good run with multiple women, now it's time to put that all in his past. I don't see why I should tell the wife anything. I mean the guy might even kill me or something if I did that. Stranger things have happened. I don't know why you all would suggest I have to tell her. She already knows he did it once. This guy claims he's a sex addict. He claims he needs the attention of the multiple women. He did say he's much older than the current woman he's cheating with and whenever he leaves her in a restaurant or anywhere he comes back and some guy is hitting on her. In this day and age of people unwilling to get involved I think my behavior in this case is about a 5.5 out of 10 in the advice I've given him, not a 1 or 2 as some of you suggest.

What would it take to get Frazier if we're not including Anderson? Get it done.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Dec 12, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) I agree with most of this, as the infield stands today, we are looking at another top ten draft pick and another season like the past 9-10. I don't think we are going to sign Cespedes or trade for Fraizer although I completely agree with your logic and the fact it makes sense I just don't think either of these guys happen. I do however bet Hahn has one or two moves left (hopefully) just by reading between the lines of his comments leaving the meetings, it's a work in progress. After the past few seasons it's hard for anyone to legitally give this FO the benefit of the doubt but we should. I trust they are not done. Most of the baseball world loved our moves last season and we face planted. But Hahn and the scouts and FO can only go by what's on paper and track records of players when they all bomb it sucks, and we as fans lose patience and trust in these guys to right the ship. Lastly, don't think the brain trust doesn't see the threat the Cubs bring to the pitiful attendance and TV viewership problem we already have. After the past two off seasons and last season they know the pressure is on them to fix this thing and make us a winning club again. This is not just about staying relative in this city, but we'll have a generation of Cubs fans coming with all the kids watching the Cubs be built into a dynasty if they continue to win and go deep into the playoffs. For the Whitesox to stay relevant in this city we need to WIN! The time is now for them to get this turned in the right direction. Otherwise casual fans are going to start jumping ship. Excellent post. I'll keep the faith we're not done, but to me it's so simple. My moves would only take shipping two good prospects and one OK one to the Reds for Frazier and spend some cashola for Cespedes. I truly think the team would be vastly improved. And who knows? Somebody might be willing to take Melky off our hands in another deal.