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Beckham sure stunk as a White Sox. But he seemed like a likeable guy at least.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 2, 2015 -> 10:08 PM) Yes, Hillary is bad choice. Why do you not like Kasich? Haven't studied him at all yet. My bad, I guess.

I'm not blaming Obama, but it sure seems to me we've had sooooooo many of these mass shootings during his 8 years. Gunmen kill many today in California in a building that helps the disabled??? Pretty soon we're going to be in a militaristic state everywhere we go. Nobody's gonna be allowed in any building, any sports arena, cause frankly at any time somebody might come in and blast away. It's just plain sickening. It's Obama's watch. Not saying it's his fault but wow, all the murders, all the destruction. Just think how many people are plotting mass murders as I write this. It has to be thousands of plots being planned right now, which is very very scary. Peace on earth good will toward men.

Trump might as well win the presidency. It's our last-ditch hope for an economic recovery even though he is way too cocky for some old guy. I mean Hilly isn't going to fix the economy. Trump would maybe fix it and at the very least give us a lotta laughs.

David Price 30 mill a year for seven years? Sox better adopt a new bargain basement strategy like the Royals did. Unless we're being lied to ... Sox can't afford that kind of jack, the new going price (no pun intended) for free agents. Raise those hot dog prices now, Red Sox. 20 bucks a hot dog sounds about right; 30 bucks for a beer should do it. Maybe a 17 dollar sale on nachos and 200 dollars to park. Might as well raise parking to a couple hundred per game.

How good is Loyola? Is this one of the best teams in Illinois prep history? They destroyed Cinderella Marist. Any chance Br. Rice could have given them a game?

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 30, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) It was three months and it was 3 years ago. Time flies. It seems like yesterday I got the swift kick in the pants to offseason oblivion.

No brainer. Sign this guy. Sox need a 3B.

The obvious choice was the coach from Memphis.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 30, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) Show me where people are saying this or demanding this. I'm talking about talk radio and stuff I've been hearing. That Mizzou should hire an African American coach and speculation the masses may freak if that does not happen. Because of the the incident with the football team boycotting that week. QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Nov 30, 2015 -> 03:22 PM) Greg, how do you not know what a citation is? I thought he meant there should be a citation issued against me for stating my opinion. I'm paranoid since the year I got suspended from the board six months.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 28, 2015 -> 07:03 AM) Citation needed. What does that mean? I won't go off on a tirade until I understand what u meant.

QUOTE (rowand's rowdies @ Nov 29, 2015 -> 05:37 PM) This is a move I love seeing as a White Sox fan. Let Detoliet sign an older overpriced overrated NL SP from a team that stole theirs, a real AL SP Stud in Scherzer. If they had this $$$ to throw at a guy who to me is an AL #3 or #4 SP at his best, why not splurge and keep Max? Enjoy this deal Tigers fans. You're paying Verlander, Sanchez & Zimmerman a combined $66 million to pitch in 2016. Their 2 best SPs may end up being Norris and Boyd, 2 guys that don't combine for $2 million in 2016! If the Tigers want to add that 2nd #2 Tier Free Agent SP like Cueto, be my guest. Maybe they can spend $90 million a year on 4 overrated starting pitchers that best fit in the National League? I agree. However, with this new explosion in $$$ going to free agents, makes you wonder if the Sox are hoarding $$$s. How can some teams afford to pay these outlandish contracts? Just makes you wonder if the Sox and all teams still would make money with 200 to 300 million dollar payrolls. I mean before too long somebody's gonna have a billion dollar payroll. This salary escalation is showing no signs of stopping.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Nov 28, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) So who do you suggest the Sox should have picked up that's actually available? It's not like the league is full of catchers that can hit and play defense. I have no idea. I'm not Hahn/Kenny. I'm just saying expect a lot of outs when this guy steps to the plate. I realize baseball is full of horrible hitters nowadays. Not completely hating, just saying Avila is a joke of a hitter, though I'll give him credit for drawing some walks.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Nov 28, 2015 -> 04:24 AM) The Sox have been banking on the emergence of Flowers since the Sox parted ways with AJ and handed the full time catching duties to Flowers. Flowers wouldn't need a platoon partner if he could hit. We better hope beyond hope Flowers can hit cause Avila is hopelessly bad at the plate. He draws a few walks. Big deal. He cannot hit. Arguably even worse than Tyler.

Great move by Viciedo. He might hit 50 home runs over there. He's not a MLB caliber player. Horrible on defense. Uncoachable on offense. Tries to hit HR on every pitch; never walks. Bye bye.

Just another body. But that's OK as he replaces Soto and Sox are banking on Flowers really emerging this season. 34 hits last year in 178 at bats. Boy, that is bad.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 18, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) Sorry, but as a white Christian male you're not allowed to be offended or feel persecuted by anything. Great point. You are sitting in a library and basically in danger. That should be filed as a hate crime and file a federal lawsuit. I bet the kids in the library never thought of that.

Do high school kids choke? How could Bro Rice blow that 17 point lead late in the third quarter vs. Palatine. Now Rice has to contend with a rejuvenated St. Laurence, while Marist is always good now and St. Rita probably isn't going anywhere. That had to be humbling for Bro Rice. They'd have won the game had it been played on Pulaski.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 18, 2015 -> 03:31 PM) Kansas is the one who needs to go since they can't win in it. But yeah please mix up the teams. Get UNC, Louisville someone. North Carolina wouldn't sign up the first time because the coach didn't want to play Kansas. It should be Duke, Kansas, UNC and Kentucky. Or another one could be Indiana, UCLA, Duke and Kentucky. But UCLA is too volatile; some years they plain suck. And Indiana has had years of crap since Kelvin. You are pretty sure, Duke, KU, MSU and Kentucky are at least going to be top 15 every year so it's a good field.

They should just come up with a plan of action and do the opposite. Don't forget they completely erred at the trade deadline, thinking they were in the race and standing pat. It has to be tough, though. All they have is good starting pitching. And if you trade that, then suddenly you are weak there. Either way they are hosed. Stand pat and add a couple bodies and you might hit .500 if everybody clicks. Trade away a lot of the pitching and all of a sudden you have a 105-loss team. Good luck to Sox decision makers.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) Greg, the formal reason we don't negotiate with terrorists is that once they find out violence works, they will just keep doing it to get what they want. It wil never end. Colleges have been giving in to the f***ing crybabies on campuses for years now so they feel emboldened to 'demand' whatever their feelz tell them to. SOmeone needs to tell them to STFU and get back to class. And if they don't go to class, you fail them and/or expel them. That Mizzou Prez should have rescinded every scholarship of any player that refused to play. At some point the adults have to be in charge. I don't feel sorry for the university staff, they brought all this upon themselves. Now the liberals in charge know what it is like to be at the end of a SJW witchhunt. Have fun with that. Hard to believe, but the Missouri protesters are tweeting that the media should be covering "terrorism" on their campus as much as the situation in France. Just proves more and more these mass death incidents aren't even considered out of the ordinary anymore. How dare those students tweet that their deal is more important than 120 people being killed in France.

Does anybody else think the Missouri protest group could be a little less aggressive? Their list of "demands" is sort of obnoxious. Why use the word "demands?" Why be so pushy? I'd venture to say most of the students are Missouri at NOT racist. But if these troublemaker students keep it up (like at Dartmouth) I can imagine at some point people are going to rebel against them. Go up to the wrong person in a library and get in his face and tell him to declare his white privilege and you might get a knuckle sandwich from Bruno the lineman.

I wish when these incidents happen we would all put ourselves in the shoes of the innocent victims to recognize the true horror and how something must be done to stop this s***. You are enjoying a concert on a Friday in France and boom, the doors fling open and assholes with guns start shooting. It is pure terror. You are at a soccer game on a Friday and you hear BOOM outside the arena. Suicide bomber kills himself. Luckily he didn't make it into the stadium with the bomb attached to him. He had a ticket. He'd have killed himself in the stands causing a sure panic as well as many deaths. This is HORROR. And somebody in a restaurant in France killing people, as many as he can. HORROR. I just sense a lot of people don't even care about this stuff. It's an "oh well" attitude. I can pray for the victims and the victims families and I can only hope I'm never sitting somewhere when the maniacs invade with their weapons to kill me.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Nov 15, 2015 -> 12:30 AM) I simply refuse to believe that Greg really believes the stuff he writes GOAT troll Trump said the MU leaders were weak. They were weak. Not many are telling it like it is. The protestors at Missouri had two incidents they cited as reasons for causing all the protests/demands. Some rednecks in a truck allegedly yelled the N word at the same guy who LIED about the KKK being on campus. Hmmm...did this incident really happen? The second incident was a swastika of human dung was on a wall in a dorm. There are no pix of the swastika in this era of phone cameras. Hmmmm. Even if those incidents happened ... my gawd there are 30,000 students on campus. There will ALWAYS be some morons. For instance some college student from Palatine felt compelled to go on Twitter to blast Brother Rice kids for blowing today's playoff game and mock them. That person is a Moron. They are out there. There was no reason for the president and chancellor to quit over those 2 incidents. So why am I a troll for backing Trump's stance? He happens to be right IMO. Many people think I'm a troll because I've backed my favorite players against all haters in threads for YEARS. These players include Danks, Dye, Ozzie (player/manager), Konerko, AJP, Buehrle, Garland, Dwyane Wise and others. My stances on these guys had people calling me a troll. I was just passionately LOYAL. Also I get called a troll for my posts on politics/issues. I never said I was perfect. I just despise Hillary. And I despise these horrible incidents in our country and others (France). I can't take it when madmen invade our movie theatres for gawd sakes and kill us!!! I may be an idiot (to some) but I am not a troll.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 12, 2015 -> 04:56 PM) You're seriously talking about trading two or three of Sale, Quintana, Rodon, or Danks so the Sox can bring back a shadow of a starter that is Mark Buehrle? Buehrle actually was great the first half last year and not that bad the second half. I still think Toronto should have had him on the postseason roster. As far as your comment, the board seems to think Danks is not very good and yes I'd trade Q or Rodon for some power if there is any power left in baseball in the non steroid era. I'd prefer two lefties and 3 righties in rotation but I'd be OK with 3 lefties and two righties. Our system seems to be deep in starting pitching. Why is it always all lefthanded?