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QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 03:51 AM) How do you handle it? Sox - what more can you say? Colts - remind too much of the White Sox NBA - don't watch it NCAA - family is either Louisville or KY fans. I have an occasional interest in the Final Four but it's win it all or bust. NHL - Blackhawks. The season will be interesting. I can't watch them since I'm in AZ. I love baseball over them all. I guess my excitement could come from the Fall league or watching kids play. We, meaning Chicago fans, don't have much to b**** about. Blackhawks have kept the city in championship mode with three in six years for goshsakes. Sox won it in 2005 which is better than last reaching world series in 1959. I hate the Cubs but they give Chicago another playoff team this year. And the Bulls won so many titles with Mikey that Chicago is not known as a city of losers anymore by any stretch.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) I think he needs to be extended a QO. He is not as bad as he had pitched in the second half. Not sure if he is having arm fatigue or what but he has not been right in a little while. If he declines the QO the Sox will be fine and move on with a draft asset, if he accepts you have him on a one year deal for him to redeem himself and try to make up for the tens of millions of dollars he cost himself this season. If he performs to his career numbers you can move him at the deadline if or hold on to him and make a run and extend a QO next season. I just don't think he's very good. Let him walk.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 03:49 AM) As of now, Melky has the exact same amount of RBIs he had in 2014. Which is why I didn't want to sign him. He's not good enough.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 12:43 AM) Sox fans could do their self a big favor by accepting that LaRoche will be on the team next year. No team is going to trade for a player that earns 13M and cannot hit. The Sox are not going to pay LaRoche that kind of money to not be on the 25 man roster. All we can hope for going into 2016 is that LaRoche turns it around or can provide some value off the bench. It is what it is. Probably true. Maybe an NL team will bite. Sox probably would have to play at least five million of it though and Jerry won't approve that. I'll say this about Melky. At least he hasn't been completely worthless like LaLob. Melky did get his average up to .280, though I do despise him as a player, too.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 03:44 AM) That would be the logical equivalent of hitting on 17. Those days are pretty much over in the MLB FA market. Someone will give him 3/60, but nobody is giving him 5/100. Maybe if he was 28, but not at 31. I guarantee you he gets more than 3/60. Four years minimum. Four years 80 would be the minimum offer or four years 76 million. Four years at 18 mill a year is probably what he'll get. maybe the full 80 million with a fifth year option.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Sep 22, 2015 -> 02:57 AM) Melky will earn his contract. Not even overpaid in today's games. They'd sign Robertson too. Shark trade was fine. Gave up a bunch of nothing to get an above average pitcher that had a below average season. I think Melky's a flop cause of his production. Few homers, not enough RBIs. Robertson was OK closer. Shark trade was awful. I'd rather keep Semien and Phegs. They arguably coulda started this year.

Shark with the one-hitter. Sox can now offer the QO. He now will never accept it and Sox are safe there. He's gonna be paid big big big bucks next year. All GMs have to see is an outing like this. He's a perfect winter signee. He sells tickets cause he has a name.

Wow a Sox sweep with very very little offense. "Team inconsistency" once again. A DH sweep in Detroit? You gotta be bleepin me.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 05:36 PM) We should unquestionably offer the QO. Today's game assures Shark of whatever he wants on the open market. Wow. He gonna get 20 million a year for 5 years; bank it. Just hope Sox don't sign him.

I'd let Carson run the country now. Basically my motto though is "Anybody but Hillary."

Say what you want about Dayan. Those minor league stats are good. He probably gets one more chance which he deserves somewhere. Not saying he'll succeed. Beckham got a final chance and failed miserably this season. I mean I give him credit for putting up good numbers. I don't care if he gets his final chance with the Sox or somebody else, but he probably should get one final shot. I'm no homer. I'd say it's 85-15 percent wise he's going to fail and be done soon.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 21, 2015 -> 04:00 AM) Can Bernie win? No. This is all just blather right now. Hillary is the Democrats' choice. I desperately hope Biden enters to make life harder for her, though.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 02:44 PM) Remember when Y. Ventura quick-pitched Eaton and it led to that brawl? And Samardzija was in the middle of it all, and most of us loved him for it? How times have changed... He was good in the brawl but that series unfortunately again set the tone for the season. Sox got swept, Royals took off running and Sox sucked all season long. That's why I'm worried about next year's inevitable 4-9 or 5-8 start. It's gonna be ugly if we have the current staff in place and current core players.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 07:57 PM) It's the White Sox just being their irrelevant self in September, yet again. I can't turn my mlb on today. Too sick of the same cast of characters being lousy. What a challenge to change this team this offseason. Just getting rid of Lexi and filling holes with Saladino, Micah and Sanchez, etc., doesn't really excite me.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 07:49 PM) It just seems we are worse than that. I guess it might be the the timing of our homers allowed that is so frustrating I think it has something to do with all the lefties we have. Too many. Hitters get used to it and eventually square up and knock it out of the park.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 08:39 PM) You want Erik Johnson to be the #2 starter in the rotation? Ok then. Got to have left/right balance or you are in a pickle.

I love Danks as a No. 5 starter, but I think I'd love him more in the bullpen. Sox have to develop a plan for next season. Bullpen is not exactly a strength. How bout rotation of Sale, Johnson (need righty balance), Q, sign a cheap veteran fill in type righty; and Rodon. Danks is our late inning lefty so trade Duke. Robertson is closer. Now just need to find better righty set up options. Start with Nate. Throw Montas in the mix as a starter or reliever. So Sale, Johnson, Q, veteran righty or Montas, Rodon get the game to Danks in the seventh, Nate in the eighth and Robertson in the ninth. "On paper" a wildcard contending staff?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 11:15 AM) You seem to be so sure about Hillary beating everybody, and odds are against her even winning her own primary at this point. And Trump isn't going to lose by "landslides" if he indeed gets into the general election. He's going to get a LOT of votes from a LOT of people, why you think otherwise is beyond me. You're just guessing/hoping, and none of your thoughts are grounded in logic. I hope you are right about Hillary being given a real challenge. I haven't seen any polls where Bernie has a shot to overtake her BTW. I think it's all a smokesscreen like when Obama would be falling in the polls. If Obama could run again, he'd win in a landslide. Hillary is in the same party, so that's my reasoning behind her easy victory. Plus the entitlement thing. It's her participation trophy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 03:53 AM) Robertson and Duke make little to no sense for a team far from competing. That said, they were logical at the time...although everyone must have been shocked at overpaying a potentially declining closer for more than three years at those dollar figures. Melky was the dumbest one of all. He wasn't much of an upgrade from Viciedo because of his lack of power. He has got his average up to .280 and has some ribbies though. Overall I'd give Melky a C to C-minus grade.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 03:49 AM) 36 games at AAA Charlotte: .341 AVG, 7 HR, 20 RBI, 13 BB, 23 SO, 138 AB I think he's earned a spot on the big league club next year. Get rid of Melky and put Dayan back in left. Though that doesn't help our defense any. ... If we could dump LaRoche, make him DH and bat him ahead of Abreu.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 19, 2015 -> 09:22 PM) St. Francis was ranked. Was not a gimme game. Rice has to have one of the more impressive resumes right now, even with the pounding by Loyola. Nice. I figured St. Ed's sucked. Good to hear. I watched the Loyola thrashing though and I don't see how Bro Rice can improve enough to compete against team(s) like that. Loyola was so much better. Maybe Rice just had a bad day. I know these are just high school kids.

Too lazy to look it up. Did Dayan improve his eye at the plate? I thought somebody said he was hitting .300 with seven homers and a lotta ribbies. Has he reinvented himself for next season?

Oops I commented in the game thread, didn't see this. Lindor has to win it. He's too special. But Rodon ... my gosh what a talent. He's a fixture in our rotation for 15 years if he stays healthy. I can't understand how we don't win more with Sale, Rodon, Q and a Danks who was definitely an average big league starter this year. Robin had "some" talent to work with this year. We're a little lefthanded heavy though. I'd sign a veteran starter, one of those guys who get two year deals at 6-8 mill a year and trade one of our lefties.

I said none of the above. Robertson frankly got off to an amazing start but appears to be on the decline and is just another guy now. Not lockdown reliable anymore. The others speak for themselves. Just way too much money for their production. I'd add Duke to the list. He's making a good buck as well. Bonifacio and Beckham aren't exactly valuable pick-ups either. Gordon is officially a big-league bust. He won't get any more shots at starting by any team. If he's lucky he'll remain a solid gloved utility guy for another 5-10 years if anybody needs a utility guy. He does nothing offensively extremely well; good glove though.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 20, 2015 -> 03:36 AM) Rodon is getting more impressive for a rookie. I think it's time for him to complete a game. Yes sir. Rodon has put together a very very very nice season. At 8-6 he'll get some rookie of the year votes, although I assume Lindor has enough at bats to be a lock.