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Loyola pounded Brother Rice. Score coulda been much worse. 28-0.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) Gotta factor in we play a lot of divisional games. That can bury us. All of a sudden, we own the Royals, though. (joke).

QUOTE (Saufley @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 05:25 PM) and we won't find answers next spring training because our spring trainings are a joke. Nate is just another Petricka with a bit more upside IMO.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 05:32 AM) All I will say is this...for as much as some of you guys like to get on your high horses and lecture the rest of us about how morally deficient we are, we had a thread where one of our own posters was faced with losing his home. Of course, not one of you so much as touched it. Not an offer of advice, not any research, nothing. Now maybe some of you reached out privately to the poster, and if that is the case, well then I take back what I said. But many of the same folks that are telling the rest of us all how we should be living happen to be absent when the rubber hits the road. Are u crazy? Tons of people responded to scs. Tons of advice was given. Shack, seriously, were you looking at the right thread? Scs got a lot of support/advice. s***, you start a fundraising campaign for him. I'll give something.

I have a sneaky feeling Cubs will get beat pretty good in the one game wildcard at Pittsburgh. Only hope for Cubbies is to play that thing in Wrigley. I am not a big fan of the one-game Wildcard. As a Sox fan, I'm not even crazy about that. I want to win the division or not make the playoffs at all. The one-game WC is bad for baseball IMO. One game?? Give me the division title and a real playoff series or give me nothing.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 03:45 AM) That Hungarian reporter/camerawoman should be ashamed of herself. Tripping a father running with his young son in his arms? That would make Greg's Top Ten awful list if it happened in the U.S. outside a church. I actually hadn't heard about it. Just saw the clip. WTF was she doing? Is she against refugees? That dad had no chance but to go sprawling. If I was him I'd be tempted to go back and break her camera at least. WTF?? That's assault. She should be in jail.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 11:05 PM) Can we all at least agree that saying this about his own daughter is a little f***ed up? Somehow I think Bill Clinton saying that about Chelsea would get a little bit of press.... Donald is pretty outrageous. If ANYBODY else says that s*** about his own daughter, he/she is a goner from the race. Instantly. Person is branded a psycho/predator type and that's that. It's still a non-sequitir which is going on in America. Americans remain incredibly P.C. (the latest is Caitlyn Jenner blasted by Ellen for not being 100 percent in favor of gay marriage), yet Americans are loving Trump being so non P.C. So Hulk Hogan and the rest of the world have to watch their Ps and Qs at all times, and Trump can say whatever he wants and everybody laughs/applauds. What.A.Country.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 10:47 PM) I'd imagine more are going to start falling off soon. Trump's sucking all the oxygen out of the room and none of the lower-polling candidates can get any traction. Will be interesting if the Republican candidates who have experience in government will quickly follow suit and drop out or weather the storm until the three frontrunners (all with no experience), Donnie, Surgeon and CEO failure Florina, lose their mo-jo.

Good. He's had a fine season for a newcomer. I think he's been great. Shut him down. No need to pitch him any more.

Talking about all time Sox teams is senseless cause people always want to mention the old, old, old timers and thus anybody who played past 1960 pretty much is pooh-poohed or laughed out of the discussion. I hate having to put the old oldtimers on the list, making it a very boring list/discussion. I mean try to put Buehrle on a list and you'll get Ted Lyons'ed and Billy Pierced to death.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 04:03 AM) I've found that guys who are "mental midgets" are generally poor at baseball fundamentals and simply don't know how to play the game. The Sox have them by the bushel full. Which explains a lot to me. Again it comes back to accountability. There is very little showing in this franchise right now. I understand you can't fine players for doing stupid things and not executing like Richards, Lopez and Stanky could do but you sure can bench guys, or send them back down to the minor leagues. Instead we get another game where guys like Ramirez, LaRoche and Melky are in the lineup instead of kids who need seasoning and to see what they can do. Mark Lip Man is a wise man. He speaketh the truth. LaRoche's pop ups are growing mighty annoying. Melky just blows. Horrible acquisition of a guy whose power is gone.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 04:04 AM) In JR's mind there's a big reason... probably a few million of them......it's called being under contract for next year. Mark Somebody at sox fest should ask KW or Hahn if they feel confident the Sox can survive that long road trip to start next season over .500. I mean I don't want to be a broken record (already) but are any of you confident the Sox can get through those first 13 games better than 5-8? or 4-9? That would immediately tell the fanbase and the world that .500 remains the best case scenario for the season. And those games aren't even full of Central teams, which normally mean tons of Losses. Maybe managers don't matter at all. But I have no confidence Robin's troops can even play .500 ball the first 2-3 weeks of April.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 03:51 AM) Another mental midget performance by the pen. They seem to get the idea of playing for a better draft pick. Yeah. Robertson is back to not getting many save opportunities. This pen, as it turned out, would have been a major problem in September if the Sox actually had been in WC contention. It might behoove the Sox to convert some of these top draft picks into reliable relievers. In this day and age having a couple good setup guys is almost as important as starters. Sox really have nobody reliable back there except Robertson (sort of, pretty much). The rest of those guys are un-reliable at best.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2015 -> 03:07 AM) You mean like if Avi didn't rob a grand slam? Overall, this was an awful game. No one besides Olt played well. And Olt is fool's gold. IMO if he gets the job next year it'll have the same outcome as Gillaspie, midseason release.

Ho hum. The usual Central Division suspects own us. Plouffe has been a thorn before. Just like Rayburn, etc. If I were Jerry, I'd have a meeting with Robin, Hahn and KW and ask them their plan to become competitive in the Central again. I have a feeling our advance scouts aren't helping much, but we get beat by the same guys way too often. I mean, Robin is gonna be back and there's no reason to believe any of this is gonna change next season.

Sox have had so many bad relievers the last couple years of Ozzie and the Robin era. I wonder if it's the same for all teams, but it seems we've had some really BAD relievers.

I'll cut Nate some slack as I do Johnny Danks in coming back from injury, but I've never been a Nate guy. I know there are big Nate fans on here. All I can say is I hope you are right and I'm wrong. I'm not a Nate enthusiast at all.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 05:18 PM) Holy s*** greg. Why do you refer to yourself in the 3rd person? I'll try to stop.

Hopefully some teams will lose lawsuits for mega millions, thus baseball will finally put up nets.

I would love Gardy to get a shot at our roster.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) Joe Torre was a s***ty ex-manager who was a color guy on the Angels when I first moved to LA. Now he's in the HOF. Funny what talent can do for a s***ty manager. You are right. Talent is the biggest factor. But can you ever take intangibles into consideration involving managers or do we assume anybody can manage? If anybody can manage and it's only about talent assembled, fine, ignore this thread. However ... I'm really fearing that road-heavy start to next season under Robin's direction. It screams 4-9 or 5-8 and another terrible season. I'm also thinking some managers: Bevington, Trey Hillman, yes Robin might actually be bad enough to affect results no matter the talent.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 06:34 AM) Five or so below .500. I hope the team is much better, though. I bought mlb.com package. Nothing would surprise me. I've said it time and again ... can this team start winning series in the Central? I hope we get one in KC to open the season. It would be buzzkill to get swept by the AL Champs who will be playing with house money as everybody honors them opening series. You guys despise Greg's picks. Look at this one I made, baby. I will accept praise in this thread if u wanna praise Greg!!

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 05:49 AM) I think two legit bats (preferably RF & 3B) and improvement from some of our holdovers makes us contenders next year. The pitching staff should actually be better with Rodon's continued development, Johnson replacing a disappointing Shark, & a full season of Nate Jones. We don't need an elite offense, just can't be bottom five in OPS & ISO like we are this year. Guys, Nate Jones is not elite. He just isn't. One thing Sox better do is dump Olt when season ends. He should not be in spring training with the Sox, tempting them. He's a bust.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 07:53 PM) Greg I will bet you $5000 that Hillary does not win 95% of women voters. If it's Hilly vs. Trump do you agree she'll get more votes from women (percentage) than any candidate in history?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 07:53 PM) Greg I will bet you $5000 that Hillary does not win 95% of women voters. I mean if it's Hillary vs. Donald. I guess there are still some older women who just will vote Republican. I forgot Kansans elected Brownback for gawdsakes just cause he's Republican. Maybe I'm a little high. Would u agree that if Donald gets the Republican nomination he'll get the least amount of the woman vote in modern history? That is a lock. Hillary will bury him that's why I think there's still a chance his pride will have him ultimately drop out of the race. How could he stand losing to such a weak candidate in Hillary? He'll forever be known as the first to lose to a woman as well.