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QUOTE (harkness @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 01:36 AM) Chuck is a nice guy.. But all those people earlier this year praising his skill.. I'm not sure what you are smoking but its some good stuff. Some of you guys expect a lot out of your announcers. I like Swirsk tonight. QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) Stone does seem awfully sarcastic Just now he seemed to be enjoying telling that story to Swirsk. Seemed like he was OK with him. QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 30, 2015 -> 03:26 AM) No he won't. Mark Robin seems like an outstanding guy. He has to know the team has no chance with him in charge. If he is manager in April and loses the first 3 vs. KC again (which will happen, unless it's Detroit or Cleveland or Minnie we open with this time and lose 3 to them) it'll be the same ol s***ty season starting all over again. I think he'll agree to step down. He knows his teams are disgracefully bad and have no chance again vs. the Central Division teams.

Robin has pride. He'll resign after this season. You can't save your job directing a team this s***ty. Bye Robin. You tried but the team is one of the worst in baseball again with a relatively decent payroll. Bye bye.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 09:28 PM) It's all ridiculous mantras and pointless rituals given way too much supernatural qualities. Catholics believe Jesus is actually present in the communion wafer and the wine, instead of just treating it as symbolism like it should be. But we make a big deal out of the fact it is real, not symbolism. In fact it is the whole reason we have Catholicism and Mass.

On a police related note, some lowlife piece of s*** gunned down a police officer Friday night while he was walking out of a gas station's convenience store in Texas. This is unacceptable as a society ... again. I would think we are going to look back at 2015 as the year things started to spiral out of control violence wise and never ever get better. The poor kids being brought into this violent pathetic world. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/29/us/texas-she...tion/index.html

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 07:01 PM) I don't think anybody on this Earth has any actual concept of God. So I doubt any form of religion would even come close to getting it right, if there is a God. Christians, especially in the south, basically go against the basic tenets of their religious beliefs by the way they treat people who aren't like them. Jesus would accept everyone, southern Christians wouldn't dare. Living down here, you'd think Obama, Caitlyn Jenner and any openly gay person were the most evil people on the planet. It makes me sick. I was raised Catholic, I realized it was a joke when I was 13. I work at a global Catholic television network, good job security. Why did you realize it was a "joke" at 13. I don't think it's a joke at all. I believe in Communion and most things in the Catholic faith.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) I find Jimmy John's boring...there is really nothing unique about their sandwiches at all. You can go to ANY grocery store and make a Jimmy John's sub. Potbelly, Snarf's, places like that...you can't just replicate their food at home without really trying. I agree. Jimmy John's is not a great sandwich.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 04:53 PM) Vegas certainly isn't buying into this Cubs team. Odds to win the series are worse now than they were before the season started. That's good news then. Think of all the Chicagoans out in Vegas betting 1000 or so bucks on the Cubs winning it all. Vegas knows so I'm glad we're safe this first postseason of their upcoming dominance. No Cub title this year!

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 05:10 PM) Someone wil be glad to take Laroche. He has a good hitting history before 2015 and has a gold glove defense. We took a chance on him and I am sure someone else would too. Now saying that if we keep him that's fine with me too No team will take on LaRoche, elrockin. There's age to consider and it's obvious he's done. There's no reason to give him 500 at bats and get about 10 home runs. QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) Going to be lots of disappointed people in here. Do you know what team you root for? They aren't doing a full rebuild. Not happening. They will add somehow in the offseason, roll with great pitching, and try to win in 2016. Just the way this org does things. Afraid you are right. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 06:35 PM) I'm really surprised by the size of the Melky Cabrera apologist society. He didn't strike me as the type of player so many would make excuses for. Excellent post. Melky is a big-time problem. Got to somehow get rid of him.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 07:07 PM) In general, I try to stay pretty level headed on this board, but I Gotta get this off my chest..... . If you root for the sox and also like to watch the Cubs, that's cool. Certainly not gonna criticize anyone for that. I get that they are exciting and good and are a Chicago team. I have tons of friends and in-laws that are Cubs fans, and plenty who root for both. Not everyone gets caught up in the Cubs vs sox stuff, and I get that. However, for a select segment of sox fans, rooting against the Cubs is part of being a sox fan. Growing up in the SW burbs, I fall into this category. And I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna catch flack for hating on the Cubs. Do the Cubs have great young talent and a super bright future with a great front office? Of course they do. But why do I have to all of a sudden change my feelings for that team based on their success? Rooting against them is part of my identity as a sports fan, just as they have fans who will root against the sox for their lifetime. If you wanna hate on me and b**** at me for that, I guess that's your right. You can think it's childish, but it's my opinion (and part of my sports ethos) that rivalries in sports are a great thing. And I would never expect a Michigan man to root for the Buckeyes, an Midshipman to root for the Cadets, etc. Cubs vs sox may not be as big of a rivalry as those others, but if you don't think the rivalry exists, you clearly didn't grow up in the same neighborhoods as I did. And when it comes to me hating on the Cubs, I'm gonna keep watching and hoping they lose every single goddamn day. I am getting sick and tired of people (and not just on this board) trying to tell me who I can and can't root for and why. Great post. It sucks that we blew our 10 year window. Sox should have built on the WS title not sucked after winning it all. Now the Cubs finally have caught the sox and it could get really ugly the next 10 years. Sox appear to be all pitching, nothing else. Cubs look like they are going to dominate in the Bryant era. Very very sad. f*** the Cubs but they are probably gonna win 2-3 WS and we have a lot of work to do to be a WC contender again. Sox seem very far off. f*** the Cubs though. Hope they lose early in playoffs. QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 08:57 PM) Because the White Sox are really, really bad. The Cubs are over 20 games over .500. What team are you watching?! Yep. They are way way better. I think their manager has helped them, too. QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 11:14 PM) The national media thinks of us as a bunch of Cub hating, umpire attacking losers who become relevant once a decade. That probably is true. The White Sox are recognized more for wearing shorts in 76 and attacking the ump than the 05 title. That turned out to be a glorious fluke if you will. So glad Oz and the boys took advantage that year and won it all. If they "only" made the ALDS or the WS only to lose that woulda sucked as it turned out. Cause now the Cubs appear primed to steal a couple WS minimum.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 04:43 AM) Ugh being a sox fan sucks right now. Just keep losing. Sorry to piss off a lot here with that but it's best thing for us. Devil's advocate ... they'll just draft a great college pitcher. Do you have the confidence they'll make the right trades of pitchers for everyday stars? We can't win with great pitching alone and there's no doubt the sox will take another great pitcher. Big deal. We have great pitching now and horrific everyday hitters.

Did anyone see the compiled list of quotes out of one of Trump's books? Hilarious. I wonder if Kelly will bring up some of his comments in the debates vs. Hilly. One was tweeted, then deleted: "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?” He said while his bride was walking down the aisle he thought, "What am I doing here? She's not good enough for me." He also talked about how he can get any woman, just a list of crazy comments. He said, "If I were running The View, I'd fire Rosie. I mean, I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.' We're all a little chubby, but Rosie's just worse than most of us." He said: "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." http://theweek.com/articles/569725/123-thi...p-actually-said America is crazy at this point in time. People love the fact Trump is non PC and saying all this crazy stuff. Yet they are the first to be outraged at any non PC comment by anybody else. So America do you want to be PC all the time or not? If not ... elect Mr. Trump. He's nuts (in a good, cocky way).

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 01:38 AM) Pull Danks this is so predictable. What was predictable? That he'd have another good outing as he did?

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 29, 2015 -> 03:14 AM) No s***. Field a good team for f***ing once. Jeez Good business would have been to have somebody go through the crowd with box seats in hand and give out some free tickets for a game in mid September. This team is one of the worst hitting teams in modern Sox history. I said "modern."

This is why the Sox pretty much have to start over in terms of putting a team on the field every day. The pitching is fine. It's wildcard worthy. But the hitting is so bad that no way this team will contend for a wild card next year without a total overhaul. Can Hahn pull it off?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) My mom could barely walk by her early 60s and she was just a teacher. If she didn't have a solid pension to fall back on she'd probably have been teaching for 5 years from a chair. It's asinine to make people work until they are 69. There will be lots of stories like your mom's. You work til you are 69, according to stats, you'll likely have five years of freedom til you die in mid 70s.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 10:40 PM) These are the costs of the freedoms we refuse to live without We have to hope we're never in the wrong place at the wrong time. So many people are getting killed/ambushed by cowards.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 06:21 PM) Am I the only one here who wants Kenny Williams to stay? Does he have any more fans here? I'm not a fan. He needs to go.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 05:14 PM) Wanting to talk about the Cubs on a board for the White Sox seems pretty silly to me. You would think if you were a fan of the Cubs, you'd want to talk with people who were also fans of the Cubs. Here there really aren't other Cubs fans as much as there are the paranoid and angry about what the Cubs are doing, plus the token King of Bandwagons. What is sad is it's pretty obvious they might finally win a WS. Probably not this year but soon. They have the core. Now they just need to keep signing free agent pitchers. For them to not win it all, they have to blow it like we did with Shark.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 11:56 PM) Why is Jimmy Carter your baseline of religious arguments, greg? Couple of reasons. Jimmy Carter is one of the greatest Americans ever. No hint of scandal. Never a hint of inappropriate behavior. One of the most amazing humanitarians of all time. Not only that ... he is brilliant. I don't know how many books he's written, but he is intelligent, classy, wonderful human being. He has a news conference to tell the world the cancer has spread to his brain. I could print some of his quotes but basically he said he was fine with whatever happens. He didn't push God on everybody but when the reporters asked him stuff he gave honest answers saying God is in charge of this. To have such a BRILLIANT person, remarkably smart person believe in God, the image of the man upstairs amid the clouds, how can I not use him as an example of proof that it is not ludicrous to believe there is an all powerful GOD in charge of us all? Jimmy Carter is THE epitomy of greatness and class. And he believes. I wish him the best as he battles this cancer

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) It's the NY Daily news. That is what they do. I wonder what the NY Post did. They usually are even worse. This story is really heartbreaking. I will say the silver haired man who runs the station has really been classy in this terrible time. His news conference today exuded class.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 05:32 AM) apparently subway knew going back in 2008 (NEWSER) – Subway may have known about spokesperson Jared Fogle's alleged desire to have sex with children since 2008. At least, that's what the former owner of a Subway restaurant in Florida tells Business Insider. Cindy Mills, who was a Subway franchisee from 2006 to 2012, says Fogle started calling her every day after she met him at a company event in 2008. She says he would make inappropriate comments, telling her "he really liked them young." Mills says Fogle told her he'd had sex with child prostitutes, some as young as 9, in both Thailand and the United States and even encouraged her to prostitute herself on Craigslist. Mills says she went to executives within the company with her concerns but was ignored. She tells Business Insider she spoke to the CEO of Subway's affiliated advertising company, which employed Fogle, and he told her Fogle had recently met a woman who would hopefully "help keep him grounded." She says she didn't go to police because she feared Fogle's "money and influence" and didn't want to lose her job. Business Insider reports Mills did request to remove all images of Fogle from her restaurant, but Subway denied that request. "Every time I would see him on TV in a commercial with his arms around these children, it would kill me," Mills says. "I couldn't stand it anymore." This is crazy bad. He may be one of the most evil individuals in this history of America if this stuff is true. NINE years old??? My gosh. Is he actually the devil reincarnated? I can't even imagine how sick you have to be to want these things and admit to such activity to people.

Just listened to 40 minute interview with Bernie Sanders. I thought he was pretty boring and had an annoying voice (listen, these things do matter in this day and age). However, I did like what he said about reforming the election process. It's simply insane that Hillary can raise 1 billion dollars for her campaign and Jebbie raise a ton and Trump raise as much to rival the national debt. It guarantees we have Presidents who will let the wealthiest top five percent run our country and have the middle class be stifled and stuck in the muck as always. I like that Bernie baby wants to raise minimum wage big time, make college FREE at public universities and I loved his comment that Social Security is fine and it is an insult that some candidates want to make people work til they are 69 or 70. Let me say this ... it would be FINE to have people work that long, if f***ING businesses would hire people over 50. Age discrimination in this country is now rampant because businesses do not want to pay a living wage. So most businesses hire folks right out of college til they hit 40 and start making money, then they DUMP THEM. The American dream is not to have a good (not great in terms of salary) job like teacher, businessman, accountant, and get laid off at 60, then have to end your career working as an Uber driver, starter at a golf course (if you are lucky enough to get that job), or fast food pusher til u are 69. I liked some things Bernie baby said. Ms. Hillary is NOT for the middle class, folks!!! Give Bernie a look. I'll have to explore Biden's stance on issues as well.

Just have Hawk do all home games and like somebody said, the Boston and Yankee road series and Cubs road series. He doesn't need to be doing all those boring Central Division road games. I hope they don't bring in some golden throated homer. The former Sox announcers are great. Let Stoney do the play by play in the games Hawk doesn't do with DJ as his color man. Let the remaining two radio guys do the radio, whomever they may be.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 02:54 AM) Time to clean this lineup up. Get rid of some guys Yes sir. But Rodon for President as well! He's special. Shut him down the rest of the year and let him enjoy this success.

I see the good Sox showed up again today. Rodon has shown enough this season. He's a future star. So I'd agree to shut him down all of September. Let EJ replace Rodon. You might consider shutting down Sale and Robertson too. Let somebody else close and maybe add another starter from the minors to give Q and Danks a couple extra days rest the rest of the season. Eaton is hot and getting his numbers up to respectability. Sure hope he does better the first 2 months next year than he did this year. He's our catalyst and can't suck for the first 7 weeks. GO SOX. Trayce should play every single day; ditto Micah. Don't let any guys like Beckham even have one at bat. Go with all the future stars, not the dead weight guys. Any minor league catcher down there who needs some seasoning as well?