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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 23, 2015 -> 10:47 PM) Petricka gives up far too many hits. Definitely isn't a set-up man He's just another guy. Fathom has a good read on our talent this year IMO. Unfortunately Saladino and Sanchez are Just Another Guy's as well. Ditto Flowers, Soto, Beckham. And I'm fearing Eaton, Garcia and Melky are teetering toward the Just Another Guy category which would would not bode well for our team's future.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 23, 2015 -> 11:03 PM) Starting with the game Friday, the Sox have 13 games against teams with losing records, Mariners twice, Red Sox, Twins. For them to have any hope, any chance at all for even a winning season I said they'd have to go at worst 10-3 in this stretch. They've just used up one of those losses. Mark Finishing sub .500 with this many "name" players would classify as a very very disappointing season. Normally a fireable offense for the manager and coaches IMO.

I see my boy, Danks, got rocked pretty good today. I still think he's a work in progress from the surgery. He is what he is ... a decent No. 5 starter. Now can he get good enough to be a 3 again? How the hell do I know? I am not a scout (of course the Sox scouts blow chunks as well). It's the Sox's fault for giving him all that money, not Danks' fault. Anybody who gets a lot of money in the future (Shark ring a bell) is gonna be the next Soxtalk whipping boy. Almost nobody earns their $$$ in baseball nowadays. I see LaRoche has 12 homers; Abreu 23. So LaRoche could still get hot and finish with 18-20 homers. Abreu could hit 30. I don't wish LaRoche ill will. If he could regain his stroke he might conribute next year. For him to contribute fully, they shoiuld let him play first and DH Abreu who is still not exactly graceful afoot at first, though I do love him as a player/hitter.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 23, 2015 -> 03:43 PM) I suspect we've already had a non-religious president or three. Even today, it's political suicide as a national politician to admit you don't believe in God. Those days are rapidly closing, though. As to the original question, I consider myself agnostic. No one know what happens when you die, but if I had to guess it's like going to sleep indefinitely. Why are those days rapidly closing? Trump has mentioned God and I'd have to check on Hillary's stance. So why is it changing? The world is so politically correct and we don't want to offend anybody so the atheists are winning regarding holidays like Christmas. I'd say in 100 or so years it'll be a country that never mentions God because of PC times 100 and Christmas will not be recognized by workplaces as a day to give employees off.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) The Sox should be in "wait and see" mode right now. Give everyone another year to develop . The Sox would have a slick fielding SS/2nd base combo with Sally and Sanchez and all cost controlled for many years. Wait til next year doesn't cut it. Sally and Sanchez would be the league's weakest ss and second base combo offensively.

Nice win. Another extra inning win. Five under .500.

Yay the good Sox are back again. Another win. So team is five under .500 Team can afford to play well three more nights in a row max to cut it to two under .500. Then they'll get all worried and tight again and lose five in a row to get it to the comfy seven under again. Good win tonight though. The good Sox are back with three wins in a row!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 08:40 PM) Yeah, and for whatever reason, organized religion sometimes seems to serve as a landing spot for these types of individuals, which could not be a worse place for them to land. They're put in a position of authority and power and they seem to either abuse it or enjoy it just a bit too much. Yeah, I totally despise the abuses of power you mentioned. I remember when I was an altar boy and through two years at Brother Rice no priest or lay ever made any advances toward me. Though some of my peers weren't as lucky. The worst I remember was one priest being a chain smoker and he smelled bad of smoke as we did Mass. Of course both my parents smoked on the south side so I should have been used to it. As far as the pedophiles, It would be nice if all were caught and imprisoned forever. It is interesting in a growing liberal culture we've never had a President who was an atheist or non believer. That's pretty wild. You'd think in this growing non-God culture there would be some political candidates who do not believe. Yet to date all have mentioned God. I know Bill Clinton did. I would assume Hillary is not an atheist as well. Oh well not a lot of responses. I'd love to hear if Soxtalk has way more nonbelievers than believers which is my suspicion but so far it's only 4-2 voting.

Two great posts. Amazing that in one case a private school teacher makes it hard for you to graduate for no reason and in another some pervert regligious tries to hit on you during an important counseling session. Chalk up two very negative instances re. religion.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 01:27 PM) Why is it silly, Greg? Look at this thread, look at some of the horrible things that have happened in theaters? Who cares what age they are, teenagers find access to guns and do horrible things just like older people. All this s*** you are talking about in this thread over people being outraged over theater shootings, and you call it silly to check people for weapons. I mean they have teenagers working there checking the customers.

They are checking handbags and backpacks here in Lawrence. Seems kind of silly. The low paid movie people are all teenagers.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 09:10 AM) What's scary (and, well, good I guess) is that elite glove light hitting 2B 23 year old rookie Carlos Sanchez might finish with the 5th highest wRC+ on the team. Sanchez is holding his own but goodness where the hell is the overall production. Hindsight is 20/20 but it's obvious Carlos should have been named the opening day starter at 2B. Not only is his defense elite, he also did nothing but hit in spring. The ORG however sold the narrative of Micah and it sold them right down a historically awful defensive start. Excellent post. It was a very bad decision as it turned out to go with the sieve Micah over vaccuum Sanchez.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 06:11 AM) It's really going to suck if a team gets a wildcard spot with 83 wins, that'd be such a huge missed opportunity. As bad as this team is and has been, it's only five back in WC. I am not dumb enough to expect a WC run but like you said, what a missed opportunity. So many games just wasted.

The good White Sox showed up again. It sucks that this team has been so bizarre. Still only five out in the wildcard race. Obviously too many especially considering we play KC six more times. It's been talked about a lot, but Sox really have to attack this Central Division problem. Until we break the jinx against these teams we're gonna have a lot of losing baseball seasons ahead of us. I mean lets say the Sox got red hot and STILL tried to battle for the wildcard. You know we're gonna lose 4 or 5 minimum against KC in the final six and certainly we play other Central Division teams the rest of the season as well. Until baseball wakes up and reduces the number of games against division teams from 19 to about 10 Sox are gonna have major problems. Tonight's win: The good SOX. Sale and the bats returned.

I was watching some Bill Maher shows on youtube and enjoyed his debates with Bill O'Reilly and various other people about God and religion. Maher believes there is no God, thinks the Bible is a fairy tale, and says once we die we're kaput forever. We will have no knowledge of anything; we'll be gone. Religious people believe there is a God and our spirits will live forever. Some people elect to practice on Sundays; others do not. I was hoping to get a thorough count on Soxtalk of believers vs. nonbelievers and how many of you practice your religion by going to church services or Mass if you are Catholic on Sundays. Feel free to put any comment no matter how brutal about whether u believe or not. My guess is Soxtalk is vastly full of nonbelievers. I do not say that because I don't like Soxtalkers. I think Soxtalkers are very brash and skeptical if that is the right word and I sense an 85 nonbeliever; 15 percent believer count.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 05:15 AM) Carlos Sanchez has been hitting very well lately. We know his defense is elite, but if he keeps hitting, he'll be a MLB starter for a long time. His defense is so good it's amazing. If he hits like this it could be our new Ray Durham for longevity as you say. I am now down on Anderson the minor leaguer after watching his at bats. I wouldn't count on him with the long swing and the huge bat he uses. Is he can't miss offensively? I don't see it.

The good Flowers showed up today, folks. If he was rested more maybe he could be stellar (better).

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 03:53 AM) Carlos Sanchez is hitting .314 over the past 33 games. That's pretty good.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 22, 2015 -> 03:51 AM) Seattle should be on the phone this offseason shopping Felix to Boston. He's just not the same. Not to be a broken record, but all pitchers turn to hell, especially ones on big contracts. 180 million dollar contract through 2019.

Nice hit by Sanchez, very nice, but I wonder why he was trying for three there? No chance in heck he'd make that. Looks like the good Sox showed up tonight again. I think our team plays it's best baseball when it hits 7, 8 below .500. It kicks butt for a while then hits the skids again.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Aug 21, 2015 -> 06:54 AM) http://www.vice.com/read/how-jared-fogle-w...d-in-prison-820 That article was weird. He'll either get hurt or he won't it basically said. Did you see the NY Post controversy? The headline was something like Jared ... ready to get a footlong every day in prison?

Slow news week for Trump which is probably a good thing. I just picture a scenario in which his 15 minutes of (political) fame are up and the public/press will move on. This thing is all timing. He needs to lay off for a bit then hit it hard again at some point.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 21, 2015 -> 04:06 PM) Wait until Kenny leaves and Buddy Bell gets promoted to assistant GM. Good call. That will not be pretty.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 01:40 AM) Perfect. Hmmm. Not so perfect. QUOTE (Lillian @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 01:49 AM) At this point, the Sox have two guys who will need to be platooned. Both Gillaspie and LaRoche should not face LHP. Lillian spot on. QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 03:01 AM) Laroche is clearly a "good" left handed bat, saying otherwise is just silly. And we still have a lot of money to play with, Rick knows what he's doing. Oops he's not a good lefthanded bat anymore. QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 22, 2014 -> 05:00 AM) In pouring over his stats, I see LaRoche has had a couple off years amid pretty good years. Hoping he doesn't get hit by the White Sox free agent jinx and have that off year. I would say as of right now, I approve of the deal, though as a caveat there is a chance he's at the age he could simply start sucking. I'm not saying he will, but he's 35. Like I've said in other threads, I hope our scouts thorougly discussed his pros and cons and how he PROJECTS from this point forward, rather than just looking at his past performance. I pray they did that. p.s. I will say he's known as a good fielder, so I'd say make Abreu the DH. Maybe it'll piss off Abreu, but if LaRoche is a gold glover type first baseman and he's being paid 12.5 million, have the best man play first base. He did simply start sucking at his age. And our scouts failed again in projecting.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 21, 2015 -> 06:58 PM) I watched the Anderson and Montas videos. You guys did incredible with these. I know I mentioned it in another thread, but Anderson had a significant number of swings and misses (especially on breaking pitches in the dirt). As for Montas, he looks bigger than usual. Montas probably needs to get in shape. He looks like Colon. Anderson. He takes a healthy cut and seems to use a big bat. He looks like a modern free swinger. Doesn't choke up at all with two strikes like all hitters today. Is he a power hitter?