greg775

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 24, 2015 -> 09:46 PM) The cell looks nothing like Kaufman, with or without fountains Inside the Cell it is the same bowl. The original upper deck was just like Kauffman (way too steep). Jerry wanted a functional park like Kauffman and he got it. For the team, it's perfect: clubhouses, locker rooms, managers offices, staff offices. For fans it's a blah place that is very acceptable in terms of comfort.

Surprised the Angels are wasting their time on another Sox castoff. There was a time last year he had that sweet stroke going. But offseason came around and Gillaspie turned back into a pumpkin. Maybe with better instruction he'll be a good singles hitter to all fields.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jul 24, 2015 -> 05:09 PM) Just contributing to this discussion, FYI, in the book "Ballpark: The Building of Camden Yards," a rep from the HOK architectural firm was quoted as saying that JR was given the option to build Camden Yards in essence instead of what took place with the new Comiskey Park and turned it down. He was shown the plans but said no. And the rep specifically named him not another member of the organization when talking about that decision. The HOK firm designed the plans for both stadiums. Mark Reinsdorf was in love with Royals (Kauffman) Stadium for some reason and wanted the same stadium. That's what he got minus fountains. A pretty bland Cell. The Sox were mostly concerned with improving the clubhouses and offices and that's what they got. Except for die hard Sox fans most agree the Cell is a lousy looking ballpark. Great food and drink and all that but lousy ballpark.

This one in Louisiana. There are dead and injured. http://news.yahoo.com/official-2-dead-movi...-015727028.html Our country is officially insane. I know a millionaire who is thinking about denouncing his US citizenship in 10 years when he retires and wants to move to I believe it's Thailand. Here in the USA our political system is worst it's ever been with our political officials failing to work for the people, only special interests. Our crime is off the charts BAD. These type of incidents are ON THE RISE with no signs of slowing. Our economy is horrible and there likely will be an amazing crash one of these days. America is in deep trouble. I'm not trying to start something here, but it remains just a matter of time before one of these nutjobs brings a machine gun into a sporting event. Don't know if they'll shoot the participants or the spectators but it's all set up for the nutjob. Wait until the second half of a basketball game or football game, storm the entrances and start shooting. Once that happens, sports will be changed forever. THIS LATEST INCIDENT angers me beyond belief!!! Quit killing each other, Americans! caulfield- does the world think the USA is beyond hope?

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 24, 2015 -> 02:57 AM) I was just coming to mention the kidnapping angle. There is a 40 year old child disappearance that is just now being prosecuted and they point to that even as the start of the watch your kids all the time generation. Wow. I always knew it was the fear of kidnappers. Nice post.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 03:55 PM) So Greg, what you described, is not a way I could personally parent / raise my kids. I didn't have kids so I could ignore them and not be their and help raise them. I'm not going to be their to hand everything to them, but I do want to be their for their sports moments, etc. And when I had kids, I understood it came with responsibilities and that meant that often times my priorities would take a back seat (and I don't view it as a bad thing...you just have fun doing different things). Before my kids, I wouldn't have wanted to go to the park, but now taking my daughter to the park and pushing her on the swings is something her and I enjoy. True and great post. And you sound like a VERY GOOD parent! However you are a great case study for this issue because as a kid you were allowed to roam free like I was. Isn't there a part of you that feels sorry for your kids cause they won't be able to do that? And my other question is: No way in hell you would EVER let your kids roam around during the day as you were allowed to do, right? My guess is no way in hell you'd allow that. My take has always been the parents of today long ago were convinced if their kids could have that type of carefree, roam around, play with the neighbors kids at the park a mile from home unsupervised, they'd be so worried about kidnappers they just wouldn't be able to function. Folks, kidnappers ruined our society and guess what ... there aren't that many kidnappers out there.

Shark is on fire. Melky finally elevates a couple over the fence. Sox finally look better than a Central Division team. Yay.

It's pretty obvious Shark will be going to Toronto. That's the Sox's fave trading partner.

So the Detroit Tigers owe Verlander about 28 million a year for 2016, 17, 18 and 19. Bear with me a second. Let's say the Tigers let somebody else sign Verlander instead of giving him that ridiculous contract. Would it have killed the Tigers? Buried the Tigers? No. The SMART PLAY if you are a GM of any team is simply refuse to give big contracts to pitchers. Just say no. Ha ha to Detroit. Final comment on this: Let's say Verlander becomes so rotten he gets hammered almost every start the rest of his contract. Do they make him a long reliever at 28 mill a year? It's all Monopoly money in sports, but unfortunately the money the customer spends is not Monopoly money. Gimme a 10 dollar beer please and an 8 dollar hot dog, I'm hungry.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 24, 2015 -> 01:10 AM) Hooray for the pitcher named Shark His team mates hit it out of the park But if your name is Quintana his team mates say manana Great poem! I like it. QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 24, 2015 -> 01:19 AM) You let Shark finish? They couldn't. Have to give his new team a break. Aces need to be rested and coddled.

Somebody's going to get a good pitcher in Shark. He's having a good year. What do u know? Lift and pull and we hit four home runs. Only way the Sox can win. Good pitching and some home runs. We're back in the race, baby! !! Actually not, but this is how the team was supposed to win this year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 22, 2015 -> 11:54 PM) Sun Times has an article up pointing out that Abreu only has hit "4 line drives this month". of course, I'm not even bothering to link to it because it's in the Sun Times and their insane number of popups literally makes the page 100% unviewable. That website is crazy lousy. But I read they sold all their suburban papers to the Trib, so the Sun Times is about to be out of business obviously.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 07:59 PM) Eaton 8 Saladino 5 Cabrera 7 Abreu DH LaRoche 3 Garcia 9 Ramirez 6 Soto 2 Sanchez 4 Who thinks Shark should make this start? Why not? We're still in a hot pennant race for the WC. Hawk says so until the day the Sox are eliminated. That was his line in the St. Looie series. And there's no quit in that front office seeing if the team can get hot.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) The #Astros also had Jeff Samardzija on their radar, but couldn't afford to wait for #WhiteSox to decide on a course of action. https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/624275652238266368 Stupid front office thinking they could win when we knew it was over An organization that thought it had the bodies to win didn't even have the balls to fire Robin. That was the ONLY chance at seeing if this team had a WC run in it, which it didn't. So why no trades by now???

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 06:47 PM) The FO only mistake has been holding out to see if the team could compete. Yeah and that's a fireable offense. Everybody with a brain knew this team was trash at the all star break and weeks before the break. If this team wanted to see if it could compete it HAD to fire Robin so long ago ... that was the only 'chance' to see if it'd wake up these baseball failures.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 05:21 PM) They wait too long. The "sellers" market became "not that much of a sellers market" pretty quickly. We will late until last day and get some reliever in AA and be like "well you don't know what the market was like!" They wait way too long. There's no law that says they can't trade a guy before the all star break or get details worked out during the break when the team is as bad as this one. Bad, bad front office. QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 05:22 PM) If that's the case, you take the comp pick in the off season. That simple. Shark isn't the only guy that needs to be dealt asap.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 03:33 AM) Kind of weird he pinch hit for Flowers. Not that it makes much of a difference but there's always a chance Tyler runs into one to tie the game up since he's big lumox but Shuck won't hit a HR . Only power on the bench is Beckham and Soto and neither was used . Rosenthal is RH but if Ventura thinks the Sox get 3 straight hits to tie it he's crazy. Have to think HR in that situation even if Rosenthal gives up very few. To be fair, Flowers really looks lost at the plate right now. Robin probably just didn't want to watch him bat again. WHen Flowers is going bad it's pretty sickening.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 03:01 AM) I've been a big LaRoche defender all year but the last month or so he's been absolutely brutal. I wonder if he's had this batting stance his whole career. It seems a really ridiculous approach to hitting the baseball. With the defense putting all their defenders on the side of the field he hits the baseball, he's not going to get many hits besides ones over the fence.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 02:59 AM) Ha, LaRoche freaking sucks. You know it's bad when if you could void the contracts for LaRoche, Melky and Robertson, you absolutely would and let them sign elsewhere. It's like that with almost all free agents. ... Shields, Verlander, Fielder (before this year), Pujols (before this year), etc. Nobody's worth the cash. The key if baseball woulda done it is identify guys who will be stars (Salvy Perez types) and sign them for 4-5 years at 7 mill a year early in their careers.

Not even worth blasting LaRoche. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy. Seriously, why not shave if you are LaLob? Switch it up.

Avi drops one in there. Hits like that show he does have potential. I'm not in the Avi sucks category yet.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 02:46 AM) I mean Robertson didn't make a bad pitch there. Molina just made a contact and voila! Bases clearing triple. LaRoche coulda made the same contact with two men on base and the Sox up, 2-0. FAIL.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 23, 2015 -> 02:34 AM) Danks pitched great tonight....happy? Yes! Thank you.

Professional hitter! He hit it where it was pitched, unlike our guys. Sox had tons of chances to make this game a rout, but Sox are worst team in the AL (by season's end). Embarrassing. Nice hit by the Cardinal. Our guys of course won't hit like that. Won't stroke the ball where it's pitched! Sox gonna lose again, lol.

Tough crowd. I've waited and waited and except for Heads, no positive comments about Danks. You guys have proven you are one, tough set of message board fans. I have players I despise, but I give credit when it's due, like saying Melky had a nice slash hit tonight for the RBI.