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I wonder if Tank will be a star with the Orioles or somebody next year.

We need a Tyler Flowers pinch hit home run.

Thank goodness Avi is pretty fast. That's an easy DP ball for most hitters.

Good job by Abreu in drawing a walk; ump didn't ring him up. Nice.

Abreu too many foul balls; gotta put it in play. Is K coming?

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 01:12 AM) He shoulda done the Home Run Derby. Not doing it clearly messed up his home run swing! /s Glad he see he finally hit the 100 RBI total. What a fantastic season from our ace hitter! Great observation. Can yu imagine how mad fans would have been on here had he competed in the derby and had these second half HR numbers? Wow.

Nice hit by Gillaspie. He'd be fine as our third baseman next year provided his defense gets no worse than it was this year. Would be nice to sit him versus some tough lefties.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 03:04 AM) He was essentially de Aza three years later....of course, knowing to dump Alejandro and tank before the season....maybe deaza seemed superfluous but we needed to give viciedo this season Martinez has good speed but isn't a great fielder...that said it would have been a huge improvement...even rajai Davis for that matter DeAza had that two-homer game recently and a great doubleheader yesterday. Makes me mad he didn't bring it with the Sox. Maybe we have good players but they just don't flourish in Chicago for unknown reasons. Should make it easier to trade Viciedo.

Oh boy, more games against the Twins. I can't believe baseball has this unbalanced schedule. it's really annoying and stupid to play the same teams so many times.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 06:18 PM) f*** political correctness. It is the most damning religion in this country. It's stench first started in Europe and now they are starting to see the error of their ways. Most girls throw different than boys. Go watch a school mixed PE class. Yes, but some really fire the ball. Just watch a college softball game. Those infielders and outfielders can throw bullets. I think when girls start playing catch when they are young and/or get proper instruction, just like guys they look good in terms of throwing a ball.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 10:18 PM) If story is true and pics are legit, I can't see how the Vikings keep him. NFL should suspend him indefinitely. Well put Fathom. The pix of the cuts are so sad. If those pics are real, he should be suspended 5 years. QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 10:19 PM) I was lucky enough to never get a switch, or belt, or spoon, or really any spanking that I can remember. The one thing my dad did do was pull my ear to make me go do something, and I f***ed hated him for that. I would get scabs under my earlobe from him pulling them. Once I got old enough to smack his arms away and yell at him to stop touching me, it never happened again. But that's nothing compared to a lot of people, I'm sure. Good for you telling him to cut that s*** out! Good for you. When I went to Brother Rice, the brothers could smack you around a bit. I never got hit but some buddies did. One time a lay teacher hit a kid in the ear and bloodied him a bit. I seriously forget what happened to the teacher. Not sure if he got in trouble or not. My dad was an alcoholic and screamed a ton but never hit me or my mom and my other sibs.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 13, 2014 -> 05:43 AM) They picked Harold Baines #1 overall in 1977. They also picked HS catcher Danny Goodwin #1 overall in 1971. Goodwin opted for college and was drafted #1 overall four years later by the Angels. He amounted to nothing. And you have aptly described why I do not care about the draft. Just give me wins.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 10:55 PM) And you want them to win a lot of games next season without signing any major free agents, thus relying on the prospects that you don't care about. That's an interesting line of thinking. There are ways to build a team that have nothing to do with where the team finishes the year before. Rooting for the Sox to finish as low as possible IMO is counterproductive.

Didn't want to start a whole new thread since this was not a life and death case of brutality like Ferguson, but this police brutality thing has to be discussed in America. Three cops tackle an 80 pound high school girl cause she won't give a teacher her cell phone. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us...phone.khou.html Here's how this incident should have been handled ... Teacher/principal: Give me your cell phone; you can pick it up in my office after this class is over. You were not supposed to be using it in class." Kid: "I will not give up my cell phone." Teacher/principal: "It's against the school rules to use a cell phone in class. As a result of your not complying, please give me your parents' phone number now and sit in my office until your parents get here." Then when parents get there, inform parents their darling has been suspended. I would think that would have diffused the situation without the cops getting involved. That said, if the cops needed to be called, the cops should have also talked to her and not brought her to the ground trying to get a frickin cell phone. The response was quite inappropriate for this situation IMO. It's not like the cell phone was a bomb. There was no danger. The kid could be suspended a week or month later after cooler heads prevailed. Those cops should be fired for taking the kid to the ground over such a petty thing.

It's worth hearing the mother's position on our government not exactly shining in the case of her son getting beheaded. http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/11/us/james-fol....html?hpt=hp_t1

I read this week some Ferguson protestors, 30 or so, got arrested. They were going to stop traffic on I-70. That's a good way to get arrested. Protests are fine. But you can't have human road blocks on major highways. Geez.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:18 PM) He will be allowed to play again. Will anyone sign him will be the question. I guess the Vick thing showed anything is possible. I think it'd be very unwise for an owner/GM to employ Ray Rice. I say no team will be dumb enough to sign a person like Ray Rice.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:01 PM) Should anyone ever hire Ray Rice again for any job? Great question. I am kind of speechless trying to come up with an answer. QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:05 PM) Exactly. TMZ has some of the worst journalistic integrity out there. Praising that site for journalism just seems wrong. Yet the stories they wrote and broadcasted resulted in some of the biggest consequences in sports history, an owner getting fired and a league commissioner probably getting fired. I'm open to whatever you want to call it, but if the New York Times did that they'd win Pulitzers. I know nothing about journalism, I'm just saying as far as results, TMZ has a lot to brag about.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 07:59 PM) TMZ is not journalism. Yet can you deny TMZ "broke" two of the biggest stories in sports history? Sterling and the ultimate firing of Goodell? I mean, they wrote articles and published tapes which traditional journalism outlets do. So what do you call this?

So UConn wins it all last year after being unranked most of the year. Who is this year's surprise team? I'd say Kentucky wins it with Syracuse the sleeper.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 07:09 PM) Someone compared this to Watergate, come clean early and it all goes away. Snowball is rolling now and it could cost Roger about $800M in earnings from the NFL. This story is no longer about Ray Rice. Kudos to TMZ for getting the tape. Now TMZ has gotten an NBA owner to be replaced (that was their expose on Sterling), Ray Rice suspended and an NFL owner likely canned. WOW. That's pretty powerful "journalism" work. Unprecedented journalism work. Of course they probably paid for the tape which is journalistically unethical I believe. That said ... Ray Rice can never play football again. He knocked out a woman for gosh sakes. There are no excuses. How could any GM/owner sign off on acquiring Rice in the future? People make mistakes, sure, but you can't sign a person who knocks out a woman with a punch. You just can't. And all these people that are speaking out like the announcer of the Niners who got suspended two games. What are they thinking? That guy got a 2 game suspension for saying stupid things.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:51 AM) So you don't care about draft picks OR signing a top free agent this offseason? Because that's going to be what happens if the Sox end up falling out of the top 11 picks; they won't sign any top free agents. No James Shields, no Victor Martinez, no Russell Martin, no Nelson Cruz, No John Lester. Basically the Sox could sign Yasmani Tomas and maybe Edison Volquez or Justin Masterson. No, I really don't. My stance is I want my favorite team to win every game it plays and then at the end of the season see where the team fell and assess the future at that point. I really am not interested in the day to day "what if" draft game. I'd rather the Sox start beating Cleveland, Detroit and KC on a regular basis. As well as Minnie.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:40 PM) I think you are right. I also think it wouldn't be long before another team moved to Chicago in the AL. As badly as they have played the last couple of years, as much as attendance has dropped, they are still middle of the pack in revenue. The American League doesn't want to abandon this market. If the Sox moved tomorrow, is there anyone who doesn't thinkthe A's wouldn't mind taking their place in Chicago? In fact, back when Bill Veeck saved the Sox, the rumor was Finley would have moved the A's back then. I don't think the current Sox owners or future Sox owners would ever move. I'm just saying if they used the old threats about "we'll move if you don't build us a new stadium," to the state, the state would say, "Go ahead and move," this time. So I don't think the team would ever go there. The beloved Cubs (sarcasm) will remain in town forever and the state would play its cards and say, "We've still got the Cubs." Sox won't win any future scaredown over stadium issues cause of the horrific economy.

Those are great paragraphs. 1.) That season described the Sox post 2005 in a nutshell. A disaster (except for the emergence of Abreu and Sale). 2.) That's hilarious stuff. Dunn's wife comes up with a great one. 3.) He's a great guy, sure. And he got paid a ton of money, so good for him. I'm just relieved he's gone. He was a nightmare IMO in terms of production on the South Side.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 07:47 PM) Unless the White Sox get sold to someone who is willing to basically finance their own stadium, I doubt the state of IL is going to be in a position to foot the bill on another and give a team making millions another sweetheart lease anytime soon. So while we can dream where to build a new one, the chances of it happening in the next 25 years is probably really slim. No owner is going to build his own new stadium. And the state is not ever going to finance a new stadium again. So the Cell will remain forever with upgrades possible. And, yes, think of all that money they'll continue to make on parking for years to come. They'll never, ever risk losing that money. If the Sox ever threaten to move again I think the state would let them move.