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QUOTE (MAX @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 04:38 AM) That's not a terrible question. I can't believe my love of the Sox is still getting questioned with "troll" accusations. El Rockin is the most optimistic Sox fan ever, beyond belief, and yet nobody calls him a troll. I just praise him cause he's so optimistic. I think Dick Allen is the only one who has mentioned some of my opinions actually turn out 100 percent correct yet my haters bring up the "troll" stuff occasionally. I promise you I bleed White Sox colors.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 05:19 PM) are you a troll? You ask that just cause I don't give a flip about the baseball draft? I think most of America agrees with me considering few people pay attention to baseball's draft when NBA and NFL Drafts are big TV extravaganzas. I am a huge White Sox fan who believes if we add AJP or another catcher who can hit, Abreu and Grandy, we could maybe win next year.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 07:46 AM) And want them to be forever bottom feeders? How the hell is a No. 2 draft pick going to magically make us better when in many years the No. 15 pick turns out to be a better player than No. 2?

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 05:43 PM) Danks will be shopped, I'm sure. There's no way that they keep 4 of 5 starters as lefties next year. Especially if they want to try Johnson in the rotation. Hilarious. Just another guy an MLB team wants/needs to get rid of after signing him to a ridiculous contract. Keep signing guys to lucrative long-term deals, general managers and owners. Really makes lot of sense. Almost immediately after signing guys, teams want to rid themselves of these players. Insanity.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 11:09 PM) It was tongue in cheek because you call any player that is unclaimed an overpaid bum. But now that Paulie is, is he a bum? Or is he still going to get that 2 year deal? And trust me, he's one my three childhood baseball idols (Frank and Mark being the other two), but he's not that good anymore unless his back magically heals at 39 years old. I didn't know it was tongue in cheek so I was standing up for Paulie. My bad.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Aug 17, 2013 -> 04:06 AM) We are winning too often. Stop it please, white sox. Just win, baby. Beating the Twins means something to me, yes it does.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 08:21 PM) I don't think Flowers can be overpaid when he pretty much makes the league minimum, regardless of how much he sucks. I just figured whatever Flowers is being paid is too much. QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 08:22 PM) Danks has been quite bad and has made a lot of money, regardless of injury. You can't account for De Aza's mistakes because that introduces a sample bias because you are simply recollecting what he has done based off you memory. Alejandro De Aza has actually been one of the Sox best players. I guess I was trying to tell Soxtalk what I thought it wanted to hear re. DeAza. I thought he was generally pretty despised on here. I don't mind the guy. Don't like his defense and/or baserunning very much.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 07:52 PM) So John Danks is earning his $13 million putting up a 4.54 ERA and a 5.10 FIP while De Aza is barely earning his league minimum salary putting up a .275/.331/.423/.754 triple slash with the second most homers on the team. Danks is coming off the injury and just getting the arm going again, so I figured he was doing all he could to earn the cash. DeAza ... I figured I better account for his incredible number of stupid mistakes/misplays this season.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 07:48 PM) Come on, man. We all love Paulie. 38 year olds with back, knee, foot, and wrist problems are typically on their way out. I just sensed some extra venom in his last few Paulie posts, kind of like me commening on Dunn/Rios.

I had no idea the Sox outfielder prospects were doing that badly. Those numbers pretty much couldn't be worse in most all instances.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 06:25 PM) You didn't even watch...why would you care? Cause I love the team and follow its fortunes every day.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 03:54 PM) I did a fist pump this morning when I saw that the sox lost in a walk-off. I kind of like the way the past few games have gone. Lots of positives in SP and young position players, bullpen blows meaningless games in the end. I cussed when I saw the Sox lost in a walk-off. Painful, embarrassing season in all aspects of being a fan to those of us who don't care about the draft.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 02:10 PM) Then we can give him a standing O when his new team comes to Chicago, as long as someone convinces that manager to let him start a game that series. Uh oh. I'm sensing somebody doesn't like Paulie very much. We'll never know how badly his injuries have been. My guess is they've been really bad. If so he'll probably retire. QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) I don't know. He has shown he can come back strong from injuries. His back has been bothering him all season. If it gets right he may be able to do it. PTATC do you think if his back is killing him, he'll just retire? Back pain probably is even keeping him awake all night, right?

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 03:02 PM) Overpaid? Yes. Bum? Never. This year's team and whether player is overpaid or not.... Kepp-Overpaid. Lexi-Overpaid. Becks-Earning his money. Paulie-Overpaid. Flowers-Overpaid. DeAza-Earning his money barely (I wouldn't argue if somebody thinks he's overpaid). Viciedo-Overpaid. Dunn-Overpaid. Sale, Quintana, Santiago, Danks-Earning his money. Reed-Earning his money. Gillaspie - Earning his money (assuming he is paid very little).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 02:51 PM) Unfortunately that would not be an unfair summary of his production this year. Ouch. You think it's fair calling Paulie a "bum?"

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 03:58 AM) Sox a pitiful 3-9 against the middling Twins this year. Yikes. Close to 3-10. Draft positioning. Very, very embarrassing. Robin has a lot of things on his current managing resume that he should not be proud of. My gawd. Wake up, White Sox. 3-10 vs. Minnie???

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Aug 16, 2013 -> 02:56 AM) He hits .240 without using his legs at all. I would say he should integrate his lower half into his swing but I assume his average would drop even lower. Something he can't afford at .240. He reminds me of a college player. Unreliable defensively with an average bat. I'd keep him around as utility guy maybe. If he's starting again next year, we remain in trouble as an organization.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:46 PM) -Only once over the course of his entire career did Kingman have an average over the course of a full season under .200. -He played in the postseason in his 1st season in the majors. He never did again. -Adam Dunn walks approximately 400% more than Dave Kingman did -Kingman ended up with 442 homers at the age of 37. It's certainly not likely, but 5 more seasons of playing could lead to Dunn ending up with 600 homers. Ultimately, Dunn is going to end up as the "Fred McGriff" of this generation as a guy who hit a lot of home runs and was generally a pretty good player but was never good enough for the Hall no matter what his final numbers indicate. It'd be interesting to walk up to a fan at the Cell and do a word association. Other ballparks, too: "When I say "Adam Dunn" what comes to your mind?" I'd utter something negative. Yet here people are pointing out he has moderate HOF numbers when he's done playing. Interesting.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:25 PM) Only on Soxtalk would there be a serious conversation about Adam Dunn's HoF chances. It'd be like putting Dave Kingman in the Hall. Kingman was the same as Dunn wasn't he? Pathetically bad for stretches with a ton of K's? Then he'd get hot and blast some bombs. Like Dunn, Kingman never played for a playoff team did he? Also didn't Kingman have years where his average was under .200 for a long long stretch?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 10:06 PM) This is a little bit putting the cart before the horse, but its amazing that in this day and age people are still mixing alcohol and painkillers. Its one thing to purposefully kill yourself, its another to just be stupid about drugs. With all the people on prescription meds for anxiety, depression ... is it OK to get completely drunk 2-3 times a week when you are full of those type of meds? Let's say you are on all sorts of anxiety stuff and high blood pressure medication and yet you drink like a fish. Could you just up and die one night?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 09:12 PM) As long as he's putting up an .800+ OPS against RHP, he's going to have at least a part time job. Once this contract runs out, does he make the MLB minimum? Does he love baseball enough to play for 1-2 million a year? Judging from how he not so long ago was by far the worst hitter in baseball, I'd say nobody will pay him more than the basic salary. If the Sox can't trade him and his contract expires on the south side maybe the White Sox will be that team to give him 1-3 mill a year or a Keppinger-like deal.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 08:45 PM) I think it has more to do with philosophy. He's finally figured out he is not a power hitter and is just hitting. Could be. The bent knees are obvious, however. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 09:41 PM) People? No. Greg? Yes. Thing is, we're not going to win anything until the players improve their on base percentage. Big Hurt somehow hit for power and also walked a lot.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 07:09 AM) I find it strange that you can compare Dunn with the Sox to a trainwreck, but you would never compare Ozzie with the sox to a trainwreck. I don't know how anybody could say a negative word about Ozzie right now after watching Robin manage this team. Worst fundamental baseball team I can ever remember and he shares in that.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 07:32 AM) I think White Sox brass views Garcia as the 1B/DH of the future. From what I've read and what I've seen (I will not over-react; I like him) Garcia again looks like a White Sox free-swinger with a bunch of talent (see Viciedo, see DeAza) who could use some coaching. I like the fact Manto got Beckham to bend his knees. Beckham should now be a .300 hitter the rest of his career, though his power may have been zapped, which is OK. He was on fast track to the minors if he kept his old stance. But folks, our youngsters (Phegs isn't going to make it without some refining as well) need help. Is Manto the man the young players will respect enough to give that help? I'd fire him and bring in a FAMOUS hitting coach. Big Frank probably won't do it. He's too rich to want to travel that much during the season. Is SOMEBODY out there??? Garcia's future may depend on it. QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 07:56 AM) It would make so much sense for the White Sox to go after him. The good news is the Dodgers aren't likely to bid for him due to having Gonzalez at 1B, same with the Cubs and Rizzo. Thing is, if the White Sox scouts decide he's a can't miss prospect, the Sox HAVE to acquire him if they want to be relevant in the Central Division quickly.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 02:34 AM) I've suspected this all year. His physical tools are still there. His head hasn't been in the game. Unless his family situation is 100 percent solid, he'll never be able to shake this. Quite a problem for Dunn n the White Sox. Baseball should have a Mr. Courageous Award like some sports, such as college sports and reward those who play through pain or adversity.