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QUOTE (elamins @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 04:18 PM) I have plenty of stuff to fill my plate between working out, softball, flag football and just social life in general. I have friends she had my friends so she is gonna cling to the first guy she talks to. I actually took it kinda well I think the hardest part was goin to get my stuff back and saying goodbye to her niece and nephew who I treated like my own kids. Damn, what age group are you 2? Just curious. Think she's met somebody new? Sounds like you'll be fine.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 06:35 PM) Ah the fan paradox. 'this team is so bad/why arent other teams paying up for my team's players i dont get it' Good line. I think we have a pile of dung to work with on the trade front (considering the fact our tradeable chips make so much money; average to above-average talent to go with mega dollars).

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 08:40 AM) I think we'll do decent with Rios, at least a top 100 prospect. Lindstrom is a 33 year old reliever with two months on his contract. Obviously he's not going to bring a notable prospect back but the idea is for our scouts to pick the right lottery ticket. No need to trade Dunn. Crain another reliever with two months on his contract but he's also an all star with a sub 1 ERA in the AL (and our park), some team will give us something nice (maybe a top 10-20 prospect or two). You're absolutely sure of what everyone will bring back except Peavy. Probably because you're pissed he can bring back a nice haul. No, regarding Peavy. I don't know if teams want to mess with having him on the team at all since he gets hurt so much and makes a lot of money. It might be easier to just pass on Peavy rather than have him get hurt and have to deal with all that.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 04:27 PM) I finally watched this last night and all I have to say is what a strange, strange cat. All this talk with him referring to himself/"Hawk" in the third person and then of course the endless stories about baseball HOF-ers from back in the day which we've heard from the booth hundreds of times over the past years. It seems like all the players (non-Sox) he's knowledgeable about are from decades ago. I've never gotten when you've got a major market team with an announcer always dispensing down-home, old-timey southern wisdom in a southern-y accent and constantly firing off cliches like "can of corn" when nobody under 60 would even know what that means. It's time for a change. Who do you want in the booth? Do you realize what boring monotone puppets are employed as play by play announcers nowadays? The only announcers remotely interesting have years vested in a team where they can't be fired for being interesting.

Crain will be dealt if he's healthy for 2 players who are not high level prospects. Peavy will be dealt. I have no idea what we'll get in return. Nobody will take Rios or Dunn off our hands. If somebody takes Rios, we get very very very little in return and have to send cash with him. Who cares on Lindstrom? We'll get absolutely nothing good for him. He's just a body in the bullpen.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 06:36 AM) Updates for anyone still following this saga..... I'd say I came out ahead today overall. Some bad news, but mostly good news I'd say. My girl Jess did some recon for me. Texted her saying "Joe came by and bought a rose from me last week. How are you guys doing?" or something to that effect. She replied... "Yeah, he put it on my car. " End of convo. So at that point I'm pumped. I'm back in this thing. Then...... I get a text from Jazzy saying "Sending Jess to do your dirty work, huh?". I replied yes, I asked Jess to find out what is going on, because I clearly have no idea. She then proceeded to tell me it was shady of me and if I wanted to know I should ask her myself. I explained to her that her lack of texting and short responses didn't seem very inviting to have a real conversation, plus she wouldn't hang out with me this weekend, so I couldn't talk to her in person. We then went back and forth texting a bit before she sent me a kind of s***ty text saying "I wasn't dicking you around, I worked 57 hours last week. I had a day off and I spent said day at f***ing Warped tour. I love talking to you, but it's not my first priority. I texted you yesterday and you didn't respond...soo..." Now I am like, f*** this s***, I'm not replying. I do my show at 2, get off the air at 3 and get out of the station by 3:15, before she even showed up. Luckily no one at work questioned why I needed to leave early, so when she arrived and presumably asked where I was, no one knew why. I wanted her to think maybe it was because I was avoiding her. Seemed like a good idea. She texted me about an hour later saying "Where are you?". My buddy told me not to even respond. Let her stew on it, and then snapchat her a pic of US Cellular when we walk in to the game. So that's what I did. Sometime after the game around 10 I get a response from her saying she was out with friends playing laser tag. I said "Nice. How was the show today?", blah blah blah, making small talk. Then in the middle of the convo she says "Movie night tomorrow?". I play it off. "That's cool". I think I'm back baby! Hopefully tomorrow goes well at work and when she comes over and we will be back to normal. Good to know that her main issue w/ us dating was me going back to school, considering that was MY main issue with us dating as well. Man. I think she's crazy. What was all that crap about sending somebody to do your dirty work. Oh well, I think she's definitely not worth the trouble. Hate to say it, but if you want sex, get safe sex, but ultimately forget about this one. You're not even dating and it seemed like she wanted to fight with you when she said that crap about not responding to her text. I may be mistaken, but this girl is way too drama filled at 19. Do the movie thing and sleep with her if you want, but she's not somebody to date IMO.

This team is so bad that I fear we're already out of the 2014 pennant race. I figure by the end of April we'll be out of it again. Bad bad baseball.

Charlie Weis cut a good line today at Media Day. Asked how he has managed to sign some decent recruits at horrific football program Kansas, he said something to the effect of: "they want to play. I tell them, 'Have you seen that pile of crap' out there? (on field for Kansas).'" Not bad in this day and age of P.C.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 05:37 AM) I asked a high-school favor of a mutual friend of ours. This girl Jess, whom I have been friends with since we were kids, met Jasmine at that party last week. Her and Jasmine hit it off and they now text each other. Jess agreed to do some recon for me and text Jazzy tomorrow asking what is going on with the two of us, and try to give me a damn clue as to what Jazzy is thinking. I honestly have no idea at this point, but it's driving me nuts. Also, my buddy just invited me to the Sox game tomorrow. I need to leave the station at 3:15 tomorrow, about 15 mins before Jasmine would arrive. DukeNukeEm, Greg, and anyone else that condones freezing her out will enjoy that. Now I won't even SEE her at work tomorrow at all! That could really get her thinking about me if she ends up being bored at work without me to text and look at. Nice, don't return her texts from the game. Then the next day at work if she asks just say you were so busy into the game you didn't do much texting. Or send her one text in reply like, 'this Sox game is amazing. lotta fun.' The recon girl might give you some valuable information.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 02:35 AM) Detroit's current closer is 8 for 8 in saves and was 9 for 9 in holds. Reed is 24 for 28 in saves. Yet Reed is the one who is pretty damn automatic and clinches a guaranteed pennant? Why do they want Reed if they are happy with Benoit then?

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:51 AM) Meant with another girl, this one is over for him. Girl is 19, she isn't mature enough to get over it. Ah, good point. I could see just forgetting about this one until/unless she basically jumps him wanting sex. Seems like she still has interest otherwise she wouldn't text him at all.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 19, 2013 -> 02:12 PM) I got on FB a few years ago when my company decided to move their operation to Florida and all my coworkers and I were let go. So it was a good way to keep in touch with them and explore any job opportunities that came up. I ended up connecting with a friend of mine that I had lost track of after 5th grade. He was a financial advisor and actually helped me take care of my 401k from my old job. Another time I got together with a handful of my old classmates through FB and we built a float for our high school's 100 year anniversary. Just a couple of weeks ago I found out through FB that a girl that lived 5 houses away from me when we were kids had passed away. We were never really friends per se but it was sort of shocking to see that someone I'd known almost my whole life had died that young. I don't post all that much on there but it's certainly been useful in keeping me informed with things I would've otherwise missed. I'm also just nosy enough to be interested in what everyone else is doing with their lives. Even if it's someone I haven't talked to in years. Great examples to show those who refuse to have a facebook page. You never know what will pop up from the past. You got 401K help just cause you were on facebook.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 02:44 AM) Dude, you didn't want to date her just fool around with her. Stop being sexually frustrated with this girl and go get your dick wet. He's got to wait on that, at least for a bit. The rose thing screwed that up, at least temporarily.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 11:09 PM) Well, she texted me this morning and I have yet to reply. It's been about 20 hours now since I texted her, which is a record for us, as silly as that sounds. Awesome. Correct play. QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 12:30 AM) I put girls on ice literally all the time. I hate texting though, I cannot remember the last time I initiated some text relay with anyone other than my mother. Chillhead, if I could impart one little piece of wisdom on you is that once you've got a girl who claims to be willing to have sex with you but "just not tonight", she either wants you to be aggressive in that moment and take it (if you place a lot of value in your freedom avoid this, a legally dubious idea) or, more likely, she's playing a game. The game is pretty simple, back the f*** off and make her come to you. Be busy, or at least claim to be, next time she wants to do something. Keep her at arms length a little. Engage her? sure. Talk to her? Duh. But lay off for a little bit. She wants to make sure you aren't going to be coming on too strong, which of course you f***ing did (lol). You win the game about a week later when she's literally begging for it and you're in a position of power to govern the relationship going forward. Good call by Duke IMO. QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 02:10 AM) Gaaah, see the irratating part here is that I only came on strong because I got fooled by the carnie! Like I've said I had no interest in asking her out. Not that I wouldn't WANT to date her eventually, but that was not even a thought in my head until she mentioned "this is my boyfriend" to the carnie, which completely threw me off and I obviously misinterpreted what she was doing when she said that. I never meant to ask her out, I just did it because I thought she was expecting it. Now, unless you mean even leaving a rose on her car that said "Have a great day!", is also coming on too strong, then fine, I'll cop to that one as a mistake, but like I said, I asked for reassurances from female friends before I went through with it, and they all loved it, so maybe we all messed up on that one in some way. Anyway, it's now 23 hours of isolation. lol. This next update is going to sound really dumb and childish, but f*** it, it's the technological age we live in, and we are both young adults..... A couple hours ago she tweeted "Anyone want to play with me?". At the moment I was talking to one of my roommates, and she told me I should *favorite* the tweet, but not reply to it. Basically acknowledging that I saw that she wanted to hang out with someone, but it wasn't important enough for me to text her or ask to hang out. Sounded kind of dickish to me, but I trust her and she was adamant about this, so I begrudgingly went ahead with it. Not sure what the result of that will be. 3 hours later, it hasn't warranted a text or anything, so who knows. Judging from today's developments, it looks like she already wants attention back from you. I'd continue to play it cool, play it slow, and keep doing what you are doing. I agree with favoriting the tweet rather than responding to it. Nice nice move. That is crazy about the carnival incident. I can see how that screwed this all up. You'd think she would have said something to you about why she called you her "boyfriend" right after you two were away from the carnie guy. That was s***ty of her. I can definitely see how you'd think she was telling the truth there.Too bad you didn't figure it out immediately and ask her, 'Good job getting rid of that guy by saying I'm your boyfriend.'

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 02:57 AM) A few weeks ago I'd say De Aza would be shipped out and it wouldn't have bothered me. I'm starting to think DeAza is a keeper. I've given up on Viciedo. Everybody knows I dislike Rios. So I'd keep one outfielder, DeAza, while trading Rios and Viciedo. As far as infield, I'd keep Gillaspie as a utility man for next year, I'd keep Lexi and Beckham. I'd trade Paulie cause we won't sign him to another contract and he's unfortunately gotten old. I'd keep Phegs. I'd trade Dunn and Flowers if anybody will take either of those 2 guys. As far as pitching, I'd trade Peavy and Crain and keep everybody else.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 01:19 AM) Let's say everyone else plays .500 baseball during that time, the SOX would be roughly 8-9 games out. Man. It's weird to have the season be over so quickly this year. Very strange. 2-3 seasons of this can decimate a fan base as precarious as the Sox's, right?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 09:17 PM) We'd be 9 games behind with a lot of baseball to play. If things were a little closer than they are and we swept Detroit I'd look to add a piece if possible. Sadly I think they let this get too far away. I was thinking today when the announcer said Tampa had won 17 of 19 (with the Sox help of course). If the Sox starting today won 17 of 19 (which we won't, but...) how many games do you think the Sox would be out. I still think we'd be a bunch of games behind. Stat people?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 10:19 PM) Rios and De Aza are almost identical offensively. Rios has 1 more appearance. They have the same amount of hits, doubles, triples and homers. Rios has 9 more steals and 25 less ks. DeAza has walked 3 more times. Pretty amazing. I think Dick Allen owns this board now. Dick Allen is by far the smartest baseball mind on this board, IMO. Listen to Dick Allen. He swings a heavy bat and is on a hot streak with posts. GO SOX!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 08:13 PM) LOL, an "automatic division title and likely WS" from trading for a closer? You're joking right, you have to know more about baseball than that. From my vantage point, all Detroit needs is a better bullpen to put this season in the championship bag. Yes, I think Mr. Automatic, Addison Reed, would give them an automatic WS berth this season where they'd beat the NL entry. Reed is pretty damn automatic.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 07:17 PM) Yes AJ dogged it quite a bit. As do a lot of major leaguers when the hit a hard hit ground ball to the SS. Comparing Rios' desire to AJ's however, is like comparing Goober Pyle's acting to Jack Nicholson.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 06:57 PM) We don't "have to move him" by any stretch of the imagination. The only good reason to move him is if some team offers a ton for him, so much so that it would be dumb to say no. The Tigers are one team we could conceive of doing that. I'd want four can't-miss prospects and one or two of them really really really great players to give Detroit an automatic division title and likely WS like that.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:28 PM) Sox fans are a funny bunch. Nobody dogged it more than AJ. Seriously, he loafed, complained, and cried more than anybody, yet people put him on a pedestal. I guess you have to throw your bat to prove you care. You thought AJ dogged it? I think he was a "shoulder shrug" runner at times, but he may be all time Sox leader in TWTW. One of the best "gamers" in White Sox history without a doubt. QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 05:10 PM) Nobody would have cared about Rios dogging it if Ventura didn't pull him and mention it to the media. But now it's a national story. I don't see why you are condoning babying Rios. The guy has a history of loafing. Every GM in baseball knows everything there is to know about Rios including his penchant to dog it. It would have taken a lot for Ventura to ignore that. You should be furious at Rios, not Ventura. If you think Rios' trade value has declined for that incident, your anger should be directed to Rios IMO. Ventura would have to resign if unwilling to discipline a guy in that situation. He'd not be a leader at all.

I think it'd be wrong to trade him to the Tigers. Just find a team in another division to deal him to if the Sox have to move him.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 06:50 AM) Well avoiding her until then will be nearly impossible, considering we work together 5 days a week. That would be way too obvious and s***ty of me to not even speak to her at work. Texting, however, could be where I "make my point". And no, I am pretty sure none of those female friends secretly want me. lol. I would absolutely take any of those 3, they are beautiful girls, but no, they genuinely though it was adorable and figured she would be smitten by it. Hell, I thought the same thing, really. That's what I don't get about women. If it happened to them, they'd be creeped out, but when they hear such a story they get all emotional and think it's a great idea.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 05:53 AM) Lol man greg you are classic, the Ozzie Guillen of this message board no doubt. What are your thoughts on PK famously dogging it to first ever so often when he hits a ground ball right at a guy? I believe soxtalk even started using the phrase "mean mugs and shoulder shrugs" (or something close to that, idk if we went all Nelly on him) at his lackadaisical-ness when it came to running to first. Now I know PK isn't the athlete Rios is so I can feed your rebuttal with that but still...Is he lazy? Is he stealing a paycheck? It was a hard hit ground ball right at Simmons, who by the way was being praised for his D in todays game, that should have been as routine as it gets. I don't blame him for being frustrated with the ab, putting his head down, and basically becoming Paul Konerko for a second. I'd venture to believe a good deal of major leaguers would have done the same. I think Paulie should be disciplined as well if he's obviously dogging it. He's so slow, however, it's hard to tell even with the shoulder shrug.