The Beast

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 2, 2016 -> 12:35 PM) If you are playing a video game, why don't you just keep the White Sox awesome players and add more players? Because they always underachieved after the trade deadline. I loved dealing some vets for prospects and turning it around the next year or somehow turning it around that year. But it's not real life. If it were real life and we waved the White Flag, I would still deal Sale because it would turn the team around with the package they'd get. But as I've seen discussed here, you can't trust Hahn and the current regime to turn the team over and evaluate players correctly.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 05:41 PM) SSS had a column on this, about the many lives of Avi Garcia this year. If Jackson hadn't gotten injured, if Coats hadn't sucked (and/or not been trusted by the front office 100%), if Melky hadn't gotten hurt, if Davidson hadn't gotten hurt. As it stands, he better start hitting for more power (he has had a few clutch singles with RISP) or Saladino's going to take some of his time away. With Bourgeois or Leury, he probably doesn't have much to worry much imo. Hopefully it's Bourgeois, that guy used to take it when I used to see him play.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 04:26 PM) what a bummer. Such bulls*** luck! Avi stays alive on this team as all of the replacements get injured or suck.

How can this not be it for Robin? Changes need to be made and it's not entirely his fault.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 12, 2016 -> 04:24 PM) Can we stop with the stupid relocating theories? It's utter f***ing nonsense. Baseball is looking to expand and has at least two franchises with legit cases to relocate. The Sox aren't going anywhere until their sweetheart lease deal ends in the very distant future and when it does they'll likely move to the suburbs or lakefront. They aren't leaving the Chicago metropolitan area. I think attendance would improve if they moved to the suburbs but it wouldn't happen. Given the recent renovations to the park I doubt they'll leave the Cell and if Jerry passes, they'll probably just clean house (from KW on down) and change philosophy. I didn't say they were going to move, I just hope it never happens (unless it is to the suburbs).

Hopefully Anderson will be more patient at the plate going forward. I realize double plays happen but he was not patient and swung early in the count. It's nice to see some young energy in the infield though, and I hope he can contribute like some of the Northsiders prospects have (Schwarber, Bryant).

I've noticed that Lawrie is always in an 0-2 count...pitchers must know to get ahead of him and he'll be an automatic out.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 12, 2016 -> 03:55 PM) Hmmmm NO. I am hoping for new ownership and organizational change, but I hope that doesn't come with a move.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 12, 2016 -> 03:52 PM) Huh? Whats that supposed to mean Poor performance and bad attendance and Jerry's passing = a relocation to another city.

Did Cabrera really make a huge mistake yesterday bunting to get the runners over? I saw a lot of strikeouts in the game day recap and thought that was more of an issue than Cabrera's bunt yesterday.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 12, 2016 -> 03:43 PM) Taking your kid to a Sox game in a Cubs jersey is just bad parenting. Screw that kid. Another poor misguided child.

From Angels in the Outfield in reference to the White Sox: "We do it all summer, and it's a big bummer. No matter who we play, we give the game away. 'Cause we can't win. That would be a sin. We even lose the games before they begin--"

Braun, CarGo, Lucroy, Bruce mean nothing if the team doesn't win and they don't fire the staff, KW and the minor league staff. They need to build a team from within somehow and it doesn't start with gutting prospects for stars. The last 8 years show that is not a recipe for success...Jerry should have recognized that sooner so he may have won a WS before he passes.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:41 PM) I see Shields start tomorrow to be critical in that if he can deliver a win it might jumpstart these guys. I can see a trade for Jay Bruce being possible but offense hasn't been the worse problem we have had Lots of games were critical before the sweeps started happening. Thanks, Texas!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:37 PM) If nothing gets done after another Shields implosion and former two-time prospect Gio Gonzalez throws a no-hitter and the Royals sweep them again at USCF... What would it actually take? Will Carlos Sanchez be recalled to hit 5th and DH tomorrow? Maybe if they get a runner on and no outs, the next guy HAS to bunt to move the runner over. Then they have to drive them in. Last guy to drive a run in gets smacked upside the head.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:34 PM) Sure. Derek Jeter, Ivan Rodriguez, Troy Percivlle, and Michael Jackson are all kicking down the door from their primes begging teams to give em a shot. Wait. Maybe that list isn't so accurate. I'll have to check with my sources again before you take me at my word. Antonio Alfonseca. Rafael Palmeiro. Wavin' Wally Johnson. Harold Baines. That midget from when pictures were black and white. Pablo Ozuna.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:33 PM) I never understood the foolish rule you had to be a fan of your local team. People would suggest that to Sox fans I'm sure. It would really suck watching the Sox move out of Illinois and win somewhere else. I'd be a Sox fan but not like I am as they are in Chicago.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:32 PM) Courtney Hawkins. Jared Mitchell. Jon Rauch. That other Murphy who retired. Bobby Howry.

Little Nicky Delmonico to the rescue! Maybe if he hits and they win the team won't completely relocate! On a serious note, will they move the team elsewhere? God I hope not, then I'd have to be a Cubs fan.

I saw two on and no out. The optimistic side said we could get a run, the realistic side said, who cares - they'll find a way to f*** it up. The old teams we had before we started to suck in 2009 at least hit doubles and home runs. I would give anything for Ordonez or Konerko in their primes to be on team right now. But no...we have to watch Saladino make two errors at short, the bullpen issue free passes and our offense come up empty. This Shields trade doesn't do s*** if they don't start winning and playing like competitors. Blow it up and actually fire someone - KW, Hahn or RV...just to say "maybe we need to go in another direction." My god...corpseball sucks to watch!

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:15 PM) Desmond also came with a draft pick... Who cares? We will probably draft Jared Mitchell again so I would have taken Desmond.

While I'm on a roll and we continue to suck ass, can anyone f***ing explain why Cubs fans show up in their gear at the Cell?

f*** off White Sox. The slide continues and your b**** asses continue to suck. Go get a paycheck while we watch bad baseball and wait for the team to move when JR passes. I'm sick of watching a team get a lead, lose it and get beat. Jeez.

Let's start winning some games in the division!

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jun 2, 2016 -> 07:37 PM) In a more macro take I look at it like this: Manufacturing jobs WAY gone in general. Most agree. Therefore the need for low management, entry levels is gone. Going to the office jobs WAY down in general with the increase in internet & technological efficiency. Don't need unskilled dudes at desks as much really. Sales jobs WAY down due to tech improvements. Less local mom&pop shops due to Walmarts, obamacare. $15/hr will destroy mom&pop for good. Obliterate. He gone. 40hr weeks are becoming more non-existent in lower-end, entry-level positions. More people/less hours is the skyrocketing business model in no-skill, entry-level arenas. And of course it is. Why offer unaffordable benefits to the replaceable. Higher costs of living coupled with lower wages equals stay at home. More competition to join the trades now since all the above jobs are gone or becoming less fruitful-available. Add on top of that a skyrocketing population. Maybe I'm off on some of this but the fact that nobody has anything interesting or skillful to put on the resumes I look at paints a bleak picture to me. Resumes are full of people trying to twist common things into skills. Being skilled gets you a good job. Having an unskilled degree, might as well flip burgers. This is why I feel it is necessary to go back and get a degree in healthcare or something. The boomers will always need care and there will always be insurance flowing. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing are all hot fields. I wish I could say the same about a business person at a hospital serving as the administrator and having that same job security, though.