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QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 10:28 PM) I'd rather keep Kenny and trade Hahn. what are you pulling our legs or what.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 10:32 PM) That was hilarious! yeah he was laughing at that. even afterward while walking back. great.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 09:25 PM) LDF that reminds me of when I lived in Ann Arbor, home of Dominos' HQ and neighbor to Little Caesars's HQ in Detroit. Talk about crap pizza in that town, there was one place with the owner from Chicago that made a decent but not great deep dish, the rest of the places were chains. Though I will say, Little Caesars > Dominos (with the new recipes) >>> other chains >> Papa Johns. i have had friends and family come on down and they all complain about the italian sausage down here. it sucks.... ask tex, he used to live right across the boarder to me. i just found out.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) The pizza recipe in this cookbook is incredible. thanks i am going to buy it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 09:09 PM) Where are you? Louisiana >>> snake, gator, shimp lots of shimp and crawfish.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 08:42 PM) I think they did.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 08:24 PM) Signing reclamation projects not being counted on to contribute is fine. The past couple seasons, it seemed the Sox were counting on some of these guys to be pretty good. the past couple of seasons, i am surprise the sox didn't use some of the vendors to see if they couldn't man a position or pitch.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 09:20 PM) Make it yourself, you can do it. The more you try at it, the better you get the sausage and cheese is much different down here. but nothing beats the chicago type of pizza.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 08:13 PM) I don't understand why they'd go after him, but a Minor League deal is very low risk. It's worth a shot. maybe this is the reclamation player someone was mentioning yesterday. the 1 project the sox usually sign. usually it is a pitcher, maybe not this yr.

oh man i am stuff. my brother had 8 home runn inn pizza shipped in overnite. we just ate 2 of them..... oh man, i miss the pizza from chi. nothing beats it. i tried to ship in some deep dish several yrs ago, it is not quite the same reheated. with the sausage and cheese you can tell the difference. now let me make a comparison on something you can relate to. the pizza down here is tied between pizza hut and pappa johns. for being the best. the other local pizza has shrimp, crawfish and even alligator meat pizza. now you know how i am suffering.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) Yes, and not because I don't like KW but Hoffman is a hell of a talent and the Sox will still have Rich Hahn. i have more confidence in Hahn at the helm instead of KW.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 07:25 PM) Supposedly the Blue Jays are moving closer to naming Dan Duquette of the Orioles as their President and CEO. Kenny Williams was rumored for this position early in the offseason. This is never going to happen but Jeff Hoffman is one of the names being thrown around on twitter as possible compensation to the Orioles. That is nuts. My hypothetical to Soxtalk: Would you trade Kenny Williams to the Blue Jays for Jeff Hoffman? to be honest, i would trade or let KW walk for 2 of their prospects in the 13-19 range. the one is a ss and the other is a pitcher.

good point, i been looking to see if that was a real person in the movie. i could not find jack. i even mention it in a early part of the thread. many thanks. i thought i was confuse.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 07:03 PM) I don't see how next year is "the big offseason" for them. Even without Samardzija they've got $97 million committed assuming Alexei is picked up. Add in maybe an option on Bonifacio and a decent selection of arbitration guys and they're at >$110 million, almost their entire 2015 payroll, without adding a single player. Add in an extension for Samardzija and they'd be talking about $130 million in commitments without adding a single thing and with letting guys like Viciedo walk. i have something very similar in mind, very close in ideas. but either way, nice outside the box thinking.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) I didn't mean big offseason in terms of spending but rather in terms of moving towards division favorite/of the AL's best. I don't expect them to add 50 million in payroll, but I do think we'll see the biggest payroll Ever in 2016. i am thinking that can be done now, with all that you are saying. this can be that big offseason. i am not saying add an addition 50 mil, more like 10 mil +/- and a plus.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 08:00 PM) I thought the movie was more or less an adaptation of Chris Kyle's memoir. I didn't realize they invented the main bad guys in it. who was the main bad guy, chris himself. i am not trying to be a smart arse. i just don't know.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 06:43 PM) I understand that but the point was made - the Sox didn't have a lot of money to spend. I don't see them busting their whole load this offseason when next year is the big year/offseason for the team. if i may, 2 questions. how do we know that the sox didn't have the money to spend??? b/c they told us. what is next yr, in your statement you mention for the team??

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) I don't think there'll ever be a black and white answer to that question. You don't "want" prospects or veterans, you "want" wins. And depending upon who the prospect is, who the veteran is, what the present looks like, what the future looks like, etc., you make the call with the largest overall impact. wow, a very good answer. and that is the point. the sox need 1 sp to really help the unasked questions of what if. i don't want to waste the resources to make a trade, b/c you can. pretty much as KW did in his tenure. plus the farm is now turning around, or i should say it appears to have the right philosophy of improving the system. but if the team in lacking 1 part, then maybe trade one of the assets.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 12:24 PM) its not like its a new thing. AI taking control and destroying humanity has been a theme for quite some time. 2001, Terminator, War Games, Lawnmower Man, I, Robot, Alien, Aliens. There are so many of them, Trancendence and the chat horror movie arent much different yeah i was going to go with arnold's movie.... but i wasn't sure if this was the same thing being mention. i was a little lost.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 03:39 PM) Eisenhower delivered a great farewell speech at end of his term which I believe was the first time the military industrial complex was mentioned as having gotten too powerful. It has only gotten more powerful since then. ~~~ cough cough Halliburton

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 02:35 PM) I don't think this is fair at all. Firstly, are we supposed to avoid discussing anything that isn't overwhelmingly positive? Negativity doesn't "equal brainiac," but objective does equal "reality," and we're fans that want to talk about Sox as they actually are. Secondly, there's much more to it than "he's strong young and fast and tore up AAA." There are specific types of flaws we've seen in players that have correlated to high bust rates and many of them are present in Avisail Garcia. No one is saying that he's hopeless, but there's a huge level of risk with him and it's coming in a year where the Sox have no replacement at all. We're depending on him taking a huge step forward next year to contribute to success needed to justify the acquisitions and risks that have been taken elsewhere on the roster. I don't mean this next question to sound as harsh as it reads -- it's more a rhetorical question -- but if you don't want to think about it and just want to go into the season hoping instead of knowing what you might expect, what are you doing on a message board? very good response. first i am not skilled enuf to be able to tell about his overall skills, i need to leave this to you guys. next, you are right, we have no backup and getting Bonifacio was and is essential. but that is 1 person as a major backup to several positions. lets hope the sox do not have more than 1 positional player hurs. lastly and i keep saying it. maybe it is not a nice way of saying this, JR and company are hoping to pull the wool over our eyes. pretty much as they did in the 90's/ to give up a little hope and then let the hype of the fans gloss over the shortcomings. well i just hope we as fans are smart to this way of covering up. this is another statement i have always said about sox fans. we are workers who work hard for their family. we need to see equal or greater improvement in order for us to spend our hard earned money. we as fans demand more from the sox owners, and when it is there, we will support it. not blindly like the northsiders on simple lip service.

QUOTE (MEANS @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 01:54 PM) thank you, I agree with this, it's like everyday there's a new thread of doom and gloom about this team, we've just had two of the best off-seasons in recent history, we've jumped started the much needed re-build, stayed young, and kept our top prospects. Let's sit back and enjoy some baseball when it starts and not stress ourselves out so much. but the point is, this is the best time to really get this team to the playoff and further. why then did they made this commitment of getting fa's, making the trade for Jeff S, just to pull back and do a wait and see??? the job is yet to be completed.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) Could the Sox get creative to add some more guaranteed money? Like a 4 year deal, 5th year option with a 5 mill buy out to guarantee an extra 5 mill on top of whatever he signs for for the 4 years. if, and this is a big if, JR and owners are having kittens on spending this money and can't come up with the extra to get someone. do you honestly think he will ok a long term money commitment???

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 02:26 PM) It is easy to understand why around the world other countries form a very negative opinion of the US. We are a warrior nation. War has been very good business for us. To fulfill manifest destiny we force a war with Mexico and took land that was later discovered to be covered in gold with lots of oil underneath. If Mexico had somehow held onto that land we might not have had such a poor neighbor to the south and west of our border. there was a book i read in the 80's it was on the secret reasons for the Vietnam War.... #1 profits. and the major companies contributing to Lady Bird Johnson shares in their company, as ahhh present to the first lady.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 01:32 PM) I'm wondering how they determine it is a combatant from so far away. We won our independence by using snipers to target British officers, something that was against the usual rules of war. We've rarely been behind the curve in using new tactics and weapons. ahh that is sooo true. the british hated us for that, b/c it was against the code of chivalry of war at that time.