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I had never seen impractical jokers until I stumbled on it following an NCAA game. That show is hillarious.

This - plus despite being on the older side…when healthy he is a much better option than Velasquez anyway. I don’t want Montas at the price given up - let’s just give up a ton in the minors for some younger cost controlled stud that eventually goes on the market (go kw style).

They still need another starter - this just helps with depth. Quite frankly he is better than Velasquez already and they still got to upgrade. But this was absolutely right initial move.

Biggest no brainer in the history of mankind here. I doubt we get much out of Cueto but this was the right move. Hopefully he is healthy and can give them some quality innings.

Makes total sense.

THIS - WELL SAID RAY RAY.

Honestly - this seems really logical. I'm not big on Cueto, but he's an experienced veteran and if you get the version from last year and he can at least stay healthy half the season - it isn't a bad thing (relative to the other choices). At this point - I don't think they can afford not to bring in a guy like him. But I would have preferred the Sox did like 100 different things because the starting rotation was always there biggest need from day 1 of the offseason (and I was consistently on record indicating such).

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It was such an obvious move. So stupid.

This would be one of the worse trades in White Sox history.

Excited for world cup!!!

Its a different question though - one ties up multiple years and the other doesn't. There is a value on flexibility (even though I too was a big proponent of Suzuki).

Wish him the best in his recovery.

Yep - I corrected my post - I had misread that originally. Either way - if he produces like he did last year - he is worth $15M (not knowing exactly how the payroll went back and forth, etc).

Plus - am I mistaken - because isn't it technically 1yr of 15M or 2yr of 20M (which if Pollock produces like he did last year - I don't see any reason you would make it a 1yr deal. And Pederson not on any level as good as Pollock (other than he hits left handed). ' Edit: My fault since it is a player option (vs. team).

I still go back to - derozan has been great but he has became way too iso and totally needs to make adjustments to drive better flow in the offense. I don’t get why Jones Jr and Brown are completely relegated to bench these days either. Especially Jones Jr.

I don’t understand how this offense went from free flowing to total crap. Donovan, Derozan and Lavine got to fix this nonsense.

Nice after reading about him he seems like a solid pickup. Not a great player but solid with maybe a bit of upside.

So nice being back in the World Cup!!!

Is he any good?

Beasley might be annoying - but his skill set is one that should help someone like Fields. So I would be a fan of the move. They need draft picks but they also need quality wideouts too. Jarvis Landry intrigues me if he eventually is willing to sign a more fair deal. My guess is you could get him on a 1yr deal that has minimal long term cap implications but helps Fields in the shorter term.

Derozan and Bulls played good in 4th quarter (not good enough though)...but Derozan has to stop being a black hole late. Lavine was the better player most of the game, made a nice stop on one end and literally knew (as did rest of the Bulls) that Derozan was jacking something up no matter what. That offense DOESN't work.

I thought the opposite - like - he was thrown off for a bit - but his reaction was too much of a keep rolling which just seemed so unreal. Like if someone got up on stage and hit me - I am fairly certain I would have walked off (I'm not a fighter) and just de-escalated it that way but i certainly wouldn't have jumped right back into it and been as unfazed as he was (other than the random - wow or whatever he said).

Conforto is not a good fielder. He is a lefty - but spending 100M and 5 years on a lefty probably isn't the difference in this club making the series or not. I'd rather spend that money on a Gio long term deal while leveraging some of our internal options a bit better.