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Yup, that's the first thing I thought about too -- it still is fucking lame that they put the whole story into work for a burial. That could have been a fun match with KO doing everything he could to try to cost Braun the match.

So far summerslam: Great opening match between ROllins/Zig. Amazing match, but on the down side im bored of these two fighting each other always. Triple threat womens match was pretty good, interesting to see Becky Lynch turn heel on Charlotte. I hate it as I hate seeing perfect baby faces turn heel (a la Sami Zayn) as WWE has such a problem creating natural baby faces... it's because they don't let them win the big one... instead they take the easy way out and turn her heel. Oh well. SD tag titles.. DQ, who cares, boring. KO vs. Braun strowman squash in sub 1 minute, what a fucking joke. Actually made me mad and consider turning the product off. They spend months having Braun bully KO for this very interesting match stipulation to come up and they use it as a 30 second burial. Come on. Fuck off WWE donkeys. AJ vs. Samoa was pretty enjoyable. Samoa is just so damn good at playing a heel.

It's not that it is impossible, it is more that we should not strive to need a batter that has an OBP south of .290. There will be better options. Just find them.

Jose abreu

I disagree with Anderson. His OBP is way too low for him to be an everyday starter on a consistent playoff team. I am way over him these days.

Yup, 100%.

Jose Abreu

For the first time in a couple months here I will likely end up watching WWE programming... have an off day this Sunday for Summerslam. I'll go through my predictions/analysis maybe Friday... but WWE programming has been absolute dog shit for the entire summer (since post WM really). I'm kinda excited for AJ vs. Samoa. Somewhat intrigued by Owens vs. Strow for the case. Highly expecting Strow (or owens) to cash in the case during Les vs. Reigns. Somewhat excited for Rouseys title win. Match im most looking forward to has to be my gals Charlotte and Becky... love that Becky is getting a spot light, hopefully she walks away winner. Nothing else on the card is interesting to me, but i'll check it all out.

Great analysis @The Sir, agree with it pretty much spot on. Also in agreeance about the blown calls argument. Results matter.

I'll go with Moncada

Yup, that's a good measure. For that contract, I unfortunately do not want Pollock here on the White Sox. As great as he is, there is injury risk to the maximum and age downside associated with that.

I agree with this line of thinking. I used to think Anderson could turn it around and be a huge piece for us, especially given his amazing start to the season and high counting stats (HR/SB), but now with his months long struggles we are seeing the real Timmy again. An OBP below .290 is just god awful. Cool player with lots of spirit, but we will likely need to find a better SS and he's not part of the core here. Super sub? Ok, that works well.

We need a PTC thread, too :p. Let's go Eloy-less White Sox for a loss but a good game from Gio, Moncada, Abreu, Avi!

Yup. If they were going to call them up, they should have done it at the latest a week or so ago. Now we're not getting the risk/reward ratio properly here.

Good, as much as i think it’s important to get him as many at bats as possible... it’s clearly not working right now.

Avi Garcia

I think it's pretty interesting and spot on that are 'social equity' is our highest ranking at 18 which symbolizes our potential fan base here however our current fan equity is very low at 28 which symbolizes how bad we are right now (and probably how the Cubbies are doing so well and stealing the current chicago baseball fan). Just shows that if we can turn this team around and start winning and making noise that we have the potential here to rise.

Pretty interesting article on Team marketability : https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/esma/2018/03/16/mlb-fan-marketing-report-2018/ From March 2018. Has the W'Sox in the very bottom 3.

I want to also add that Friday's game is Fireworks night. That's a fantastic way to end the game as the W'Sox fireworks display is pretty awesome.

Uhh Abreu

Eugenio Suarez is one of the best hitters in the game. He's not going anywhere and is their building block. Nick Senzel is a top 5ish top 10ish prospect and would cost a boat load as well. He is to them as Eloy is to us in a sense. So, this doesn't make much sense.

Daniel Palka

Going to this game.... The weather situation is unfortunate, earlier today and last night it was supposed to have a possibility of raining 50% throughout the start time, but now it seems if any rain it will be closer to 8pm/9pm. Hoping that there is no delay, but sad that I am going to be missing the Yankees Batting practice (since I decided to stay in and eat dinner now prior to seeing the game). It's my birthday today so I love being able to spend it at the stadium. I have no expectations for a win as I just enjoy being in the atmosphere of the stadium, but bleh it's going to be humid (just sped all morning on a 40 mile bike ride to botanic gardens) :D. Go sox.

Avi Garcia

Abreu