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QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:38 PM) Eh, Pirates was scheduled for July and even as big as Star Wars is it wouldn't be going that strong at that point. It really is a combo of Episode VII's success in December, giving Johnson more time to get things right and probably moving Star Wars away from Guardians of the Galaxy II which was also scheduled for May of that year. Though, Avatar 2 does premier 12/25.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:29 PM) Watch it be a mystery team like the Mariners. Ha, that would be super s***ty for that franchise. Let's say it's 5/115, that'd be $1M a year less than they're paying Cano, so they'd basically be doubling the Cano deal for the next 5 years to add Cespedes. 2019/20 would be spectacularly sad seasons.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 07:00 PM) hi8is has gone crazy this month... Granted, as one who gets emotional from time to time, he's REALLY taking this hard. In the back of your mind as a White Sox fan, you have to be conditioned to at least expect to be disappointed and then it's easier to be pleasantly surprised. The last time I was REALLY excited about the White Sox was heading into 2009 after the 2008 playoffs and we had Beckham and Viciedo on the horizon. Probably followed more Barons games that year in the first half than White Sox games in the second half this year. Of course, almost all of the touted prospects from that team have fallen off the face of the earth at this point. Yes, prior to January 2016 hi8is was the poster boy for normalcy.

QUOTE (Saufley @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 06:56 PM) Listening to the guys on MLB talk about Cespedes and they were quite negative. Yea, he has a big bat but lack of defense and baggage questions. They have me wondering. He's a very good defensive LF. He has been a very bad defensive CF, he's played 21% of his ML innings in CF. He's not a good option to be moved around the outfield during the season which has happened throughout his career.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 03:51 PM) https://mobile.twitter.com/pgammo/status/690285876962787328 What stat is he even looking at? Cespedes' career DRS in CF is -17 but he was -4 last year ... in 312 innings.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) I just hope we don't sign Fowler. No, we'll just trade for Werth instead.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:39 PM) Why not just make it 3 years with an option for the 4th What kind of option?

QUOTE (Tony @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 08:53 PM) I don't see why Fowler's contract will be THAT much more than Span, especially with a pick attached. (Span signed for 3/31 for reference). If the Sox miss out on Cespedes, at this point, I'm ready to convince myself that Fowler at 3/40 is fine.

Are we certain that wasn't a timed tweet from Nightengale?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 07:58 PM) That would be me Took you a whole 30 seconds to point that out.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 07:40 PM) i will play. 4 yr contract. 10 signing bonus 1- 25 mil player has an option 2.-20 mil mutual option 5 mil 3-20 mil mutual option 5 mil 4. 18 mil. That would probably go down as the most bizarre/nonsensical contract in baseball history.

Now Loria flips him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 07:57 PM) Cardinals for Davis does make a lot of sense. That would actually be real fun.

God, I hate the NFC East.

How do you justify voting for Piazza but not Bagwell?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 29, 2015 -> 10:20 PM) Source: 24 new Sox season ticket packages sold as a result of Twitter news regarding Cespedes and Gordon. Hahn: "KW and I took this information directly to JR and he signed off nearly instantaneously on an additional $15 million payroll increase for 2016." yes.Yes.YES!!!!!! Dude, burn it the f*** down!

Barry McCockiner – ‏@bonerpatrol69 Source: #WhiteSox agree to terms with Cespedes, Latos, Parra, Upton and all remaining free agents. To be officially announced within the next 3 month. 9:44 PM - 29 Dec 2015

Honest question, can someone describe the genesis of some random dude with no followers on Twitter tweeting out bulls*** and having it gain steam? I assume people are just searching Twitter for keywords and stumble upon this s***, right? His few followers start retweeting it like crazy or spamming people with it? Reddit gets ahold of it?

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 22, 2015 -> 03:36 PM) Huh? In what world does Cespedes strike out more than Upton? Look at the numbers (also factor in Upton usually hits the dl every year. Upton's been on the DL a grand total of 1 time in his career, in 2008.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 19, 2015 -> 10:36 PM) Steam Sale starts on the 22nd. STILL waiting on my computer to come in, but I'll be sure to grab some games. Can't wait to buy a bunch of games for $2 that I'll never get around to playing!

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Dec 20, 2015 -> 09:00 PM) It was fun. More of the same from Tarantino. Reminded me a bit of Reservoir Dogs. Great performances all around. Very Reservoir Dogs-ey. Kurt Russell was great, Walton Goggins goes full on Boyd Crowder and Michael Madsen plays a 7 year old boy, what's not to like?

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 20, 2015 -> 08:50 PM) I'm sure I'll get a kick out of it. May even make my first trip to the Music a box to see it, but why must he make these 3 hour long movies? I'll say, going in I was turned off by the run time but it didn't really drag. There was a point, maybe with 40 minutes to go that things turned a bit and I checked the time but it picked up again after that. The length wasn't a big issue for me, it moves pretty well.

The Hateful Eight is basically a Tarantino directed version of Clue set in 1800's Wyoming. That said, I enjoyed it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 19, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) The demasking of Kylo Ren was great. Yes, it humanized him and made him look incredibly weaker, but that was the point. Dude was supposed to be a two-bit, wannabe version of Vader and that proved to be true. Now he goes for more training and we'll see from there. Didn't have a problem with Ray beating him since he took a blast from the most powerful hand blaster we've seen in Star Wars plus a few lightsaber hits at that point. He basically shouldn't have been alive by then. Makes more sense when you consider she likely had some sword training from Luke before. What I did have a problem was with was Finn holding his own vs him. Not force sensitive, no sword training and was mostly used for comic relief. Dude was this movie's version of Jar Jar Binks so that seemed out of place, even with Ren so injured. You say Finn isn't force sensitive and had no sword training yet you're cool with Rey handling a lightsaber like a pro because you assume Luke trained her when she was 6 years old? You're making an awful lot of assumptions here, we know next to nothing about these characters. Finn could easily be force sensitive or have sword training, we see him go toe to toe with another stormtrooper in melee combat, why assume that Finn, over the course of the past 15 years hasn't undergone any melee combat training?

QUOTE (JRL @ Dec 17, 2015 -> 09:51 PM) Was using DWAR from BBREF BBR uses DRS to calculate dWAR so I find it easiest just to use straight DRS when comparing 2 players of the same position defensively as you get a broader spectrum. By dWAR Cespedes was a .8 in 218 chances with Detroit last year and a -0.1 in 130 with the Mets while Upton was a .2 in 247 chances. Holy s*** did Yoenis face a lot more chances last year, 348 to 247, damn. Cespedes had 262 chances in LF last year so it's about the same as Upton, he beat him 15 to 8. Yoenis is hurt by the fact that he was asked to play 312 innings in center, something he's really struggled with, that decreased his DRS by 4 points while Upton played only the same position he's been playing the last 3 years.