Soxfest

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 05:36 PM) That's not how the draft works. Your typical hitter, even a very good prospect, takes at LEAST a couple years to reach the majors. This is not football or basketball. There are literally no hitters in this draft that will help the team this year. It was a joke from first statement about Sox drafting pitchers to help them this season...........I said hitters as a joke Team hitting blows, I know nobody is coming this year. Hell we got nobody in minors to even call up.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 05:22 PM) Keep going with pitching until proven otherwise. We never develop any hitting. Wait for someone like Hawkins or Anderson to come up and do damage. I meant for THIS season.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 04:54 PM) Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 2m2 minutes ago Have heard that a couple of pitchers White Sox are looking at have the chance to help team at some point this season Need hitters not pitchers right now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) Jay hasn't been impressive. Fastball seems flat. Very windy today and that stadium takes balls out in the jetstream.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 11:18 AM) TVR likely in for Rundbland tonight No update on Bishop yet Bishop did morning skate looks like he will be starting.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 07:44 PM) Correa up. Will face Chris Sale in his debut. Vincent Velasquez also called up faces the Sox Wednesday.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 12:11 PM) Then why are you preemptively complaining about it? Sox have a history of doing this. Sorry I do not trust this regime the track record is so great.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 12:09 PM) None of those rumored teams have been the White Sox. Arizona, Houston, and the Cubs are the ones who are the prominent headliners. That would be the Cubs and Astros who also did this last year. We will see tonight until then nobody knows for sure.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 12:04 PM) They haven't done this for years. Let it go. When I hear certain teams are looking to draft at a discount in the top ten, it is very relevent in today's discussion.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 11:57 AM) This hasn't been the truth for years now. Only because of the change in 2012 CBA.............The saving money strategy was in full effect 2008 to 2012, it failed badly. Get the best guy at 8 and stop the discount nonsense. When a team in 2015 cannot even call up a 4th OF it shows how bad drafting has been.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 10:45 AM) The thing with this draft is that there is no clear separation of talent between the 8th best player and the 25th best player, so if all things are equal and you can get a guy at a discount to allow you to grab some higher profile talent when you pick again, wouldn't that be the most logical course of action? Sounds like Jay is now starting today at 3. Sox have been awful when drafting on the cheap and saving a few dollars. This is why the system is in the shambles it is in now. Sox cannot even call up a decent 4th OF.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 09:55 PM) McDaniel tweeted about 3 guys being talked to for underslot deals that could go in top 10. Hayes, Clark and Newman. Sox need the best player at 8 regardless, with no picks round 2 and 3. I do not want to hear under slot and Sox in the same sentence on Monday.

Prediction for opening of RAW Monday Raw begins with the Authority doing a promo and then someone interrupted that promo with another promo and they argued for a bit and a match was made. It is beyond a joke how unreasonably repetitive these segments are, especially since they are placed in the exact same position week to week. Since 1997 same opening.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 04:32 PM) Cubs missed Scherzer today due to a rain out earlier in the week, and they also miss Price and Kluber in the next 10 days. Seems like the Sox haven't had such luck missing aces this year. Not to mention Sox getting Dallas K again this week.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 04:27 PM) There are some miserable people here today. Get off of the computer and do something more productive than complaining! I may do that when JR and rest of management do something productive. I have been waiting since oh 2008. I was a Sox fan and watched games long before the The Szechuan Sage bought the team. I will be a Sox fan long after JR is gone. 2005 is not a lifelong pass to bow at the alter of JR and company.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 04:09 PM) If Seattle beats TB, we're looking up at every team in the AL but Oakland. And the Astros just got swept by Toronto, so they're going to come in with something to prove after losing 2/3 last time. Sox have helped a lot of teams right the ship in Chicago...............Clev, Minn and Det. I see a pattern. Houston we have a problem starting Monday.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:52 PM) And for any of that 29,000 who choose not to come back anytime soon until the product improves, they'll get blamed by some for why the product doesn't improve, because these fickle fans will be limiting the necessary "resources" to fix this mess. Now how is THAT for a bass ackwards way of looking at things! I would love to see JR and everyone under him gone, until that happens team treads water with an occasional playoff appearance every 8 to 10 years. Arrow pointing up.

Another HOME series loss. 29,000 sent home disappointed yet again. Detroit came in reeling, leave feeling pretty good.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:41 PM) Sale and Rodon both are in that series and I think both of them match up well against Houston. Houston too many swings and misses and both of those guys will demolish people who swing and miss. Lance and Dallas will be tough.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) The Sox will get buried the next couple weeks. They were lucky to be 25-29, quite frankly. Pitching matchups against Houston not looking good for Sox.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:36 PM) Some around here might tell you these fans deserve this for being so gosh-darned "fickle" all the time. Only the JR apologist.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:32 PM) The scouts who are recommending guys who were already in the majors are not doing very well of late for the Sox. Just way too many guys who come over and immediately look like they need to retire. Yet they keep a job for life.

Sox sure are good on weekends sending people home pissed who are not coming back to see this crap in 2015.

1-2-3............................12 in a row from a meatball pitcher.

Melky needs to watch games for a week.