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QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) Teams are targeting SS Tim Anderson, #White Sox's No. 1 prospect, as well as pitching prospects in trade talks. https://twitter.com/philgrogers/status/674263367234789376 Looks like teams have realized that Gambler Kenny is back ready to win a world series and will empty the farm again.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 03:20 PM) Doug Padilla ‏@ESPNChiSox 6m6 minutes ago While not expected to increase payroll, hearing White Sox still aim to be competitive instead of starting a major rebuild. Can't wait to acquire average talent. Kenny must like mediocrity. Its almost like he makes a few moves. Hopes for regression from the rest of the division and then figures we can win the whole damn thing. Then reload the following year and do it again. Goodbye Spencer Adams and Fulmer. Kenny has a mythical world series to win this year. Odds are for suckers. He has a believe wristband and prospects to trade.

I will be happy when Williams and his short term vision are gone from this organization. Win this year....oh wait that didn't happen......win this year again....oh wait below 500......win again this year. Its like we are run by a kid and his xbox.

Here is Trevor Bauer of the Indians working out at Driveline in the offseason. This is a small insight to the very hard work that MLB players do in the offseason every single day to keep on top of their game.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Nov 28, 2015 -> 03:42 PM) Article on Justin Upton on ESPN.com today. 5 teams in the running starting with White Sox. Closing comment was something like Sox never punt, so they will do something. Words to that effect. This is why we are a perennial mediocre team and wont move into a perennial winner until the Gambler is out of the organization.

QUOTE (Baron @ Nov 3, 2015 -> 04:31 PM) Good...Flowers and Rick Hahn get to use the injury excuse for his poor batting again. Well his magic glasses fixed his hitting so it must be an injury. Next year we can get him a magic bat with magic batting gloves.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 01:57 AM) I knew tonight the Mets were in trouble when Harvey was a whiny b**** after the eighth inning. Verlander does it all the time, so did Peavy and Shark. These pitchers want to stay in the game I have zero problem with a pitcher who dominated a game being in the moment and wanting to finish it. This is what they have been programmed with since they were kids. If this happened to be your favorite Toronto pitcher you would of been delighted to see him have a bulldog persona. But it's one of those punk kids you don't like for whatever reason. In the end it's up to Collins to manage the game. The minute he walked the first guy Familia should of been in. The lack of clutch hitting and a porous defense is what cost the mets.

First Wright doesn't look the runner back enough, then Duda makes a s***ty throw. Horrible.

QUOTE (High Mileage @ Oct 31, 2015 -> 12:05 PM) Royals throw high and inside, and their dirty headhunters. Syndergaard does it and he's celebrated. "He was crying like a baby", PED user Edinson Volquez after drilling Josh Donaldson in August. "He bleeds like the rest of us do. He's very comfortable, I will leave it at that, we'll see what happens" I find it comical that the Royals are upset at something they have been doing all year long. Your pitchers have been chirpy about this. Guess what sometimes the other team has tough guys who throw hard as well.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:13 PM) We had a chat page that everyone could access. Lets just say it was fun and innappropriate and thats why we loved it and why it is gone Wonder how many kids Katie has popped out by now. I wonder if any of them are named Ben.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 06:25 PM) Feel like if Cubs win tonight this series is going 7. Haven't seen much of Matz this year. Sure because they have shown a propensity to hit the Mets pitchers this series.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 09:35 PM) It sucks his tenure with the team he grew up with was so bad. I really hope he doesn't hate the Sox forever now. He was paid a kings ransom to pitch and he didn't do a good job at it this year. As long as the checks cashed he should be happy.

Ah the cubs and their s***ty weeds on the walls.

#flytheL #themetsarebetter

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 01:27 PM) It looked like Goins called him off. Goins was waving his arms calling him off and then pulled off last minute. Joey Bats slowed down, it was a loud stadium. Joey did the right thing.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 10:05 PM) Sox should sign Murphy. A 30 year old lefty from the NL. What could go wrong.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) I really like the Mets chances based on their pitching and i think Mets hitters match up well against cubs pitching. With Harvey going in game 1 I wouldn't mind seeing Colon for game 2 with Snydergaard for game 3 and DeGrom game 4. With Colon throwing much slower than the other three it could throw the cub hitters off for game two. Go Mets! Harvey G1 Syndergaard G2 DeGrom G3 Matz G4 Harvey G5 Syndergaard G6 Degrom G7

This is insane.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 05:43 PM) If that's the rule, then yeah. Choo had no intention of blocking the throw. © He interferes with the catcher’s fielding or throwing by stepping out of the batter’s box or making any other movement that hinders the catcher’s play at home base. EXCEPTION: Batter is not out if any runner attempting to advance is put out, or if runner trying to score is called out for batter’s interference. Rule 6.06© Comment: If the batter interferes with the catcher, the plate umpire shall call “interference.” The batter is out and the ball dead. No player may advance on such interference (offensive interference) and all runners must return to the last base that was, in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference. If, however, the catcher makes a play and the runner attempting to advance is put out, it is to be assumed there was no actual interference and that runner is out—not the batter. Any other runners on the base at the time may advance as the ruling is that there is no actual interference if a runner is retired. In that case play proceeds just as if no violation had been called. If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing before the catcher has securely held the ball, it shall be called a strike only (not interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner shall advance on the play.

MLB really needs to do something about the quality of umpiring. We have egomaniac jackasses who think that the game is about them. And then we have 3 blind mice making s*** up as it goes.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:56 PM) I'm predicting a busy offseason because they have to have one. I expect a new 3B, SP, C and an impact bat. Preferably RF. Well we had a pretty busy offseason last season. How did that work out. We need to build this the right way. Wasting draft picks and playing the reload game every year is going to hamstring this organization into a perennial 75-83 win organization.

I wonder if this slows up the nonstop world series coverage at Wrigley. LOL

Whomever they trade Q for needs to be a success. This is a valuable trading chit. Look at what the A's gave up last year. Russel would look really good right now on the southside. Thats the type of player that needs to come across. Q has amazing value now and we need to maximize it. No aging players, no one tool guys. Something that can project to be in the lineup and making an impact for years.

We seem to have an issue with scouting not only other organizations but our own. We hold on to players too long. We promote flawed players who either strike out at a large clip or show a single tool "Power" or "Glove". This is either because we are hoping to showcase them to other teams or we believe that these flaws will disappear. We fail to examine the numbers and use small sample sizes to evaluate if we are all in ( See this years trading deadline ). And in the end we worry about short term attendance over the long term health of the organization. During the late 80s we were terrible and used our draft position to select some franchise changing talent. Instead of continuing on this model we injected some recognizable players to help feed the attendance stream ( still horrible attendance ) while milking the rebuilding process along. The problem is the players have not really panned out overall. We need to draft advanced bats in the next couple of drafts. We need to start to evaluate our scouting department because outside of pitching something is horribly wrong. We look at teams like the Dodgers, RedSox and Angels. They historically draft later in the rounds and still load up on talent. We now have draft position. There is no reason we are wasting potential draft picks on FA pick ups. We need to reload our minor leagues and build something sustainable. We need to have talent to either add to the major league roster, or utilize in trades to bring in areas we do not have. Either way the continued method of putting out bad to mediocre teams is a franchise killing operation. We need to break this cycle of circling the toliet and come up with a game plan. Its that or we are stuck in the 70'ish win territory for a while hoping that a miracle happens and we have a weak division.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:58 PM) How's is that inconclusive? Puck was in net and then you blew the whistle. No point in having replay if they cant figure this s*** out. He was waving his arms and blowing his whistle as the puck was in the net.