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Don Cooper is going to have to do a lot to make me not trust his handling of pitchers. He's been doing it for quite a while and has been very good at keeping his arms healthy.

Dunn looked like the Sox player trying hardest to get into a fight during the mix-up

LOL the bullpen charge was my favorite. Let's jog out there and stand with our hands on our hips!

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 01:51 PM) I'm reading the thread on it. Josh Fields was everyone's centerpiece. Other big names included were the likes of Lance Broadway, and Jerry Owens It's a good thing we held out then

The man, the myth, the Phegley

Yet there is only one franchise that can say with certainty that they are in a better position to win than Chicago. f***ing wannabes

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 01:44 PM) We were pretty close to trading for Cabrera though iirc. Didnt have the pieces and the Tigers swoop in. What could have been. I believe one of the hold ups is that we didn't want to take back Dontrelle Willis

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 01:41 PM) Bonds and it is not close. Doesn't count. He intentionally walked 120 times in a season. That's just stupid.

I still think that Miggy isn't smart, he's just too supremely talented to hardly ever look fooled up there. I think his pitch recognition is simply other-worldly and his ability to convert the recognition into a result is just as impressive. I don't think he has to try hard at all to be this good.

I knew there was no way Cabrera would let Chris off the hook for striking him out earlier

I guess Alexei is out there defensively, so it must have been a cramp. Hooray

Bulls fans are very bored. We are better constructed to beat the Heat than any team in basketball. We'll see if it works. It didn't once, with less shooting and experience, two years ago. Maybe two tries will be the charm.

I think we are way, way overvaluing Chris in this thread. He's not Jesus Christ

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 01:30 PM) I think that's GM speak. They've already set their sights on realistic returns for these players. Right, "steep" just refers to a comparison of asking price compared to expected price

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 01:27 PM) Stunning news...not Your 2013 White Sox

Alexei came up lame there, grabbing hamstring. Unclear if a pull or a cramp. Looked more like a pull to me, but what do I know

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 12:54 PM) The longer the team feels until it will be competitive, the less sense it is to not at least listen to offers for Sale. Hahn isn't stupid. If he's not even listening about Sale or at least trying to gauge what a team would give up to get him, he isn't thinking long term re-build. Stranger things have happened. The 1976 White Sox couldn't hit. 1977 they became the hitmen. As long as the Sox have starting pitching, it makes no sense going into a lengthy rebuild. Hitters will be available. Agree. You rebuild when your whole team is bad, not when half of it is bad

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 11, 2013 -> 11:42 AM) I'll absolutely watch this documentary. And for those keeping score at home, Steve detests Hawk as a broadcaster.

The reason it's on the floor IS to inconvenience you. You have to actively think about what it means every day because it's there.

You could hear the excitement in the scout's voice on that video. Pretty neat. I'm sure he'll be a major leaguer soon - might he be considered a Marco Paddy player as he came out of Toronto? Not international, though

I just can't imagine a team with Carmelo on it being a great team. He wins games on his own, but he tends to minimize his supporting cast more than anything else.

Defense was caught TOTALLY off guard by the 3rd degree inclusion. I'm not sure if it will stick, but that just reeks of brilliance on the part of the prosecution. It makes me think of the bureaucracy episode of Futurama: "you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct"

Don't misread our rankings for a dislike of Johnson - I'd say all of the voters are very enthusiastic and excited about Micah. There are just some giant caveats to his rise. The things I think about: -Stolen bases: great. He does not have elite speed, though. He will not steal 70 bases in the MLB. He is a good base stealer and he should remain a threat, but there are probably several guys in the system that are faster than him. This tool will necessarily be overrated. He's not Billy Hamilton and people like Jim Callis are emphatic about this. -Errors. We all know about this. He might be a left fielder. -Age. This has been touched on as well. He's a bit old for the levels he is playing in. However, this is why he's been moving up. You may see him in AA at some point, though I'm unsure of how they can make a spot for him. On the negative side. So you see a guy whose floor is pretty damn low. He might be a poor hitting left fielder whose speed is overrated. He could end up being a poor man's AAA Scott Podsednik. He might be a young Chone Figgins. Time will tell.

Carmelo + Thibodeau = ?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2013 -> 10:39 PM) Of the 4 guys you mentioned, I don't think any of them have a truly high ceiling. I'm not a huge fan of Wacha. Well, we can put Carlos Martinez or Trevor Rosenthal in there if you prefer. I agree that Wong doesn't have a high ceiling, but is a pretty sure bet to be a rather productive player. I think Adams has a pretty high ceiling, at least from a pure offensive standpoint. Piscotty needs to grow into his power potential to realize his true ceiling.