Jake

Dayan amazes me sometimes

That didn't look too bad. Made a bad pitch to the first guy and from there it was all okay. Looks like he isn't afraid of the zone and had pretty good command. He can get outs at this level. Let's hope he keeps it going.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 04:10 PM) It's not like he was consistently a 25 PER player in Boston, that was his career high by several points. He had 7 seasons in his entire career where he cracked a 20 PER and 2 of them were on the Warriors. Injuries weren't the reason they were horrible that year. They even added Ramon Sessions and JJ Hickson played a lot more and they were still brutal. Those two and Jamison were all healthy on that 1-36 stretch (think about that a second). Williams was actually traded for Baron Davis (who was less horrible than Williams), and Varejao still played almost 60 games (plus being injury prone is one of his major issues anyways). That team wasn't suddenly playoff caliber if they all played 82 games. I feel like that whole team just quit believing when they lost LeBron. The opposite effect of what this year's Bulls team did with all of the injuries before the playoffs. Then after the ACL injury, you saw them underperform as did the LeBron-less Cavs.

If Rios wants to keep his past 20+ games' pace for the next 80, he'll win more than the White Sox MVP

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) Happy this thread got bumped. Since I moved to the city my diet and work out schedule has been god awful. I'm getting back at it tomorrow though so hopefully this thread being around will keep me motivated. Very frustrated at myself as I've been so obsessed with my fitness for the last 2 years, researched everything and anything and just have gone back to living my college life the last month and a half. No more f***in excuses, need to get back to where I was. I write a fitness blog called "No Excuses"

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 02:06 PM) Trading my xbox for a a real nice treadmill, and buying 120 pounds of weights for 20 bucks! (In a hawk voice) I loveee Craigslist! Awesome man, can really get some work done now

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 11:30 AM) and put pierre in cf? id take my chances with danks everyday over pierre No, JP would be my LF

The funny thing is that Pedro was not exactly the "meat and potatoes" of that deal

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 10:56 AM) This Jeremy Lin backlash from the media is ridiculous. They are making it sound like the Knicks let LeBron leave for nothing. Jeremy Lin is a decent player, but doesn't fit that team at all. You don't need a point guard whose facilitating skills are iffy, shoots a lot, and turns it over a lot. You need a point guard that creates shots for Melo and Amare. Couple that with the contract and it was a no brainer.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) Trading offense for pitching seems counterproductive to me...its like plugging one hole and creating another, isn't it? We cant afford to lose anybody from our line up now Someone gets it Anyways, I don't think Pierre sucks. In general, he's still a nice player. Viciedo is worth a LOT more runs than Pierre though. If ADA tore his ACL or something, I'd say sure go ahead and get Pierre. That's not what's going on though. Viciedo is a ton better and we may get to see Dayan hit 40+ HR's in a White Sox uniform. Hell, as pointed out earlier in this thread, he's another hot streak away from threatening 40 HR this year. You can see him improving already with his walk rate going up and on a related note, pitchers are afraid of him.

Why would we want Betances? To pitch in the MLB this year?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 07:48 AM) How much better would the Quentin trade look if this guy goes out and gives us 6+ innings without giving up more than a run or two? I will laugh hysterically if these guys turn out to be decent when Soxtalk was up in arms for not getting their top prospects

You should never lose your spot to injury....so Youk better get ready for some bench time

The funny thing is I was about to post "good speed aboard" But I didn't mean it

Little taste of their own medicine with the SB in that inning

Hooray, ADA = slump #1 busted

If you have, say, $150 remaining at your last game....do you splurge?

This ballpark is stupid

Someone will want to call for a changeup to get these lefties.

Good god is this team left handed.

Looked like a bad call at 2B to me.

There are few things I'd trade Viciedo for at this point. Trading him just to pay Greinke 20 million a year is probably not something I'd do. What's more likely to happen? -Viciedo has a May-esque hot streak that involves him literally placing the team on his back for 7-21 days -Acquired starter outperforms the player he replaces by 5 or more wins I feel like the former. I'd give up a lot for a Greinke type of guy, but in a pennant race I'm not surrendering one of our top run producers. Toss in the fact that he is immensely talented, young, and clearly not yet at his peak...yeah I'm keeping Dayan.

Why no Castro?

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) Seems like he's just trolling other teams in the NBA (Bulls/Knicks). Hope we don't sign Asik simply because of that lol You know there's some chance they could have shared this info with Omer -- ie "this offer only applies if we don't sign Lin"

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 11:20 AM) Phil Rodgers thinks the Brewers want Floyd for Grienke. That still makes them a short a starter. O RLY? QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 11:22 AM) Done, in a heartbeat. ^^^^ QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 12:19 PM) Oh yeah. So your could have a rotation of Peavy, Sale, Greinke, Humber, and Quintana. If Danks comes back, he takes the place of Humber or Quintana if they falter. Or you have a six man rotation. Or you realize that this is all coming from Rodgers and forget about it. but seriously, if Floyd is in the deal that should save you from including another starting player on the MLB roster. Given the precarious contract situation, I wouldn't give a lot more than that.