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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2011 -> 12:42 PM) What replacement players? Did we sign some veteran I didn't know about? If Sale and Reed step up to give 5 WAR, that works, but that's not something you can obviously count on, especially with Sale probably hitting an innings slowdown in July. Point is, just from those 2 guys departing, we have 5 WAR to make up somewhere. Dunn alone having an average season for himself at DH would be an enormous WAR turnaround.

I wouldn't talk about Carlos Torres like he had no stuff. When he pitched with the big league club, he showed that he had decent juice on his fastball and rather impressive movement. I remember a good, hard slider and an alright change, as well. He just couldn't throw strikes - I'd imagine he could have been a good middle-back starter himself had he not had jitters/bad luck/whatever it was that made him lose his normally impeccable control when he pitched for the Sox.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 11, 2011 -> 10:06 PM) I don't think that is physiologically possible. That's why when Braun tested that high it's pretty much guaranteed to be from outside his body. That's what I was thinking, but I'm just some guy on the internet.

Whose body produces test:epitest at 4:1 rate?

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Dec 9, 2011 -> 07:24 PM) Found this at SouthSideSox . No idea if it's been posted yet. 1. RHP Nestor Molina — This is the only place you’ll see Molina as Toronto’s No. 1 prospect. Sorry, folks, but I’m believing my own eyes and ignoring the grossly inaccurate scouting reports. The 22-year-old was Verlander-like in Double-A, dominating hitters to the tune of a 13.5 strikeouts/9 innings. Awesome stuff. Fastball (92-94-mph), devastating split, changeup. Pitching coach Pete Walker told me his stuff is “as good as I’ve seen at this level.” Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus once tweeted, “Not a ton of stuff, a finesse type without much upside.” Um, no. Where are you seeing this?

I don't see the harm with him coming to Spring Training. If he looks good, he can be the fifth outfielder - might be able to be a good influence for the young guys. If Q is still here, there's no place for A-Row for sure, though. Lillibomb > A-Row anyday.

If rebuilding, no need for a closer. If wishing to contend, closer is a position that is *relatively* easy to find from the scrap heap - especially when there are several heirs in the pen/in the system.

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 6, 2011 -> 01:21 PM) @Ken_Rosenthal You usually don't waste pitchers with control like that in the bullpen. Hmm. Sounds like worst case, he could be Edwin Jackson.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Dec 6, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) His numbers remind me of De Los Santos from A ball. And we see what happened to him...traded away and now where? A player with limited AA innings just isn't that 'sure of a thing'. Santos should have brought more than this. DLS blew out his elbow - hard to say what could have been.

Call me crazy, but it really isn't a leap of faith to say this team could contend. If you give that Dunn returns to normal, it's nowhere close to a leap. If we do lose all of Buehrle, Floyd, Danks - pitching would take a leap to believe in though.

I'd say KW thinks he just got a future all-star caliber pitcher - his stuff certainly sounds that good. 148 Ks:18 BBs is unbelievable.

I have a dream of a Quentin-De Aza-Viciedo outfield...but I know it won't happen, even if Quentin stays.

Ass kicking or not, it's pretty impressive how quickly and easily Robin was headlocked and taking dome shots.

Not going to read all the posts, but...good job Manto. Think of all the times when Dunn/Rios would walk with that man on third and two outs, or something equally useless when we needed a hit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 09:23 AM) The full list, plus the truest statement ever. MLB_PR MLB Public Relations by ESPNChiSox AL Rawlings #GoldGlove winners: Buehrle P, Wieters C, Gonzalez 1B, Pedroia 2B, Beltre 3B, Aybar SS, Gordon LF, Ellsbury CF, Markakis RF keithlaw keithlaw The people who voted on the Gold Glove awards also believe the McRib is real food. Hey look, Keith Law was right about something

If you really wanna take your fitness seriously, go to bodybuilding.com's forums. There's a bit of BS to wade through with uninformed posters, but as long as you read the stickies and use the search function before posting a redundant topic it's a great resource. If talking about another website is against the rules here, I'm sorry and I'm ready for my stoning.

As much as I wish Burls got that call, I'm too aware that there are other pitchers that were probably a call away from two perfecto's or something of that ilk. Perhaps Mark had the benefit of call(s) in ways that were out of the ordinary in his games. I'll just take what we got

Humanities 201 - This class is hardest to describe. This is the end of a three semester sequence that is one of two tracks all students at my school must take. The alternative is a Religious Studies sequence that spends the entire first two semesters reading the bible. The third semester has a lot of flexibility, such as moving to Islam, etc. I chose this Humanities path, which we call "The Search for Values in Light of Western History and Religion." I love the course and did well enough that I'm actually on the curriculum advisory council now. The first two semesters covered, off the top of my head -- Gilgamesh, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Old Testament, New Testament, Augustine, Dante, Aquinas, among others I'm leaving off. The third semester moves to the Renaissance era and I chose the Politics track for the third semester, as it will count as a class for my major. We're reading Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Roussaeu, Nitzsche, Huxley, and others that I don't remember without looking at my syllabus. English 381 - Alfred Hitchcock and Hitchcockians - Study of Hitchcock as an "auteur" and those that emulate/remake his films Theatre 240 - Voice and Diction for Public Speaking - I plan to work in media, so I need to work on my voice. Greek 101 - Need to take a language through 201 level, and I would like to read texts from my Humanities courses in their original text. I'm also Greek by heritage, and would like to travel to Greece and be able to get around. Modern Greek is only moderately different from Ancient Greek, and most differences are merely pronunciation. ...and baseball sucking up my time as always. Working at the local news station on Friday nights, building that resume. And I'm an RA, loving the money and loving the single room.

I get the sense that in a given year 15-20 teams' fans feel this way about one or both of their Manager/GM.

This is a tough one. One thing for sure is that cheating on a spouse and cheating on a girlfriend/boyfriend are on different levels. Cheating on your girlfriend or boyfriend is certainly very wrong, you're violating a present promise of exclusivity. However, cheating on a spouse is violating a perpetual commitment and to many it is a commitment not just to the spouse, but to God. I am a bit forgiving and as a young person it is fresh in my mind how quickly one's entire perception of the world can change. To me, cheating on my high school girlfriend (by justifying to myself that she had frequently cheated on me) really changed the way I felt about the commitment to a significant other. I never wanted to feel that way again and I took all future relationships more seriously. I think people can change. I also think it is possible to have a momentary lapse. Good people can do bad things.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 07:19 PM) He is an admin you asshole.

You know what would really impress me? If Dunn was truly committed enough to go play in a winter league somewhere to try to find his stroke. Part of me wonders if getting away from the game for a while might be the best thing for him though.

I think each side here thinks the other side has a more extreme view than the other. Taxpayers/funding are necessary and important as GLI acknowledges. Tax money doesn't mean s*** if somebody doesn't, literally, bite the bullet and actually put their own life on the line. Everyone knows that. All GLI is saying is that risking one's life in a volunteer army is more admirable and remarkable than paying taxes that one only has input on paying indirectly through elections.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 09:34 PM) Navy SEALs killed Osama. Obama did not do that I hear this often. And this is certainly true. It seems unclear what role Obama played other than giving the mission his blessing (and this may have even been through a staffer or something, I don't know). However, if we hold the statement "Obama killed OBL" to that level of elaboration, why don't we do that with other issues, especially non-successes? Economy is bad = Obama ruined the economy? Or is that an unfair statement?

A lot of people ripping the guy's production when his production was not the issue yesterday.... Bruney isn't the problem. My guess is that he didn't deserve to be thrown out anyway.