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It used to be you'd have years of good health as a team and years of bad health. Seems like for 4-5 years straight we've been absolutely destroyed, and I don't think that's specific to us. Really makes it hard to get up for a season when you know you may get 3-4 games of your excellent guard combo actually together. Watch 5-6 games of your 4th and 5th receivers as your top targets. Nary a game of our top defensive linebackers on field together. It's incredibly boring.

I really want Melky to go to a team assured a playoff spot but not sure who he'd be a fit for. He was so much fun. I can't even remember chanting steroids at him in 2014.

I would choose pence 100x over this, for one reason, he would have an easier time getting qualified people into the white house again. I have no doubt the stuff happening in the Senate would be 100% the same, but the administrative things like the gutting of state would not be happening.

Also why do you keep referencing things without pointing to their source?

Yeah I don't really carea bout that Cameron article. We aren't talking about dramatic Katoh difference. They'd still be top 100 prospects. He also didn't do much analysis on whether that discrepancy even matters. The things top farm systems had that others don't: depth of top prospects. That is ability to produce a bunch of good players even if some fail. Sox are going to be in that boat, and In 1-2 years I see a bunch of those players that the sox have milked more success out than expected in players like Jordan Stephens, Jordan Guerrero, and Spencer Adams.

Definitely put your trust in the sanity of the house republicans. They will reward it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 02:24 PM) Btw, what is the current health status of Nate Jones? He's actually going to be ready by the beginning of the 2018 season to be the closer, after all of his health problems? I was just wondering this today.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 12:55 PM) Alright Anthony, just help us keep this game from getting out of hand, we are only down 14. Haha, I had no idea what you were talking about and just looked up. Dang. Brewers remind me alot of that 03 Royals team.

OTOH, because this does not touch medicaid, this happens to be better than what is actually going to happen. A horrible bill will come out of committee, and no senator aside from Collins is going to say no when it's that far down the line. Today is the last chance. All of the talk about HFC...won't matter. They'll go on board. The moderates will roll. It will be a lot easier to fix this if the skinny repeal truly is all that can pass. But many will still get crushed and can hopefully stay healthy during that time.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 11:11 AM) But I don't even think that'll work because you still get the death spiral from healthy, younger people not buying insurance until they need it. If those people leaving employer plans don't currently have illnesses, many won't elect to get individual coverage in a market with surging premiums. Yes they need to stay on. But they will enjoy their freedom so much that they will definitely stay on.

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 11:05 AM) I got to say, as this team gets worse on a Major League level, my interest goes up... the rare moments of good baseball become so important, it is a thing of beauty! Young players, some journymen, looking to make it big on the big stage are giving every opportunity and it is fun watching them and also watching the team lose (tank to #1 baby). To some extent I agree. I really enjoy seeing players like Engel and Willy Garcia make it and get some success. Long winding roads to the majors and I think that may inspire some of our guys in the minors to keep pressing. Plus you start to learn about scouting reports. I would have ranked May above Engel, but after this year you realize when they are about equal, take the plus tool over the production in the minors. It was hard to point out May in a game, Engel's D and speed is legit.

So basically the best case scenario we can hope for is that a bunch of people lose their employer funded health insurance and then go buy it through individual market and stabilize the market. That's like a 1 in 10000 scenario.

Petri is the best. Maybe the most consistently funny columnist and that's very hard to do.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) Fulmer hasn't passed the eye test in a year plus and by all accounts it sounds like Gilaspie doesn't either. Things could absolutely change, but Sox don't have a great track-record fixing guys. By the way, I'm not knocking the trade, just saying their is a reason the #74 preseason prospect was traded for Jennings. We need to hope the Sox saw some sort of mechanical flaw in Gilaspie that they think they can fix. Exactly. Not saying this is a bad return. Just meh on Gillaspie going forward, which is what I'd expect from a Jennings return. And that's good. We'll be able to buy a jennings when we are good for our own version of a gillaspie.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 10:28 AM) At this point I'll be shocked if we don't get the #1 pick. I think the Phillies underperformed in the first half (and by Baseruns they're 7 games below where they "should" be right now) and with this bullpen we're going to blow a lot of the few leads we're going to have the rest of the season. Same. Granted the padres just unloaded 3 useful players but to the extent the white sox overperformed in the first half it was because of a good bullpen. This bullpen will be the worst i've ever seen, and imo the big reason we underperformed the last 2 years was lack of a truly good bullpen.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) So you're directly choosing to keep yourself uninformed while ranting about things that aren't true... Why? Why be no better than a Breitbart-worshiping Trumpster? Doing that actually takes away any credibility you think you have, and I will literally give no credence to any of your posts going forward. That's just absurd logic. Sounds good.

Yeah I am not really expecting much more than a white sox mike olt out of this guy.

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 10:29 AM) Also, i'm surprised Bummer is getting the promotion. I would have figured Clark or Purke would be the next lefty up. I'm not that surprised honestly. From his spring training update onward, there just seemed to be a lot of the org was behind him as a bullpen piece. Really cool story for him. Goes to show there is a lot of performance stuff we do not see, as he shot out of nowhere to be a top bullpen guy in org.

Man. the ML team is going to be soo so bad. This is really hitting home. All fun and games until your closer is tyler clippard and set up guy is mark lowe.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 10:14 AM) The Rays must be really down on Gillaspie to give him up for Jennings, but I thought Jennings had little to no value anyway so this is still a nice get. Yeah this is how I feel. The fall for Gillaspie clearly was a "reevaluate your priors" moment, so it's worth it to see if the recovery is miraculous but I'm not expecting much.

This feels analogous to getting someone like AJ Reed. He has hit depths that Davidson hit 2 years ago. Interesting acquisition for a guy like Jennings.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 27, 2017 -> 08:58 AM) I've always liked this one from RA Dickey. It's one of his cards in MLB the Show 16. I think something promising for Hansen is his face will lend itself very easily to video game graphics.

Birmingham is where our promising hitters have gone to die. If he does well in Birmingham let him spend year there. Make AAA the shorter stint.

Yeah this has been one of the very nice surprises of 2017 along with Adolfo. I think with his age we can push him more aggressively, I mean sox have had NO problems moving catchers from AA to majors (not that I'm advising that). But what a great year. He's had some monster months.

I don't know if it's true, but I like the idea of staying down there so they feel more free to work on pitches like his new cutter without worrying about the consequences of runs as much. No matter how much we say the majors is low pressure for the sox right now, nobody wants to get shelled on tv in front of at least double the audience of Charlotte.