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Let's bring back Erik Johnson!!!

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 06:37 PM) It's a position in which the Sox have depth that can at least replicate Lawrie. $3 million here, $4 million there. it adds up. And the Sox have squandered a lot with such signings of bad players. What depth? He may play 2nd or 3rd and I'm not clammoring to get Sanchez time.

Glad for this. Need some MLB players and he's cheap.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 04:46 PM) I would rather just give Liriano and Coats the corners next year if this is a full rebuild Don't worry, Avi can still be the DH.

CF of future.

The thing that pisses me off about this is one) it risks war carelessly for no reason, taipei has been prudently avoiding confrontation for a while and two) I can totally see this resolving by China offering a nice deal to trump on land lease in Shanghai/Hong Kong.

guys, you are being unreasonable, how would he know trump intl is building hotels there? Ivanka runs that business!

WOW shows how much I keep up with any Padres, his slashline last year would have embarrassed the white sox offense

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 04:18 PM) For Pedro Avila, #23 Nats prospect Thanks. And 1000 white sox should look at derek norris threads from the past 4 years evaporate into smoke... unless White sox trade sale to Nationals for DEREK NORRIS and prospects

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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 03:57 PM) Gotta trade them separately unless MLB players are coming back. Turner and Giolito are MLB players at this point. Turner obviously is.

QUOTE (PolishPrince34 @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) Sucks for the Cubs. They were going to go after him hard and let Arrieta walk. Messes up their plans. Honestly sucks for all US fans who won't get a chance to see him. Even if he were on Cubs I'd watch and they would be a team that would be open to two-way play I'd imagine.

QUOTE (Ro Da Don @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 03:21 PM) Yeah, I think Cutch is headed in the wrong direction. Defensively he's fallen off, his WAR has fallen for 4 straight years (including a -0.7 WAR in 2016), and rising K rates each of those years. They may have missed their best possible return on him by a year. Maybe but by rumors they will still do pretty good.

yes.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 03:02 PM) Who says no? Nats get: Eaton and Jennings Sox get: Giolito, Robles, Fedde, Reetz Edit: I'm saying the Nats say no Nats say no - but that's what I'd like us to interject with.

Because we followed the team in March.

Why hire Haugh when you could just put a warm glass of milk on a stool in front of the mic and blow bubbles into it

Foster Campbell has outraised his opponent by over a million for the run-off election. I am stilll holding out hope!

I think the point is this, the white sox know what the nats have offered for Sale. They have the potential to know what the nats are offering for McCutcheon. If the sox front office really values the players being dangled for McCutcheon, they should see how much more they could get for eaton. Then they still have Sale and can continue to shop him and get a great package for him. You don't need to sell on eaton, but he is your "better" piece than McCutcheon is for Washington, if they don't have enough to pony up for sale but would offer a good number up for Eaton, it's worth entertaining.

Fair enough Jerry, fair enough.

This was very good: https://medium.com/@rortybomb/learning-from...3ed0#.aykpmivvd

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) I think if you can distill the response down to "he paid companies to move jobs offshore," it could be effective, but ultimately I do agree that, right now, this looks like and is being presented as "Trump fulfilling his campaign promise!" even if it's sort of the exact opposite of what his promise was and is just a really predictable corporate handout. "He bailed out the factory owners and they moved jobs to Mexico anyway" Obama literally saved an entire industry and countless jobs, but they tied "bailout" to it, so it's bad. Bailouts are bad. Deals are good! Happy for the workers that kept their jobs though. Perhaps we should just subsidize the s*** out of that stuff as we do with farms.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 09:59 AM) Is there evidence that this actually happened in any meaningful numbers? I thought the story of Trump's victory in MI/WI/PA was driving higher turnout of rural conservative whites while Clinton's support levels from typical Democratic areas dipped a bit, not that people switched from Obama to Trump. I'm not saying that there's no chance he could win a second term or even if it's 50/50, better or worse, just that giving Carrier a bunch of tax and regulatory breaks to save a handful of jobs isn't going to have an impact on 2020 and talking about discrete instances improving or lessening his chances seems a bit early because it's still 2016. f*** me, the next President hasn't even taken office and we're already talking about the next election. By 2020, we'll be ending the year talking about candidates for 2028. These exurbs in Michigan/Ohio/PA that were +10, +20 Obama swung equally hard for Trump. Also - Iowa. Part of this may be population change, but these are the swings that lost her the election.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 2, 2016 -> 09:57 AM) Some execs think #Whitesox are a sleeper to make big news at winter meetings. Can auction Sale, Robertson, Frazier, Melky under one roof https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/804715080784998401 Yes I'm sure they are really "sleeping" on people, nobody has known they are shopping Sale

Also - love that Alex Jackson deal even though it's small chance to workout.