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Celebrate, good times. Come on.

Transformative is a weird description.

Leming is speculating that it could just be dehydrtion, as apparently he walked over to cart, and locker rooms are far away.

Football injuries are just out of control. Seems like no point in even saying anymore "we were unhealthy last year" Bears have had a run of poor health for 4 years now, and aren't different than any other team. Year after year our top acquisitions are just on IR the whole time. Probably another reason to consistently trade back since its not like anyone of your starters is actually playing /vent /vent /vent

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 28, 2016 -> 10:04 AM) Yeah, all teams' top 5 prospects are not created equal, that much is for certain. But what would you want beyond their top 2 guys? I wouldn't trade Sale for two top 10 guys and a few lottery tickets. Would you? I don't know systems well enough. to go beyond those picks. I can only compare to white sox system. We have players (like Spencer Adams) not making top 100 lists that I would feel very good about getting back. If we get 2 top ten prospects, and 2 tail enders, then there are some A players we find interesting. Aside from getting stars, we can get interesting players that stock up the farm not just for future starters but for future ammo to use for trades. That is where we are barren right now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 28, 2016 -> 09:59 AM) Why would you settle for lesser return on a superstar pitcher with his contract? Either you get a ridiculous return, or you don't make a deal. Basically if you make a deal, you have to feel really, really good about the sum of the parts you get being better as a whole than Sale will be going forward. If the goal is to fill multiple holes, you have to feel pretty confident about getting at least two, if not 3 good starters out of this deal, with the chance at having at least one positional star come out of this deal. If not, why are you making the deal? We have different definitions of ridiculous returns, that's the point. Getting two top ten prospects plus other interesting players would be a very strong trade. But the laundry list of we need Moncada and benintendi and kopach and devers and ...it's just unrealistic. I know it is unrealistic, because if I was the Red Sox, I would not make that trade.

I'm confident history will be favorable to Obama. When they look back and aren't feeling the sluggishness, but look globally at a world that economically played like the White Sox, the economic management of the US while also implementing a disruptive but important healthcare law is significant.

I think the issue I have with value right now is on this board nobody seems to give credit to the red sox that it's not just their top 5 picks, they are all top 100 or near top 100. So getting top ten prospects would be more important than getting 3 30-70 prospects elsewhere, even if you could get a top 100 prospect on its own for someone like Shields (GREAT value). Anyway, won't happen. But I'm very, very confident that moncada/benintendi will be very good. And Eaton I imagine will age well. Moncada/Benintendi/Anderson/Collins is a young core that I can say is worth building around and would not give any crap to Front Office if thye didn't pan out.

Reagan was president when our biggest existential threat went kaput (i mean technically on the way to kaput). In terms of consequential, it doesn't get much bigger than that since Truman.

To add to Q's point, if adding Jason Hammel was the reason the Cubs got Addison Russell, you add an extra piece.

Let shipps dream, guys!

I missed it but Turkey has said they have no sent the extradition request to US for Gulen.

As someone mentioned, a bit bummed to see the top ten just with our recent draft. Reminds me of the dark days 5-6 years ago where every draft pick was our new #1 prospect, and last years fell into the teens with disappointing productoin. If someone like Engel starts raking in AAA though, it will be worth it. But really need some pitching to start coming through.

Guys, stop with the Carly Rae criticism. her album debuted at 16 worldwide. She's the best.

Yeah after Kevin white last year I wouldn't be surprised if McPhee retires suddenly in August Floyd - it is what it is at this point. Have to hope he can ball at that weight.

2014 we traded Jesse Crain

I feel better.

Winston Salem has really seemed to hit better recently and can't put that all on Collins.

There is no waving of the wand for any candidate, there's a lot of hard work which is what makes her attractive. Though I know you probably read that last bit "makes her attractive" and were like "WHAT! But she's ugly and old! Chelsea looks presidential with her looks! I don't get it!"

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) Lol f*** them then. You're not getting Sale or Quintana for a bunch of low level A players who are a few years away. I'm not keen on DD trades for the opposing teams. He wins usually. I'd be ok if they were giving Moncada, Benny, Devers, etc. I just think DD is active and he makes the right reads. He was able to take advantage of 11-14 when ML talent was being undervalued. But, he eventually was cash strapped and had a barren system. I don't think that Price trade was that unfair, it was similar to others where only 1 year is left.

Difficult task for Ranaudo, as the cubs take a lot of pitches. He really needs command tonight.

LOL sure that's a competitive package then for Sale.

Actually looking at those trades, it's another reason why I think Sox should trade now. For years prospects became overvalued, and you can see why. There was a crop of Correas/Betts/Bogaerts/Lindors etc that teams were harvesting and knew would be their next core. ML talent just wasn't valued as highly, with exception of a few nice deals. Sox are at fortunate point where a lot of the teams that had hoarded talent now have a good crop already in major leagues and have excesses to trade, which is why we are seeing top 25 prospects go for rentals.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 02:56 PM) Trying to think of any trades involving pitchers similar to Sale over the past 20 years or so....David Price? Rays got Austin Jackson for him. Johnny Cueto...that deal looks terrible for the Reds. Johan Santana for Carlos Gomez? Going way back, Pedro for Pavano? Random thoughts I have in my brain. Rays got Drew Smyly, Wily Adames and Nick Franklin, Mariners got Jackson. Tremendous Dom trade actually.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 01:02 PM) I tend to wear what I like and not really care about what other people are wearing... Sleepy must have like 6 of these hats.