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That's insane. - BigEd's post not SS2k5s

So overtime is must watch TV now.

I also remember crying and whining about how Aaron Rowand could not handle the slider low and outside and was ruining the series for us! Man that was intense. We were up 3-0 and up until Jermaine Dye's hit i was miserable.

I'm jealous. I was so pumped for last year. Reminds me of the sox this year. I went in last year thinking we finally had all this shooting and depth, then I look at the same team this year and think "man we have no shooting or depth". And to think, we were up by 10 points to the cavs in the fourth quarter with 8 minutes to go up 2 games to 1, and Lebron had just rolled his ankle.

in other words, good luck getting to the game.

Hold me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 06:46 PM) I don't think it has anything to do with compromise, but more of what is most popular. What was right was to overturn the ban on gays in the military, but it wasn't popular, so they didn't do it. There are all kinds of stories about how closely the Clintons pay attention to polling numbers, and shaped policy around them while Bill was President. I have no reason to believe Hillary would be any different. Yeah I wrote "no compromise" but meant no action when no action would have been better to ultimately get to the right move faster. I think you are right but ultimately that's largely fine. When you look at Obama with gay marriage, he basically set up the court and government so that popular support could tip the scale as much as possible. DADT actually made it harder to get the right think done. Clinton is valuable largely because she will play nice defense for Obama policies. I don't trust her to pass anything meaningful it many piecemeal bills.

I actually think Hillary, and by her I mean her husband's, biggest weakness was was willingness to accept a bad compromise over no compromise. DADT probably lengthened the time it took to remove bans on homosexuality in the military as it made it seem like "something" was done. She is the coach that always recruits the 2 stars that she knows she can woo vs ever attempting to hit a 4 star game changer. OTOH, she's a politician. And that can be a bad thing, it was bad when the "reasonable" position was to be a hawkish democrat. But it also means she pays attention to the base wants and what will help her sell. With Obama, people kept thinking there would be an American President moment where he inspires politicians to give up their long-held beliefs for...basically nothing. With Hillary, we know that won't happen. Obama put a lot of effort into pushing popular support into congressional action. Hillary is going to put a lot more effort into institutional action IMO. But I may be off. Frankly Obama was the first real president to have to deal with a lack of any pork in congress. There isn't much horsetrading to be done. Maybe we are just living in a delusion now that has not crashed, where the whole nation thinks the President can get things done, and the institution is just not set up for that.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 12:44 PM) Watched this alone from my dorm-lounge. Ran screaming up to the 10th floor and banged on the door of the only Astros fan I knew of. Me too, me too. I drove all the way home to chicago to watch game 1 with my brother and then drove back at 4:30am to get my first class at 11 the next day (missed it). Really, really sucked missing being in Chicago for it, but did get WGN at school to watch parad.e

Man you guys are optimistic. I don't know, I think wiz/bucks are going to be better. We'll get into playoffs but that's it.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 12:11 PM) Is there something wrong with Thompson in RF? Or is that too much outfield defense? I think the thought is just that you are maximizing his defensive value in center and will help make up for lack of hitting.

A couple posts have discussed the org seeing the issue as talent acquisition not development. But to me, I have no confidence that the players with plus power in our system can ever be good enough at contact to be starters. And it just seems to keep happening. Really would love if the Zs in arizona can keep it up, but I just feel like its a fat chance (more so than with any prospect being a fat chance)

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Oct 25, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) Omar Narvaez, Winston-Salem (98 games): The 23-year-old backstop proved he could keep his mind centered between both parts of his game in a strong first full season in the White Sox system. Not only did Narvaez reach base at a .352 rate in his first taste of Class A Advanced, but he also threw out 35.4 percent of would-be basestealers. A little old for the level so to make it by age 25 he would have to be fast tracked and he still has a lot to prove but initially looking strong . Carlos Perez is getting rave reviews.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 24, 2015 -> 11:51 AM) How clutch is Frazier? I'd rather the team signed a lower tier FA SP in an abundant market than try to find a new position player in FA. I agree with this. Trust your scouts, sign a high upside guy, try to flip to a WC team at deadline and hope for a career first half out of them.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 11:15 AM) The only better FA OF option in my eyes would be Heyward. Upton is still in his prime (28), while Gordon (32) and Cespedes (30) contracts will get ugly later because they all will end up getting 5-7 year deals. The only thing that Gordon really provides over Upton is plus defense. Can Gordon play RF? Do you move Melky to RF? Upton and Heyward have at least played RF in their careers. But Plus defense is a big big deal to this team. Upton is a good bat, but I'm not really interested in a marginal upgrade in hitting and no upgrade in defense. Gordon I could talk myself into as we are getting the best defensive left fielder in the game. Gordon-Trayce-Eaton would save how many runs from our excellent pitching staff? Upton seems like such a white sox player. A bat not good enough to be scared of, will get worse and worse defensively and signed to a price that diminishes any return when we inevitably try to cut our losses.

I just think this would be a disaster. An awful signing and bad strategy. I'd prefer we do nothing for 1 more year than this.

My God, I wonder if my friend wrote that. When we watched a game together and I said he needs to just enjoy playoff baseball in some aspect, he went on about how people need to learn how to talk to cubs fans. I was like: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

If he's going to throw off his back foot, fade routes into the end zone are the one place I'm fine with it.

For the record, i too get annoyed when people wrote like, "cubs or sox, you gotta root for Chicago when they are in the playoffs!". No, you don't. Some of the stuff in here was just sooo over the top.

Lots of bad passes that PP

100+ post hatin ass Cubs thread ridiculing random Cubs free blog post ridiculing sox fans ridiculing Cubs fans infinite loop world ends

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 06:53 PM) One rumor that he might have showed up on drugs and then was immediately cut and then came back. No idea whether it is valid and it has not been picked up by any major publication, rather pure message board fodder. . That doesn't sound like drugs. That sounds like manic behavior.

Well, with all of those you have an entire world being created, from common companies, to geographies, physics and characters. Seems like the star wars world has just really resonated. It is crazy watching the first two how much information they packed into it that was so accessible to digest. It was the opposite of a Chris nolan movie, where he'll just explain a world's rules to you for 4 hours and then finish it with "THERES SO MUCH WE CANT KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

Are we sure Cooper is good anymore?

wouldn't mind is not really the emotion I want behind a big $100 mill signing. Justin Upton seems like a nice 3rd or 4th best position player. Not someone I want as my highest paid #2.