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I am more skeptical of police accounts being faulty than regular witness accounts, as their training would, hopefully, allow them to observe in high stress situations better than a witness in that situation for a first time. Police testimony and reports are often treated with greater deference because of this, and if that's not accurate either, than that is concerning.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 08:52 AM) Baez is risky but high ceiling. Depends on starting pitcher. I'd trade EJ for him before I'd trade EJ for, say, Lawrie. Oh? You'd trade Erik Johnson for Javier Baez?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 09:36 AM) 2 prospects for a rent. Friedman has gone from Tampa to the hero worship cult in LA. In all seriousness, that probably gives them the most dominating back end in baseball, but listening to O'Dowd yesterday, it makes you wonder if this messes with Jansen. He mentioned the human element when Sean Casey said Jansen probably wouldn't mind if he was a set up guy if it meant wins. O'Dowd mentioned that Jansen really hasn't been paid yet, and a lot of his future earnings are tied into saves. Not closing games costs him money. I think this is real. Now, lucky for him, with the royals success even non-closers are getting paid 10 million per now if dominant. But this is certainly a risk.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 09:42 AM) Wait, Dusty got the most out of the Cubs? He let the team implode in the 2003 NLCS. yeah what a horrible manager getting them within 2 games of the world series. Closer than whiz Joe Maddon did.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Dec 6, 2015 -> 10:02 PM) Agree, but let be real, the Sox aren't signing Heyward. He may cost over $200M. I'm not advocating signing Hayward, but it's more defensible to me than 135+ for upton.

Would much rather pay 75 million more to upgrade both hitting and our atrocious OF defense than pay our biggest contract ever and ensure that our defense will be awful for a long time. Very tired of this video game approach to improving the white sox.

I hate this so much.

If dodgers offered that package I'd add 2-3 lottery ticket prospects and probably do it.

Without knowing the price, it's hard to know what to think. I'd like him at third, I don't want to deplete our little farm yet with so far to go in rebuild.

Not sure why, but I was kind of disappointed to see this. Was really hoping Greinke loss would allow doc to take advantage of a Q trade.

I can only see us winning with a turnover. Need a big play

Need a big play from cutler Jeffery here

Ugh I just felt that coming. Was hoping we could score.

A wonderful drive by cutler.

I have found the hyperventilating of Bears beat writers kind of ridiculous today but now I'm getting nervous we will let this game slip away.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 6, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) Ugh. If they want me to take on Castro they can have LaRoche or Melky. You know, someone I don't want. Maybe it's the years of Cubs fans near me saying they could get Sale for Castro ( and Giancarlo Stanton ), but I saw Castro for Robertson and thought "oh okay not bad"

Gabbert is actually handling pressure well.

Hope we can continue to run all day. Looks like miners d is really confusing cutler. I like the moving pocket here.

I mean, yeah, I too would like to look at a draft six months later and hope that we traded for one of the best players.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 6, 2015 -> 12:00 PM) Only reason why I'm ok with them signing him. I don't really want either Upton or Cespedes (depending on amount of years) personally. Upton just seems like the kind of guy that would come here and just suck. Injury prone, K's a lot, below average defense. Pass. Although if they signed one of those two I would probably be irrationally excited until we found out either were bad deals. I feel the exact same way about Upton. He just seems like Alex Rios part two.

I feel like Hayward is going to have a career like Adrian Beltre. Some great offensive years, some .700 -.720 ops years, but always elite defense. Unsure if that's worth 200 million.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 05:27 PM) Charge them all. Police cannot be charged for their testimony.

QUOTE (Saufley @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 12:44 PM) I don't and I couldn't care less about the cubs and what they do! Post this on their message board! With the offseason the mlb section is temporarily closed. There will be general mlb talk including Cubs in the pale hose talk section. So enough of these comments.

I swear every NL pitcher has a sub 3 ERA so yeah probably.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 11:40 AM) #TankForSimmons2016 We probably already have more wins than the lakers and sixes will have