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I heard a lot about Semien's superb pitch recognition...

but they don't understand that my time is me being more tired.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 05:47 AM) Where's the rumored 4 player deal coming from? Poster JDsdirtysox (I think, JD something) posted it, and someone else said he has sox connections. Seem to fit bucket's "some will hate this" narrative well.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 05:43 AM) Out of the two players, Danish has more upside, imo and given his delivery and where he is, he's still far away. Semien will be a solid player with upside of slightly above average. I don't think he'll be more then that and I could see him being below average as well. All that said, I liked Semien, but that is the type of guy you are willing to move, especially from an area that this org has significant depth in. I still think we should sign Shark to an extension and this is coming from someone usually very anti longer term deals with a pitcher, however, he seems willing to take a hometown discount and if he is and will do a deal in the 5 yr neighborhood (sub 100M) then its a no brainer, imo. Now our next all-in deal will be an outfielder/closer. I'd say something like Rasmus short term would be most realistic but maybe we'll see a classic Kenny move and Sox will acquire Kemp or Upton. If he signs a 5-year sub 100 million dollar deal than I will say I'll eat my hat and never eat it.

I like Danish a lot, but he was a great candidate to trade. Still an unconventional delivery and unconventional stats. I was excited to see how far hsi extreme ground ball rate and everything would go, but that could disappear quickly. EDIT: DANISH DANISH DANISH

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 05:24 AM) Semien, Danish, Trey would be okay with me if we can get an extension. If we don't, I'll be pretty upset. Agreed. I don't know why I believe that he will sign with us, but man I feel that would be incredibly dumb for us to pursue this guy if it wasn't for longer than 1 year.

QUOTE (staxx @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 05:22 AM) Let's not overvalue our prospects. A legit #2 for Danish/Semien is a relative small price to pay. See Russell, Addison. Trey isn't nothing, but yeah, don't hate it as much as when I thought it was Hawkins. It is rough, that is 2 of the more interesting guys in our system. I never got behind Semien, but best of luck to him.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ Dec 9, 2014 -> 04:54 AM) Mibelt Rodriguez is a fraud. Dude is never on point with anything. Wouldn't put any stock into that. Yeah, you see the guy is a hanger-onner on Twitter.

yuck.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 8, 2014 -> 09:39 PM) I said this earlier today and stand by it. If the White Sox were an 87 win team last year, Tim Anderson for Jeff Samardzija would make perfect sense. Prospect with talent who is raw, ~top 50 in the big leagues, 2-ish years away from being a big league rookie and 3 years away from probably making a difference, decent bust potential, in exchange for pitcher who outperformed contract last year, no injury history, could easily push team to 90 wins and into the playoffs, fits in the rotation, and could be offered a QO/return of a draft pick at the end of the year if he's unable to be resigned. That's a perfect deal for a team right on the cusp of winning a division/right on the cusp of competing to make. Even an 85 win team last year, that's perfectly sensible for the White Sox and fair value for the As. The problem continues to be we're closer to a 75 win team than an 87 win team. For that reason in my eyes there continues to be literally no version of this that makes sense to me. When you say no version of this do you mean no version of including Anderson? What if it is Semien.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Dec 8, 2014 -> 07:50 PM) I wouldn't look too much into this. I bet it means nothing. Probably just lyrics to a song he likes or something like that. He was joking I'm pretty sure.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 8, 2014 -> 07:32 PM) Milb take on what package required for acquiring samardzija and cole hamels. http://m.milb.com/news/article/20141208103419720/ I would do this.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 8, 2014 -> 07:08 PM) I think a lot of this is he is still gaining confidence in his body. I haven't seen him drive and use floaters, stop and fire a midrange shot, which is something he was literally lethal with early in his career. He also has gotten to the basket at times at will (when he wants to) but hasn't had the touch that he will gain. I've seen more to be excited about then not, but it is going to be a long process with the biggest factor being his health and staying on the court. If he can stay on the court and play, we will see him look more and more like the player of old. I don't think he'll be that exact same guy / as good this year, but I still think if he plays, we'll see a guy that by seasons end is 85 to 90% of the guy he was. For me, the Rose of the last 5 games has looked like crap. The Rose in the 3 total games prior did not have trouble driving. It has to be the hammy, and hammy's take forever. This just sucks.

Yesss, yesssss, bleed the nonstory for all its worth Levine.

More than rosenthal, when did Kenny tell Levine that?

Great. Now what will we talk about.

I can't believe this vikes Jets game is so entertaining

QUOTE (Baron @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 06:24 PM) His name was mentioned atleast a month ago. You didnt think he knew that they wanted him then? You have no idea the circumstances. This criticism is outrageous. He likes his job now, you think he'd throw it away for a promotion that's not a sure thing? He's a human.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) that's why its better to suck than be mediocre. sucking gives you a reason to tune in. There's also no intrigue. There's no fun watching Fuller get burned, Bostic run in circles...I don't remember a single good thing about our tackles since the Jets game.

QUOTE (Baron @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 07:04 PM) Should have resigned earlier in the offseason. Doing it now is just plain stupid. What? He didn't know this was available then.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Dec 7, 2014 -> 05:56 PM) No issue with the top 4. Really wouldnt had an issue with any result of the top 4. I have an issue with how they feel the need to have a weekly ranking, especially if theyre going to have a clean start every week. This Long guy is an idiot. So OSU moves up based on performance, not because of something TCU did. Ok, that's fine but why moved TCU down to 6? What changed yesterday to drop TCU behind Baylor? We've known for weeks Baylor won the head to head yet they kept TCU ahead. Probably just moved Baylor ahead for consolation. Baylor beat a top ten ranked team yesterday.

Yeah, Trestman has to go along with Emery. I've never checked out of a Bears season this early.

So glad mizzou left Big 12.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 6, 2014 -> 10:09 PM) Some of the animations are awesome. I had it on my Nexus 5 and felt like it wasn't any faster than Kit Kat. But then I got the Nexus 6 and everything is smooth as hell. Was battery improved?

I feel dumb for not realizing this was actually a jump. Do Sox have a CEO?