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Haven't seen much from Bostic

BIG HUGE GAME TONIGHT SEASON DECIDING GO TEAM JORDAN MILLS

Maybe he just meant he'd be in Chicago soon.

I too have probably watched more games in last 2 weeks than first 4 months.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 03:42 PM) I still really, really like Garcia and I don't think the Eduardo Escobar comparisons do him justice because he's a better player than that. I think, ceiling wise, you are looking at a 3-4 win player. Whoa.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 15, 2013 -> 03:01 PM) I don't think it's a good idea to ever bring it up in public, but I also have some compassion for these situations. For most of us, if a personal or health issue causes us to perform our jobs at less than peak, the company can survive for a while with our sub-par performance, or we can take time off and either somebody else fills in and/or whatever we're working on can wait until we get back. For professional athletes at the highest level, the team takes a serious hit if the player has to be out for a while, and even if the player manages to play through it but at a less than peak level, the team still suffers. No No No, any player coming from poverty who suddenly becomes a millionaire forfeits all rights to being a human. Sick child? Who cares! I'm a season ticket holder, buddy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:22 PM) The kid is an option for Sox... http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...n-williams.html This reminds me of the 2005 fan convention where people were clamoring for Tadahito Iguchi and management was acting like they didn't know he existed.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 02:46 PM) I think sunshine is nicer than snow, but right now, winning and losing may as well be interchangeable because the temperature is 30 below. I recognize this but right now it's a tough balance between wanting to see progression from young players we need and hoping that vets fail miserably so we lose. Last night was almost perfect with Alexei trying his damndest to lose us the game, but alas.

Here here. Fun game to watch.

QUOTE (MAX @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:42 AM) If they don't, they might not defect. Really? You think becoming a multi millionaire isn't enough to defect from poverty? You need to be a multi-multi-millionaire?

I'm surprised we had a nod to Montas and nothing for Tim Anderson. You'd think his newness is still fun.

Speaking of Kendrick: http://www.stereogum.com/1435662/big-sean-...ectronica/mp3s/ Twitter has been going nuts over this for like 18 straight hours. On TWITTER.

QUOTE (HeGone7 @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 10:09 PM) Highly doubt the A's are in on him. You'll have to take my word for it, but Billy Beane has a daughter who lives in Chicago and dates a friend. Billy isn't very fond of Cespedes, so I can't imagine another high-priced, free swinging, Cuban is on his way to Oakland. Take it for what it's worth, but I am not so sure the A's will be rushing to the front of the line to pay big bucks for this guy. Does she play guitar and sing your friend sweetly pop songs?

Let's aim for 200+ pages on a standard viewing window (20 posts per page).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 08:42 PM) Bowden tweeted this as the Rios saga was unfolding... JIM BOWDEN ‏@JimBowdenESPNxm 9 Aug Chance that the #White Sox trade Alex Rios to the #Rangers today "smaller than a bread basket" according to a source involved in trade talks 8:45 am and don't ask me what size a bread basket is because I have no idea 8:46 am Bread Basket must have been large as Alex Rios is dealt to the Rangers 10:58 am Thanks, and now that I know the joke, quality joke up there, poster!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 07:31 PM) There's a lot of random electric vehicle chargers, but the Tesla "Supercharger" is a much-higher-amperage charger only for Tesla vehicles. Yeah, I thought it was branded but I may have just projected.

(can someone explain the breadbasket joke/sorry)

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 07:37 PM) Also the article notes that his obp is inflated by leading the league in intentional walks and HBPs. Still though even if you subtract those his obp would still be pretty high. That's what I imagined, thanks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 07:14 PM) Tesla has a map of their current "Superchargers" as well as their planned roll out available here. http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger I thought there were some already in Chicago, but apparently the only one in Illinois is down in Normal. Probably in conjunction with the university. 200 miles in 30 minutes isn't really in the road-trip range yet, but that's still pretty impressive. You could stop for lunch on a long-ish drive and charge your car back to full for free. I could have sworn there was one at the walgreens parking lot on diversey and california.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 10, 2013 -> 02:27 AM) I haven't heard this before. Just among millennials, or across all groups? I'd have to find the graph again, b/c i'm not sure if it was a dynamic graph on "actually using" or "i have used marijuana more than x" but millenials were about 10-12% less than age group of 40-49

For those with knowledge of Cuban League baseball (or followed the defectors closer than I) - is it common for those top players to have featured the type of OBP that Abreu has? Should that signal he's more of a patient hitter than we are used to from Cuba, or is that line pretty typical for a top hitter in Cuba?

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) Dayan and Alexei are kind of a selling point for guys like this Hopefully, he doesn't read Soxtalk then.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) Well, I'm not either. I just know we don't have any of them. Ramirez/Viciedo got peanuts compared to what this guy is going to get. I'm just tempering my expectations, I guess. Right, however, we have been "in" on the talks for all of these. Going back even to when we offered fukodome more than the cubs. And last year going in for Soler.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) That said, there's no precedent for them going after a guy like this, so I wouldn't be surprised if we don't even have a chance on him. TBH, I'm not so sure that's true.

I'm all for going all out for this hitter. I don't want a 5 year rebuild I'd like to make a major step in 2015 and be back to full speed for 2016 and this guy should be in his prime for that.