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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Feb 17, 2016 -> 11:35 AM) Upgrading a -1 WAR position should be really easy to do, it doesn't require a "high impact" bat to be a significant upgrade. So maybe the answer is already on the roster. JB Shuck: left handed bat, better defensively than Avi. 266 BA, 689 OPS compared to Avi's 257/675. Small sample size? Yes. Long term solution? Probably not. Better than Avisail Garcia? I think so.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 16, 2016 -> 12:15 PM) i would really love it if some independent new companies goes back and get those predictions and the end of season results and post them.... In '05 BP had the White Sox finishing around 500, and I think in 4th place. To their credit they wrote a what went wrong (for them) article after the World Series.

I think it's hard to take these predictions seriously because they're done now before spring training begins, as opposed to right before the actual season starts. BP bases its predictions on "the numbers" but wouldn't they have a better chance of accuracy after rosters are set? Not to mention there's no way WARP or ERA+ can take into account a teams best pitcher jumping from the back of a pickup truck, injuring his foot, and missing his first three or four starts. Just saying.

For those of us who live outside of Chicago, this place is irreplaceable. What's unfortunate is that the site is better than the team.

Why does Law not like Fulmer?

Pale Hose Talk. Sometimes I hate autocorrect.

While everyone here seems pretty wrapped up in the Gordon, Cespedes, Upton sweepstakes, I thought I'd recommend a pretty good book. It may help take your minds off the crazy waiting game for a moment or two. The book is Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk by Doug Wilson. It covers all of Fisks' life to date starting with his boyhood in rural New Hampshire through his entire baseball career. The 14th chapter entitled Winning Ugly is a great recap of the '83 season. The book pulls no punches documenting Fisks' greatest moments with the Red and White Sox, as well as the "difficulties" he had with the front offices of both teams. It's also a great recall of the beginnings of the free agent system in baseball as Fisk was one of the first players to have an agent and challenge the financial system that was Major League Baseball. Wilson also wrote a book about The Bird, Mark Fidrych, that's another great Baseball biography. So sign off of Palehouse Talk for a day or two, forget about how badly we need a quality outfielder, and read about Carlton Fisk. One of the best catchers to ever play the game and one of the best White Sox players of all time.

Southpaw should ride off into the sunset with Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 04:43 PM) Not sure that will help sell any season tickets...for casual fans, it looks like punting on the season before it even begins. The punting on the season happened when they brought back Ventura

The good news is Tyler will report to Spring Training in the best shape of his life.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 2, 2015 -> 05:41 PM) After the last off-season, I think questioning JR's desire to make the White Sox better doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The moves may have mostly backfired, but you don't spend all that money on free agents just due to shareholders. He's too loyal and slow to make changes in the front office, but that's a different conversation. Al Davis never lost his desire to make the Raiders winners, he just got bad at doing it. Reinsdorf spends based on what's coming in. It's not that he doesn't want to win, it's just not the first priority, and he's not as sharp as he use to be. Also being slow to make changes is the problem. There's no other problem. That's my opinion.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 2, 2015 -> 05:38 PM) Tanner fan? Do you know Chuck Tanner has the major league record for consecutive last place finishes by a manager? It's true. I don't know what really is going on in JR's mind, I don't think any of us do. I do think he has been running his businesses successfully most of his life, and feels a responsibility to his shareholders to maintain top business practices. If anything, he seems to be taking more chances lately. Before he signed Adam Dunn after 2010, he hadn't signed another team's free agent for more than $20 million total since Albert Belle. I find the notion that JR doesn't know what he is doing, or doesn't care or want to make the effort to get better preposterous. The only thing I have noticed is he seems more than little cranky the past couple of years. Stories about him with the Bulls and Manfred's election. I wonder how much losing his son has affected him. I would imagine more than we will ever know, or want to know. Hey Dick, you had arguably your best season ever under Chuch Tanner. Where's the love?

I think the big concern for me is retaining Ventura makes me feel we have officially entered into the Jerry Reinsdorf as an elderly out of touch owner phase ala Al Davis. These guys get to the point where the times have passed them by but they think they are still sharp as tacks and in control. My thing with Reinsdorf is I've always felt his top priority was making money for his partners. Sort of like the character Hyman Roth in Godfather II. Winning and White Sox fans are 2nd and 3rd behind the partners. But now I think age and what not have settled him into the older man place of not wanting a lot of hassles in his life. Fire Robin? But then we have to find somebody else and negotiate a deal and he has to meet everybody and gee maybe it's better just to give the guy a little more time. Change radio announcers? Gosh that sounds like a lot of work, let's just keep the guys we've got. How about on the TV side? Mr Country Catch Phrase is going to be back I betcha. The downward spiral has probably only just begun for the White Sox. God I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 30, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) Yeah Farmer and DJ were why we didn't make the playoffs. This board is hilarious sometimes. You're missing the bigger picture. The Chicago White Sox are a third rate organization. The broadcasting is bad and does not help expand the fan base. The coaching is bad, the free agent signings are bad, even the video board in center field is out of date and bad.

Oh thank God. It's so important to not make any changes to this winning organization. Attendance is down, viewership and listenership is down, losing is holding steady. All is right in White Sox world. I'm really looking forward to extensions for Harrelson, Ventura, Williams and the entire coaching staff. The three year plan is solid.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 24, 2015 -> 05:41 PM) You don't think Hawk is a professional? Not even close.

Watching the Yankees broadcast on MLBtv. So nice to hear professional broadcasting.

I miss long game threads. Maybe next year.

Hey Greg, you should have gone tonight!

Whatever happened to the "Abreu will play third base in inter-league games" idea?

I think the replay rule should be amended so that the manager has to challenge without getting the time to see the replay. He should have to come out on the field immediately and make a challenge. No waiting around for a thumbs up from some guy in the tunnel watching on TV.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 24, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) I'm still not giving up yet. I would feel much much worse if we had put together great stats and had a 19-22 record to show for it because we kept losing 6 games by one run to win the 7th by 14. What's not sustainable are the stats our players are putting up. This team has already shown the ability to put one winning streak together, and another 8-9-10 game stretch of really good baseball isn't just possible, it's an eventuality. We have no hope of the division if KC stays this hot but I refuse to believe this particular group of players doesn't have an 85-90 win season in them. You're dreaming.

If they do lose today hopefully they'll stop wearing their pajamas.

God I hate those uniforms.