Rowand44

Yanks back in it and talking about including Robertson if we eat some of the contract according to Nightengale.

Final line for me this season: 2 championships, a third place finish and a $90 profit in the league I didn't make the playoffs. I'll never have a year like this again.

I'm going to SD tomorrow now so yay. It'll be my 10th wrestling show of the year which is just sad but oh well. I think Wrestlemania might have been the worst of the bunch ha.

Got a Fitbit and a few frozen pizzas from Lou's to take back to St. Louis ha. Excited to mess around with the Fitbit tomorrow.

Finally gave Suicide Squad and BvS a watch. Suicide Squad wasn't great but I at least found it entertaining. BvS I thought was hot garbage though.

J4L, Q and Rabbit are just meanies. That's all I have to add.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 24, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) Man, I'm thoroughly learning the farm system of every team in baseball. Ha, seriously though. I follow and know the minor leagues a decent amount but I feel like I've dug deep into like every system in baseball these last few months.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 11:51 AM) I am tired of the pitching headlined deals. Get the f***ing bat. We've made two trades, one was headlined by a bat.

The Sox haven't finished top 5 in the AL in era since 2009. They've had good but not elite pitching. A big problem with that has been the lack of depth in the rotation and bullpen which is one reason it's nice to add a lot of arms. At the same time, we're not trying to win next year and probably not in 2018 either, you get the best talent available and when you're ready to win then you can start to piece things together. You don't start to fill in holes when you're not going to put a winning team on the field until probably 2019, you just accumulate talent.

QUOTE (Mattchoo @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) Sox: Frazier, Rutherford, Glasnow Pitt: Q Yanks: McCutchen Fair? What is wrong with it? That wont fly from a Yankees perspective.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 10:47 AM) He was pick #18 in last year's draft. That is not the value of a second piece, no matter how much the WhiteSox liked him 6 months ago. What?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) So in five years we can be back to where we are now, with outstanding pitchers, but no offense or defense. What a waste. Good, we're back here.

Carmen running with the rumor saying it's "semi close" now too.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 09:55 AM) Shields was a typical Sox move that a blind man from another dimension could have predicted. Anderson's call up was easy to predict because everyone knew the Sox signed Rollins to work with Tim on his defense as well as to hold SS so the Sox could wait on the callup to be the exgra year of control. Your examples further back up what I'm saying. Also not going to take trade rumors serious from a guy that loves to post the most random and meaninglsss nonsense. Pizza plug from his favorite spot down the street, how drunk he got last night or about the size of the dump he took this morning. Yep, he's a good source alright. He provided info on those moves way before anyone else even had an idea. No matter who your source is you're going to be wrong at times and that's why you should never completely take this stuff as gospel but Dave clearly has a source, that's not even debatable.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 09:43 AM) After last year's Sox and free agent rumors, I believe nothing WSD has to say ( Cespedes 6/135M!) Just an attention whore that's full of s***. I fail to see how a festive reference ( as funny as it may be) correlates to a Q trade happening today. Here a fresh article from Fox speculating the Astros could still be in on Q. I suggest Sox fans read this to help remove WSD's nonsense from their minds. http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/jose-qu...n-astros-122316 He clearly has some kind of source, he's proven that. That said, his tweet could be about anything and even if he thinks something is going to go down it certainly doesn't mean it's going to.

David Aardsma and Nick Masset talk this morning. What a time to be alive.

QUOTE (Mattchoo @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 09:18 AM) In my opinion, we desperately need young power hitting. Thoughts? I think everyone here will agree with you that we're going to need more young positional players. That said, we're not trying to win next year so I don't think we're desperate for anything yet, just keep collecting the best talent out there.

Man, that trade was 10 years ago?! I feel old.

Are the Indians going to win the central by 70 games?

Gotcha. Thanks guys.

I've been traveling all day, anything new? Or just still a lot of speculation?

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 04:14 PM) Unless his daughter likes Bayley, like most little girls...and Rowand44. And proud of it. But ya, I think SD is the easy choice for the Chicago shows this time around.

Everyone is untouchable until they're not. That's my analysis.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 04:04 PM) Jose Valentin for HOF The one thing all of Soxtalk can agree on.

I bet the Pirates would give up one of Meadows/Bell but don't want to give up both. "Settling" on the 2nd and 3rd pieces will be the hold up here I'm betting.