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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 06:51 AM) His Career Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) numbers hang just above 4. Yeah, he gets benefits from Petco, but he's still a reasonable back of the rotation guy. 1.5 WAR pitcher the year we traded him, 2.3 WAR pitcher last year. Honestly, in this situation some of those stats can get thrown out the window. When your era has been over 5 the last 2 seasons in the NL away from Petco, you're just not that good.

To me nothing about this team has been fun. We were still technically in the f***in race just a week ago and then we decide to completely f***in suck right as the trade deadline passes. I just despise this team, no fun yet.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 10:38 PM) Clayton Richard isn't the #2 starter he looked like in San Diego, but he is a solid #3-4 guy in any rotation. No he's not. He's struggling to crack most rotations in the AL.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) So our great scouts can take a great second baseman prospect like Beckham? Much better chance of not f***in up when you have the 3 pick compared to the 8th(in Beckham's case) or the 10th or the 15th, you get the picture...

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 11:26 PM) Indeed. I'm a prospect guy though, and I'm all Dayan-ed out at this point. Ha, I hear ya. Gotta find something to be excited about in this system and at this point he's definitely the guy to look at besides Dayan.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 08:54 PM) I'm pretty excited about him. The superlatives describing his stuff have been encouraging to say the least. His stats are mind boggling. It's hard to get overly excited about a reliever though.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 10:48 PM) For all those interested: 1. HOU 37-74 2. BAL 43-65 7.5 3. CHC 47-65 9.5 4. SDP 48-64 10.5 5. KCR 48-63 11 6. SEA 48-62 11.5 7. OAK 49-62 12 8. LAD 50-60 13.5 9. COL 51-60 14 10 MIN 51-59 14.5 11 CHW 52-58 15.5 12 WAS 53-57 16.5 13 CIN 54-57 17 14 PIT 54-56 17.5 15 FLA 55-56 18 16 NYM 55-55 18.5 We're closer to the #3 pick in the draft than we are the playoffs. Woo, lets do it!

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 08:49 PM) To have him on your team, or have relations with him? This post is pretty vague. lol

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:12 PM) no offense, but I can't imagine rooting against the white sox. I can see if it was one game and the difference between winning and losing was drafting a sure-thing prospect with the 1st pick...but rooting against them because maybe you don't like the coach/GM/certain players? Root against guys like Paul Konerko, Mark Buehrle and the team as a whole? I don't get it. I'd rather root for a 10 game winning streak that puts us right back in it. Look, I'm not sitting at my tv rooting against the Sox, I can't do that. And me calling for them to lose has nothing to do with the fact that I hate the gm/manager combo right now. But at this point, I do believe the best thing for this franchise as a whole would be for them to just lose every game. This team isn't going to the playoffs and if we were to hypothetically lose out, you get the best draft pick possible while guaranteeing the organization goes in a new direction as far as the gm and manager are concerned. Best possible option.

QUOTE (greasywheels121 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 05:32 PM) The broken foot is valid reasoning enough to let being busy sneak under the rug. Good to hear it's not discouraging you from scratching the effort altogether. If you're still in the burbs, we should meet up sometime soon for some kind of workout or race. It would be times of good. Ya, definitely. You still in arlington heights?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:19 PM) why? you're not seriously rooting for loss I think it's to the point where I actually am. Losing the most amount of games is probably the best possible thing for this organization right now.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:08 PM) Except for more speed and a stronger arm, Vick and Tebow have similar styles. Both have had limited touch and both are/were run-first QBs. Tebow is quick for a QB, very strong, and smart. If he works on his touch, he can have an equivalent to Orton's arm and be okay. Yaaaa except the two differences you mentioned are EXTREME differences.

Just lose every game.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 06:07 PM) Whether you like him as a manager or not, you would have to admit drinking with Ozzie would probably be a riot. I wouldn't trust myself in such a spot.

I pretty much live in bucktown on the weekends, I hope I never run into him.

QUOTE (greasywheels121 @ Aug 4, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) Little over a week until the half, how's training going, Justin? Not gonna lie, the whole marathon thing kind of got pushed back for me. Between just being extremely busy for the first time in my life(I know awful excuse) and breaking my foot, it just wasn't the best time for me. I do plan on doing one hopefully before the end of this year but the one next week isn't happening unfortunately.

Hoge is doing his job, he said nothing wrong. From Tebow's tweet you get the feeling that he's going to use Merril's words as motivation so good for him and as usual Lebron has no clue what the hell he's talking about.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 10:58 PM) I'm thinking 5-6 range Oh please, you know better. We will absolutely dominate the last two weeks of the season when we're already out of the race.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) Haha and then the next guy said 15-12. Three straight tweets basically saying the exact same thing. We White Sox fans have the misery thing down pat. Like how you said tweets.

I love the premise of the new Planet of the Apes movie, the only thing that has bugged me in the previews is how damn fake the apes look. Oh well, I can get around that, definitely want to see it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 02:59 PM) MDGonzales Mark Gonzales Konerko took swings, ran on underwater treadmill, hopes to return thursday Can you imagine how fast that was?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 3, 2011 -> 06:38 AM) Well some NBA players have to past the time. 1st time in legendary Rucker Park for Kevin Durant? Drops 66 points. Here's him going off in the 4th. Longer highlights. What a ball hog. And obviously it means nothing, he's a NBA player playing at Rucker Park, he can do whatever the hell he wants.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 08:43 PM) I'll root for Brewers. And this Yanks team is way more likable than the Red Sox. C.C., Granderson and Tex are great guys. Agreed. Too bad the Red Sox are just plain better.

I can't believe that I hate a team so much that I love, if that makes any sense... Seriously, this current team can go f*** themselves. I really do hope they sneak into the playoffs but I f***in despise this group.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) I definitely thought Tracey had what it takes to be at least a decent reliever, but I must have been wrong seeing as he's never made it with anyone. Ditto.