RockRaines

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) Here's a good example. There's the current Cuban sensation out there available for a lot of money. Sox COULD get him if they want him likely. This is tangible. He's right there. Ready to play. Rather than worry about the crapshoot called the draft, why not talk NIGHT AND DAY about signing this guy? He arguably could help turn the team around next year. There are other ways to win besides the draft where your pick might flop. I'd rather win as many games as possible to enjoy the summer and do other things to win. Besides we still get a first round draft pick every year. Every player may flop, theres a chance. However you are increasing your odds of the best talent the more you lose after you are eliminated. I'm sorry watching an occasional Sox win is the thing that makes you happy, but its better for us as fans if they lose this season.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) .500 gets me a lot more happy days in the summer when I like watching my team win. That means much more to me than the luck of the draft when prospects flop all the time. .500 makes you happy? There are two categories of baseball teams, playoff team and non-playoff teams. The rest of the record is meaningless outside of the draft slot. Your team is already out of the playoffs, might as well get the best chance to add the best talent in the upcoming draft.

QUOTE (mike89128 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) Yeah just like the 2009 draft. We take Jared Mitchell at 21, Angels take Mike Trout at 23. Ah yes, so our record right now puts us near the 20's in the draft?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:48 PM) Soxtalk ... where people inexplicably care about the crapshoot called the baseball draft.You may think I'm crazy. But I'd rather finish .500 than get the No. 2 pick in the draft. I.Don't.Care. Draft slots get you more than .500 which gets you nothing.

QUOTE (mike89128 @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) Yes! Tank was stone cold after 5 games on the bench and Phegley would have replaced Flowers anyway. So, every loss improves draft position.

Gia from bachelor pad killed herself. She was hot, dated Ryan Anderson.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 31, 2013 -> 10:53 AM) Awesome man...good luck with the reno! Actually broke the contract due to what my engineer called serious structural issues. BUT now under contract with another house not too far away. The good thing is I got it for under asking by alot and its just about finished.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) f***, you're not helping. lol. Angel avatar vs. devil avatar Do you want to wait until xmas for delivery or do you want it by the weekend?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 13, 2013 -> 08:54 AM) I'd wait, it's supposed to be ready in a few months (October), for the holiday season. Listening to Apple rumors is a fruitless activity, it's to the point where every possible guess is made, so someone has to be right by default. A bunch of new Apple products are on their way this fall, believe that. Announced this fall, out probably early next year. Depends how long you want to wait. The mini now is pretty awesome.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) They're actually more like $80k with any sort of meaningful options before a nice government subsidized $7500 tax credit. By the way, complaining that poor little Tesla cannot be compared to the larger companies when 10% of every sale is incentivized by the government and the company itself spent all of its life except the past 6 months suckling on some form of green initiative teat doesn't fly with me. Their lack of innovation annoys the crap out of me. Mercedes beancounters decided it was OK to just hurl some R&D car onto the market offering all these functions we've never seen before. They're letting the market get exposed to the possibilities here. I mean instead of getting bogged down in the tired old arguments that circle around batteries, charging times and ranges that wont solve themselves for probably another decade Mercedes just flat gives us this grand statement on what the electric car can (and should) be. It should not be a luxo-barge weighing in at 2.5 tons that delivers its power to one set of wheels in the most inefficient way imaginable considering the available technology, that's just a colossal waste of tech that already exists. And yea, an M5 MSRP's for about $90k, F-Types anywhere from $70-90k, used DB9's with sub-15k miles can be found under 100grand. There's ton more than that too, its a crowded arena. Tesla is raking in because they're a new domestic carmaker that gets some really great publicity, but eventually they're going to have put something out that's better than the rest if they want to compete. I dont see the Model S nor Model X doing that much longer. Sucking off the gov teat huh? Were they the fastest company to ever pay back their government loan for projects like this? They are also innovative enough to have not only influenced other manufacturers to produce their own fully electric cars but they supply batteries for many of them. And they are co-producing Mercedes electric A class car. Seems like you have a personal vendetta.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 02:55 PM) Watch that if you're interested in what's possible with electric cars. Here's the problem I have with Tesla. Mercedes is just throwing s*** against the wall and seeing what sticks and coming up with stuff like torque vectoring and these interchangable chassis/engine output settings that completely change the identity of the car. Press a button and your comfortable, efficient highway cruiser can gain AWD and be great in the snow. Its traction control on steroids, it starts defeating the purpose of brakes altogether (and the most inefficient thing you can do in a car is brake)... brilliant. It start creating an identity around the electric car that instead of trying to be the ICE it does something wildly different that you average driver will probably find better. Tesla isn't doing that. They are making ICE cars and just swapping out the drivetrain components, accepting all the faults of electric cars with only one or two of the real benefits (no gas, great torque). The Model S, when you compare it with cars in its pricerange, just gets smothered. Would you honestly have a Model S instead of an M5? Or F-Type V8S? Or maybe the greatest GT car ever (DB9)? Because that's what its competing against directly. It not trying to be that different at all... Tesla's are like 70k, thats roughly a really nice luxury SUV or a middle of the road Benz.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 02:55 PM) Cliff Alexander's most recent tweet is just cruel if he doesn't pick Illinois. https://twitter.com/humblekid11/status/3670...1135360/photo/1 Thats probably something someone did for him during the visit. Recruits do that s*** all the time. What's next? Him standing in the locker room?

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 01:18 PM) The one sport where Miami is as good as/better than Ohio State LOL. Thats all miami does well athletically. My entire family is probably 49 percent miami grads, 50 percent OSU grads and then the one purdue guy.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 12:59 PM) I know several people like that, you guys suck. That makes more sense since OSU can win a title and go to a BCS bowl, while Miami really can't. But if you root for Michigan while attending Illinois (I had a friend like that), go pound sand. I root for miami in hockey vs OSU though....

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 12, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) Maybe if I had a parent who went to Illinois and bled orange and blue it would have been different*. But I was an Illinois fan for the simple fact that I grew up in Chicagoland. Did I root for them, watch all the football/basketball games, follow recruiting? Yeah. But I'll readily admit that I was as never as big an Illinois fan as I am an Indiana fan. And that seems right to me, since I actually went to Indiana and have all those experiences tied up in it. But at the same time, while you and Jenks can't believe someone would switch allegiances so easily, I can't believe someone would actively root against the college they're attending. That always blew my mind. *This makes sense, because my dad was always much more into Bears/White Sox than he was Illinois, so it's not like I became a Vikings and Twins fan when I moved to Minnesota. Moving to a different city is also way different than attending a different college than the one you grew up rooting for, though. I cheered like hell againt Miami when we played Ohio State. No brainer..

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 8, 2013 -> 10:21 PM) Zach the jackass. Almost every guy on the challenge is on steroids, which explains the outburst of anger.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) Okafor also said he's planning an unofficial visit to Illinois (and MSU and OSU). And his dad says there's no lock that they two of them end up at Duke or even play together in college. Duke locks. Although we haven't stopped recruiting him the OSU staff is putting more work into Myles Turner nowadays.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) Man, I can't get excited about this. We have Rios's replacement sitting in Charlotte (actually they had his plane ticket purchased this morning) and we save money and get a decent SS prospect. Pretty damn good

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 02:11 PM) Why do the White Sox hate walks so? Adam Dunn says shut yo mouth.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 01:35 PM) Any indication on whether or not the Sox will be big spenders this offseason? Maybe internationally but I don't see them signing a big free agent.

I'll go on record that our new RFer (Garcia) out produces Rios next season.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 12:21 PM) The Sox arent going to get much for Rios, just my opinion. The trade was on par with what I heard.

The Sox arent going to get much for Rios, just my opinion.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 10:18 AM) What's Wisconsin's laws around taxes for leases? Better than Illinois'? Its gotta be, especially better than f***ing Cook county.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 9, 2013 -> 09:27 AM) In Chili's league, he's allowed to throw the ball like a baseball. That's how he's getting those Ks. I move when I hit so i dont stand there looking for borderline balls. There is no way you can get more than 1-2 k's per game unless its girls just standing there.