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Clearly fell off his horse, drunk.

I've never seen an entire team guess on every pitch over such an extended period of time. It's bizarre.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) Look at what Warren Buffett did with his children and grandchildren. You can't assume you know what Adam Dunn is thinking any more than I can. I don't care what Adam Dunn is doing with his money. It's irresponsible for a family man to walk away from $15M of guaranteed money for 6 months worth of work. Obviously I'm speaking in generalities. When somebody offers you that kind of money to suck at baseball, you take it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 03:12 PM) But then there's the stress and strain on a family when the father goes to the park and hears boos every game, his children have to deal with it at school (perhaps)...just the frustration level and lack of answers, the constant interviews and mental/psychological stress. Removing yourself from that whole situation has a value too. Everything in life is not always about money. If his agent/financial advisor was doing his job, he would have stuck a significant amount of that money into CD's, TIPS or index funds and the amount should have grown by at least 3-4-5% a year. We don't know how much money he's actually saved, but it's worth considering. Yeah, I'm sure his kids can't handle a little ribbing at school for a multimillion dollar inheritance. How do they manage?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 02:57 PM) Not in the slightest. He probably won't do it, and there are many reasons not to, but to call it "extremely irresponsible" to his family is ridiculous. The guy has made almost $100M to date in baseball salary alone, plus various endorsements, etc. People make decisions about taking 10% less in salary over time all the damn time (i.e. executives who make big bucks and walk away at times), in order to be happy in other ways. It isn't irresponsible, unless he has managed to blow all that money already. 15M will set up even more generations of his family for life. To turn that down would not only be beyond dumb, it would be irresponsible. There are more important things in life than winning baseball games. It's not his fault he's signed to that contract. The Sox took the risk to sign him regardless of his results.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 3, 2013 -> 02:30 PM) I really doubt he would retire and leave $15 million sitting on the table. It would be an extremely irresponsible thing to do to his family.

The only good thing about 2007 was early in the year when we played on Sunday Night Baseball and Joe Morgan said our pen was one if the best he'd ever seen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 04:25 PM) ROFL I lol'd.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) RBIs is not a good stat to base his performance off of. It's always going to be heavily influenced by your spot in the lineup and how the hitters in front of you are doing. As for the HRs, what would he be on pace for if you excluded that three game stretch? Lets take out hot streaks for everybody then. Wtf kind of post is that?

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 2, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) What is there to replace?? An occasional homer and walk??? For all his struggles, he's still in pace for 35/90. There's nobody else in the organization who can do that. PK is killing us just as much, but there's no replacement for him either.

At least he's not BJ Upton. Every time I get mad about Dunn, I thank God we never went after Upton.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 31, 2013 -> 04:51 PM) I have no idea how much stake to put in this, but ESPN has the Sox with the worst strength of schedule so far this year: http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos Well, good thing we've traditionally played much better against good teams.

Castro over Ramirez is so f***ing stupid it makes me think people have never watched a baseball game.

Doesn't he represent what everyone hates? Low contact, aging/declining, all or nothing, poor defensively. Sign me up. 25M years/$3.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2013 -> 03:41 PM) As long as Jackson, Cabrera, Fielder, Verlander, Scherzer, Sanchez and Fister are healthy in DET, they're going to be the favorites. IMO, they're better than the Cardinals, if Verlander has his plus stuff. Although the bullpen's questionable, Valverde's been on a roll again. Heck, if a 36 year old Jason Grilli can go 22/22 in that division, anything's possible. The chance of those guys staying healthy for the foreseeable future is very slim and a few of those contracts are franchise crippling.

That quote from a different thread. Soxtalk hates iOS.

QUOTE (Jillian Michaels' Abs @ May 30, 2013 -> 11:55 AM) Bring him back quickly so he can be reinstated from the disabled list, designated for assignment and then outrighted to AAA. Why do people insist on batting Konerko 4th? He's been God awful this year. Hell, at least Dunn is still on pace for about 35/90.

Did Omo strike out the side? Stud.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 24, 2013 -> 09:10 PM) Remember when these series were the hottest ticket in the town and people actually cared about them? I doubt I even send one s***-talking text to my Cubs fan friends next week. Interleague play has become stale.

Danks had some of the best movement on the change than I've seen from him. At times, it was breaking like a curve. Hopefully the loss in velocity has taught him to not overthrow the change.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2013 -> 11:10 PM) White Sox culture. If we're making the argument that the team is still in contention and not aiming towards 2014, then 3 Daniel Hudson-esque starts in a row and he'll be relegated to the bullpen or Barry Zito status by a loud minority of fans, typically the ones that call into Rongey's post-game show. You confuse White Sox culture with message board culture.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 24, 2013 -> 02:47 AM) It's not conventional, and it's certainly far from textbook, but it works for him. If they could figure out a way to change his modify his delivery, take a bit of juice off the fastball (increasing movement) and give him 50% better control, surely they would have done it already. Just not that easy. He was an effective reliever for most of last season. They're just going to have to be patient to see if he'll come back around and figure things out in side sessions with Cooper, Parent, etc. Jones doesn't need more movement on any of his pitches. That's actually part of the problem.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:53 PM) Caufield may be a reactionary but I also dislike your response. I hate the "it's early" type posts regarding our team. It's like the Sox goal is to win the division by one game every year rather than actually play good baseball most of the season and win the fricking division. It's early means you don't bring your fragile set up guy into back to back games when you're losing in May. Especially after we already won the f***ing series.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:50 PM) Look at how many errors Ramirez has made this season because he's played every inning. Think that will improve in July/August/September? The only reason we almost won last year was taking a lead into the last 6 weeks of the season. We're not constructed to reel in our opponents from behind in the final 1/3rd of the year. The bullpen will completely implode at this rate. And Reed hasn't even gone through the inevitable rough patch. Frankly, I can't take you seriously because you don't watch the games. You have no idea how Ramirez has looked defensively.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) That's how we ended up just kind of floating along...drifting...in the standings. We need that 14-2/13-1 streak, and it's almost impossible with our inconsistent hitting and bullpen woes. You can't get back over .500 is you continue to fall flat when you have opportunities to sweep teams that are back on their heels. It's May and we're like 5 games back. Wtf? There's 3/4 of a season left.