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he actually has a pretty nice swing. short hands there.

wow.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 09:16 PM) Just a Public Service Announcement during the game. Look at Siera Santos's photo with Ozzie on Twitter. Thank me later. Cubs stream for this game...so this sucks. she's pretty cute.

can you even see the f***ing ball from those seats on the rooftop? Seat should come with a telescope.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 01:18 PM) There is nothing wrong with realizing that FIP is a bulls*** stat. xFIP not quite as bad. The whole idea of "fielding independent" is faulty IMHO. All that aside even the saber crowd recognizes the limitations of FIP. http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/13019...endent-pitching I still go by my original contention. I hate that stat. except xFIP has been shown time and time again to PREDICT future ERA better than just ERA itself. Everyone wants to point to the one outlier like Mark Buehrle and say see FIP is BS but they ignore the 9/10 where it predicts regression in ERA either way (up or down).

His peripherals still suck. There's not much here other than possible a cromulent 4th starter.

My thoughts and prayers are with your family Knight. My cousin was born prematurely as well and battled severe mental and physical effects until he passed at 17. It was very hard on my aunt and uncle but we remember the good times we had with "Jonathan". Best of luck to you and your family.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 09:12 PM) Hard to believe this is a below .500 team watching them play the past few days. when they get elite starting pitching 1-5 or close to it it papers over most of the other problems. thing is, it's not gonna last.

I tell ya what, it's been a very entertaining season one way or another. The ESPN ball slurping of RV and the Sox was hilarious.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 03:25 PM) Now I understand your love for Hillary. Hillary is the best politician in America. Vote her. Ignore her bad behavior. I do admire your consistency across all areas of life. why do the admins and mods here do so much trolling? I'm honestly asking. It contributes quite a bit to all the arguing and toxicity. Between this post and the trolling by SS2K and Eminor you guys set an awful example. Hard to tell regular posters to behave when the admins and mods can't even bother.

I really want to like Chris Sale. I really don't like him much anymore. He's a redass if there has ever been one on the South Side. He wants to win sure, but if that includes throwing temper tantrums on a semi annual basis he can forget it. All he's done is remove himself from two starts. That doesn't help winning.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 12:09 PM) When you're a lame duck like Robin, you allow players to do it. Really shows how Robin isn't in control of the clubhouse whatsoever. Leadership vacuum.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 09:33 AM) It's not a salary dump situation 100%, but there will likely be disappointment in the return for Robertson unless he's packaged together with Quintana and there's no realistic way to separate out the trade return value. Hard to argue his value hasn't taken a decent-sized hit since the second week of May. Sox would do well to get a B- position player prospect back.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 10:51 PM) The issue is that in all other ballparks the clubhouse guy controls all the money and after buying the food and such distributes it to the other clubhouse staff. In this case he only controls 40% while the team controls 60%. The white sox want their dues and tips to stay in under clubhouse control not going to the team to control. Essentially the team is determining who gets the tips not the clubhouse manager. I can't believe people have a problem with the players sticking up for the "little guys" in the clubhouse. The players want their tips to go to the guys for which they are intended. yep. agree 100%.

matt albers? I can only laugh. if you had told me in May, at 10 over or whatever, that Albers would be starting a game in July and Chris sale trade speculation would be the reason I'd of told you to f*** off.

wow, I hope it's a trade possibility and not an injury.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 22, 2016 -> 08:31 PM) This season is going down in flames lol are you on a delay, like of six weeks maybe

letting Jose play 1B so much is really dumb. It's not like he could hit any worse as a full time DH, right? Remember when we were worried how much he'd cost if he opted into ARB? Those were the good old days.

This has been the most apathetic feeling during a season I personally have gone through. I'm not even checking the box scores much anymore to see how TA and the other youngsters are doing. The reality of the last 60 odd games, where the Sox have basically been the worst team in the AL after the hot start has completely sapped any excitement or hope I have around this team. The only move that would immediately bring me back some would be trading for younger assets and firing RV along with it. That's about it. Other then that a 10 game winning streak but good luck with that they can't even win 6 out of 10 anymore.

QUOTE (Insp @ Jul 22, 2016 -> 07:21 PM) We need to keep Robertson to build around him. you don't build anything around a closer. You find a good offense, a good rotation, then you find a closer. Only reason Sox blew what they blew on DR is because they thought they were ready to contend. Whoops.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Jul 20, 2016 -> 07:15 PM) 23-10 then 23-38. Turner is seriously penciled in for a start on Friday? Fffffff

How many games his this pen blown since April? 10?

moral victory didn't get shutout!

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 06:22 PM) yawn great post for any user but especially a mod. Seriously?

I'm sad about Jose. Honestly I think he's older than 28. He moves, looks and now hits like he's past 30. Kinda sucks.