Balta1701

@scottmerkin White Sox officially are standing pat. This team has developed a sort of why not us mentality so it fits

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) Nothing is going to happen. QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) I'm hoping for that outcome. We'll see. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:22 PM) Since I think that's a terrible outcome that's what I'm expecting. QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) LOL I think you and I are the most negative nannies on ST. It's official. I have liked basically none of the White Sox's strategy over the past 8 months.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) I'd bet my LIFE that this substance NEVER entered my body. I don't think we're allowed to complain about those things any more. (Sigh)

So who edited the thread title based on that?

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) Not necessarily. Maybe they value the ability to be able to resign him more than some s*** prospect. They literally can't resign him if they don't trade him unless they extend him before the end of the season.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) True, my point is they're not just going to give him away. Well whatever the best offer is they should take it. Whatever the return is...it's better than nothing.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) Except they are just 2 games under .500 and 3.5 GB on the 2nd WC. If they weren't convinced on waiving the white flag they shouldn't have traded the much more important pitcher.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) Sort of looks like we'll go to battle with what we got, which I am fine with. Orrrr is it just the calm before the storm...? It's hard to believe that Cespedes won't move when the Tigers moved Price and Cespedes won't return a draft pick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:40 PM) For payroll, sure. For his potential ceiling, and odds of reaching it? No. That is irrelevant. Actually I'd say its very relevant because it puts a clock on his time to reach that ceiling.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) It is all prespective. If Garcia were the same age, but went the traditional US route of playing 3 years of college ball, and was at the same point, no one would blink an eye. He'd be in his third year after college. He has a long history because he was signed as a 16 year old, and brought to the US at 17 for rookie ball. In terms of age an experience, he is still pretty young. The other big difference...if he went that route, he wouldn't be headed to his first arbitration contract this offseason, so he'd have time before a raise was due.

Miami will get SS Elliott Soto and RHP Ivan Pineyro in return.

@jaysonst #Twins sending RHP Chih-Wei Hu and RHP Alexis Tapia to #Rays for Kevin Jepsen 3m

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) LOL I think you and I are the most negative nannies on ST. This is me lately (the rock, of course)

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) I'm hoping for that outcome. We'll see. Since I think that's a terrible outcome that's what I'm expecting.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:41 PM) A billion birds dead from housecats? And no, that number is US only. I've seen estimates from ~500 million to >2 billion. Hard to count obviously since cats actually will eat them, but yes, cats kill an ungodly number of birds per year.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:29 PM) But oh my god, 32,000 PEOPLE died from GUNS last year, and a 1.5 million died from HIV and 585,720 died from cancer. WE MUST STOP THE GUNS. One might think that there's a well-financed industry wanting to use that as an excuse for their real goal. Apologies for the rant that doesn't fit in this thread. 1.5 million died from AIDS in the U.S.?

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:28 PM) I'm not the geologist here, but... red flags flash? We call that the semaphore code.

Room on the uniform for his number for the rest of the year?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) I assume you mean Cleveland? They are tied with the Cubs for most walks, so that is a good sign. Yes, thanks.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:33 PM) I know one thing...I am sure it will be an impressive winter olympics (and one marred with social related scandals that will come up) but the last olympics in China and the world expos their, were both massive successes in terms of the actual presentation (I am sure they were not economic booms or anything like that though). Many of the buildings, including the Bird's Nest stadium, are now ghost towns.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 04:14 PM) Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone who was so outraged by the killing send in $20 for lion preservation? Problem solved. Upwards of 600 lions are legally killed each year in Africa. If this one didn't have a name, no one would care. Having said that the methods used are reprehensible. I can't believe anyone could take pride in that safari. What was illegal in this hunt is the lack of permits (money to the country). The fact that hundreds more will be legally killed IMHO should outrage more people than one lion with a human name. As humans we take from nature what is valuable. We destroy wetlands to build homes. We destroy birds for wind power. The factory farms and processing that produce your cheeseburger are on a scale well beyond Cecil. But the millions of cows that will be slaughtered this year do not have names and cute marketing stories. Our most durable leather comes from old dairy cows that are not normally eaten by humans. We don't care, they don't have names. But we like the leather. Think about the sweet baseball mitts we all broke in. The beef didn't feed humans. Ok, this topic has died down so it's not a total thread derailment if I do this, but my God I'm sick of hearing about the bolded. I biked past 3 or 4 dead birds on the street today, know how they died? Cars and buildings. Birds slamming into buildings, birds slamming into cars, and birds being killed by cats happen at rates of 1000-10,000 times those of wind farms. Power generation that builds smokestacks and cooling towers kills plenty of birds, probably more than those killed by wind farms. Building a giant power plant in the desert away from a city and then running power lines for hundreds of miles across bird migration routes kills more than every wind farm in the country put together. Yet the only time we care about killing birds is when they're killed by windmills. We should be smart about wind development. We shouldn't put a wind farm next to a bald eagle's nest. We should continue working on ways to make those safer using techniques to drive the birds away or keep them from running into the obstructions. But oh my god, 25,000 birds died from wind farms last year, and a billion died from house cats and half a billion died from slamming into buildings. WE MUST STOP THE WIND FARMS. One might think that there's a well-financed industry wanting to use that as an excuse for their real goal. Apologies for the rant that doesn't fit in this thread.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:01 AM) OK folks, read this latest bash of Hillary from Linda Tripp ... "four years of Bill; four years of Hill." It says she'd do anything to win. Hmmm http://nypost.com/2015/07/28/linda-tripp-b...ads-on-hillary/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-31...-President.html Please read the Daily Mail story. It portrays Hillary as an unethical person who like I've said before wants her "coronation" as president because she is entitled to it. How can our counry elect this person?? Is our country that misguided?? 1. Linda Tripp? Really I'm sure she has great insights into them. 2. I will absolutely f***ing not read the Daily Mail, they are a complete and utter fraud, they literally steal other people's work and pass it off as their own and anyone on Earth who links to them should be embarrassed.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 07:28 AM) Against a patient team like the Yankees, he can quickly find himself in trouble if he can't throw strikes I thought about the same thing then remembered he didn't walk anyone against Boston.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) Ugh, Shark >> Cespedes/Upton imo. That's not the calculation. The calculation is: Shark > Johnson Cespedes/Upton > Avi Which of those > signs is bigger?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:55 PM) Not when I don't see any long-term value in Avi. I don't think Avi is a good baseball player. If you look at my history of posts, I am typically very patient with prospects, etc. What I have seen from Avi, given his defensive struggles, gives me very little faith in him ever reaching anything close to his perceived "upside". I think if this team intends to compete, it needs to add a very good outfielder. I am okay with then using Avi and LaRoche in a DH roll, with Avi giving our outfielders occasional breaks. I want them to send Avi down to AAA and tell him that every time he hits a ball to the right hand side of the field he owes us 30 pushups. I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not.