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QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:58 PM) I still believe damnit! So let's say people believe. Find me a 3b or a C who might be available?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:36 PM) I don't believe this team is going to the postseason this year, but I believe the top four in the rotation are too good to consider trading any of them. You always have a chance to compete with those four. Unfortunately 1 of them is a free agent this offseason.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) The Sox still have to worst record in the AL right? I cant talk about Wild Card until they keep this up for another month and even then its just too late to decide you are going to play some baseball and make it to the playoffs. 3rd worst, ahead of the A's and Mariners, 0.5 back of the Indians. How the H*** have the A's played 5 more games than us?

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) Nice little shot at the offense from Shark there in that postgame interview. He's right, though...we need to do something to help the offense. Lose 2 or 3 of Beckham, Flowers, and Sanchez and replace them with even average bats and we'll win at a much better clip. Easier said than done but an effort needs to be made. Given what's in our system, are you prepared to give up 2 of Montas, Anderson, and Adams to replace those 2 positions?

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) Regardless if Samardzija is traded, if he continues to pitch well the rest of the season he will get his 4-5 year contract at around 20M per year. That for a starting pitcher that turns 31 years old before ST 2016. Thanks but no thanks. Just my opinion but I zero interest in an extension with Samardzija. The other point I keep adding is that his K-rate is way, way down this year. That's another that would make me really hesitant on giving him a long-term deal.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:21 PM) No he was already warming. The first part was a direct Stone quote so I'll assume you saw beforehand and Stone was wrong.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) It can't happen again, can it? Frankly I wouldn't throw him a strike if I were pitching.

"That's going to start David Robertson to work". He didn't start until after the inning began?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:39 PM) Well, when we all come back to slavery as the root cause of this, and there's no more slavery, why isn't it ok to say "years ago?" I don't think he means that there isn't a privilege today or that blacks don't have any systemic problems today caused by the past. You're reading too much into that. Because what he said was "going through Hell", not "slavery". "Going through hell" is not "Years ago."

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 04:08 PM) Let's lock up Jeff Even if we had money to spend, with the drop in his K-Rate all year I sure wouldn't.

UZR just made it into the White Sox broadcast with a reference to fangraphs.com.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:46 PM) The option is always the last year though, not the first. If he wants that guarantee of a check if he gets hurt, the franchise wants the guarantee that he's going to be there for a while. Does a shorter deal let them put more money into the individual seasons?

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) Not by hitting the ball lol Knuckleball = don't always have to.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:37 PM) Leadoff triple can Sox get Eaton in? One of these guys will.

That's the single best job of backing up 3b I've ever seen a pitcher do. Man did the Blue Jays have him played WAY around to LF.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) Does anybody have the stats of run support for each pitcher? Seems like Danks gets more than anybody -- and that Sale, Q, and Shark get the least. Just hard to watch us shut down such a hot offense and always be down 0-1. Jeff Samardzija 4.341 Chris Sale 4.175 John Danks 3.454 Jose Quintana 2.605

Well drat.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) Lets cut through all the stuff and just get to the...what do you propose? Should everyone that was born a certain color not accept any job they get or college they got into or move out of their house because of any potential advantage they had in life? And lets go past this, lets take race out of the equation...should everyone be born have to be stripped of any wealth / privlidges from their families and be moved to a seperate land away from their families so all children can have equal starting points? No. But you know what is important? Recognizing when something you're saying actually does damage to other people. That alone, right there, is motivation for people making a movie like this. I have to work with it in my daily life. When I was taught Earth Science, it was a laundry list of historical white geologists, ignoring the contributions of women, minorities, which in many cases were equal. I'm right now working to alter that in my own lectures, but I would not be doing so had I not stopped to realize that's what I was doing. That doesn't fix everything, but it's one of a great many positive steps people can make with their own attitudes just by realizing that they're doing it. In other words, making people actually stop, face up to the subtle things they do in their daily lives. Which looks to be exactly what the point of a movie like this might be! When we saw the Baltimore riots, one of the posters in this thread replied "good job playing to the sterotype black males of Baltimore". Exactly the same kind of thing. Medical evidence actually shows that by the time they're 30 years old, African American women are the equivalent of biologically being several years older than white women due to increased stress. We insult people, we treat them as less important in our daily lives, and then we justify that by saying "oh I'll hire anyone as long as they're the best fit" or "good job playing to the stereotype" without realizing that both of those actions feed directly back into the whole setup. Insults, shunning, casual comments, whatever it is, the effects are actually strong enough to show up in people's biology. That's why making people step back and check their own privilege, which is what it looks like this movie is based in doing, is actually one of many necessary but not sufficient steps.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:03 PM) Buehrle said he would have gladly taken $10 mil a year to stay with the Sox and we never even asked how low he would go. Disservice IMO He could have made that offer to the white sox and they'd have taken it. That's not how it went down. He went to the Marlins and came back with a 4/$56 offer with a $20 million final season balloon payment. The White Sox might have been willing to push to 3/$36 or something like that range, if Mark was bringing back the other offer it would have been flat out disrespectful to even put that offer on the table. Mark earned the right to get paid and he took it.

That was really good knuckle ball hittering by Jose Abreu.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) Stop making s*** up. No one is saying this. "someone else had to do it years ago that didn't look like them." Highlighting again.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) They took the money and signed Jon Danks. Abreu came a couple years later.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) We hit into so many double plays, where does the offense rank in that? We've grounded into 63 double plays, tied for 16th in the league. (Don't forget, you also need baserunners to ground into a lot of double plays and we are 27th in the league in OBP).

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) Reyes is not playing today. Well that explains that.

Jones on his way to Winston Salem starting today for a rehab assignment. Reportedly 96-98 in last simulated game. While on subject, Crain pitched in 5 games in the Arizona Rookie League (counted as simulated games).