Balta1701

successful 8 minutes of baseball

2 pitches, bottom of the first, delay for lightning.

QUOTE (lord chas @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 09:40 PM) Mets offense is shameful They're still scoring 3% more runs than the white sox. And the white sox have the DH.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 09:09 PM) You'd have to think 50/50 Ramirez before July 31st if they want to have him on the post-season roster. ? Post season rosters aren't set until August 31.

That's the White Sox dugout. Garfien posted short video.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 08:36 PM) Anyone hear what Nightingale had to say? I'm pretty sure the flavor of this July is going to be a bunch of reporters talking about what it takes to get Chris Sale and then us trading Shark and dumping Alexei/Boni/Becks somewhere. Those 3 probably August.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 04:22 PM) Radfems? I figured out that one was "radical feminists" but the rest was still nonsense.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) Why did we let Buehrle go again? His salary this year is $20 million.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 02:47 PM) Can Bulls compete with that? I dont know. My response continues to be a simple question. Can Derrick Rose get back to his 2010/2011 level or is he the player we saw last year? If Rose is an MVP-candidate and up there with the best PGs in the league, worth his contract, the Bulls are right there. If Rose is not, then they're simply outgunned and they don't have the cap space to fix that problem because they're paying Rose so much.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 02:40 PM) Wow, I'm surprised Love wanted back in for the long haul. With his injury history, even though some of them are freak injuries like last year's....get yourself the 9 figures.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 01:22 PM) Just don't see it. Top, yes; elite, no. Getting a top 10 for Shark was just a lucky Cubs fluke. Of course, I am not overly bullish on Quintana, so that's my bias. (wasn't bullish on Shark either). Then we have him under control for 5 more seasons so we can wait for a similar "lucky fluke".

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) He's absolutely worth an elite prospect. Everyone see what Samardzija brought back to the Cubs last year? The #7 prospect on the BP list before 2014 as the key part? Compared to Samardzija at the time of that trade, Quintana is: Cheaper Under team control for 4 more seasons at an affordable rate Younger Left Handed (nice bonus) More consistent Has put up better seasons than Samardzija ever did. I'm on board for trading everything and then trading everything again and then trading the scraps from that...but if you don't get "Elite prospects" back for him (note the plural) then you don't trade him.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 12:53 PM) They'll play. It's not an all day rain there. Sox off tomorrow. Cardinals stay home. They'll be there til 2am if they have to. According to the weather channel there's a 30% chance of rain until about 6 pm, then it jumps to 95% by 7 pm and stays 65-75% until 5 am.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 12:46 PM) It's shrunken on mine. Sorry. I'll remove My browser had to download the full thing before it shrank it down so it took like 5-10 seconds. If you're using Wiki commons images there's a way to make sure it links to smaller ones.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 1, 2015 -> 12:50 PM) These contracts are insane. Back loaded with cap jump coming? Even if they're not backloaded everyone knows its coming so these teams won't be nearly as hammered by it.

Version I saw a couple moments ago had Butler pushing for the final year to be a player option so that he could hit FA after 4 years.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 11:30 PM) Pittsburgh have missed out on Saad, so maybe they go after Sharp now, who knows, there's probably still a market for him, but at least Bowman has options now, if the package in return isn't good enough, you keep Sharp around. To note - paper here clearly were disappointed that the Penguins missed out on a chance at Saad and they were mentioning Sharp as an option a bunch last week.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 10:52 PM) ? That image was unnecessarily large.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 10:25 PM) This is Sale 100th career start. The Sox are 55-44 when he starts. That's terrible considering how good he is. It could be worse.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 10:22 PM) Who in your eyes has been better? Keuchel, Archer, and Gray have been fantastic but not on Sale's level. It's the opposite, chris hasn't been on their level in anything other than the strikeout title, but I'm too tired to fight this one so I'll just link to the stats.

Pitchers in Major League Baseball history with 10+ strikeouts in 8 straight games: 1. Pedro Martinez 2. Chris Sale

Pitchers in MLB history with 10+ strikeouts in 8 straight games: 1. Pedro Martinez 2. Chris Sale.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 09:59 PM) Yikes I'm sorry There was beer and the stadium is lovely.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 09:57 PM) This offense is more boring in person than on TV You didn't catch them in Pittsburgh.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 30, 2015 -> 09:55 PM) Alexei on his way to .200 I had to check to see whether this meant he was improving or slumping.