Balta1701

Did they clear out an outfield seating section at any point?

It seems pretty clear at this point there was some sort of incident. Will edit the thread title as details fill in. There seem to be several reports that it happened during the game and they played on, which seems particularly unbelievable?

I believe the grey check marks are reserved for government officials.

I could certainly believe that major media might withhold until there was an official statement, but even with Twitter being half destroyed it does seem like we’d have video or photos or something.

Shooting stuff split into its own thread since people may care about that after tonight.

Tied for the most runs the As have scored this year.

There continues to be an image of Steve Stone in the "posted images" frame next to this post.

I'll admit, I love the idea of Joe Willie Namath alongside General Grant accepting the southern surrender.

So you're saying Jerry Reinsdorf pays as few employees as possible and isn't particularly interested in the quality of customer experiences? Huh.

Naw, a whole bunch of people fully believed that the White Sox had a strong roster that would at least contend for the AL Central or even in some cases run away with it. Some of us saw how this was likely to go, but it wasn't a consensus.

Considering that the buyout is $5 million and the option is $25 million, what exactly are we talking about when we say "he's playing for a new contract" if he isn't trying to at least earn $20 million in that new contract? That's all the new money in there if the option is picked up. We're going to hold onto him because he'll be motivated by the prospect of a 2 year/$15 million contract and that makes him worth keeping?

I don't have access to their BP numbers, but both DRS and Fangraphs/UZR find them both to be positive defensive catchers. Hedges is a little more positive this year, but Seby was just as good last year. This isn't an upgrade worth any money.

Hedges is being paid $5 million this year and literally has a .454 OPS. This is a great example of why I say the White Sox should pair Lee with Seby Zavala next year, he's just as bad as Hedges, but he's also much cheaper!

That inning Neal Cotta pitched in game 1 was ROUGH. (He might be kinda referring to the El Duque game, but he didn't phrase it right).

"Guillen rides the bullpen hard in the playoffs" What?

Ironically he alone was an overpay for Shields.

I think a lot of people could “make a difference”. The White Sox operations have been awful top to bottom. With the financial advantages they have over the division, if they just had an average GM who set up a normal scouting, development, and operations system, with people doing their jobs and limitations on ownership interference, that’s a regularly competitive organization.

He wouldn’t be playing for a new contract though, he’d be playing for an admittedly pricey 1 year option being picked up.

Chris Sale and Patrick Corbin are potentially two high names on this list.

The Nats were going to fall off pretty quickly, that was basically written in once they lost Harper and Rendon, they had spent a ton and were getting to the end of their run. It was a lot like the Tigers in our division or the Cubs, staying in contention for years is tough. I don’t blame them for that, and rebuilds take several years. There’s even some deserved credit for being willing to sell Turner and Scherzer Defoe top dollar when they did. That Strasburg deal was something else when they signed it though.

And I would say that it's quite inappropriate for a baseball setting and this is a reason why I think Moore has had specific actions that call his judgment into question. But at the very least, it's not just because he's a christian, as you have pretended it is.

You avoided answering the question. Is this appropriate for a general manager of a baseball team?

Should a GM arrange for his players to hear an anti-porn seminar based on that GM's religious beliefs?