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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 04:48 PM) I tend to agree. Not sure why the Cards would even need Crain with their ability to pull relief pitching out of their ass. Ramirez seems to be more the Cardinals type of move, and really, I see him ending up either in Pittsburgh or St. Louis. If Peavy is moved, I would consider Boston or Arizona the favorites, with Oakland as a dark horse. I think San Fran is getting to the point of being too far down and out to make that sort of move. The Cardinals have traded for setup men and had success before though, Dotel immediately comes to mind from their last W.S. run.

For God's sake don't hurt yourself, we need you!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 04:03 PM) Should be noted that the only party to attempt to buy the evidence that MLB purchased from Biogenesis was ARod. Braun has never truly denied using PEDs, he just appealed the initial suspension and won. That's seriously parsing words. Here's his reaction to the first report of his positive test: "It's BS." Here's his reaction to the successful appeal: "“It is the first step in restoring my good name and reputation,” Braun said. “We were able to get through this because I am innocent and the truth is on our side.” Here's his rant from the first press conference: "If I had done this intentionally or unintentionally I'd be the first one to step up and say, 'I did it.' By no means am I perfect, but if I've ever made any mistakes in my life I've taken responsibility for my actions. I truly believe in my heart, and I would bet my life that this substance never entered by body at any point." I mean, I technically can't find him saying "I never took steroids" in that order...but...I kinda want his life based on his bet.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 03:13 PM) Training camp is upon us. And Cowboys LB Anthony Spencer is already hurt.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 02:01 PM) Haven't seen anything from him in a while--perhaps he has lost his source. He never really posted anything Sox related other than breaking those couple big deals though, right?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 01:23 PM) Those are the most fertile areas of the country. You can actually go all the way back to tens of thousands of years ago, to where nutrients settled into the soil on this continent. So that's where the heaviest concentration of slaves were. Tens of thousands? Try "100 million".

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 01:54 PM) A-Rod is scum, but this is a blood issue with the player's union and I think the Yankees are digging a hole here making that more difficult. They regret bidding against themeslves giving them 10 years at age 31 at the cost of the GDP of a small African nation, and now they want out. If they really regret it...forfeit the 2009 world series trophy.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 10:59 AM) Here's the one question NOBODY has answered. Did he juice in 2012? This year? If so it doesn't seem he was caught. Assuming he was clean in 2012, he absolutely raked so you could make the argument that it made no difference to him whatsoever. It seems that his association with the Pharma company is what did him in here, and he is just admitting guilt to that now that all of the skeletons have been removed from the closet. My guess is after all of the drama in the 2011 off season he would've been hard pressed to continue to juice throughout 2012 and into 2013 no? And if that was the case, why isn't anyone reporting a positive test over the past 1.5 seasons? QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 11:02 AM) They're saying there was evidence of continued and cyclic use. I would say there's a decent chance the guy is juicing as we speak QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) Strange that he never tested positive in the past 1.5 years though? It's worth noting that this year was supposed to be the first year that MLB began the systematic, internationally-accepted style blood testing with long-term comparisons and monitoring. Prior to this year, MLB was using the same designed-to-be-beaten tests that the NFL and others were using. The test prior to this year was beatable. I'm not sure it is now.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) Define solid offense? A .650 OPS is solid? Alexei's production is so replaceable it's not even funny. Even a worst case scenario, going from a .650 OPS to a .550 OPS at SS is a negligible drop, especially if you are getting a potential true impact player. If you really think Alexei is easily replaceable, just remember that the Red Sox gave Stephen Drew $9.5 million this year after he put up a .657 OPS last year while playing only 79 games. He's hitting .228 this year with a .712 OPS for that money. If we don't trade for one, finding a major league quality shortstop on the free agent market, even a 1 year, stopgap measure, is going to be incredibly pricey. That's why I think trading Alexei is the "Throw in the towel" move for next year...you can spend the money to replace Rios, you already have players to replace Peavy, but replacing Alexei will be very difficult if that replacement has to be found through free agency.

QUOTE (beck72 @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 10:45 AM) Have you seen the list of 2014 SS free agents?! You don't want to go into the offseason trying to get one of these castoffs. Or the sox would have to trade one of their current SP's for a SS. The sox would be far better served keeping Alexei than hoping to find a SS to replace him. Basically, Alexei is right at the top of the list of "guys who, if we trade, makes it inevitable that 2014 is a rebuilding season". He's about the most difficult guy on our roster to replace next year. That means the price for Alexei should be high, with enough return to warrant "Throwing in the towel for next year despite a solid pitching staff".

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 09:19 AM) Some scout I read remarked when watching the future games that Rienzo showed a pretty nasty out pitch. I just edited my earlier post to say that Snodgress really isn't rising...just sort of hanging. Snodgress went from A to AA this year which is supposed to be the biggest jump in the minors. He put up ERA's in the 4's in April and May, I saw him once, he was ok, struggled a bit with his control out of the stretch but had stuff to work with. He had a bad June with an ERA over 6 but his last 3 starts have been great, 1 run in 21 innings with 6 walks, 10 hits, and 13 strikeouts. He's worth watching for the next month, sometimes guys take a while to adapt to a level and then "click", and that jump to AA is supposed to be the big one. At the very least I think he'll get a look as a reliever at some point. He's got quality stuff to build on.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 09:17 AM) Jon Heyman just tweeted, "although St. Louis likes Alexei R, ChiSox did not then down offer of Carlos Martinez" So was Gonzalez blowing smoke with his article? Different sources.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 09:09 AM) That's kind of an optimistic evaluation of them. I don't think you'll ever get their value in prospects...but major leaguers or near major leaguers with a team that has some surplus in an area we need? We might. But if we can't get value, we shouldn't do the trade. And honestly, there's some gap. If we have all of these top of the rotation starters, we shouldn't be one of the 3 or 4 worst teams in baseball, even making allowance for bad hitting, terrible defense, and, dare I say it, bad managing. Or maybe that's enough to be terrible. You're 100% right, with the way our pitching staff has performed, it's insane that we're one of the worst teams in baseball. I would never have guessed that this hitting and defense was enough to make a team this bad, but here we are.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 09:14 AM) Bucket said that things should happen soon, and that closer something gets, he can't say anything. This makes me think I don't think Peavy pitches tomorrow for the White Sox I think he will, I think teams will be much happier trading for a guy who has done 3 starts post-rib-fracture, including 2 in the big leagues, than they would after only 1 big league start.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 10:33 PM) Kepp would look great in NY Right now, this depends a whole lot on what is likely to happen to ARoid.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 08:28 AM) That was like little league stuff there. We need to insert the Benny Hill music into the gif.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 08:54 AM) Snodgrass, Ortiz, Webb. I'm not sure Rienzo is rising, but he looks like he'll at least make a bullpen. These guys aren't ML ready, but, heck, the #1 prospect in baseball isn't either. But they're improving. Rienzo is definitely rising over the last couple months. Rough start in AAA but has gotten his stuff together lately. He has big league rotation ability if he can harness it.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 08:49 AM) My preference would be to trade Quintana or Danks. If this isn't a rebuild, but a retool to contend soon, we're going to have to craft some trades like we saw in the old days to bring veterans in here, hopefully youngish ones. Quintana would have value. Santiago I think hasn't put it together and we'd be selling a little low. Danks is killed by the homers; but we're in a homer park, and other teams might be able to discount those homer totals. The problem with trading either Quintana or Santiago is that I don't think any team would reasonably meet the price for them. Those 2 guys are young left handers with >90 mph fastballs, 4+ years of team control remaining including pre-arb years and ERA's already in the low 4's/high 3's. They're guys where if you traded for them, you pencil them in as your #2 starter next year because their ceiling is a "top of the rotation guy for years". The price for one of those guys ought to be enormous. Cost-controlled LH starting pitching starting to establish a major-league track record is basically the most valuable, in-demand quantity in the game. We ought to be talking about a top 10 prospect in the game + a top 50 prospect in the game + a couple other guys from a team's top 20 prospects. If a team wasn't willing to give up that kind of haul for one of them, then it doesn't make sense for the White Sox. Since they're both young and under control for so long, their trade value ought to be based in large part on their performance ceiling. Both of them have established in the big leagues that their ceiling is "top of the rotation left-handed workhorse". I can't imagine a team meeting that price.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 10:05 PM) C'mon Parent, pull him. What was this one?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 09:43 PM) There's maybe 3 cars made in the USA right now that I would spend my money on. Besides, our president made the forward-thinking move of scrapping a huge chunk of the used car market right before a massive spike in gas prices and a huge recession so its not like anyone pays attention to that s*** anyways. Huh? Cash for clunkers happened in August 2009. Gas prices didn't recover until 2008 levels for another year or two after that. You have your order backwards.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) And the screwball was supposed to be his bread and butter Struggling with control on offspeed stuff is exactly what youd expect from moving him back and forth to te pen and not giving him innings, particularly in the spring.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 08:54 PM) I won't even b**** about your outburst. I couldn't imagine how you feel, and in saying that, I also feel you're absolutely justified to say what you said to me. I don't know how that feels, at all. And like with the underprivileged, I won't pretend to "fake emphasize" with you for the sake of "understanding" when I don't understand whatsoever. I'm sorry as hell that happened to you, I truly am. While my direct family never suffered like this, my fathers did. Badly. And then, coming to US, were discriminated against because they happened to be Germans during WWII. So while I cannot personally relate, I've heard the stories from those, separated by a mere generation, that have. And once again, they b**** less than most. And they've been through worse than most. I edited out the opening, that was over the top and I'll apologize for that.

@BBTN Matt Kemp, who finished 2nd to RyanBraun in the 2011 MVP voting, says he thinks Braun should be stripped of the award http://t.co/U6a3A0LJYt

Jesus Christ, I put the daily show on and I think I'll finish it in less time than 1 inning takes.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 08:50 PM) I applaud robin Ventura for walking Cabrera. I applaud Ventura for handling sale this way. I applaud Chris sale for being a competitor. The peanut vendor was about to get applauded by hawk. Has Hawk been saying this?