Balta1701

Come on 20, tie it up...

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 01:41 PM) Eh Bosh can hit a jumper which is really what the Bulls need out of the PF (on offense). Some one who can space the floor so that the defense cant just collapse the paint. For the last 5 years we've wanted a guy who can play in the low post so that the defense had to collapse the paint and so that the Bulls didn't just rely on mid-range jumpers.

QUOTE (Chisoxrd5 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Where is Hawk and Stoney getting all this positivity from? I'd expect them to be lambasting this team by now. From his good friend Jack?

Merk

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 02:13 PM) where is the "its still early" crowd? I was washing my car and bike.

Canceling postgame show.

I think the WGN Easter Rabbit is going to come and try to kill me.

Appears we've entered the lawsuit stage on tablets.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 10:42 AM) It's not going to get better for a while. Why?

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 10:41 AM) Sunday lineup today. Alexei hitting 5th. Teahen, Lillibridge, Morel 7-8-9. Fun. Like it or not...the remainder of the lineup has been the Sunday lineup for the last week.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 10:33 AM) My reading is selective in the morning, ha. But if you are correct in that thinking (which you probably are, that makes good sense), then the Sox have an even more horrible philosophy than I thought. You always gotta take BPA regardless of cost, especially in baseball, that's how your become a winner. What you've got to realize is that in any draft, there's probably 5-6 different guys who could be considered "Best player available" regardless of where you're picking, 2-3 of those guys are going to be busts, and there's little to no correlation between how good they are and how much money they're asking for. If you're not taking one of the guys who could legitimately be considered one of the best players available (see, the 2005-2006 sox drafts) then you're making a mistake, but it's such a crapshoot that as long as you pick one of the guys you think is the best available, you're doing what you can.

So that's what a pyroclastic cloud looks like from the top.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) There is no doubt the draft is a crap shoot, you're right, but the Sox are doing themselves a disservice by not getting what they perceive as the best talent in the draft each and every year. Sale was definitely who they wanted. Probably the same with Beckham, Mitchell can be argued, but prior to that we got guys who were easy signs. McCulloch? Broadway? You'll note I granted 2005-2006 as mistakes...but I don't think it was as much easy signs as it was the Sox looking for guys who could either rapidly contribute a little or could be traded very quickly, rather than BPA.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 10:08 AM) Its a different system completely. He would have been great here with a PG to get him the ball in position to score. He'd have been just awful in a series like this though. The Pacers would have beaten the crap out of him.

Come on John. Come on Bats, help John out.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 10:30 PM) I respect Balta, he usually is a great poster, but when it comes to someone saying the minors has an effect on the major league roster he just doesn't see it. Every single time he will post some response like that. The minor leagues absolutely have an impact on the major league roster. But it's actually been remarkable how long we've been having this same talk...we've pretty much all agreed that the Sox have had among the worst minor league systems in baseball for at least 6-7 years, and yet, somehow we've still managed to stay competitive. Meanwhile, the teams that go all-in on rebuilding...it's a huge gamble. A majority of those teams wind up stockpiling high draft picks and then sitting at the bottom of their divisions anyway. Furthermore, teams like the Tigers spend huge amounts to grab guys like Andrew Miller, Cameron Maybin, Rick Porcello, and they wind up with bust after bust. The ONLY thing that worked for them was doing exactly what everyone here screams about KW doing...trading away guys rather than holding on to them. And then Hell, on top of that, one of their biggest pieces...Boesch...came out of ****ing no where. The other examples people love to give...the Yankees, the Red Sox...of teams going over slot & such, well the Yankees had a disaster of a minor league system for years despite doing all that. About the only real, true example of a franchise doing what people want, succeeding in the draft non-stop right now, is the Red Sox...but they've also had a ton of supplemental picks to help their odds. And they had a friend in San Diego's GM help them out as well. I think the draft is a crapshoot. It might be possible to sabotage yourself by deliberately drafting stupidly (i.e. the 2005-2006 White Sox picks), but even if you make the right picks, it's a crapshoot. The Red Sox are on a hotstreak right now, but that won't last. It's a gambler's hot streak. All the scouting in the world, all the going over slot...it's all trying to weight the die, and if it works, it never lasts.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 24, 2011 -> 08:27 AM) In hindsight, would we have been better off with Bosh over Boozer? In hindsight I actually like Bosh less than I did last summer. I really didn't like Boozer last summer, and he's been pretty much exactly what I expected.

Konerko

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 10:18 PM) Absolutely, meanwhile KC and Detroit stack up their farm systems by going way over slot. And it's brought them incredible success.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:36 PM) I can't believe there continue to be posts like this. How bad does this team have to get before it's "reasonable" to be upset? I mean, do they have to be the consensus worst team in baseball? Even then, it's probably not acceptable to some because at some point in the entire history of the game, some team probably went from last in all of the sport to first. Frankly, it has to be June.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:53 PM) I wonder if Arizona's site has a "The GREAT Edwin Jackson" thread? So far, both pitchers are underperforming this year. I think they're more regretting giving away Scherzer to get Jackson.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:26 PM) .307 was the team's average for the first 9 games. Obviously, it's a lot lower overall now after 21 games. Hitting .251 coming in to today, good for #6 in the AL. .709 team OPS, good for 8th in the AL. AL average is .247 and .711.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:24 PM) Still, no excuse for not making changes when they're needed. If this s*** keeps going for another few weeks, they might have to do something. Come on guys, you're smarter than this. Evaluation time 1 every season is Memorial day. Deadline for legit consideration of trades is at earliest mid-June.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:22 PM) The bottom line is the Sox needed at least 10 runs to win yesterday and at least 9 runs to win today. There are more Walker vultures are out, but no Cooper. If Walker is solely responsible for the hitter's performances, shouldn't the pitchers' all be on Coop? Can I just blame Edwin Jackson? Anyway, it'd really help if the team would catch the ball.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 06:20 PM) The scary thing is that it's possible they'll promote Cooper to manager if Ozzie gets let go. Huh?