Balta1701

I don't care about the LH/RH thing nearly as much as you obviously, but if Sanchez can be a 2 win player defensively in the IF and Anderson is a decent SS, but Garcia isn't a useful OF this year, that's my case for Harper. And either way, we have the money for one of these guys, maybe 2. I still want one of these big relievers, with where our bullpen is right now I think the utility of one of them would be obvious.

How the F*** did Fernandez get into that post? I feel like I just got a concussion from that direction change.

Every time the Astros are brought up, someone should point out that out of the drafts that had Kris Bryant and Carlos Rodon/Aaron Nola/Jeff Hofmann/Trea Turner, the Astros got nothing other than a 2015 compensation pick out of 2 straight #1 picks.

Bah, either sign Abreu or one of the other 1b on the market after 2019 (Goldschmidt, Smoak) and leave Eloy in LF in that setup. Your OF becomes Eloy/Robert/Harper. There may be the occasional pitcher that looks at that OF, realizes they're on the mound that day, and winds up in the witness protection program before the first pitch.

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I have no issue putting an offer out to both of them. And yes, hopefully, the White Sox will develop a star or two internally. But honestly, we have our one and only chance to add a superstar coming up in the 2019 and 2020 offseasons; after that Moncada, Lopez, Giolito, and others start hitting arbitration. The ability to add a top flight player and afford it completely is why you do a rebuild. Whether it's Harper, Machado, Kimbrel, or whoever else; land me a top flight player. Land me a guy this offseason who makes this team a lot better on day 1.

Demands that the White Sox should have brought back Melky and should bring back Garcia.

All I've got are twitter details right now and who knows, this could be rounded up shortly, but there's gunfire right now outside of the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which people are saying could be a coup attempt. The recently elevated king has been rounding up and jailing a number of people who could have been considered opposition over the last year.

Anyone want to see a random Texas Politician who happens to be running for the state board of Education who has a hobby of going around on Twitter, finding black kids bragging about getting into good schools, and then accusing them of only getting in by quotas because the blacks are never good enough?

Damn. Best wishes dude. If anything, thank goodness there was medical staff RIGHT THERE.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 07:56 PM) Why in the world are we warming Shields and not MiGo I don't see any reason why Shields couldn't pitch today and Giolito is bumped up to Friday.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 03:47 PM) Some good news about the new director at NASA, just confirmed today on a straight party line vote: Frankly, I think the reaction of almost everyone at NASA has been "They could have done a lot worse so let's just breathe a sigh of relief that climate denial is all we have to deal with".

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 06:20 PM) We deserve it after blowing two five run leads. That's....pretty good. I laughed.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 08:53 AM) Forbes Magazine said that the White Sox will have $260 in yearly revenue in 2018. The Sun Times said the White Sox team payroll (which is 28th in MLB) for 2018 will be $60 million dollars. JR and his investors are laughing all the way to the bank with this dismal team. Talk to me in 2021 when we're selling 32,000 tickets per game and the payroll's up past $175 million.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 08:07 PM) I'm 98% sure it's a problem related to editing/correcting posts with an I-pad. I don't have this issue at school when I'm using a Lenovo PC. Maybe it's something to do with iOS, or something to do with the fact that I have an older I-pad Pro, not sure. I doubt it can be blamed on the Chinese internet censors or "Great Firewall of China." EDITS POST, NO WEIRD ALIEN HIEROGLYPHICS SHOW UP ALL OVER THE PLACE Script

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 02:02 PM) I'd like to see Leury in CF full time. Engel just kind of sucks. Keep him around as the 4th OF if need be, but he shouldn't be getting everyday at bats. Any update on Cordell injury from yesterday? He is officially on the DL already, rumor continues to be a broken arm.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:57 PM) Harper is an OF because he wasn't good enough to catch. Moncada is plenty good enough to play 2B, even at a high level. Well, he wasn't good enough to catch at age 19 or whenever it was he came up, and his bat was big league ready at the time.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:49 PM) I disagree. No one wants to be associated with Cohen at this point. If I was Hannity the reason I wouldnt want people to know I was connected to Cohen because I have been harping on the FBI, the raid etc, and now people may question if my motivation was self serving. When Hannity started railing on the FBI, he had no way of knowing that eventually Cohen would be facing federal prosecution. So while he could have easily said "I talked to him about real estate" months/years ago, it was too far down the line to now come clean. We shall see what happens, but my guess is that none of the Hannity stuff is really that important. No, but last week when Cohen was raided, he could absolutely have said "I was briefly a client of Cohen's and I consulted with him regarding real estate". He has specifically talked about this case, after the raid, and this person specifically, on air, without disclosing that he had a private and business relationship with him. That's a clear lie of omission at a point when disclosing that should have been done by any honest member of the press. My guess is the opposite. You don't have a business relationship with Donald Trump's Fixer unless you need a fixer for something, and you don't try to cover it up unless you have a reason to cover it up.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 12:16 PM) If Cohen told his attorney that Hannity was a client and then the attorney told the judge, no one lied to the judge. This happens all the time. And Hannity was right, revealing his name did cause embarrassment. Cohen has no clue what he is doing. From what I can tell he barely has any understanding of being an attorney or how attorney client relationship works. The bottom line is I dont believe anything Cohen says. I think that if there was something really troubling for Hannity, Hannity would have had an attorney there trying to protect his attorney client privilege. Its not like Im some Hannity supporter and I originally did think more was there. Just now Im not so sure. Revealing his name caused embarrassment in no small part because he went as far as he could to hide his name, including a lie of omission while commenting on the case on his programs and having Cohen's attorneys argue to have his name hidden. If he had simply had a conversation about real estate holdings with Cohen as he claims, he could have been forthcoming with that information and avoided the embarrassment. He could have even released the attorney-client privilege, basically saying that in his eyes the person was not functioning as his attorney. You can note that he still has not done so.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:30 PM) I think Moncada plays a really good 2B but still has a lot of room to improve. Plus if you move Moncada to the OF, who’s playing second? Moncada to CF The Sanchize to 2b Anderson to 3b Machado to SS And it's not a disruption to the players' fielding experience at all

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:27 PM) I agree Balta, I don't think he was ready last year and I don't think he is now either. I'd like to see him go to Charlotte and completely destroy AAA before getting called up again . Now that he's up, I would not send him back down until we have no other options. He gets > the 2018 season at the big leagues to figure things out. This year doesn't matter for Ws and Ls anyway so that's good time for him to struggle against big league pitching and hopefully have the lightswitch go on.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 12:03 PM) Yoan started off great in AAA last year, but his numbers really faded. Still way too many strikeouts and you would expect a higher OPS in a great hitters park from someone who could come up and dominate in the majors. I know I shared on here the in-person reports I was told about his poor body language and lazy at bats Part of the reason he faded was that he was dealing with a hand injury in May and June of some sort. That said...if this were my franchise I would not have called Moncada up last July. He was going to have to earn his callup in my eyes by being ready at AAA. The White Sox don't play things that way and he got called up, and held his own better than I expected. But, his callup was still definitely early.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 09:42 AM) But then why did Cohen have to disclose Hannity was a client? The only reason this became an issue is because the FBI must have seized documents related to Hannity. I don't think this could be a 5 minute conversation. Cohen must have kept a file on something. And it can't be a 5 minute recording on a phone call, because he probably wouldn't be considered a "client". Many people in the press try to cozy up to a presidential administration to gain access. There could be any number of journalists (not to mention politicians and business people) that called Cohen to earn brownie points, but none were considered "clients". Something doesn't sit right. Big question I have: why wasn't Hannity prepared for this yesterday? He had no clear messaging and fumbled all day trying to explain it away. There are PR firms that deal with crises like this. If it is truly nothing, and he was only doing this to earn brownie points, then he should have been prepared to deal with the appearance of impropriety that was surely to follow his exposure. I think it's possible there is something to this relationship with Cohen that he didn't want to talk to anyone about and hoped that his name would be kept secret. A 5 minute conversation with an attorney on something they have expertise on can absolutely be considered something subject to attorney-client privilege, especially if it was in a setting such as when Cohen was appearing on his show. But on the other part of this you are correct that, if this was a 5 minute conversation, Hannity can waive those rights and allow his short conversations with Cohen about real estate to become available for review. If there is nothing there, then he can act like there is nothing there, and he acted like there's way more in there than a couple short conversations.

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 08:47 AM) I will sit back and watch how the narrative changes now. Previously we were saying we'd compete for a playoff spot next year and a WS in 2020. If our team continues to progress slowly and play poorly, with the exception of a few pitchers, then those years need to be pushed back. If this team does not substantially improve in 2019 and be a legit contender in 2020, then at some point we will have to turn around and say that no matter how highly the prospects rick hahn got were ranked, either he consistently misjudged them, or the White Sox failed to do anything to improve their player development despite their entire organization hanging on minor league player evaluation and development. On paper this team in 2020 should be a monster. If it isn't, then there's one single person who we should hang that on.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:04 AM) Right. I'm saying excluding those that were supposedly untouchable, nearly every mock deal I can remember centered around Maitan and/or Albies. I thought Moncada was untouchable until the Red Sox actually made the deal.