Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 25, 2017 -> 12:45 PM) I actually rode out Alica in 1983. Supposedly Alica and Rita did nothing compared to what Ike did. On a recent trip through that part of the state I was shocked how much of the Bolivar Pennisula was abandoned, and even how much of Galveston never got rebuilt. Alica and Ike both hit a bit further south, while Rita more more towards the LA state line. This storm will be well south of all of them for landfall. Assuming there is only 1.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 25, 2017 -> 11:08 AM) We had a heavy rain a few years ago that even though we were miles from water, it saturated the ground so fully that it leaked right into our home. Hopefully, with no basement, that, you should be safe from any damage. House sits on a concrete slab. We don't get water until the entire drainage pond near us overflows.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 25, 2017 -> 09:12 AM) I can't recall anything like this one before. They have had much bigger storms go through, like Ike about a decade ago, but if things stalls like it being forecast they are going to be in big trouble with the sheer amount of rain. Ike came ashore only slightly stronger in sustained winds than where Harvey currently is and was about a $30 billion disaster. Ike also missed the main Houston ship channel enough to keep it alive. A category 2 or 3 that hits the main estuary is a potential Sandy level disaster.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 25, 2017 -> 08:51 AM) Hope that you have a pump and sand bags ready. Do they have many homes with basements in Texas? Virtually no one in this area has a basement due to high water tables. I'm pretty far uphill from the ocean and away from the main drainages, so i don't think my place is going to be in real jeopardy even from 20+ inches, but this will be a good test about whether or not I need to buy flood insurance. The scariest model run I've seen came out this morning - it has the first landfall tonight, followed by the storm being pushed back out over the unusually warm waters of the Gulf where it re-intensifies into a category 3 and then makes a second landfall in Houston as a Category 3. Houston is your disaster waiting to happen - years of unchecked development, inadequate flood control systems, every time someone paves an area to build a parking lot it makes the next flood worse, huge amounts of exposed infrastructure, plans for $10 billion+ flood control levees sitting on people's desks after Hurricane Ike waiting for someone to pay for them. I've got enough colleagues down in Houston that if it came to it I could offer rooms for them while fleeing. I'll also get to see if I keep internet and power this weekend, if so I'll chime in to say hi now and then.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 25, 2017 -> 08:09 AM) I thought I heard as much as 30 inches in some places on the news last night Some models have had areas hit 40. At this point it's just sitting back and seeing how much actually comes down and which spots get stuff stuck over them.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 24, 2017 -> 07:43 PM) I hope none of you guys live by Corpus Christi/Houston. 25 inches of rain sounds like a lot. edit: Didn't see StrangeSox post earlier, but yeah, looks bad Howdy. I'm in 5-20 inch forecast over the next week territory, TS force winds here. Tex, wherever he is, is probably in "Evac" territory, but I think he may already be traveling.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 24, 2017 -> 04:22 PM) He got plunked pretty good again yesterday plus that hand issue. Maybe that's it? For Garcia? It's a boy. I believe it is named Avi.

So WTF? Ainge basically thinks he's getting an extra year of security out of the guy and in exchange he gives up the draft pick? Do people think that Irving is a better player than Thomas?

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Aug 22, 2017 -> 02:42 PM) Bears actually seem to have a pretty good OL. Maybe their strongest unit. If that holds together for a few weeks, then that sets them up to be able to play him.

To be fair, it's not like anyone else would have done anything different. Maybe Sanders, but that's about it. Removing some of the rules of engagement so we kill more civilians probably isn't the best, and antagonizing Pakistan by suggesting we'll ask for more help from India isn't the best, but the current situation is at least moderately stable. What better options do we have? This is one place where there's a legitimate government waiting to step in who we absolutely do not want to step in - the Taliban, and the only reason they have not stepped in is that we have refused to let them.

How's the Bears O-line shaping up to start the season? That's the thing that terrifies me the most about throwing a rookie QB out there week 1 is that the teams drafting them highly usually have O-lines that are shaky at best, and that leaves the QB scrambling at the time when you need to simplify things for him.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 02:49 PM) He's not a major league 3B, but I wouldn't hate getting my hands on him. I suggested a Montas - McMahon swap a couple offseasons ago. Obviously that idea has passed, but perhaps do the same type of deal. Rockies will always be looking for pitching, and we have a good deal of minor league pitching. I have really little interest in giving up any of the White Sox's young pitchers in a "prospect for prospect" kind of swap right now, at least not until we know better where our needs are. We could give up a pitcher to fill a position and then have one of our current guys step up big time next year. If you don't think he's a major league 3b and you think he's a corner OF or a 1b, well we've got plenty of guys at those positions already who "might" step up and be something if they get playing time - no reason to give up a pitcher for that. However...the one asset we should be looking to move this offseason is Avisail Garcia. Whether or not we get a fair offer for him I don't know, but that's a guy who could fit in Colorado given that Gonzalez's contract is up this offseason and they have had some of the worst production out of RF in the national league this year. They do have one OF prospect, some guy named Tapia who is an international signing/23 year old, but that's the only guy they have to step in for Gonzalez after this season as of now. So there's at least a potential match.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 02:30 PM) This is how I feel. One of the reasons there was Saladino hype was the fact that he was doing exactly what Brett Lawrie was doing except we didn't have to send 2 players to get him or pay him arb salary. A lot of these guys like Delmonico/Leury/K. Smith have been giving us the type of production we've been sending out loads of money/players for the past 3 years. And no way they would have relied on those guys had we been contending. The trick right now is - we've got a few monsters like Kopech, Jiminez on the way, and hopefully we can turn Moncada into one as well. We'll have FA money to play with. Can we get 3 or 4 league average starters, a strong bench, and a couple of bullpen arms out of the guys we have in our system right now? Those like 7 outfielders, Anderson, Sanchez, Saladino, the catchers - if we can fill that portion of our lineup, bench, and rotation with those guys, that sets us up to be able to find actual "last pieces" in FA, rather than having to try to fill 10 positions in a single offseason like we tried to do the last 2 years.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 01:33 PM) So just like this thread on Delomonico? I'm not riding the hype - and when Delmonico is sucking? I won't buy the low. He's a league average player at best. AT BEST. I just don't see him on this team at 2019. I am totally ok with having league average players on my 2019 and 2020 contending teams. A big part of the problem the last 2 years was how many positions the White Sox had filled with guys who were substantially less than league average players, or at least how much they had to spend in money and talent to bring positions up to league average. If Delmonico is a "league average player" in 2020, he would be doing that for pre-arbitration dollars still. Give me a left handed hitting LF who puts up an .800 ish OPS to balance out being pretty weak defensively and that's a league average player and a guy who I'm ok with being on the team. We paid Melky Cabrera like $13 million a year to do that.

QUOTE (Dizzy Sox @ Aug 19, 2017 -> 01:44 PM) Confederate statues honor those who actively committed treason against this country in the hope of perpetuating slavery. Tying their removal with a slippery-slope argument that ends with no more statues of Washington or Jefferson or FDR or whomever is disingenuous at best. I just can't believe it's a controversial opinion to say we shouldn't honor or recognize individuals whose defining characteristic was their willingness to kill hundreds of thousands of American citizens so they could continue to enslave millions of men, women, and children based on their skin color. They deserve to be remembered-if at all-as murderous, traitorous terrorists who were willing to kill and die en masses so the south could continue to reap the rewards of human slavery. The lowliest Union private deserves more acclaim and honor than even the most skilled Confederate general. I do have to admit, knowing what I know now as compared to when I was there in 8th grade, the Jefferson memorial has a very different feel now. No one told me I was at the monument of a child rapist when I was there. Like, I was there in 8th grade, and that was the age of the kid he was having sex with. Anyone here have a kid in middle school? He raped a girl who was middle school age.

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Aug 19, 2017 -> 01:42 PM) Lopez to DL. Farquhar up.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 04:24 PM) No similarities to Gavin Floyd at all, wow If he has a good outing can I start calling him G!?

QUOTE (Quin @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 03:07 PM) Jose is the type of guy I can see being productive into his late 30s. We've seen him have enough nagging health problems from the moment he signed with us that I'm skeptical about that. Wouldn't be stunned, but skeptical.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 12:08 PM) The Cubs got what they needed, especially if Lester is gone any amount of time. Jose has an ERA of 3.86 with the Cubs, 6 starts, and it'd be sub-3 if he didn't run into something called a "Paul Goldschmidt" on the wrong day.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 12:51 PM) Who's the young guy some people think will be ready to run by 2024? Saw him mentioned here before. That's not exactly very specific. Eloy Jiminez?

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 11:14 AM) Yep, seems like picks 1 and 2 are set. The Phillies seem to be insurmountable in their suckitude. Will be interesting to see if Singer is taken #1 if the Sox will take the risk with a HS kid, or take the best available college player to fit better with the "timeline". I very much disagree with this. The Phillies are 2 wins ahead of the White sox right now. The tiniest winning streak pushes them ahead. It's very much up in the air.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 01:07 PM) Has there been an update on Lopez somewhere that I missed? Said his side was sore when he woke up that day, isn't sure what it was, said he expects to make his next start.

QUOTE (Tony @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 10:52 PM) I don't think it's a matter of trust. He's a young pitcher that doesn't want to come out of the game, especially in a close game with guys on. Good on Abreu for playing veteran and doing the right thing. QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 10:54 PM) Exactly. You're looking way too much into this, Balta. I know it's a young pitcher who wants to stay in the game, but darnit, I also want my young pitchers to understand that one game does not matter if they hurt themselves. How many guys have we seen make things worse by pitching through injury? How's that working for the Mets? Anyway, yeah thanks Jose.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 09:20 AM) The talent evaluators I respect like Longenhagen have stressed that Moncada will have an adjustment period in MLB moreso than others. He even mentioned Buxton in that sentence. But those struggles are baked into their evaluation, not washed over. It's going to be a bit scary, but I 100% believe he'll get there. Far scarier to me than his ks (having watched a lot of them) is his RH ability right now. I thought power would be an issue from the right side, but contact looks difficult for him there too. That's terrifying and makes me think he should have had a lot more time in AAA.