Balta1701

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Nov 1, 2016 -> 08:13 AM) The Frazier deal was fine in isolation but it made no sense in the bigger picture. The Frazier deal defines the big picture plan for the White Sox. They constantly believe they are one-two big name players away from competing for the wild card, and that failing to compete for the wild card every year is a mistake, so they should sell out whatever they can to get a big name player at a position of weakness. Put everything on the line and put as many big names on your big league squad as possible regardless of what it does to your organization. That's the Samardzija deal, that's the Frazier deal, that's the free agent signings of the last couple years, that sums up this team going as far back as bringing in Dunn and Rios, with the notable exception of 2014.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 09:00 PM) I personally can't say the word, but is Rush really racist? Cmon. Just from this schtick? Again I can't say the word, but how can you call him racist for just this one take? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/17/ru...t-racist-audio/ You know what? Find any excuse you want to walk around saying the N-word. Try them all out. I encourage you to do so. Go out and try it. If you don't believe it's racist, then go do it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 08:46 PM) Why not? You hate millions of Americans who love Rush? One might be a relative of yours you know. Yes, I have several openly racist relatives who think it's ok to use the N-word around everyone to describe how terrible certain groups of people are. And they're totally Rush's audience.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 07:28 PM) Oh come on, he's rich, and he's been around forever. We all say crazy things sometimes. He's still very smart. WHAT ABOUT HILLARY? Hillary? She has the Democratic party in her, well...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 06:40 PM) See? What a double standard. How many Americans love and listen to Limbaugh?? Tons. You can't just says millions of Americans are scum for loving Rush. Now your first sentence is interesting. Would I face suspension on here if I rattled off a similarly mean sentence about Hillary? Or Bill? What about mean unsubstantiated stuff about Obama? You issue no proof of his racism and sexist ways. Terrible human being? How the hell do you KNOW that. He may for all we know give more money to charity than some saint. At least I backed off when told to lay off Hillary. Now I only put criticism when I have the links. Want to hear him use the N-word? Want to hear him make fun of the fact that the Chinese Premier has an asian accent? His "Which team will win Survivor based on every racial stereotype you can come up with" would be funny if it weren't sick.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 06:18 PM) Yeah but you can't deny my complaint. You guys blast a lot of people like Limbaugh out of pocket and I get reamed when I blast Hillary without links, etc. Limbaugh, Meghan McCain, Herman Cain, some of the people I link to ... they immediately get dismissed as kooks or horrible people. Then when I blasted Hillary on occasion without proof I got told to cut it out. I even got told to quit putting negative Hillary stuff in the Democrat thread. Why is Limbaugh so bad a source? He's rich. He has a zillion listeners like Stern. He's a racist bigoted sexist hateful terrible human being and anyone who thinks he is anything other than that is very likely in many of those same categories with him.

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 06:20 PM) What's wrong with the down arrow that isn't wrong with other advertisements? Needs more naked Ty Pennington.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 04:07 PM) Every time I've seen him he's been a strong defender, I don't know what happened in 2016, could have been part of the injuries (I didn't follow him closely enough) but I also hesitate to take partial year defensive stats like that because you're never supposed to do that. Actually, you know what, I found it. The Dodgers used him as a super sub. He was still a decent enough defender in CF (not elite, but very small number of innings out there), but he graded as terrible in both RF and LF almost entirely because of poor "range". I'm betting you've got the combination of perhaps an injury in there fitted with playing multiple positions in a new ballpark. He graded out so poorly in LF he'd have been the worst LF in baseball in the last decade. His 100 inning stint out there graded worse in Fangraphs #s than Hanley Ramirez.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 04:04 PM) Why is Pillar's WAR a factor here and not Trayce's 0.4? The fact is Trayce was bad defensively in 2016. Why should anyone assume he will be stellar? Every time I've seen him he's been a strong defender, I don't know what happened in 2016, could have been part of the injuries (I didn't follow him closely enough) but I also hesitate to take partial year defensive stats like that because you're never supposed to do that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:53 PM) You forget, I am not the one denying political motivations to what is going on. You just find a problem with it when one side does it and are utterly silent about it otherwise.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) I wouldn't figure you'd see it this way, but standard Clinton procedure for anything has been to pretend it doesn't exist, then organize mass outrage machine and victim blaming before transitioning into denial, then apology and change of heart. I will let you decide which stage we are in today as the Hill-bots are in full form today. And the official Republican position has been to drag out the investigation as long as humanly possible to make sure it runs into the election season.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:25 PM) No, I was told that the sox shouldn't have traded a .900 ops outfielder. Then this same outfielder fell off the map after May and now Hahn didn't sell high on an often injured, sometimes decent but mostly not player. the only crapping is the fact that Hahn didn't sell high on him which he clearly did Is the bolded referring to Trayce? Because here's his minor league PAs by year: 2011: 597 2012: 655 2013: 590 2014: 595 2015: 552 (counting big league time) Out of his entire career there's zero precedent for him being "often injured" prior to this year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:29 PM) Does this stuff become FOIA available once in FBI investigation? Or only the items a warrant would allow? The personal stuff does not - that's what has taken time in the Clinton case, with both personal and government matters on the same server they had the legal right to filter through them because content with personal details does not need to be handed over and should still retain privacy.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:21 PM) If they knew there was nothing on there (or that the FBI had already seen everything on there) and they wanted to quietly get it over with knowing that the FBI was going to leak the warrant request and start a s***-show similar to this one, they probably would have done that, yeah. Worth noting that by everyone's account other than people actively in the Trump Campaign, the Clintons have been as forthcoming as technology allows in handing stuff over.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:09 PM) He could easily have chosen not to release that really vague but innuendo-laden letter while knowing precisely nothing beyond "Huma shared her husband's laptop, so there's some emails on it" a little less than two weeks before the election. Ultimately, even if this was "CYA" it's blown up in his face spectacularly as there's no way he continues on if/when Clinton wins. Can the president actually fire the FBI director? We know people like Greg would go ape-poopy if they did, even if justified.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 02:49 PM) .738 OPS CF is pretty valuable. No need to crap on our ex prospects. I shudder to think how much we are going to give up to get a .750 OPS declining CF. A .700 OPS from TT with strong defense in CF would be just about as valuable to this team as adding Cespedes to RF, if he could do that for the bulk of a season and stay healthy. You keep Eaton in RF and you suddenly have OF defense as one of your team's strengths. I wouldn't have guessed he could do that with the bat before breaking into the big leagues, I'm less certain he can't now. Kevin Pillar put up a .679 OPS this year in CF and was a 3.4 fWAR player.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:04 PM) Yes, sort of. He was also in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position from a personal perspective. It's true to say that if this came out right after the election, a lot of people would assume he was hiding it for political reasons (which would be at least partially true). That said, I'd think they could prioritize reviewing those "damn emails" so that he could have come to them with something a little more concrete. I could certainly understand stating something, but they didn't even apply for a search warrant until after the letter was sent, and they could have also just asked the owner of the emails for access to them and she'd probably have granted it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 03:01 PM) Comey's move was political, as well as some CYA. Lynch's previous declarations during the investigation were also, at least in part, political. Clinton's responses to the probe were, of course, very political. I don't think any of this is really in question. The FBI director making a political move 10 days before an election seems like the most troublesome part of that statement.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 31, 2016 -> 02:43 PM) Honestly if this Clinton's had done this years ago, this issue would be long since dead and buried. HA!

So, 2 full days off for Miller, he's easily got 3 innings in him between Tuesday/Wednesday if they can get him an opening. Basically, Cleveland needs a lead in the middle innings.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 08:14 PM) Think wind is causing these issues The wind doesn't cause your catcher to not call off your 1b.

The Cubs still look distracted/sloppy out in the field but it hasn't bitten them yet.

That was mean to Bryant.

Wade Philipps taken off on a cart after a chargers player ran into him on the sidelines

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) I find it amazing that people blast me for liking Rush Limbaugh and Meghan McCain and people like that and yet I get reamed over the coals for what many find equally simplistic criticisms of Hillary. It goes both ways folks. You guys just hate on Limbaugh with no examples and I hate on Hillary et all. But I am the bad guy and everybody else can pile on me. You could counter by saying, "We all know Limbaugh is a joke; he sucks." And I could say, "We all know Hillary is guilty as hell. Hillary sucks." I don't get the double standard. You want examples of reasons to hate Rush Limbaugh? Like the time he explained that consent was something only people on the left cared about, and said that the "rape police" were a bad thing? That was 2 weeks ago.