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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 10:35 AM) At my campground a couple of weeks ago I had a friend tell me about a website that will let you know when the ISS will be visible. He said that it would be visible that night at 9:02 PM for about 6-7 minutes traveling from the SE to the NW. It was a perfectly clear night so we stood out and watched and sure enough at 9:02 we saw it. We got to watch it travel across the entire sky. It was pretty cool. I catch that all the time

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 10:44 AM) This is why the big payroll teams have the advantage. If you look at the salary figures for each team, look at the salaries on the DL. Big payroll teams can absorb it and have other players. look at the cubs. They lose Schwarber, but don't miss a beat because they could spend on Heyward. Without Heyward, Soler would already have been a starter. But there's another bias you're missing - the guys who have the big salaries are also typically older and therefore are more likely to hit the DL anyway.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Jun 10, 2016 -> 12:55 PM) If the Sox are able to land Bruce or somebody else who can effectively DH, I imagine that Avi would be part of the package. He's young and physically talented enough (and still has an option left) that I think a team would be willing to take a flyer on him. If that doesn't happen, I imagine that Avi and Morneau platoon at DH, with Shuck (a lefty) being the odd man out. It wouldn't be optimal having Avi as the fourth outfielder, but Eaton can spell Ajax in CF, so it wouldn't be a complete mess. Remember, Avisail is in his first arbitration year this year and is making $2 million. If a team "took a flyer on him", in order to keep him for next year that team would have to offer him arbitration again and spend like $4 million on him to do so. The alternative is just wait until he is non-tendered this offseason or DFAd to clear a 40 man roster spot during the season and then sign him for a pittance in either case. You don't take flyers on guys who have started their arb years and are non-tender candidates at the trade deadline because you're not going to want to pay them their next year's money.

Well this is seriously a desperation move, but makes sense I guess. Hopefully works better than Buxton last year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 09:16 PM) The whole world knows he is a rapist. His life is done. You haven't paid much attention to the "Men's rights activists" have you? To them this thug is a hero. They banned the group but he had several thousand supporters in a "put him on the US Olympic team" facebook group before it was closed.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) Why in the hell should Bernie Sanders quit now when Hillary Clinton SHOULD and probably will be indicted and NEVER be allowed to run? Hillary is showing naivety thinking her privilege as Wall Street's favorite speaker (her speeches are so damn good she deserves that $250,000) that she thinks she's immune to prosecution?? This is gonna get interesting. hang in there Bernie. Read this!! p.s. Why don't any of you Hillary supporters care about this stuff?? She may be our most despicable candidate EVER. Before you say that is mean or cruel or worthy of banning me, folks she is this close to being in jail for gosh sakes! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/...b_10354484.html

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:57 PM) It is costing them something like an extra $150k to sign him now as opposed to in a month. It really isn't a big deal. i wasn't thinking as much about the money as I was Morneau signing it when he can't guarantee the White Sox won't land some other LH hitting DH type in the next month and why he'd take that deal without that guarantee. If it's a major league deal and he'd have to be called up or DFAd once a rehab stint ends, then I guess that can make some sense.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:51 PM) Did the Sox sign him to a major league or minor league deal? If its the former the Sox have to either DFA him or play him on the 25 once he's done with rehab. He wont be riding the bus any longer than he wants to. The official announcement does not say. Guessing it must be a major league deal and that's the kicker, that he has an immediate out if they don't call him up when the rehab stint is over?

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) That's exactly it though. He has gotten praise at the time has made moves, but when they don't work out, people don't fault him for it. They instantly blame Kenny. To be fair...not from all of us

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:44 PM) My guess is Rick is still trying to find a LH bat. I don't see why he wouldn't be, just a weird setup. Was someone else going to jump all over Justin Morneau and sign him totally right now where we had to get him signed to this $650k immediately? I guess it gives him a chance to work in the minor leagues, maybe that's something he can't do on his own, actual game action. Maybe that's it, just so he can try to re-gather his skills in live action. But if Morneau knew the Sox would still try to sign another LH bat, why would he sign this contract so early and be stuck with a team that could leave him in the minors?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:34 PM) This move does nothing to preclude them from making additional deals. I honestly think this is a back up plan in case they are unable to land a bigger bat by the deadline. If they do they cut Morneau loose and are out very little. It really is a little bit bizarre to race out and grab a guy 6 weeks before he'll be ready to play if your team is in trouble right now, gotta admit that. Doesn't mean it's the wrong move, just odd. We can't solve this problem right now so we'll just hope it solves itself and then we'll solve it in 6 weeks?

QUOTE (coco1997 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:13 PM) This may be a dumb question, but is it really a one year deal if we sign him in June? I assume it's only until the end of the season, right? Just a guess but it's probably $1 million prorated over the rest of the season too, so it's probably only like 650K total.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 03:37 PM) Neutering him on his own "home turf" is great. Whatever 20-something intern tweeted that needs an instant promotion. We've also got Trollbama entering Campaign Obama form, his strongest form, and Biden's on deck too. The knives are coming out, and it's going to be a bloody mess. Apparently that tweet is now already her most popular tweet of the election cycle.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 04:07 PM) I like it. What's he been doing? Rehab.

Surprised they didn't try him in a bullpen role.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 02:13 PM) There is no guarantee of that. As for Rodon people seem to have forgotten the sophomore slump. Did I type "likely"? D'OH. I totally meant to type "unlikely". Editing now. Apparently I'm this out of practice.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 08:03 AM) Hope my Pens seal it tonight! There are a lot of Sidney Crosby jerseys in this city.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Jun 9, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) With the return the Sox could get for Sale and Quintana alone they could compete as soon as next year. It would require Rodon improving dramatically, but it could happen. That's not even counting what Melky and Eaton could bring in, and the "addition by subtraction" benefits of salary dumping that loser Robertson. You are unlikely to trade Sale or Quintana and as a result get significantly better next year. If you're counting on Rodon improving dramatically and that leading to a competitive team...having Sale and Quintana in that rotation is kinda important.

Depending on weather, the current leader for "World's largest rocket" will be launching in 1.5 hours [/url(12:59 central) and the launch will be webcast. The payload is a National Reconnaissance Office payload which means we don't actually know what it is and we're lucky we know there's a launch. If weather blocks the launch they'll try again on Saturday. This is a genuinely neat rocket to watch go. It's thought that this is one of a series of NRO satellites that head out to geostationary orbit positions (at a large distance from Earth, where they orbit the planet once for every time the planet turns and thus stay above the same spot on the planet, the same distance as weather satellites). There are a group of satellites out there that are visible from Earth if you know where to look, which means they have to be huge. If this is one of them, then it probably unfurls some sort of transmission catching antenna that is about the size of 3 football fields. This is the actual mission patch for the launch: Edit: Launch delayed until 1:55 CDT.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 06:07 PM) It seems way easier to have it turn off than on. One thing I can say with confidence is that this team is not "THIS" bad. They're 6-19 in their last 25 games. Barring a whole bunch of injuries I have confidence this team will not remain a sub-.250 winning percentage team the rest of the year. Chris Sale will not win only nine games - as of tomorrow it will be 3 weeks since his last win. That won't continue the entire year. Jose Quintana will win at least 4 more to get himself to his usual 9 wins. At some point this will flip back to more "normal" in at least some ways. That may not make them a competitive team, but they're not the worst team in baseball.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 06:04 PM) Confidence, momentum, expectations, bad luck. It can change in a blink of an eye. But usually not, and I just don't see it right now with this team. Did anyone see the rapid collapse suddenly hitting? No matter how much I doubted this team even I didn't think that "lightswitch off" moment was possible.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 05:12 PM) So there are no backup outfielders for the game? They're not chosen by fan vote.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 05:15 PM) I honestly don't see how the organization is going to be worse off financially drawing 24k per game with a $125M payroll vs. drawing 17k per game with an $85M payroll. The Sox are going to be forced to start over in the next 2-3 years anyway, when the contracts of Sale, Quintana, Robertson, Frazier, Abreu, Lawrie, etc. lapse. Selling some of those guys off to the highest bidder in 2018 and 2019 makes more sense than letting them walk as free agents and getting comp picks in return. So starting over is more of a question of when vs. a question of if. They haven't drawn 24k a game since 2012. Just under 20k/game so far this year.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 04:20 PM) As for what could be done to prevent something like this from happening again, I'm not really sure there are any 'solutions' that wouldn't create even worse problems. Mandatory minimums have been pretty disastrous, and calling for a judge to be recalled over one bad sentencing would seem to set a bad precedent. I don't think I have any problem with a judge being recalled over one particularly bad sentence. Do we generally trust this judge's decision making process if it on one occasion led to this sentence? Can you give an argument why we should just assume this is "one bad sentence" and not representative of the way the judge deals with cases in general?