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I know this is a very conservative coach but down 2 in the 4th quarter I go for 2 there.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 01:47 PM) Agreed. Too much negativity. Let's try supporting the team and ownership for a change. The great thing about baseball is there is always next season. 2016 can be great! Insisting that 2015 was going to be great made the mess much bigger and substantially delayed the rebuilding process. That seems like an experience worth learning a lesson from.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 04:01 PM) That's kind of disturbing. Maybe it's just me, but I would hate to fire someone. Even if they were incompetent. (Walks away)

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 09:36 PM) Let's not forget all the damage done to pitchers (except for saving Robertson against the Yankees) by Avi as well. One of the reasons war and fip diverged so much from era this year. Not that the Royals could have turned Shark into a Cy Young contender. Teams like the As and Giants are just much better maximizing their offense through creative platooning. And yeah, Keppinger and Bonifacio and Beckham sucking didn't help provide Ventura as many options. Leury Garcia, either. And then they were't ready to cut down Avi's playing time in a development year, so many factors in play. This wasn't a development year! We spent the whole offseason saying we were going to be there at the end of the season. We said that on the day of the trade deadline!

QUOTE (Dunt @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) Because they need offense at multiple positions. Mazara gives them another building block to add to Abreu and Eaton for the future, he has massive potential. Profar, if he returns healthy, gives you plus defense up the middle with Anderson eventually at either SS or 2B. Frazier fits the "3 year window" the FO discussed and would be here until the Sox could probably start rolling over the next wave of prospects (e.g. guys they draft this year if they draft college position players). Which shows you how silly a "3 year window is". "Let's trade for guys who might contribute next year if we're lucky and are FAs in 2 years, and then also trade for guys who we might need several years to develop into quality big leaguers. Why do you think there's a contradiction here? I don't."

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 04:28 PM) Yup. Still to this day don't have an issue with the trade. Still to this day think that's exactly the opposite of what the white sox should have been doing and a symptom of why we're still a mess right now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 09:23 PM) Martinez was also one of those loyalty moves like when we kept Contreras, Konerko, Dye, Buehrle, etc. In isolation, it seemed like it would go bad...but you could understand why Illitch would authorize it. Maybe they also thought he would go to KC to replace Butler. There are other calculations to consider, like his influence on their young hitters, relationship with Miggy, etc. The fact that he'd come back from catastrophic injuries before. If you switched out Kendrys for Victor, KC might have ended up struggling more to hold off the Twins because Morales was such a key to the Royals' offense this year. and yet I spent a month last year saying why it was a terrible idea for the sox to spend that kind of money on him.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 09:16 PM) If it's KC and the Cubs, SoxTalk will have a difficult time cheering for the Royals. Certainly cheering for StL against KC would be easier, but everyone's also sick and tired of the Cardinals at this point. F*** that go Royals.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 05:59 PM) Yes, I know that. We should just keep it as payment for putting up with their s*** and for breaking the agreement already. Where are these provisions for if (when!) they break the agreement? This admin supposedly negotiated in good faith, and the negotiating partners pretty much just gave Obama a big F U and decided to do whatever they want. Why? because they know we won't do anything. ANYTHING. Why negotiate at all if you are just going to let them do whatever they want? Why the pretense of an agreement? Keep the money. f*** them. Of course, you know you're being dishonest at the very least because the "nuclear weapons deal" does not cover development of missile technology. It is specifically designed to deal with the huge problem of nuclear weapons. Those launches are in violation of UN security council resolutions, but they are not in violation of any part of the nuclear deal. So they're not "breaking the agreement already", you're deliberately switching the topic and I'm betting you know that. It's not worth invading Iran because they receive money freed up from the removal of sanctions related to their nuclear program (notably not all the sanctions on them). It's not worth invading Iran because they have ballistic missile technology they're not using. It's worth invading Iran if they're developing a nuclear weapon. They know that, you know that.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 06:57 PM) RV and the FO are far from perfect but imo, the players should get most of the blame. I give the FO credit for their effort last winter in trying to put a contender on the field but in the end it was the players that s*** the bed. I highly doubt Maddon and the cubs FO would have made a difference with LaRoche, Gillaspie, Samardzija, Alexei, Avi and Flowers. It's on the players for not preforming. Hopefully, RV and the FO have learned from this past season and get things back on track. I don't give the FO for trying and then using a strategy with an extremely high rate of failure. The accurate metaphor is trying to satisfy your retirement needs by putting the $100k you've saved up in the lottery. Then yelling "I totally tried to retire a millionaire!" Yes, you tried, but you didn't assess the fact that it would be surprising if that strategy worked. It might work if we try it again next year, eventually if you put $100k into the lottery every day you would win, but it might well take decades.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 11:30 AM) Handwaving the truth away doesn't change the impact it has on how the two franchises do business. Because of the differences in fan bases, the White Sox will never be able to do what the Cubs did. Those two things are absolutely 100% related. It also doesn't have to be that way, but then again, Sox fans take pride in emptying their stadium. What, put up a record well below .500 for 5 straight seasons and miss the playoffs constantly for nearly a decade? Too. Late. Already did that. Yeah, tiny bit different, 4 losing seasons out of 5 instead of 5 straight, but with a longer playoff drought. If the White Sox did something like that it would totally destroy the franchise.

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Utley suspended for games 3-4, Torre releases statement saying they will work with the players union on improving that part of player safety this offseason.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 11, 2015 -> 05:58 PM) How was 1986-1989? They averaged 72.25 wins over those 4 years. Over the last 3, we've averaged 70.666667. "We should continue on the path we're on now. Stay the course, we're right there! After all, if we didn't go all-in, we might wind up with a losing skid as bad as the late 1980s."

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 11, 2015 -> 11:49 AM) You don't always get your choice. I've wondered for a couple years if "Receiving the Ford C Frick Award from the Hall" would be the thing that gives Hawk a real reason to hang it up.

Chiefs believe Jamaal Charles tore his ACL.

some seriously good finishes in this first round.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Oct 11, 2015 -> 01:38 PM) While I wouldn't take that article as anything more than a typical Merkin fluff piece, I will say that Hahn & company are clearly incompetent if they actually believe that minor changes are all that are needed to right this ship. Believing that minor changes are all that is needed is very much consistent with how they behaved during the season. No moves whatsoever at any of the trade deadlines, little change in coaching staff after the season, "If we keep playing like this we'll be right there in the end".

I didn't think he got anywhere close to all that ball.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 9, 2015 -> 11:58 AM) The Yankees will just lose that pick at 22 and it vanishes. The Sox will get a comp pick at the end of the first round. I'd imagine that they'd be much more likely to target him if they were looking to make major FA acquisitions elsewhere as well such that he'd only cost them a 2nd rounder.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 9, 2015 -> 11:52 AM) Unsurprisingly, there was another school shooting at Northern Arizona University, but it was of the more traditional "personal dispute between 2 or more individuals" variety. I now officially have to suck it up and apply for a job at a place that has already had a school shooting. Sigh.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 05:23 PM) It wasn't just that. It was also the data set they selected, what they left out, the very limited data some of their comparisons came from, and whether they actually got the causation in the right direction in the first place (does high debt/GDP ratio lead to sluggish growth, or does sluggish growth/global recession lead to high debt/GDP ratios?) But you're right, it's just another part of the Zombie Economics that will never die. And even with all that, it all vanished if you corrected the excel coding.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 02:37 PM) Nah, that's been pretty conclusively refuted. Just because it was a flaw in Excel coding doesn't mean that it will ever stop being repeated.

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