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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 06:33 PM) I hope Peyton puts up 70 on Irsay's Colts for being a clown. Those were some confusing and ridiculous statements coming the week before they were to honor Peyton

@MartysaurusRex: Yo @JayRat90 holla at me. You'll look good in navy and orange.

I wouldnt mind him if he were healthy. I dont know if he is though, he hasnt played since last season

The Cowboys cut Jay Ratliff, and will assume a 10 million dollar cap hit next season because of it. ouch

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 01:10 PM) You realize we have two Cuban players on the White Sox...their weaknesses are pretty much the same, yes? Other than a healthy Miguel Cabrera or Victor Martinez, how many Latin players have what you would consider a great approach at the plate? And what are your recommendations for improving their performance/s? If you can change both of them, as well as DeAza, maybe you should be on the White Sox coaching staff, right? We are talking about a 22 year old rookie, are we not? Who has never played in the MLB playoffs before? If I remember correctly, many superstars like Bonds and Frank Thomas and A-Rod have struggled mightily in the playoffs (in their entire 20's) and were WAY under anything Puig has accomplished already. Absolutely. That is why I said it. Why must I recommend anything? What does it matter? How about I recommend Puig see a few pitches? There, I said it. All is better now. Puig has accomplished WAY more than Bonds and Frank and ARod? Remember when you said we shouldnt judge him based on 2 games? Now it is ok to judge him on the previous series consisting of 4 games, only because he did so well in that series? LMAO, you will jump through any hoop to defend your precious, Golem.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 01:00 PM) No biggie. What is this cuban handbook you speak of? It consists of one line "Swing at anything close"

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 12:13 PM) He should have ran through Carpenter. If I recall, he had a 2-0 count. You are right. I walked back into the room and saw him swing last night, I thought it was his first pitch

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 12:02 PM) That dp yesterday by Puig was just straight brutal. That was more on Eithier but still. He swung at the first pitch he saw. That was straight out of the Cuban handbook. Eithier froze, but he didnt exactly have anywhere to go

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 11:25 AM) LOL. His overall hitting stats for both (combined) playoff series or this one even are better than 80-90% of Cardinals' players, though. Well hey, lets award Puig the "This guy has good combined numbers in both playoffs but is only hitting .150 in this current playoff" trophy right now! He can put it between to his "The Next Roberto Clemente Award" and his "Caulfields BFF" trophy on his mantle. I am sure the Cardinals would take the crappy numbers and late inning wins over good (combined) numbers and absurd strikeouts and late inning fail.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) I had to watch my grandmother go through Alzheimer's. It was like 8 years of a slow decline to the point where she didn't know anyone but my mom and her two siblings. Everyone else was a complete stranger and she couldn't remember conversations from 30 minutes prior. It was heart breaking. My grandfather, one of the strongest, most bad ass people i've ever met in my life, withered away to nothing in like 2 months from pancreatic cancer. At least he lived a full life up until that point and then went quickly. Death sucks. My grandfather went a year and a half after my grandmother passed. He also was one of the bad ass people I have ever met, he lost half of his left leg to a bomb in WWII in Germany. I never heard the man complain once about his leg, or having to care for my grandmother when things started to go south. Once their partner goes, the air is let out of the balloon for them.

Sorry to hear that Steve, I understand what you are saying. When I was around 13 years old, my grandmother had a series of small strokes and then a grand mal seizure that incapacitated her, and then alzheimers set in shortly after. It wasnt the person I knew for the last 5 years of her life.

My brother went to the game and was honored at intermission as a combat veteran. He was super pumped up about it, they brought him down and gave them seats on the glass. He said it was pretty awesome to get a standing ovation from the crowd. The PR lady made him take off his blackhawks stuff when they honored them on the screen, lol.

Puig dp in the ninth. Him and Punto had some big inning kills

Caulfield, how come in the White Sox thread, you post about Mattingly and the Dodgers, but in the Dodgers/Cardinals thread you post about Ventura and the White Sox? It cracks me up

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 12:42 PM) Funny how they missed Adrian Gonzalez go nuts after his RBI single. No, Wainwright called it Mickey Mouse nonsense

Nolasco is the right move with the win yesterday. Kershaw would have been a down 3-0 "oh s***" move

Dan Pompeii was saying today that they have around 3 Million available, so if they made any move via trade they would have to start asking players like Jay and Briggs to take a paycut now in exchange for a bonus later

HOW DID I KNOW AN ARTICLE WOULD BE POSTED?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) Premature evaluation.Wait until the entire series is over. You're really going to use a two game stretch to make some kind of judgment? Nobody on the White Sox could have hit the ball 355 feet to RF in that fashion except for Viciedo and Carlos Quentin when he was hitting like a monster/machine and maybe Beckham his first 2-3 months. Say what you want about his posing, but it inspired the team and stadium, didn't it? He has a 788 OPS for the entire set of playoff games. It's not like it has been a complete disaster. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_...louis-cardinals Great storyline now. Who wins? Puig or Beltran? Something's got to give. No, a premature evaluation is stating that Puig is the best rightfielder since Clemente after a months worth of games. You can keep comparing him to white sox players to boost up his value in your eyes, but it doesnt change the fact that he is spinning himself into the ground in the playoffs swinging at everything he sees.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) So you're down on Adrian Peterson this year? AP is a freak for sure. CJ hasnt come close to the same production. Jamal Lewis and Terrell Davis fell off the table as well

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:02 AM) Look, I'm all for being reasonable here...and surely many advanced statistics are not perfectly fine-tuned. But to dismiss them outright because there may be some flaws is ridiculous. I don't know why you seem to be holding on to this line of reasoning because we all know you are smarter than that. Let me put it this way. If we were in a postseason game, tied, in the 9th inning, and PK singles or doubles with less than two outs, and you have De Aza on the bench...would you not pinch run him for PK? I just dont think that is really the argument. Of course you would pinch run him right there. I think the argument is pretty much "Is De Aza a good baserunner?" I say no. I watched him all season make one bonehead mistake after another, and not learn from it. There may be a statistic that says he is a positive on the basepaths, but it is really hard to agree with that after watching him this past season.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) Sigh, I remember when I was so adamant in saying Chris Johnson would return to his former self with the upgrades they made on the line. Got him in my money league and one other...At least the main guy I was arguing with was the same guy who was talking up Ryan Mathews Isnt it pretty much a guarantee that once a RB has a 2000 yard year, that the fall off is steep and dramatic? I could have sworn i read something that showed that once a RB crosses that line, chances are they will not be the same again.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 09:15 AM) Note to people: don't be stupid. 36 months ago I purchased an LCD television for $1,500. I went to make my last payment on it this am and saw I was charged 36 months (thought I had two more days). Ebilling is fun and everything, but always look at the pdf statement. Result: Made the final payment over the phone one day late and they waived the $1,300 fee. I took about 3 s***s waiting for customer service to open. Don't be stupid! HH Gregg? Best Buy?

QUOTE (Lillian @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Thank you, gentlemen. For a long time, I have been asserting the importance of having more left handed hitters, especially in our division. The idea was largely dismissed as "unimportant". The response was simply; "It doesn't matter from which side of the plate they hit, as long as they are good hitters". I'm glad some agree that the Sox need a couple of good LH hitters. It might even be feasible to get a couple of guys who don't have very impressive overall stats, but who really dominate RHP. If they can be platooned vs the occasional LHP, that would work, and such players might be much more affordable. and nobody ever disputed this notion, despite you constantly stating it over and over. Nobody said it was unimportant either. The response was "GRADY SIZEMORE CANNOT PLAY BASEBALL ANYMORE, ACCEPT IT"

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 11:06 PM) Therein lies the problem with the White Sox. There's a malaise. Except for Sale, there's no player you can ever put together with "amazing" and the same sentence except when DeAza, Ramirez or Viciedo do something amazingly bone-headed, or one of Ventura's managerial moves. Or Dunn/Flowers/Konerko etc., looked amazingly inept at the plate. Amazingly inept at the plate kind of like 0/11 with 7 k's(5 in a row) before that triple? Amazingly boneheaded like staring at a ball and posing when you think the ball is out of the park?