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I would imagine Mark Buehrle was placed on waivers and cleared them. Get him.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 08:05 AM) After he did what he at the end last night we saw some of the old, panicky, scared Walt. He snapped. He lost it, and then came to his senses. As much as Walt always has an idea and thinks he has things figured out, it was almost comical in how sad it was that he realized after he shot Mike that he didn't need to.

Breaking Bad is officially the best show ever. The slow development of Walt's character has been the most impressive act in the history.

The Red Sox just dumped 3 guys over 30 who make the GDP of China, one of which has been injured/awful since signing, one of which has just been terrible this year, and the other of which has magically lost his power. Apparently Red Sox fans are unhappy... How on earth can a Red Sox fan be angry right now? That plus Dice-K's Big Papi's cash coming off the books? They just got to hit the re-set button on what would have been an atrocious next five years of salary.

Jesus, this is a stupid trade and the Dodgers are nuts. This is the zaniest waiver trade ever.

That game was f***ing awesome. You know, after they won. Because when they blew that lead i wanted to f***ing murder someone.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 02:01 PM) They still have two days to not screw this one up. ESPN Radio's Jim Bowden reports the Red Sox have no intention of trading Adrian Gonzalez to the Dodgers after he was claimed on waivers.

I really don't understand these clubs. You have a get out of jail free card on a contract that has $127 million remaining and goes until the guy is 36. Some club claims him on waivers, and you can literally just let him walk and apply that money to multiple of positions of need this offseason. And you stupidly are going to pull him back? F*ck saving face, get out of that awful contract!

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) i will be the one with the sox hat I'll be the one with the boner.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 11:54 AM) My first time in the patio area. Any advice? Best to arrive even earlier than 5:30pm? Ha, interesting, mine too. Maybe I will see you there and have no idea who you are.

I'll be the drunk guy at the Patio Party and then in the outfield tonight. One of them, at least.

I was setting my fantasy lineup for Sunday and noticed the Tampa Bay Rays don't play? http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/schedule/inde...alendar=DEFAULT That's weird.

@redeyechicago 19 people shot in Chicago last night in an 8-hour span: Chicagooooo Chicagooooo my kinda town.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 06:08 PM) Boogie Nooooooooooooo! That was one of the best episodes of Big Brother ever. You have to respect how Ian played it, even if he was letting Dan take the fall. I like how Boogie tipped his cap.

Oh, I love Soxtalk. This is now "not a good thread", because Gordon had a couple of ok games. This MONSTER SERIES brought Gordon's 2nd half OPS up to .587.

Delicious!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:39 PM) I've actually been a bit stunned with how low that number has been...(for him). that .365 OBP, if done for a full year, would be the lowest OBP in Youk's career. Mostly low batting average...but basically, despite his batting average and OBP being really bad for him, he's been huge for us because he's having such a good slugging %age with us. Yeah, he's been a perfect fit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) And getting fellated for it. It's nothing but blowjobs and apple sauce for Dweezy these days.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) Can anyone state, with a straight face, that they'd rather see Danks starting these games instead of Wise? Nope. I did not predict that one. Roids? It's funny how Ozzie (and us fans) broke Wise by leading him off (and booing incessently) to start 2009, and here he is 3 years later getting revenge on the Yankees in front of the same fans - leading off.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 02:13 PM) It's all been about a power surge for Youk. Well that and the dude takes a walk. He has a .365 OBP with us.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:18 PM) There are probably 5 or 6 posters who if you listed who or what they thought didn't suck White Sox related, the list would be maybe 2 names/things long. I think that's incredibly inaccurate.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:13 PM) Again, notice the last point. Gordon Beckham is at the very least still out-performing his salary. You can put together a winning team with the #4 offense in the AL with Gordon Beckham at 2b (and that's with the 1/3 of a season debacle we had at 3b as well). If your definition of saying that a player sucks includes that level of performance, then to me, your definition of suckiness has no meaning. Rather, it's just getting used on a guy you're frustrated with for his lack of development. If this is who Gordon Beckham is, then it's tolerable. We can win with Gordon Beckham being the #9 hitter and doing this. He'd actually be a better-than-average #9 hitter in the AL these days. I can live with that for another year. We have other needs that are bigger. Yes. We can live with him. He also sucks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 03:09 PM) Where's the list of players Soxtalk has written off that have remained bad? It crashed my PC it was so large. I got to Danny Richa... and it just went black.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) Will bite tongue on responding to this the way it deserves, which involves a whole lot of profanity. If you just want to go to the basics...right now, fWAR has Gordon Beckham as a...replacement level player. That makes him below average yes...but as I keep pointing out, replacement level players have their utility. In the bWAR world, Beckham has been slightly below average, but that's because of the defensive metric already referred to in this thread, defensive runs saved, whcih no one is buying. He's actually slightly above replacement player level in bWAR at his position with the bats. There are currently 5 2b in the bigs with >250 PA's who have produced lower OPS numbers than Beckham. 3 of them are currently on contending teams. 2 of them are guys who I listed out of people being paid more than 2x what Beckham is being paid who were available as free agents earlier this year. Yes, better options than Beckham have been available. However, they've either been part timers who have had great seasons, or they've cost more than Beckham, and thus would have required shedding additional salary (bye AJ). If this is who Gordon Beckham is, he will have another year with the Sox after this one and he'll wind up as a journeyman/part timer. If your guys standard for players who suck is that, then I contend you have a wide standard for players who suck. I count 31 regular players, with >250 PA's, who have lower OPS values than Beckham, again including guys who would have been available as his likely replacement. There are some solid names in there, names people have floated as guys the Sox could look at for other positions, like Olivo, Ian Stewart, Yunel Escobar, Damon, Justin Smoak, Kurt Suzuki. If your standard for guys who suck includes that whole list of players, that's fine, but it's become a useless definition born not out of the guy's actual performance, but out of the fact that you wanted better from him and didn't get it. And I'm sorry if "typing more than a sentence long insult" takes more time than you have available in your day. You make great points above. None of them, however, disparage the notion that Gordon Beckham sucks. WOW! 5 2b's with Lower OPS (one was just optioned to the minors, Jemile Weeks). What about the 24 in the league who are better. He sucks, it's plain and simple. Sorry about the joke about you disappearing. You've certainly done that before, but this time you at least took the time to craft a very long response that didn't really prove you correct. And yes - Ian Stewart, Yunel Escobar, Justin Smoak, and Johnny Damon suck fat balls.