southsider2k5

So you are holding the message board hostage until the franchise does what you want. Seems reasonable.

Seriously, if that is really how you feel, just move along. We don't need you here rubbing things in the faces of people who aren't jumping ship.

Oh, no. Whatever will we do.

And trolling about being a Padres fan on a White Sox message board.

Was just going to post this. Thanks.

The Cubs are not a successful franchise?

If anyone ever looked up Caulfield in the Soxtalk dictionary, this post should be there.

As well they should, just like the most successful franchises in baseball.

All we need at this point is an attendance thread.

Why risk it? You control it. That's just a waste of your assets.

The Eloy thing needs to stop. This franchise would be stupid to waste a prime control year.

Has it been said anywhere that the Sox won't go over 300m for ANYONE, or just Manny. That seems like an important distinction. I think ultimately we are talking about 10/330 to 350, and I don't see the Sox doing that but still.

And if it weren't for Eloy, he would be the safest bet to be a starter of all of them.

There is a thread for the Basabe stuff, but I am glad to hear that Dunning and Burdi got an all clear so far.

It is too early here for perspective. Most are still in the anger stage.

Malchado.

OMG, please don't go!?!?! What would we ever do without you Sexy Lady? HUGS!!!

I know the term is overused now for some strange reason, but even if we had signed Machado, I think this would have been the winter of "Fake News". It became really hard to track information, where it came from, and if it came from a true source such as a writer, or someone who had information, or someone who was really just looking for attention.

I think there is a line here for me. The people who tried to share what the believed was good information don't deserve scorn. Soxtalk has always been fine with that, all of the way back to the SI days. This winter we saw the proliferation of people who were lying to get attention, and it buried some good people in the avalanche. Of course a decent portion of the board didn't feel like separating the two things, and were more worried about if it worked out like was said or not, so they tarred everyone with the same brush. A few have even really enjoyed trolling about the insiders the last two days without any real care of who they slandered. It's just shame that it all fell apart like it did. It would be nice if we could work backwards as a group to some of the more nuanced discussions instead of just the outrage culture that seems to be infecting this board from the outside world.

Which it should be. But when it comes back into your personal life, that is when it is too much. As to the rest of it, I mean porn companies, Presidents, and Nigerian princes also ask for my money on a daily basis. Doesn't mean I need to waste my time with them if they don't provide something positive for me. If you can't draw the line, that is on you.

It doesn't have to be what it was for me either. Find your thing.

This also. He is dirty as the Patriots.