southsider2k5

You needed to find a better fitting outlet than Soxtalk because this isn't what we are about here.

If you are trying to equate something as needing to rise to that level, that is exactly my point. We should be past this.

It is also completely unrealistic to write posts like this and believe them, but it happens.

Again we should be past this point as a society. If you don't see that point, you don't want to.

Can we acknowledge that just because something happened in the past that doesn't make it OK today. I just got done reading that one one point Thomas Jefferson's opinion was that the negro was somewhere below the white man, and somewhere above an ape. Anyone else want to say that is OK because it was something that was accepted as truth at one point, even by the educated elite? That doesn't make it OK to do that today, because we have become a bit more educated in 200+ years. I am not sure why understanding that we should learn from these things is a bad thing.

Realistically, Cease is probably on track a 2020 debut, with a slight chance at 2019. If he is sitting in the middle of the 120's for IP and is being shutdown, that puts him into the 150 to 160 range for next year if the can stretch him out again. I have to imagine they start him at Birmingham to begin next season and see what happens, with the hope of promoting him to Charlotte after the ASB at AA.

Nah, his peripherals aren't the kind of thing that get kids taken in the Rule 5. He is basically a hit an inning, and K'ing less than 7 per 9 IP. He also throws 90.

This is spectacular.

I had a lot more faith in the Sox before losing Abreu, Leury, and Avilan. This could be a pretty ugly last month + for this team, especially offensively.

And I promise you that the older in age you are, the worst what you said was as a teenager, because more and more was socially acceptable in those times.

Minor league relievers are very undervalued, and I hope that Burr is the start of the trend of the the White Sox taking advantage of this potential misvaluation with the emphasis on relievers in 2018.

I would also point out that the perception of what is acceptable and not acceptable has changed a ton in the last 5 years.

And even didn't talk about the top dog, Burdi

He also had other GMs asking about him.

Easy. Kopech spent an entire season in AAA already. Eloy got there in June.

I really think at some point that a group of Republicans will eventually sell out Trump in impeachment in a deal to make Pence President, especially if the Dems can take at least on chamber. Then they will spend the rest of his term blaming everything bad on Trump to try to get Pence reelected

Oh it isn't surprising at all. It is just too bad. I deal with lots of high school kids through athletics and 99% of them are great kids, even if they have no concept of the ignorance that comes out of their mouths, or the gravity that their words can carry.