southsider2k5

QUOTE (fathom @ May 27, 2016 -> 02:53 PM) I understood Eaton getting yesterday off, but with the rain out, makes little sense to me that he's out again given that he's destroyed LHP this year. Also not a fan of having your worst option defensively in RF with a RHP on the mound for the Sox. Seeing how little Ventura sits his starters, it makes me think he is giving him a day off for a reason, and not just for a day of rest.

Jose Abreu

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 27, 2016 -> 03:07 PM) You know Row...i always knew there was a reason I liked you (no there isn't)

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 27, 2016 -> 01:24 PM) I gotta write down all the various things I yell at the kids during games/practices. "swing the bat level like you're sweeping an imaginary floor" "I said swing PARALLEL to the ground not a U shape" "Bring your arm back when you throw" "CATCH WITH 2 HANDS WHY DO I KEEP TELLING YOU THIS" "what was that, either swing or don't swing" "get the bat all the way back" "point your glove where you're throwing and your toes what you're throwing at" "No. No you can't pitch please stop asking" And that is just your son

QUOTE (Dunt @ May 27, 2016 -> 10:04 AM) Gordon Beckham comps are lazy, the only reason people are bringing him up is because he's the freshest failure in our minds. They are very different situations. I like Avi Garcia better, personally.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 27, 2016 -> 06:43 AM) Socrates circa 425 bc Damned lazy Generation BCers. :shakesfist

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 27, 2016 -> 07:37 AM) Yeah, someone mentioned that Sale has pitched much better on an extra day of rest...he had that hellacious 40+ pitch inning with those extended at-bats with Ramirez and Uribe, they must be a BIT concerned about the aftereffects. However, putting him in the spotlight in a game where everyone will be watching to see what Matt Harvey does...he's either going to dial it back down and throw lower 90's and only occasionally throw 96-97 or he's going to end up repeating his CLE game by overthrowing and trying to duel with Harvey on the radar gun. Hopefully he's matured beyond doing that and is more concerned with just getting out of there with another win. It is also worth noting that the team has already used moved the rotation around twice to keep say on 4 days rest instead of keeping the 5 man rotation in tact. This is the first time this season that they are letting Sale get longer rest out of the three chances they have had.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 27, 2016 -> 07:01 AM) The comparisons aren't always 1:1 between jobs and school. First off I can't fire a student. I am asked to evaluate how well they have mastered a set of requirements as outlined by the state of Texas. That set of requirements never mentions how fast they turned in the work. If they master the material on Friday instead of Tuesday, there is no place to note that info. Would you boss appreciate you getting into a fight with a coworker? Of course not, but should I take points off their next assignment? Talking? Cutting class? I'm not saying that timeliness does not matter. I am saying that there are other places to deal with that. We shifted late work to our behavioral system. Keep being late and you will have a a chat with one of our administrators after I have called home and tried to help you. Basically the grades are a direct reflection of your content mastery, your behavior is handled separately. For the students who are always late a trip to ISS is far worse than points off. Most don't really care about their grades anyways. They do care about meeting me before school to discuss the problem or a call home to mom and dad. I think we agree that it is important. We just disagree on the effectiveness of taking points off an assignment versus dealing with it as a separate behavioral problem. Again, this is a non-academic behavior that is vital to the workplace. Punching a co-worker is going to get me fired. Not doing my work for four months would get me fired. Not showing up to work without a good reason is going to get me fired. Your boss isn't going to care to decide if this is academic or behavioral. With the testing enviornment and evaluations the way they are today, the temptation is to focus on those things, but the reality is there are un-academic skills are are just as important for that student. Being able to do timely work and being able to get along with others are two great examples of that, which aren't going to be found on any state standards, as well as things like attendance and work ethic. I honestly think it has been a shortfall for a long time with trying to create a match up between our education system and the workforce, which is why we keep hearing stories about some people being not ready for the demands of the workforce.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 26, 2016 -> 09:49 PM) NOPE. Gonzalez/Duffy tmrw...Royals pushing back Ian Kennedy to next week, Ventura Sat and Volquez Sun. Sale vs. Mets next week in NYC. I wonder if after his worst start of the year, they are worried about getting Sale an extra day of rest?

QUOTE (Blackout Friday @ May 26, 2016 -> 05:31 PM) To be fair, he's going off tweets from Buster Olney. Beyond that is speculation, of course. Olney is fairly well respected in regard to these sorts of things. He isn't even doing that as far as I can tell. I can't find anything that corroborated the basis for either Gardner or Beltran.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 26, 2016 -> 06:40 PM) Except he can't manage the bullpen, his lineups sucks, and he calls for too many bunts. He's a detriment to the organization. I just ran the numbers on Baseball Reference. The White Sox are #27 in MLB from 2012 to 2016 in Sac Bunt attempts.

Am I the only one who remembers working and going to school with a lot of lazy teenagers and 20somethings when I was growing up? GenXers had the same s*** said about them as Xers are now saying about Millenials. I know the WWII generation said the same thing about the Boomers to. It is tradition for people to think that somehow this generation is going to be the one that screws up the world, though the funny part is that the same people b****ing about how bad a current generation is are the ones who raised that damned generation in the first place! If they really are that bad, who made them that way?

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 26, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) At what point is a minor league player considered "Developed?" The idea that it is a set number of AB's that is the same number for each player is silly. It doesn't matter that it was 1300 ABs for Anderson, he still has big holes in his game. A guy like Beckham was rushed, but he was giving the team reasons to rush him. A guy like Kris Bryant doesn't need the same number of AB's as a guy like Tim Anderson. He just doesn't have the depth and background of a guy that played only positional baseball his whole life. He didn't play baseball his first two years of HS. Anderson also had a grand total of 332 college AB's in two seasons of minor community college baseball. Gordon Beckham had 275 in his Junior year alone, after playing for 3 full years at one of the top baseball schools in the country. With Anderson it isn't like he has done something that makes him look like a can't miss SS today at the major league level either. We know he has a history of really bad starts, long slumps, lots of strikeouts, and not many walks. He still has some big exploitable holes in his game as we speak today.

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ May 26, 2016 -> 03:24 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 4m4 minutes ago #WhiteSox lineup for 5/26: Jackson 8, Cabrera 7, Frazier 5, Abreu 3, Sands DH, Lawrie 4, Rollins 6, Garcia 9, Navarro 2. Gonzalez 1. Well Ventura is really trying to shake up the combinations to find something that works.

QUOTE (gosoxgo2005 @ May 26, 2016 -> 03:00 PM) When would he be considered not rushed then? He has 1300 MiLB at bats. 1400? 1500? Beckham had about 230 MiLB at bats. THAT is rushing a prospect. Again, I'm not advocating for him to be called up at this very moment. If he's hitting .330 in 2 weeks and the Sox are still getting s*** production from half the lineup, then I probably will be. All that said, it's fun have a prospect so hot that we're having this debate even And what happened to Gordon Beckham anyway? That is the exact point.

QUOTE (gosoxgo2005 @ May 26, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) Any website that is .wordpress.com or .blogspot.com has ZERO credibility I don't care nearly as much about the source as I do the quality of the information.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2016 -> 01:08 PM) I heard part of the interview, and it sure sounded like more of a hypothetical idea as opposed to any facts behind it. Reading the supporting stuff, there is nothing there suggesting the White Sox are actually interested in Beltran. There is a statement about having a no trade clause to the White Sox, and that is it. I also can't find where Buster Olney said that the White Sox were trying to trade for Gardner. This appears a pretty weak article on the surface to me.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 26, 2016 -> 01:12 PM) Never realized that. That is freaking awesome. It has been awesome. In fact there was one point somewhere during last fall that I had a headhunter calling me about a job in Chicago and promising a big raise. I actually turned down the interview because I had no interest in leaving this group.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:55 PM) Is your current gig not in Chicago (for some reason I thought you still had a pretty lengthy commutte via train). Or is it just directionally on a much closer part of Chicago than your previous job? The job I started about three yeas ago is actually not in Chicago. Our next level up parent company is in Chicago, and I usually get up there 2 to 3 times a year. Their parent company is in NYC. My office is a 35 minute drive away in Indiana, plus I work from home two regular days most weeks, and whenever I need to for the most part.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:13 PM) How is it an academic problem? If someone has a C in math what should that represent? Isn't a part of academics doing your work? How many of your bosses would have been OK with getting work 4 months late?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) Right. We are saying the same thing. Your original post said Adams was taken with a lower pick. He was taken with a higher pick technically. I'm just anal and nitpicked your post. I got what you are saying now. I was using overall going by the grand total (44th player vs 47th), not by rounds.

QUOTE (gosoxgo2005 @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) That's exactly my point. We all know Rollins sucks. Anderson, should he be called up (purely hypothetical at this point, obviously) might not suck. There's a chance he does, but also a CHANCE he doesn't. Accepting the status quo (Rollins) is not going to help this team. Anderson at least could. Nothing in Anderson's history tells me that he will be better than Rollins if he were called up right now. In fact everything in his history shows the opposite. The theorhetical chance you refer to isn't equal. The chance he will struggle upon call up are MUCH higher than not.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:33 PM) A higher pick but yes your point is correct. Adams was #44 overall, Walker #47.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 23, 2016 -> 05:02 AM) The only reason Hillary is in this is because she has thicker skin than everyone else. Hillary is basically where John McCain was. She is next in line, and no one better emerged.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:26 PM) Because I don't see it hurting him or the team. There's a chance he sucks for a month/month and a half and tears in up the 2nd half of the season. Do I know if that's going to happen? Of course not, but I think there's a better chance of that happening then there is of Saladino or Rollins really helping the team as a starting ss. And like I said, I think if anything this just helps speed up the Anderson development, I don't think it hurts it at all. Either way, we're going to have to deal with the initial Anderson struggles at some point so I don't see the difference between now and next April. I honestly don't think he is ready for major league pitching. We have seen the price of rushing kids before they are ready all too well. Even besides those two, a guy like Avi Garica fits in that boat as well.