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We obviously should end high school sports because Dennis Hastert used it as a gateway to molest little boys.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2016 -> 08:23 AM) Heard the dumbest comment on Mully and Hanley today when they were interviewing Ozzie. I think it was Mully that said that even playoff games at the Cell don't take on a playoff-like atmosphere. The Sox fan base does stink during the season, but they definitely show up in the postseason and create a great atmosphere. Even something like the blackout game was insane.

QUOTE (ron883 @ May 4, 2016 -> 09:34 PM) You'll see, I'm going to be right. Abreu can't lay off the breaking ball outside. I'm going to bump this up when he is in a slump, and I'll bump it at the end of the year when he puts up his worst year yet statistically. This post is disgusting. Most people who troll at least pretend not to get joy from misery.

The fun part is that if Hillary doesn't kid off the whole birther movement, Donald Trump is probably some dude with a TV show.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 4, 2016 -> 05:01 PM) Part of it goes along with that argument from Cubs fans that no matter whether the White Sox teams are better, they're drawing more attendance (which of course is 40% a component of regional tourism and the historic nature of the stadium, day baseball, Harry Caray, babes in bikinis, yuppies on mobile phones, etc.) So there's that "White Sox fans are more blue collar argument" as well (according to ESPN's Greenberg, there's a split of about 5% more fans attending Cubs games possessing college degrees compared to the Sox), and then there's the prevailing stereotypes about the relative "danger-ness" of the area around USCF, which mostly goes back to the 70's and 1980's. Greg talks about this a lot, for example. Part of it is/was frustration with the original botched design and implementation of the new stadium plan compared to the other new stadiums like Camden Yards that arrived soon thereafter, as well as the complaints about the slant or rake of the upper deck. White Sox fans, over time, have gotten an "inferiority complex" about hearing these same arguments over and over again...and that's one of the reasons the threads are so polarizing, because the arguments are so predictable (and frustrating). Now you have the typical response that "well, stadium attendance is only 15-25% of typical revenue stream now for an MLB team, compared to the 40-60% it comprised in the past." And yet invariably, the local and national baseball media will note the low/er attendance in their game stories about Chicago and this will frustrate fans who ONLY want to focus on the positive start after three years of wandering blindly in the desert. No matter how many times fans write threads about how "family friendly" the stadium is, how much better the experience is (especially on Sundays), how "much more affordable tickets and how many great deals/discounts are currently available," there's that casual fan who felt burned maybe by their experiences from 2007-2009 (much higher prices after the World Series) and then just became apathetic in general because of no playoffs since 2008 and terrible, painful to watch teams from 2013-2015...which nobody wants to talk about or relive either, not when the White Sox have the 2nd best record in baseball and you can legitimately speculate about the Cubs and White Sox in the World Series again for the first time in nearly a decade. Too many Sox fans want to have it both ways. They want to complain about attendance and blame everything under the sun for it, but they also don't want anyone to mention attendance to Sox Fans, otherwise how dare they do it.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 4, 2016 -> 04:33 PM) You're right...sometimes it's the batting average that takes the 50 point drop instead. From a macro perspective: Ritchie Swisher Samardzija Edwin Jackson (to be fair he was never any better than mediocre; and he was mediocre with the Sox just like with everyone else). Vasquez - see Jackson Dunn Laroche And, dare I suggest, Frazier., so far...hopefully he turns around. The only ones that produced were Thome and Garcia and those were still dubious trades (Thome "allowed" KW to get rid of Frank - while produced .100 OPS points less than Thome, we were stuck with Anderson/Mackowiak instead of Rowand; Garcia was a rent...we could have signed him as a FA). And yet people are convinced that another such transaction is the golden key. It's madness. Heck, look what happened to the Astros after their acquisition of 2 "Elite" pieces, who suddenly aren't so elite. Wait, this was about walks and hitters, but half of that list is pitchers. Now show us all of the prospects that left that didn't fail.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 4, 2016 -> 03:58 PM) Who are you referring to with this? Because it doesn't describe Dunn, LaRoche, Melky, Frazier, or Lawrie. Forget it, he's rolling.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 4, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) Uh more than a moral victory til you turn on the TV. He wins states. Just less states than Hillary.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 4, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) His arm is dreadfully bad but his range has looked pretty good from the eye test. They do have him playing very far in compared to what I'm used to for our CFers, but it seems fine. Jackson has always played very shallow, even in Detroit where the CF fence is 420 feet out.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 4, 2016 -> 02:42 PM) Our offense is now 13th in the MLB in BB%, that's a big turnaround from the first few weeks (3rd behind Giants and Cubs the last two weeks at 11.7%). Yeah, to let you know where we are as a team: Team OPS #19 .699 Team runs scored #17 106 Team OBP #16 .315

Any time I see this type of thing happen, all I have to do is think of how I learned not to put too much faith into AAA numbers, versus actual stuff. I picked Jeff Bajenaru over Bobby Jenks.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 4, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) Not sure our bullpen is as good had sale not given us great, LONG outings when he had. That was a crazy stretch with no days off, our starting pitching going deep was crucial. The best thing you can do for a bullpen is have strong starters. It puts less pressure and stress on them.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 4, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) Carson Fulmer He is the main guy I had in mind for guy in Sox minors currently.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/154...e-baseball-soon

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 4, 2016 -> 10:45 AM) One thing I noticed about Q last night was velocity. He was throwing 94 on high fastballs. I don't think I've ever seen that from him. His velocity's up half a mile an hour this year as well. Steroids.

Jason Benetti ‏@jasonbenetti 12m12 minutes ago Evidence of efficiency: @whitesox pitchers are throwing 15.8 pitches per inning, 5th fewest in @MLB.

Seemed like an interesting discussion to have... who will the Sox end the season with as their 5th starter?

Jose Abreu.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 4, 2016 -> 09:27 AM) Thought of this last night as I was watching Red Sox pitchers again spending 30 minutes between pitches and TWO challenges that just made my wife hate baseball after a great game to that point: - Every inning that the Red Sox or yankees slow down to a crawl and ruin young peoples love for the game MLB forces: - Red Sox to pay another $1million to Pablo Sandoval - Yankees to pay another $1million to Alex Rodriguez It both punishes the teams but also should work with the MLBPA as the money is getting funneled to players, one fat and the other a douchebag. Thoughts?

QUOTE (bmags @ May 4, 2016 -> 09:10 AM) For those at home, hard to describe how incredible the Eaton catch was. Off that bat that ball was smoked and Eaton was fairly shallow. I actually said "He's not gonna catch that" and as I was saying it he made up like 20 yards and threw his arm up and caught it. I couldn't believe it. For out of towners - I definitely recommend trying to get to a game this yera to see Eaton/Jackson in CF. Apparently numbers don't like Jackson now but they are awesome to watch live. Absolutely. He made a perfect read on that ball. If he hesitates for a second, it is over his head and it is a triple.

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:17 PM) And Ishikawa was close to making the big team out of ST. QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 3, 2016 -> 11:41 PM) And there were posters here who wanted him on the team.. smh. He is a poster child for not substituting spring numbers for career numbers.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 4, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) Claiming race at the track? greg bet.

Bernie Sanders is a walking moral victory.

I didn't know this before, but apparently Lincecum has a degenerative hip condition in both hips. http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/07/20/san-franc...ry-degenerative

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ May 4, 2016 -> 01:35 AM) You're better than this, B>W. I never understand why any of this matters. If they continue winning, the fans will come. We're all aware of how things work. We're also aware there will be random home games, mainly on a weekday, that don't draw well. If history and the apparent sale of 100,000 tickets isn't enough, I won't be bothered one bit. More room for me in the park Maybe, eventually they will show up. If they aren't thinking about 2013, or 1982.