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QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:33 PM) I never said that they thought he was great. He's a work in progress. And, sure, who wouldn't want an All Star-caliber outfielder like Cespedes or Gordon instead of Avi? That's a no-brainer. Especially when your window for winning is now, and not two years from now. The fact that the Sox were looking to replace a player doesn't mean that the player is awful or will undoubtedly be playing in Japan two years from now. It means that they were looking to get better. And there were several good outfielders on the FA market a few months ago. They brought in Austin Jackson to replace him.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:29 PM) He would have been riding the pine had Drake Laroche not happened. Who the hell do you want dh'ing right now? You're seriously making no sense. Also a very valid thought. At the very least we'd know who Robin likes least, Avi or LaRoche.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) The fact that Avi is on the 25-man roster and isn't riding the pine all that often tells me all that I need to know about what the Sox think of him. It tells me they don't have better options, not that they think he is great. After the winter they had trying to replace him, that tells the rest of us what the Sox think of Avi.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:25 PM) I agree. I'm sure KW would have happily included Avi instead if they could. In a heartbeat. They don't spend the winter chasing Cespedes and Gordon if not.

Q gets out of it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) I'd happily trade Avi for Trayce And then we don't have Frazier.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:22 PM) Given that Austin Jackson was their big outfield acquisition, I'd argue that they didn't try all that hard. You could argue it, but you'd be wrong.

Wow, Mauer gave away a run there.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:17 PM) But they wanted Trayce Thompson instead? Look, the Sox clearly think that Avi is going to be an every-day ML player. Otherwise, he'd be in AAA right now. The Sox spent the entire winter trying to replace the guy, but don't think that Jerry Sands or Travis Ishikawa is a better option. I'd hardly call that a ringing endorsement.

what is Sano upset about?

And there is Quintana luck.

QUOTE (MDWhiteSoxFan @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:11 PM) How dude got a higher batting average than OBP? Something like a sac fly.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) Maybe, maybe not. The Sox apparently believe that he will, as they've had ample opportunity to include him in trade packages but have chosen to not do so. Which trade packages did the Sox miss out on?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:58 PM) They called him Little Miggy didn't they? Because he looked like him, not because he was going to be him.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:55 PM) Considering that some people thought he was the second coming of Miggy when he was in Detroit, that's what makes it pretty funny. lol, come on, no one actually said he was the second coming of Miguel Cabrera. People said his swing was similar to Cabrera, which is not the same thing.

Melky about got killed on that one too. Wow, that was UGLY.

Ouch.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:48 PM) I thought Frazier hit that one a lot farther than he did. The wind is blowing in, hard.

Great read by Abreu.

This ump just loves calling the inside corner for some reason.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:36 PM) He definitely has "bad luck", more so than most pitchers, but its usually in the form of garbage defense. There are many games where the Sox have given Quintana a lead and Quintana hasn't held it. Maybe its been only a 1 or 2 run lead, but a top 20 pitcher holds that lead more often than not IMO. Yeah, I'd hardly call blowing a 1-0 lead to lose 2-1, fair. If he gets normal run support in most games, those "blown leads" aren't even thought about. Perfect counter example, Chris Sale gets a 2-0 lead, blows it. He is down 3-2. But the offense comes back and gets him 5 more runs, and no one cares. Those things magnify more when you don't get run support. When you get run support, no one remembers.

To me the most interesting part of it all is that I don't see the right to vote as having ever been intended to be a right in the first place. It was definitely supposed to be a privilege, which is why it was initially so limited. Of course no one really talks about that today. Then again, it is also fascinating that the easier it has become to vote today, the less people seem to give a s*** about voting. We have all day voting at polling places, absentee voting, and extended early voting in most places, and the percentages of people who vote now are worse than ever out of the people who can vote. 150 years ago, voting was limited to those over 21 (which when you consider what the lifespan was 150 years ago is more like 40 today), and not if you were black, female, and probably not if you didn't own land. You also had to figure out how to spend a day traveling to get to one of the polling places without modern transportation, and yet people didn't miss the opportunity. Maybe people need to feel lucky to vote again? Who knows.

Great pitch in on the fists.

QUOTE (joegraz @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) Ummm....Duh? :drink :drink

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 04:30 PM) Quintana is not as hard luck as everyone likes to make him out to be. He often causes these problems himself. You are talking about a guy that has been in the top 17 pitchers for three full seasons in a row for worst run support in the AL. If that isn't bad luck, I don't know what is.