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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 06:48 PM) I feel like every team's fans complain about getting beat by mediocre pitchers, I've seen it from all over. I'm not sure I buy that the Sox have a unique problem there, and how true it even is. No one remembers the times when the offense scores 6 runs off some AAAA fodder, but the losses will surely stick out more in your mind. Except it really can't be true. If most teams got beat by mediocre pitching, they, by definition, wouldn't be mediocre. I think it is just more memorable when it happens which is why it sticks better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 06:44 PM) I don't think it can because how do you count the debts discharged in bankruptcy? Most of those would go to private banks, but regardless, any kind of study would be nice, even if it was to just one category or another of the overall picture (IE, just TIF money, or just tax abatements, etc.) Honestly if someone did the research, it could be one of the most damning things that could be done to his campaign.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 30, 2016 -> 01:30 PM) Alex Avila With the starting change, I will go with Todd Frazier.

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Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 20m20 minutes ago The White Sox don't have one position player on their roster who was on the team on Opening Day in 2013.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 04:14 PM) First week was pretty fantastic, Northern Iowa for two different reasons, tons of quality games, etc. Definitely dissipated a bit after This. There were some great games and weekends the first four days of the tourney. After getting to the sweet 16, not so much.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 12:07 PM) They are 0-8-3 in their last 11 games against the Western Conf. playoff teams. That's a bit troubling. And many of those games they got their asses kicked in.

Out of curiosity, has anyone out there ever totaled up the amount of money that Donald Trump has gotten from our various governmental agencies over the years? Between TIF money, tax abatement, tax forgiveness, low interest loans, etc, it has to be a ridiculous amount of money. I keep hearing about Trump doesn't need the government, but in large part, the government is who moved him from rich to ultra-rich. Does the research exist?

Throwing out the strike out numbers, he seems along the Juan Pierre mold of a high batting average, no power hitter. You have to imagine in MLB his batting average would take a pretty big hit, and he would be a bench player at best in MLB. For example even a Jose Abreu took a pretty big batting average hit when he came here. If Fernandez took a similar hit, we'd have an empty .280 hitter with zero power.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 04:45 PM) Wasn't a popular opinion but an idea that was floated out This. I can't recall anyone other than stray poster or two advocating for this. I think it is crazy to think that he has changed that significantly for one adjustment and that short of a sample size.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 03:20 PM) 0-1 with a 6.35 ERA lifetime vs. the Sox. Averages a walk and a strikeout an inning. In a winter of crazy contracts, this one might have been one of the worst.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) Watch Rich Hill kick our ass. He was pretty dominant at the end of last season. He may turn out to be a really good signing that Oakland can flip mid-season. A junk ballling lefty? There is always that chance.

QUOTE (glangon @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 02:47 PM) Sonny Gray scratched due to food poisoning. Rich Hill starts in his place Speaking of Chipotle...

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 12:07 PM) If LaRoche hadn't retired, Avi would more than likely been a super sub of sorts spelling all three outfielders and DHing versus LHP allowing him to play 3 or 4 days a week. He would probably not be in the lineup today. Going into the pre-season, I would have agreed. After Avi's spring training, who knows.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 12:10 PM) I was at Opening Day 2005. 1-0 victory by Mark Buehrle that foreshadowed how the team would win all year long. it was 60 degrees, with about 30 Mph winds. Game was done in less than two hours.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) I think that of Chipotle. McDonalds owned Chipotle for a while, and really got them off of the ground, so that makes sense.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 02:42 PM) Coke is definitely the superior soda. And, guys, it's soda, not pop. Where on the east coast are you from?

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 01:49 PM) If there was a need and the situation was right. Jose Quintana pitched 9 games at AA. Never pitched at AAA. Quintana was more of an accident though. They needed an emergency starter, and it was his day. When he got here he pitched so well, they never sent him back. If the injury hadn't happened, he would have never gotten here so early.

The dude never strikes out. Those are crazy numbers.

Drew to Vandy. Makes sense to me as that is a pretty good educational institution, and one that is pretty faithful to their coaches.

No problem at all!

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 11:45 AM) That's how I feel about zombie shows. Glad to know I am not the only one.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 10:56 AM) Nope, but trying to find out. I'm guessing he stays in Extended and goes to Great Falls, but it's possible he's in Kannapolis to open the year. I was really wondering if they would put him on a full season team judging by the way they have pushed him already.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 4, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) I think you'll be surprised then. Sox don't like to waste miles on the arm. Eh, I know Rodon and Sale have done it earlier, but getting called up the September a year after he was drafted isn't wasting much of anything on that arm. In fact, there is a pretty good chance he is still the first 2015 draftee to make the majors at that point.