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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:07 AM) I'm hoping LaRoche follows the Dunn pattern - completely awful the first year with us, makes the All-Star team the next. The good news is there's no years 3 and 4 with LaRoche this time. \GMTA

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:14 AM) This is like the Greg/Adam Dunn...why isn't he benched? debates of the past. Because the White Sox aren't in the habit of eating any contract of more than $5 million completely...until they've first thoroughly exhausted every avenue in an attempt to extract any remaining value. Though if you want to talk about Dunn, it is worth pointing out what his second year looked like compared to his first. If we get a similar rebound for LaRoche, we will be OK.

QUOTE (Coach @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:18 AM) Dick, I didn't say play Shuck everyday. Put him into the full time DH slot. All his numbers are better. There is a really high chance that Shucks numbers were where they were because he was played selectively into good match ups.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 11:33 PM) Colby Rasmus turned out to be a good investment for the Astros. I seem to remember a a lot of Soxtalkers didn't want him every time I brought him up last off season. He production this year was about what many thought LaRoche should have done. Take young over old and AL experience over NL and less years and less AAV next time Sox. The difference between the 2 was LaRoche's OBP was way higher and he is a good Christian man as opposed to Rasmus' rep as a problem child and low OBP in 2014 Rasmus put up a 2.8 WAR vs, LaRoche's -1.4 a difference of 4.2 WAR in 2015. IIRC, no one wanted him on the ridiculous long term deals that were being talked about (something like 6/100 at one point).

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 07:00 PM) keithlaw ‏@keithlaw 4m4 minutes ago Eddy Julio Martinez is not signing with the Giants and remains a free agent. Hey now.... One of two things happened... He got a couple of offers that blew away the $2.5 million, or this story was a plant to drum up some interest.

This is why people hate Cub fans. The Cubs can't just win and be happy. For some stupid reason the entire world has to be happy for them. I wasn't happy when the Twins won. I wasn't happy when the Tigers made the World Series, why on God's green earth would I be happy that the Cubs won? Seriously, f*** the Cubs and their fans.

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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:51 PM) Fair. I guess on the flipside the blackhawks are basically a complete non-entity outside Chicago, which would be hard for use to imagine. But yeah you don't have to look farther then them to see what winning does to fanbases. Fans are crawling out of the woodwork and it's only going to get worse if the Cubs keep winning. The Blackhawks have road teams making rules to keep their fans out of opposing stadiums. I don't know that I have heard that one before.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:57 PM) Cespedes will easily be $100m+. I can see him with a Werth-like deal. Yep, his big finish is going to pay off huge for him.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:54 PM) rumors .... you have the luxury and has done so, willing to believe one rumor and discard others, based on your opinion. so unless bowman come to you and verify this, i can see how you will never believe anything unless it is along your opinion. so deal with those proof, or links or site i mention before. My contention is reality. Yours is underreported rumors. It is also common sense. Why would a guy who knows he has to make sense ignore exactly the deal that would help him most, in lieu of one that puts him under the public microscope? When you deal in rumors, you deal in things that are at best partial truths. DO you actually know that this was the offer to the Hawks, or was it what the Hawks asked for? When the rumors run contra to common sense, I am going to require a little more vetting than just believing anything I am told because it was on the internet. What I do know is that no real reporter actually ever put their name on the report with some sort of confidence, which is another red flag.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:39 PM) but as i pointed out, before, the hawks FO was po'ed on bowman handling that rumored, yeah that evil rumored trade failure before the draft. the end result was the trading of Saad and loosing Johns. the hawks screwed up the trade with ARZ and ARZ had to go out and make a trade for Ponger's contract. Dead money so ARZ could get to the salary cap floor. that was the failed trade with the hawks on bickell contract. but that is the past, nothing can be said or done now. I still want to see some proof.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:17 PM) I dunno. Letting Seabrook go after next year and managing to keep Brandon Saad would have been preferable, IMHO. Except that isn't how the contracts worked. They had to make Saad fit now, not next year.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:01 PM) It's not so much "questioning" as much as it is the following: Stan is not great at knowing the value of a player. Examples: He gives Bickell that ridiculous contract He turns Patrick Sharp and Stephen Johns into two really bad players He overpays Brent Seabrook He moves Saad to keep Seabrook. Seabrook is over 30 He fails to negotiate Kane and Toews separately, when Kane is a behavioral problem and Toews isn't. He's fortunate as it almost blew up in his face. He won three Stanley Cups. That's fantastic, but the fact of the matter is there are better rounded GMs. In 5 years, I'm concerned the Hawks will be old and bad. If the Hawks were interested in longevity, they shouldn't lose Saad for essentially nothing and they should have done everything to keep Johns. He gave up the future star defenseman to overpay a post-prime defenseman. And Bickell is STILL killing us. He dealt Saad because he wanted way more money than the team could afford under the caps. It wasn't an either or with Seabrook. Those two things aren't connected except in timing. IN fact Seabrook's deal doesn't even take effect until next year. Patrick Sharp isn't in Dallas for any other reason than the off the ice stuff. Johns was an unfortunate victim of that. Patrick Kane got his extension before this last incident. His behavior problems had been gone for a while at that time.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:38 PM) While most of the above is true, the bolded isn't, at least not in entirety. Hawkins did basically what you'd think he would in AA at his stage of development, maybe even a little better (though he missed some time to injury). So he's about where he was a year ago (though that is below where he was when drafted, if that is what you mean). Danish, again, did what you'd expect in AA as the youngest pitcher in his league without an overpowering fastball. He's pretty much on track. Both will repeat AA. There are plenty of prospects who fell hard the last year or so, neither of them are on that list. And for guys like Hawkins who sunk, you have guys like thompson and Saladino who emerged and contributed unexpectedly.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:34 PM) everything always starts with rumors and then it come out otherwise. everything on this forum starts with a rumor, b/c no one has that special inside info. so do you have a special link to the inside org ideas of what they want to do?? I do not, which is why I am not criticizing the deals... because I have no idea what was actually offered. But apparently you do since you are willing to judge them?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) Yeah, but for every Nick Hostetler or Marco Paddy, there's still KW or Buddy Bell to cancel all of that out. The biggest impact talent of the early bunch, Adolfo, isn't on a pace to even make a dent in the majors (assuming injuries or non-performance don't get him) before the new tv contract negotiations in 2019. They also have stayed within the parameters on intl. signings, unlike many of the big market clubs like the Cubs, Red Sox and Dodgers who have been scooping up the most talent. Finally, Courtney Hawkins and Tyler Danish sank quite a bit as prospects. That has hurt, as well. At the beginning of 2019, Adolfo will be 22 years old. If he hasn't "made an impact" so what?

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) and i gave him credit for that, credit for remaking the team, but he also screwed up on the 2 trades that were there. no one will do everything right, but accept he also screwed up. The trades that we have no idea what was offered? Are we back on to rumors again?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) I think voting should require 83 forms of ID, a yearly subscription, and a basic competency test. Oh, and it should be taxed. Don't give Rahm any ideas.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) and i have gone this route before with other posters. b/c he is has done extremely well in overcoming hurdles, doesn't give him a life long pass on his future dealing. Life long pass? The dude's team just won the Cup months ago!

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) I'm with you on this. JR bought himself a lot of time with 2005 but that time has long since past no matter how much they try to remind us of it. It is appalling that in a sports-crazy town like Chicago where there's constant talk of how we could probably support a second NFL team that a historic franchise like the Sox have been run down to, as you so perfectly put it, Cleveland-like levels. I mean FFS even perennial bottom-dwellers KC have turned their team around as we simply sink further and further into their former role in the central. I personally don't care for the Ricketts but damn they did what it took to turn the Cubs around, spent the money, got the talent but most importantly got the MANAGEMENT. Theo Epstein? Joe Maddon? How COULD that fail? And we don't even need to talk about Rocky Wirtz and his immediate impact, save to say that again, he immediately brought in new MANAGEMENT: Coach Q and Tim McDonough (Bowman was already there in a different capacity). I think the reality is that JR is basically the McCaskeys of MLB. Another historic franchise for which you have to go even further back for the last moment of glory. The only difference being that the Bears still have a huge audience and sell out. I really thought the Hawks becoming a dynasty and how they run things would shake JR (or even the McCaskeys) into some sort of action if only for pride--but nothing of any appreciable scale. I think the reality is that the Sox are simply a vanity exercise for JR at this point. A hobby which amazingly still makes him a profit. They spent the money because they had the money to spend. That team hasn't ever lost money in the last 10 years. In fact they made almost $80 million in profit last year., which is why they were able to sign Jon Lester. In the four years before that, they had a combined $100 million profit. In 2015 they had $302 million in revenue. The White Sox had $227. The Cubs haven't pulled in that little revenue since 2008.

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