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Great stuff by Dan. I have a couple of his books, and am thrilled that he is writing for SoxNet. Also nice addition to the story Mark.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 12:49 PM) Interesting insight. One quote left me with some befuddlement. Was this line directed at something specific? The last reference to something coming out of Guillen's mouth that was controversial was with regards to the 2012 season and the Castro remarks. This quote implies to me something happening since then but I'm not sure if I'm just reading that wrong? It seems to me it wasn't too long ago he was pretty openly campaigning to get the White Sox job back when we already had a manager.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 12:41 PM) Meh, hate watching is part of fun of sports. You are the one who says f*** Detroit any chance you get. Hating Detroit is one thing. Watching all of Detroit's games as a part of that? Yeah, I can't get with that. Never have, never will.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 12:23 PM) Ah, I misunderstood what the masochists was aimed at, thought it was referring to the multiple losing seasons they went through. Being in the Cubs thread, i thought that would be obvious.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 12:14 PM) I agree. Could you imagine a fan base enduring something as awful as 4 losing seasons in 5 years? I can't imagine intensely following something I hate. Honestly it has more to say about the person, then anything else.

Soxtalk is full of masochists.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 11:13 AM) Expensive? I can think of about 70 million reasons.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 11:05 AM) He has a good history of success. If he gets released, he'd be a good roster option for the team. No reason to for either party really.

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 20m20 minutes ago James Shields cleared waivers, meaning he is eligible to be traded to any club: http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/8/10/9125..._source=twitter …

The latest from deadspin. http://deadspin.com/report-accuser-claims-...dium=socialflow

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 10:44 PM) What's the likelihood of Delmonico getting picked during the Rule 5? Don't think anyone's gonna give him a shot at the big league next year. How does the Triple A and Double A phase work again? Same pool of players as the ML phase, but without the 25 man roster requirement? 0.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 12:28 AM) I didn't even notice that Rondon is in AAA. Ooof. Talk about do or die. It was an injury thing. They had just brought in Sellers to fill a spot, and then he got hurt.

QUOTE (L. Ron Paultard @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 06:50 PM) O ya, 1 last thing about the oft-used Chamberlain parallel. admittedly As bad as that was, at least there are 3 obvious mitigating factors: 1) Chamberlain didn't have the full benefit of precedent/hindsight that we do. (Incidentally, neither did the many Isolationist voices inside the US) 2) knowing the war was inevitable, Chamberlain was merely biding for time. 3) the Nuclear dimension. So that somehow makes this Vienna debacle even worse. If Ayatollahs frowned on dancing on religious grounds before... well, just paint the Mullahs' heads on my avatar Gif -- 24/7 you know it, playas bwa-hahhaha! Throwing pens and yelling is one thing, Over/under on how many times Zarif must have gotten up in a middle of deliberations, walked over to John Kerry's side and flicked Kerry's nose as hard as he can --- you know just to see what happens. Hi Brando.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 04:02 PM) Eddy may be my favorite "sleeper" in the entire org. I made the completely bats*** crazy prediction he'd be Top 100 by the end of the year and while that isn't happening, he's extremely fun to follow. Hopefully the glove catches up, but he is a guy you can't help but root for.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 01:35 PM) One thing that Kane's people have done so far is not start a smear campaign against the accuser, at least not yet. If you're in the right, take the high road and let the facts present themselves He does not need to. He has fans doing it for him.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 03:06 PM) Really, you're advocating this s*** again? You're advocating that Samardzija hit someone on purpose after this is how you reacted to him hitting someone on accident? Really? greg you need to bow to your master, because Q just owned you.

24 million people watched this debate (I was not one of them). This is more people then has ever watched a primary debate before. What should we take from that?

QUOTE (almagest @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) Probably much better than what they would get doing something else. On name recognition alone, I would be pretty surprised. If nothing else, something like coaching would also be an option.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 03:43 PM) I don't mean to anger everybody with my pessimism so instead I will ask you before game time to predict the outcome of this series and hold people to it. Sox ALWAYS (except last Cleveland series) are the cure for what ails struggling Central Division teams so my prediction: 3 losses and the signal of White Flag time (oops, too late for that). But Sox lose all 3. Why? All 3 are sellouts; Royals are struggling and who better to get them well? It's gonna be ugly. It's gonna be frustrating. Greg says 0-3. Give your prediction now and see who is right. That makes me feel pretty optimistic to be honest.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 02:55 PM) He's on a minor league deal A guy like that is probably making a $100k tops, probably less. For someone who had millions of dollar contracts before, that is nothing.

That is bad contract for bad contract. The equivalent for us would be something like Danks for Either.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 01:59 PM) Remember that he specifically told her to take the back stairs so there would be no cameras. Yeah, my wonder was if he was saying that originally to try to trick her so he could blackmail her later, or if that was true.

Jim Trotter @JimTrotter_NFL FILED TO ESPN: 49ers to release Aldon Smith.

The Royals have lost 6 of their last 8. Hopefully that means we are catching them at the right time, especially with Royal Killer John Danks starting first.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 01:18 PM) Yeah he's a bigger sociopath than Elliot. I mean, who would have gay sex and strangle people just to move up the corporate ladder? Now that I think about it, he and his wife remind me a lot of Claire and Frank Underwood. Elliot is more skitzo than anything.