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QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 31, 2015 -> 04:52 PM) lol, here come the "Danks is turning a corner!" folks. It's like the sun coming up. We'll see if he can continue a 100% strand rate the next time he gives up 10 hits. Come on folks, he is what his last 500 post injury innings say he is -- a .5 WAR starter. The difference today was that the defense got it done.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 31, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) Astros should be hitting some HR's today.

Jonathan Turoff ‏@jturoff1 18m18 minutes ago @BarryRozner The Hawks were +650 to win cup after game 5. Ugh that was a tantalizing number...now -120

FanGraphs Baseball ‏@fangraphs 7m7 minutes ago Keuchel leads in RA9-WAR (based on RA/9 not FIP). Also leads AL with a 1.76 ERA. LEADERBOARD: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...=0&sort=6,d …

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 9m9 minutes ago #WhiteSox for 5/31: Eaton 8, Cabrera 7, LaRoche 3, Garcia 9, Gillaspie DH, Ramirez 6, Beckham 5, Flowers 2, Sanchez 4. Danks v. Hernandez.

QUOTE (Butter Parque @ May 30, 2015 -> 10:25 PM) Doe anyone know what happened to Luis Castillo, the 3B that Marco Paddy signed out of the DR? Didn't he receive a fairly substantial signing bonus (by White Sox standards)? I'm going to assume that whole thing fell through... I would guess that means he is extended spring training and getting ready to go to short season rookie ball.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 30, 2015 -> 11:52 PM) Stop answering to KW Why would Rick Hahn quit his job when he literally turned down other interview requests because he wanted the White Sox GM job so badly?

QUOTE (harkness @ May 30, 2015 -> 06:44 PM) Our D up the middle would still be good... We need to find ways to score runs... no amount of defense can save this team if it can't score. Hawk likes to talk about if we didn't give this run away or that run away.. true some of that is true. However the mental effect that not hitting and scoring has on your team is tough to overcome.. especially with so many young players. Honestly its not going to happen. Defense up the middle is fine either way. 3rd base becomes a hole and Conors bat isn't good enough to make up for it. Yes, I start Gordo at third for his glove alone.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 30, 2015 -> 09:39 AM) The problem with this strategy is that in order to make it worth your while, you have to just go all out, spend an insane amount of money, which the Sox likely don't have nor would do. You can't just go over the bonus limit by $500,000. To make it worth losing the next two years of major international signings, you have to blow past by millions, IMO. Martinez is 20 years old and now the top rated international player. Odds are he would be a very high pick in the MLB draft if he were to have gone that way as well.

With as few runs as the offense is scoring right now, the defense is more important.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 30, 2015 -> 08:41 AM) It's his right hand. Which also probably expains the error on the throw.

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 29, 2015 -> 10:46 PM) Gordo at $2mm per is still one of the ten worst contracts in MLB.

James Wagner ‏@JamesWagnerWP 2h2 hours ago Rafael Soriano is leaving agent Scott Boras, per source familiar with the situation. He wants to sign with a team. He's still a free agent. 79 retweets 60 favorites

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 33m33 minutes ago Avisail Garcia could be used as a pinch hitter Fri. Did everything today, first action since Monday. #WhiteSox http://bit.ly/1RwrK9j

Example #1A of what the slider does to your arm. Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 25m25 minutes ago Strasburg looked like he grimaced after last pitch (his 16th), but not apparent exactly where injury is. William Ladson ‏@washingnats 28m28 minutes ago Something is wrong with #Strasburg. He is now out of the game.

The funny thing is his replacement has hit .450 in the starts replacing Avi, and been on base over 50% of the time.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 05:45 PM) I am not going to insult anyone's intelligence and say Rocky isn't better than his father, but they were about to get good . Whether it was at least 2 cups good we will never know.And JR is a far better steward than Dollar Bill. I hope you aren't suggesting you look forward to JR"s death. The first big thing to happen under the new group was to bring in Marian Hossa. I doubt that happens under Bill.

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 1h1 hour ago From White Sox notes: Sox outscored 41-14 first inning, 41 the most in baseball. Sox have been scored on in first in 10 of last 18 games.

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 55m55 minutes ago #WhiteSox for 5/29: Eaton 8, Cabrera 7, Abreu 3, LaRoche DH, Ramirez 6, Gillaspie 5, Shuck 9, Flowers 2, Sanchez 4. Rodon vs. McCullers.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 29, 2015 -> 03:51 PM) But don't you guys get it that KW & RH, brace for it, WANT Jerry in on most of it? They all like each other and like working together and have put damn good on-paper teams on the field almost every year since 2005. Players have sucked for the most part, it stinks. Peavy & Dunn crippled the franchise's chances of winning. Arguably good aggressive moves that didn't pan out. TCQ breaking his hand ruined us for years thinking he would regain his form as our beast. Rios...mercy. I dislike that some of you want to blame people. Who are you to judge? It's just a silly game. I believe this is 100% true. It is also a normal set up for most places. When that breaks down, you get a mess.

This is still on going. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-dank...ory.html#page=2

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 59s59 seconds ago #Astros looking at rotation upgrades, with Aaron Harang and Johnny Cueto as possibilities: http://sbnation.com/e/8453046?utm_campaign..._source=twitter …

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 29, 2015 -> 02:50 PM) But coaching and GMing are two different things. We all understand either having a boss or being a boss, but must of us with a boss would get very frustrated if that boss got too involved in doing a job you are quite good at. I would say Thibs winning coach of the year would qualifying him as at least having some sort of idea how to coach an NBA team. When the boss becomes too intrusive and/or doesn't allow the employee any of their own thoughts or ways, in any line of work, it probably is going to end soon. Just because someone is a boss doesn't mean for optimal performance, they don't have boundaries as well. We don't know the actual interaction between Thibs and GarPax. Face it Pax going after VDN is grounds for dismissal. Just ask Kendall Gill. The Bulls have had the regular press release, JR's press release, a press conference, and are leaking things like the players don't like Thibs. They are doing precisely what they said cannot be done if an organization is to be successful. They could fire the entire Bulls front office tomorrow, and it wouldn't bother me a bit. But at the end of the day, the GM is the Coaches/Managers boss. The VP of baseball/basketball operations is the GM's boss. Jerry is all of their boss. That is the chain of command. The other part is that just because your boss is an idiot, doesn't mean you just can't listen to him. Again, you'll be looking for work.