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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 01:18 PM) Really just anything for the experience of actually hiking a few miles with 30-50 lbs of gear and then camping for a night or two. I'll keep that in mind for the spring. I did this this year... The elevations aren't much, but hiking in sand is a b****. For every three steps you go up, you slide back two in the sand. I can't imagine it with 50 extra pounds on my back. http://www.indianadunes.com/travel-blog/do...dune-challenge/ This is their page, and it has trail maps and descriptions on it, along with info on camping and such. http://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/2980.htm

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 01:25 PM) many thanks. Actually I remembered wrong because of a bad signing number... it is actually $1.6 million left. The White Sox might actually have more international money left than anyone under the caps. Now that doesn't mean teams won't pay the tax to go over. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?s=...t&p=3011138

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 12:39 PM) great find, good reading. re: Moncada, how much are the sox under in the int'l pool money? I would love to have him regardless of the penalty of going over the limit. Who would oppose to this move? Why? IIRC, I think they had just under a million dollars left, but I am not positive.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 01:13 PM) NSS or anyone else, is there anywhere within a few hours drive from Chicago to get into some backpacking? I did some when I was in scouts, and my wife likes the idea of it, but we've never done it together yet. I'd like to be able to try it out with some small-scale hikes over a weekend without having to dedicate a trip to it. Indiana Dunes is great for that, depending on the kind of terrain you are looking for.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 12:00 PM) Specific trails: Half Dome, Yosemite Summit Rainier (got up to the Muir Snowfield in August on a day hike) The Muir Trail from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu The Narrows at Zion, top to bottom (did the dayhike portion up to the first campsite in June) Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai, possibly doing this next summer if my wife and I talk ourselves into it Grand Canyon, Kaibob to Bright Angel River of No Return Wilderness rafting trip Wonderland Trail, or at least the northern portion of it Glacier NP, Swiftcurrent pass to the Granite Park chalet General places: Patagonia Acadia NP Banff Denali NP Rocky Mountain NP Alps One of the guys at my work is leaving today for a week walking Scotland and staying in bothies. Yeah, except for the cold places, this is a lot of my list. Throw on some active volcano's and that pretty much finishes mine.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 12:54 PM) Try looking at independent stores, not just the ones in the mall. Seriously hit up Jewelers Row along Wabash downtown.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 11:02 AM) The problem is that the tender deadline comes up pretty early in the off-season. Of course the Sox would love to make a trade, but Viciedo probably isn't any team's Plan A, and by the time they get to Plans C and D, the tender deadline will be passed and I really don't think the Sox should commit $4M to him. They won't non-tender him. They will offer him for sure, and then try to move him.

More hints from the front office. Reading between the lines here, forget about a top named starting pitcher. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...ml#.VC6ihPldWSo

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 10:00 AM) Yeah. I bought our engagement ring while I was working in a retail s***hole making $8.25 an hour. The ring cost $650. But the style of ring was perfect. Our wedding bands cost something like $300 total, because we went with plain gold bands, but also comfort fit. Guess what, they still work just fine 14 years later.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/10/offs...medium=facebook

Just don't feel like you have to spend a certain amount on a ring just because a ring company tells you that is right. Go with what feels right.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 09:20 AM) So Hockey People: When is this trade going to happen? I am honestly surprised a deal hasn't been done yet.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 04:20 PM) Yeah, I was really annoyed to find that out two nights ago. They pulled it off of the PBS Roku app as well. Pirate Bay here I come! I figured that out when what said it was Episode 6, was actually a repeat of episode 5. I had to pull it off of on demand.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 04:15 PM) Last I saw, Hahn expected Saladino to be ready by spring training and if he is injured, it makes it that much easier for a team to hide him. I don't really seen anyway they protect a fourth catcher unless one of the current three is traded. Davidson is already on the 40 man roster. Nate Jones coming off the DL will eat that final roster spot, so the Sox will need to be a little more creative with the roster if they are going to participate in FA. Not really. A rule 5 pick has to spend a large majority of the season on the active roster, otherwise their roster requirements carry over to the next year.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) If evaluators are split between him being somewhere between Viciedo and Cespedes, I don't think we want that for $70 million. Sounds more like $100 million.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 03:24 PM) I know the Sox are stacked with right handed hitters but I would love to know what the FO thinks about Tomas. He's young and at the age that fits into the core they are looking for. Going by the link ss2k5 provided ( thank you again), Tomas doesn't sound like much of an outfielder so I'm not sure how much interest the Sox would have unless there was a platoon with he and Abreu switching off between 1B and DH. Going off of the fact that Hahn said he wasn't interested in Castillo because he was right handed, I will assume the same thing here. When I read Tomas's scouting report, I heard Dayan Viciedo.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 03:06 PM) No to nitpick because I am acutally curios, is there a story for the Tom Gordon inclusion? That guy was rock solid before the Sox got him and after...He had one of the nastiest curveballs in the game when the Sox had him. IIRC, he had a ton of injury issues before coming to the Sox. After that he got back on track for a number of years.

At the same time, Bryant has to know that because of the way that Boras operates, this is par for the course. If he is surprised or mad about it, he didn't do any research.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 02:37 PM) How the hell did Gonzalez name get brought up? Writers are just like politicians. They spew nonsense in their own words to get the followers to, well, follow along. They all regurgitate the same crap, just in their own words and opinions. IMO, having a favorite sports writer is like having a favorite politician, pointless. Anyhoo. Anyone have scouting on Tomas? I'm not a member of baseball america. All I know is he is 23, RH, has power and not as good as Abreu. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/scouting-yasmany-tomas/

Baseball America ‏@BaseballAmerica 56m56 minutes ago Yasmany Tomas Declared Free Agent - Yasmany Tomas is free to sign with a major league team, as Major League Baseba... http://ow.ly/2OwvVx

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 12:43 PM) To answer one of greg's questions in the op, yes this is a very big deal in Africa. Current projections are that the spread won't peak until January, and by that point 1.4 million people will have been infected. Last I read, the mortality rates for this particular strain of EBV were 50-60% reported but thought to be higher due to under-reporting in many areas. Frontline had an episode on the outbreak a few weeks back. The Frontline Ep said 70% mortality rate in Africa. Who knows how much of that is the standard of medical care there, versus the actual strength of the virus.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 12:14 PM) Esteban Loaiza Damaso Marte Neil Cotts Helped Save Tom Gordon's career Cliff Politte Jose Contreras Bobby Jenks Dustin Hermanson Matt Thornton Gavin Floyd DJ Carrasco Chris Sale Jose Quintana Jesse Crain Dylan f***ing Axelrod listing him just brcause Hector Santiago Phil Humber Nate Jones Scott Carroll, Axelrod territory Hector Noesi I'm sure there's more. All these guys pretty much killed their expectations here or performed at an extremely high level. And I'm sure I've missed quite a bit. I'm sure you can also find reasons not to list them. Regardless his work with Quintana, Contreras, and Thornton alone outweighs anything Walking has done. The rest is a bonus. That list is exactly why Don Cooper gets slack. There are some amazing stories in there.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 12:10 PM) Is John Danks just disappearing? Along with about $10 million a year in cash, or another bad contract coming back are the only ways that it happens.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 11:00 AM) I'll take a stab at it: Justin Masterson, Zach Duke, Joakim Soria, Pedro Alvarez, and Dustin Ackley. Masterson made sense to me before the offseason, but seeing both Jerry and Kenny mention RSHP, it makes A LOT more sense.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 10:16 AM) I'm upset that I missed it. And it doesn't look like they're going to be replaying it anytime soon. No. I DVR'd it. The last day on Comcast ON Demand is today. They already took the full videos down off of PBS's website.