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QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 10:15 AM) Also apparently Rose is really pumped because he figured out what was wrong with his shot. Pretty disappointing he has been by far the worst player on team USA. But I'm really glad he's getting game conditioning in. It's so hard to deal with seeing someone come back like this, but I'm trying to get in the mindset that he may not be a good offensive piece well thru the year I'm not worried about Rose, if he is healthy. On the floor, he is one of the toughest players mentally in the NBA. Getting these reps in for him at a level under NBA pace, is a good thing. This will only accelerate his recovery process when it becomes the real season.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 7, 2014 -> 11:39 PM) Their value for trading is not as high as other positions. You sound like Greg, ridiculous and incredible. The whole "value" thing is out of control. The purpose of the minor leagues is to create major leaguers. Period. That is what the "value" of a minor league system is. Even if you create 3 Adam Dunn's that has value.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 09:18 AM) BUT...it also helps you in having a larger international pool, and it could also help you, for example, by signing a guy who you pick in the 3rd slot in the draft who probably should have gone #1 but fell because idiots. The first, sure. The second, only because we went over slot and didn't sign other picks potentially. It doesn't matter if you have a $5m slot, or $2 million... if you go over, you lose slot money later.

Congrats!

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 09:02 AM) Where it really matters is in the size of the draft pool that you have to assign through the draft. A larger pool will allow you to get more high end talent later in the draft as the Sox did two years ago getting Michaeleski and Danish and this season getting Adams despite having to go over slot for Rodon. It just gives you more chances at successfully drafting a MLB level player. Only if you go under pool with that top pick. Otherwise it has zero, or even a negative effect, like we saw with Rodon. Rodon actually cost us money we could use for later picks.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 7, 2014 -> 10:25 PM) The idea that the manager bears little to no responsibility for 2 consecutive train-wreck seasons is just daft. Where's the Ventura leadership? Where's our hero, Robin? Both hiring this guy and keeping him around is more of the absurd sentimentality that's suffocating this organization. So is the idea that the players are never at fault.

I never knew Arod was an ND fan.

It is no secret that all of the highest ceiling guys are still in the minors.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 6, 2014 -> 12:17 PM) Someday Illinois will hire a football coach who isn't a f***ing moron. If he wasn't a moron, he could get a real job...

I am sure not playing for basically three years has nothing to do with that...

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 09:04 PM) More bench brilliance - take the bat out of Abreu's hands. Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 10h Also, Leury Garcia's sacrifice that took bat out of Abreu's hands didn't come from dugout or coach's box.

Mauer has been hot garbage since moving out of the dome. Unless he finds the Fountain of Youth, he is nothing now.

I am not even close to convinced right now. He needs about five more really big years.

Evan Grant ‏@Evan_P_Grant 29m Here's what I can tell you pn Washington. Not related to baseball, drugs or contract. All of it categorically - and strongly denied - to me.

Since this is the off season thread, let me be the first to get WHY HAVEN'T WE MADE A MOVE YET, WHAT IS RICK HAHN DOING, SLEEPING??? out of the way.

QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 11:13 AM) JR always stated that if needed he can approve spending, imo it also mean spending upward over 100+. but to spend for the sake of spending is what the sox will not do. if the right mixture of players are there and the sox can go to the final piece of the big pict, they will spend the money. JR is also not stupid. If you look a the deals the Sox have signed people to, NONE of them were bad when they were signed. A 4/60 to Vmart is a dumb deal before it is signed.

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 8m no progress seen in nix/astros talks after grievance. dispute appears headed for a hearing. http://cbsprt.co/WlBz1W

Damien Cox ‏@DamoSpin 38m NHL set to finally confirm Nationals Park in Washington as site of this year's Winter Classic between Caps, Hawks.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 10:06 AM) V-Mart for four (or more) years seems like a big mistake. I'd hate to see them go more than three. You have to figure everyone will offer two years for sure, and there probably would be some 3 year offers too. That's why I figure it will take the first team to offer 4 years to sign him. And like I said, most of the teams that will be willing to go that far, are a more desirable location, as they have clearer paths to be in the playoffs when compared to the Sox. I just don't see much of a scenario that results in us signing Martinez, because a lot of other teams will want him as well. Honestly I see him back in Detroit, but I can see a Seattle over paying for him too.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 09:21 AM) Like Rock said, when the Sox feel like they can compete the payroll, more than likely, will be 100M+. After arbitration I think the Sox will be, at max, around 65M if they offer it to everyone.....If they think VMart puts them over the top, the money is there IMO. Just because the Sox can spend, doesn't mean they will be the highest bidders. If Seattle offers 4/60 to try to get Martinez there, what do the White Sox do to top that?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 12:10 AM) They'll test the waters but it makes zero sense for the Sox IMO. They think they may have the offense, the pitching on the other hand..... Also, I believe they want to keep Alexei for awhile I'm not sure what the Sox can offer VMart that someone else can't offer more of. There are teams that have a better chance of winning, and others that will offer more money/years on a deal.

The NCAA is just f***ing stupid anymore. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/Geno...lFlowFB_CHBrand

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 06:39 PM) Not to run too far off politics into religion, but I would also point out that churches that take strong political stances against gay marriage are turning people off to religion big time when their mission is supposed to be the exact opposite. I'm not saying that churches should change their religious position on gay marriage, but changing their political position, or at the very least not taking a political position figures to benefit your church more in the long run than yelling and screaming about the issue, to the extent that you don't even care whatever terrible political positions a candidate might take so long as they are against gay marriage. Biblically speaking, no sin is different than another. If gay marriage is a sin, so is being divorced, having sex out of wedlock, etc. There is no "greater" sin that deserves the kind of focus that is put on this one issue, if you read the bible at all. And it isn't up to man to judge those who have sinned. That is up to God.