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QUOTE (shysocks @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 09:35 AM) I haven't posted yet and I am really not sure how I'd feel if it ever happened, but I voted "No" in the poll. And I think I'm in the group you're talking about. It's not that I'm not a fan of baseball; I love it so much. But the hurt feelings and the sense of uselessness would be too much for me to follow the game anymore. The people who are responding that it's so easy to follow a team from anywhere these days - I see what they mean, but to me that's beside the point. I would get such a feeling of "Why the hell even bother," you know? EDIT: And of course the Cubs are absolutely not an option. Well said. This describes me too.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 07:24 AM) No, if they moved that'd be the ultimate betrayal so there'd be absolutely no reason for loyalty on my part. I'd likely swear off of baseball forever. This is about as close to me as I have seen. I would be so incredibly bitter and angry, I wouldn't know what to do about baseball. I went over 3 years without going to a game after the strike and JR's role in it. If the team was moved? f*** them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 03:35 PM) I wonder where the outrage was when Frank Thomas was being referred to as the Big Skirt. Which was very popular with radio talk show hosts. I'll bet tape exists with all of them doing it at various times when Frank made some of his patented dumb statements.

If the conventional wisdom is that all of these guys suck and need to be dumped, why is it assumed that somehow someone else wants them?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 12:23 PM) Obviously judgement calls cannot be protested, but interpretation of the rule can. That is what I would protest. I'm sure it would be a loser, but I bet action would be taken. For Flowers to be blocking the plate IMO the runner would have had to have been impeded, which I saw none of. Also, it is fine for him to block the plate if he had the ball. Since the guy was tagged out before he reached home, that is obvious. I just wonder at what point is standing where Flowers was standing considered blocking the plate? If the guy was at the plate, there is no question he was blocking it, but when does the clock start? When he reaches 3rd? 40 feet from home? No one seems to know. It seems to me standing where Flowers is standing should only be considered blocking the plate, when it affects the runner. Yesterday, it never did. MLB is interpreting the rule, not umpires. So in essence you are appealing to the same people who interpreted the call in the first place. I would be kind of surprised if this was an even that was able to be protested.

White Sox send a message to the Chicago LLWS team http://instagram.com/p/rr4A9MFscT/?modal=t...140814_29758916

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 12:09 PM) OOOOOHHH!! But srsly, they HAVE to reinstate him, its not like they are soooo impressed with his OF defense at AAA that they are calling him up. After 15/21 days, the team has to reinstate him, option him or return him to the DL, no? Yes? Yes.

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 29m Tim Brosnan drops out before mlb commish vote. Now down to rob manfred and tom werner

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) There has always been a fine line in NASCAR concerning exactly how much influence sponsors are getting for their money. That said, Tony owns the team he drives for, so he his sponsors know damn well what he is going to be doing in his free time when they pony up the cash. And for a driver of that stature, he knows there is always the next company in line to give him their money. Maybe this incident changes that, but until now the guy is about as big time as you can get in NASCAR.

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 12:04 PM) Garcia will have been on his rehab assignment for 15 days, which means that the Sox HAVE to reinstate him, correct? I believe it is 21, no?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 10:44 AM) For whatever reason, De Aza has always been terrible at going back on the ball, whether in center or left. Most of the balls he gets a glove on and drops, at least from my observations, were balls he was going back on.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 14, 2014 -> 09:33 AM) To be frank, I didn't think about the protest until this morning when I was reading how no one really seems to know or interpret the rule correctly. And the White Sox are one of several teams that have been victimized by this. From now on, either send everyone and challenge or protest. Something has to be done. Right now getting caught in a rundown between 3rd and home should mean an automatic run. There is no way they a rundown can be executed without a fielder being in the baseline and therefore "blocking the plate". Just make them throw it home and you should be allowed to score. The question is, with the new rule, can you protest something that was already decided by MLB? I have no idea.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 09:36 PM) I'm confused. Addison Reed would have this team in playoff contention, yet without him alone it's one of the worst teams in the league? Subtract Robin, and add back Addison, and we are 30 games better.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 09:41 PM) His time on the DL skewers the numbers, but why can't you teach him what a 150 game grind is like? Then next year he will be more prepared for 162 games. I know he's not a pitcher where his arm needs to adapt to innings limits, but he can adapt to the grind over the course of 2 years, nobody is contending this year. We've seen the Sox do the same thing with pitchers, who have a much higher chance at injury.

Watching the replay of the play in the Washington game, how the hell is that one safe, and the Sox game out? The catchers are sitting in the exact same line in both of them. Flowers is just another step up the line to make the catch. That is just f***ing terrible.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 05:15 PM) http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/08/rusn...e-workouts.html Hahn pretty clearly said that if Castillo was left handed, they would be interested.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:56 PM) Wow, why was Q pulled? Pagan is significantly better vs RHP. oh well He seemed mentally affected in that last AB.

Well Quintana won't get an ND now...

Farmer STILL going on.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:52 PM) Gameday is saying Thome got ejected. I'm guessing this is a mistake and it was RV that got ejected? If it actually was Thome then that has to be one hell of a story. Ventura was absolutely ejected.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:50 PM) Shouldn't blocking the plate be an error on the catcher? No, the throw home is a fielders choice, and you can't assume an out. It was the same under the old rule if a runner smashed a catcher and knocked the ball out, it was a hit/FC and RBI, no error.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) Shouldn't that run be unearned Fielders Choice, RBI, ER.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) Hawk is actually pretty composed. He isn't happy about it, but he isn't going crazy Farmer is STILL going on and on about it. I have no idea what is going on in the game.

Farmer is just losing his s***. I can't imagine Hawk is any worse than this right now.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:43 PM) That is F***ing bs Atta boy RV. Dust that s***. BS Can't be true. Ventura is emotionless.