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Nathaniel Stoltz ‏@stoltz_baseball 1m Hardest contact in Dash BP came from Hawkins, Barnum, DeMichele, and Coats, as you'd expect.

Nathaniel Stoltz ‏@stoltz_baseball 3m Tim Anderson is taking infield today, still has his wrist protected.

Brian Costa ‏@BrianCostaWSJ 7m Sources: Rob Manfred, Tim Brosnan and Bob Bowman have all formally interviewed for the MLB commissioner’s job. Manfred heavily favored.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:38 PM) Konerko as backup catcher. I know this is a joke, but I believe the emergency catcher is Conor.

QUOTE (TRU @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:27 PM) Yes, Im sure there are plenty of people who never played sports and arm chair GM safely from their computer. I would not be one of those people. Im well aware of how demanding baseball is, and its not very much. Yes, have you ever played baseball and football at the same time during the summer in Texas? Probably not. 162 game season? 140 game season?

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) No way, then you say have fun with your 38 year old pitcher making $20M. And you wait for the team that he signs with to have to dump other players because of that disaster of a contract. The White Sox are really good at picking such players off of rosters.

QUOTE (peavy44 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:25 PM) Then u go to 5 years A 5 year deal to a 33 year old pitcher? Ugh. Shoot me.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:08 PM) White Sox wouldn't make an announcement? "Flowers is going on paternity leave and will be out a few games, someone will be called up" They would. But again, those usually don't get made until press starts getting to the ballpark.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) Hector Noesi is a better pitcher than post surgery John Danks. He's also magnitudes of order cheaper. If you trade one of them, you try and dump Danks to an (apparently) desperate Yankees Team. I can see Gordon + Danks to NYY for cash and a couple C prospects. Anyone expecting more needs to reset their expectations, these are 1 WAR types we are trading. I'd be looking to cash in on Noesi and Putnam both. I've said it before, and I will say it again, both scream one year wonders.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) You would think there would be news of this with the game being 5 hours away Not unless someone in Charlotte leaked it. Usually it comes out late afternoon when the players and writers start getting to the ballpark.

And we have the Dominican version of Dayan in Sierra.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) Biggest problem from the White Flag was the prospects that received back never turned into anything more than bullpen help. If one of those position players would have worked out, the deal would have forgotten long ago. The pitching was the most important part of that deal. If Barcelo's arm doesn't fall off the deal looks a lot better. We got two closers out of the deal in Howry and Foulke. Caruso had a great rookie year, and then disappeared. But again, it was 17 years ago. There are people on this board today who weren't even alive when White Flag happened. And much like this year, the Sox weren't winning a damned thing that year.

QUOTE (peavy44 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) we in wildcard race and we just going wave the white flag just not right And there you have the reason why the Sox can never do a Cubs style rebuild. White Flag was 17 years ago.

QUOTE (TRU @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) Baseball is the least physically demanding sport there is, there's no reason for a first baseman to ever be fatigued. Which is easy to say safely seated at your computer.

It isn't hard for me to imagine Abreu falling off in August and September, especially in the power department. Remember the season in Cuba is 90 games long. I could see him fatiguing for sure.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 12:48 PM) I would guess the Bulls are just trying to make sure that Cleveland gets rid of both Wiggins and Bennett in a trade? I have no idea, but the Bulls clearly can't beat the cavs offer. That makes more sense than anything else.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 12:47 PM) Taj, Butler and picks. Better than Wiggins and scrap? No. Hell no. And I believe you would get your ass kicked for saying something like that.

lol, what? The Bulls have zero chance at topping the Cavs offer. Their only chance is if someone convinces Love that he doesn't want to resign with Cleveland, but he does want to sign in Chicago.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 11:54 AM) At the very least, a taller Carlos Boozer would have been a much more acceptable Carlos Boozer. His inability to finish under the hoop in his time got worse as his athleticism declined. It didn't help that he has a ridiculously small vertical.

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 5h The average distance of the fly balls pulled by Ryan Braun this season is down 42 feet,from 302 to 260. More about that in the column today.

Chicago White Sox ‏@whitesox 1h Congratulations to @AdamSpankyEaton, the #WhiteSox 2014 recipient of the @MLBPAA #HeartandHustle Award!

larry southsidesox ‏@SouthSidelarry 41m With Tyler Flowers' wife having a baby, might be seeing @JoshPhegley tonight at the Cell.

ChiTribSports ‏@ChiTribSports 36m Blackhawks top national TV slate with 20 games http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/break...story?track=rss …

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 38s yanks check in on danks. talks in early stages. http://cbsprt.co/1qymwjx

So apparently years ago LA planted a tree to honor the late/great George Harrison. They recently had to cut it down. Why? Beetle infestation. You can't make this stuff up.