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Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 37m Sky Sources: #MH17 flight was in a restricted area unsuitable for civilian aircraft

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 01:11 PM) Apparently, Russia is the f***ed. Meh. There will be a lot of noise, maybe some sanctions, nothing of importance will happen.

Daryl Van Schouwen ‏@CST_soxvan 58m White Sox expanding "Free T-Shirt Mondays" for remaining Monday games. 7/21 Eaton, 8/4 Abreu, 8/18 Sale, 9/8 Konerko.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 12:11 PM) Grantland article: The Curious Case of Mark Buehrle That is great stuff.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 12:32 PM) Sale ranked #11 in FanGraph's trade value rankings, the highest rank pitcher in the majors: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2014-trade-value-20-11/ Good stuff. I honestly don't know if the Sox could ever get back a true value for a Chris Sale trade. And that is OK by me.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 12:05 PM) Who was the last prospect the Sox had ranked in the top 10? Pure guess here... Either Beckham or Jon Rauch.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) You are the one who thought he was thread worthy. Honestly it was catch-all worthy, but that is a whole other story.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) If this is true, its really bad news for the rebels. Killing civilians of another country is the easiest way to get the hammer brought down on you. This will be a situation where both sides blame the other one.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 11:04 AM) Also worth pointing out is that the Sox are likely going to try and do the same thing the Rockies did, which is to slip him off the 40 man. They will wait a bit longer - probably in hopes that the Rockies deal someone and have to add a couple more guys on their 40-man to fill it up. Consider this: He got through the entire NL unscathed. The bottom 5 teams of the AL did not want him. It's not inconceivable to think that the 9 teams above the Sox in the AL will pass on him to put him on the 40-man as well. He's a 24 year old pitching poorly in A ball with a golden arm. Nobody is going to claim him if he goes on waivers, save perhaps the Rockies. Also would not shock me.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 11:25 AM) Far better than Moises Alou's dugout antics. Win.

That is some great stuff.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:42 AM) I think key to the season after Rose is Butler. It's a contract year. I think everyone assumes 37% shooting Jimmy Butler is the real Jimmy Butler, but if he reverts back to the year before, shooting 38% from 3 and 45% overall, that's a huge huge help. His shot has always been so flat thought inconsistency seems likely. Jimmy will get a whole lot better simply by having other offensive options around him. He wasn't ready to be a primary scorer, and probably never will be.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) Just to clarify, this is the original Malaysian plane and not a second one, right? New incident, unconnected to the original.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 07:21 AM) So was this a case of Coop fixing him or the Yankees just being too dumb to realize what they had? Yankees didn't think he was worth of a 40 man roster spot, IIRC. They did not want to lose him, and tried to bring him back on a minor league deal.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 08:15 AM) If his odds were 10 to 1, I doubt a guy making no money gets waived. I understand the whole no risk, high reward thing, but why don't we preface it by saying, this guy obviously sucks so bad right now and is a longshot to be anything, or else he wouldn't be available for nothing. He throws hard, great. Maybe they can get something out of him, but there is a reason he was waived. Every team needs pitchers. Just think about how bad a White Sox minor league pitcher who throws 98 has to be to get waived. Because, duh. Everyone here knows that. But the organization would be negligent if it weren't taking chances on these guys. The Rockies didn't want to put him on the 40 man roster, but felt they had to in order to keep him from getting picked in the Rule 5 draft. They were trying to slip him back off of the roster, and hoping no one would pick him up, because they needed the 40 man roster spot. For the White Sox they have an open spot, and a history of being able to turn around a larger amount of pitchers than most. There is no part of this transaction that needs a deep discussion or philosophical delving. The kid is in A ball, and doing poorly. The odds of his making it are very small. The Sox need talent, and are able to take a chance on this guy. If he fails, he follows the same road out that many before him have done.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) We need every remotely decent RP arm we can get at this point. Given the returns wouldn't be big anyway, I think we should hoard rather than trade. I'd be seeing what the highest bidder on Putnam is and selling. He screams one year wonder to me.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:04 AM) Starting pitching. This is a trade that Bowden proposed on ESPN: Philadelphia Phillies-Los Angeles Dodgers Phillies receive: CF Joc Pederson, LHP Julio Urias and INF Alex Guerrero Dodgers receive: LHP Cole Hamels His quote at the end of his rationalization - "This would certainly be an unpopular deal for the Phillies to make, but the rebuilding process needs to begin sooner rather than later." So something like Danks for Kemp and Peterson?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Ryan Howard's another interesting name, depending on how much the Phillies eat...and it would have to be around $35 of the remaining $60 million on his contract. What that would cost the White Sox, no idea...but he's been terrible this year. To the point where he's better against lefties than righties bad. He's pretty much Adam Dunn with a much bigger contract.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 16, 2014 -> 09:58 PM) Not really. Frasor has a better track record than any of them, I'd imagine. I'd also believe that Putnam is being looked at as a fluke (rightly or wrongly) and Petricka has a half year of successful relieving. I don't think Belisario would get you s*** beyond a flier A ball prospect. Belisario would get you a kick in the nuts. Take it or leave it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 09:46 AM) Worth noting is that the dodgers are actually potentially in a place where they're out of salary flexibility, they're facing what is now appearing to be a losing legal case that would cost them a whole lot of money in terms of the cable contract they were looking for. I don't even know, what are the Dodgers looking for?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 09:07 AM) I like how everytime the Dodgers are mentioned as a trade partner for anything, inevitably people post "I just want Joc Pederson". The only way the Sox get a return like that is by picking up a ton of Kemp's money.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jul 15, 2014 -> 02:15 PM) I am subbing in a pretty serious 16" league tonight for a double header. I have never played other than in gym class in high school which was a joke. I was a varsity high school baseball player so I am not worried about keeping up but is there any little nuances or rule differences that a beginner would miss? And as far as the swing, does your swing vary from the traditional baseball swing? Thanks in advance!! The swing is what you want to make it. The key difference is the game is really slow. Like superslow. The worst thing you can do is play it at a baseball pace.

Meh. I would hope we could do better than a future reliever.

Chris Kuc ‏@ChrisKuc 1m Patrick Kane: "Everyone kind of goes through their different maturation process and maybe mine was a little delayed compared to other guys."

You gotta love the camera being training on a guy at the table who isn't talking. Come on CSN.