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The White Sox are the only team that stories like this didn't leak out from. I find that pretty interesting.

Cumberland Falls was an incredible trip. Just amazing views, plus took in the only Moonbow visable in the western hemisphere. Also got out to places like the Sky Bridge and Natural Bridge. Kentucky is just an incredibly beautiful state.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 08:26 AM) Then he shouldn't be traded. Exactly. We have two more years under control for Ramirez. If someone wants to overpay, you send him. If not, you bring him back. At absolute worst, the guy is a plus defender, and someone who doesn't hurt you at the plate.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 10:23 PM) Remember when the Royals moved into first place and they were gonna win the World Series and their prospects were finally validated? Yeah, they are about to be 5.5 games back again. They brought in Scott Downs for god's sake.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 11:52 PM) Come on now. Good chance they won't be .500 in 2017 (or 2015 or 2016) is not an actual bet you are making. If this were any other team than the Cubs, no one, and I mean no one, would be talking about a World Series appearance in three years. That is flat out ridiculous. Sox fans are starting to sound like Cub fans with their expectations of this rebuild.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 03:48 AM) $1000 Cubs win a pennant in the next three seasons. Do YOU take this kind of bet or no? Asking for a friend. The Cubs in the World Series in three years? Is that a joke. Take the money and laugh all of the way to the bank. There is a good chance they won't be a .500 team in three years.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 09:26 PM) Hinrich over Augustin is a good move. If Rose is healthy, they need Hinrich much more. He can guard 1s and 2s. DJ is tiny and can't really be on the floor with Rose. He's an awful defensive player too. I like DJ but I get it. Bulls will be much much better offensively. Could legitimately win the East. If Rose is healthy, Kirk is a better fit for the Bulls. The problem is Kirk needs to be playing 12-15 minutes a night, tops.

The contracts for Toews and Kane are huge now, but it really seems like they are projecting a big cap jump. Hopefully they are right, otherwise this team is capf***ed.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 05:09 PM) Come on, have you ever watched Gasol play? He is a beautiful passer, can hit an open shot, and has excellent post moves. Peak Gasol is when he's playing on spanish national team surrounded by shooters, ball goes into him and he dissects the defense apart. He was, was, unbelievable. HE's not great defensively but he's not horrendously stupid on rotations like Boozer. Gasol is a perfect fit for this offense. Defense, we won't talk about. That being considered, that makes him better than Boozer.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 12, 2014 -> 09:55 PM) It's funny, b/c while not getting Melo was obviously a big disappointment, the Bulls are still in pretty decent shape for 2014-15 and with some luck might actually be better than that, but Bulls fans are really down on it (they're pretty much down on everything, all the time since the 2011 season). If this exact same roster was the Knicks, Knicks fans would be acting like they're already in the Finals, because Knicks fans are the complete opposite of Bulls fans. Melo going back to the Knicks was like a major coup, as if the team he went back to didn't just miss the playoffs in a historically bad conference WITH him. IF you get back a healthy Derrick Rose, the Bulls have just as good of a chance as anyone in the East, assuming the Cavs don't get Love.

Soxtalk hates winners.

Considering how few people actually go to games in April, what do they have to lose?

Sox Sawks

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 09:28 PM) If you've ever heard Bulls fans b****ing about the front office/ownership you always hear this complaint especially from the Bulls fans who are Cubs fans or who aren't from Chicago. (Right now it doesn't even make any sense anyway, they are willing to pay Carlos Boozer $17 million to NOT play for the Bulls in 2014-15, and if Carmelo doesn't sign with the Bulls it will be because he wanted money the Bulls couldn't offer because of the CBA and they'll say the Bulls were being "cheap" anyway which is dumb, but that's a separate topic...) Anyway I've always been inclined to believe this is bulls*** and it's something meatballs just say out of their asses mainly for 2 reasons. 1. The Sox don't have much debt to factor into their operating costs combined with a sweet TV deal, so they pull in a lot of revenue. They're not the Yankees but they're far from broke. They can afford high payroll without being subsidized by the Bulls, unlike what they seem to be implying. 2. Reinsdorf or any other investors on the Bulls could theoretically use their profits to invest in the Sox but even if they did it wouldn't affect the operating costs of the Bulls since the Bulls are pretty much sitting on a mint. Reinsdorf could go into the luxury tax and still profit if he wanted to, he just hasn't ever seen a need to until last year. What's the best way to respond to this? Keeping in mind these aren't usually the type of people to listen to facts or logic, but still. This is about as realistic as saying google funds microsoft. Riensdorf doesn't even own the White Sox.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 08:38 PM) How the f*** does Scott Carroll have a shutout with 4k right now? Is his stuff really that good tonight? Everything is a ground ball.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 08:22 PM) Just my opinion, but he projects as a very good #1 if he can get rid of the kinks in his mechanics that developed last year and develop a little better control, both things that the White Sox have had a good deal of success at developing in pitchers. IF he turns out to be Jose Quintana, would that be an awful thing?

That homer by Viciedo was thing of beauty. Not just the distance, but not trying to yank the ball to the LF foul pole. He is so strong, and his best swing is to RC.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 07:47 PM) They wouldn't have to make up 10. As bad as they have been, there still is only 4 seasons in White Sox history that have drawn better than the Cubs this year. If they are going after $200 million pitchers, or even multiple ones if you believe the fluff in here, they are going have to be selling out basically every night again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 07:39 PM) Well, they could reach the world series. That'd do it. That would take two years. The first year would see a spike over the course of a season. The second would complete it. Then again, we just based something on the Cubs making the World Series, so we all know what that is worth.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 02:35 PM) If you want to think the Cubs and Sox are in the same boat, fine, but IMO, the Cubs are one 85 win season away from being constantly sold out again. And to answer your question, sadly not much less than Jose Abreu sold. The Cubs aren't going to make up 10,000 seats a night, in one year. That is just absurd.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) What!!!!!!! Who would even THINK of saying he'd be back this year?????? With his level of activity, it has been kind of obvious that Garcia was working towards this goal.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) The Aiken situation is another example of why Rodon would be nuts not to sign in the next 11 days. I think that would make 3 or 4 first rounders involved with ligament problems.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 04:36 PM) The Astros took a guy that many felt was the best arm with the highest ceiling in the draft, found out that he may have some injury concerns after initially agreeing to a $6.5 million deal, and are still saying to him "look, we're still willing to give you $5 mill, which we believe is more than fair." I don't see anything questionable with what the Astros have done. Aiken is going to get paid if he holds out. Remember, if the Astros don't offer 90% of slot, they lose the compensation for Aiken not signing. His slot value is $7,922,100. Meaning if the Astros don't offer about $7.2 million, they won't get a replacement pick for Aiken if he doesn't sign.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) Why did you have to give TUC another "penis" metaphor to work with??? Find something you love, and you never work a day in your life.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) Kind of like yo momma in bed At least he gets a woman into bed... without GHB.