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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 09:53 AM) Not enough. I want back taxes owed and not paid. No you don't. Most are going to be working jobs where they wouldn't pay any taxes anyway. They'd get that money back, and a lot more, under our current tax code. And that is long before we get into social services provided.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 09:39 AM) The private sector does things better. 10% of veterans should just be SOL. You mean like the VA who pretends that veterans don't have certain problems (Agent Orange is perfectly safe, you don't have any problems!) or just acts like people don't exist (waiting list? What waiting list?)?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 08:02 AM) That doesn't mean they traded Buehrle for Barnum. They gave up Buehrle, got back Barnum AND ABOUT $50M. Kind of a key element there. Every indication was that Mark wasn't worth that kind of money anymore. All of this "we should have kept Buehrle" stuff is just silly. Look at that contract again, and tell me the previous two years were worth suffering through for this stretch. Tell me all of the guys we should have cut, or if it would have been worth not having Jose Abreu on this team right now to have Buehrle here.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 08:31 AM) I'll be glad when he signs, a bit because he's really important for the future, but mostly so I don't have to see Boras spelled as Bor-ASS ever again. (until free agency) Until he dies, you will see that.

Welcome to government run healthcare. It's been this way since the VA was created.

WTF is wrong with some people. Taking advantage of a kids injuries like that? http://wgntv.com/2014/06/24/report-disfigu...c-story-a-hoax/

I predict some people will get a lot more twitter followers during this trainwreck.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 08:35 PM) Reclamation is fine. But you don't trade Beckham for a reclamation project. Drabek is 27 and has had a dreadful career. You get him off the heap and hope you can fix him. Beckham sucks... except for when his trade value is talked about.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 07:29 PM) We would all love to help, not only them, but every last person on the planet. That said, we have to keep reality in mind, not this hypothetical world in which we have unlimited resources, unlimited time, unlimited money, etc. If you look at this in the realm of reality, a line must be drawn, or it won't be long until millions of others catch on to this and follow suit, from other counties coming through Canada, Mexico or otherwise...we only have so much of everything to go around, and as it stands now we have homeless, starving children, Detroit, and countless other problems we don't have the money and resources to fix right here, right now...how any of you expect us to fix everyone else's problems when we can't even fix our own is beyond me. If you truly feel this way, get off the message board and donate every ounce of your time and money to doing something about it, but don't spend everyone else's money instead, which is exactly the suggestions here. This should be the last post in this thread.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:21 PM) ask greg775 And then do the opposite.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 04:52 PM) Joel Sherman writes that the Yankees may have interest in Danks. Maybe something like John Ryan Murphy, Miguel Andujar, and the #17 draft slot ($677,400)? lol. Not unless we pick up half of his contract... or more.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 04:01 PM) How the hell is the Sox collection of talent supposed to win one on the road vs. Balt after losing four to a hellhole team like Minnesota? Answer. Sox can't. So pencil in 3 losses. I assume it's a 3 game series. Of course Sale might shut out anybody so I guess one win is possible. Yeah, we are going to sweep the O's!

Silvy ‏@WaddleandSilvy 7m Jim Boeheim told us that he believes Melo would leave money on the table to play with the #Bulls.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 02:53 PM) Well see now you are caught between a rock and a hard place, because you guys seem to hate the idea of a catch-all, yet the reluctance to post a Trade Winds forum has made this thread, what? A catch-all. Hmm, what a conundrum, what is a mod to do?! Make me a mod, I'll make the decision. I personally love catch-alls for exactly this reason. The last thing I want is fifty trades thread worthy of an X-Box.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) Well since you're now an admin AND a mod (wite power) you need to keep KyYlE in check IMO. No more thread locking without purpose! I was going to actually start a new thread, entitled "Gordon Beckham Trade Speculation" but opted not to, I figured it would be redundant. I saw there were other mods in this thread & I thought you guys were separating posts and would basically do that for me. Seriously, it's Trade Winds time. This team is what it is, and that's not good enough, which is actually great because we need our GM to keep the direction he's been traveling, not take a step "forward" or whatever. When something actually creates a need for the forum, like actual trade rumors, it will come. We don't need a forum simply for people to make up trade ideas. We have twitter for that.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 02:48 PM) Why is Gillaspie batting 7th now?? He has the highest average on the team. I guess we are facing a lefty today so it makes sense but didn't he bat lower in the line up yesterday too? Breaking up the section of the line up that was all slumping at once, I am guessing.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 02:25 PM) Yeah, I don't see Minnesota taking that for Love. Two things in play here. It will have to be a team that Love is willing to resign with. That limits the field pretty greatly. Secondly, with Klay Thompson seemingly not on the table, what better offer is out there, with a team that Love will resign with?

David Schuster 50 mins · Chicago, IL · The rumor mill continues.........According to Chad Ford of ESPN.com, the Bulls are offering Taj Gibson, Tony Snell and both of their first round draft picks this year in exchange for Kevin Love.

Richard Deitsch ‏@richarddeitsch 19m U.S.-Portugal drew 18.2 million viewers on ESPN & 6.5 million on @Univision. The combined 24.7M means most-watched U.S. soccer match ever.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) What is going to make next years Sox team any better than this one? Looking at what is available in FA, they won't likely be heavily involved. Garcia will be an upgrade offensively in RF, but the pitching problems will still be an issue as well as production at LF, and C and a likely downgrade at 2B, DH. Yes, it is a gamble to trade for prospects, but, you have to gamble a little to get rewards. Trading one of the big four players on this team would be a PR disaster that would guarantee another major fall in attendance. You might be able to get away with Alexei or Quintana if you got a ready made star in return. If you trade Sale or Abreu because they are max value players, you might as well fold the franchise and move it back to St Paul.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) You have to give up value to get value back. Trading players at their highest value allows you to rebuild in a much more efficient manner than waiting for your A ball prospects to eventually make it to the majors. Alexei is going to be a FA right in the middle of the window of contention for the core that is being put together and there are internal options that can handle the position. A deal with the Mariners with De Aza for Nick Franklin, James Paxton, and one of their three struggling prospects Smoak, Ackley, or Montero would make sense. You then have a cost controlled SS, a SP that can be a #2-4 rotational piece, and a lottery ticket to see if a change of scenery will get them going. It is also the quickest way into perpetual rebuilding. On this team right now, the max value guys are Chris Sale, Jose Abreu, Jose Quintana, and Alexei Ramirez. I'd personally also put Putnam and Noesi on that list, because I think they fall back to earth sooner or later.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 10:53 AM) Yeah but that doesn't mean they're desperately stretching out a reliever, they see him as a starter. He's been a starting prospect most of his life. That wasn't the plan originally. It became the plan because there were no better options.

Mitch Lawrence ‏@Mitch_Lawrence 18h Now that #Melo is officially opt outing, maybe he'll take #JoakimNoah's recruiting calls. #JimDolan, your move. http://nydn.us/1pwvZou

He is clearly say that he believes the odds are really high that Melo is just using the Bulls. Matt Spiegel ‏@MattSpiegel670 5m Carmelo and Bulls talk next with Mitch Laurence of the NY Daily News next, on @670TheScore

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 10:39 AM) Did we start a game with a reliever this season? I don't recall one off the top of my head. Hector Noesi was a reliever all year before his starts, and then the decision to make him a starter. He also only started one game in 2013.