Brian26

The guy's credibility takes a hit when his very next tweet says that "farts prevent cancer": https://twitter.com/DowellTeam/status/681190663312936960

LOL, reminds me of a couple of guys who post here with their "sources".

Some perspective. After the 2007 season, the Sox signed Scott Linebrink for four years and 19 million.

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I said the same thing on WSI. As polarizing as Hawk's statement is, the "writer" loses all credibility by trying to compare the teams position-by-position and makes several incorrect calls (Royals better at 1B and SS). Going position by position, the teams are nearly equal I not with a slight advantage to the Sox.

This is one of those WTF posts that I can't believe I'm reading. Sounds like you did not watch any games before Memorial Day. Perhaps you were wrapped up with the Hawks bandwagon fans. Melky was absolutely crushing the ball for the first two months of the season and was the recipient of the worst luck I've probably seen ever by a player. Every time, seemingly, he came up, he crushed the ball right at somebody. Those balls are now finding holes and gaps. Check the stats on his BA of balls in play to verify this. No, he didn't all of a sudden start juicing again. He's a solid hitter.

Try a little harder. I'm asking why, if Gardenhire is too crusty and out-of-touch to manage a team, Dombrowski is not too out-of-touch and antiquated to general manage a team? By the way, I'm not saying I side that way. I'm seeing a fundamental flaw philosophically though in the general thought process here. The irony is that Dombrowski is now three years older than Roland when the Sox found him too out-of-touch and antiquated to GM in 1985.

It's smart philosophy around these parts to not want to pay players for past performance. Seasoned managers like Gardenhire are washed-up, out of touch, etc. So, I'm seriously wondering why a 60 year old guy who has been around the block several times, has made his money and hasn't necessarily shown any apptitude for new philosophies in player evaluation other than carrying his owner's checkbook around for the past nine years, would be the savior of this franchise. The trend in GM hiring seems in CHC, Boston, SD, etc is to hire guys in their early 30s.

Yet everyone wants to seemingly hire Dombrowski, who is near 60 and three years older than Hemond when the Sox fired him.

The Sox are not going to add a catcher. Soto is Samardzija's personal caddy. Flowers is Sale's caddy. They aren't going to carry a 3rd, piss off the pitchers or have to retrain a guy to follow Coop's direction with two months left.

It's not? Have you seen the last five combined years of Dunn and LaRoche?

Everyone makes fun of Kenny and blames him for the state of the franchise....and now all of a sudden you are proposing clearing out the entire f***ing minor league system for a rental and a couple of arms we dont need? Unreal. Nintendo trades and hypocrisy.

I didn't catch that. It was an AGP, same style as all of the other Sox ones. Disqualify the 2002 Konerko and Thomas also then, and the '03 Konerko and Thomas. All of these fit right in with the AGP bobbles though and not those crappy looking Forever Collectibles.

Didn't see Jose Valentin mentioned. Also the road-jersey Frank Thomas and Paul Konerko from 2002. Also from 2003, the Konerko home jersey batting, the Magglio home jersey All-Star batting, and the Frank home jersey kneeling. On top of those, there are variations of all three in the black alternate unis. Also not sure if you listed Bill Melton and Joe Crede.

IS there actually talk that people want EJ back? LOL. Good Grief.

At this point, take the draft pick. So we might get back, with a B-prospect, someone who might be as good as Semien or Phegley? Geez.

It's asinine. In terms of location, nothing could be more centralized and better capable of public transportation use than the current location (except for the plan from the early 80s that talked about a stadium just north of NW train station (now Ogilive) which would have been amazing.

So the Sox should move their stadium an hour outside the city limits of Chicago, with its population of 4+ million people along with inner ring suburbs, to a location so it can be closer to your friends in Cary? Seriously? Asinine debate. Unreal.

This is 100% correct. If the team was winning, the park would be full. The park was full at the end of 2005 and through 2006 and 2007. Lots of bandwagon Blackhawks fans now, but recall the United Center was empty 10 years ago. Sports teams and their success run in cycles. Thinking that there would be more Sox fans now by moving the stadium an hour OUTSIDE of the median population center is insane. Ok, so that helps someone in Addison, but for every person it helps, it hurts 10 people living in Bridgeport, Beverly or Mt. Greenwood.

The Chicago media would have run the team out of town by now. Mark Giangreco wouldn't be sitting in his car for an hour and a half both ways to go out to Addison to cover the White Sox. The team would be dead.

Think of it this way- Sale is now ready for the one game Wild Card playoff.

I'm pretty sure Jerry will outlive Boers, so let's talk about the B and B succession plan.

There was a Blackhawks game that night and storms that caused two rain delays. I didn't even watch the game on TV that night let alone go to the Cell. Just amazing nobody would consider that before making a statement like "Chris Sale isn't a draw."

Agreed.

How on earth does one read the original post and not know the entire point revolves around Skinner?