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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 31, 2014 -> 12:44 PM) Harris Park would be ok. Agreed, but no chance at that, given BMO is doing everything they can to re-brand BMO Harris as BMO only. My guess is the Harris portion of the name has a limited lifespan at this point, certainly under 5 years. BMO is logical, but are we just going to have an acronym? That'd suck.

looks like someone wants to stay in Chicago a little longer

The Journeyman -only to be used with Don't Stop Believin playing in the background, mocking the media.

Comparing these numbers to the draft makes you realize how ridiculous the sox are in their draft spending. you have many GUARANTEED chances to pick people with the upside of many of these guys, and you won't budge over slot. yet then we're prime players in the overbidding sweepstakes? these guys must love seeing kenny join the party just as much as seeing cashman. the dramatic difference in pricing across the two processes says there's inefficiency, at least in some players, and this much is known to the whole baseball world, except kenny of course.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 07:43 AM) ESPNChiSox Doug Padilla Oz, when asked about Morel walking more: "I'd be the last one to talk about walks. I was swinging at everything from Day 1 to the last day." Nice job Oz, ream him early in the year for not walking and when he finally starts to show some progress on multiple fronts, blow it off and talk about yourself. There's your reward Brent, now keep at it.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Sep 9, 2011 -> 08:57 AM) Is it safe to call Lilly--if we take Paulie out of consideration, who's a lock--the 2011 Sox player of the year? buehrle

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 30, 2011 -> 08:44 AM) I was surprised it wasn't posted already. As far as batting Rios 4th, you have more outs in that lineup than him and maybe it's best you don't bat them - Rios, Morel, Beckham - back-to-back-to back. swap him with one of them. with any lineup Ozzie puts out there, there's 7 better choices to hit cleanup. That being said, Ozzie's probably filling out the card with Pierre in that spot tonight.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Aug 26, 2011 -> 05:01 PM) It's starting to get to that point where you can label him a bust, at least relative to his projections. no, it's not.

brent morel has adapted and succeeded at every level in his professional career so far. while this doesn't guarantee success, there's nothing to point to and say he's clearly overmatched and will never make it on the big stage. turns out it's the major leagues and takes a little time, it's a good thing brent seems to always take the right approach and does whatever it takes to make himself better. (except take a walk, but there's always next year)

What happens to Oney when Ozzie goes to Florida and there's no market for his ancillary thoughts in Miami? Quite literally, nobody cares about baseball and thus there's no hoopla or press to follow his every tweet. In all seriousness, does he then go even farther in an attempt to gain the spotlight? Does he call Hanley out? Does he bring his personal rants to all players in an attempt to gain the national media? If this happened, Ozzie Guillen would never work in the MLB again, and sadly he doesn't yet understand that. If the national media decided to run with one story on the familyand their , he'd be toast, and they've already been toeing the fine line for too long.

you offer him just enough to top a cards offer and keep him playing for 2 years w/ a team option for a 3rd. if there truly is a bidding war somewhere, that price will eventually be out of reach for the white sox, so no use trying other than the offer you should already be prepared to make. if the market isn't inflated and the cards aren't in play, i see no reason why he's not back on the southside, even with payroll deductions. buehrle at a reasonable rate pays for itself with the white sox.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 10:51 AM) The players will get paid, but that doesn't mean the White Sox will. That is different. The Sox are a creditor, not an employee. i would imagine there was an addendum or some type of doc signed in the deal that the dodgers are directly responsible for such and such portion of deferred comp, not the white sox. i'm sure we're not playing middle man and paying the deferred comp and turning around to wait for a check from the dodgers. the fact that they talk about manny as a creditor and not the white sox speaks to this scenario.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 21, 2011 -> 10:01 PM) In an era where the players are always right and managers get fired, benching your superstar usually gets you fired. When you don't have to worry about what your superstar thinks of you, it doesn't matter. The only worry McKeon has now is the team quitting on him. if this it the case then owners/decision makers are making the wrong choices.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 01:03 PM) I don't like Pierre's slappy style of hitting and he's having a bad year defensively and can't throw but I agree there is value in a guy that can hit .290. I have a question for all the new-wave stat people. I listen to games on the radio and MLB.com and listen to interviews with GMs and the like and the comments made are ALWAYS about the old stats like batting average for hitters, wins for pitchers, ERA for pitchers. Many of you act like batting average means NOTHING. If so, then why do all the pundits, including the national baseball guys during interviews, never mention these other categories that so impress the stat geeks (said with all due respect, I realize all of you are not geeks in the skinny, glasses-wearing, pocket protector sense of the word). Mainstream media writers or on-air personalities still have to sell a product, and quoting SABR doesn't sell it yet. If they don't use it in their own analysis then they're not very good at their job, or make up for it by being "colorful." You realize BA, ERA, etc are generally components of new statistics, correct? At least in some fashion. They're a better understanding of a player's true value or skill based on what's become available to us in the age of unlimited data and tracking.

Judging the worth of a hitting coach on a player still in development stages is quite a different animal than that of a MLB hitting coach. Most of the difference definitely has to do with the level of the players and the inability/unwillingness to adjust. Players most likely fall into two camps: 1. Those who willingly and proactively adjust 2. Those who will never do so(or only under extreme duress). Basically I see it as the nature of a pro athlete and their makeup. The "best" hitting instructors probably get most of their success not imparting any of their own views on hitting, but rather in pointing out where a player has strayed from a swing in which he had previous success. By the time you're at the major league level, players have signficantly different swings honed over the years and influenced by many teachers, at the MLB level you're not changing that. So I'd pretty much agree there's not much they're actually controlling other than being able to communicate with the players. Every single major league hitting coach can dissect a swing, as can another 250 waiting in the wings. Much like a manager(in baseball or othwerwise) it comes down to managing people, not the game(task).

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 31, 2011 -> 08:25 AM) If they keep going 4-6 in 10 games stretches, all the White Sox have to do is go 5-5 for those stretches and they would catch up by September pretty easily. and we finish a mere 9 games back of Detroit for the Division. You realize at least one team's gotta win 89-92 games, right?

Why not keep the 6 man and rather than worry about too much rest, have each guy get an inning or two here or there if there's an off day in the mix. are they going to get rusty or thrown off throwing 15-25 pitches on day 3 of a 6 day layoff, plus the work in the pen to warm-up? if you've noticed they've brought danks up at least once or twice in the pen. the too much rest argument or rhythm argument is stupid when you've got many options to fix that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) Shameless plug of a favorite neighborhood watering hole: Revolution Brewing Co An email I received from them today: if anyone heads there after the game on Thursday, say hello. I've got the weekday 27game package and we usually head there after the majority of games. We'll be decked out in full Sox gear.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) given the fact that we have some borderline starters in the 3, 4 (EJaxx, Gavin) spot whaaaa?

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 19, 2011 -> 08:19 AM) Yeah, I guess technically Hamels is a 4, but he's really a 3. I'd consider Halladay a 1. Lee and Oswalt are 2's, and Hamels is a 3. I consider Buehrle a 4 because of his production the last 5 seasons. On a championship team, he's the guy that you'd want pitching the 4th game at this point in his career. We need Danks, Jackson, and Floyd to step up, and man, if we get 25-30 starts from Peavy--and a postseason, then we have a shot this season. if cliff lee is a 2, how many 1s are there in your ranking system, like 6?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 6, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) The answer to the orignal Q is of course yes. I've been a season holder in the front row if the UD since 2004, and the seats are fantastic. Love it. If I was in the LD, I'd be paying almost double, and be stuck behind rows of people and be a lot further from home plate. I'll stick with the UD, unless I win the lottery and buy stupid-expensive scout seats or something. NSS72's seats are some of the best in the house, no matter the price. The only better are probably between the bags, first 15 rows or so. The problem is there's only so many front row seats up there and the UD seats tail off in quality really quickly as you move backwards.

They sang the national anthem at Frank's ceremony at the end of the year if I'm not mistaken. I really hope he doesn't blow through loads of money on this crap, repeating the ventures of 99% of sports players' forays into the entertainment industry.

Rocco!!!!

QUOTE (PlunketChris @ Oct 1, 2010 -> 12:10 PM) Anyone think the Sox are keeping Jenks from playing in a game because they want to re-sign him cheap because other teams will worry about his health? No, if that came to light they'd have gigantic problems. If Jenks was 100% ready to go with no concerns about his health whatsoever, and they still weren't pitching him, he'd be screaming about it at this point.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 1, 2010 -> 10:56 AM) Well unless we're going to assume that both Paulie and Thome are absolutely full of it, they're obviously seeing something in the Twins organization that doesn't exist with the Sox. What is it? Assuming they don't simply mean the farm system (which they could very well be referencing). I'm 99% sure this is exactly what they're referencing, and the framework of the organization as a whole. In addition to the farm system, different pieces of the organization complement each other and behave as a well-run business should. Simple things on the field in the minors, like a roving hitting instructor, staffed by people like Paul Molitor, who travels to poorly performing squads, as a fail-safe to a manager who may have gotten off the path or is unable to communicate effectively with his team. It's indicative of management that understands their systems and processes are good and generate success, and each subsequent year allows them to refine the process. Short of a whole team of scouts somehow suffering from mass groupthink and devastating the system in the draft for multiple years in a row, you won't see regression from the twins, they'll be a .500+ team on the lower end and a playoff team more often than not. I'm not saying their recipe would equal success no matter where they played, but the AL central is fairly easy to predict. Ownership doesn't turn over or drastically change styles, at least not in a time quick enough that they can't react.