Dick Allen

When you either golf or watch TV all day, they only thing that is stressed is your belt. Would love to see him without his Just For Men and bronzer.

I think his name is Greg Amsinger on MLBN. He guarantees the Sox are in the World Series if they signed Yadi. Says he could catch 100 games and they could have Grandal DH .

How 'bout now?

I don’t think that is necessarily true, especially a back up.

Trump tweeted last night (although it looks like someone else actually wrote the tweets but capitalized some words to try to make it look like him) that the GA runoff election is invalid and unconstitutional. Burn everything down on your way out the door.

It’s a back up catcher. They are pretty easy to acquire. If Collins doesn’t work out, he can easily be replaced. You will be able to get a guy like Kevan Smith for a song if need be. Yes, some are far better than others, but most back up catchers are pretty much a pick ‘em.

I am just leery about giving up too much for a guy who never has really done it, and he is 28. Javy Vazquez had one good year with the Sox. It was when the team sucked. He was horrible the other 2 years once when they won 90 games, the other when they won the division, yet had a high WAR. His FIP was almost a full run lower than his actual ERA those seasons, IMO he was not accurately portrayed advanced stats wise. You would never have wanted him starting a must win game. His postseason ERA is over 10.00, yet his k rate is high.Same with Samardzija his lone season with the White Sox. You have to give him credit, he parlayed his football mentality, “young arm”, and advanced stats to 9 figures of earnings. But he was really never much more than mediocre. I wouldn’t give up too much to get Musgrove, but also wouldn’t be surprised if the Sox had a lot of interest. I know when they were shopping Sale and Q, Musgrove was a guy they really liked.

It’s so funny how scared they are of Trump. Even as he is being shown the door. They overrode his veto on the defense spending bill, but Ted Cruz, a guy Teump called a liar, his father involved in the JFK assasination, his wife ugly, and also accused him of rigging the Iowa caucuses, saying they had to have a re-do when he beat Trump in 2016, didn’t even vote. He was too scared to vote against Trump.

So these people suing Pence, saying he alone has the right to choose the President, when they ultimately lose this suit, does their thinking change, or will they truly believe Kamala Harris should have the right to determine who should be President in 2025? I am guessing their thinking will change as fast as it did with deficits when it was determined Trump was on his way out.

Salary cap is definitely the reason. Once guys sign, teams run out of cash they can use whether they would be willing or not. It’s musical chairs. If baseball had a salary cap, it would be a whole different story.

The Bulls had the Jumpman on their alternate jerseys last night. That should be on all Bulls jerseys. Not the swoosh.

Passan was saying MLB should be spooked by that trade. Some elite pitcher being traded for 17 year olds who haven't played professionally yet. And there was only 1 taker.

If other teams don't know that is BS, they need new management. Maybe now he doesn't have to trim any more payroll, but we all knew it was all about cash when Theo took a walk.

This must of been the deal all of the "insiders" were saying the Sox were making a lot of progress towards the other day.

I do get a kick out of Hoyer saying this trade wasn't motivated by money. Oh really?

Supposedly he was being considered for a job at ESPN 1000. I imagine since the White Sox moved there, JR is not going to let that happen. So JR does have his good qualities.

Yeah, the Sox seem surprised that the top names on the market generally require the most money.

Of the 7 million votes cast in PA, so far there have been 3 cases of voter fraud found. All 3 were Trump supporters.

I think Abreu is a star. Grandal not a star but near the top. What upsets me is we were told when it was time spending wasn’t going to be a problem. We were led to believe at the beginning of the offseason they were in on Springer, in on Hendriks, maybe even Bauer. Lynn is solid. But he is a one year guy. Eaton is OK but he is a reclamation project. We were supposed to be be shopping a level or two higher. The offseason is nowhere near over, but we will see. It seems like the same old stuff. Hope everything works out. It did once. But only once.

Why play down to the competition? Why not deflate them. Blow them away, make them realize they have no shot? They have the opportunity. I thought sustained success and multiple championships was the goal. I guess it was hoping to be a little better than KC and Detroit.

Could you imagine the type of surrender the Sox would be doing if the Dodgers were in their division? JR couldn't have a better set up. There are no big spenders in the division, the only division you can say that, and he still can't dominate it.

Right. If JR should feel bad about anyone, it should be Lamont. He was fired after about 40 games in 1995 after winning the division twice in a row. It was ridiculous. Scheuler paired down the roster, and hired Bevington to take his place. What they did to Lamont was so wrong, it cost them Jim Leyland coming back to manage them. He didn't like how his buddy was treated.

Tony LaRussa getting fired by the White Sox was the greatest thing that ever happened to him in baseball. He was hired immediately by a team that was about to become a juggernaut. If he had remained in Chicago, chances are with 3 years of rebuild after he was canned, and yet another GM, he probably would have been let go before the Sox were good again, therefore never being the A's manager, and never having the success with that roster, not being hired in St. Louis. He would have flamed out being a Jim Riggleman type.

Jerry is going for it with a 76 year old manager, a 34 year old 40 lbs. overweight pitcher on a 1 year contract, and a reclimation project in RF. SD, the NL version of the White Sox signs Machado to a contract the White Sox couldn't afford. They trade for Clevenger at the deadline. Trade for Snell. About to get Darvish and maybe some more. One guy wants to win, one guy wants to die with as much money as possible.

Jason is really funny. I just think he tries too hard sometimes. It's almost as if he still looks over and says to himself, OMG, I am in the booth with Steve Stone. Steve is fine, although he does seem to occasionally have a need to be the smartest baseball person around, and that gets awkward. I read an article about Kasper and it pretty much is in line with what I think. If Harry going from the Sox to the Cubs was a 10, Len going from the Cubs to the Sox was a 2. I must admit I heckle my Cubs fan friends with the fact the guy is willing to take a significant pay cut to do Sox games on radio than Cubs games on TV, but to me he is milquetoast.