Dick Allen
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
They had a Operation Warp Speed guy on and he was blaming snowstorms and holidays for the lower than predicted vaccination totals. It’s December/January , they didn’t anticipate snow, and forgot about holidays?
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Old: Mega Hendriks Speculation Thread
So does this all mean if the Sox would have signed Machado they would be doing what the Cubs are doing now? JR should really sell the team if he can’t compete financially. Talk about sustained success and multiple championships is cheaper than him.
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Joe Musgrove Thread
The las time they were all in the had Dioner Navarro, Brett Lawrie, 100 year old Jimmy Rollins, and Austin Jackson up the middle.
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2020 Election Thoughts
Ted Cruz is leading another group of R Senators that will reject the Electoral College. What a pussy. The same guy Trump accused of rigging the Iowa Caucuses. How come he wasn’t for a do over then? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-cruz/trump-accuses-cruz-of-stealing-iowa-caucuses-through-fraud-idUSKCN0VC1Z6 Ted used to have a different opinion. https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html
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2020 Election Thoughts
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.
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Backup Catcher targets
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 .
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2020 College Football thread
How 'bout now?
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Old: Mega Hendriks Speculation Thread
I don’t think that is necessarily true, especially a back up.
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2020 Election Thoughts
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.
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Old: Mega Hendriks Speculation Thread
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.
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Joe Musgrove Thread
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.
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2020 Election Thoughts
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.
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2020 Election Thoughts
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.
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Old: Mega Hendriks Speculation Thread
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.
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2020 NBA Regular Season Thread
The Bulls had the Jumpman on their alternate jerseys last night. That should be on all Bulls jerseys. Not the swoosh.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
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.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
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.
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Engel agrees to deal
This must of been the deal all of the "insiders" were saying the Sox were making a lot of progress towards the other day.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
I do get a kick out of Hoyer saying this trade wasn't motivated by money. Oh really?
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MLB 2020-21 off season catch all
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.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
Yeah, the Sox seem surprised that the top names on the market generally require the most money.
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2020 Election Thoughts
Of the 7 million votes cast in PA, so far there have been 3 cases of voter fraud found. All 3 were Trump supporters.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
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.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
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.
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Blake Snell and Yu Darvish traded to San Diego
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.