Dick Allen

Who really knows what he is, but at this point, there really is little reason to cut bait. Next year will be big for him. He is either a decent piece moving forward or Hector Noesi. Korea bound.

Nikki Haley has $52k curtains in her NYC apartment thanks to US taxpayers. I wonder if she would have bought them if she was shelling out her own money.

It's all pretty arbitrary though, isn't it? Not all 6 inning outings are going to be the same. And with pitch counts, 100 pitches seems like someone's idea of a nice round number being a magic number, and it also kind of implies everyone is pretty much the same. There are probably guys who should go usually no more than 80 but throw 100 on a good day, and others where 120 wouldn't be too much of a problem, and maybe even 140 if needed once in a while. But people would freak out, and it is a cover your ass issue.

I do think it’s taken out of context. If Anderson really thinks the hitting coach is the reason he isn’t hitting .300 with a .400 OBP, that would be a bigger problem than any of this.

Hawk documentary NBCSC seemed so proud of , pre empted by Cubs postgame show.

If people actually thought a hitting coach can take a bunch of hitters and put another 50 points on their OBP, they are nuts. It might work for a guy here or there, but collectively most pretty much are what they are. We all look at advanced stats, projections and the like. They never seem to be hitting coach or pitching coach dependent. What the Sox need is to acquire hitters capable of higher OBP. I do think Steverson's time might be coming to an end. It's not like he's had a ton of success getting the one or two guys looking legit, but the fact is, if his continued employment is to get low OB guys and make them high OB guys, he is being set up as the sacrificial lamb. To be considered good coaches, at some point, they need to be coaching good players.

He let everyone know Florence is a tremendously wet hurricane.

Crede was having a monster season in 2006, hitting over .300 with a high OBP and would have hit well over 30 homers with GG defense, but his back gave out the final month. It would have been interesting to see what he could have done with his career if he had remained healthy. I am not worried about Moncada yet. I do think he is perhaps a bit too selective and gets himself into holes where an umpire can call him out on anything within a few inches of the zone. A couple of hot streaks may actually get him some calls. One thing we forget is he like Robert missed a lot of time playing games, getting set up to sign a contract,, so that might have hurt their development a bit.

I think they sound bafoonish but for a few minutes here and there, it's pretty funny. OB kept asking why they didn't as Nagy in his interview why KC lost the playoff game when they had the big halftime lead. He claims because they supposedly didn't ask, and that loss was all Nagy's fault, even though he wasn't the head coach, that is the reason why the Bears blew the lead.

OBradovich and Hampton were hysterically pissed off after the game. Total meatball fan ish. It was hysterical. They don't seem to be big fans of Nagy or Ryan Pace or Mitch Trubisky.

sims being the target is a problem. Trubisky's numbers after the first quarter were horrid. They looked so good in the first quarter. The defense looked so good in the first half, then awfulness. Maybe it was the lack of preseason play. They did look gassed, although I doubt playing an extra half here or there would have solved that. I think they will be better as long as the total collapse doesn't destroy them.

Joe Maddon does no wrong. When Lester was struggling and Rizzo was struggling, they had a talk with Maddon, and struggled no more. It does make you wonder why they didn't speak to him sooner.

All while watching Muslims celebrating all over New Jersey. He's pretty dope.

I don't agree. Yes, I am very happy when my teams win, but life doesn't change all that much if the Sox win the WS or are competing for the worst record in baseball. Don't get me wrong, I still care about the results. I still go to more games than most people, but it's not as big of a deal as it once was. The guy I had season tickets with had an accident, hit his head and died. The company I worked for went bankrupt. I was lucky and got a job without missing a paycheck. I know others that almost 7 years later make a fraction of what they made and are really struggling. Those things are far worse than White Sox or Bulls or Bears or Hawkeyes losses. I'd like to think I have gained some perspective. Not a lot in reality, but some.

The team supposedly won't be in rebuilding mode when he should be ready to return. The only way he is sent down is if he isn't one of their better pitchers at the time, which can either mean something really good or really bad.

So the White Sox would have been wrong to not call up Kopech this year, but in 2020 when they expect to be good, sending him down because of service time is a pretty good idea? WTF?

As my wife once told me when she became a bit irritated how much time I was spending with baseball games, it's just a bunch of uneducated men in silly costumes, running around in dirt trying to hit a ball with a stick. I was actually thinking more about this after the Bears game last night. as I do from time to time, and listening to how pissed off OB and Hampton were after the game. Yeah it's great when they win. It's great when the Sox win, but in the end, it really isn't that important. If your overall happiness depends on these teams being successful, you're screwed.

So Nagy's team blew a 21-3 lead his last game as OC at KC, and a 20-0 lead last night. Considering the offense only put 13 points on the board, maybe he should have played people in some of the 5 preseason games. . They also looked gassed in the 4th quarter, but that could have just been things going south. It's only one game, and most figured they would lose anyways, but this was a tough one. Hopefully it won't have a lingering effect, and hopefully the offense looks more like it did the first quarter than the rest of the game.

Jon Gruden is a moron.

Right now, the Bears look like a lock to win the Super Bowl.

The issue I had with him was Trouts next time up. After homering against the wind twice, Shields pitches to him, allows a shot to center and then is yanked. If he was going to be pulled, why wait until after he faces someone who is owning him? I know the answer is going to be lefty for Ohtani, but Sheilds wasn’t fooling Trout. It was batting practice. Silly IMO.

Next road trip is vs. KC and Baltimore. I am guessing no team has ever had afraid trip vs. teams collectively under .500 more then them it may be the easiest road trip of all time.

So Ricky left Shields out there to face Trout after he homered twice. My God.

I can't believe a couple of people were hoping that the Sox brought back Shields next season. Haven't you seen enough yet?

As sure as the sun rises every morning, Iowa State still sucks at football.