Dick Allen

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 05:05 PM) Maybe I'm wrong but the opt outs seem to be 100% In the players favor. If a player is playing well enough to.opt out, you would rather he stay.on the original contract. And if he is not playing well enough, then you are stuck with him. Defin, but with a bit of discipline it can also work out for the team, like Albert Belle with the White Sox.

QUOTE (CWSpalehoseCWS @ Feb 19, 2018 -> 04:21 PM) It'll be interesting to see the years on this. Supposedly 5

Looks like JDM to Boston is about to happen per Heyman.

Hey Greg, a Kansas Republican running for office is giving away an AR 15. Enter early. Enter often. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/politics/gop...away/index.html I wonder if he would still be giving it away if his kid was blown away by one. Great candidate.

I like Silvers new plan to seed th playoffs 1 to 16.top 8in each conference make it but then conference doesn’t matter. Obviously the West is far better now, but 5 or 10 years from now it is probably a different story. I hope this gets implemented soon.

Why would Dickerson be worth considerably more in June or July than he is now? He is going to cost something to acquire. If the cost is next to nothing, why wouldn’t a team in need go after him now?

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 04:50 PM) You can poke fun if you want. I know you’re not dumb enough to think that every pro athlete gets suspended when they have drugs in their system. 75% of the NFL smokes weed; do 75% get suspended? I think it’s also well known how often coke is used in pro hockey. Also, good jab with the post listing a few illegal drugs. Who brought up opiods or heroin? Bet you feel badass after that write up. My source is a sports personality in Chicago. He could be wrong, but he’s usually right. If it’s a concussion, then Toews probably wouldn’t have said this: “Crow knows he’s trying to get better. He’s one of those guys that we know we can rely upon as a person, as a teammate. He’ll do what he can to get himself better.” Might want to go back in the thread. All of the drugs I mentioned were listed. Badass style. Edit. I forgot meth.

He is just stating the obvious. Is there anyone here that didn’t think he was the Sox 2B?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 02:44 PM) He is kind of repetitive with Nicky, but honestly don’t see the point of letting Davidson be the everyday DH. He’s an upgrade there and theoretically has some “flipping” upside with another strong first half. DH is the one spot I’m ok with getting a veteran if said player has some potential trade value. I’m not a huge Dickerson fan myself, but I can see the Sox making this type of move. I was actually hoping they would target Tillman at the beginning of the offseason, but I can’t see them adding another starter to guaranteed money with Gonzalez in the fold. And I think the Sox are all in on the Machado front and won’t add anyone that blocks that to a certain extent. Nightengale is a big White Sox news guy and he even wrote if Machado isn’t a Yankee it will be the upset of all upsets. While I agree they want him, they better have a really good plan B. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/c...kees/347912002/

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 02:17 PM) For some reason I really think they’re going to add Dickerson. The only thing is he is kind of repetitive with Delmonico. Plus the Sox have 11 outfielders on their 40. I guess with Leury on the roster being so flexible, it’s possible. I think they think they have a shot at Tillman, or maybe even Moustakas, although that is Boras so unlikely.

QUOTE (New Era on South Side @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 02:09 PM) When will he shut up about the 2016 election? Did his predecessors bring old candidates up as much as he does? If you watch Fox News you would think Dems haven’t figured out the results of the election. If it isn’t State run TV, it has a spot on imitation.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 01:55 PM) Chuck Garfien‏Verified account @ChuckGarfien Jose Abreu says he wants to steal more bases this season. Seriously. Uh, no way Jose. Unless it was a huge amount, not worth the injury risk.

When will Trump say or do something about Russian meddling other than say he is supposedly cleared? I guess now is not the time.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 01:00 PM) If that's true then how does it explain his current status with the team? He's around, he can participate in practice but not 100% and can't play in a game. I feel like that theory made more sense when he wasn't around. Either way, it's so weird. It goes from he might be back soon to maybe it's possible to be career threatening. He was smoking crack, then it was heroin, then opioids, now just chronic cocaine abuse. He had the shortest rehab of all time with no league repercussions if any of it is true.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Feb 18, 2018 -> 01:30 PM) A few side effects of long term cocaine abuse: severe/unrelenting headaches, vertigo, extreme fatigue, and weight loss. They’re also signs of post concussion syndrome. Justin Moreau’s baseball career took a nosedive because of the issue.

It’s a great time to get someone through, although I fail to see any reason why a team would claim Covey. Whether or not it leads to an immediate addition, who knows. Maybe there is a possibility of something and they want them to be good to go right away. As to last year, maybe they were close to bringing someone in but it didn’t work out, or maybe just making space whenever you can makes sense.

So I was cooling off at the gym, and unfortunately Fox News was on the TV in the lounge. The first order of business was to mention why are people yelling about gun control before the bodies are in the ground. Then they showed the heartbreaking clip of the mother of the 14year old girl who was a victim of the massacre screaming for Trump to do something. The host actually said since when do we blame the president when bad things happen. I would like to know the super secret things Trump is doing. Amber we need t9 build giant walls around every school.

Trump now claims he never said Russia didn’t meddle in the election. If so, other than refuse to enforse congress approved sanctions what did you do? Traitor. Also saying FBI too focused on Trump campaign as reason they missed on this. 17 teachers and teenagers gunned down and its all about Trump being a victim. Yes, He is correct, Russia is laughing their asses off, but not because of this investigation. It is because they succeeded, and Trump is President. Everyone who thinks what he is doing, what he is saying, how is is acting, is OK, would not feel the same way if Hillary or Obama were doing the exact same thing.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Feb 17, 2018 -> 07:21 AM) Bulls need to sit all three for the rest of the year. I get the whole concept, and the way it is run now it makes sense, but something needs to be done with the draft in all sports to get teams away from losing as much as possible. Except in the NBA, most teams that make the playoffs have a legit shot at winning it all that year, and the teams do get an additional shot of revenue if they make the post season. Maybe make it a lottery for teams that don't make the playoffs, all with the exact same chance at #1 or #20, and line up the playoff teams after them in reverse record order. More and more teams have been tanking lately and I think that number is only going to grow. It makes for a lot of uninteresting games and seasons. Some will still tank, but maybe not as much.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 16, 2018 -> 01:57 PM) Is there a way to see which politicians receive sizable donations from the NRA? I want to know how much guys like Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio get from them vs. other politicians. And how many times has Paul Ryan done the “now is not the time to discuss gun control” BS? Surely there has to be a video all the different times he’s spewed that garbage edited together. There’s got to be a way to hold these f***s accountable for the lives they’re partly responsible for taking. Marco Rubio has $3.3 million reasons why no gun law would ever stop what happened. Paul Ryan has received a ton from gun rights groups. You might get a kick out of this: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/paul-rya...r-1162885187935 And now I get a kick out of focusing on mental illness when they did this https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tru...-mental-n727221

QUOTE (raBBit @ Feb 16, 2018 -> 01:38 PM) Turns out this guy wasn't in a white supremacist group despite several corporate media companies spreading the same lie. I am sure the retractions (if any) will carry the same amount of attention as their initial attempt to use a tragedy to run a narrative. The 4chan user who duped them has also said he hasn't slept in a few days and Elvis was also in their White Supremacy group. I am not joking here either that's actually what he said. Quite a source for several corporate media companies So some wacko kills17 high school kids and teachers and what you get out of it is he was falsely identified as a white supremacist. Unreal. And where these organizations saying he was one or just reporting the Florida group claiming he was one of them?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 16, 2018 -> 12:40 PM) Kushner, who's been working under an "interim" security clearance for over a year now, has had to 'correct' his financial disclosure form yet again. It's really hard to believe this is allowed to happen this many times and for this long. Supposedly, there may even be more coming. Time for Jared to get fired and file for bankruptcy like his hero.

I'm pretty sure Tatis never played a game in the White Sox organization, so he basically was a $825k bonus guy traded for a guy they wanted to be a 5th starter. It may blow up in their face, in fact, Shields already has, but if you dig deep, it isn't as bad initially as one would think.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 16, 2018 -> 11:32 AM) 100% agree. I think the talk of "mental health is the real problem" even at its most sincere is just so vague. And they kabashed a law that would prohibit gun sales to people with mental health issues, because Obama. I just wonder if thoughts and prayers, laws wouldn't have prevented this, let's not have knee jerk reactions, now is not the time would stop if this sort of thing actually hit a school where these morons have children or relatives enrolled.

Mark Bogen, the vice mayor of Florida's Broward County, said Friday that President Donald Trump's expected visit with the victims of the Parkland school shooting is "absolutely absurd." "Him coming here is absolutely absurd, and he's a hypocrite," Bogen said of the President in an interview Friday with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield. "How can you come here and talk about how horrible it is when you support these laws?" Bogen argued that Trump is a hypocrite because he supports the purchasing of assault weapons, "and then comes down here and wants to act as though this is horrible, and this shouldn't happen, but goes back to Washington and supports it."