Dick Allen

QUOTE (shipps @ May 9, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) Hype is often a product of what people see as potential for a guy. You can definitely see super hero type potential in a guy with his power and his natural offensive ability. He may never fulfill that potential but if he gets close it will be scary. I have actually read him being compared to Babe Ruth in multiple spots. That's a bigger stretch than Avi getting compared to Miguel Cabrera. He's going to have a hard time living up to the hype.

Kyle Schwarber may be the most hyped career .226 hitter with less than 2 career WAR in MLB history. You would think the HOF for him is just a formality. His career fWAR is exactly the same as Tyler Saladino's.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 8, 2017 -> 07:57 PM) Bernstein had Dan Hayes on the show today and suggested Anderson be sent down to AAA if his slump continues. I was surprised that Hayes didn't rule it out. Hayes actually thought it could be a good idea. It would give him a chance to work with Moncada a bit, but I think that is about the 20th option for the White Sox. I do think his new contract has something to do with this. He's trying to make the most simple plays look spectacular. He's still making the spectacular plays, and offensively it seems like he has been in swinging at the first pitch no matter what mode thinking it will be served on a platter like it is for many who have reputations of never swinging at the first pitch. He's trying too hard IMO to do too much. Hopefully, eventually he will calm down and slow everything down.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ May 9, 2017 -> 08:36 AM) It is, but many here don't have it, yet wanted a rebuild. Its odd. For many who seemingly want the White Sox to have the worst record in baseball, they need every player not performing at a high level replaced on what seems a daily basis. This team has way outperformed what they will be. Holland, Shields when he pitched, the bullpen, Gonzalez, Avi, Davidson, Leury...reality is going to hit soon, and they are only .500 now. They will be even worse, so the complaints will only increase. The calls for prospects to be called up, not ready for the big leagues will increase. Rebuilds sucks. Delmonico people want to call him up. Nobody wanted the Sox to call up Leury Garcia last year. Look at their offensive stats in Charlotte. Pretty similar. If the Sox called Leury up last year to DH, people would have laughed. If Delmonico is a major leaguer, he will be the first to let you know. There is no rush.

QUOTE (ventura_abreu @ May 8, 2017 -> 07:51 PM) With the amateur draft on June 12th, June 13th would be a good time to start crafting the next phase of the rebuilding White Sox. Some of our young players in the minors can certainly keep getting experience until then, and we will have more clarity about how the draft went in terms of hitters versus pitchers balance. I'm sure the White Sox are expecting the draft to yield a nice balance between the two, but it could turn out to be a draft where the best available players leaned more to one side than the other. One way or the other, I'd like to see 2-3 veteran players traded by mid-June with the idea of getting some young players a chance to play more regularly on the big league club. This isn't the NFL or NBA. The guys the Sox get in the draft might not be able to help them for 4 or 5 years. Why is there such a rush to see what the young guys can do? I thought rebuilding was all about patience and development. Let them stay down and dominate for a while if they are ready. Calling them up too soon is something the White Sox have been rightly criticized for doing by a lot of people, including most of this board. I would love to see Yoan Moncada play every day. But I would rather see him play everyday for years instead of watching him struggle and go back down to AAA. Look at how many ABs these guys have above A ball, but call em up at the first sign of being hot. That hasn't worked. Let them spend the season in AAA. Call them up in September. It isn't like you have to get them some experience so next year they are ready to win a title. What does calling these guys up before the end of their season accomplish long term?

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 7, 2017 -> 10:02 PM) Yea i agree, and neither of us is making light of death. I don't think any policies need to be enacted, changed etc. because of this. As with any dangerous activity there will always be a microscopic percentage that end in fatality. Skydiving, rock climbing, military combat, airplanes, camping in bear country, pledging a frat...the list goes on. All precautions to mitigate stupid are part of self-policing damgerous activity. It pisses me off nobody recognized the situation, but it's also hard for me to count those young men as criminals. Definitely criminals. They tried making up a story. To act like they were clueless that something was wrong is ridiculous. With all the stories, they knew their frat was in trouble if they called for help. That's why they didn't call, not because they had no idea something was seriously wrong. I was in a fraternity and was hazed as a pledge. Once even engaging in a "shot for shot" contest with our pledge dads that was in reality, pledges chugging beers until they each puked. I guess we got really lucky nothing bad ever happened. They knew he fell down the stairs and knew he wasn't responding to attempts to get him to wake up. There were at least a couple of people aware of the seriousness, including the guy who originally discovered him. But they were too scared about the consequence, and it cost the kid his life. Don't get me wrong. I am not anti-fraternity. I also think the scrutiny they get and reputation that every single one is Animal House is not deserved (although mine was a lot like Animal House although our grades were a bit better). But these are college students. They knew better.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2017 -> 04:47 PM) He is usually Mr. No decision so to have 7 decisions for him already is unusual For him to have the no decisions instead of the 5 losses, his ERA would have to be around 1.00 right now. The offense when he pitches has been ridiculous.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 7, 2017 -> 04:30 PM) Ever regret starting a thread? You say a guy who doesn't deserve being in the big leagues, doesn't deserve being in the big leagues, and all of sudden you're accused of being against the rebuild or even complaining. I'm not complaining. I'm asking who is next, because Covey shouldn't pitch in the big leagues yet. Yet you mention Danish and Fulmer. 2 guys that shouldn't be in the big leagues right now. I just hope when the Sox call their better prospects up now, it is for good. If they have to send them back down because they weren't ready, it was silly calling them up. There is no pressure to win here. Patience is the key to a rebuild. Not panicking because some guy who probably has no future with the team is getting lit up. I don't see why watching Danish get killed( if that appeals to you, you should have watched the Charlotte game on CSNthe other night), or to realize Fulmer isn't ready and have the usual suspects remind us they broke the story last year he is a reliever at best is a better option. For the future of the team, the best option right now is watching Covey struggle. Maybe he figures something out. I don't think they want to give him back to Oakland so it's either hide him or let him take his lumps.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2017 -> 04:05 PM) Q with 5 of the 15 losses. I would not of guessed that a month ago. Shutout in 3 of the losses. Scored 1 in one of them and 3 in the other. H hasn't been his usual self, but most pitchers would have 5 losses with his run support.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 7, 2017 -> 01:09 PM) What do you think of the situation at Penn State? A pledge died in February after getting s***faced drunk during a hazing game and the actives would not call 911 until 10:30 in the morning when they concocted a story that he was found behind the bar freezing. Some horrible details available in the link I provided. There were multiple opportunities to help the pledge or get him to the hospital. None were employed so 18 students were charged, some with involuntary manslaughter. A have a lot of opinions on this, too many to even write down. One death like this is too many. http://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-state-frater...ory?id=47226888 i understand being young, scared and stupid, but to not call for help after they found him at the bottom of the stairs is hard to comprehend. There apparently are some bad people in that house. You would think at least one person would have realized what needed to be done and did it, but no. The story made it seem like he had a good chance at surviving had he been given help hours sooner.

Whatever happened to all the rebuild guys, team must lose for draft picks? The guy has sucked. He is a rule 5 guy, and there is a 99.9% chance when you throw a rule 5 guy directly in a major league rotation, he will suck. The team is going nowhere. Why are the White Sox widely criticized on this board for "rushing" prospects, but every damn time there is the first sign of a guy sucking or of a minor leaguer going on a roll, the same people who b**** about it, want them to do what they b**** about? Let guys develop. It isn't necessary to see what some of these guys can do at the major league level yet. Make sure they are ready. Let Covey get destroyed while that happens. A good week, a good 2 weeks, a good month isn't proof. If you really want a rebuild, you have to be patient or it isn't going to ever work.

Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care just ask Idaho congressman Raul Labador.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ May 5, 2017 -> 04:05 PM) Him (or his dad) putting out $500 shoes is essentially saying his brand is better or more special than the rest of the NBA, before even getting drafted. If that doesn't show arrogance, I don't think what does. People either will buy them or not. If a couple of years from now he has shoes that are a lot cheaper he will look like an ass. He pretty much has to be the next Jordan or LeBron for this not to fail. He could have Wades career which, whatever you think of him now, was pretty spectacular, and not sell $500 shoes.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 5, 2017 -> 11:27 AM) doesn't matter to me either way. I just thought that is was humorous in this situation because you were the only one who did this. As I don't go to any other boards, I didn't realize other boards did this as no one else here seems to do it. There was another poster. Whatever happened to Douglas. Thanks, Douglas

Seems to be a lot more lat injuries for pitchers this year, and a lot more groin tweaks for position players. It is weird that certain injuries seem to occur all at once. Maybe it is the way training has changed over the years.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 4, 2017 -> 03:02 PM) Premiums were always rising, and insurance companies are making record profits. Something has to change and its more than just the ACA, which probably could have been implemented much better if the GOP wasnt so dedicated to blocking it. Now we have something that is imperfect and is being replaced by absolute crap, lowering the bar even further. The drug and insurance companies really are going to like this. They will make even more money. What really pissed off republicans is the rich basically funded Obamacare. Now their tax breaks will all good to go, and they will be able to put more money in storage making America great again. Hey, Ivanka's childcare thing is for everyone. Even those making under $30k a year will save themselves $10.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 4, 2017 -> 02:49 PM) Amazing how a government mandated system can increase premiums 25% (maybe more) year-over-year and the takeaway is that it isn't "perfect." s***, I'll say so. If only there was another option for the people on Obamacare that you're so concerned about. Until then their money is hostage to the government that is supposedly saving millions of lives by forcing s***ty, increasingly more cost prohibitive coverage on people. How was health insurance rising before Obamacare? And when you get millions off the insurance, do you think they will stop getting sick? If, like you say, they will never be turned away, who pays?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 4, 2017 -> 02:23 PM) I linked you to a 2009 study that estimated 45,000 people died due to lack of health care access in the country. People are given emergency stabilizing care at ER's, but that does not account for chronic conditions or conditions that would have been treatable/preventable but deteriorate before emergency care can be administered. They have videos of a hospital in LA,CA taking uninsured and dropping them off close to other hospitals. But Trump promised better care, cheaper premiums, and everyone insured. Hold him to it.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 4, 2017 -> 02:08 PM) Kodiashii with the 2 run double ! Give him 10 minutes and 72 hot dogs.

Another homer for Abreu. What happened to Ron?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 4, 2017 -> 01:14 PM) To be fair, Id say that their best comparison is frat brothers, and while you may not trust them with your money or to accomplish tasks like addition or subtraction, they always come through with beer for the party. When I was in college, a guy who was social chairman ran for president of our house. His platform was he never ran out of beer at a party. He won.

Back stiffness.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 4, 2017 -> 11:09 AM) Trump just passed an executive order to allow christians to discriminate based on their religious beliefs. But yeah, sucks to be a christian. remember when Trump railed on Obama for signing executive orders instead of passing laws. That was awesome.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 4, 2017 -> 11:39 AM) Don't worry, Ivanka will fix this. No. All the good stuff happens in phase 4 or phase 5 of the bill. That will take many years so you will have to make sure the GOP keeps getting re-elected to see this through. Right now it looks bad, but in 8 or 10 years, once these rich guys get their tax breaks, everyone will have cheap health insurance, it will cost next to nothing, it won't matter what is wrong with you, you are approved, and only the finest care. The one problem could be if somehow you let democrats have some power in this, then it will all fall apart.

Since Obamacare, personal bankruptcy is down 50%. So maybe they can get that to go higher. Even "rich" people like Trump like to screw over people by declaring bankruptcy. Let the poor do it as well. If Obamacare was exactly the same but named Romneycare, these fools would not be doing anything but praising it. Joe Walsh slamming Jimmy Kimmel was impressive. The guy with the if you can't afford it, don't have a kid, who just happens to fall being his child support payments from time to time. Republicans don't care about deficits and the like when they are in charge. The credit card is wide open. Once a dem takes over, suddenly we can't afford anything except giving the richest a tax break so they can increase their wealth. They aren't spending all their money now. Why would they spend it if you gave them more?