Dick Allen

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 21, 2015 -> 09:49 AM) If LaRoche goes crazy and hits 9 hrs thru end of season for 20...how will we look back on his year? Horrid, unless a few of those lead to victories and a playoff berth. For everyone's sake, especially his, it would be nice if he can show he can still play, instead of hoping next spring he bounces back.

Hopefully, Sale took an earlier flight.

I've caught myself calling Q Carlos several times. I think the Red Sox used to have a guy named Carlos Quintana.

Give Friedman $300 million a year to play with and he becomes a hero worshipper.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 01:30 PM) And yet they didn't hire him. In fact, nobody has hired him. Makes you wonder who's right, you or those talk show hosts. Also, I was simply giving the perspective on KW from people in the sports industry outside Chicago. I'd say their analysis is pretty damn spot on. KW is a rich man's Jack Z and frankly that's nothing to brag about as Jack Z is one of the few GMs with a worse last 5 years then KW. The White Sox wouldn't let him interview. Chicago sports radio is irrelevant, so is Seattle's.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) Yea exactly. Just a little tidbit from Seattle sports talk radio this morning they brought up the Nightengale story on KW possible to Seattle and both hosts were like "uh, no thanks we already have the slightly worse version of KW in Jack Z". I'm not sure how valued a commodity KW is anymore. His run of success is fading further and further into the past with each day. Toronto wanted to hire KW as their president last year. Seattle sports radio says KW sucks. Which one should we go with?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 10:26 AM) So pretty much no matter what, Jerry will have to sign off on letting him talk to anyone else. Does that line up the potential for compensation when he is gone ala Theo? I would imagine, although KW mentioned he almost resigned last year. So maybe he can be done with it that way. As far as compensation, I don't think that would be an issue. I still think KW would rather stay and be given a higher title. Reading Toronto stuff, they think the President needs to be a business guy not a baseball guy. Maybe KW can do that, but if he is going to make their current baseball ops guys run away, I wonder why they would hire him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 10:20 AM) So out of curiosity, does anyone know Kenny's contract situation? He is on a 1 year deal with an automatic rollover at some date. So he is always under contract for the current season and next. As for AA, it's pretty amazing how his stock has risen. He was praised last year for their offseason which didn't work out, and he started catching heat. This All Star break, they actually had a worse record than they did last All Star break, but he makes a couple moves that so far have worked really well, and he's back on the top of the mountain.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 08:10 AM) ? Their attendance last year was 32,000/game, this year it's ~35,000, their playoff years it was >40,000. For the White Sox, spending money to get into the playoffs would be a fine and successful plan and one I'd support. There is one small problem with the spending of money the White Sox did this year in execution of that plan. If Jon Lester isn't leading them into the playoffs regularly, then the $155 million they committed to him will never be paid for by making a WC this year. How does making a WC this year put an addition 5k in the seats 5 years from now? Lester has to perform. If the Cubs are worthy of selling out every game, and getting hundreds of millions for their TV rights, it is going to have to be more than Jon Lester. They are going to have to be paying these other guys huge money eventually, making Lester's contract an albatross. Ricketts did sell a portion of the team to help pay down the rehab costs. I do hope when you are complaining this winter when the Sox pay a lot of money to a hitter than you will note if they make the WC the contract should pay for itself.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 07:56 AM) For the Cubs, with their ballpark situation? Taking them back to filling that place plus the ticket brokers plus their new ad space plus yearly ticket price increases? Yeah, I think getting a wild card birth for them would be monstrous. Especially if they win and get the extra 3 game series. They're up about 3000 ticket sales over last year but unless they shrank their park in the renovations they have room for another 5000/game. Compile that over multiple years and that's Lester-level money just off the ticket sales... And that's without mentioning the fact that people are going to be tuning into their games on TV in couple years before their TV deal renews. They already fill the place. If anything, your theory should work better for the White Sox since they have more available seats. The White Sox are in the same boat with TV renewals. Why is spending money to try to win wrong for them if making a WC is worth $155 million? Everything you claimed how the Cubs would benefit applies to the other side of town, yet doom and gloom, doom and gloom, don't spend any money ever.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2015 -> 07:39 AM) If they make the playoffs this year, frankly ahead of what seemed to be their expected schedule, that quick playoff appearance will probably be worth so much good press that it'll pay for Lester's contract on its own. So making a 1 game WC is worth at least $155 million now? LMAO, that isn't anywhere near what you post in every White Sox related post.

The other thing that chaps my ass is while he is wearing a monitor, what is he still doing not in jail? Guys like IL governors go to jail for years, yet really aren't threats to society if not locked up. This guy clearly is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Do you believe the 8th amendment is a mistake and that rape is an appropriate thing for the United States to be doing as punishment even unofficially? The fact that people defend this drives me nuts. Put him in jail for as long as his well paid legal team will allow. Rape is not a punishment. It is barbaric and it is something the country shouldn't be doing to anyone. It's not a joke and we're worse people because we treat it as such. So you are OK, and not embarrassed or sickened by punishment basically being determined by the quality of representation one can afford, instead of what they have done.

So if the intentions were to sign Samardzija long term, if they do not, which appears rather likely, it would seem to indicate an availability of funds to go out and find some immediate help in other areas.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2015 -> 11:24 AM) I would also generally agree with that statement that I will not feel bad for him. I do, however, feel embarrassed if and when our country allows it to happen, and the fact that it's such a common joke really makes me sick to my stomach. Fair enough? Keep in mind Jared had his buddy secretly film kids as young as 6 , who he knew by name, in sexual situations. If someone wants to have their way with him, I'm all for it. There really is no way he can 'pay his debt to society" in full. He has probably ruined several innocent lives.

I always wondered if Jared had the band surgery as well. I tend to think he did.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 19, 2015 -> 10:18 AM) I understand the argument for the Sox thinking he might not be able to cut it in the majors, but really when would have been a good time to bring him up? There's been no spot in the rotation for him, Balta has already pointed out the problems with a 6-man rotation, and the only spot start I can remember is the one that Beck made, and I'm pretty sure Johnson had just recently pitched at that time so he wasn't available anyway. Also near the trade deadline his starts were moved to line up with Samardzija's in case of a trade. If we had traded away Jeff there's no way he's not up here right now. He will be up in a couple weeks. I don't know why they have to disrupt their rotation. What does what he does now have to do with what he will do next season? The Sox already played and lost that game.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2015 -> 10:10 AM) If he was into footlongs, he wouldn't be in this mess. Problem seems to be he likes checking out the kids menu. He won't have to be into them. They will be into him.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 19, 2015 -> 09:40 AM) I love how Hawk combines Gio's offensive stats with flowers' to say "Our catchers aren't the problem." They aren't. As of a week ago, they had a higher collective WAR than the KC catchers, and no one would say catching is a problem in Kansas City.

The footlongs aren't even $5 in the big house. Enjoy Jared. Reading the PDF, this guy is beyond a horrible human. They have 14 victims he will give $100k each, and he has agreed not to ask the judge for less than 5 years, while prosecutors have agreed to ask for no more than 12.5. He deserves more than 12.5.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 09:56 PM) Ben Badler ‏@BenBadler 1m1 minute ago Dombrowski's history of trading away his best prospects to help the big league team makes it fascinating to see what he will do in Boston. Cue the "Chris Sale to Boston" rumors again this winter. Trading prospects, not into analytics. I thought those are deal breakers.

He just got remarried and his wife is a news anchor here. I don't see him moving to Toronto, but wouldn't be sad if he did. I think he will ise it to try to get JR to give him a presidential title.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 08:00 PM) Well it's a monsoon in the NW burbs so you'll get it soon I'm sure. It still hasn't rained but my Direct TV is out, so that means it is near. Direct TV sucks. I can't imagine they do well in Seattle.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 07:50 PM) Ball is flying out of Wrigley tonight. Tigers have hit 3 homers already and it's the 2nd inning (would have 4 but Cabrera's was taken away after a review and called fan interference). Cubs also have a homerun. But the rain is threatening to make all of those longballs disappear. I live 3 miles south fo Wrigley and it hasn't rained at all by me tonight. I am hopimg they get that in.

QUOTE (harkness @ Aug 18, 2015 -> 10:36 AM) Hard to make any real conclusions from those stats... Looks like an exercise in randomness. There has to be a little to pitchers being better with certain catchers, but it's hard to imagine it's 2-7 runs a game.