Harry Chappas

This contract is a bad contract the minute he signs it. You can either spend money there or on scouting and draft/international players with value. The fact Avasail Garcia is terrible at baseball is what is killing the White Sox. This as well as a neglect of prospect resources is where the White Sox have failed miserably over the recent years. A replacement level RF is what they need.

I think Mr Panik will not be around by this evening or at least a healthy scratch for quite some time.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 10:17 AM) If they dont sign Cespedes I would think its because he received a bigger deal than even Upton got. The Sox just misjudged the market and thought these guys were going to have less teams that needed them along with coming down to their price range. It was terrible judgement. As I stated numerous times this is poor management if that is the case. This is not a retail store. If the deal for Cespedes is " a good deal" other teams will catch wind of this becasue it is a good deal and drive up the price. Teams do not necessarily bid against themselves they offer an amount to end the process. The cubs offered a bid that was greater tahn what any other team would offer especially with the buyouts and the deal was done. The White Sox appear to be holding out hope that no other team can use Cespedes and he will agree to give them the deal that Sale and Quintana did. Who knows maybe there is a deal to bring Jayson Werth home to Illinois on a buy low deal.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) Avi is a very logical platoon with LaRoche. If they sign another OF, I nearly guarantee you that Avi will DH against LHP and get an occasional start in the OF. Unless he is somehow traded. They then have two DH's which they will not have. Avi will play next season in the minors to work on his fielding and general baseball IQ. Avi as a platoon DH and 4th outfielder is a poorly constructed roster. They need to figure out if he can actually play every day.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 08:51 AM) Again, I said nothing about social, cultural or economic impact. I'm talking pure basketball. On the court. 48 minutes. 94 feet. The way the Warriors constantly move, cut, pass and ultimately shoot, there's never been anyone like them. they put up a stat last night stating that the Warriors have 20 games this year with at least 30 assists as a team. there's still half the season to go. The next two highest, the spurs and hawks, have a combined 17. They are making LeBron an afterthought and as a fair weather basketball fan, I am cool with that. The Spurs are the most underrated franchise in sports.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 21, 2016 -> 09:26 AM) I know which is why it was making me mad to. LOL Its like now that the Score is the Cubs network we are going to have to deal with happy joy Cub talk all day even by our resident Sox fans that are on the Score. Of course I could just not listen. cub fans paid the bills back in the day....now the cubs are literally paying the bills over there. I stopped listening a while back as there will really be nothing positive to say over there now

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 02:54 PM) Balta and I are from American, and we are friends Balta hates you. Do you know a guy name Doug he works at the Lighthouse Mall? He sold me some loafers back in 97. Good guy.

Cespedes only cost the White Sox money. That is why I want him. Give him an opt out after year one if need be.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) I'm still waiting for the Cardinals to get in on the action. I think they trade for a Colorado outfielder and sign Gallardo.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 07:45 AM) http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/01/padr...des-market.html Padres monitoring the Cespedes market now. Once again the White Sox are not getting the bargain that people think they will get. At a bargain price teams will jump back in the pool and drive the price up to a realistic number which will be around 5/$100 with an opt out after the second year. Teams don't really bid against themselves what they do is provide a number that they feel will get them the player they want at the cost that they feel the player will take. This was what he cubs did with Heyward. I really hope the White Sox are not sitting around think they can get him for 3/$60 or something like that.

How has Johnny Bach been missed. Ace of Spades defense.

When Cespedes signs his contract it will be a terrible contract. The White Sox are not getting him on the cheap or for some OMG what a steal type deal. If that deal is on the table other teams will get involved as he has some value at that point and everyone can use value. My issue is that the White Sox have some great bargains in Abreu, Quintana and Sale. As this season looks right now the great contracts will be wasted for another year. One bad contract will not kill them but they once again seem to be tentative in pulling the trigger. Does Cespedas add the wins needed... potentially, who knows, but you don't win awards for having the best contracts in baseball. Fowler, Jackson, Pearce all add some value but at this time the White Sox are looking to waste another year of the cost controlled players they so cherish. They either take on a bad contract or remain where they are and watch the circus that is Avi Garcia mindlessly running around the outfield and on the bases. They chose not to rebuild so at some point this year or next they need to sign some talent. The cost of winning keeps going up .

I just saw that Steve Avery's first wife is married to Brendan Dassey's father. You know, the guy that was married to Steve Avery's sister. Also the first six years of the first sentence was for the assault on his sister (or cousin whatever it was) that was kind of brushed over in episode one.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 19, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) nice post, but wouldn't that be define as tampering???? MLB does care about tampering. The cubs have made it an art-form.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 14, 2016 -> 03:18 PM) I think I would too depending on what they get done in FA. They really should be able to get a lot done through FA. Sign an ILB, throw Timu or Shea next to him as a placeholder. If Shea is doing anything other than special teams on day one of camp, this off season is a failur. The guy simply cannot react soon enough at the ILB position.

When stone and farmer miss games I wonder if Jason takes them.

Gomez and Cargo would be salary moves and I think each should be had for Garcia and that's about it. Gomez maybe another piece but nothing major. A three way deal with the Astros and Braves could work with Garcia being a sweeten to the Braves and impacts Houston system a little less.

Kasper and thee lady that did the MLB playoff game seem to think they are talking at a Fangraphs conference when they are doing the game. I would bet less than 10% of the viewing public knows what BABIP means. The medium is between Kasper and Hawk and that is Pat Hughes.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 10:18 AM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 5m5 minutes ago Steve Stone also receives a multi-year extension to call #WhiteSox games. Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 3m3 minutes ago Breakdown for #WhiteSox TV games: Steve Stone 162, Hawk Harrelson 84, Jason Benetti 78. Steve Stone does not do 162 games a year.

I finally got into this. It is a good listen for stuck in traffic crappy weather listening.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 07:15 AM) The ending of an era. It really makes me sad to think that the guy who has been the soundtrack of my fanhood is leaving. I like the idea that God willing in 30 years he could still be the White Sox announcer.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 07:49 AM) OSU was the best I saw all year by far. You should never bother trying to run a kick out of the end zone against OSU. Clemson is bad, but not too far from the norm. The simple answer to this is that OSU and Bama have guys on special teams that would be starters on just about any other team in the nation. The talent level is so deep there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 11, 2016 -> 04:46 PM) I kind of wanted to see if Caldwell would be fired to see if Jim Bob Cooter would be available. But yes, anxious for new QB coach. Fox's strength is his ties around league. When was last time a bears assistant was promoted to head coach? Ryan? (I don't think Rivera counts because we fired him for Bob Babich) My guess with all of the OC turnover for the Bears and Cutler this was a move to keep continuity. The Lovie Smith coaching tree is not vast that is for sure.

At what point does collusion begin to be thrown out among the players association?

While Hossa is aging and the contract will be a drag, I think he does things off the ice that helps the team to be better and will always be worth the contract.