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Iguchi hitting a 3-run jack in the 8th and a grand slam in the 9th to tie it. Second game of a doubleheader on Sept 14, 2008. Sox up 7-0 on the Tigers. Tigers score 2 in the top of the 7th, 5 in the top of the 8th, capped off by a grand slam by Marcus Thames. Bottom of the 8th, Sox load the bases and Dewayne Wise hits a grand slam. Also, Konerko's homer off Guardado in 2003 to tie it, and then Frank hitting a bomb FOUL and then following it up with a BOMB that stayed fair.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 05:53 PM) The fans do not want Dunn on the team. Who f***ing gives a s***

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) With how the SS position has evolved, I find this to be very much 2000-vintage thinking. Right now, if you're tolerable with the bat but great with the glove you're a $50 million/5 year contract level shortstop. Perfect example here is Elvis Andrus.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 03:43 PM) There's two people on another board I post at that are in it. They were giving it a chance at first, but can't believe all of the dumb pre-order crap they just announced. Their impression is that it will basically ruin any of the lore in the game and that it also looks like a desperate move. MMO's are garbage anyway, so hopefully it fails quickly and TES goes back to doing what it does well. I agree with all of this. There was a supposed KOTR online that was supposed to come out and it never really got off the surface. Let Blizzard do the MMOs.

Frankly, Law saying that Semien would be an ideal utility player is a good thing, because it means he believes he is good enough defensively at all 3 spots to be useful while being good enough with the bat to stick. To me, that's usually going to be a starting caliber player somewhere in the lineup.

If Adam Dunn comes out and hits .250/.350/.500 against right handed pitching in the first half of the year, you can bet you'll be able to save some money and not have to eat the entire thing while potentially getting a guy a team has DFA'd or a live arm or something. It's worth the risk because, as you said, you're just eating the salary otherwise.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:27 PM) Adam Dunn is the junked car sitting in your front lawn. It doesn't matter that you paid $6,000 for it on Craigslist. It doesn't matter that it *should* have run like this or that, or that it "shouldn't* have had this or that problem. The point is that your yard is a s*** hole, and there's a guy out there who will happily come tow it away for you and give you whatever it's junked value is. You already lost your money, that's gone, and nobody is ever going to give you value back beyond the scrap amount that it's worth. So you have a choice, either deal with your mistake and move forward or sit there and hope someone will pay you an amount that the market isn't going to bare. If you have to eat $14M and take back nothing then that $1M saved is $1M more you can devote to another area or simply hang on to. If you have to eat all the cash then you still end up with 500-600 extra PA over a season to work with. Still a bonus, and still more than you had before. Yeah, this entire post is completely wrong and off base.

5 degrees out right now and I can't wait to get outside

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 11:06 AM) The reason a lot of people didn't like Sale that high, Law included, is because they thought he was a major injury risk and they were afraid he would have platoon issues like almost every pitcher with his type of release has. No one doubted the stuff, lots doubted the risk level. It turned out as well as it possibly could have for us, but that doesn't mean it's unreasonable to have not wanted to take that risk back then. There were plenty of people who felt he would never make it as a starter and would be a reliever his whole career too.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:57 AM) I don't see the Ross Gload comps for Dan Black, they are very different hitters. Black draws a lot walks, Gload never did. Black has a little more power. Gload was a much better contact hitter and line drive guy, and better defensively at 1B, plus could fill in the OF as a backup. Mitchell probably has the highest ceiling of anyone on that list. I'm already writing up the pitchers, and there are more of them than position players, about 16 of them. Lots of interesting arms. Sorry, that Ross Gload for Andy Wilkins. Dan Black seems more like Jack Cust (without the power) or Daric Barton (without the defense). Also, I haven't been this excited for Jared Mitchell since the year after he was drafted. Not that I necessarily buy what he did in the AFL, but I'm hoping that last year was sort of an eye opening experience for him and that a switch was flipped. Frankly, if he can even put up De Aza's numbers at the MLB level, it would be an incredible victory for the Sox at this point.

I think the pitchers are going to be far more intriguing. I've always loved Dan Black, but he might only be a .250/.350/.375 player in the majors, and at 1B, there just isn't much value in that. I think Wilkins' tools translate better, but I personally think it seems like a Ross Gload upside is his best case scenario. DeMichele showed some power in Australia just recently, so that's nice, but I don't have a lot of hope for him. Legitimately, I think the most interesting name on this list is Jared Mitchell because of the AFL performance. I think he gets this year to prove something though or he's done.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:19 AM) Bird and Johnson were clearly the era before Michael. Michael's prime, dominant years, he had no one else to keep him going. He still raped face, but yeah. Bird and Johnson were there for the beginning, and guys like Hill and Hardaway towards the end, but it was a game for bigs. O'Neal, Olajuwan, Ewing, Robinson, Mourning, Malone, Kemp, and even Barkley. Frankly, with the physicality and the hand checks that were allowed back then, it's amazing that Jordan was as good as he was.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 08:58 PM) Can't find the SI article, but there's this.... Well, that's hilarious.

In 2012, Scott Baker threw 0.1 innings in the minors for the Twins. In 2013, he threw 44.2 innings for the Cubs. He's a huge injury risk who will need to re-prove himself capable and durable on the mound. It's a nice, no-risk move, but anything more than a minor league contract with a decent MLB salary if he makes the roster with incentives would have been reprehensible.

There are natually going to be some offers that are ridiculous - the Sox were never going to get Gregor Polanco for Alex Rios - for Alen Henson and an arm wasn't beyond the realm of possibility. It just didn't come together. I think there was some smoke for Alexei to the Cardinals too, but the thought was that the Cards were offering Carlos Martinez and touting him as a starter while most view him as a reliever without the build to hold up as a starter. In the end, those two just couldn't come to any sort of agreement, and now the Cards are going to be running out Peralta.

I have fond memories of his time with Baltimore.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:35 PM) I still can't believe how harshly they turned on Albert Pujols, despite the fact that him signing elsewhere was a complete blessing. It's not like AJ Pierzynski ever did anything to the Twins, but Twins fans still view him as a traitorous asshole who is representative of everything that is evil.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) If Maddox can wear no hat.... ...then Thome can wear no clothes!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) I haven't met a single baseball fan in real life that's as intelligent about baseball as some of ones I've come across online. That's what makes talking baseball so hard with anyone. There are a couple of guys I can seriously talk football with for hours and hours and hours. Baseball? "Baseball SUCKS!" It's just giving me s***, but they genuinely care very little about baseball.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 02:49 PM) There is also a really bad propane shortage. I keep seeing people talking about triple the normal prices. I was just talking to a guy about that yesterday. Said his propane is typically $1.79 a gallon or so but it's shot up to right around $5 a gallon. Natural gas is a godsend.

The Sox have acquired and been in on all kinds of studs within the past 5-7 years. I think we just realized that, with Stanton, the Sox didn't have enough in terms of prospects and, with Price, that there is simply not the need to acquire him at this point.

I posted it in Diamond Club too. I said in that thread, there are some meat head fans, but I genuinely think that Sox fans on the internet are some of the most reasonable and well schooled fans in all of sports.

http://deadspin.com/a-complete-roundup-of-...de-p-1511569573 I know there are some meatheads out there, but I think White Sox fans on the internet are some of the most reasonable fans in all of sports.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 11:20 AM) If the Sox wanted to do that, they'd have traded for a CF prospect instead of a ML ready CF. I don't think this is necessarily true.

Ice was the cause of the one and only accident thus far. I was driving back to school over Thanksgiving break and we had some freezing rain, but I thought nothing of it. I was in the right lane and saw people slowing down up ahead. So I hit the brake - and nothing happened. I panicked and, rather than pumping, tried to steer the car onto the shoulder and into the ditch. Couldn't even turn my wheel. I eventually skidded off the right rear bumper with the driver side doors and brought the car to a halt.