caulfield12

But, are you actually allowing anyone to see your Big Board?

Well between J.Williams, Brand, Duhon, Deng, Boozer, Dunleavy Jr. and Carter, that augurs well for another Dukie in Zion falling into their laps somehow and putting them back on the roadmap to relevancy again.

The Rangers are picking it up on their feed. Oops, guess you’re right, earlier today it showed MLB.com on the Texas side and now it shows just their radio affiliate. Guess I will have to watch Padres at Dodgers. Looks like old friends Shuck and Melky are starting for Pitt today against Philly. And still waiting for a Cease sighting. Finally, looks like DVS hasn’t been totally cut off from access to the club after making KW look really bad.

They got the new media deal from ROOT Sports and went out and almost immediately spent the money on Cano and Cruz. The problem is that Felix, then Seager and especially Ichiro were already trending downwards....they had what looked to be future TOR studs in Walker and Paxton, and developed Haniger and Zunino as well, but it still wasn’t quite enough to get them over the hump. Too much time on the DL, or fighting the aging curve/s.

So roughly 88% so far are blaming Reinsdorf in some way, shape or form...sounds about right.

Yeah, it was only those drunken Ligues who could pull off the opposing team’s base coach attack...

Mike Trout was only worth 0.7 fWAR his first cup of tea in the big leagues, OPS of 671.

You might have to change your member name to whatever is the opposite of swarm...smattering or trickle. At any rate, good stuff!

With your sarcaustic (a new word) humor in rare mid-season form, you would be a compelling candidate to replace Benetti in the booth around July when his act really starts wearing thin on everyone. Also, apparently KW or Rick are posting anonymously at yahoo.com now, at least until the final sentence...”The Sox are just not a attractive destination for big time free agents, they will always play second fiddle to the Cubs in Chicago. They are better off without either of these two taking up the majority of their payroll. They should have set their sites on free agents the next tier down from these two and signed multiple players to shorter contracts.Then they would still have the money to extend contracts of their young talent when the time is right. The American Central is prime for the taking, unfortunately this year’s plan has set the Sox back another year.”

Then he can personally accompany you into the clubhouse and flip the postgame buffet spread all over you and your friends (insurance waivers not included.)

Not to mention nearly unlimited autographs and genuine interaction with the players, coaches, broadcasters and front office staffers.

I think part of him revels in the idea of going back to DC 9-10 times per year and having boos rain down on his head like Barry Bonds. There would certainly be nothing like it from the massively-underattended AL Central fans for 76 games per year. Gets to play in NYC, Miami, Atlanta and DC, those are all great cities for visiting players.

Yeah, it would actually be the year (and probably next as well) to do some “amateur” scouting of high school and collegiate players in your local area that are possible #3 and 2nd/3rd round picks...as well as “tough to sign” high school seniors with big-time college commitments. It’s always fun to discuss the potential of all these players before the White Sox get their hands on them...especially after you’ve actually watched them live or at least on t.v. multiple times.

Well, that’s very simple. There is a block/ignore function. And I was hardly posting the second half of the season, in game threads and into the offseason...not until the last couple of months, and, more specifically, the last 11 days.

I’m sure the argument will be that the remaining diehard Sox fans will have frustrations that fans are not attending games taken out on them by more KW diatribes about “disloyal” fans until almost none are left...leading to less and less spending. Almost wish they were bottom 2-3 last year in attendance so there would have been an excuse not to completely light $45 million on fire on stopgap veterans who will get us our next Ryan Cordell, Kodi Medeiros, etc.

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What’s next, Jordan4Life coming back to taunt us for being gullible/naive and believing we have the same right as fans of other teams to good things...? Maybe he’s gone radio silent with the LeBron as greatest of all-time momentum finally having peaked.

This whole idea of choosing Hahn as “the good guy in the white hat you’d drink a beer with” and KW as the villain/antagonist and primary one responsible for everything that goes wrong or bad around the Sox, it desperately needs to move on to greener pastures.

At least he “implored.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-bryce-harper-manny-machado-20190228-story.html No Harper or Machado, But Lots of Bold Talk in White Sox Camp They’re not quite young enough to revive the 2000 season’s “The Kids Can Play” campaign and not nearly talented enough to replicate the “Winning Ugly” team of 1983. They used “Ricky’s Boys Don’t Quit” last year only to go 3-11 in their last 14 games to finish with 100 losses. So what should the new slogan be? If it were my call, I’d go with Tim Anderson’s motto: “Either ride with us or get run over.” Anderson made the comment after the Sox lost out in the Machado sweepstakes, basically saying the Sox are good enough to win with what’s in their clubhouse. “I feel like I made a bold statement about that,” Anderson said Thursday before homering and driving in two runs in a Cactus League game against the Mariners. “It’s out there, man. I said what I had to say, and we’re going to put that in the past and keep going forward.” ...... The TV cameras are gone. Executive vice president Ken Williams is tooling around in his golf cart looking busy. Manager Rick Renteria is smiling while being evasive about pitching plans. And we’re still waiting for star pitching prospect Dylan Cease to throw in a game somewhere … anywhere.

Vote and discuss...for needed therapy/venting throughout the weekend.

http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm 2009 $96 million 2010 $108 million 2011 $129 million 2018 $72 million Going by the 17% change in the value of money (aka inflation), we we would reliably expect of $102 million (I averaged out 2009/10) to have risen ten years later to basically $119.5 million, more or less $120. Eight short years ago, we were at $129 million (the year we signed Dunn to his FA deal).

Well, we wouldn't have had that now infamous back-flip on the stage. The highlight of his entire Sox career, and the only surprising aspect looking back on it all was that he didn't blow out a knee or Achilles' or suffer the Jared Mitchell right then and there before his career could even get started.

He's our version of Colin Powell...minus the exceptional/meritorious service record, lol. You can write that opinion all you want, but we won't have any supporting evidence unless he resigns and writes a tell-all book after he is out of baseball about what really went on behind the scenes. Since that's not in his nature, we'll never really get the whole truth. I mean...can you really imagine Hahn saying to KW and JR, "if you're not serious about signing Manny Machado after I've worked so hard to sell it to the fanbase all offseason, then I'm out of here and you guys can face the music..." No, it's easier to imagine his looking pissed off, then smirking and trying to figure out how he can possibly talk his way out of this one.

We'll see....he has another year, and probably 2, to prove the doubters wrong.