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They were a very tough couple to watch together...well-acted, but far from enjoyable.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 09:43 PM) That Mark Buehrle guy says otherwise Yes, but look the Baseball America rankings then. Only Jon garland made it. Kip Wells, but not with us. Fogg and Buehrle were just #8-12 guys in the system, but had the longest careers. His helium was the immediate results out of the bullpen.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 09:16 PM) Phenomenal article. It does make me feel a little better about that horrific start. But the article and the video inside the article were masterful. Hopefully he'll be a good pitcher and Rodon will be as good as he was last start. The sooner we can get rid of Shields, Holland and Pelfrey the better. Is that still you? Has someone hijacked your account? A bot?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 09:13 PM) You have a lot of faith in party that couldn't beat the worst Presidential candidate in modern history. McGovern, Goldwater, Mondale, Dukakis....

QUOTE (Username @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 08:54 PM) Guerrero 6 IP 2 ER 1 BB 6 K. Man he's been money this year. Really intrigued to see 1) if he's promoted soon 2) if he gains some serious prospect steam. Not without a 94-96 mph FB.

Vargas has given up 6 already tonight...not even out of third. Hadn't lost since May 22nd, 7-0 during that timeframe.

If you moved the mound back, that would really mess up the angle on pickoff attempts. Would be safer, though. Would also put more of a premium on high velocity guys, leading to even more injuries.

Zavala with his 3rd Winston-Salem homer...getting more and more interesting. What are the reports on his defense at catcher, again?

Then go to three balls and two strikes...although that would result in more k's, teams would prioritize contact hitters more and it would cut 1 hour off game times. Crazy, traditionalists would go nuts, but it just might work?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 05:22 PM) Frazier approaching an .800 OPS. People should stop assuming he'll be valueless at the deadline. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/po...ARBR/order/true Hard to name a single 3b ahead of him that's available. Theoretically, Longoria, but highly doubtful. Suarez, if the Reds were bowled over. 12th out of 28 bwar for those over 200 at bats at third base.

At any rate, this is the best post you've written in the Filibuster, except for the martyr part. You've made discussion at the very least lively, but it has cost you from a credibility standpoint because your intellectual objectivity with politics isn't nearly at the same level as your baseball acumen.

I hate the expansion of government. I hate partisanship. I hate that we as a country don't think our government can do wrong and take the corporate media's opinion as fact. If that makes me a loon so be it, but I fear history will be kind to me when our fiat currency crashes. I sure hope I am wrong. Have the Republicans since Trump came into office made any overtures to the Dems to work together on healthcare? Even once? Why not improve ObamaCare instead of trying to destroy it when clearly only 1/6 Americans think it's a good idea. There can only be centrist compromising when elected officials aren't blasted out of the water by primary challenges (see Citizens United/Koch Brothers) for actually wanting to work together constructively with the other side. Look what his own party threatened to do to Heller. The Dems clearly don't have a unified message at this point either...just being anti Trump is not enough, you have to be for something, present a better alternative and be aspirational. Hence, those special election losses. If it was so abundantly clear all Dems wanted to expand government (particularly single payer/Medicare for All), but it's clearly not, it's a constantly divisive issue inside the party, with the Obama/Clinton/Perez wing barely holding off the challenge. But, once again, what has Trump done since becoming president to actually united the country instead of divide it? That strategy might work politically (pandering to the base, and our basest instincts as human...which is primarily based on fear of others different from us), but it's tearing both political parties and the entire country apart at the seams. Right now, not being hyper partisan is suicidal for members of both parties, and there's no solution in sight other than term limits, perhaps, and if they made a prohibition that a past member of Congress could do no lobbing work for at least ten years after leaving. But then we'd just have a bunch of billionaires running on both sides. And most of the mods and posters with families here tend to be pretty conservaive economically, they just don't post as much. Let's call them Colin Powell Republicans, or Compassionate Conservatives (well, mostly).

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 09:43 AM) Based on our minor league position player talent being a couple years away I would strongly consider resigning both Greg? And bringing back Guillen, too?

White Sox were the eighth most valuable franchise entering 2006. 10th at the beginning of 2012. Slipped all the way down to 15th coming into this year. Actually improved to get to that spot. Fwiw. But it's not just baseball's most valuable franchises that are surging up our ranking of the sports business world's most powerful. The Chicago White Sox (baseball's 15th most valuable team at $1.35 billion), Pittsburgh Pirates (17th, $1.25 billion) and Oakland Athletics (29th, $880 million) are also among the biggest movers in our latest SMI update. Forbes.com And yet the Marlins were originally talking $2-2.1 billion and will likely fetch at least $1.5 when all is said and done.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 03:58 PM) It also blows my mind that his wRC+ is only 108. But that'll happen when you strikeout ~40% of the time and hardly ever draw a walk. Modern day version of Rob Deer or Steve Balboni, albeit sporting a higher batting average.

Davidson bomb. #18. Yet his fWAR is only around 0.4/0.5.

Nice to see the White Sox added a Tim Raines Day on September 9th...but they should have waited for a game next summer when school wasn't back in session. Will feel like an afterthought compared to Buehrle Day. Of course, the parting from the team was ugly, coaching-wise.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 5, 2017 -> 03:18 PM) I will watch Okja this weekend and admittedly, haven't seen as much this year as I have in the past, but I'd think Get Out is pretty fn great and the best I've seen so far. The Beguiled, Baby Driver and The Big Sick are supposed to be great, too. If you want scary/weird, Raw is your movie. Fwiw, I actually liked Get Out until the last 10-15 minutes or so. Just wasn't blown away. Like the second Guardians of the Galaxy, same feeling.

The weird thing with Benintendi is his fWAR was only 1 or 1.1 before that huge offensive explosion vs. Darvish. They say he's a good defender, and he makes some spectacular plays, but you would expect him to be in the 1.5-2 range at least. Carlos Correa almost ended his season with an ill-advised dive headfirst into home and jammed his finger...the one personnel loss the Astros couldn't afford. Fortunate.

Elrockin or anyone watching the rest of this game deserves a special award...and more praise from Greg, lol. At least we will be 1-5 against OAK this year, trying our best to get them ahead of us in the reverse standings (or is it behind us)? On the negative side, Sonny Gray's value is really increasing thanks to the Sox.

2/31 stretch for Avi now...forget that trade, if it was ever a possibility. How did Melky get doubled off? Fiers threw 105 pitches in 4 innings last game, haha...more bullpen work, geez. At least James Shields can give you 5-6 usually.

This game is exactly why young kids in the US today don't like baseball... That looked like Brian Daubach or Mackowiak was out there playing CF. Yikes!!

Okja is the best movie of the year. The modern-day equivalent of Babe...the only thing I didn't like was Jake Gylenhaal's over the top and almost unrecognizable character (which he seemed to enjoy performing, at least.) The Bad Batch is some crazy dystopian stuff...reminded me of a different version of the Chris Evans film Snowpiercer, mixed with the scenery of Mad Max Fury Road but definitely not an action film, more of a philosophical one. And Suki Waterhouse looks exactly like Carla Delevigne. Could be sisters. Finally, Get Out is nowhere close to THE best movie of the year!!!

So it was Saturday or Friday he sat...okay. Looking forward to Guerrero start.

He's making Melky look better? Last year he was 2.4 fWAR. He might not even end up at 0.0, which is almost incredible for a SS.