caulfield12

Negligibly, out of 52,000+ posts, but it would still shift slightly from a mathematical standpoint.

I guess some people are easily amused these days. When the president of the United States talks in the same way to thousands of people, jumping around from subject to subject it’s “unique” and “refreshing.” For that matter, Ed Farmer could easily outdo Trump on a typical Sox broadcast, or Jason Benetti bringing up Fernando Rodney’s post-closing antics in a random Appalachian State football game where maybe 1/2 of 1% of the viewing audience has even heard of Fernando Rodney in the first place. Yet I have somehow never managed to make as many grammatical mistakes as he makes in one month as I have made in over a decade. Managed to limit it to 4 names, too.

Sure, because every fan of those teams cares so much about the #6 team on the Pro Sports Misery Index that they make over 50,000 posts here and none on a Royals or Cardinals board. Ban bet. Find one post that I’ve ever made on one of those team’s boards or retract your insult, lol. And my life would be SO much easier if I had been born to a family like that...where rooting for the Cardinals was in my blood. If only my favorite uncle from Dubuque had liked the Cubs instead of the White Sox, I could even have been a Cubs’ yuppie. In fact referring to your own nickname, I’ve probably read and watched Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out and been more often to the actual field in Dyersville than any poster on this board. Back when we used to think John Cusack was more a Sox fan and not a poser, we even went to all the Chicago bars he used to frequent because of his connection through the movie.

He’s grindy. That’s all that matters. That and securing the services of Machado. If he doesn’t become part of that scenario, his time with the organization and association with said failure will last as long as Peter Bourjos’ Sox career.

I just received an e-mail from board moderators that any post with more than 5 names listed in one conversation will result in a 10 day ban because the attention span of Millennials today is just too short, so there’s that.

Too many names, too long, didnt read. At least I end my sentences with a period. Maybe I should change and start writing like peavy44?

How is that irrelevant when the previous poster said my range of names listed is between 5.5 and 6.5 per post?

I wish I had $1 for any time someone on a Sox-related message board opined that so and so signing for XXX amount of dollars wouldn’t have ANY effect on future payroll additions, oh, let’s say since 2006. Then I could at least be as rich as Eric or Donald Jr. Just two names, although neither are baseball-related due to foot related injuries.

It’s going to be a lot more than that if Hahn fails to land Machado...of course, at that point, there will be pretty much nothing left to talk about until Jimenez’s debut. There you go, by the way, 3 names. -3 is lowering the mean/median/mode significantly.

That’s the old Ozzie rule. Juan Pierre, come on down. The only one you can really argue is Basabe, but odds are his offensive weaknesses would be quickly exposed with where he’s at right now. It’s possible if he gets really hot in the minors, they might see if they can catch lightning in a bottle, but counting on it would be about as wise as the Sox penciling Burdi into their late season playoff run the year he was drafted.

If you’re getting the second half versions of Alonso and Jay, there’s still not that much to be excited about...that said, obviously Jimenez and Machado together are huge, but then we have to turn around and replace Abreu/Alonso anyway. There will certainly be a lot of Goldschmidt “win now/all in” discussions for 2020, as we will see him a lot more frequently playing for the Cardinals and all those games being played in EST or Central Time.

LaRoche, Robertson and Melky were supposed to bring a “winning culture” with them as well...didn’t Melky have some kind of crazy streak of being on playoff teams? While he’s probably better than Peter Bourjos, we would basically win the same amount of games if you ran 1000 simulations of the 2019 season with Engel or Jay as the starter. He’s not really a true CFer anymore, but we can get away with it at GRF. That said, without Machado around, his leash on the position is probably 6-8 weeks at best.

But then we were leading the AL Central on May 6th and because we hadn’t added a better option before the season, we spent $30-35 million more on Shields and traded away Tatis, Jr. (who’s worth how much surplus value?) $3 million led to a potential $100 million hole. All self induced. Heck, if we had Tatis, there’s a possibility we could get away with not spending $300 million on Machado. So make that $400 million.

Or refusing to give those deals to Pujols, Heyward and Price is what has kept them so competitive in one of the smallest media markets. I guess we’ll see if the charm works on Goldschmidt. And, despite all his various complaints about the front office, the StL fan support definitely made a positive impression on Tommie Pham.

What’s to prevent all the young impressionable members of the White Sox from wanting their own “Machado Treatment” when it comes to dealing with the ballclub in the future? Is Renteria going to bust everyone’s ass about hustling and let the veterans who are employed mostly to keep Manny contented on a losing team get a free pass? Something about this seems so anti-White Sox that it’s possible they’re the only team that could come up with such a cockamamie scheme like this. I know a team like St. Louis with their “Cardinals’ Way” would never elevate Heyward or David Price over the rest of the roster to sign them. Maybe we simply have no other choice.

If they can convince Machado to only play for the bargain price of $200 million to play with his buddies...then, Boom!, $100-200 million in savings, oops, minus $13 million for Alonso and Jay. Then we can go to Rodon, Moncada, Jimenez and Lopez...and ask them what similar things we can do to get them to sign extensions, ala Eaton/Sale/Q, into their first couple of years of free agency? Btw, isn’t anyone the least bit concerned that Renteria and Hahn will have no way of controlling the monster of all cliques they’re going to be creating in the clubhouse, by giving Machado this special kind of treatment that almost no free agent has ever received? Sure, it will be fine if they’re winning and happy...but what if they struggle to win 70 games despite all the new additions? What will they have to do in the future to attract free agents if this whole thing blows up?

This just in, White Sox sign the Fiji Water Girl to a three year contract for $150,000...after all, it’s Manny’s favorite bottled water, and the official beverage of the Dominican Republic WBC Team, as well as Mrs. Machado.

Why would you give Jay that many at-bats, compared to Jimenez, Palka or Anderson?

Jay signed with KC last year. They sucked. Alonso might have a better case of being jilted, leaving the playoff-bound Indians. That said, Chicago is a better city at least. Is Darin Erstad not available?

I’d rather throw that money into building a state of the art training center and baseball academy in Cuba. Or I’d build one in eastern Colombia for all the young Venezuelan players who have been abandoned when most of the big league clubs pulled out. The fact of the matter is that we remain stymied in the Dominican and Asia. Then again, if we keep adding Machado connections, at this rate, the DR reps will outnumber Cubans. And we’ll have the most MLB representatives for the World Baseball Classic, so there’s that.

All I know is there might be a restraining order issued against Rick Hahn for stalking Machado if all these moves were not part of an elaborate charade where we already knew he was in the bag the week of the Alonso deal...

Maybe $13 million could be invested into figuring why we can’t evaluate talent very well? That’s just as well as throwing it at the Emilio Bonifacios of the world. Jay is basically another Peter Bourjos, except he has a better brand name due to playing with playoff-contending Cardinals teams and fit in quite well there as a complementary part.

The excuse will be they were never meant to actually perform well...they were merely “seed funding” to bring Machado into the fold.

??? I have an I-Pad. The same one that turns LUIS Robert automatically into CAPS every time.

1) Keeping his client happy 2) Setting another record for biggest contract in baseball, which puts a huge target on that player...which undoubtedly Harper would probably claim to enjoy.