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The crazy thing is that when he was supposedly pitching well, he had a completely unsustainable stretch of 0 for 32 against with RISP. When you look at his Sox numbers and consider that, it's almost unfathomable how much worse the numbers could actually be.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 23, 2016 -> 09:01 AM) You said Montas would have been very helpful. You love to make stuff up. He probably can't even help carry equipment. Semien was a trade that had to be made. Your words. Just clarify how Montas would have been helpful this year. The answer isn't Marcus Semien or Ubaldo Jimenez or Gordon Beckham or Robin Ventura is a HOF manager. You just blasted KW for mentioning a couple of bullpen pieces that got hurt. Now you are saying a guy who has been hurt all year would have been very helpful if they had not traded him. Make sense of it. So now you're assuming his season would have unfolded exactly the same way under Herm Schneider? How can you know that? Why didn't the Dodgers when they did his physical? At any rate, you're much more entertaining when you point out how terrible Danny Duffy is or how Brandon Finnegan should be banished to the bullpen (with a similar stat line to Carlos Rodon), so of course he gives up zero runs in his last start and Duffy's another month away from pushing into the Cy Young Top 5. Greg-like.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 23, 2016 -> 08:50 AM) Montas would have helped a ton this year. What idiots for getting rid of him. He's had an unbelievable year. Hahn should get a prize for selling damaged goods? It's not like Frazier has led us to the playoffs. Marcus Semien has put up similar numbers at a tougher position for a fraction of the cost. And it's not even 100% a sure thing we will offer him a QO after next season if he hits below .200.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2016 -> 07:13 AM) The big problem we have had this year is so many short starts by starters forcing extremely long bullpen outings, which fries our pen for long periods of time. Post injuries to Putnam and Petricka, we have also forced our top guys to throw more often, and longer than usual. For example, Nate Jones has at least 17 appearances where he has appeared more than one IP out of the 58 times he has pitched. 6 of his last 13 appearances have been >1 IP. You want to know why Nate Jones hasn't been sharp? There you go. The 2012 team found a way around that problem by bringing up 10+ rookies. Needless to say, this year's rookie class has come up woefully short and/or has failed to gain the trust of Ventura. We've gone a full year and still haven't produced one reliable pen arm, with the possible exception of Burdi. Duke, Jennings, Ynoa, Kahnle, Putnam, Turner, Ranaudo, etc., all came from other organizations. Danish, Beck and Fulmer all have struggled mightily. Montas would have been very helpful there.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 23, 2016 -> 08:36 AM) The fans of the team that lost the world series. Because they knew during game 1, they had a better chance at winning a championship than 28 other teams. Not the mention the attendance boost teams get when they go deep into the playoffs. I'll taking making the playoffs and everything that goes with it (being in contention and playing meaningful games late in the season, the fun of watching my team play in October while everyone else is at home) vs the past few crap seasons we've had with very little to look forward to any year. Not to mention getting there once and coming up short can often serve as a springboard to even more success the following season...just like teams who win can become complacent and rest on their laurels just as easily.

I'm shocked neither of them has battled to take credit for Eaton, Q, Sale or Tim Anderson...those are the only big feathers in the proverbial cap the last five years or so. Abreu was clearly scouted by KW and Paddy directly...on multiple occasions. Rodon, at the time, with Aiken and Kolek selected....seemed to be a no-brainer. I doubt even the Cubs would have picked Schwarber there.

http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-white-so...get-it-together This is reassuring. KW: We'll get it together. So basically, the injuries to Petricka and Putnam were enough to blow up the entire season...that's about as lame as Hawk saying the lack of offdays early burned out Albers and Robertson.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Aug 22, 2016 -> 10:49 PM) Girl I went to college with on FB is volunteer bartending at some Sox event tonight. She said she has no clue of any of the people/players or even how baseball works. Pretty much all us guys are jealous and then she replies to one of the guys "Thanks haha do you know Ken Williams? Cus he is currently at my bar." That might be the ONLY way to get them into "lockstep" before this off-season. Force them to go out and get liquored up every night together until they come up with a coherent AND cohesive plan which they both agree with...since they are supposedly entering the dreaded YEAR 3, and yet there are no signs anything will change, other than the manager, possibly.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 22, 2016 -> 04:33 PM) Dodgers trying to "give away" Puig but nobody wants him. He's hitting over .400 in AAA and was over .300 in his last 30 MLB games Source? Did he pass through waivers without a claim? He has $14 million left on his contract the next two years...and even one arbitration year, and no team will take that on?

http://www.southsidesox.com/2016/8/22/1258...office-problems And who's responsible for the current front office dysfunction and all the recent leaks (Heyman/Kaplan) and comments from JR about them being in "lockstep" going into the offseason...interestingly, fans over at SSS blame Reinsdorf 46%, KW 39% and Hahn only 4%, which doesn't quite make any sense. Ventura was in between KW and Hahn at 11% "blame." Goes on from about the 10-12 minute mark until 46-47 minutes in...really agree with almost everything Margalus and Nelson had to say.

1/4th of the season left to go and no game thread? Is the US-Serbia game really that compelling?

Altuve, Betts and Donaldson would disagree...Machado and Arenado would have their backers, as well.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 04:55 AM) More like 60% Jerry, assuming Comcast had an equal share in 2005. And why do you insist that team performance has anything to do with tv contract? The Astros got 75 million when they were losing 100 games regularly. The Padres got 65 million when they are the padres. And of course the Angels get 125 million despite their s***ty ratings(which the sox are below in 2015, but the angels have historically drawn poorly on tv). The only difference is the Astros had the best farm system in baseball as thry entered that new deal. They weren't expected to make the playoffs until 2016, they actually made it one year early. The Angels seemed like they would be a contender every season and had the best young player in the history of baseball...

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 06:58 PM) Every bad team needs a James Shields. Well, he's a lot cheaper than Shields or Nolasco at least. Whether he's worth Alex Meyer too, we'll just have to wait and see.

Hector Santiago was 6-0 with a 1.76 era last month with the Angels. Now with the Twins, he's literally throwing batting practice to every opponent. Could never get around that inconsistency.

Somehow have a feeling calling out Carlos Sanchez every game still won't result in Altuve-esque numbers. Worked tonight, though. At least they're playing Coats instead of Shuck. Of course, the danger is he looks pretty good down the stretch and they go into next year with Garcia/Coats.

Sure would be nice to see them realize Carlos Sanchez isn't a starting caliber player...oh, well, better shot at the #10 pick at least. Abreu still about 90 ops points below his career average...but at least providing some small glimmer of hope for 2017 with this run in the second half...as long as they limit the damage he can do to the offensive side.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) Lawrie is actually a couple months younger than Saladino. It is probably a given that at some point he will land on the DL every year, but he has some power and plays so hard. I hope they keep him around for a while So you want a player who is unlikely to be much more than league average and will more than likely miss 30+ games next year? Sounds like a recipe for more mediocrity. And whatever you pay him is likely to be an overpay compared to the similar overall production you could have gotten out of Semien or Saladino at the same position. Of course, we have little choice but to keep trading young position players since JR has been unwilling to pull the trigger on signing a free agent pitcher to a large contract. You can keeping saying we MIGHT have signed Tanaka or MIGHT have signed Shark to an extension, but it doesn't count until it actually happens. Instead, we wind up with half measures like Shields who are then used as the excuse for not adding that big hitter in the middle of the order because they're weighing down payroll...or the excuse that Upton and Gordon have disappointed this year, therefore the only solution is getting lucky dumpster diving for Morneau, who will sign elsewhere in the offseason OR go into the tank when the White Sox overpay a 35+ veteran.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 02:11 PM) Sure thing. But if Peavy hadn't ripped his back muscle off his spine and TCQ actually recovered from punching a locker I have no doubt there would have been more playoff appearances. If Adam Dunn wasn't a pile of horsemeat, there would have been some more playoffs. I'm not saying the FO is perfect but I think people need to cut them some slack when they point their finger clammoring like an old drunk, "16 years, 2 playoffs!" That's insane. The team looked darn good every year on paper from 2001-2013. Many devastating injuries to key personnel. It's been 3 years since they decided to flip cores & go young, cut them some slack. Almost competed during the process too. Peavy was already high-risk because of his delivery. Quentin, Beckham....Konerko, very tightly wound players psychologically. KW always said you have to exercise due diligence. That slipped over the last decade. We traded Sergio Santos and acquired Nestor Molina, who KW wasn't even completely familiar with at the time of the announcement. That's not the only time they have been asleep at the wheel. Shields this year is another prime example.

KC was 12 games under .500 in July and pretty much seemed dead in the water. Have an outside chance at the WC with 27 games remaining in the Central, especially facing MN and the Sox. Face Miami and Boston on the road next week and then the Yankees at home...not to mention four at home vs. the A's. Of course, they've been terrible on the road, but have won 9/10 and six in a row with two more against the Twins. Game last night ended at 2:13 a.m.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 07:40 AM) In fairness, Sale may be more valuable than trading him. He is worth a"lot" and few teams have a "lot". In addition, from comments from Boston media after the deadline, the White Sox were asking an unreasonable return for him. So the White Sox need to trade from strength, which is starting pitching, so offseason they have to find a package for either Q or Rodon to add young talented players. That won't accomplish anything to market Rodon as if he's a #1 or 2 starter when it's still just potential...not to mention no acquiring team will be able to extend him. Selling low on him just creates another hole. As it is, we only have three starting pitchers we can count on for next year. We're stuck with Shields. You need to make a trade where you get at least 2 and hopefully three young impact players or it doesn't make sense to trade just for the sake of trading.

Are one of the Giambis available? Jose Canseco was actually pretty decent in 2001...at least he was entertaining. Wrath of Khan 2017 Version.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 03:17 AM) And the landscape has changed considerably since then. The sox were bought for $20 million in 1981. They MAKE $50 million in local cable rights PER YEAR now. They get another $46 million in national tv rights money. AND the recent MLB Advanced Media /Disney deal of a BILLION dollars for just a THIRD of MLBam's BamTech nets the sox a cool 33 million. For a 1/30th stake in a third of a media company spun off from another profitable media company. The money is there. Sure, but teams like the Mariners are earning $70 million more before the season even begins. Minimum, the White Sox would have to be in the $150 million range and probably closer to $160-165 million if they choose to spend themselves into contention (as a strategy). Thry'd have to repeat the 14-15 offseason (but actually be right on each player they targeted) in a market with 1/3rd the talent and twice as much competition. The money has always been there, accompanied by the fear of making a mistake on a big contract of over $100 million. Like it or not, that's the going rate for a middle of the order hitter in his prime.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2...ap&sid=t494 Talk about a AAA debut you'd probably like to forget...

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Aug 20, 2016 -> 03:00 AM) When was this interview? It's horribly outdated. The Sox have a 20-25% stake in CSN Chicago, and Jerry's combine dholdings make him a majority voice in the network. And he put in charge Jim Corno, who he hired to run sportsvision(and later the dolan owned sportschannel and fsn-chicago). Oh, and when the cubs open their own network(with or with out Comcast as a partner), jerry has right of first refusal on the sale of the cubs' stake in CSN-Chicago. He pretty much owns his own network. Essentially it would be 50% Sox/Bulls, 25% Blackhawks and 25% CSN/NBC Universal unless they can sell off that 20% share in an advantageous way. Right now, the prospects for the Sox and Bulls in 2019 don't look so great...hard to say with the Blackhawks, but they will also theoretically be in the rebuilding stage three seasons from now.