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QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 06:54 PM) Trouble in Columbia, Mo. A fraternity is suspended cause some members screamed racial insults and got caught doing it on tape. The N word. Seriously ... how can any white person yell that at people? Where do college students develop such hatred? I'm like all of you. I don't look at color ... at all. Why do some people hate their fellow human beings just cause of color?? Sickening. I wonder if Mizzou will still exist in a couple years at this rate. Have you been following Trump for the last two years and the barely "coded" treatment of Obama for the last eight? Racism was still there, but now the permission (validated by Trump) seemingly exists for it to come out of hiding again.

The fact that Bill Clinton's indiscretions were already the subject of the 1992 and 2000 elections and are still front and center tells you everything you need to know about 2016. Notice, it wasn't an issue in 2008 to Obama, because the differences are obvious enough without bringing them up. Trump has been married three times, twice to immigrants, who are now conveniently enough, bad for America. Why would a serious newsperson spend ANY time on this subject, just because Trump brings it up to deflect? Next he'll be taking credit for turning Alicia Machado into a successful actress/model/spokesperson near the age of 40 when most American actresses are consigned to "mother/caregiver" roles in the movies. Search Alicia Machado Maxim 2007 Greg.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 30, 2016 -> 05:09 PM) Can you imagine how bad KC would have been this season if Chicago and Minnie had just played .500 ball vs. the Hosmers? Look at their record vs. the AL West. LAA and A's aren't exactly powerhouses this season. Or on the road.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alicia-machado-i...-162627092.html Wonder if anyone ever had Alicia Machado as the one name that would bring Trump's campaign down?

Do we have to talk about Carlos Sanchez and Leury Garcia all offseason? Let's hope not. Because the odds of them sustaining their recent success in starting roles is about 5-10% at best.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 30, 2016 -> 12:47 PM) Sale leads the AL in fWAR And bWAR? Jose Fernandez is ahead in one of those, but something like 6th-8th for the other. Regardless, Sale isn't going to finish Top 3 and Q will be lucky to sneak into the Top 10.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:56 PM) Back to the topic ... Maybe the Sox have decided there's nobody exciting available out there. Maybe if the Yankees flop in the playoffs they'll fire their manager and we can get him in a year. Let's face it ... If the Sox can only get somebody like a Martinez or Alomar, why bother? That's what they may be thinking. Robin is a poor manager, sure, but why hire some guy who will likely fail and we'd have to give him at least 3 year contract. Until a good one becomes available we keep Robin. Not saying it's right but it may be the issue here. I do wish Robin would work on his deficiencies. Cmon Robin, the four wins on the road vs. the Central HAS to be addressed. The Sox have some decent players. We shouldn't be THIS bad every year. Don't mistake this post. I want Robin gone, but I'm just saying the people available may suck. Yankees in the playoffs? After next season? Are the White Sox really going to offer Girardi that type of money, and would he really go to a rebuilding team? Miami a decade ago and then "starting over" with the White Sox would be two diametrically-opposed extremes, especially with the Cubs' resurgence and the fact that he was long-considered a possible manager for the Cubs. If anything, you'd think he would be the favorite to take the Cubs' job when Maddon retires, whenever that happens. Definitely the case if they don't manage to win a World Series in the next 3-5 years. KUDOS for no mention/s of Leyland, LaRussa, Francona or Guillen!!!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 03:22 PM) Because the White Sox are the 2nd team in the smallest market with multiple teams. Oakland is behind the Sox...Washington/Baltimore are lumped together now as well, by most.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 01:35 PM) HRC being a better candidate than Donald Trump adds nothing to her allure as a candidate. I never did what you claim with the bolded. My parents vote. My grandparents had voted in every election when they were alive. I don't feel the need to waste my time voting when the state I live in is a foregone conclusion. The rest of your post is all over the place and a task to respond to. I am not sure why you and many others think the government is out here trying to save children. Sure it happens, but like Napoleon said, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Something happened during the 1984/1988 elections where the funding elections and money in politics started to blow up. Both parties ended up sucking the tit of the powers traditional liberals used to hate. The banks, wall street, the military complex, etc. Past that, the liberals went so far left that their popular opinions aren't capitalistic or anywhere near in line with the idea of government this country was founded on. This has led to the expansion of government, more ugly foreign affair efforts and a smaller middle class yet the Democrats still scream for more government. With the history of human beings as my basis, it probably won't end in our favor. Yeah, the CHIP initiative is absolutely corruption at its finest. Ironically, Trump fashions himself another Napoleon. Hopefully he ends up exiled as well. So Michelle Obama's wife would have been excoriated had she taken the more active role Hillary did in 1993-94. What should she have been doing, exactly? Besides getting ripped for excessive vacations and spending money on travel expenses, she's been very similar to both Bush wives. Why don't you start your own Ayn Rand Party? Citizens United is 50% to blame for the money issue, and Republicans still aren't smart enough to figure out how to use that huge fundraising advantage to their benefit on the national level. We didn't have Republican presidents for 28/40 years from 1968-2008? From 1994 on, what did the Gingrich Revolution accomplish? The Tea Party Revolution? Did you miss all the inane foreign policy decisions and needless interventions under Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes? In the end, there's no screaming for more government. Social security, Medicare, military spending and interest on the debt is about all we're going to get...so we should believe that trickle down or voodoo economics actually works, and that every politician isn't limited to just two difficult choices, either investing into higher education OR increasing immigration? God help the USA if Melania is First Lady. Although it would be nice to undercut his central campaign theme of being anti-immigration. Mexicans and Alicia Machado, stay out, but if you're a Czech or Slovenian supermodel, come on down. We really don't have enough beauty in America, might as well import some more.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 02:29 PM) But what do you want Robin to do differently? What would you have a new manager do differently? I mean, I think we can all think of some instances where we disagreed with some of Robin;'s bullpen moves, but like really, what is this team lacking from a manager that is preventing it from winning? I get that it's attractive to use the manager as a scapegoat. But if you really JUST want someone's head to roll, I think it's all a waste of bluster. Because if the front office fires the manager and then trots the same half-assed team out there, are you really going to be satisfied? Yes, Robin has a losing record as a manager. So does the janitor, I guess. Who cares? Neither of them win or lose games. Front offices use managers as "fall guys" to placate angry fan mobs. It's a nearly meaningless gesture and it SHOULDN'T be enough for you. Don't let them pass off a different manager as a proxy for change. If the White Sox want to act the opposite of all of MLB teams in regard, great. But at least provide some evidence their plan is working or at least has a decent chance to work. They just shouldn't be surprised when a majority of the fans reject their operating philosophy. Has a school district under pressure from parents ever kept a principal in place with a record of such poor results without trying a change in leadership? Why are they trying to prove they're smarter than everyone else (especially their own fans) when there's almost nothing they can point to as reasons why he should be retained? I'm almost ready to believe they can just change the tagline for 2017 to Returning the Pride, change little of the roster and still believe nobody will be any the wiser.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 02:43 PM) Didn't you just post that all of the teams in post season contention are all top revenue teams except for one? Nope. That was top half though...the White Sox were #16 coming into the season. If we can't operate in that 8-16 space (and 8 was the franchise value according to Forbes less than a decade ago), what's the point?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 01:30 PM) Again, even with another $100 million, or a 40+% increase in revenue, they would STILL be closer to last than first. I get people hate JR, but I wish they wouldn't let that color the actual facts. What is the average revenue of the middle 10 MLB teams? #11-20. Get out of here acting like we're Tampa. 25 other teams in baseball are also closer to Tampa than the Yankees. All this does is suggest the team be sold because there's no shot to compete, but at least we don't have to deal with the Cubs and Cardinals and Pirates every year. The AL Central doesn't have any financial juggernauts like the east and west coast teams.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 11:38 AM) The reality of revenue is this. The White Sox are no where near the big market teams in terms of dollars earned. The Yankees brought in $516 million in revenue last year. Tampa brought in $193 million. The White Sox brought in $240million. But there's no correlation there with winning recently...and the Yankees, especially in terms of the World Series. Otoh, you can obviously compete where the Royals, Astros, Pirates, Indians, etc., are in terms of revenues but the margin of error is that much much smaller. That's why you have also the Red Sox bouncing up and down but having the ability every year to finish in first, at least, if things go right. The common denominator is a superior farm system talent and quality depth. Nobody has ever compared the Sox with the Yankees, Red Sox, Giants, Dodgers or Cubs. It's irrelevant. Of course, we only hear how Ilitch is creating a train wreck with reckless spending in Detroit, but the Tigers' fans have had a good product there to consume for going on 11 years now at least. Finally, Minnesota, Cleveland and KC all have/had much smaller revenue streams than the Sox the last 15+ years and almost always seem to kick our butts, too. Tampa Bay has been much more cost-efficient as well, since you name-dropped them.

So they deliberately misled the fans the last two years that they could compete...? You can't now retroactively say the 2015 wasn't at least designed to be a playoff team but was rebuilding instead. And Frazier was a pretty huge acquisition at the time...just no follow up from that point onwards.

Hello incoming flood of "collateral damage" civil action lawsuits against the U.S.

You know things are bad when more than half the moderators (the die hardest of all) are pretty down, if not despondent. Even if Renteria is the manager next year, a lot of fans are close to fed up with how this all has played out over the last 24 hours.

Cue the Anderson was picked 17th, Hawkins 13th refrain...

Theo Epstein would be the sixth biggest contract in Sox history. Abreu, Danks, Buehrle, Ordonez and Konerko...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colum...928-column.html The juxtaposition between the Cubs' and Sox announcements was jarring, to say the least. AS THEO EPSTEIN RECEIVES COMMITMENT ($50 million for 5 years), VENTURA TWISTS IN THE WIND I'm pretty sure the White Sox haven't spent $50 million on the GM's salary over the history of the entire franchise.

Ventura is only four more victories away from a 3-5 year contract extension. 81-81 OR BUST.

Arizona Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale is expected to be fired, with Phil Nevin the leading candidate to replace him. Even the DBacks/LaRussa/Stewart are smart enough to fire their manager when they arguably have been the worst front office over an 18 month period in recent MLB history... They could take the top 3-4 guys behind Theo/Hoyer/McLeod...starting with Bush and Rehman, randomly throw darts at their organizational chart and bring those guys over to the SouthSide, and undoubtedly have a heckuva lot better (and more cohesive/vision-oriented) organization than we currently do. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/team/front_office.jsp?c_id=chc

QUOTE (Dunt @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 10:19 PM) If you want an idea how the White Sox FO really feels about the fanbase, read that follow up Nightengale piece. f*** this organization. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2...-hale/91226072/ Apparently, Nightengale had a certain SoxTalk poster ghostwrite the second half of that article. Or his account was hacked. The irony is that even college football programs like LSU and maybe Oklahoma are in the process of firing guys who make MANY multiples of Ventura's $1.5 million salary before the halfway mark in the season. The last five seasons would make a perfect case study/textbook for any business school's "EXACTLY WHAT NOT TO DO IF YOU'RE IN PUBLIC RELATIONS." I suppose if the business side of things is completely irrelevant and you're satisfied with your profit margins and content that thousands were conned/tricked into buying partial season ticket plans in late April/early May only to end up eating most of those tickets...then you should go ahead and throw yourselves a "Mission Accomplished" party. Good job, JR!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 04:41 PM) My version is that JR has created a system where there is no accountability at any level and as a consequence everyone tried to keep things just as they are so that their jobs never are put under pressure. No one in the org is willing to challenge their current formula as fundamentally flawed because they would be the disloyal one if they did so. So everyone just insists they did a good job and there's no problem. If Hahn changes managers then someone did something wrong by hiring and extending him - can't admit that. The one place where this started breaking out was having two players come out and say that this team didn't care about winning, in various ways. They've brought in Haber, Hostetler and Paddy. Basically the only evidence of ANY attempt at changing. That said, keeping KW, Hahn and Buddy Bell in charge of this whole debacle almost begs belief. My first reaction was more along the lines of Thad Bosley, that it was just a "graceful" exit, but the vitriol being expressed at different websites where this story is being carried is worse than I've ever seen it...it feels like the mid to late 80's as a White Sox fan again, when the team was tottering on the abyss of moving to another city. Hahn has said there was going to be a careful analysis of ALL THE REASONS FOR THE MEDIOCRE PLAY, and since none of them are apparently the major league coaching staff, that means we essentially have to trust a front office that can't even see its nose in front of its face to fix the talent mix in the face of the worst free agency class in recent history. Unbelievable. My only joy this off-season again will come from rooting AGAINST the Cubs and rooting for the Rangers/Banister to win the World Series finally...and moments like the Dee Gordon homer off Colon, that any baseball fan can appreciate regardless of their allegiance.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 09:23 PM) This is an example of the bias against Trump. This is in a news story on CNN.com not an opinion piece. ... The sentence says: "With no apparent consideration for the political recklessness of his crude comments, Trump once again went after Machado's physical appearance, bringing her up on his own." The writer said the comments were "crude" and says they were politically "reckless." Says who? This is how you can tell the writer of the story favors Hillary over Trump. And don't get me started with the TV folks like Chris Matthews. He basically issued a love letter to Hillary making sure he had the first crack at who won the debate. He screamed that it was a shutout with HIllary hitting five home runs to Trump's none. Cmon Chris. Any Trump supporter could point to five zinger lines Trump had that would look good as soundbites as well as Hillary's. If Hillary won, it was by a very very small margin. The bias amazes me. Name one occasion when a female candidate commented on the attractiveness of male candidates, or heck, her opinion on Brit Hume's appearance? Nobody would crucify them for "hiding behind being female"? If you're alienating 14.5% of voters by attacking a female and Hispanic, and your weakest numbers are coming from women and minorities, how is that not a reckless strategy if you're attempting to make inroads with that group? Even if EVERY male in the US agreed, it would still be a losing line of attack because more and more females are voting than ever before. Female and non-white voters are 62.2% of the electorate...why would he want to continue focusing on this topic?

Therein lies the problem....if a slightly above average veteran like Reddick is way out of their price range (supply and demand imbalance) or comfort zone...that leaves only two choices, high risk players who are subsidized like Sandoval or the likes of Puig, change of scenery types that are rolls of the dice at best. If they pay anything close to the going rate in free agency, their budget will blow up quickly before they come remotely close to a team projected at 85-89 wins.