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QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 08:26 PM) I really hope we can flip Avi this winter. I think it's safe to say he is not the long term answer in RF. Joe Borchard for Matt Thornton comes to mind...but we haven't had a busted prospects trade work in a decade. Only 11 doubles all season for Avi? Wow.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) Avi figures to get the 2 day off LaRoche treatment after this one. He should get 2 months off though, playing in the minors. Pretty lousy of Detroit to rush a guy with tools. His career is OVA or at least in the Viciedo stages after this effort tonite. They didn't rush him, like most Latin American guys he started his career at 16. He has somewhere in the vicinity of 2000 minor league at-bats. Basically, your instincts don't improve much defensively if they're non-existent in the first place. And he hit over .300 his first time up, just like the first couple of months this year with the BABIP good fortune.

Petricka up to 97-98 there...? Mysterious how you can have that type of stuff and have a similar K rate to John Danks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 08:13 PM) Are you kidding? This year the guys we've had on the DL are Bonifacio, Shuck, and Albers. Our record of health this year is ridiculously good. We've basically lost 0 of our key contributors for more than a couple games at a time. Compare that to the Cardinals where they've lost their #1 starter and their top offensive contributor has been on the DL twice - where would we be with that? If we have a normal number of injuries next eyar people will be calling us "snakebit" because we'll seem so much more banged up than this season. Unless you consider the poor start a result of Sale's foot problems, Conor's foot, Abreu and LaRoche have been off and on health-wise, but no major injuries that have wiped out months of playing time. Besides the Cardinals, look at all injuries to the Rays and their starters (Moore, Smyly, Odorizzi, Cobb, etc.) and they have a better record than the White Sox with about 2/3rds of our payroll.

Great defense there this inning....not sure why they didn't walk Longoria to set up the double play.

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 04:20 PM) If anything Toronto screwed up by not getting anything for him Fri before the deadline passed. I would bet a bunch of teams would have given something more than the nothing he just got. It was not clear he was going to be the one waived as he was having a good year. Their GM should have called especially someone like us who it is apparent could use a guy that hits LH. If they did call us, we had to guess he would not pass thru, maybe couldn't agree on price but Tor couldn't get less than they did. Probably too busy arguing with each to have the time to inquire..."but it will block playing time for LaRoche/Saladino/Avi"!!

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) It's a complete embarrassment. On the other hand, if you are disloyal (a certain Bulls coach) or air dirty laundry in public through surrogates despite having an indisputable record of success (and without D Rose half that time), adios. JR could barely part with Greg Walker, but it happened largely because he was connected to Ozzie or he might still be around. Of course, Ozzie used Joe Cowley as well as his kids to get back at KW and the organization. Tim Raines is the one name that comes to mind of former Sox stars to be fired.

Rubio has gone too far to the right because of the Tea Party...the most inspirational/charismatic, would bring in Hispanics, etc. Christie is perceived as being too friendly with Obama and moderate/centrist, which means he would be a great general election candidate but no chance to survive the current nomination process. Paul and his father are too far out there for mainstream Republicans. Jindal doomed himself a long time ago and his LA record won't stand up under scrutiny. Everyone's arguing that Bush (by simply being reasonable and articulate) has been helped the most by Trump...and I've never met a single person who wanted Cruz to actually be president. In the end, would want Walker because that's the classic argument of these times....labor unions vs. outsourcing, DC vs. states' right, the protection of the 1% (Koch, etc.) and corporations to the disadvantage of the middle class and poor, wealth gap widening, rejection of Federal Aid at the cost to weakest and most vulnerable and implicit desire to push those people out of state.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 08:40 AM) 0% chance the Sox could have had one of those guys for Samardzija. Why, if some team's willing to pay him $100 million this off-season? I will believe it until we see Kazmir sign for more money and years.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 07:51 AM) By gaining a draft pick for Jeff, I think I could suffer our 1st round pick on a hitter because the 2 I mentioned (Upton and Heyward), Upton will be 28 and Heyward will be 26. Sox have LaRoche and Danks coming off the books next year and Sox had major interest in Heyward before he got traded to the Cards this past off season, so I think it definitely could be realistic in going after him. I then would package AVI in a deal for a 3B or another pitcher. For $150-175 million? No way.

This sounded like racial code language. I pressed him: what did he mean by “a different culture”? Wilson struggled to respond. He said that he meant “pre-gang culture, where you are just running in the streets—not worried about working in the morning, just worried about your immediate gratification.” He added, “It is the same younger culture that is everywhere in the inner cities.” The Justice Department found other examples of systemic racial bias in Ferguson. From 2012 to 2014, the Ferguson police issued four or more tickets to blacks on seventy-three occasions, and to whites only twice. Black drivers were more than twice as likely as others to be searched during vehicle stops, even though they were found to possess contraband twenty-six per cent less often. Some charges, like “manner of walking in roadway,” were brought against blacks almost exclusively.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-cop Incredibly long but worthwhile follow-up about Ferguson and Officer Darren Wilson's life since then...still living in StL area but very reclusive for obvious reasons.

http://www.royalsreview.com/2015/8/3/90885...ling-sandwiches Blue Jays accused of stealing sandwiches from Royals...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/opinion/...col-left-region GOP candidates and gun control...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 08:58 PM) Won't the Demos be mad if Biden runs? Like he's taking the thunder from Ms. Congenality; Ms. Entitlement (forgive me for being bitter about Hilly; I just don't want somebody that rich to be President when we are all so poor as a country). Trump is multiple billions richer than the Clintons.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance Still 26th. On the plus side, we are right on the heels of the Phillies, who also must have bandwagon fans because they won the World Series more recently than the last time we were in the playoffs.

We'd be better off with Daniel Norris or Jeff Hoffman. Oops. Now someone inevitably will post a critical review of Hoffman despite it being his first month back from TJ surgery...which historically has required 18-24 months to rebound to 100% or better. Secondly, the White Sox were willing to take him at 3 if Rodon was already selected, so nothing has changed in his repertoire. If the medicals were fine, then it's a risk but not as much as Shark at age 31 or 32 for $100 million.

We'd be better off with Daniel Norris or Jeff Hoffman. Oops. Now someone inevitably will post a critical review of Hoffman despite it being his first month back from TJ surgery...which historically has required 18-24 months to be back at 100% or better.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 05:15 PM) Volquez needs to watch himself. The Royals are clearly in the wrong here. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v3249...lue-jays-royals Donaldson always crowds the plate...should they just give him the whole inner half for fear of upsetting him? What would Harrelson say? If you're afraid to come inside, you're not long for the big leagues.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) So glad they didn't send the wrong message to this great roster by trading away shark Adding to the sting even more, newly-acquired Daniel Norris beating the Orioles in his debut for the Tigers and passing the Sox in the standings.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 12:29 PM) It's a major holiday in Canada, I believe The infamous Civic Day. http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/canada/civic_day.php From reading that book about the two guys who go to thirty stadiums in thirty days, it was Canada Day that was the hardest to acqcuire tickets for... The last time they had a home game on this holiday, they didn't even draw 25,000 for a Roy Halladay start in 2008 when the team was 56-56.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 08:08 AM) The Royals only draw more than Toronto and the White Sox on the road. Johnny Cueto isn't a road draw. as I have stated many times, walk up tickets aren't as big as they used to be. Most have their seats far in advance. Hogwash. The Blue Jays have now sold out Monday's game because Price is pitching against the Twins...a game no one really cared about a week or ten days ago.

I wouldn't do that deal, Either. Ethier is so easy to misspell.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 09:55 AM) Look at what the Marlins got for Latos That's more along the lines of what the Sox would have expected for Samardzija (maybe a little more). The difference here is that the Sox are closer to the race, really seem to like Jeff, and will have no problem offering arbitration if it gets to that point. Any offer any team made would have had to have been better than a top 50 pick. Doing nothing was totally defendable. Except I'm not sure they were prepared to make a qualifying offer to him from a financial perspective...and assume the risk he actually decided to return on a one-year deal. He's probably rebuilt his value to the point where he wouldn't consider a three year deal the better option, though, and has got another two mph on his fb recently. Iwakuma's the one I would go after though, if they can't re-sign Shark. He's missed too many starts this year to rebound to full value.