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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:46 PM) The Tony LaRussa whose team was just roundly mocked for dumping one of their top prospects for some salary relief? Does that sound like his idea or ownership's (because of financial issues)? No different than Teahen/Jackson being bundled...although this is more egregious than that one even.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:41 PM) True. The time to fire him was that series where we lost all four to Minnie. Or even before that. He's a joke, but no more than the players. Right now, you'd have to give a D or F to LaRoche, Gillaspie, Lexi, Sanchez, Micah, Flowers, Soto, Melky, Abreu, Bonifacio. For the most part the pitchers have been OK. Abreu is a B. He's not getting as many pitches to drive and he's being forced to be more aggressive trying to carry the team on his back. But he's almost at .300, at least coming into today. B-, at worst. LaRoche C+ or B-.

QUOTE (lord chas @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:38 PM) Attendance is going to drop like a rock after July 4th if this nonsense continues http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;#entry3186851 We're already 27th. Perhaps we could "pass" Miami going downwards, Cleve and TB would be hard to overtake. Then again, the Rays keep this up and 29th is possible. Funny the Sox attendance with even a winning organization and super creative front office would have been abysmal as well down in St. Pete. Charlotte might outdraw us in actual seats occupied here on out.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) This is not a defense of RV, but seriously, do you honestly think (insert any name here) would make a difference at this point? Well, we'll never know because of their fear of being disloyal to Ventura...especially if this terrible style of play continues into next year. It will remain one of those unanswered questions if the baseball equivalent of Brad Stevens could have turned the season around.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:29 PM) The Twins are going to cost Sale the Cy Young this year, just like the Indians possibly did in 2013. He's given up 32 earned runs this year, and 16 to the Twins. They've scored half the runs he's given up this year (more than half if you include unearned runs). 9-4 against Sox, 9-15 against the rest of the AL Central. Winners now of 1 of their last 7 series. Still hanging in there for the Wild Card.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) The complaints for not pulling him were 100% pitch count. It was a hard inning. The defense made at least two mistakes to prolong it. My main concern was Sale trying to throw as hard as he could against his old nemesis Mauer...simply because of his frustration level with the defense and umpiring.

Yes, every street named after Nathan Bedford Forrest should be forcibly renamed...Longstreet should be forced onto the Stone Mountain facade.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) Re: Micah, we did. Re: Anderson: buxton's OPS at AA was 100 points higher. Re: Anderson: if we were in a pennant race right now, with the way Alexei is playing...you might get me to actually say "Why the f*** not". I have a hard time imagining Aaron Hicks taking his job away when he returns from injury...all depends on the k rate. 15 k's in 37 ab's and a 501 ops. Maybe it's the Alabama (aka Asian Crazy) jumping worm's fault.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) I'm okay with trading everything on the team but Sale. If we can't get a good team around him before his contract is up he will still be worth a boatload in his 2nd to last year. Knowing the Sox, they'll trade Sale/Quintana first out of misguided sense of loyalty to Ventura's managerial legacy.

Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan...Sale is the fourth. Get used to seeing Buxton doing that against us....but it's a bit like the White Sox calling up Micah Johnson or Tim Anderson in terms of his offensive preparedness.

It's a pretty good trick to have three errors and no unearned runs. I'm sure Chris enjoyed the stress of the extra pitches on his arm. Ridiculous. Like the MERS outbreak, its spread and is now affecting everyone on the team like a virus.

Sale getting very frustrated with the ump there...glad the record means more than trying to win the game all of a sudden. This seems to be the exact situation which would bring about an injury, going after Mauer and Hunter. Kind of feels like we are forcing this record and not being respectful to the sport a bit.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:02 PM) Why the hell is he still in? You had to pull him last game because he threw too many pitches in his previous start, so why leave him out there in a blowout? Once he got to ten...you pull him with how things are going this inning. Some weird decisions leaving Danks and Sale in so long this week. Even if you pin it on the defense partially this inning, he has been hit hard. Sale still at 96.

Great defense from Eaton again....sigh. What happened with Sanchez earlier in the inning...shouldnt he have had the tag at second? One step forward, two steps back. Double figures in k's but it's kind of hollow at this point. We are making the Twins question the promotion of Buxton...well, maybe.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:20 AM) I forget where I said this the other day but more teams are willing to wait for their higher valued prospects to become MLB ready. The cubs would seem to be one example. They have plenty to trade but they realize they need more time to see who sticks, then the players that do not stick could very likely be traded this winter for pitching. I see Boston doing similar things with holding onto certain high level prospects. Both teams are loaded but not likely to make the playoffs so,imo, they are continuing with their respective rebuilds and see where they are at this winter. The ever increasing price of FA is making teams think otherwise about dealing top prospects. That's not to say no team will deal top prospects, just seems like prospects are holding more value in the eyes of some teams. That said. Maybe a team like Boston changes their perspective if a young lefty like Q was on the trade table. They do seem pretty adamant in keeping their best though so who knows? Passan just wrote about this yesterday. They're not going to make wholesale changes, and certainly dont want to dump Ramirez and Sandoval for pennies on the dollar. Betts and Bogaerts are close to untouchable, along with Rodriguez and Swihart. The pitcher they value the most for the moment is Brian Johnson. Unless the White Sox view Rusney Castillo as a future star, there's not a good fit. Yoan Moncada has a disappointing 576 ops in the low minors (roughly 100 abs) so far but they wont trade him this quickly.

The real question is who will put on the brakes in the front office now and preach patience...one step forward, two steps back, etc.? It hasn't ever been JR or KW's style...and for a GM beginning to have a target on his back (if he doesn't make any changes), his job longevity won't exactly be helped by "rebuilding" now when the fanbase was promised the 2016-2019 window of getting back into the playoff hunt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/educat...4eb1_story.html As well as makes up a phone call from Mark Zuckerberg (supposedly while in Panama)...urging her to go to Harvard, where he of course didn't even graduate. This is the corollary to the participation trophy idea...it's the "tiger" parents who are unwilling to accept anything less than eight Ivy League acceptances, who force their kids into mastering multiple instruments, leadership in volunteer activities, sports year-round (captainship is a plus), clubs/extracurriculars, student newspaper editor, training center classes for SAT, arts/drawing/singing/dance in order to differentiate their son or daughter from all the other perfect SAT scorers who look virtually identical to admissions counselors. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/genius...d8e5_story.html Opinion piece on the situation.

Probably from watching too many Adam Sandler films there in KS.

Carlos Correa is pretty good, haha. Don't think he can catch Bryant and Pederson for NLROY, though. Unintended trade consequences situation with the Rays/Mariners...they swap two former top prospects in Montgomery (originally with Royals, the forgotten part of the Myers/Odorizzi/Shields/Wade Davis deal) and Erasmo Ramirez. Ramirez ends up pitching well for the Rays and keeping them competitive when everyone had basically already given up on him in SEA. Meanwhile, Montgomery's pitching a shutout against his former team, the Royals.

Petricka always has a lot of adrenalin flowing in his home state.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 08:37 PM) I see his best-case as a Juan Pierre/Carl Crawford-type outfielder. I think you're confusing him with Tim Anderson. Actually, if you combined the two (Micah/Tim)...Crawford's XB power and Pierre's stolen base ability. Still, Crawford was a Top 5-10 MVP caliber player early in his TB career, don't imagine we'll see that happen but we can always hope, right? Unfortunately, we have "half players" all over the place. Combine Sanchez/Micah as well, you've got a decent player. Beckham with Gillaspie, etc.

White Sox bullpen ERA entering tonight, 11th in the American League. Yikes.

Well, if we do go on to win this game filled with clutch two-out RBI's, we'll be back to only one game behind the Indians. That same Indians team is single-handedly keeping the Tigers in the race, with 1 or no more than 2 victories against Detroit all season long in that series. DET 10-2 versus Cleveland 69 runs scored 49 runs allowed

The crazy thing is that the White Sox have 13 one-run victories....all those late game comebacks, and we're still sitting on the 7th pick in the draft next year. Sanchez got an XB hit? What? Abreu, very quietly, is almost back to .300 again (.297).

Molitor changed his mind about pulling Pelfrey there. Must have said, "I've got this!" Will see how it works out. The answer: not well.