caulfield12

You're not confident any longer that OKC can win the game outright? Sounds like you're hedging a bit!!! Before, the series was over and wasn't even going back to OKC, let alone Game 7. So you're betting OKC to cover but not win the game straight up?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 29, 2016 -> 07:56 AM) This isn't a fact caulfield Fine. 75-85% probability unless Fulmer makes a sudden transformation in his entire approach to pitching and doesn't have to go back down to Winston-Salem...and gets his walk rate to no more than 4-4.25/9 IP.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 29, 2016 -> 07:36 AM) Caulfield, I enjoy your posts, but seriously WTF. "The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane." Hunter S. Thompson

Good (or bad news) again...considering how the more good players KC loses, the better they seem to play recently. Sal Perez has a quad contusion and may or may not go on the DL. No structural damage to the knee. That means Drew Butera at catcher. Chris Young is back, but has been inserted into the long-man role out of the bullpen for now. That leaves Hosmer, Cain and a struggling Kendrys Morales (561 OPS makes Rollins look like a Silver Slugger) as the lone non-AAA players in the line-up. And Morales has a bad finger, so it wouldn't be surprising to see him on the bench as well against Sale. So Sale only has to get Hosmer and Cain...sounds easy enough, right?

They almost have to try the first 3-4 months next year because Frazier/Lawrie/Cabrera are going to be free agents and they'll have a potential impact SS to ignite the offense in Anderson. That and the fact that Carson Fulmer no longer can be counted on for the 2017 rotation, you have to find a starter SOMEWHERE. Obviously, the hope is that they still have enough payroll flexibility to add another bat (LH preferably) and at least one RH pitcher to the bullpen.

At least you guys have a #1 or #2 draft pick to look forward to next year. Thanks for beating the Indians 4/6 and keeping the White Sox in the race, at least for now. Yeah, nice to see even the Mariners and Red Sox can blow games in ugly fashion, too. White Sox had a triple play (first of two this year) very reminiscent of the double play there to end the game.

Probably a 2-4 with that hundredth digit carried out...

Because Richard is always bumbling in Silicon Valley it has an adverse effect on the Sox chances today. Richard=Chris Sale when flustered (or vice-versa). The only way to counteract this is with a Gavin Belson GIF/gfycat. Or naming Monica manager of the White Sox. Or the patented Pied Piper algorithm managing our bullpen from here on out.

But look at the long-term deals in the AL Central. Nolasco, Hughes, Santana and Joe Mauer with the Twins. Do you think they wish they could undo all of those? Danks, LaRoche (coming into this year)...Dunn from 2011-2014. And who knows what we have in Abreu at this point... Verlander, Upton, Miggy Cabrera, Anibal Sanchez. Otoh, Zimmerman was excellent until recently. The Indians are one of the few teams not burdened with any long-term FA deals...although they have extended younger players to favorable extensions and bought one year of FA out (those deals are much more logical, you're retaining your best talent in their prime years and well under the going free market rate). Then you have the Royals with Omar Infante, Alex Gordon (not looking good at the moment), Ian Kennedy (that one's been a plus, so far), Soria and Volquez. Edinson Volquez has probably been the best $10+ million FA deal in recent years (in the division), along with Abreu.

Yeah, nobody would have thought it at the time, but that base (assuming he scored) represented the eventual winning run. Another case of when it rains, it pours or everything that can go wrong will go wrong...just as much as things went almost perfectly right getting out to 23-10 and 6 outs away from 24-10.

But that's not a realistic solution unless he is able to run for president under another party's already established ballot, probably the Green Party. I think that would get him on the ballot in at least 20 states, enough to tip the election in Trump's favor. Now whether he would actually choose that "nuclear winter" option, time will tell.

The odds of losing that game with a six run lead into the 9th inning was 1 in 562...in other words, we could have that same exact scenario with Sox closers in a game and it would happen about once every 15 years or so, roughly. That's without even taking considering the first out being recorded.

Well, the other problem is what is he really asking for people to do? 1) Not vote? 2) Vote for Trump? 3) Vote for another candidate (like Green or Libertarian)? 4) Try to shift the Democratic Convention to Sanders by disrupting it??? It's one thing to be against someone, but then you need to offer up a better alternative and explain clearly why that alternative is better. You haven't been able to win a national election going mostly or completely negative since the 1988 Bush vs. Dukakis race.

Gotta feel for those fans...especially knowing that might be Durant's final game in that arena. When Thompson hit that big 3 from way out to pull them back to within 4, you just had a sense that the Warriors were on the verge of coming back. OKC had the lead at 12 at one point and were comfortably in the +5-9 range for most of the game but just couldn't put them away. That and letting Golden State surge into a tie after the halftime, you just had a feeling it would go down to the end. Huge shot by Curry over Ibaka there to extend to 5, but not nearly as big as Thompson's trey. Mychal Thompson had it right when he named one of his kids TREYce, haha...just the wrong son (yes, I know it's spelled with an A, but same sound).

JA Happ was the answer to the draft pick....him and Benitendi were the hitters the Sox should have been looking at. Rich get richer. Sox just keep floating along in the midst of mediocrity.

Your article's been INTERCEPTED by Klay Thompson. Greg, the more you pile on her, the more you actually get people to want to support her. You're actually having the opposite of your intended effect, and the harder you try (how can the country possibly not see these things about her and be absolutely outraged???), the more difficult it's going to be to convince someone to change their minds. Let's say you have spent 1-2 weeks of your life typing anti-Hillary messages here and perhaps at other sites. If you knew that you caused more people to back her than would have if you had said nothing at all, would it give you pause? How many times at this site have you seen anyone emerge "enlightened" and change a position about anything? It's very rare.

Jackson's been doing better recently, but we still need another bat who can preferably play CF well enough to keep Eaton in RF. Thompson on the team would have moved Cabrera to DH, and given us one of the best defensive outfields in baseball. Poor Greg. That bet on OKC isn't looking too hot about right now.

They're going to need to change managers at some point just to see if the talent they have on the roster can perform at a level capable of competing in 2017... Otherwise, there's no point in not trading Frazier, Cabrera and Lawrie for whatever they can get. Does anyone have confidence having watched all this transpire over the last 3 weeks (really started in Baltimore with Albers starting to struggle, and Latos) that Ventura's going to rally this team back from the brink? After the last two weeks of the 2012 season, after the start to the 2015 season and now with this complete collapse? It's hard to imagine absorbing three completely disheartening losses like this (especially against a crippled Royals team) and do much more than play .500 baseball (at best) the rest of the way. We're 2 games under .500 now if you take away those games with Minnesota. Otoh, those who watched the first 33 games will tell you we obviously have the ability to be an 86-90 win team.

If you look at his stats the last 2-3 months in the 2014 season, and into the playoffs...I can't see where this would be very encouraging. Need further evidence, it's Cueto and Shark in the same division. Now if this whole thing is about bringing in yet another experienced winner, veteran leader, clubhouse presence...etc., it really makes you wonder what's going on in that clubhouse about now. With all the innings he threw for the Rays all those years, the tank is much closer to empty than full at this point. The last thing they could afford is for someone making that kind of money in the rotation to go down to TJ surgery and destroy the remaining payroll flexibility for two more years.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ May 28, 2016 -> 06:48 PM) Now that the sox are back to being a s*** team, I think this attendance talk is silly. We'll actually now be a crap team that drew decently, assuming 1.9 million tix have already sold according to tv reports. Well, you can also put to bed the idea "the White Sox have to start out hot" because if they miss the playoffs again, the fans won't care next year until around the middle of July...

QUOTE (Lillian @ May 28, 2016 -> 06:14 PM) I can't imagine that the Sox would take on that contract, and give up young talent. That would be very foolish. Calling Erik Johnson and Tatis (too bad he can't hit like his dad) talent are pushing it...and Erik really deserves a chance with another organization with the way the White Sox have treated him, anyway. It's the financial part of it that's most alarming and reactionary.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 28, 2016 -> 06:17 PM) Sox are overall 9-8 against the division. 6-0 against the Twins. Do the math. They can't beat Cleveland, they can't beat K.C. They have ZERO chance if that doesn't change. (And they haven't beaten teams in the division on a regular basis in years...) Mark Or really played well at home...perhaps since 2008 (or that 26-5 stretch in 2010, but even most of that was on the road if memory serves correctly, against NL East teams).

I remember the good 'ol days when Lip was perceived to be fairly optimistic over at WSI. Amazing what all this losing will do to fans over time. It gets to the point where you expect things to go wrong so you can't be too surprised or upset....but then, when they were 6 outs from being 14 games over .500 (and somehow surviving the previous game and getting a grand slam from Frazier), you could finally feel things turning for the better and a playoff appearance in the offing. It didn't feel automatic, but pretty close to "likely" at least. And, to top it off, we don't even have the right to suffer like Cubs, Padres, Mariners or Indians fans, because it's only been 11 years since the World Series!!! Heck, even the Marlins got two World Series titles to go with all their suffering, two within the span of six years.

Trying to take focus off baseball for awhile, decided to read HIROSHIMA by John Hershey to put things in perspective. Still hoping this trade doesn't go through unless the Padres are eating roughly $16-18 million out of the $56 million we'd end up owing.

Balta's alive!!! Watched the replay of that last pitch to Eibner. Talk about center-cut. Guess you can't blame Kahnle after he was put in that position in the first place and getting squeezed on the strike zone, your primary thought is not to walk him.