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Well, there's the near-certainty of Robertson closing out games and mowing down batters. That's ONE element that's an improvement on last season.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 25, 2015 -> 07:27 AM) At least no Hawk bulls*** about how this guy has never looked this good. Pitchers know they need not have good stuff they just need to throw close to the zone and sox will get themselves out. And blaming every single loss on the umpiring.

QUOTE (juddling @ May 23, 2015 -> 09:45 PM) Pitch Perfect 2......wow was that bad.... I just watched it online. There wasn't one laugh out loud joke in the entire movie (especially Fat Amy/Rebel Wilson, who the surprise breakout star of the first one). The constant jokes about women's empowerment and the whole presence of the "Nicaraguan" girl who bombed about 10 jokes individually about immigration, just tone dead or flat. All of the interaction with their German rivals.....ridiculous. Can't remember a non-action movie sweeping to so much financial success that's so completely off-kilter and lacking in humor...other than the last decade of Adam Sandler. It really was THAT bad, as juddling stated. The ONLY thing that was fun about it was the music. That's it. Naked cash grab. The 2015 White Sox with all their flaws are clearly better.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2015 -> 01:47 AM) That would be neat if you are right. Generally, however, a team doesn't suck radically at home on a homestand and go do something that you suggest is possible. Rather I think a 3-7 road trip is more likely. Or 2-8. Pretty sure there are 11 games in 10 days (DH in Baltimore Thurs), next Monday is an off-day. Toronto, Baltimore, Houston and the Rangers. Two teams scuffling (granted, when's the last time we swept in Sky Dome, not sure it has ever happened...maybe 2005-06) and then two teams playing pretty darned well in Texas/Houston. 4-7 wouldn't be a total surprise.

http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2...had_the_in.html The "inside story" of how Dellavedova ended up with the CAVS Grant would have drafted Dellavedova, but he believed no one else was really interested in the guard. He could be added as a free agent. Right after the draft, Grant signed Dellavedova to a two-year, $1.3 million deal. The deal closer was that Grant guaranteed $100,000 for Dellavedova as part of the deal -- a lot of money for an undrafted player. He will be a restricted free agent after the season. Former Cavs coach Mike Brown had Dellavedova as a rookie in 2013-14. Brown was familiar with the guard, because he watched Dellavedova play a few times at St. Mary's. Elijah (son of Mike) Brown was being recruited by St. Mary's. He even played some pick-up game with Dellavedova, so Brown was willing to give Dellavedova a chance to to prove himself with the Cavs. http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/5/24/8652...illain-warriors You will come to hate Stephen Curry (sooner or later)

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 24, 2015 -> 11:08 PM) I just saw Ex Machina. Liked it, didn't love it. I think the philosophical, thought-provoking parts were strong and two of the three performances were strong (didn't fully buy the writing and/or acting of Caleb). The twists were good, too, although I thought one or two were predictable. Overall, it didn't blow me away. It was entertaining, but didn't leave a lasting impression on me like a great movie does. Maybe our collective standards as a society are slipping...what I mean is, we're so desperately looking for anything inventive/original/non-derivative to the point that we can't recognize "greatness" anymore in films. When we are pleasantly surprised by something, we perhaps tend to overvalue and overrate it. As the expectations run high, like with Avengers 2, we're tougher on those films...and movies like Ex Machina and Snowpiercer that become critical darlings also start to become over-hyped, to the point where it's hard to separate the objective merits of a film because of the preconceived notions we bring to a viewing.

There are, however, red flags that still need addressing. The defense continues to be an issue as errors have had a demoralizing effect on this group. Early deficits have proved costly. And the offense has shown very few signs of life, making those early runs the pitching staff has given up a monumental challenge to overcome. If there were easy answers, the White Sox would love to know. “If you can find that out tell me as soon as you can because if you could find that out that would be very helpful to us and we could use that,” Eaton said. www.csnchicago.com

http://www.coolstandings.com/comebacks.asp?i=1 White Sox teams in 1906, 1983 and 1959 among the top 100 greatest comebacks of all-time. On the other hand, a last-place White Sox team on Memorial Day or June 1st has never come back to earn a playoff spot.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 24, 2015 -> 06:49 PM) Names aside, it's disingenuous to assume one defensive metric applied in a small sample size is a definitive assessment of a player's defensive production. On what defensive standard shall we argue? You agree that we should go with the whoever makes the most errors is automatically the worst defender? I hope not. If you're going to say Semien is worse...then what is that based upon, other than errors? Yes, by "range factor" Alexei Ramirez is really good this season....and Jose Iglesias is pretty bad. Semien's down near the bottom. Nobody who has watched Ramirez all season long would say he's anything close to his best this year. Should we not make ANY comments about a player defensively until we have a 3 year trend/pattern to compare? Are all the writers and websites arguing Bryce Harper's the best player in baseball now also disingenuous for arguing based on two months of 2015 versus the cumulative results of the 2012-14 seasons?

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 24, 2015 -> 05:31 PM) Semien may be worse defensively at SS than Johnson was at 2B No. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding/_/po...nt/6/order/true Aybar, Jose Ramirez, Danny Santana and Andrus are all worse. As far as Micah Johnson goes, nobody's remotely close to his -0.8. Giovatella and Odor are negative, but still -1/2 point better.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 24, 2015 -> 03:05 PM) Do Jermaine Dye and Jim Thome still count? If we stick ourselves back in a time warp with AJ, Dye, Thome and/or Carlos Quentin in 2008...and Pods in the first half of 2005 stealing bases at will, heck, would love to have the equivalent of Iguchi at 2B, too. After that, it's just Ramirez and Abreu.

QUOTE (OilCan @ May 24, 2015 -> 05:15 PM) Why was Cleuluis Rondon hitting 5th in today's lineup?!? Can someone explain this to me? Maybe he gave up switch hitting, lol.

Well, obviously they're stuck with Ramirez until he heats up, and there's nobody ready to play SS in the system until 2017 anyway...and that's a HUGE if in Tim Anderson, who's still more likely to end up at 2B or LF from quite a few reports. (If we are out of it at some point, it would be nice to see what Saladino could do...well, just because he seems to be a good kid and has overcome a lot). Of course, Melky Cabrera will probably be blocking the playing time of youngsters like Anderson and Hawkins by that point. (Then again, we should probably expect the worst since the whole "we haven't produced a position player since Rowand/Crede/Ordonez/Lee thing" unless you count Marcus Semien).

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 24, 2015 -> 01:40 PM) For what? There is not one all around good non pitcher in the organization. At a minimum to shore up the defense laroche should play. This is another stupid move that has no rational objection to it. This season is not turning around. There is nothing to show it can. Objectivity...but the point remains.

Anibal Sanchez with 11 k's and 7 er. Fwiw even Danish and Anderson have enough appreciable flaws that another ill-advised prospects for veteran trade like the Shark deal would somehow work against us.

QUOTE (daggins @ May 24, 2015 -> 01:23 PM) Yeah the Sox are in the fairly unique position of being an expensive, young, bad team. This leaves them with little room to maneuver. Except for Cabrera, Duke, Bonifacio, Robertson, Shark and LaRoche. Price in Cincy ejected before the game started...he might be fired tonight or tmrw morning.

Astros now with ten consecutive k's offensively but seven runs. At least that game is interesting....tied 7-7 in Detroit late.

I wish I would have counted how many times opposing team's broadcasters have questioned the effort level and especially the focus of the White Sox this season. Now the Twins are worrying about our attendance and the growing excitement surrounding the Cubs. Pretty sad state of affairs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2015 -> 01:08 PM) There are 4 teams between us and the 2 wild card spots already. And we don't have the financial ability like 2012 to add 3-4 quality veterans. Teams like Red Sox, Angels, Yankees, Mariners, Orioles, Tigers are all going to fight like mad to improve.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 24, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) Catching has been a problem for this team and you wonder who is making personnel decisions. I always throught Flowers was a great back up catcher and we should have kept AJ Perz. The management obviously saw something else and I just wonder if it was a team budget decision that clouded their judgment. We need some fiery types on this team to put a charge in folks Have been hearing this same refrain since Rowand and Everett. Eaton was supposed to be the newest sparkplug/igniter.

CLE about one hour from being 1/2 game behind the Sox. More bad defense from the Sox...should have been a 6-4-3 DP. Two bad misplays already. Almost let Plouffe take third.

Can't wait for Buxton and Sano...not! If both of those guys are legit studs, don't even want to think about the consequences.

Cabrera is just awful. No analysis needed.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 24, 2015 -> 12:50 PM) He had a good start and a good finish last year, with a big doughnut hole in the middle. I think they were hoping for better consistency, and again, the pitchers say they like throwing to him. That said, enough is enough with that guy. They can do better with a Soto/Kottaras platoon at this point, while they try to find a replacement. We might give up 200+ stolen bases with Soto catching.

How many games this year have we actually scored first?