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Can't wait for the Lawrie drama to be rekindled, haha... Actually, the best way to get rich gambling is just do the opposite of whatever Greg predicts!!! Poor Gregster, these last few weeks with a $140 ticket, Hillary Clinton resuming her front runner status, Kansas football being a complete embarrassment to the Big 12, the Royals continuing to haunt him... I predict that in the next 48-72 hours, a Royals' fan with a souvenir flag flying from the window frame will intimidate Greg into rolling through another stop sign with their exuberance and devil-may-care attitude...OR, they will smash into his back-bumper and he'll be forced to get a rental car, which will only be 25-50% covered by insurance and will end up costing more than the original ticket for rolling the stop sign. All we would be missing would be some type of random gun crimes lost amid the celebrations taking place in KCK and the northeast section of KCMO.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-181323651.html Apparently Schwarber's bomb last night landed resting on top of the scoreboard. Too good to make it up. They're going to leave it up there, enshrined in a protective glass casing until the end of the playoffs. The anti-Billy Goat, Bartman Ball, 1969 Mets, Leon Durham (1984), Bill Buckner (well, he mostly played for the Cubs, so the associative theory), the Brant Brown error in 1998, lost to the Giants in 1989 but nobody remembers because of the earthquake, etc.

Buddy Bell, Hahn, KW, Steverson, Robin, new bench coach, Vince Coleman... Can cross each of them out when they're no longer with the organization and only the bench coach is left standing. McEwing, if he doesn't end up taking another job, can probably stick him up there too.

Neshek and Keuchel perhaps too late...if they were going to bring Keuchel in, it should have been to face Rios where Hinch used Fiers instead. Hinch isn't going to come out of this series smelling likes roses. We'll see if Yost gets second-guessed not going to Herrera or Davis here and rolling with Cueto. Hard to argue with 16 in a row...but, on the other hand, you have the best bullpen in the majors. Tough call. Don't like bringing in Herrera with someone on base, and he's not as comfortable in the 8th as the 7th. I'd go with Davis if Cueto gets in trouble, but that's kind of an obvious call when he's had a sub 1 ERA or whatever for two consecutive seasons.

Cueto just earned $25 million back. Still down another $25 million for that 9+ ERA he had over a 4-5 start stretch there. At the very least, he's at least halfway redeemed/rehabilitated in the minds of KC fans now. If he would have imploded in this game, he would be as well liked as Javy V. by White Sox fans when he returned in the future....a cascade of boos. http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-colum...le39009429.html This homemade Cueto video looks hilarious...

Logically, you go Sale/Q/Rodon (three lefty aces)....until one of them is traded. Or you choose from Sale/Q/Eaton/Abreu...with Robertson and Rodon on the outside looking in for the moment. Or you could have Cabrera, Duke, Bonifacio, Beckham, Robertson, LaRoche and Shark and cross them out whenever they leave the organization. That Cubs' banner will be too big. Forgot to add Baez and Russell. Can't fit them all in.

I was referring to pre-steroids Bonds. Well, never mind. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-cubs-are-...-032206186.html It's starting. Passan basically arguing that the Cubs in the NLCS and World Series will be one of the first times in recent history baseball has gotten more attention in October than football, probably going back to the 2004 Red Sox championship...oxygen remaining for the White Sox in the media, critical and failing.

I was referring to pre-steroids Bonds. Well, never mind. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-cubs-are-...-032206186.html It's starting. Passan basically arguing that the Cubs in the NLCS and World Series will be one of the first times in recent history baseball has gotten more attention in October than football, probably going back to the 2004 Red Sox championship...oxygen remaining for the White Sox in the media, critical and failing.

The Ghost of White Sox Rios past has come back to haunt the Gregster this time. All those taunts for years and years...karma. Dunn's next movie production will probably garner him an Oscar nomination for Actor in a Supporting Role. I think they'll be very careful to protect Madson from getting any time in this one after the other night. It's going to be all Herrera and two innings of Davis if Herrera gives up ANYTHING in the 8th. Morales might be brought in to match up with a selected lefty.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 06:34 PM) Thank you. You proved my point. With different better players, the Sox got better results. The manager doesn't remotely f***ing matter. Not really...because Jennings was terrible, Petricka took a step or two back and the back end was bad. We spent a ton on Robertson and Duke and became merely below average. Wasn't exactly efficient allocation of resources.

Would be funny if Cueto sued the American League/Royals for lopping $25-50 million off his big FA contract... He's already blamed Sal Perez's positioning for having a five start stretch with a 9+ ERA, refused to pitch on three days' rest this series and blown off an important charity event with a lame excuse.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 06:14 PM) Was bad at shortstop initially. Then he was good at shortstop. Or it could be shifting him all over the field (see Beckham, Semien, Viciedo) wasn't helpful for him settling in and becoming comfortable at one position. 90% of it was confidence in knowing the position was his in 2009.

You're giving Ventura more credit than Hahn for Albers, Robertson, Duke and Jones' recovery/health? Also, it literally would have been impossible to be worse. And we still had a lot of blown saves.

Better yet, Bryant/Schwarber/Soler/Rizzo all attired in Sox jerseys. Then SoxTalk can make the national news like McNally's did last week.

Most workers in America can only dream of eye and dental insurance. Luckily, as a teacher we had both, but of course now teachers' unions are also under fire for fighting for benefits for their workers so that eventually will be cut out as well. Just have a baby in China. As long as you are married, it only costs about $500-1000. Of course, you have to marry a Chinese woman. If you aren't married, the woman or couple bear all the costs...even for future pre K - 12 education, since the child doesn't exist technically and can't attend a government school. Hence, the only single moms are rich celebrities.

Except everyone acknowledges Ozzie was a very effective manager (especially handling the bullpen and giving starters like Garland more rope than Manuel) in his first five or so years on the job. The biggest complaints were the Sunday line-ups and benching Anderson for Mackowiak in 2006. Maybe showing too much preference or deference to veterans vs. younger position players. In the end, he was also right to put the brakes on the Beckham and Viciedo worship.

How many CEO's get to keep their jobs hen they consistently underperform on earnings per share by using the defense, "well, we were projected by numerous algorithms and models/simulations to perform much better than we actually did in reality. Just be patient and trust the process...eventually we'll get it right!"

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 05:08 PM) Brian Anderson, Ryan Sweeney, Alexei, Sanchez, Saladino, Trayce. Chris Getz and Eduardo Escobar both not bad. How did they develop Ramirez? It took them half a season to even realize he might be able to stick in the infield, and he was playing mostly 2b then, and CF. Of course, Cabrera was the starter, but nobody projected him as more than a utility player. One of those fortunate situations like Quintana where we ended up with surplus value on a low-risk investment. More of the credit probably goes to Omar Vizquel than Cora/Guillen.

Still think the Blue Jays are the much better team. Imagine them lining up with the Cubs in the World Series. Will set homer records, but the weather in Chicago will probably have taken a turn for the worse by then.

Cecil was out due to injury, too. Rangers absolutely jinxed by poor fielding in key moments of the post-season for the entire decade... Hamels will be the tough luck loser. Dyson hadn't given up a homer since his first outing of season, 31 ip as a reliever.

Not to mention Miguel Sano and the Twins (yet another impact infielder at a premium position)....they finished exactly how we were projected to by most experts.

She has to testify before Congress on e-mails/Benghazi October 21st. Biden has to be waiting to see how that plays out first.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:44 AM) I could come up with a lot more examples of teams who can't operate that way than you can cite teams who can. If only they all played in a national landmark, with a ready supply of tourists to help fill it even if they're bad. Cardinals are closest...St. Louis Arch, Dred Scott Courthouse, Grant's Farm, Union Station, Mississippi River. Stadiums, not so much. But Las Vegas and Florida get terrible support for baseball. Let's not forget the Arizona transplants/snowbirds for spring training as well, another Cubs' revenue source.

Matheny, Ausmus and Ventura were all eventually exposed...the no prior experience needed hiring strategy should go back to the drawing board.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:36 AM) No. The Sox fans don't allow the team to operate that way. Fine. Let's get creative. Kickstarter or gofundme drive to acquire the next Emilio Bonifacio or Gordon Beckham. That will surely draw some attention from the front office.