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QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 08:29 PM) Actually, they are 12. Forgot the Red Sox were worse last year. Three way tie at 69-77 with AZ yet to finish. So basically somewhere 10-12.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 08:23 PM) Where do the Sox sit in the draft at this point? Tied for 10th with AZ. 11th if Arizona loses to SF later.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 08:17 PM) Tigers just blew it. Bad. BAD! Quietly Perez has twenty homers in an overall disappointing season for him. $7 million over 5 years. Best bargain in baseball. Meanwhile, Cueto the latest example of NL stars looking suddenly human in the AL. Ironic that two main players who fizzled for them this year, Frasor and Alex Rios, both played for the Sox.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 08:09 PM) We've got Sale for 2017, 2018, and 2019. No reason why his value will drop in a trade before the end of 2017 unless he gets hurt. I mean, it'll drop but it'll drop to "level someone might pay". But if we're mad at that...then be mad at this clusterf*** of a season. Because we had no patience we blew 2015 for nothing, blew a ton of free agent money, blew our minor league depth, and failed to give lots of development time to our system. Maybe we should take a lesson from that. We won't, of course, and then we'll be having this discussion next year. Even right now, unless they're sure that Saladino isn't the starter...Saladino shouldn't just be completely benched. We have so many guys like Saladino, Garcia, Micah, Avi, Flowers who we have no clue whether they can improve enough to be above average major leaguers. Thompson, same thing. If they really believe Olt's the long-term answer, god help us. Shark staying blocked Johnson for another month...now it's harder to get a full read on both Johnson and Montas.

Team has basically quit again.

Fwiw, McCain in the same situation defended Obama politely and courteously. One almost has to wonder if the N-word was invoked whether Trump would have corrected or just let it stand. Obviously being non-American and a Muslim is tolerated. He demands respect but doesn't have any for the very office he seeks to gain...and has still made zero improvement on his knowledge of foreign affairs. Scary.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 07:59 PM) He's hard to replace unless you find someone better. The Sox never replace with someone better. They look for a former favorite player from the 80s and 90s. Alex Fernandez sounds random enough. Bobby Thigpen, maybe?

Cooper might know what he's doing but it feels a bit like Bob Stoops and OU. Needs a new challenge/spark and change of scenery. Things have gotten stale and a sense of apathy is setting in.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 07:54 PM) Not because of this second half or tonight, but they really should listen on Sale offers this offseason. If the Sox can build around a 2017 rotation around a prospect in a Sale trade, Rodon, Quintana, Fulmer, and maybe Johnson or Montas, they should do that. They're probably going to be too afraid to trade him due to the blowback/White Flag spectre so Quintana gets dealt instead.

Right now, other than the Tigers, who will still spend more than us in the offseason and change managers...is there any reason to believe we have a snowball's chance in hell to finish ahead of KC, Minn or Cleve next year?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 18, 2015 -> 07:41 PM) Webb just isn't very good unfortunately. Could be a change of scenery guy that gets him to throw his hardest and hope for the best Nick Massett, Aardsma, etc.

Offensive in the sense the White Sox can never check the scouting box of finding a single hitter capable of turning around a fastball other than Jose Abreu?

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) Yet KW stays employed And that's a full decade if not for Hahn's kid guessing right on the coin flip...because the Twins would have clobbered the Sox in the MetroDoom in 2008.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) Want to bet we won't make it that far? I'm starting to have my doubts that Sale or Abreu will ever see the playoffs in a Sox jersey. Partly because that would require a new manager...and that might not happen for another 2-3 seasons at the rate they're going.

LaRoche, Saladino, Sanchez and Olt in the same infield will sell about as well for Brooks Boyer as Wil Cordero, Steve Sax, Royce Clayton and Chris Snopek playing together. Akexei will be back.

Olt/Crede and Shuck/Quentin bringing back some memories of 2008 with jersey numbers at least... We're already 25% of the way to the Royals' stretch of no playoffs for 28 years. Yay!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 01:52 PM) How do you explain Hillary then? She's gonna win in a landslide and is the dullest of the dull. Great great post. But I disagreed with a lot of your other posts. This one was great. What about Carlie? Apparently she lied about the videos of PP. The thought of what she stated sickened me. I want the truth. Why is there never any outrage about stuff like this. Some poor fetus kept alive for its brain? This is one of the most sickening images of the year. Truthfully, we can be such disgusting people sometimes. Bush obviously is gonna be the Republican candidate. Carlie was a disaster with HP. Can't win because of that. Donald's political career will flame out. I still say his 20 minutes of fame (politics wise) is going to definitely run out. He'll need a way to save face and ultimately will drop out. BTW I couldn't watch the Hlllary skit on Jimmy Fallon. What a chickenbleep move by Fallon.So the republicans have this serious debate and Hillary gets the most out of the night with a dumb skit on the Tonight Show. Sad, sad world. Hillary is the choice of Hollywood and the media thus she WINS and WINS big. Sad. My only hope is Bill is a co-president. Bush is far from a sure thing right now...as much as the GOP establisment would prefer it. The two main things to come out of the last debate were "blood coming out of her whatever/wherever" and Carly Fiorina got a huge bump in a debate watched by almost nobody. Fallon's skit will have zero effect on the race, other than exemplifying how desperate her camp is to move on from e-mail servers and attempt to humanize her for about the one-hundredth time since the surprise New Hampshire primary win in the wake of Obama's Iowa caucus shocker almost eight years ago.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 17, 2015 -> 01:37 PM) Because in both cases you are asking THEM to take responsibility for someone else's choices. Either abortion or welfare, you still digging into their pockets to pay for it. Isn't that what the New Testament suggests should be the outcome...essentially...regardless of our own self-congratulatory concepts of guilt/accountability/responsibility and what brought about the choice in the first place? How can a party so proud of their religious faith be so willing to ignore the peace and social justice elements of that belief? Isn't Bernie Sanders closer to addressing that topic directly than anyone in the GOP at this moment...other than Kasich to an extent? Other than Huckabee, Santorum and recently Fiorina, but they usually go for red meat social issues pandering to the right. With how important religious conservatives are in Iowa, you would think there would be someone jumping to fill the gap....clearly Carson and Fiorina now are the closest, but still not genuinely getting into any type of uncomfortable argument. One would imagine Rubio has some room to expand here but still not engaging with a broad domestic issues platform that rarely diverges from his standard boilerplate stuff. Holding serve, essentially.

If the White Sox can't come up with a better candidate for what continues to remain a rebuild than Ozzie, there's pretty much zero reason to have any faith in things turning around until wholesale changes are made. That said, I don't believe they're that stupid and short-sighted to use Ozzie mostly as a marketing gimmick and foil against the Cubs' surge.

Is there anything Fiorina did well as CEO of HP which would merit her consideration? Still believe that the only candidates capable of performing the job itself are Kasich, Rubio (but domestic policies...separating with the Tea Party won't happen so easily) and MAYBE Bush are the only ones from that long list. Possibly Christie as well.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jeb-leaves-a...9274994226.html Rubio (vp) and Kasich (pres) emerging as best option in Bush vacuum

Nope, I wrote this at least 4-5 times in the off-season. Actually, for the last 2-3 years. When you work with someone day-in, day-out for a full minor league baseball season (1995), you can get a good sense if they have what it takes or not. Unlike Ventura, Jeff persevered for roughly 20 years in the minors as a coach, went through many hardships and almost died due to cancer and has the distinction of being 1 for 1 in his brief MLB career. Robin's biggest struggle was probably the first month of his major league career and coming back from a broken leg/ankle, but it still pales in comparison. You can ask Dick Allen. He wrote over and over again when the Rangers were struggling that Banny wasn't doing a good job with a huge payroll (notwithstanding all the injuries to their rotation). http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/buster-oln...r/post?id=11034 The LEAST we can do is actually have some type of managerial or organizational philosophy. Some of it sounds like Harrelson's TWTW, but it's working for the Rangers. Accountability.

Glad the White Sox hired Jeff Banister when they had a chance. Ooops. You have an opportunity to hire the bench coach of the team that's probably the most on the cutting edge of shifting/sabremetrics/pitch framing...someone who combines the best of "old school" discipline mixed with a modern approach (see Clint Hurdle adjusting/changing his stripes as well) and they don't even consider it. Not paying Maddon, we all get that...you're not going to outbid the Cubs and he's going to realistically understand the White Sox were lacking in positional talent, but it seems we're just been designated into the 7 Circles of Dante's Hell being a Sox fan these days. I know, I know...if you're not getting any enjoyment from it, don't watch or comment, and that's pretty much been the case for many I'm sure over the last month or so.

So much for the QO/compensation argument. Whatever we would have received would have been better for the future than NOTHING or being stuck with one of the worst pitchers in baseball on a $17+ million one year contract. Even if he pitched well, the team doesn't have the horses to compete...he's blocking someone like Montas/Fulmer/Johnson and finally, he's soaking up valuable resources that should be going towards improving the offense. Hard to ask for more of a train wreck. The team's not bad enough to be terrible and receive a high draft pick, but hasn't realistically been in the WC hunt since stumbling after that winning streak and making the decision to keep Shark. Can't believe he would be pitching like this on a playoff contender...it's almost like he's sulking or doesn't care anymore...which is probably the feeling of most Sox fans as well.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 13, 2015 -> 03:36 PM) In my lifetime: Sale Buehrle McDowell Contreras Wilbur And that completely dominant version of Contreras lasted about as long as LaMarr Hoyt...