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Rizzo showing why he's one of the best young hitters in baseball.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 07:41 PM) I spent 5 days in Glendale and was out every morning watching them taking practice so I don't think it's an issue of practice as much as it's an issue of talent. Then how can you explain the 2012 Sox defense being so focused for the first five months? Even Viciedo, DeAza and Alexei were locked in... It's a team mindset.

Flowers not winning the pitch framing award there, lol...

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 07:38 PM) Alexei amazes me how many errors he has this year. 1/3rd of that was the poor feed and also the inability to at least stop/block the ball.

More gift runs. That's three now. Ramirez didn't get a great feed from Duke, threw flatfooted and then Abreu didn't block it.

How is Ross still at second on that play?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) Why would a Cubs fan throw a water bottle at Scwharber? Whoever it was just got kicked out. To set up or frame Sox fans for bad behavior towards their beloved new icon...? #conspiracyliguetheory

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 03:23 PM) So, 10 run game for King Felix today. So you're saying we need a health scare in the coaching staff to inspire our offense?

No need to throw a water bottle at Schwarber. Stupid.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) You forgot the offensive side. We had runners on 1st and 3rd with one out. As usual we can't put the bat on the ball for a chance at a sac fly or other un scoring play. Two strike outs to end the inning Just including areas that coaching can affect more directly...

The Cubs have the edge because they do more things right. Exactly right, DJ.

1). Walking Fowler to get to Schwarber, then not k'ing him with offspeed stuff 2). Flowers on the tag play. 3). Eaton baserunning 4). Eaton calling off Melky on a ball he couldn't see 5). Cabrera overthrow 6). Flowers not stopping it 7). Quintana not backing up home Just in one inning. Funniest part of inning was Soler getting high fives for the RBI when he had made a baserunning blunder of his own.

Great job boys! Hope Reinsdorf decides to either change the catcher or the manager who presides over this dysfunction. Quintana not doing his job backing up home, either. Overthrow by Cabrera....trying to do too much.

Keystone Kops... Farmer is really pissed now. DJ claims it was 100% impossible for Eaton to see. Two mental mistakes in a row. Can't call it and exoect Cabrera to bail you out and catch it at the last second.

Quintana nearing 100 pitches with his typical lack of run support...what else is new?

Balls gets hit on a line, you figure it's probably not a double play for the Cubs with that crowd reaction. Then you remember it's mostly Cubs' fans. How did Eaton fall down there?

#2 hitters have to figure out a way to move that runner over...

No way you throw a fastball to Schwarber when he just showed no clue against the offspeed stuff. This has to be on the top five most idiotic decision-making sequences all season, and it's not easy to find a place on that list, either.

Brilliant Flowers and Ventura. Horrible pitch call. Horrible tag by Flowers. No wonder this organization sucks.

Fantastic Four wasn't 9% bad, but it's not fixable for a sequel. In my opinion, there were three huge casting mistakes....Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, Michael B. Jordan (who was great in Fruitvale Station) and Reg Cathey as Dr. Stone, not to mention the actor playing Doom was utterly forgettable. Ben was kind of the anti Chiklis, and came across with this sort of existential angst that drained your energy just listening to him after the transformation. Very discordant reading of that character. Jordan suffered from not having that Chris Evans overconfidence/machisimo...once again, we got more psychology with the father/son relationship but not enough action. Then you have the whole racial dynamic just not hitting the right note. Finally, Reg E Cathey is great on House of Cards but equally too low key...you need an Idris Elba or Morgan Freeman gravitas to play a convincing visionary, not someone you'd expect to see at 2 am on QVC hawking ginsu knives. It was way too much origin story, a forced sense of teamwork thrown in at the end but not really earned (like skipping Hoosiers directly through the regular seasons to the playoffs)...essentially, it tried to follow the Chronicle casting success with a more ethnically diverse group of actors who never jelled together, the action sequences were unsatisfying and the obligatory ending was just kind of slapped on at the end. And that ending made Green Hornet/Green Lantern seem like masterpiece theatre in comparison.

The U.S. has one big advantage over the rest of the world, our university system/higher education. Something like 22-23% of all foreign students choose the U.S., led by Chinese, Indian and South Koreans. Yet you don't hear many besides Thomas Friedman of the NY Times pushing for more "high quality" legal immigration of those students post-graduation, because it's anathema to U.S. workers/labor unions and it's not somewhere the GOP is likely to go either, with all of the anti-China rhetoric. However, losing all of that talent puts more and more pressure on those in their 20's and 30's to work longer and harder. Something has to give eventually, either higher taxes (simply assuming enough revenue from economic productivity/efficiency and GDP growth going from 2 to 3.5/4% won't do it alone), more immigrants entering the country to balance the labor pool's imbalance or "the Baby Boom Generation" showing more willingness to give back to Gen X/Y (rich/elites foregoing social security or having benefits shrunk).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 09:29 AM) And the end result is going to be...we paid $9 million for him this season, the A's paid $1.5 million, the A's will have those guys for 4-5 more years, and we will keep seeing comments here about how the White Sox minor leagues has no depth while wondering how that could possibly have happened. The White Sox have called up several players this year from their minors and just by having them be non-terrible, they've helped this team to winning streaks (Tyler, Trayce). Depth can be nice too. Counting the draft picks...we gave up 6 players from our minor leagues for the privilege of the 2015 season and we'll be lucky to get 1 back next summer. You can add Sanchez/Micah to that list, although nobody would be surprised if those four (Trayce, Tyler), along with Avi, are basically replacement level players at best. When all is said and done, we really need at least two of them to develop into 2-3 war players or we're just going to end up with castoffs/retreads since they're definitely going to be more hesitant about the free agency pool after being singed twice (not to mention the draft picks). That means the focus is likely to be on 3b and upgrading the catcher's spot (since they also have to wait on Alexei/Anderson), assuming they're content to replace Shark with EJ.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 06:51 AM) And his 5 year control clock will be 2 years old. ?????

For $140 million, Heyward alone probably has us at the .500 mark...not worth it. Especially when you lose another draft pick.

Unless there's proof that PP is "profiting greatly" (and that would have to be defined, which would be hard to do to anyone's satisfaction) from the tissue above and beyond the normal costs/fees that are passed on in similar situations, I'm not sure what the great stink is all about.