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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:36 PM) The best GM in baseball should have at least one World Series ring. I know that's a lofty goal and all, but it's true. How about 1997 and 2003? He probably deserves more of the credit for that second championship than anyone else because he was responsible for bringing in all those young piayers, compared to all the changes Cherington made prior to 2013 with free agents. Dombrowski spent more than a decade in Miami (beginning in 2001), working under owners H. Wayne Huizenga and John W. Henry. Although he built a sound minor league system, the Marlins, with Jim Leyland as their manager, achieved their first great success—the 1997 NL pennant and world championship—with a team composed of many high-salaried players signed as free agents.[citation needed] The following year, Dombrowski presided over Huizenga's mandated fire sale of those veteran players, and the Marlins failed to reached a .500 winning percentage in each of Dombrowski's final four years with the franchise. In November 2001, Dombrowski left Florida to become the president of the Detroit Tigers.[3] Nevertheless, after Henry sold the club in early 2002, the Marlins managed to rebuild behind a nucleus of young players, and in 2003, with a roster consisting chiefly of players Dombrowski had acquired,[4] won the World Series. Dombrowski hired Jim Leyland as manager of the Marlins in 1996. The two had previously worked together with the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s - Dombrowski as assistant general manager and Leyland as third base coach.[5] Think if the White Sox could have kept Dombrowski, LaRussa, Leyland, Duncan, etc. One of those huge franchise what ifs that stings a little bit less now because of 2005.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Business as usual for the Sox. Promote a guy thats not very good at his job and replace him with the guy he mentored. The Sox could have been bold and waited until the offseason to make this move and bring in Chris Correa, a guy with a demonstrated track record of success with the best run organization in the sport, but why not just stay in the cycle of mediocrity. Would MLB even allow that...? Isn't there legal action hanging over his head, at least it still hasn't been sorted out how to punish the Cardinals, presumably. The FBI hasn't made any annoucements since, have they?

QUOTE (LDF @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 09:40 AM) how is the waiver list order is judge?? i always thought it was on the win / lost record like the draft order. Reverse winning percentage...the worst teams always get first shot, like the A's selecting Valencia from TOR.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 09:27 AM) Seeing as he got to a first place team, that means the entire NL passed, as did almost all of the AL. Something like 25 teams passed on JD. And yet how many times has the same been said about Mike Trout around here?

JD Martinez would have looked nice in RF or LF and wouldn't have cost us a thing other than a waiver claim. We passed. Detroit didn't. Thirty bombs this year already.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 07:17 AM) That highlighted bit is one major reason why calling Obamacare a "conservative plan" or "way to the right" of the plan Romney put in place as governor while dealing with Democratic supermajorities in the state congress will always be silly. I know it's a bit of a derail but that's sort of a pet peeve of mine. Obama didn't have a single vote from the opposition and still barely got it through only when they gave away a lot of pork to Ben Nelson/Neb. I'm not sure there is a better word for Obama than pragmatist. Definitely not liberal...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 07:22 AM) FWIW I think Michelle Bachmann is still touring around the country on the money she raised during the 2012 primaries. For some of these guys, it's definitely about building their own brand and bringing in dump trucks full of cash. But that was probably 95% of the GOP field last time whereas this time around there are some more legitimate candidates. Alan Keyes, that was definitely about branding and books and speaking engagements, same with Huckabee now, Gingrich, Santorum, Trump and Fiorina. What is Herman Cain up to now, btw?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:56 AM) It's handcuffing your general manager's ability to build the roster in the way he sees fit, because the owner/president want to try to win now, every year. And/or the philosophical belief that draft spending was out of control and they weren't going to play that game without caps and slotting...therefore it was the responsibility of the White Sox to toe the line and follow JR's cue (with the notable exception of Borchard) until the playing field was finally equalized. That wasn't KW's doing. He was given an edict from above and had to follow it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:50 AM) I wouldn't pull the Fulmer card just yet. Heck, even Rodon is far from a surefire All-Star at this point...

But will Hahn swallow his pride and admit the mistake already...? Hard to imagine they will give Thompson many starts until September at the earliest. Yeah, Ventura with the scruffy beard look couldn't believe it....he was pretty livid you could tell. Maybe he'll take over Buddy Bell's job next month as a reward. That was the former Chris Rongey (pre and post-game host) for the White Sox....Dave Wills, with the "what are they doing?" comment btw.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-055354942.html AJ has really improved at pitch framing

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) Just got back from a late screening of Southpaw and I really enjoyed it. I was really looking forward to seeing it and followed the production and it meant my hype. The camera work and cinematography was great and the way the fight scenes scenes were shot was like a mix of Terrence Malice and documentary style, lots of handheld and dare I say GoPro. Jake G(Not going even going to try) was great and I could see him getting some award buzz. But Rachel McAdams was good too but she does something so incredibly hot that I lost track of the plot for a bit. And according to Jake G. that was improvised completely by her without him knowing and you can totally see him break character for a second. I can't blame him, I would've shut down the set down and take a breather. Before I say something really dirty, let me stop but go see Southpaw. Malick.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 01:13 AM) Teams rarely go outside the org to find a replacement. And it sounds like Hostetler has a different philosophy than Laumann. He said he's a high ceiling guy and is 'intrigued' by high school players. Whereas Laumann liked high floor guys and leaned more towards college guys. There's only one problem with this...start drafting high schoolers in the first round and Sale/Abreu/Quintana/Eaton will all be long gone before they make it to the big leagues. Rare is the hs player like an A-Rod or Harper who doesn't need at least 2-3 years in the minors, if not 4-5.

No, we'll get some line about Robin pushing them to a much better record than rs/ra would suggest and that not even HoF managers could make a difference with this perpetually flawed roster, blah blah blah. You can't coach players to improve defensively, you can't get big league hitters like LaRoche to change their approach or control the flatness of a Robertson breaking ball or call the pitches for Tyler Flowers or make decisions for 3b coaches.

Conor just hit a two-run bomb to give the Halos the lead...

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:49 PM) Rongey trying to rationalize McEwing making that decision... Nobody out! Done! That's the only factor McEwing needed to know. Period! Even flavum is out with the pitchforks tonight and not even bothering with statistical premutations that would project our record to somehow clinging (with about ten breaks going our way) to a WC possibility.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:44 PM) I don't think Pentecost was a guy who was going to turn the franchise around. At least there would have been something to look forward to... I guess that will have to be Johnson on the mound, but it probably won't happen until September call-ups so we'll have no clue if he's actually ready to be in the rotation next season. Hopefully we'll see Montas again as well.

16,459 and SoxTalk can now turn their attention back to the draft pick thread and forever wondering what new prospects we'd have acquired to get us through the last two months were it not for KW/Hahn's titanic debate leading into do-nothingness. On the plus side, Ramirez, Eaton, Abreu and Melky have been tearing it up. On the negative, every FA acquisition of Hahn's other than Melky and Avisail especially are struggling mightily. Not to mention we simply don't have the coaches to elevate this team to a higher level. They're scared of actually being in the race, scared of playing so poorly they cost Ventura his job.

Are they going to play or bag it?

The thing is....it's just laziness on McEwing's part and/or lack of scouting. If Kiermaier didn't play for the Rays, he'd be in the Gold Glove conversation. He can really do it all defensively. The Rays' announcing team was simply incredulous he was being sent there.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:24 PM) If you flip the W-L record against the NL in 2007, it wouldn't have been as abysmal of a year as it ended up being, despite the fact that watching that team for more than a few innings at a time would make your eyes bleed. At least you had Fields and Owens and Wasserman looking decent...Andy Gonzalez, haha. He looked like a slugger compared to Leury.

Well, Baltimore's winning as well...although the Angels are playing so badly they're putting themselves back in the elimination bracket. This game is a perfect illustration of why we should have dealt Shark. Coaching decisions right and left, bad defense, bullpen giving up key late runs right and left whenever the Sox had the momentum.

McEwing to bench coach, do it now!!!

16,496 were duped into coming to this one...mostly disguised as empty seats. But yeah, trading Shark was going to decimate the fanbase.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 09:15 PM) If Alexei doesn't hesitate, it might of been closer. Even Ramirez was anticipating McEwing would hold him up...