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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-cop Incredibly long but worthwhile follow-up about Ferguson and Officer Darren Wilson's life since then...still living in StL area but very reclusive for obvious reasons.

http://www.royalsreview.com/2015/8/3/90885...ling-sandwiches Blue Jays accused of stealing sandwiches from Royals...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/opinion/...col-left-region GOP candidates and gun control...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 08:58 PM) Won't the Demos be mad if Biden runs? Like he's taking the thunder from Ms. Congenality; Ms. Entitlement (forgive me for being bitter about Hilly; I just don't want somebody that rich to be President when we are all so poor as a country). Trump is multiple billions richer than the Clintons.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance Still 26th. On the plus side, we are right on the heels of the Phillies, who also must have bandwagon fans because they won the World Series more recently than the last time we were in the playoffs.

We'd be better off with Daniel Norris or Jeff Hoffman. Oops. Now someone inevitably will post a critical review of Hoffman despite it being his first month back from TJ surgery...which historically has required 18-24 months to rebound to 100% or better. Secondly, the White Sox were willing to take him at 3 if Rodon was already selected, so nothing has changed in his repertoire. If the medicals were fine, then it's a risk but not as much as Shark at age 31 or 32 for $100 million.

We'd be better off with Daniel Norris or Jeff Hoffman. Oops. Now someone inevitably will post a critical review of Hoffman despite it being his first month back from TJ surgery...which historically has required 18-24 months to be back at 100% or better.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 05:15 PM) Volquez needs to watch himself. The Royals are clearly in the wrong here. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v3249...lue-jays-royals Donaldson always crowds the plate...should they just give him the whole inner half for fear of upsetting him? What would Harrelson say? If you're afraid to come inside, you're not long for the big leagues.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) So glad they didn't send the wrong message to this great roster by trading away shark Adding to the sting even more, newly-acquired Daniel Norris beating the Orioles in his debut for the Tigers and passing the Sox in the standings.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 12:29 PM) It's a major holiday in Canada, I believe The infamous Civic Day. http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/canada/civic_day.php From reading that book about the two guys who go to thirty stadiums in thirty days, it was Canada Day that was the hardest to acqcuire tickets for... The last time they had a home game on this holiday, they didn't even draw 25,000 for a Roy Halladay start in 2008 when the team was 56-56.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 08:08 AM) The Royals only draw more than Toronto and the White Sox on the road. Johnny Cueto isn't a road draw. as I have stated many times, walk up tickets aren't as big as they used to be. Most have their seats far in advance. Hogwash. The Blue Jays have now sold out Monday's game because Price is pitching against the Twins...a game no one really cared about a week or ten days ago.

I wouldn't do that deal, Either. Ethier is so easy to misspell.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 09:55 AM) Look at what the Marlins got for Latos That's more along the lines of what the Sox would have expected for Samardzija (maybe a little more). The difference here is that the Sox are closer to the race, really seem to like Jeff, and will have no problem offering arbitration if it gets to that point. Any offer any team made would have had to have been better than a top 50 pick. Doing nothing was totally defendable. Except I'm not sure they were prepared to make a qualifying offer to him from a financial perspective...and assume the risk he actually decided to return on a one-year deal. He's probably rebuilt his value to the point where he wouldn't consider a three year deal the better option, though, and has got another two mph on his fb recently. Iwakuma's the one I would go after though, if they can't re-sign Shark. He's missed too many starts this year to rebound to full value.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 09:39 AM) 17 mil next year, 20 mil the year after for CarGo. If Colorado ate money, I'd do a deal. Unless they just decided to dump his contract ala Rios. Are the White Sox prepared to take on $42 million for 2 1/3rd seasons for him?

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 11:21 AM) With Price, Cueto, Kazmir, Leake, Latos as free agents with no draft pick compensation, he may be left waiting til late Jan/Feb to sign a deal. At that point, thats when you go for him when his tag comes down a lot. Don't forget Greinke as well as he's expected to opt out of his Dodgers' deal.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 09:54 PM) Rangers lose. Half game behind the Sox. Too bad about the Twins, but the Sox pretty much have to be the best AL team the rest of the season to get a wildcard. On the plus side, that prevented the Giants from falling into a tie with the Cubs for the 2nd WC (Cubs have won four straight and now just 1 GB as SF faces its toughest stretch of the season). Rangers had a 7-4 lead in the 7th and blew it, lost 9-7 in the 11th. That also puts us back in a position with "just" Toronto and Baltimore between us and the Twins...and the Angels are reeling as well, only 4 1/2 games ahead of the White Sox. That said, we probably shouldn't be betting anything but a vacation house or maybe spare garage/shed on the Sox making it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 06:34 PM) 3 years before fans are allowed to complain. So stop talking. Sounds more like a 9 or 10 year plan to me.

QUOTE (harkness @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 08:48 PM) at least Tank can hit home runs... Avi is better on defense but offers zero punch at the plate. And that's kind of relative. Avi's better than Hanley Ramirez or 2013/14 Viciedo but not 2012 Viciedo IMO.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 06:44 PM) Why are you blaming the media? The story broke when the FBI raided his house. So what, substantively, has he actually been accused of here? Guilt by suspicion or the company you keep? Because he's "creepy" or has made a few inappropriate/creepy comments?

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 08:17 PM) Apologies to those who already saw this in the trade deadline deals. We are now in the waiver period where teams can block waivers/trades at the risk of being given contracts outright. Normally, low value or high priced people(bad contracts) can get through. Once through waivers, trades can be worked out as long as the traded players have also cleared waivers or are not on the 40 man roster. Typically, role player goes for couple A ballers who prob won't pan out. My deal still works if we feel we can go for it but I was not willing to give up any prospect of value. I thought SD had to sell or will have to with losses as well as we wouldn't if we lose 5 in a row. This is dollars Matt Kemp no particular R/L splits 30 yrs old , cooling off but OPS.987 last mos to RF. Avi platoons with LaRoche and Avi can sub in if wakes up. John Danks to SD. Big ballpark favors his pitching and he had sub 3.00 ERA vs NL. E Johnson comes up and replaces Danks. Our reasoning, add a bat and possible Johnson out performs Danks. SD reasoning Kemp owed 87 million after this year over 4 yrs. Dodgers paying 3.75 per or 14 million….73 remain …..Danks just short of 16…57 remain over four years or about 14.25 per. After 2016, LaRoche contract up Kemp could DH. Make no mistake, I think Kemps last couple years might not be pretty so the fight is over what SD kicks in in salary relief. If you get Dodgers money and SD kicks in 2 the first two years and 4-5 the next two maybe it works. If the Padres are kicking back that much money, there's no way they are also going to be willing to take on Danks' contract as well. As you said, big ballpark favors almost anyone's pitching, not just Danks...so there are 50 other starters they could acquire for cheaper. All depends on how desperate they are to get rid of Kemp going into next season, and if they're totally going to start from scratch again by dealing Shields, Cashner and Ross, as well as Will Myers. Just as likely, they'd want us to take BJ Upton or someone like that if we were to send them Danks.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 09:05 PM) In the bottom of the 9th inning and his closer struggling, Lloyd McClendon went out of his way to argue a check swing call and was intentionally trying to get tossed from the game and the crew chief just turned his back on him. How is McClendon still a manager? How is Jack Z. still the GM?

http://news.yahoo.com/report--jared-fogle-...-201648545.html The media's really getting good at throwing a lot of stuff at the wall and hoping some of it sticks (not unlike that recent NY Times Hillary e-mails story). Maybe Fogle doesn't come across as being a particularly likable dude (perception), but not sure he deserves this insinuation without something more substantive in terms of proof. There's probably enough to worry Subway and cause them to cut ties, but how many times has someone made a comment about a 16 year old or 17 even on SoxTalk...and ended up having a woman getting a secret microphone and copying all their messages to the FBI? Would any of this be happening if he wasn't worth $15 million or whatever and someone is jealous/envious and trying to knock him off his pedestal?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 10:21 AM) Then tell me what were they supposed to trade for Cespedes or Upton, and link me to the offers for Samardzija. I stated yesterday, ideally they could do both, but you have to have cooperation from the other side. I gave you what Leake cost, why would Samardzija be more? Cespedes would have at least cost Montas, or Eric Johnson and another player because if the offers are the same, Detroit isn't going to help the White Sox.Not one team traded with SD despite rumors. The asking prices had to be ridiculous. So, just tell me what they could have done, without you saying they overpayed or got ripped off. Enough of the jump on the bandwagon of the day and throw as much bulls*** out there as you can. Try to be at least semi-logical. Semi-logical is not to even waste time arguing about things we'll probably never know it won't know until KW or Hahn write "tell all, this is what really happened" books 10-15 years from now. Semi-logical is to be somewhat skeptical of what this front office's plan is until there's clear evidence of the plan working. As far as that goes, Avi Garcia has been a pretty big disappointment, it's hard to say Rodon has made great strides forward with his command/control and developing confidence in his change-up (even his biggest supporters will admit he's been inconsistent), Adam Eaton has admitted his defense has been terrible this season and Jose Abreu has been very good but not great. We can make assumptions that Alexei, Tyler Saladino and Carlos will continue to play as well as they have recently, and that Melky's "back to normal" but it's probably better to wait and see how they perform over these next six series with superior competition before drawing any conclusions.

Well, we allowed Paulie a reunion tour, two former players as manager and one as GM, there was Beckham this season...Buehrle next year? Or maybe they're positioning themselves to add on Alex Guerrero/Puig as well as Cespedes (off-season FA) and play 20 games per year in Havana? Unfortunately they already missed out on Hector Olivera, though.

Scotty Pods apparently had made himself available to suit up again but was turned down...KW was overruled. Something about it being unfair there was a Ladies' Night, so pitched Lisa Dergan Night to Boyer.