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The worst thing that could happen would be starting Sale and then having a two-hour delay and him losing the start completely...so that's the only thing we can really root against happening. Having to come back to Boston for yet another off-day or one day trip would suck with our schedule already being pretty full for the final two months. Is there an open day around a series in NY?

Getting Ross is going to cost us a significant amount of prospects, especially in combination with Upton. Maybe if Price had gone to another team than the Blue Jays, but Toronto has a lot of advantages now in fighting for that spot that simply aren't worth making a desperation (see KW) bid to outdo them from a PR perspective. If they're going to do anything, it's jettison Shields and Upton. Does anyone want that contract, which would certainly preclude any talk of Shark or another big name pitcher in the offseason?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 01:16 PM) Since its all speculation, who would you peg as in Camp Buy or Camp Sell? Speculating on that possibility I would bet that Hahn sees this an offensive outburst, an anomaly in the season and would lean toward selling. KW would be all in, on the other hand. Except the story was that he wanted to sell on Samardzija and reboot/retool about 4-6 weeks ago, before there was any evidence whatsoever of the team coming together, basically the 9-3 run before the All-Star break, and the current winning streak...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) Not worth it. He'll either get hurt like they all do, or he'll lose it. They'll be trying to dump the salary next season probably. Haha, this is your automatic response to every new/big pitcher's contract, you should just write the same sentence over and over again and copyright it. This could be your issue, along with encroaching danger from police, random acts of violence, firearms and Trump Mania.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 01:02 PM) How can TV afford to pay these fees? Seems like no matter how bad the economy, TV rights deals as well as sports players salaries continue to skyrocket. What would happen if advertisers gave up on TV as they have on magazines, newspapers, etc.? Live sports events are much cheaper to produce than movies/dramas, so that's one thing. The problem is situations like the Dodgers' one, where the rights fees are so astronomical, a majority of people in Southern California can't even access their games even though LA keeps getting paid. Ultimately, that's not good for the game. For a long time, cable companies forced bundling (you have to take 120 channels or 30 or nothing) but it's heading more and more to a model where you can pick and choose the ones you want and networks like ESPN can't continue to up their rates or they'll continue to lose viewers and eventually be cut out. Kind of a tricky situation, where the short-term is great for the early teams to sign deals but where the rights fees environment is rapidly changing as a result of situations like in LA and with the Astros/Rockets in Houston, where you had a bankruptcy declared because the agreement worked out to be so disadvantageous and both those teams were struggling mightly to draw viewers 2-3 seasons ago.

Read BIG DATA BASEBALL if you want a more detailed and nuanced explanation of pitch framing and why the Pirates believe it's so important. You can probably also search online and find some articles written by Pitt beat writers about why they targeted Russell Martin and Cervelli, since that was the main reason in the case of both guys...

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 12:43 PM) That certainly was an issue for the Sox in 2008. Because they almost completely folded the last week and had to fight for their lives to get to the playoff game to actually get into the playoffs, their rotation was a mess against Tampa Bay. Mark Yep, they were forced to throw Javy, for one thing...which didn't go very well, not surprisingly. You had that three game stretch of "win or dye trying" games, so there was simply no way to adjust anything at that point, it was just day to day survival with three different teams in a row if I remember correctly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 12:14 PM) http://www.forbes.com/sites/christinasetti...illion-tv-deal/ One thing is clear, now is NOT the time for the White Sox to begin thinking about getting the most favorable tv package in the world with their ratings being so abysmal this season. Are the Sox rights expiring after the 2018 or after the 2019 season? I'm pretty sure it's the latter. Same for the Cubs. So we still aren't going to see any new monies until 2018/19 at the earliest (which is a good thing, because you'd hope we were a perennial AL Central contender by then, at least theoretically). And I don't get how they can say it's one of the most "valuable" deals when almost every team in baseball that has signed a new one in the last 3-4 seasons is getting more per year than the Cardinals....maybe the total number is higher because it's for 15 years rather than 10, but it's not the best reporting just to throw out a word valuable and not define it. Valuable per year? Per game? Most valuable based on local metropolitan area size vs. other deals? Because of the team ownership stake in the network?

It's also going to be an issue with paparazzi photogs and what are their rights to fly them over celebrity weddings and the like to get photos/videos? Not only is there the spying/privacy issue, one can imagine the next set of "celeb sex videos" coming with accompanying claims that "they were droned" from outside their window. So there's going to have to be a negotiation about "air rights" and how far above a house is a reasonable standard of height...just like we have international waters/flight zones for airlines. The problem is let's say it's 50 feet or 75 or 100 feet over a house, how in God's name are you going to prove you're in the right or the wrong if you shoot it down? Are we going to have 3D/holographic grids with lasers projected above our houses or some type of electromagnetic jammers/EMP's that would knock the drones out the sky once they flew too low over a house? If you start doing that, what's the odds you also interfere with a helicopter or low flying commercial aircraft on a landing run...not just a weather helicopter, perhaps, but also police helicopters, etc.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 12:29 PM) Josh Reddick is another guy who is absolutely atrocious against lefty pitching. He is a platoon hitter . He's also having a career year. Whether he can repeat it is far from a sure thing. Lawrie - well he would add to the team's tat collection. Revere is Shuck Pitch framing is absolutely a legitimate skill. Revere's got a very good WAR number this year because of his stellar defensive numbers. He was basically Shuck when he left the Twins, but he's a MUCH better player than that now. Worth the demand price, probably not...the only reason to acquire him is to improve the defense in the outfield over Avi and give those DH AB's against lefties to him (Garcia). In the "defense never slumps" way of thinking, it's not the worst under the radar move possible out there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 10:52 AM) I'd rather they get that versus Urias from LAD or McCullers + from Houston. McCullers can go to head to head with almost anyone already. No way they would trade him for even two months of Trout/Harper.

No point in even worrying about who's starting a possible one game playoff game until around September 15th or so.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) 1 billion for 15 years is about $67 million a year. Is that really that much these days? It's a little more than 400k a game. Isn't that what the Sox get now on CSN? Well, the Mariners just signed a new one and theirs is around $110-115 million per season.

Just what the Indians need, more pitching. Now they're more likely to see what they can get for Carlos Carrasco again in the next 31 hours.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 04:54 AM) for me, i really hate to be a killjoy..... but let me ask this one question, if the sox make the wc, their first team will be whom in the playoff??? all teams are positional themselves with some great trades. so i will be very pragmatic in my saying this. maybe it is my natual hard hardheadedness that making me question this. the sox are in one unbelievable hot streak. the hitting is out of this world. sanchez, melky saladino .... so what will be everyone opinion will be when the hot uhhh hot streak ends, as it normally does. what is the real identity or this team. the hot streak will end. i really hope it doesn't. i truly want to see another ws ring. so the window of opportunity is now, like the rangers who mortgage their future, the sox needs to add pieces or ........ i will let you finish the the "or" part. at LAA or Houston for a one-game, sudden death playoff like the Royals/A's last year

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 07:37 AM) No, the Oakland that seems to fleece the Sox every time they make a trade. This dates back to the infamous Chad Bradford Moneyball trade, although Olivo turned into Garcia eventually. Foulke/Mark Johnson/Joe Valentine for Koch/Cotts (eventually contributed in 2005). Swisher fiasco for Gio/Sweeney/DeLosSantos. Sanburn hasn't exactly lit the world on fire, although it's Adam Dunn we're talking about. Ray Durham for Adkins was one of the five worst of KW's regime.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting/_/pos...ARBR/order/true Even Adam Eaton (despite the terrible start) has Carlos Gomez beaten in the WAR battle. Gomez's defensive numbers must be down from where they were a couple of seasons ago. I wouldn't give up Montas and Micah, and I'm not sure pushing Eaton to RF is a great idea, either. It would certainly improve our outfield defense overall, but the cost would be pretty high considering Gomez for 1.33 years vs. Montas/Micah and whatever they get out of Avi for 5-6 seasons each. Seems like an overpay...but it all depends on the eventual MLB role of Montas.

I'd love to see ONE example where a white kid in a typical suburban area or even near a university campus was shot to death in similar circumstances...

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 06:13 AM) I read where the White Sox TV ratings have gone up a great deal on this winning road trip. I'm just wondering if the White Sox fans will turn out for this upcoming homestand. There are a ton of unsold tickets for this series against the first place Yankees on WhiteSox.com. I'm hoping for some good crowds this weekend which is shaping up as a big series for the White Sox. Surprised Yankees' fans haven't scooped them up already. Their reaction to this year's team isn't too far removed from our reaction to the 2012 team, not quite trusting it (A-Rod at age 40 is doing what? Teixeira's not hurt again?)...although the Yankees have a much bigger division lead and more veterans on their squad.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 07:18 AM) Urias also is only 18 but progressing rapidly. Yeah, his ETA definitely wouldn't be until around the trade deadline next year...leaving the Tigers with two and one-half rotation spots to fill, essentially.

That would leave them with Verlander, A.Sanchez, Urias and mystery/mystery for their starting rotation. Of course, if they ended up signing the likes of Greinke or Cueto as a FA, then they'd immediately vault back into discussion as a playoff contender in 2016. You could also see them bringing back Rick Porcello for a "fixer-upper" contract (one year and option) in order to make another run at free agency like Justin Masterson attempted with the Red Sox.

15:$22.5M, 16:$22.5M, 17:$22.5M, 18:$22.5M, 19:$20M club option ($6M buyout) 2019 option guaranteed at $24M if Hamels 1) has 400 IP in 2017-18, including 200 IP in 2018, and 2) is not on the disabled list with a shoulder or elbow injury at the end of the 2018 season Since we're on his block list, it probably wouldn't have been possible anyway, but $99 million for 4 1/3rd seasons isn't exactly cheap. That's $22.85 million, on average, per season...for his age 32, 33, 34 and 35 seasons. It would be the White Sox equivalent of giving up Tim Anderson, Montas and Courtney Hawkins/Micah Johnson, and then you'd have to add in a pitcher who would have roughly the equivalent value as Matt Harrison to the Phillies (not sure who that is on our team, definitely not Danks). Would any of us think of that as a bargain? What if we signed a pitcher like Samardzija (both around the same age) for 4 years and $91.5 million? Granted, there's the perception that Hamels is an ace and Samardzija's more of a 2/3 guy, but there's no guarantee that Hamels will be as dominant in the AL, either.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 01:33 AM) When is the last time a weekend of baseball played out according to the most likely scenario? True enough, and Hernandez got lit up Wednesday afternoon anyway. Maybe the time Cotts started for Buehrle against the Yankees in 2003 and we all knew it was the wrong move...except for Manuel.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 30, 2015 -> 12:47 AM) Cop is done for. Even if the guy speeds off that absolutely doesn't warrant deadly force. Call in a bolo and the clown would have been caught eventually. Milkman can come and destroy this post if he dares... LOL. Well, obviously the defense attorney's acting like he was already speeding off at breakneck speed and that he was in danger of being dragged under the car or even killed by the driver (DuBose) beginning the process to put his key in the ignition or reaching to turn the engine over and start it (assuming he'd turned it off in the beginning), but there's almost no way to continue spinning the incident that way with the pretty compelling video evidence. I'm sure he will start warning all motorists stopped by the police will be emboldened by this video to flee the stop as soon as the officer gets out of the car and starts approaching the side door. Guess the police will have to start using more of those devices like in Fast and Furious that latch onto the metal and knock out the car's electrical system and stall the engine.

Just to put this whole thing in perspective, the Angels could be facing Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and David Price this weekend. Passan http://sports.yahoo.com/news/three-way-dea...-050518209.html Reliever Paco Rodriguez reportedly would be going to the Braves and reliever Luis Avilan to the Dodgers as well. Since the Dodgers already paid Oliver $28 million and $2 million for this year's salary, the Braves would control his rights over the next five years for just $32 million, so the Dodgers just ate $30 million as part of this deal....