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One thing's for sure, it's seemingly easier for JR and Co. to get rid of non-Sox guys/outsiders than someone "inside the family." Hope it works out. Those 80's Cardinals teams with Coleman, McGee, Van Slyke, Pendleton, Lonnie Smith, Tom Herr, Jack Clark and Ozzie were lots of fun to watch in terms of the impact on the other teams with their aggressiveness. Will never forget the episode where he got rolled over by the tarp machine back in the good 'ol days when most of the NL fields were Astroturf.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/103053582/20...ayo-call-top-10 Has anyone ever watched Dansby Swanson or Funkhouser? Of course, there's always the caveat it's five months out and a million things will change between now and June. he's a leadoff type who should stay at shortstop (and has a better chance to do so than Tim Anderson, Chicago's 2013 first-rounder). Not loving that comment from Callis, but nothing that hasn't been noted as a concern previously. http://www.dcprosportsreport.com/MLBMocks.htm Database of all the released mock drafts. Looks like Cameron could fall into play for the White Sox as well. Sure we'll get a Phil Rogers story there with the White Sox connections. Aiken's getting listed around 4-5 in the first round now, assuming his elbow doesn't blow out this spring.

http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/107...-coaching-staff #NoVincentVanGo ifwe'djusttradedKW

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 24, 2015 -> 11:34 AM) Let's just start with this. I know the story is that HIllary got fired from the Watergate thing. While that fact itself is false, the guy had said both "If I had the power to fire her, I would have fired her" and "ell, let me put it this way. I terminated her, along with some other staff members who were — we no longer needed, and advised her that I would not — could not recommend her for any further positions." So right off the bat she did something wrong. And being an influential lawyer is different from being a good lawyer. Remember, she had connections, like an ex-President, that could go a long way for influencing things. Just perhaps not in a jury box? As for leaving, you are correct, they have to go somewhere. But they hunted for a safe place, found a nice Democratic state and went to work. Obama had at least lived in Illinois longer than 6 months before deciding to run for office. And a point for Hillary for actually voting more than Obama did while in the Senate. I will disagree with you in that I believe she is all hat. How many times did Abraham Lincoln fail, get fired, go bankrupt or lose a race? Shouldn't that career record have disqualified him? You're acting like she is Rick Perry or something.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 11:38 PM) For Jeff Hoffman and another prospect, I would absolutely let Kenny walk. Hoffman would be a huge addition to the farm and you could argue that he has a higher ceiling than Rodon. Also bringing Hoffman into the fold would give the Sox the best collection of pitching in all of baseball (Majors + Minors). Nationals at both the major and minor league level....

Fwiw, Robert Kennedy essentially did the same thing, claiming NY as his home even though he was a Bostonian and winning the same U.S. Senate seat she Clinton would eventually claim. Actually, since she grew up in Illinois, that would have been just as easy to win as NY. And do we hold it against Obama he didn't become a Hawaiian senator? And, for that matter, all the Bushes should have run from Maine. Hilary's qualifications are 5x GW Bush's when he ran.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 09:48 PM) Lol benghazi Newt Gingrich was divorced three times and left one of his wives after a cancer diagnosis. So we shouldn't elect someone president whose spouse cheated or vice-versa? Then Thomas Jefferson and FDR can't be top 5-6 ranked if you follow the logic of this thread.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 09:42 PM) More and more it's low paid adjuncts teaching anyways. The idea that it's those professors living high on the hog driving increasing tuition is just silly. Usually with only 1-2 classes and no benefits/health care...and good luck if you teach English, history, poly sci, philosophy, religion, etc.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 07:13 PM) Professors are the 1%. Does Walker even have a college degree? Somehow I have a feeling if you substituted Wall Street stock broker or real estate broker, for teacher/fire fighter/policeman, you would say they deserve their high salaries despite not actually producing anything. Nevertheless, if all the millionaires of the world got there without a higher education, then I might agree. It used to be the case in the past, but now every upper and middle class parent makes their kid go to college. Did you? If you really believe it's a waste of time and money and professors are terribly overpaid, why bother? Or would you want your child educated by someone with only 2-4 years of higher education rather than 6-9?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 12:33 PM) there's not much he can do about gitmo with Congress deliberately blocking him. He did end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's been s*** on prosecuting Wall Street. The Obamacare website was crap for a month or two, not six months. When you change from "30 million" to "5%," you hide that a 5% drop equates to 15 million fewer uninsured people in the first year of the program, and sign-ups are only expected to increase. That number would also be substantially higher if the Medicaid expansion hadn't been gutted. The economy craters a heck of a lot more without the ARRA. They screwed up a lot of things (HAMP was particularly horrible when it could have been very helpful), but his administration avoided much of the austerity that swept and crippled a lot of Europe. In that case, it's more of not actively harming the recovery than helping it. edit: I'm not saying that to credit whatever Reddy's saying or say he'll be regarded as one of the greatest down the road, just that you're either seriously downplaying or misrepresenting some of what his administration has accomplished. edit2: also, the EPA's actions on climate change are pretty important The auto bailout was hugely unpopular with the GOP but ended up saving the industry.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 01:04 AM) I picked up what you were putting down. Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita! Somehow sweet giant anteater of Irvine doesn't work so well...or Banana Slug of Santa Crug(z). Well, that's closer at least.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 11:43 PM) Honest question: How much does it irk a lot of you that Obama's going to be remembered as one of the great presidents? Disclaimer: Still not a fan of many of his positions, especially wiretapping/drones/snowden/etc, but he's gotten all gangsta this year and it's going to look good on him a couple decades down the road when he was the first to start offering free college tuition, the first to try for universal health care, expanding workers' rights, equal pay, etc, etc. Saving and growing the economy after the crash. Getting OBL. Income-based repayment on student loans (big one for me personally). ALL in spite of a congress that stonewalled him every inch of the way. Meanwhile the GOP keeps imploding with their complete inability to respond to the SOTU properly. Dalek-Joni this year, Cruz had to restart his a minute into it, Rubio's drink-gate. Good times. Probably, he will be seen a lot like Truman, in the sense that his "popularity" will rise the further you go into the future, and historians from both sides battle it out to determine his legacy. If the US economy flies along for the next two years like it did at the end of Bill Clinton's second term, and if there's tangible evidence to most Americans that Obamacare's actually working, then he has a shot at rescuing his legacy. Another factor will be if a Democrat is elected President in 2016 with a Congress that will work with him/her and carry on the "middle class realignment" battle. Hilary's well positioned to win that fight, it's basically her wheelhouse. As an native Iowan, I wonder how long it will last that people will ask me if I ever wore bread bags over my shoes? Ernst's ability to seize the moment worked about as well as Bobby Jindal, haha.

Why can I hear Will Ferrell saying those lines...?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/team-bullpen-...00451--mlb.html Encouraging words for the White Sox and Royals, for the Tigers, not so much.

Of course, an 858 OPS (sophomore season) was Magglio's lowest for the next five years. And he was consistently over 900 OPS-wise in the prime of his Sox career. .301, 30 homers and 117 RBI's that season. Is anyone honestly EXPECTING that type of performance, THIS season, out of Avisail Garcia?

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 06:59 PM) here is the same question i asked before. if the skills are there, would you sign him, if the upside is a tick lower than Jose A???? The supposed upside is even higher than Abreu because of his speed and fielding ability...more like a cross between A-Rod (at 19-20, not post-steroids form) and Robinson Cano.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseba...soon----kind-of Article on Ozzie returning for the 10 year championship reunion and his current relationship with the team.

http://www.movieinsider.com/m13053/unfriended/ Will tech-based thrillers or horror movies become the next big thing? Tales of Mystery, a co-production between Hong Kong and the mainland, uses the popular WeChat app as the basis for a thriller. If the film succeeds financially, it could usher in more tech-based fright flicks. In North America, the sub-genre is starting to gain more ground thanks to Unfriended, a thriller about teens who are haunted by a dead girl over a Skype group chat. The first trailer for Unfriended generated a ton of online buzz last week. http://pro.boxoffice.com/statistics/news/2...ies-set-to-rule

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 06:33 PM) there's something to be said for the "intangibles" that come through when a guy works his ass off after a pretty serious shoulder injury to get back on the field with his teammates well before expected, even when that team is not competing for the post season. I like this kid a lot. The second coming of Mags but only better, IMO. We can only hope. Personally, I'm not setting the bar so high. That's his "everything goes according to plan" ceiling IMO.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 07:11 PM) where does he promise that? lol The community college idea, for one.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-011454392.html Rooftop owners' lawsuit heading towards Federal court

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 12:57 PM) I honestly watch the VP and Speaker reactions more than the President. "oh, oh! is he going to stand?! He is going to clap?!" But I do think you're right. the Repubs have to do something not named Keystone or repealing Obamacare. That's why I think there's a legit chance some of this middle class stuff may happen. Child tax credits, help with child care, etc. are things that Republican voters also want. The question is how many corporate tax laws are the Repubs going to throw in the same legislation? I’d have suggested he dispense with the cursory mention of a hundred topics and the anecdotes about people sitting in the balcony, and instead use the entire speech to tell a story — much as Bill Clinton did at the 2012 convention — about why the economy tanked in 2008 and why it’s rebounding now. I’d have suggested he become the first president to use PowerPoint slides in a national address, so that Americans at home could see the graphs showing job growth (about 246,000 per month last year), falling unemployment (the largest annual drop in 30 years, even if some of that reflects a decline in workforce participation) and shrinking deficits. Also, it would have been a riot to see last month’s unemployment numbers projected onto John Boehner’s forehead. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-declares-victo...-043549344.html Obama declares victory way too late, Matt Bai

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 03:05 PM) The Avi thing has completely changed now. This is a below average fielder based on metrics (awful routes to balls....hideous-to-awful, roughly), and he's not an on-base guy. The positives are only the power potential and that ability to take the second base w/ his speed. This was all absolutely great to plug into RF before the recent acquisitions. But we're now win-now. What is frightening is that this goes from being a positive situation (we know how mercurial this board can be)........to becoming a scapegoat thing if next year falls short of expectations. 2015 expectations will be high, no matter what we tell ourselves. Conor or Avi are prime candidates for becoming the soxtalk whipping boy if things aren't going wonderfully. The hope you hold onto with Avi is that he's been young at each stage of the MLB/MiLB development. Sadly last year was really important. Something salvaged at the end. But to have our win-now track means expectations for AG are sky high now. Pressure is up and that's what the gig is, of course. But it's twofold now. Of course, you could say the same thing about Robertson, Duke, LaRoche, Tyler Flowers, Melky and whoever's at 2B. They are all prime "whipping boy" candidates along with Danks and Noesi to a lesser extent. It's not even assured 100% that Abreu won't have a bit of a sophomore slump. Not expecting it, but stranger things have happened.

QUOTE (Armchair Hahn @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 08:37 AM) not sure on the politics of the Sox/Nats relationship...but Fister is the guy i feel would be appropriate for the Sox. We don't need another #2, #3 guy such as Zimmermann for the price that he will command in terms of trades. Fister should be relatively less costly and will fill our need of a backend #4 or 5 guy without breaking the bank. I would perhaps trade a Matt Davidson or other one of our prospects in the 6-10 range. The Nats don't have many needs at the MLB level I'm sure there's a stat out there that says Fister was/is one of the best 50 starters in the majors over X/Y/Z time period dating back to maybe 2011 or 2012. They would laugh at such a trade proposal and probably publicize it to the world. With Anthony Rendon in place for the next decade, why on Earth would they need Matt Davidson?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 07:17 AM) This is where you're wrong. It's not about it being THE year to go for it, it's about it being the first of many years to go for it. With the second WC, we're seeing teams strive to be "in contention" frewquently in stead of building a super team for a year or two and having to tear it down later. If we commit too much of the future to 2015, we're going to be right back in a rebuild. I think you're underestimating the cost. The Samardzija trade was a coup, but we don't have another Semien to give up and we shouldn't expect other GMs to value quantity over quality like Beane has done for years. Especially not the Nats, who have no need for modest upgrades at this point since they have possibly the best team on paper already. Plus, they're not going to be satisfied with treading water and trading Ian Desmond only to replace him with Alexei Ramirez. They're going to want a future superstar in Tim Anderson, there's no way around that. They have so much pitching depth Montas (except as a closer) and Danish wouldn't be interesting to them, so they're definitely asking for Anderson, Hawkins and one more Top 10 piece. Then we're eventually stuck in the same situation about 10-12 teams are every off-season, paying premium prices for a upper-tier SS who will be a long-term answer.