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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 09:04 AM) Well this is some absolutely ridiculous hyperbole. The Giants have a much better back end of the rotation, a much better bullpen, and were a better all around offensive team. It's not absurd or ridiculous to say that the White Sox have a better rotation than the Royals but a worse overall team. Except they don't. After Sale/Shields, most scouts would take Duffy going forward over Quintana, everyone would take Ventura over whoever we're claiming as our 3 and then Guthrie/Vargas have a HUGE advantage over Danks/Noesi/Rienzo/Carroll. (And 90% of scouts would take Ventura over Quintana, as well). It is absurd and/or ridiculous or preposterous when Danks/Noesi/Carroll had 3 of the worst 11 statistical seasons for starters with over 80 IP this season in the entire majors.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 08:46 AM) I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but I'm missing the point. Most here say Sale's better than Bumgarner....while someone else said the Giants were a juggernaut (the same team that Ventura easily beat twice in the span of a week)...and if Quintana's better than Shields/Duffy/Ventura, then the White Sox should be in the playoffs on a regular basis. Yet they're not even close.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 08:43 AM) Winning a World Series vs. trying to protect someone so maybe you can win one in the future.. That decision is pretty easy. If any Giants fan thinks it wasn't worth it, they probably really aren't Giants fans. Only White Sox fans would complain about overuse when that overuse led to a World Championship. Cain and Lincecum are definitely showing some wear and tear...but it's still a lot better than the Strasburg Strategy.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 10:58 PM) It's all cliche. So Maddon is regarded as a great manager. A genius. Big deal. All these managers are basically the same. They make moves that get torn apart. How bout Boche tonight. He should be lauded forever for the way he set that up. They get the lead and Baumgarner is ready to mow down KC for five more innings. Hilarious. Nobody could have orchestrated it better. Meanwhile KC has a perceived buffoon managing the team and they are one Alex Gordon sprint home from tying it and winning it in extras. It's all cliche I tell you. Maddon is just another man. He's no magic elixir. Players win games though I will admit being partial to one, Ozzie Guillen. And what happens if Bumgarner goes down to TJ surgery early next season? I guess most Giants fans will still probably agree it was worth it, as long as it's not a shoulder or labrum.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 07:32 AM) Right, and Sale and Quintana are better than both of them. My point there was simply that their pitching is NOT something that's going to hold us down against them. Our rotation is already better, and it's not even very good. And since Ventura just beat a juggernaut TWICE in the span of a week, and Quintana's better...then the White Sox should have the best pitching staff in the American League.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 05:45 AM) Caulfield has now puiged the royals. They have just become a monstrous juggernaut that cannot be overcome no matter how the Sox try. Pack it up White Sox, 2015 is over It will be a huge surprise if the White Sox aren't picked 4th or 5th by every preseason publication. Not easy to do with one of the five best pitchers in baseball and one of the ten best hitters. Even when the White Sox were "pretty good" in 2012, they couldn't handle Jeremy Guthrie and Bruce Chen. The White Sox DO match up a lot better with the Giants, as we all know. The Giants are hardly a juggernaut either, except they just win when it counts. If the White Sox don't have a payroll over $90 million, your last sentence will be prophetic.

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/interstellar Interstellar in the early going with 10 positives, 2 mixed and 1 negative... Christopher Nolan is a merchant of awe, which is not to say he’'s always selling it at the right price, or that customer satisfaction is guaranteed 100 per cent of the time. Even by his standards, Interstellar is a wild leap of faith: an epic of science fiction which puts equal stress on both words. The scientific basis of the movie, by a whisker Nolan’'s longest ever and certainly his most all-embracing, is challengingly dense, intricately explained, and remarkably codswallop-free. But what pulls you in is its hugely confident architecture as a piece of storytellin;– its brave fictitiousness. Nolan comes very close here, one might almost say agonisingly close, to forging his masterpiece. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/fi...asterpiece.html 74% at Rotten Tomatoes... 23 positive, 8 negative Meanwhile, Nightcrawler's at 90% http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nightcrawler/

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2014 -> 01:02 AM) LOL at Lincecum contract; how many of these GMs will continue to make these mistakes? Ones that have won three of the past five World Series....he's also thrown a no-hitter or two in there, ala Buehrle.

Wait another year...or at least half-season. Jordan Zimmermann, David Price, Mat Latos and Jeff Samardzija are all a lot more realistic (because of the "competitive window" realistically beginning in 2016) targets for the Sox than Lester, Scherzer and Shields.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 11:13 PM) 3 titles in 5 years. I usually don't like throwing the dynasty title around like others but.... yea. If Cain comes back 100% next year, they're going to be tough to knock off...and they still have to figure out what to do with Lincecum, who's guaranteed $18 million for next season.

Please bring back the Erwin Santana/Ubaldo Jimenez debates, lol. Starring Santana again, Not So Big Game Jake Peavy, Hammel, Liriano, Volquez, etc.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 03:46 PM) Because they undervalue our own talent and eat their young around here. Or the young eat themselves. Fields, Anderson, Beckham, Morel, Erik Johnson, Phegley, Wilkins, Rienzo, etc. Other than Sale/Abreu/Ramirez, we have failed to come up with any true impact players since we traded for Floyd/Danks/Quentin. For now, the jury is still out on Eaton being able to stay healthy and what kind of power production we receive from Avisail Garcia (not to mention the team's tolerance for below-average fielding at nearly every position). If you want to count Addison Reed as an impact talent, be my guest, have at it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 01:32 PM) I've said it before, and will say it again, there will be a LOT of pressure for the Royals to re-sign Shields that would not have been there if they had flamed out early or missed the playoffs. WHY? They believe (at least internally) Finnegan could one day be comparable to Sale in the rotation going forward. That gives them Ventura, Duffy (one of the most underrated lefties in baseball statistically), Finnegan, Guthrie and Vargas. (Also, a nice balance with three quality lefties and two righties). A lot of that's OBVIOUSLY predicated on Finnegan developing, just like the White Sox with Rodon. A lot is expected of Sean Manaea, too. With the injury in the AFL to Kyle Zimmer, that does put a little bit of a dimmer on their future...but they also have Liam Hendricks, Lamb coming back from rehab/injury....as well as Binford, who pitched very well in the minors this season and made himself into a solid prospect. The Royals can easily afford to let Shields go....although I doubt they'll get into the Scherzer/Lester sweepstakes, they definitely will be looking at guys like Liriano and Volquez that they can pay a lot less for AAV and for years and still continue to plug in their young prospects. A lot of this depends on how serious the Zimmer injury/situation is...

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 09:50 PM) for them it's "been there, done that" Which is perfect timing because it makes it easier for them to move on from Sandoval...and Peavy, for example. With their lack of offense, bringing back Michael Morse would seem to be an imperative, but the problem is he's essentially a DH/1B now and the Giants will want to protect Posey by playing him more at 1B and Susac's waiting in line to get more time behind the dish. Like the White Sox, they need a combo (offense/defense) guy for LF, maybe it's going to be Nick Markakis. Doubt they'd bring back Melky Cabrera. Rasmus is another possibility for them. It would also be quite interesting if Hanley Ramirez ended up playing 3B for SF next year...they can't survive offensively with Ishikawa/Perez/Pagan/Blanco in LF/CF...unless Cain returns as a co-ace with Bumgarner. Both Sandoval and Hanley come with huge risk attached for anything beyond a three-year deal. They're also clearly going to lose Romo, who will get a closer's job again with another team.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansa...cle3459750.html The problem for the White Sox is that the Royals probably would have followed up this season by resting on their laurels. Now you have TWO super-hungry teams in the Royals and Tigers, the Twins definitely trending upwards with a new manager/philosophy in place and the Indians still lurking. Hahn has his work more than cut out for him if the budget limit is adding roughly $20-30 million in "new" free agent or acquisition contract dollars.

Lost in the shuffle is how well a rookie in Yordano Ventura won two "must win" games for the Royals to keep them in it. He has a very bright future in the game if he can stay healthy. Yost should never have bunted Escobar in that situation (with Bumgarner shaky and control not locked in) unless he was going to pinch-hit for Aoki...the lack of quality hitters off the bench (they could have brought in Dyson defensively) really stung the Royals there.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 09:35 PM) My friend just said this was one of the most intense series of the past decade and that the Giants were the underdog. No. This was one of the worst World Series of the past decade and the Giants were certainly not the decade. The wild card game, Game #4 when the Royals had a 4-1 lead and held it into the 6th....then any time a visiting team wins on the road is pretty incredible and just doesn't happen very often. Bumgarner deserves all the praise he's going to get...and has his name right up there in lights with Kershaw and ahead of Sale until Chris can perform like that on the big stage of post-season play (something Kershaw has consistently failed to do a number of times now). Same for Sandoval (running, who would have thunk it) and Pence, as Posey just disappeared. Then you have Belt and Morse. Just shows you in the post-season that you can get by with one true ace and a solid bullpen. Even though Machi and Strickland were garbage, Lopez, Affeldt, Romo and Casilla all got the job done.

Bunting/sacrificing with your best average/hottest second half and post-season hitter (Escobar) to have a LH batter 0 for 16 career (and well played by Perez in LF) face Bumgarner is clearly going to be one of the most questioned moves if the Royals lose this game. Then again, Cain was still overmatched....but we'll never know how Escobar would have done if they played for the big inning. It's just as possible Cain and Hosmer would have gone down, leaving it up to Butler against Bumgarner to drive in two runs with two outs.

Seems like Herrera and Wade Davis are finally running out of gas.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 01:14 PM) speaking of bad remakes/reboots, I just read a plot synopsis of Terminator: Genisys http://screenrant.com/terminator-5-genisys...-images-script/ aaaaand i am not interested Jai Courtney sucks. So does that weird spelling of "genesis." Both in Divergent (granted he was a villain) but also in the latest Die Hard...he almost single-handedly ruined that movie. This movie has bomb written all over it, and Arnie career desperation/last big payday role.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 07:11 PM) Jeremy Davies? Must have been thinking about the Royals, lol. That actor has kind of disappeared, unless he's on an obscure tv show.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 02:23 PM) I'm calling it, Giants win 1-0.boom Guess we can throw that one out already. Yost, as predicted, brings in Herrera in the 4th to try to preserve the 2-2 tie. Affeldt will get Moustakas and then probably get pulled in the bottom half...not sure who the Giants will use next. Not Strickland or Machi. Might be Petit again.

Giants already into their bullpen. Yost hoping he can get at least four from Guthrie, with the possibility of Herrera going 2, Davis going 2 and Holland whatever's left. Bumgarner looming. One can only imagine how many double switches there would be in an NL park. 4 1/2 hour game, easily.

Unless they're going to fix all the other holes in the team, trading for a one-and-done pitcher's illogical. Are they all of a sudden free spenders who can give Samardzija a similar contract to what James Shields is going to receive, or even higher? I don't think so. I also don't think signing pitchers in their 30's to long-term deals fits the new operating model for 75% of MLB teams.

Fury was predictable but worth viewing...depending on your feelings for Pitt and LeBouf as actors. Logan Lerman was excellent...in a role quite reminiscent to Kyle Davies' turn in Saving Private Ryan.