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would it be in bad taste if one said they had an "Eloy-boner"?

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 5, 2017 -> 12:24 PM) Nicky earned a starting spot in 2018 for me, especially with the wrist injury he was dealing with in September that hurt him. I want to see who he is in 2018. +1

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 04:22 PM) He will be on the Sox by August. Someone on the forum chewed me out for suggesting the same.

QUOTE (35thstreetswarm @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 09:03 AM) As with the Cubs in November 2016, it now seems to be accepted wisdom on sports talk radio that nobody can realistically hope to compete with the Astros for the next 3, 4, 5 seasons. After all, they just won the World Series, and will bring back basically the same team. Pencil them in, since that's how it always works in baseball.

Really interested in seeing the outcome of this.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Nov 3, 2017 -> 12:03 PM) ... Avi. Let’s not forget he was #2 in the AL in average next to Altuve. (That is crazy, I know!) Altuve has an average BABIP over the past 4 years of .346 while Avi has only that wild ass .392 mark last year. It'll be interesting to see if he can keep it up - or at least begin to level off around .340 and become an annual batting title contender. If he does, then extend and keep him. That's our best hope with our hopeful "Peavy Prize".

QUOTE (Donaldo @ Nov 2, 2017 -> 05:22 PM) Darvish was tipping his pitches. Yu Darvish may have been tipping his pitches in nightmare World Series performance Glad to see the Astros win it all for the very first time (at somebody else's expense, NOT ours ). Remember, the Astros completely whiffed on two consecutive #1 overall draft picks (Appel, Aiken). This just proves that not all top prospects pan out. That's why you have to bulkload prospects during a rebuild (like Hahn is doing). Appel was indeed a full out dud but Aiken turned into Bregman.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Nov 1, 2017 -> 10:21 AM) Continue to develop the prospects that make up the top farm system in baseball and maybe bring in a flier starter like Bucholz or Pineda for cheap and hope to flip them by August Other than that, call up prospects when ready, develop, and get ready to spend BIG next fall on names like Machado, Kimbrel/Miller, Cody Allen/Kelvin Herrera, and little less on a guy like Carter Capps '19 Rotation: Kopech, Rodon, Giolito, Lopez, Hansen '19 Lineup: SS Anderson, 2B Moncada, 3B Machado, 1B Abreu, LF Jimenez, RF Garcia, DH Delmonico, C Collins, CF Leury '19 Pen: Kimbrel/Miller, Allen/Herrera, Capps, Burdi, Guerrero, Fulmer, Adams (Any starter prospects that don't work out) '19 Bench: C Narvaez, 1B/3B Davidson, INF Sanchez, U Cordell Ding ding ding. If we've gotta replace Machado for Donaldson, then so be it... but you and I are of the same mind. Then hopefully by 2020 we'll have Robert, Burger, and more coming up in the second wave.

Now that was the type of game that is boring as all hell.

5 lead changes = muy excitingo So was the 2 hit game 5 It's all good as long as it's not a blow out in my book

QUOTE (FloydBannister1983 @ Nov 1, 2017 -> 11:06 AM) I'm aware of that. I would take those games over a 13-12 mess any day of the year. That "mess" was an enthralling historic amazing game.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 31, 2017 -> 03:20 PM) What would you guys do? Keep all the prospects and continue developing them. Wait until later in the offseason, say early February or late January to sign some bargain basement players who have been left without any other suitors - just with hopes to flip em at the deadline. Pray all goes well with Kopech and Eloy... call me both up when their eligibility for additional service time allows it. That's about it.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 31, 2017 -> 08:44 PM) My off season plan is to watch again games from 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 in my library and to do my best to still be around in 2020...and hope they don't screw the rebuild up.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 29, 2017 -> 11:13 PM) ...I think the Dodgers only had 3-4 games that they blew all season with the lead after the 8th inning, something like that... The Dodgers didn't lose a game when leading by 4 ALL YEAR... before tonight.

Holy s***.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 29, 2017 -> 12:07 PM) Lol, shows how little I know. Good to see Martinez finally get a chance. Yea, no joke! Atta boy Davey! Still wish we woulda given him his first gig.

Dodgers continue to lose this series on the base paths.

With as much momentum as Huston has had since the 8th inning of game 2... they really haven't been dominant. The Dodgers can still turn the tides.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 28, 2017 -> 03:51 PM) Really hope this lights a fire in the Dodgers club house to whoop Houston's ass and that Dervish gets a chance to redeem himself in this series. Really impressed with how Dervish handled this. +1

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2017 -> 08:21 AM) ??‍♂️

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 02:00 PM) Back to the man in the first quoted post above. That's a hell of a camera shot on that catch. Did you notice who is right in front of him observing the catch?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 07:56 AM) could also go the other way. If the Sox didn't trade for Shields and got a good pitcher they may have been a better team and not gone ahead with the full re-build. So you could say that the trade had the biggest impact on the team going for the re-build and possibly leading to a world Series. : You, my friend, just planted a seed of "go to logic" for me if / when Tatis induced depression strikes me.

This is a thing of beauty:

QUOTE (soulfly @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) I don't think it's so much that they traded him. It's who they traded him for. I don't think there was anyone on here that was excited, or thought the Sox should have traded for Shields. I'll still never understand that move, even more so when the medicals come in to play from SD. I must do it... and then, back to the land of Eloy we shall go:

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 01:01 PM) Another decision why I think they will win is you're most certainly going to see Hernandez and Forsythe tonight and those guys are better offensively against LHP versus Utley and Granderson against RHP. Forsythe has AL experience and has seen Q before more than most of the Dodgers. Dude. You're a gangsta!