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Well, now I know why... it's dead for tonight.

I'm surprised that with all this smoke there's only a couple dozen people online. #FridayProblems

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 06:23 PM) Yeah, if we are to believe Hahn, that would indicate the Sox either don't love Albies, or the secondary pieces weren't that great. I'm surprised that the braves wouldn't beef up the back end... with their depth of prospects... huh. Odd.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 06:18 PM) Who is Nelly? I must be missing something or did you mean Melky? good old autocorrect got me again

Well, the viagra certainly wore off quickly with this one.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 06:02 PM) this...and by A LOT! Saladino needs a nickname too...somebody has probably already said this I'm sure...but if not I hereby dub thee: FRITO! Saladino => Salad

Hip hip.... horay! 3 run bomb by Cano

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 05:46 PM) At game but can't tell, who's this 3rd base coach? Doesn't look like Capra. Capra had a herniated disc surgery today and the guy you're looking at is someone from our Dominican department... missed his name.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 05:39 PM) Is Hayes saying anything of interest? Nope. Mentioned Sox may need to eat cash for Nelly or Todd deals to get something back... so... no, nothing fun. Well, to be correct, he did say he put a bow on a random car in the parking lot for Stone. That was somewhat fun.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 05:17 PM) and we're back. i'll just keep talking with myself and drinking beer and watching baseball. This post, for the win. Edit: remember the in game chat room way back in the day?

More Reddit gold.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 11:45 AM) Can't wait to infuse a Top 3 pick in this system next year, hopefully the top college bat (Bryant-like addition)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 02:10 PM) Siera Santos‏Verified account @SieraSantos 8m8 minutes ago Rick Hahn just sat down to address the media. Looked around and joked that we needed to "wait for wetbutt23"... #WhiteSoxTalk

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 03:43 PM) Listening to Hahn's banalities...that's almost worse than Ventura pressers. The whole "you know" thing can easily be fixed. Along with coming up with a bit more of a trademark style or shtick instead of being a generic Mr. Informative/Thorough. The trick is to be charismatic, comfortable with humor and simultaneously memorable/compelling. All that comes with time and practice.

QUOTE (KnightsOnMintSt @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 02:37 PM) So its been a little over a day since the trade happened. How is everyone feeling about it now? I'm excited, the only thing that scares me is how far away they are. Obviously we didn't need anyone that could contribute right now, but getting a bunch of guys that aren't proven in the higher level scares me. That being said, I love the trade still. I think Jimenez is the best single prospect we could've gotten in return. Also like "replacing" Quintana with a top pitching prospect as well. The coach of Eloy's last A ball team said that he could literally be a September call up type of a guy on a contending team this year. Said that he could make the White a Sox middle of next year. He was mainly speaking to the kids talent level and not actually projecting his timeline. My guess based on everything I've read and heard is a September call up in 2018 or starting in May of 2019. Regardless, it's nice to see that his talent is seen as professional talent developers as being able to play in the bigs this year. I too was a little ( as in tiny ) bit concerned that all of these guys where in A ball.

Well... initial emotional type of reaction is, this sucks. Considering our timeline to contention and the reliability of the TJ process, logically the reaction is.... oh well.

This must be watched... Jose, the heart will carry on: http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=V...p;audio_start=0

QUOTE (Tony @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 11:43 AM) What Greg is this?!?

The next 17 days sure are going to be muy interesting.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 10:48 AM) A #2 prospect in an organization and who is on top 100 lists is a filler? I posed the same question to him as well in this thread and he replied a few pages back.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 10:07 AM) I spend 5 weeks in the mountains and a week on the beach and you only come away with 2 top 50 prospects? You're slowing down Rick! Anyway, after the Jiminez deal, I don't think I saw this posted anywhere but it is worth being stated. I cannot come up with, in my memory of MLB history, a single franchise that has ever gone from a bottom of the league system and a team mired at the bottom of its division and wound up within 8 months with a consensus top 2 system, with basically zero damaging long term contracts on the books. It often takes GMs 4 or 5 years to do what he did in 8 months. We have seen it take franchises 2 or 3 GMs to figure this out. Fairly or unfairly, Rick Hahn has just set the standard by which every single future GM of a struggling franchise is going to be judged. Teams like the Mariners, Padres, Phillies - that have been stuck at the bottom of a division for way too long - their GMs are now going to be hit with statements about how the White Sox took a 4th place team and went from a top 25 system to a top 2 system in 8 months and why they can't do things like that. I don't know whether Hahn can take this organization the next step...but if he ever finds himself out of a job for whatever reason, he will immediately get an offer to come in somewhere and handle an organization in that same boat. This is the gold standard. We may never see it done this well again. It was really all about having Sale / Q / Eaton - a testament to his contract negotiation skills with each of them and with the team as a whole in acquiring and developing them. Not taking away from your thought process, just adding to it. Can't really think of a rebuilding team starting off with assets like that to begin the process with.

QUOTE (mac9001 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 09:39 AM) Given the Nats bullpen woes I wonder what the haul would be if we send them Robertson, Kahnle & Swarzak. If I'm Rick Hahn I'd be calling Rizzo and planting the go big idea over the next few weeks. I almost posted this exact thought about 10 minutes ago.

QUOTE (striker @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 09:11 AM) My dream scenarios: Robertson and Swarzak to Nationals for Kieboom and Soto Abreu to Yankees for Andujar and Florial Frazier and Kahnle to Red Sox for Chavis and Groome Avi to Cardinals for Kelly and Flaherty Depth OF: Jimenez, Robert, Soto, Florial, Basabe, Adolfo, Call, Fisher, May, CA: Kelly, Collins 3B: Andujar, Chavis, Burger, Kieboom 2B: Moncada, Kieboom SP: Kopech, Giolito, Lopez, Groome, Cease, Flaherty, Fulmer, Dunning, Hansen, Adams, Stephens

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 14, 2017 -> 05:02 AM) This is so much better than signing bad white players... What about bad Hispanic, African American, or Finish players? Well, I guess Finish players would be considered "white"... so, uh... yea.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 10:59 AM) BA posted a list of 2018 draft prospects to get familiar with. http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/2018-...list/?amphtml=1 Very interesting that they list 5 positional players ahead of Beer and Gray isn't one of them.