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And teams having less than 6+ years of control for a young player is something fans should.....want? I'm not saying I don't GET why Eloy would do this. I am saying as a fan, I hate this. I prefer the Sox have Eloy under control for 15 years, but obviously the players don't want that.

Yeah, obviously. I'm talking about AS A WHITE SOX FAN, why would this be good? Like I said, it's only going to make Hahn look like a bad guy, or possibly create tension between Eloy and Hahn.

And why would that be good?

Oh, and Wilbur Perez struck out 8 and walked 1 batter in 5 IP. Now has 75 K to 21 BB in 70 IP.

Solid start for Kodi. 5 2/3 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K. He threw 92 pitches. Bryce Bush with is first multi-strikeout game since July 24th. His K% has skyrocketed up to 14% on the season. His BB% rate is the same 14%.

Our AA catcher's defense reminds you of our former 3B prospect? Huh?

I hate this because it's going to make Hahn look like a bad guy when he doesn't call him up. Or it's going to make it seem like there will be tension now from Eloy because he wrote this article begging to be called up and then he gets denied. I wish he wrote this next April and then the Sox called him up the next day. But now, it's too late.

Kopech was dumb for not deleting these, but in my opinion, there is a distinction between saying a hateful word and making a hateful comment. His tweets were not hateful, he just used a couple of slurs that are frowned up. Step foot on to any High School, even college, and you'll hear everyone calling eachother gay and the N-word, white or not. It's because they are trying to be funny or cool, not because they are trying to hurt anyone or cause trouble. EDIT: So he deleted them a while ago, and apparently this girl was sitting on these screenshots until he got called up and someone said she tried to go to TMZ with these first, likely for money. Awful.

#BetoForPresident

Could also be visa issues. I don't know how easy it is to bring these kids stateside mid-season.

His reasoning was that Darvish has talked about retiring even prior to signing his last contract, and with how hated he feels he might not feel he has earned the money and walk away from it all. Darvish seems to be a weird guy, so it wouldn't shock me. But I have no idea if that's just random speculation by Kaplan or actual things he is hearing.

In a trade with the Cubs for Shields, what can we even expect back? Maybe someone like SS Zack Short? 2B Luis Verdugo? CF Fernando Kelli, who is 20 and appears to be outrageously fast (108 SB in 170 minor league games)?

Today is the day. Will there be over 30,000? Will the rain stay away long enough to get an uninterrupted start? Will SoxTalk be will represented?

My first CD was either Backstreet Boys or Hanson. My first concert was Lil Wayne and the Yung Money crew. I don't like Lil Wayne whatsoever, but I was convinced to go by a group of friends from work, and only agreed because Drake was an up-and-coming unknown artist I was following and he was a part of their crew. Well, of course Drake ended up breaking his leg and missed the concert. Have never seen Drake since.

David Kaplan was saying that if Darvish needs TJ and would miss all of 2019, that he will probably just retire. Can you imagine the Cubs getting away with that? He ends up retiring, they save $100M, and then go out and easily secure Harper and possibly more. That would be so fucking sickening to see go their way.

Hansen, sure, but Dunning is back to pitching. He will probably start 2019 in AA, but spend most of his season in AAA. He could be ready for the majors by early 2020. No reason to trade Rodon if you think you can be competitive in 2020 and 2021. By summer of 2020, you could be looking at Rodon, Kopech, Giolito, Lopez with one of Cease/Dunning/Covey/Stephens/Guerrero taking that 5th spot. I don't see us throwing big money at a starter any time soon. I could see us signing a veteran like Verlander for 2 years (He will be 37) or Tanner Roark to a 3-year deal (33 yrs old) just to give us a veteran presence with playoff experience, but not to any long term deals.

Yoelvin Silven just continues to pump strikes. 5 more K to 0 more BB today. 68 K to 13 BB in 59 IP. Just barely 19 years old. He still intrigues me.

Collect underpants is Phase 6. Please don't go ahead.

Replace the metaphor with "floodgates opening" if you wish, but you understand the point. Kopech is the first of many prospects we will be graduating through our system for this rebuild.

** I posted this on Facebook, so ignore the spoonfeeding. My average FB friend isn't as in-tune to baseball, especially the Sox, as we all are** Michael Kopech has been called up. Phase 2 of the rebuild begins today. Phase 1 was acquiring talent for the minor league system, via trades, drafts (still 1 more big draft in 2019), and international signings. Phase 2 is graduating those players to the major leagues. Not all players acquired in Phase 1 will make it here, and not all will become cogs in the future, but the more that reach this level, the exponentially closer the team gets to becoming a perennially winner. While Moncada, Giolito, and Lopez all represent players acquired during Phase 1, all 3 of them made their major league debuts with their previous clubs. None were products of the White Sox system. Kopech (Sale trade) represents the beginning of a Tsunami of prospect talent that is on its way to the South Side, that were groomed by the reworked player development team. Phase 3 will be signing and trading for veterans, and that phase could start as soon as November of this year, with both Phase 2 and Phase 3 continuing concurrently for a couple of years. Phase 4 will be the contender phase, where the team will be poised for a playoff spot, and Phase 5 will be sustained success, where all 5 phases are occurring simultaneously and feeding each other. None of these phases of a rebuild are promised. Some teams flame out and have to start back over. Some get stuck in neutral for a few years. But one thing is promised. Phase 2 has officially begun, Michael Kopech will pitch in Chicago on Tuesday, and you bet your sweet ass I'll be there. ??

Wow that looks intense. Speaking of bikes.....I just got my first bike that I've had since I was about 12 years old. My girlfriend has been trying to push me to get us bikes, so on a whim I decided to buy an e-bike that Costco had marked down as a display for $400. It sells on their website (Jetson) for $1800, and $1500 on Amazon. I didn't get it for exercising purposes I just wanted to suffice her and I thought the tech part of it might be cool.

Obviously nice to see him go 8 innings and only 3 BB, but the lack of strikeouts is strange. I wonder if that was by design, or just didn't have swing-and-miss stuff tonight.

She was acting as if I said Kopech did it on purpose (he totally did), when I never mentioned anything except that I hope Eloy doesn't become the target in retaliation. AAAAAAAAAAND, I WAS watching the game....on milb.tv, the same damn way she was.

Eloy is 0 for 3 with 2 GIDPs.

Kopech's sister is tweeting about the game. I replied saying I really really hope they don't retaliate by hitting Eloy in the next AB, and she replied with.... "Are you a fan of this team or.... because seems like you’re just going off what the coach tried to say from the other team? watch the game & then tweet me." .....alllllllllllrighty then.