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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 5, 2017 -> 07:39 PM) I can't figure out Comey. Basically submarines Hillary at the last second of the election, now seems to be driving pretty hard against Trump Maybe he's the toughest non-partisan SOB in Washington.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 5, 2017 -> 06:41 AM) Wag the Dog Every single day I think about that movie. I honestly think you can replace Albania with Russia. The whole Russia thing just stunk of diversion when it came out a day after ol HillyClins got hacked & embarrassed. Now look what it has become: McCarthy 2.0 and the peace & love half of the country wants to start WW3, wants blood almost every day. Well that's what makes me think of WTD, what about you? What made you mention it? I really think a person shouldn't be able to comment on politics unless they've seen wag the dog ?

In my forty fifty sixty years in the game, I have never seen a better collection of young impact arms. Not just arms...impact arms Stoney.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 18, 2017 -> 10:10 AM) Completely different situations. In your scenario the Sox were approaching some theoretical payroll threshold, whereas the Sox should have minimal payroll commitments entering the epic 2018/2019 free agent period. What exactly do you think Reinsdorf will do? Not allow Hahn to sign free agents above a certain AAV or for a certain amount of years? I just don't see it unless Hahn is looking to sign an elite pitcher to a crazy long-term contract. Otherwise, I expect Hahn to a fair amount of autonomy on how he spends his budget. Yes I agree. When your opening day payroll projects to be $20-$30M, you have some wiggle room.

Bold prediction: Hansen is the #1 prospect in baseball after 2017. Top 10 for sure.

Hey Oldsox was this last era of Sox baseball the most exciting in your lifetime? Pretty much a chance to win the WS every year since 2000ish.

This is the best thing I've read in a while. Makes me want to bet a couple hundred.

QUOTE (HeGone7 @ Feb 13, 2017 -> 06:40 PM) That's another one of those glass half-full vs half-empty type stats. Q has that reputation to an extent, but I think that is mainly just Sox fans who have watched him w/frustration over the years. He has 1 complete game I think for his career, which is what I think people mean. It's a very "Q" type statistic because it just reinforces that he isn't great, but he is consistently good. His extreme's, in this case, like a pitcher who throws a CG or gets bombed before the 4th inning don't exist and he settles in the middle with several "20 out" outings. Similar to the rebuttles to his WAR argument. Which is that, sure "over the last three years he is a top 10 WAR pitcher" but he has never finished top 10 in a season (at least per BR). Once again, it demonstrates that he is very good and consistent but he lacks the upside to be "elite" in the eyes of other organizations. Or it at least gives them ammunition/leverage for negotiating his trade. Someone recently posted that they had potentially 20 guys they'd be willing to take ahead of him and that person was likely correct. Whether we want to ACCEPT it or not is entirely up to you, but there are 20 guys out there that are either already better or have more upside than Q. Most teams, right or wrong, will lean towards the upside at the level where Q is. They can "fix" the flaws for that guy to reach his potential being the logic. So while that is a nice stat, and I, personally, think in today's day-in-age with bullpens this should increase his value to teams. You also mentioned it was Sale + a bunch of guys at 20 in the AL. Depending on what "a bunch" means and how many guys we add from the NL, it may be less important than we think. I'd imagine there is a lot with 19 as well. Which circles us back to the "upside" debate that teams will make there. 1 more out everytime, or the potential to go 9 good ones when it counts. Good points. So how available are these other 20 guys? And in FA they cost around $30M AAV. I wonder how worth it the extra out is.

Lopez's delivery reminds me a lot of Peavy.

"Bregman behind the back scoop to Anderson. Aderson 360 missile to Moncada, to Abreu! HHhhYEEeSSS! The 4-Way tie for last year's MVP just put on a show! The greatest triple play you will ever see! Call your sons and daughters...they're going for back to back to back to back homers for the third time tonight after these messages! Mercy!" Please God. Please

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 12, 2017 -> 08:52 PM) Sounds like an Astros trade is unlikely based on this tweet from MLB Network Radio: LOL. GMs never posture!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 9, 2017 -> 10:17 PM) No Martes or Tucker is what we heard earlier. Ahh sweet, then we'll take Bregman.

Q is a really good & established MLB top pitcher. Why shouldn't he be able to fetch a really good & established MLB hitter? Oh wait...and he's on a ridiculous contract that every team would love to have? Kyle Tucker is the best hitter he's worth? A kid in A ball? Keep up the good work brother Hahn. No need to cave for Kyle Tucker.

I wonder if the Sox will can his ass too when things start looking up.

I wonder if this is bad news for businesses like Kabbage, OnDeck etc. They have been dominating radio ads like crazy lately. If banks are allowed to lend to small business again will this kind of destroy their niche?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 12:23 AM) Trump doesn't deserve criticism because a Seal died? The same Trump that blasted Hillary over the entire campaign because of Benghazi? And it comes out that he hastily approved the mission after one briefing with very little planning and you want everyone to back off? f*** that, he put lives in danger so he could put a notch on his belt Good Lord man. Sweet delicate, swaddled baby Jesus. You are entitled to your opinion.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 11:41 PM) How can you realistically expect the country (and the media, that Trump and Spicer declared war on) to hit the reset button after the last 16 years, and particularly the tenor of discourse since the Mexicans are rapists and criminals campaign kickoff? It's a verbal version of the Civil War. Everyone has been forced to choose sides. ? A seal is dead. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. Pissing all over the ideals of free speech & tolerance by beating people up and setting s*** on fire is one thing- that's just hypocrisy 101...but using a dead seal as a pawn??? That's too far to me.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 10:23 PM) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trum...o-idUSKBN15G5RX "U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations. As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists." I understand bashing Trump for things but reporting like this makes me sick. One of our best just died trying to gather intelligence to help the free world. Running a story purely to insinuate incompetence is a disgrace to the dead operator, his family & all the special operators risking their lives. Everyone knows that US special operations are probably the most thoroughly planned missions in the history of all things being planned. They don't go unless they think it will work, bottom line. To write an article making it sound like Trump is just recklessly sending in SEAL teams & using the death of a special operator to further a political beef is beyond dishonorable. Sorry but f***. that. s***.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Jan 28, 2017 -> 09:29 PM) Hansen could jump too. For sure. Hansen has the potential to go from off the list all the way to #1 if he crushes the A balls. Wonder if that's ever happened.

On a more positive note, at least the Sox scouted a young kid correctly. Who is the scout that found him and coerced him into signing with the Sox? Pay that man to keep doing his job. Unless Tatis flames out...then rake him over a long bed of coals and smash his testicles.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 02:42 PM) No, the answer is "great President". He's in the second tier of presidents that follow the first tier of Washington, Lincoln and FDR. Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela Mother Teresa Medecins Sans Frontieres MLK Jr. Barack Obama Arguably a candidate for a 2nd peace prize for the humanitarian effort in Syria. 100s of thousands of lives saved. I say top tier for sure.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 08:22 PM) Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. And if you arent even willing to consider the idea that the offers the Sox have received arent good enough to trade Q now, there is really no point in discussing because neither of us know the offers. The hardest thing for people to understand, who do not negotiate deals regularly, is why patience is so important. Yes. That last sentence is key. Appearing eager or desperate would cost me money in the real world every day. Every damn day. The problem for Hahn is that he's shown he doesn't plan on competing in 2017 by trading Sale & Eaton. So other GMs smell blood in the water right now, January 20th. But that all changes the minute a team feels the pressure to need a TOR starter on a cheap contract. They will have to cave. It's not an IF but a WHEN. Patience Sox fans. This is how all deals in all industries are done. If you have the rare, coveted supply the demand will find you, always.

"Jose Quintana traded for Kyle Tucker and some other prospects" sounds like the worst headline I could ever read. What a laughing Stock Hahn would be to the other GMs. Absolute laughing stock.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 20, 2017 -> 09:15 AM) I like to think of the positive. Today is one of the greatest spectacles in human history. The peaceful transfer of power. Absolutely. Everyone should just kiss the sweet American earth today. We got it good. Reeeeeal good.

It would be cool if one day being a teacher was something you did after your main career was over. Like after you acquire wisdom from living in the world for many decades. Kids would benefit so much more if teaching was more voluntary from older, wiser people. Right now you have all these fall-down-blackout-drunk sluts from s***ty state schools becoming teachers at 22 who burn the candle at both ends. I know that is a HUGE & RIDICULOUS rambling generalization but we all know plenty of these ladies. And I get it, we need too many of them to probably ever weed out the junk. But maybe one day there will be the following headlines during a teachers' strike: "10,000 55-70 yr. old Chicagoans volunteer to teach for the rest of the year while teachers' union forces teachers to strike." "After 1 day of 'The Replacements'- Chicago kids are more interested in school than ever before!" "Kids gaining wisdom & role models at school for the first time ever new study finds." "Ambition discovered at local highschool. Thought to have gone extinct decades ago." "Life lessons, successes & failures, woven into english class at local school. Attendance skyrockets." Boom. Pension problem fixed in Jerksticks' Dreamland. No longer a job, but a way to give back once your nest empties.