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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 16, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) No idea how Crede is on a mic, but he'd be another guy. Simply based on his post-game locker room interviews, he's not a guy I could see being good at announcing. Love the guy, but I don't think it would fit him well.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 15, 2015 -> 02:33 PM) I'd have rather had a backdoor deal like this alleges than Robin and the Sox seeming like whiny people over this.

If anyone should be complaining about not getting into the game it's AJ Burnett.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 14, 2015 -> 08:23 PM) I want to know how many pitchers available tonight pitched on Saturday. Probably half or more. What a fricking joke. White Sox are very very disappointing organization. If Sale truly is mad there should be some articles in the Trib on this! There were 29 pitchers on the AS roster. There were 17 starters and 12 relievers. Only 16 of those 29 pitchers actually pitched in the game. Of those 16 only 5 pitched on Saturday or Sunday. Of those 5, only one of them is a starting pitcher: Dallas Keuchel. Had Sale pitched he would’ve been the only other starting pitcher going on 2 days rest. Of the 13 pitchers that DNP 7 of them pitched on Saturday or Sunday. 4 of them were starters: Sale, Burnett, Gray and Scherzer. The last two took themselves out because they pitched on Sunday. So to wrap it all up, there were 5 starting pitchers on the AS rosters that pitched Saturday or Sunday. Only one made an appearance in the game. Holding Sale out was not unprecedented. So please stop throwing a tantrum about it.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 13, 2015 -> 07:28 PM) You're usually working on your swing mechanics, getting loose, etc. When the pitches are coming in at game speed, it's too difficult to be thinking about the minutiae of what you are doing while also managing to make contact. I'd also mention that the BP pitches usually are thrown from a lot closer than game pitches. So while it isn't a direct translation to MLB speeds, it is a bit more difficult than hitting a ~70mph (that's a normal BP speed) pitch from 60 feet. But the main thing is just that it isn't meant to help players work on pitch recognition or anything like that. Of course there is also the practical concern that you would need several pro-level pitchers to hang around and throw every day yet also not be good enough to need to be throwing in the pros and also not have their arms fall off from the effort. Also, if they want to see "real" speeds, they just use a pitching machine, which is probably available to them in the clubhouse area somewhere.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 09:35 AM) But then you have to deal with car salesmen every 3 years. No thanks. I'm lucky enough to have a close family friend as a car salesman. I bought my current car from him and had three other family members/friends buy a car from him in the last couple years. It makes the whole process smoother and more comfortable for everyone. What's even better is that he is part of an auto group in town that can get pretty much any make/model, new or used that we want.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 07:04 PM) The one chick in Spy is pretty hot. She's 35 and hot. She was in Bridesmaids. Incredible body. Rose Byrne She's been in quite a few movies. Check her out in X-Men: First Class.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 07:26 AM) Supposed to be great weather Nope. Accuweather

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 02:56 PM) Jeff Sullivan ‏@based_ball 20h20 hours ago White Sox position players in July have been worth 0.0 WAR, which is the group's best month of the season I saw that earlier today. It made me literally LOL.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 10:58 AM) I am 41 years old, and have never traded in a car. Every vehicle I have had was either totaled, or ran into a repair that it wasn't worth to repair (thrown rod, blown head gasket, etc). Currently I am running a 2004 Impala the wife and I drove off of the lot with 6.8 miles on it in Jan 2004 and a 2007 Honda CRV that we got used with 20k miles on it in 2010. We might soon break that streak as the wife wants something bigger. I think mostly, with the cost of cars/trucks, there is just other stuff I would rather spend my money on. Sure newer would be nice, but I have never had some overwhelming need for it. I was about to say the same with me but then I remembered that I did my first trade-in a couple of years ago. I almost walked out and eventually had to talk directly to the guy at the “desk” because we were stuck only $500 apart. I eventually got what I wanted for it and it was sight unseen so I guess I can’t complain too much. But every other car I’ve owned has either been totaled or privately sold. I’ve got two more years to pay on my current car and then it we’ll probably either trade it or pass it down to my daughter.

It’s kinda like a parent sending their kid off into the world to find a good paying career rather than staying home and helping run the family’s small business. JR basically said, We’d love to keep you around but you should jump on this chance to go and make a lot of money.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 8, 2015 -> 04:30 PM) How is that any different in Oakland, Citi Field or Anaheim (who are bleeding thousands of fans this year despite a playoff appearance last year and the presence of Mike Trout, the best young player in the game, along with Harper)? Where are these fans who show up season after season and support consistently losing teams, other than the Cubs (and they had big drop offs too over the last 2-3 seasons)? Please don't try to argue the Giants in the seasons between their World Series appearances....or HUGE market teams with historical parks like the Red Sox, who've still enjoyed 3 World Series titles basically in the last decade. Which team that has enjoyed LESS success on the field than the White Sox in the past decade (starting in 2006) has much better fan support/more loyal fans? The Cubs had one more playoff appearance but a worse regular season winning percentage over that time frame. It’s a shame the Sox are always compared to them because they are the biggest attendance anomaly in all of sports. There is no other fan base I know of that shows up more for the experience of being at/near the game than the actual play of the team. For years they could have put a little league team on the field and it wouldn’t have made a difference because most of the people there didn’t know or care who was playing.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jul 6, 2015 -> 09:59 PM) I'm confused. There's another major league team in Chicago?! The Cardinals.

I haven't played a actual game in the last 3 weeks. Two weeks were rained out. Last week only 5 guys showed up for the other team. We did have a scrimmage game with them though. Had to lend them a few of our players. We have double-headers this week and next to make up for the rain-outs.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 04:26 PM) Your post is great and understandable and 100 percent in line with how we as a society feel today. No way in hell kids are allowed to be kids and be alone EVER. I just want to say this. When I was a kid, from 10 years old on, in Mt. Greenwood, parents would allow kids to basically do whatever they wanted to do in the summer. Your bike was your friend. Unorganized sports with buddies was your friend! And nobody I ever know was hit by a car, kidnapped, abused, approached. Kids did play Little League from age 10 on. Drove their own bike to the games; parents rarely attended unless you made the playoffs or something. Great life. Nobody got killed or kidnapped or hit by cars. I'd make the bike ride from 103rd street to 115th Street where the fields were. Never a problem. We also got soft drinks if we won paid for by our coaches; we got nothing if we lost. For some reason people in my generation and ensuing generations refused to allow their own kids to have the same childhoods. We were too afraid of "something happening" to the kids. Can you imagine if coaches only bought soda for the kids if they WON nowadays? The horror. Buy those kids cokes win OR lose!! When I was in 4th or 5th grade one of the kids that was a grade below me was killed by being hit by a car on his way to school. As far as knowing your neighbors, I know that we have a least 2 sex offenders within a few blocks of our house. My girls had a few friends in the neighborhood but they all moved away before they even hit 7th grade.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) This is the post of the year. Worded like Shakespeare. "over active parental oversight." That is such a cool way to say parents have coddled their babies for a couple generations now. You can blame it on the rare mass murders and kidnappings or whatever you want, but parents took away the kids' right to be a kid. No more playing baseball on street corners (you might get hit by a car, you know) or riding bikes with friends to hang out wherever their bikes took them (you might get kidnapped you know) to play whatever sport they felt like playing that day (throw a football, play whiffle ball or rubber ball with a wall as a backstop), play street hockey, go skating at the park in the winter. Nope, parents put uniforms on their kids at age 6 and organized everything lest their little babies get kidnapped or killed by some imagined threat. I know a few parents like that but IMO, technology is more to blame. Kids today can talk to and interact with all of their friends without ever leaving their bedroom now. They'd much rather text each other than talk face-to-face or even on the phone. They can play games with all their friends on their Xbox or PS3. They can sit and watch movies and TV shows all day long. None of that existed when we were kids. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) My original thread was misstated by me I guess. I just wondered why college athletes are expected to win and fans get all hot and bothered when they don't win (football, basketball) when their generation has been taught just competing is OK. How do we expect these kids to be "gamers" when all their lives they've been taught the result doesn't matter? I don't think the whole "winning doesn't matter" applies to college or professional athletes. By the time they hit HS the participation awards are done. That's only in little league or pee-wee football. The ones that are actually serious about the sport and really want to win are the ones that actually continue on through HS and college.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 08:21 AM) The real question is who will put on the brakes in the front office now and preach patience...one step forward, two steps back, etc.? We've been doing the one step forward, two steps back since 2006. We should try TWO steps forward with only one back. Makes for much better forward progress.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 10:51 PM) Is it too early to call him a bust? Mark Prior 2.0?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 07:19 AM) Why? I tried canceling last year and last 3 months. Had to come back. I'll see how it goes. When my commute was 2 hours long it was an absolute necessity. Now it's less than 10 minutes. On weekends I'm usually driving my other vehicle that never had XM to begin with. I can always stream stuff from my phone through the built-in bluetooth in my car.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) So you're saying it's bad that I make my 3 year old, from the time he was about 1.5, watch golf with me on the weekends and hit balls in the backyard and constantly tell him "this is your future, you're daddy's ticket to awesome golf courses around the world?" I just tell mine that her bowling skills could (help) pay for her college education. She's already got an account with scholarship funds in it from tournaments she's won. They give out LOTS of scholarship money to youth bowlers.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) I don't think there is a controversy. Seems to me nearly everyone is behind taking it down. If that were the case, it would've been taken down a long time ago.

QUOTE (gravybread @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) this probably means cubs go to 670 right? The article says they have the option. Doubt they'll pass it up.

I think the whole idea of participation awards making kids ok with losing is BS to begin with. I'm almost 40 and we had those awards back when I played. It's not a "new" thing. The thing is, kids aren't stupid. They know what those trophies are. They know that they aren't nearly as good as the first place trophies the other kids are walking around with. Often times we would get ice cream or some other treat after the game even if we lost but it didn't make us want to win any less. Honestly, I think the bigger problem is the kids that are getting pushed by their parents who are trying to re-live their failed sports aspirations through their kids. I have 3 girls and only the youngest had/has any interest in playing any kind of sport. She's not the worst, but she's not the best either. If she wants to continue to try and get better I'll support her but I'm not going to push her thinking she'll be the next Cat Osterman or Jennie Finch.

Guess I'll have to check my radio on my way home to see how well that station comes in. I just cancelled my Sirius XM subscription yesterday too.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 23, 2015 -> 10:14 AM) Like Sox fans would be any different. I'd rather watch the tornado coverage.