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Schriffen: "Listen to this mic'd up!" Vargas: "Oomph."

Padres want Boston to take Cease and a rapidly plummeting in value Salas for Duran.

Yeah that was super clearly safe. Vargas did what he could.

Schriffen has an uncanny ability to make me annoyed during any situation.

Genuinely happy for you.

Where the f*** did that land?

Close up of Imanaga was great.

Boy do I hate to tell you who was in charge of player development during the last regime.

He's about to be back in the lineup and then traded in the 5th.

I do want the cause to be something hilariously stupid out of OOTP, like he got nut tapped by Civale.

I'm sure people come finger wag this, but Luis Robert has the loudest tools I've ever seen a White Sox player have and it bums me out to this day that they (Robert and the org) couldn't maximize his talent.

Taking Benetti out of it, anyone that's got a problem with J.K. Simmons is a chode.

Remember, that unlike with Reinsdorf, Robert's contract isn't a big deal for Steve Cohen cause I just love sharing this video

Anyway, I am once again sharing The Curious Case of Mark Buehrle. Buehrle's defense gets undersold in his argument. We all know about his fielding, but And that doesn't even consider the chilling effect of how many runners just didn't go against him because running against Buehrle was a terrible idea.

Mike Mussina says hi.

Ok, ya got me. If they become franchise cornerstones, sure. But if the roles were reversed, we would be seeing Tommy Edman and Michael Kopech once a decade (at least) for the next fifty years for celebrations at the Cell.

I think Vargas would actually learn a lot from Konerko, cause if he's gonna be a guy who does swing changes, why not learn from the dude who always tinkered?

Until Vargas, Perez or Albertus are contributors to a World Series winning team, the Dodgers won the trade. This is like saying the Sox lost the Carlos Lee trade cause Lee put up monster numbers for the next 4 seasons and Pods had one great year.

Most def. It's just disingenuous for people to talk about Our Chuck while he hypes up Hanser Alberto and then rag on Merkin. They both serve the same purpose, Merkin just doesn't come across holier than thou while somehow being beloved.

I think it's pretty clear the Dodgers won the trade.

We're agreeing in this regard. Chuck Garfein was lambasting Robert for organizational (Montoyo, La Russa) failures.

Chuck Garfein is the ultimate water carrier. I know he works for the org, but dude is such a snake with how he hypes up every player, then if they can absorb any blame that should be assigned to the organization, he piles it on. Once Robert is gone, I anticipate Lenyn Sosa to be Garfein enemy #1 when the team doesn't make the playoffs next year.

I really want Billy Carson to satisfy the itch of a S-Tier defensive shortstop that I've had since Cleuluis Rondon was in the org.

All right, we can get back to talking about the draft / Sox farm system.