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How to get Robles (without giving up prospects or Q) 1. Trade Robertson, Swarzak, Kahnle, Petricka, Putnam, Southpaw, Big Hurt Beer, 50% of Hawk's catchphrases and a deep dish pizza. 2. Tell Rizzo you're actually really serious. 3. No, you're not high. 4. Steal Robles.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ Jun 10, 2017 -> 12:23 PM) No, but there's no rule that says his second chance has to be in baseball on a MLB team with lots of public scrutiny and a fan base full of children. And for this reason, I absolutely would not draft him

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2017 -> 08:17 AM) Frankie Piliere mentioning Kendall with the Mets and the floor being the Dodgers. Like I said, just seems the Sox interest in Kendall is overstated due to Law's report they met. My prediction is the top 3 on their realistic board is Haseley/Bukauskas/Beck. I'm sure Callis and Baseball America have done plenty of their own reporting.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 10, 2017 -> 03:02 AM) By current BaseRuns, the White Sox are 9th worst. That does not account for how badly the team has played over the last 3 weeks, but this team is perfectly on track. Trade Swarzak, Robertson, Holland, Frazier, Cabrera, and possibly Shields and Quintana, and go from there. You have to imagine that it's a guarantee that the first five and Gonzalez are guaranteed to be traded as they'll all be gone anyway. Then Putnam, Petricka, Jones and Jennings could all be trade options if they return to form. Once the inevitable trades come, this team is going to crate hard.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 03:52 PM) You'd be kind of stupid to record. Basically anything like that is pubic record and subject to laws like archival and such. But then again Donald Trump is a special kind of stupid, soooo Donald Trump saying he'll go under oath to testify may be the dumbest possible thing he could suggest

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 05:56 PM) https://twitter.com/nbcnightlynews/status/873271359480246272 White House: the president is not a liar The sound you're hearing an editor at politifact slowly descending into madness

If anyone has questions on what and what isn't specifically allowed feel free to ask here or DM me. I'll put all clarifications in this and the main Buster thread.

Hello, For starters I'd like to thank members of the Buster for keeping engagements mostly civil. However the personal mudslinging has quite frankly become too much. You can disagree with people on this board without attempting character assassination or baiting. From now on, argue talking points, not people. Southsider and I disagree a good bit on our political views, but I'm not going to to tell him he's arguing like an out of touch fogey and he's not going to call me an ignorant millennial. Also, the Republican and Democrat threads are going to more strictly enforced on trolling. Those threads serve to provide areas for like-minded people to discuss. You can still post in the Republican thread if you're a liberal and vice versa, but if you go in with the intent to get a rise out of people, you're out of luck. To accommodate the growing number of independents on this board, an Independent thread will be made upon request. As we're a baseball forum, we'll be instituting a three strike policy. One warning, one 10 day suspension from the Buster and then finally banned from the Buster. This goes for all posters, from newbies to mods to admins

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 03:18 PM) Yah, nothing more exciting than a guy OPSing .692 in his 2nd trip through AA as 27 year old!! Alan Hanson is a guy everyone on here wanted a few years back in a trade. Trying to think of who it was we were looking to move at the time at Pittsburgh was rumored as interested. Peavy maybe? Glasnow, Hanson and Kingham for Peavy was the board favorite. Also, I read Alec instead of Alen and was very confused.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 9, 2017 -> 12:38 PM) Corbyn Won Because Hope Turned the Unthinkable Into Reality I think I know a political party that could take a few lessons from that. I get what you're saying, but the whole reason I voted Hillary in the primary is that Bernie was all branding and catch phrases with no tangible offers

Oh my.

I'll take Larock Tobama

QUOTE (beautox @ Jun 6, 2017 -> 12:43 AM) hell of a start by Giolito, I stand firmly on the take a step back from the ledge camp. Tall pitchers let alone ones that are being completely rebuilt often take time and Floyd and Halladay are recent examples of this. Giolito's last 5 starts 28IP 2.57 ERA 1.14 WHIP 8.36 K/9 Guerrero has been quietly turning it around once he got out of April. A future staff of Giolito Rodon Kopech Guerrero Hansen with Burdi, Fulmer & Lopez shutting it down out of the pen is something to dream on. You're forgetting Dunning

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 5, 2017 -> 10:07 PM) I think Hansen, Gio and Kopech have combined for approximately 18000000 strike outs the last week. Lopez and Fulmer need to step up their game to bring it to an even 20,000,000

Ok, how many people eat crow if Giolito gets back to form?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 5, 2017 -> 05:46 PM) Anybody who knows anything about hacking knows that the footprints of competent hackers are either undetectable or purposely left behind to deceive and leave traces with the intent of implicating someone else. Hackers who wish to implicate another group of people will use that group of peoples techniques, will perpetrate the hack during the business hours of those who they wish to frame, etc. The CIA employs this tactic regularly and has power points that lay the process out - it's public information. Note the article's third paragraph: "A U.S. intelligence officer who declined to be identified cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive." Seems like more unsourced conjecture fueling left wing conspiracy for a few days until the next big unsourced, conjecture-based story comes out. I thought you were a fan of The Intercept?

I'll wait for the James O'Keefe documentary

Patty Jenkins knocked it out of the park. Wonder Woman was great.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 4, 2017 -> 09:34 PM) You guys with closed minds are something else. I like to listen to all points of view. So Maher is OK and Rush isn't? I think pretty much no one in this thread likes Maher. He isn't good, but he isn't as bad as Rush. Granted, Rush personally gone after people I care about so f*** that guy.

What the hell?

Did Moncada ever actually voice displeasure about playing third last year?

It was stupid, but it was just locker room talk

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 3, 2017 -> 02:20 PM) Great post Jerksticks. Folks, here is "Mr. Environment" who thinks the Paris Agreement "kicked the can down the road." He "always hated it." So once again over-reaction to Trump who has said he wants to re-negotiate the USA's participation. Jerksticks knows this issue and realizes we have to DISCUSS this to "fix the climate the right way, whatever that is." The national reaction to Trump's decision like Conway said is "hysterical." As in hysteria. Folks should listen to Jerksticks and CALM DOWN.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 3, 2017 -> 01:56 PM) Man it must be brutal in the sun out there in that league. At least in the Caribbean you get the moderating ocean breezes and nice coolish evenings. Probably not many day games. The price of avoiding taxes

I know Avi is finally hitting well, but god it sucks seeing Iglesias on the Tigers