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QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 03:15 PM) If Tilson is a starter, then our rebuild has gone very, very wrong at some point. Or somehow Tilson went really, really right. QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 03:15 PM) Machado will want ARod money - and he could get it. At age 26 with the money the Sox should have, I'm down of he'd be the last piece.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 03:12 PM) That farm system would be absolutely locked and loaded to compete in the next few years Add in some other shrewd moves and/or free agent signings and you are looking at a playoff team if things go well 1) Rodon 2) Glasnow 3) Giolito 4) Kopech 5) Lopez Pen arm possibilities (or other starters): Burdi, Dunning, Stephens, Adams, Fulmer, Hansen, Clark, Cooper C- Collins (fingers crossed) 1B - Abreu and/or Bell 2B - Moncada and/or Newman SS - Anderson 3B - ? OF- Meadows OF- Basabe OF- Tilson? DH - ? As a Sox fan you can dream of a scenario like this... Keep Abreu around to DH and back up first. In two years, Machado becomes a FA and the Sox would only have Abreu and Rodon to pay.

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 02:51 PM) http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2016122...orts/161229711/ No source provided, but speculation that the White Sox asking price to the Pirates is Glasnow, Meadows plus either Bell or Newman I love it. Keep the pricetag really high and force a team's hand. Quintana's contract is especially valuable given the massive free agent deals being handed out left and right. The key for the White Sox is getting the Pirates to agree in priciple for Meadows and Glasnow to headline the deal...and then possibly allow them to negotiate you down to a player like Hayes as the final piece If that happens god damn.

Q's curveball at :58 is so beautiful.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 01:36 PM) Doesn't it undercut the latest installment though? This was their THIRD attempt, and it was just as easy to destroy. "Everything about Starkiller Base makes a lot of sense given how DS 1 and DS 2 went down. You have a much more protected cooling shaft, the weapon is in a planet to prevent Falcons from flying in, plus the shield generator is on that planet and under the shield and it doesn't keep the power in a core, but rather sucks up a star, so it's only vulnerable to a cascade explosion when it's about to fire. But they found a way anyway because the Skywalker family and friends are having none of your bulls***." From Reddit

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 02:22 PM) Meadows and Glasnow (can never have too many arms). Meadows and Bell for me. I like Glasnow, but cementing the lineup around the arms we're developing already is exciting to me.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 02:13 PM) When you think Rangers what players are you thinking of? It's more or less that I have an easier time seeing them balking an including Mazara, whereas the Astros seem to think Q sucks.

Rank your trade partners: Yankees Pirates Rockies Rangers Astros

That last paragraph is pretty f***ed up.

What would Q's perception be without Sale on the Sox? He's probably a 3 or 4 time All-Star

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 06:57 PM) I challenge Sox talk to name one "good" president who was Republican. There's some serious partisanship on this board. I'm sure you'll go back to Lincoln. Or was he lousy too? Don't people who hate one party and love the other realize they are acting a bit silly? Roosevelt, Eisenhower. Challenge completed.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 04:54 PM) Why does everyone seem to think Reagan was so great? Because all of the Republicans beat off to him? Essentially. Only reason why.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 05:25 PM) Josh Fields and Hawkins/Barnum (to a lesser extent) would be more misses. The high profile one have to live with every day is Avi Garcia. Semien and Thompson, otoh, flashed potential last year...particularly Marcus. In a way, the high profiles failures with Dunn and LaRoche have caused most Sox fans to question their ability to identify any power hitters, but it's not like Frazier and Abreu are both chopped liver. He was talking about the all-power players that make it all the way through our system.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 05:11 PM) Well, no big trades in the past week. But the White Sox did do 19 transactions involving minor leaguers, Kannapolis is more likely now to get a new ballpark, and other news and notes all right here in the weekly recap. Catch up! Once all affiliates have a new park, the Sox will build anew.

QUOTE (FT35 @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 03:38 PM) To be fair...we don't see a lot of pure power hitting monsters come through our system. Unless they are "toolsy athletes" we generally avoid! That includes all players with any sort of baseball IQ. lol Who was the last? Joe Borchard? Dayan Viciedo.

Perfect game, gone by mid season.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 12:21 PM) http://riveraveblues.com/2016/12/morosi-ya...uintana-148274/ Nice take from a Yankees perspective. Yankees blogs seem to pretty rational in regards to Q.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 11:53 AM) Not for the price that Sale brought. The team that trades for him is going to expect the production that makes the prospects worth the trade. He just won't bring back the prospects that Sale did. there is a reason that Boston wanted Sale not Quintana in the deal. Quintana is a very good valuable pitcher. regardless, of contract (it does drive his value up) he will not bring the prospects that Sale did and you are going to be disappointed if you expect that. Take it for what it's worth, this was at the deadline. whitesoxdave ‏@barstoolWSD FWIW I was told the #WhiteSox turned down a Benintendi, Kopech, Johnson/Ball, and PTBNL package for Quintana from #RedSox

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 11:45 AM) I would definitely include Die Hard and Gremlins as Christmas movies. Rocky IV, not so much. The best Christmas movies aren't even about Christmas. They're stories told during Christmas time. Iron Man 3!

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 07:40 AM) Reagan was a horrible president. And he actually had political experience.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 08:35 PM) He's damn near there already. Kid is legit man. Scouts are very high on him. Legit tools all around. Not being in AAA/MLB keeps him from getting to that status, but he'll definitely be there soon. That being said, that's why I assume he'd be available. A year from now and he'll be like the Bregmans, Benintendis, etc.

QUOTE (BRIRO2017 @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 02:06 PM) Q gets traded to a GOOD team, and he's their number 1? His numbers are going to be way worse. If you don't understand that concept you are clueless. You do understand that he played for the Sox, not the Knights?

QUOTE (beautox @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 12:51 PM) maybe not soo crazy.. from Dan's FG chat today Robles for Robertson...yes please. Smart people can say crazy things.

MLB Network: "Quintana isn't an ace, he's a solid #2." I swear Quintana could be an All-Star for the next three years, win a Cy Young and 20 games and people would still go "Well, he's good but..."

What's worrisome is if Russia and Turkey, a NATO state, go to war.