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QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ May 4, 2016 -> 01:41 PM) The nationals or mets will take care of them. As can Sale-Quintana

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-white-sox-have-two-aces/ Look! Recognition!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2016 -> 08:06 PM) Wow, I didn't think you were really that petty. Apparently I need to lower the bar. Eh, I'm giving this one to DA. Someone saying Abreu then wanting scrap heap is laughable.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 3, 2016 -> 11:48 PM) Fangraphs doesnt update their leaderboards until the AM. Quintana was the best pitcher in the AL by fWAR going into tonight's game... I can only assume he's going to climb even higher now. Yeah, I was accounting for that. Going into tonight he was 1.3, Sale 1.2 I love Sale, but if Q could keep it up and win the Cy Young that would be the most satisfying damn thing other than a World Series title.

Going by fWAR, the Flying Serpent is the best pitcher in the AL, ahead of Chris Sale.

Yeah, he has been given the short end from national television media. However, legacy media isn't the only hat in the ring. He gets more than enough love from new media and social media. But he's still losing. He's impressive, but he's still losing and barring an unexpected upset in California, where he currently lags behind Hillary by 10 points, he's dead in the water.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ May 3, 2016 -> 07:57 PM) So he's not a "team player" because he elected to be released, rather than go to the minors? The Sox front office obviously didn't want him around anymore. Their offer to send him to the minors was nothing more than a professional courtesy. I think the White Sox genuinely were hoping he'd go to AAA and try and reinvent himself.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 3, 2016 -> 11:11 PM) Holy bleep ... Bernie won Indiana! It's pretty obvious except for this super delegate crap, Bernie would be taking the country by storm. Everybody loves him. His speeches are by far the most attended. They are happenings! Young people worship him. Lines are long, long, long. But this super delagate thing, combined with the media's never giving him a fair shake lead to .... you know who, Hillary (same song, 90th verse, no reason to elect her cept it's her turn; what a nation we have). I love turning on virtually any political show and any discussion of Bernie will quickly erode to somebody like Heraldo saying/screaming, "Bernie doesn't have a chance!" And then they pretty much move on to Drumpf or somebody rather than discuss the Bernie phenomenon. Just the fact the millenials worship him you'd think would guarantee fair coverage, but nooooo ... guys like Chris Matthews, lol, gotta have Ms. Clinton in the oval office. Bernie with another victory tonight and it means ... NOTHING. You do know that Bernie is losing in the popular vote as well, right? Not just super delegates.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:05 PM) Excellent line. Thank you for that. The nice posts in this thread are starting to lessen the sting of all the vicious, classless things said about Danks in game threads the last two seasons. I hated reading the word bum in game threads about Danks. It'd be nice if somebody in the NL picked up Danks and allowed him to continue his comeback, but I assume they'd have to pay him. So he must be done. That said ... one of my favorite Sox ever. It's not his fault he got hurt. I think some haters thought he should give the money back. It doesn't work that way. Danks is a class act. It'd be great if he could continue his career. In conclusion, I loved Johnny Danks and we've had a lot worse pitchers stand on the mound at the Cell in White sox uniforms than Johnny Danks! Go Danks! He wouldn't even survive in the NL at this point sadly. His one hope is reinventing himself as a pitcher, possibly learning a knuckle ball. I don't know. Kinda wish he would have gone to Charlotte to work on things.

"Don't you take it so hard now And please don't take it so bad I'll still be thinkin' of you And the times we had"

Was probably gonna be one of the best #2 pitchers in the league, hell he could have been an ace. Then his shoulder happened. He earned his contract with the Sox. Then his shoulder fell apart. Then he battled and always gave everything he got. It's a shame that it came to this, but I won't miss his terrible starts. I will miss the starts where he suddenly could reach back and battle his way through a great start. It was easy to want him to succeed.

Expected, but still shocking.

Hell no.

QUOTE (hi8is @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) Reminds me of some Areosmith song... How'd the chorus go again?? Dream on Dream on Dream on

Eaton

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ May 2, 2016 -> 10:17 PM) That's a really sad stat. Oh NBA... To be fair, that's the Warriors, Kings, Lakers, Clippers, Spurs, Mavericks and Rockets. That's almost half the conference.

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ May 2, 2016 -> 09:58 PM) Cubs might win 125 games this season, they are that good. Greatest team in the history of the sport good? I'd hold off on that. They have as many wins as the White Sox.

Eddy Alvarez finally had a good day.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 2, 2016 -> 03:54 PM) I am glad that Michelle Maclarene left Wonder Woman, Variety said that her film was too focused on action rather than character and it had a talking tiger. DC has their Braintrust and it's made of Zack and Debbie Snyder, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan who advises on everything. Here is a clip of Charles Roven explaining how it and how it is filmmaker friendly: Apparently they're keeping the tiger.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 2, 2016 -> 02:59 PM) Foreign box office has made over $200 million already for Civil War. And that's without China and the US. Sweet-baby-jaysus

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 2, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) FWIW, this is actually the opposite of what has happened. Sanders hasn't pulled the shenanigans and gained universal hatred in Congress like Cruz has, and it's been Clinton supporters making the argument that Sanders isn't a "real" Democrat (technically probably not, he was an independent until he ran for the Democratic nomination) and that his supporters aren't "real" Democrats (partially true in that he's gotten support from both inside and outside the party). Sanders supporters keep saying Hillary is a moderate Republican masquerading as a Democrat.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 2, 2016 -> 12:23 PM) That would be crazy if Heyward played poorly enough that he didn't opt out and actually played out the full 8 seasons in Chicago. Just always expected him to be gone in 3, still assuming that happens. I'd die laughing.

QUOTE (kapzk @ May 1, 2016 -> 11:22 PM) The National league is soft. And Kershaw is God. I love Sale, but as long as Kershaw keeps this up, he's #2.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 1, 2016 -> 11:09 PM) Fair enough, but that's obviously not his point. No matter the experience he gets he'll never have played pro ball, he'll never understand the mental or physical side of the game, or anything relating to the human side of the game. To Benetti, the players aren't men, they're just amusing little mice with statistics. To Hawk, the players are living breathing men in the trenches of a war, with injuries, differing levels of intellect, different strategies, different levels of nervousness, different backgrounds etc. things Benetti will never be able to comment on. Thanks for telling me the guy's batting average benetti. I get it. He gets on base 34% of the time. That's what the number means. Oh, you want to use advanced statistics? How dare you act like you're teaching any of us baseball- you've never played. I'm sure he's a nice guy and he'll be great. This is just my hazing period for him. And rightfully so. No Sox fan should just hand over the keys without him earning it. It'll be hazing season for a while, hopefully a long while. He's trying to replace one of the most unique and iconic broadcasting figures this world has and will ever see. A true master and a true legend. You know that how?