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QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 09:24 AM) Love that three of the five are comparatively small market teams (I understand Houston is a big town, but not like you think). The White Sox need to be this, but they can only accomplish that by 1) Not going for it every year and 2) drafting better. Houston is the fourth largest city in the US...and the tenth largest media market.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 11:33 PM) Baseball is the worst. At least football they can cut a guy immediately if he starts to suck and not pay him. The bonus money is what matters there. Eh, you sign a contract, you honor a contract. That's how it should be. For both parties.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 11:36 AM) What about a platoon?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 10:56 AM) This pick better make the All-Star team. The last guys we had in that category were names like Lumsden, Whisler, Liotta, Lucy, Danny Wright, etc. As for now, I'm not buying we will get the equivalent of Lamb or Reed, let alone Finnegan. Or Caulfield favorite, Keon Barnum. Or Trayce Thompson. Or Josh Phegley. Or Gio Gonzalez. I disagree that comp pick = the deal for Cueto. The Reds clearly got more than what a comp pick would be worth. But is this really just cherry picking past White Sox draft picks in the comp rounds?

Two game threads cause of the state of disarray.

Baseball gods are mad at the team for making no trade deadline deals. Carlos Rodon vs. Erasmo Ramirez Go team yay

Seriously, not making a trade pissed off the baseball gods.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 06:34 PM) How must win is this game on a scale 1 to 10? Spinal Tap.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 06:13 PM) Did Hawk fire DD? Man, Hawk was a bad GM.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:58 PM) Until Friedman wins it all in LA, hard to say he's the best. With Mozeliak, he has been surrounded by so much front office talent, let's see where the Cardinals are in five years now that much of it has been decimated by the hacking scandal as well as other teams pilfering their best talent evaluators. Brian Sabean never gets mentioned but 3/5 World Series wins is hard to beat. Dayton Moore should be considered top five right now...Epstein, Luhnow, etc. No. Dayton Moore just got out of the cellar. He's sure as hell not Top 5 based on one playoff run and half a good season.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:56 PM) He won in Florida (and in reality, they won a 2nd thanks to him). I would argue he is one of the most decorated GM's in the game. QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:57 PM) Berate him more!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:48 PM) How about 1997 and 2003? He probably deserves more of the credit for that second championship than anyone else because he was responsible for bringing in all those young piayers, compared to all the changes Cherington made prior to 2013 with free agents. Dombrowski spent more than a decade in Miami (beginning in 2001), working under owners H. Wayne Huizenga and John W. Henry. Although he built a sound minor league system, the Marlins, with Jim Leyland as their manager, achieved their first great success—the 1997 NL pennant and world championship—with a team composed of many high-salaried players signed as free agents.[citation needed] The following year, Dombrowski presided over Huizenga's mandated fire sale of those veteran players, and the Marlins failed to reached a .500 winning percentage in each of Dombrowski's final four years with the franchise. In November 2001, Dombrowski left Florida to become the president of the Detroit Tigers.[3] Nevertheless, after Henry sold the club in early 2002, the Marlins managed to rebuild behind a nucleus of young players, and in 2003, with a roster consisting chiefly of players Dombrowski had acquired,[4] won the World Series. Dombrowski hired Jim Leyland as manager of the Marlins in 1996. The two had previously worked together with the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s - Dombrowski as assistant general manager and Leyland as third base coach.[5] Think if the White Sox could have kept Dombrowski, LaRussa, Leyland, Duncan, etc. One of those huge franchise what ifs that stings a little bit less now because of 2005. See: QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:47 PM) I look like a dumbass. Was only thinking of his Tigers years.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:40 PM) Dombrowski has one. QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:40 PM) But...he does have a world series ring. I look like a dumbass. Was only thinking of his Tigers years.

QUOTE (AJUribe @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 05:17 PM) Best gm in baseball. Countless of examples of great moves, when it comes to us he dealt us avi, you knew avi would never pan out simply bc DD would not have dealt him w/i his own division. The best GM in baseball should have at least one World Series ring. I know that's a lofty goal and all, but it's true.

QUOTE (bear_brian @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:37 PM) In 2007 Kenny Williams thought he had a deal in place to acquire Miguel Cabrera. I remember that very well - it was a brief but heady moment. And guess who crashed that party? Dombrowski, who agreed to take on the contract of Dontrelle Willis along with Miggy. He won, Kenny lost, and that is a good picture of the two of them. Kenny won a World Series in 2005, Dombrowski lost and that is a good picture of the two of them. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 04:53 PM) Dombrowski also offered a higher rated bunch of prospects. I don't remember Dontrelle Willis being refused by the sox and getting that deal nixed, it was just that Maybin and Miller were more attractive than Fields and others I believe Danks or Floyd were going to be the headliners for the Sox deal.

http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/08/c...ng-credibility/ Great piece by our new writer Dan Helpingstine, author of three books on the White Sox.

Do it JR. Do the loyalty thing.

I think we angered the baseball gods by standing pat at the deadline.

Most opinions here were expressed in the voting process. Very few lists were the same, especially after the Top 15 where everything went out of whack.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 07:52 AM) http://www.royalsreview.com/2015/8/3/90885...ling-sandwiches Blue Jays accused of stealing sandwiches from Royals... When Brett Lawrie comes off as less docuhey than you, you know there's a problem.

God the Royals are such asshats.

What did Yost say?

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 05:23 PM) No he doesn't Jennings is left handed. That's it. Carroll is the only one of them who can be a true long reliever

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 04:28 PM) Carroll got sent down after the game...so... I don't understand. He gives them so much more than Albers, Webb or Jennings.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Aug 2, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) The Sox have a Cooperstown's full of busts in the last ten years. This is just one of the ones they waited too long on. Everyone except maybe the Cardinals has a Cooperstown full of busts.