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QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 12, 2013 -> 05:00 PM) This is annoying. I hate having to be so negative to maybe my favorite white sox ever, but man, please don't come back PK. This. I don't want to see him go through what he did last year.

Santiago + Phegley + Jaye or Beck would be about as high as I'd go.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 09:41 PM) Here's a great reason to trade Dunn, and it's the one of the reasons the Cincinnati Reds traded him: To get him out of the clubhouse and away from the younger players. He's out of shape, lazy and not much of a leader. Or maybe he'll follow through on one of his hollow threats to walk away from the final year on his contract if he thinks things just aren't working. This screams "I hate Adam Dunn as a person"

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 07:35 AM) I would do a Hector for Rosario flip. I'd think about Q instead of Hector. I actually wonder if that's enough. I don't think I'd flip Q. I'd build a deal around Hector though.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 10, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) Again, why are we trading Dunn? There is nobody in the system to take his place in 2014. If by the small chance you compete in 2014, his home runs will be a reason why. Keep him. Maybe an AL team gets desperate at the deadline. Everything about this.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 10, 2013 -> 06:26 PM) Wilin Rosario is a popular name these days... Interesting.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 10, 2013 -> 12:10 AM) Don't forget all the talk about Dunn being one of the worst hitters in baseball history whenever it was, 2 or 3 years ago when he was hitting .050 or some such atrocity. No team can afford to take on Dunn. He'd be a PR nightmare. Remember, there even HAVE been stories written a couple times on whether he'd retire if he kept going that bad. Dunn had to address the possibility of just quitting. Nobody's going to take on that type of hitting trainwreck unless Sox pay almost the entire salary, which Jerry won't do obviously. All of your posts are boring, predictable and full of outlandish assumptions.

I feel like The Dark World blows the first Thor out of the water. It's right up there with Avengers and Iron Man 3 as best MCU films for me.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/11/choo...m-contract.html Dear lord.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 09:08 PM) Real talk. Can the Jimmy Butler fanbase school me on what he does offensively that's above average? I just don't see it. Defensively? Yes. He's a potential stud. Offensively? No. At least when he's aggressive, he draws fouls like a madman.

Thor: The Dark World was damn good.

Balta's kidney, we knew thee well.

Marshall is like a different man since coming to Chicago.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 11:09 PM) The Dolphins have already ridded themselves of Incognito so you're wrong on that. The rest of your post is just nonsense that quite frankly doesn't even deserve a response. It's quite idiotic, isn't it?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 09:35 PM) How? The NFL is a billion dollar business and a vast majority of its employees are entirely dependent on 16 opportunities to prove their value in millions. Millions they're going to need later on when they're eating from a straw. The stakes are ridiculously high, weak links cannot be tolerated and someone's feelings are not important at all. There's no time for political correctness or any of the other symptoms of the pussification of the American general public to creep in. All that matters is the guy you are on the field. Its cutthroat, we the fans demand it be that way. Take a look around the sports world, these crazy analytics and hyper scrunity... this is the culture it creates. Incognito did nothing wrong. He's clearly crazy and definitely an asshole, but in the context of his world he was entirely within bounds. He's the better player, he helps the team more, and that is all that matters. Law says different. Also, he's a f***ing racist. That's not ok in any culture.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 09:19 PM) Lost in all this is that Incognito is a much better player than Martin. This matters why? What's not lost is that Incognito is a terrible human.

f***ing stupid

QUOTE (scs787 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 11:23 AM) I'm giving Samardzija the slight edge just due to his ability to get deeper into the game. Do I think Santiago can get to point where he's going 6+ next year? Sure. Does AZ believe that as well? Ya, they probably should. I really like AZ as a trade partner so I hope Hahn gets in there before the Cubs do. The deal I suggested my last post for Santiago or expand it a bit and try to get Aaron Hill as well. Probably over valuing Q here if I think they could get Parra/Hill/Owings/Barrett, but I can dream right? Depending on how confident the team is in Webb, you could possibly pull off Santiago/Reed/De Aza for Parra, Owings, and Barrett. You basically have to trade Gordon to someone like the Blue Jays in this scenario. Then you can put Owings at 2B and Semien at 3B. With the Abreu signing, I'm inclined to keep Alexei for one more year.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 10:01 AM) AZ is expected to discuss with the Cubs about Samardzija so they're looking for pitching. Q should be considered the better pitcher, not sure if I can say the same about Santiago. ERA wise Santiago put up a better number but everywhere else I'd probably give it to Jeff. I'm actually ok with giving Gillaspie/Kepp another year, he's a LH bat who wasn't THAT BAD. I'd rather try to snag Owings/Parra/Barrett which would then open the door to trading Lexi and Reed. Before his Sept. dead arm period, Santiago was actually right around Samardzjia stat wise

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Nov 5, 2013 -> 01:27 AM) I have a few friends on FB who are Packer fans saying things like "Congrats, you beat our B team" In all fairness, our B team did beat their B team.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 10:44 PM) Yeah, that's so lame. McCown isn't our starting QB either. ASTERISK.

McClellin and Peppers exist. This is weird.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 09:38 PM) My 11 and 12 year old years I played travel for our town, and was the 10th guy on that team. We had absolutely crazy coaches, our whole team was afraid of them. We had so many ejections that year it was nuts. Our team was nasty (went 55-5-1), but our coaches were something else. They were the total live-through-your-kids guys. Anyway, same thing that you had - me and my buddy would get screamed at for errors etc. It was intimidating just to be on the bench. I remember once I had enough of it. A guy had just made a bone head play in RF (which again, where I would have been a huge upgrade) and he turned the bench and yelled "GOTTA STOP WITH THESE ERRORS GUYS" and yelled at us. And I just looked at him and said "So when are you gonna play new outfielders or are we supposed to just will the ball into their glove?" There was a dead silence because the bench coach and other bench players all knew that he couldn't really respond in a way that didn't make him look like an ass.

In HS baseball the head coach always told my dad that I was the hardest worker on the team and a lot of teammates backed it up. I ran through leg injuries while we had guys fake injuries and walk, skip practices, all that. Guess who didn't play more than 7 innings all year? The OF coach didn't take me so I was left at 2B, where I'm terrible. The OF coach just had 0 respect for me as a player. He often yelled at me and a few other bench players for mistakes made in the field while we were in the dugout. So we had a hitting contest where we split up into two teams and went in the batting cage. Losing team had to do 20 pushups, coaches picked teams. Each team had six hits, I had two of my team's hits. As a tie breaker, the coaches pick the hitter from the other team for a 3 pitch hit-off. My coach (the head coach) picked the team's starting 1B who was one of the injury faking, practice skipping, self-entitled jackasses. I get picked by the OF coach. The first basemen fouls off one, strikes out on the other two. I hit two fouls and have the OF coach and first basemen shouting s*** at me. Next one I hit nearly broke the pitching machine. Walked out of the cage, dropped my bat, and smirked at that coach. That was the highlight of my season. Finally though my back began to give out at second and our third coach sent me to OF practice one day. RF had been my natural position and I played a good LF as well because I had worked on OF skills every day my first two years of baseball. It's worth noting here that other than our CF, our outfielders were god awful. We had 3 or 4 guys taking reps at LF and RF each and only our CF. Since it was only one day of OF practice for me, I was sent to CF, which for the slowest guy on the team who hadn't had a OF rep in two years, seemed like a bad idea. I shocked everyone. At 2B my arm was non-existent but in the OF I could throw a rocket to home. Our SS (who also had a low opinion of me) was taken aback when I through the ball to him in a simulated situation of getting the runner at second. He didn't expect the ball to come in so fast so it went right by his unready glove. When we finished the head coach and our bench coach each told me I would start getting to see playing time because even with so much rust I was our second best OF defender. Then shagging fly balls I hyper extended my knee and my season was done. But those two moments made a lot of it worth it.

That catch was ridiculous.