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Shark is a mental midget. There will be a GM dumb enough to pay him $15M a year. Danks will have a better season than him. Once again filling the holes from the NL just doesn't work. Their value declines to the point we can't trade them back to the NL.

You would think most catchers would throw the ball to first anyway. You would think after the 2005 post season some would learn from AJ did as a base runner.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 10:11 AM) Honestly the entire pen was great last night. Even Robertson got screwed because of his defense. Realistically the pen didn't give up a run from the 8th to the 13th inning if Abreu makes the right choice. I didn't get to see the game so I wondered what happened because Robertson is making his way on my mental midget list.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 13, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) Man I hate Robin-bashing. Just as much as you dislike Robin harkness. I'm more upset at the people who put in there. I'm more upset at the people who sign aging sluggers from NL who fail at DH. I'm more upset at an organization who tries to fix things by repeating the same mistakes. Most likely we will also feel the same way about the next Sox manager because experienced need not apply.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 12, 2015 -> 09:27 PM) Remember though Mark Parent told the media "these are major leaguers" it's not up to the coaches to work with them every day...LOL Mark You have to put the blame on the scouts. Then the minor league instructors. Baseball instinct never seemed a priority.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 12, 2015 -> 09:18 PM) It is funny to blame coaches and managers when major leaguers do so,ethimg stupid. They have been playimg the game their enitre lives now at the top level available. Yet so,e apparently think they still need to be taught the most basic thimgs about the game. That isn't your major league staff's job. If it is, you have a horrible team. an so they are..... I believe some instincts can't be improved upon when they get to minor league baseball.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 12, 2015 -> 09:08 PM) White Sox just don't have enough "baseball smarts" to win these types of games. Meanwhile, the Cubs have won 24 one-run games this year. They still believe you can coach "stupid" out of the player. It's always been a weakness this century.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 12, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) If Trace is the real deal, you trade Eaton. No brainer. We went down that road once. I can't agree.

QUOTE (SnB @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 03:20 PM) Teenage SnB would be hating life right now. Older, 30ish year old Snb is just envious that they did it the smart, right way. I don't really "get" the cub hate anymore. I'm not rooting for them, but I'm not exactly rooting against them either. Hell, I'll probably make my way to wrigley sometime this month/september just to feel some pennant chase baseball buzz again. The cubs fans in my office aren't obnoxious and I don't really hang out in bars anymore and have to deal w/ those type of fans. The people that know me know I'm not going to get into the cubs/sox thing so they don't either. Now get off my lawn. I would think real Cub fans would be more interested in knocking off the Cardinals.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 10:04 AM) I really would like to finish at .500, to know we did improve somewhat. But I know that getting top 10 protected pick would help us a lot more. gulp. Only if they are willing to risk it on position players.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2015 -> 10:50 AM) We made a big trade and several big FA signings last offseason and then counted on rookies at 2b, and guys with limited track records of success in RF, 3b, and C, and many of those positions stung us all year. If we're going to play these guys again next year and hope they get better...great. They may very well do so. But don't go spending huge amounts of money on guys in their mid-30s or trading for guys a year from free agency if you're going to do that. Especially if they spent all of their time in the NL. They don't do well in this area.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 08:12 PM) I'd let Sale finish this inning and then let the bullpen cover the last two. There's no need for him to go the 8th and/or 9th when there are fresh arms available. Lucky they didn't keep him in and a total of 144 pitches and then Coop defending that.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 05:33 PM) I fill out surveys for the Sox year after year. They still haven't picked up Mike Trout like I have asked. Darn. I should have read this before I filled it out.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 04:42 PM) Well, Ozzie is also terrible at making rookies feel wanted. Most of professional baseball didn't want them either.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) The game tonight is pretty meaningless, so Sale should throw a gem. He only chokes in the big games. You are thinking of Jake Peavy. Not too many big games have existed during the Sale era. What about Smarj? I'm not sure what qualifies as a big game for an organization like this. Most of the guys they acquire are from losing organizations so they probably don't know what a "big game" is.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 03:51 PM) Given the way people rarely leave the organization let along get outright fired job security should be the thing they should be least concerned over. Marl I heard Hahn was paid well for an assistant because he was highly sought by other organizations. So I don't think he's worried.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 02:05 PM) He and Sandy Alomar have been passed over so many times, you can't help but wonder what fatal flaw teams are seeing, that we aren't. It reminds of the Thibs situation to be honest. Maybe they are easy going and don't bench players for bad mistakes, working on fundamentals, ect. Sounds like a fit for this organization. Then again maybe they would want more control in philosophy of how the team plays. I think this is where managing in the MLB is so different from the other sports. If you have a different philosophy of how to win it's different than the organization it's hard to change that. I doubt they are asked on who to draft.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 01:44 PM) As a White Sox fan I found his opening campaigning for a contract extension with a year left on his deal and his team collapsing, then opening courting another job during the season WAY more troubling then any of his personal political views. His political views don't concern me nearly as much as his penchant for putting his own self in front of the team. I think he was disappointed when testing Reinsdorf playing favorites that Kenny won. Part of me also thinks Ozzie new how bad the organization is with player development and probably couldn't deal with this current mess.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 08:36 AM) lolwut PS it's only a season from hell if you are obsessed with the Cubs/Sox "rivalry." People act like the Cubs have won a spot already.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 09:38 AM) I wouldn't be surprised if two / thirds of the crowd this weekend for the Cubs series are made up of Cub fans. And I wouldn't blame Sox fans for staying away given the franchises performance certainly since September 2012. Something else I've noticed which should be troubling to the organization. On the on-line version of the Tribune the past two mornings, not one word, one story is about the Sox on the page that first comes up on the screen. As bad as the Sox are you'd think the "badness" would get some mention. It isn't. The Sox are becoming totally irrelevant in their own city. Not blaming the papers in one sense (although from a journalistic standpoint it shouldn't matter what the team's record is). My guess is that the majority of the season ticket holders who signed up this year after the off season spending spree on veterans in their 30's won't be back. Mark Badness has existed since April so it is no longer news. It's Bear season for the media. The Cubs managed to put a dent in it.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Aug 10, 2015 -> 10:08 AM) The Sox should've claimed him...SMH. This team is still in contention, why not go for it? Can he hit?

Lucky the Royals didn't acquire Smarj. Of course it would be fair since we've traded for some of their stink.

Waiting for the pen to go into mental midget mode and put the game out of reach.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 07:02 PM) That would help a lot but even then do you trust the front office to do any good with the extra $13M ? I'm sure they can find another over the hill NL player to take his place. After two tries maybe another career NL player to e a DH will work.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 07:07 PM) You're right, the structural problem with the White sox is "Terrible scouts + terrible decisions associated with that scouting." Problem is - giving up on Phegley, Semien, Bassitt - is exactly the "terrible decisions associated with that scouting." Josh Phegley is a backup C - like you say - and catchers never learn anything with additional work right? Players never learn better defense when given the opportunity. That's buried into the White Sox system. Rush guys up to the big leagues and make decisions on them as fast as you can because they never learn anything and never get better. So why not deal them for a pitcher 1 year from free agency, because Phegley will never do better in the next 5 years than he did in 2014. The reality is...if your players rush up to the big leagues and never develop...that's an indictment of your organization and your development more than anything else, because Phegley is already doing more than any other catcher in our Org is. Until this changes trading for "prospects" is a big risk.