Real

bullpen is f***ing laughable

Hopefully Kopech pans out ????

this pitching staff is a great way to ruin team chemistry, literally 2 guys responsible for this L lol.

lmfao

???????? Gonzalez is a fking dumpster fire lmao

https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/mlb/...cubs-astros#top One of the best Sox articles I've seen written in years Warning: Its very long.

bullpen is about as good as I thought it'd be

lmfao nobody expected this green.

Nice, Todd Frazier 2.0

Everybody needs to cheer up and look at the 2018/2019 FA list. Holy moly. Spend that money, Jerry.

Sox already have a DH. Can somebody call them and let them know?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 04:17 PM) Victim blaming? How are they "victims?" I am trying to speak rationally to people who theoretically hold a similar view to me. What is the point of "earning" votes, if you lose 2 votes for every 1 you gain? What is the point of forcing politicians to take positions that will result in losses at the national stage? Nobody has to do anything. Which is why in the example, you can sit out and give me $10. That is their choice. They want to sit out, they dont want to vote, then dont complain when the outcome isnt what you like. Dont complain about immigrants, dont complain about SC nominees, dont complain about health care. They chose to sit out, they chose to be silent, so now dont whine about the outcome. Thats not victim blaming, that is trying to explain the realities of life. Most of the time winning requires some amount of sacrifice or compromise. I dont know how better to explain this to people. Right now there are 2 choices to run the US govt. You either align with one of them, or you leave it to the whim of other people. So if 1 party has more align with you, vote that party. Dont think that sitting on the sidelines will somehow get that party to move with you. It wont. It will do the opposite, because that party will see you as unreliable and will go after the reliable votes. Republicans are in control of House, Senate and President. Sanders (the more progressive candidate) lost to Clinton. Clinton crushed Sanders in Florida, Ohio and Penn, yet she still lost to Trump. There is a severe disconnect if you think being more progressive is going to win the necessary states to take back anything. Change takes time and a lot of people fear it. Really? Progressive policies would lose on the national stage? You obviously don't read any polls. Medicare is insanely popular for those who have it, saying Medicare for all would be unpopular is flat out incorrect. People overwhelmingly support it. People also overwhelmingly support a minimum wage tied to inflation, tuition free public college, and legalizing marijuana. The reason people stayed home, or voted for Trump was because they knew the difference between Trump and Hillary is negligible when you're talking about POLICY. Also, please don't try pretending as if Hillary won fair and square. The entire mainstream media showed superdelegate tallies before they even cast a vote. Unaware voters saw this as her having a lead that she didn't already have. SANDERS closed a 60 point lead in less than 10 months. He didn't have the name recognition nor had the corporate media behind him. We also know that Clinton literally funded the DNC herself and had all of the strings of power.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 30, 2018 -> 01:28 PM) Any progressive who "sits out" because the candidate isnt progressive enough is a fool. Its like being given 2 options: 1) If you stand up, Ill give you $10 dollars or 2) if you do nothing, I get $10 from you. And the person keeps asking for option 3. Victim blaming, nice. Instead of s***ting on progressives for not supporting neoliberal corporatists who are essentially moderate republicans, how about you come at this from the correct angle and blame the politician for not EARNING their votes. Nobody owes anybody their vote.

QUOTE (ChiSox1917 @ Jan 29, 2018 -> 01:56 PM) Just because someone b****es doesnt mean society should change for them I love your framing of the narrative. How about "Oh hey, let's change an obviously racist insensitive team mascot because it's the right thing to do." Just curious, do you have any confederate statues lying around your house?

https://amp.mlb.com/265097722-five-teams-th...n-2018.amp.html White Sox, 67-95 in 2017

Smh

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Dec 14, 2017 -> 02:31 AM) What you're saying doesn't even make any sense. Are you trying to say free agents don't want to play baseball in Chicago? If so that is the fault of ownership. This is not a small market. It's one of the top 3 markets in the USA. For endorsements, publicity, there's no reason a player wouldn't want to come here besides the ownership commitment to the team. When the kind of money that machado is looking at next year is on the table, players will go to Miami to play, they don't give a rat's ass about markets

Hold off on those Moncada jerseys, you probably wont be able to wear them in a couple years

QUOTE (steveno89 @ Dec 9, 2017 -> 04:56 PM) Not every rebuild will go along the cubs and astros blueprint though. Right now the white sox, padres, braves, Phillies, soon royals , etc. are undergoing full blown rebuilds. Some will work, others will completely fail. The Stanton deal looks great for the Yankees right now, but I think they will end up regretting the trade several years down the line when he seriously regresses and still has 5-6 years left on his contract with a full no trade clause. nah, that's when Kenny will swoop in and convince him ala Peavy to join the Sox, and we get to deal with all the downsides.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2017 -> 03:01 PM) It is interesting to see people coming around on the idea that the window really isn't going to be there for 2019, but more like 2020 or even 2021 in this case. Depends on when the Sox start buying big on impact free agents like Machado

So can the Sox sign him to a multi-year deal? I know they can only spend up to 300k on him when they sign him, but that's one year. How would a multi-year deal work? Can you spread an international contract out past your money cap of 300k? Assuming they can, it would have to look something like, 4 years 70 million year 1 300,000 year 2 21,700,000 year 3 23,000,000 year 4 25,000,000 I have no idea how much money he's going to get, so don't put any stock into the 70 million

Apparently we didn't lose enough games in 2017. Rick and Jerry looking to remedy that

Cards rumored to have made an offer on Giancarlo Stanton https://amp.mlb.com/262184048-cards-make-tr...tanton.amp.html

damn my quotes are all messed up, lol regarding the above video, if you can't be asked to watch it, basically they break down his mechanics and come to the conclusion that he gets insane power off his back leg (and is where he gets all of his velocity from) downside is it seems his front leg isn't very stabilized after the follow through so he could end up with hamstring issues down the road they also talk about possible issues with his elbow later down the road (but they don't predict this to happen or anything) as during his follow through he keeps the elbow in the high stress position during load longer than he has to due to his landing shorter w/ the front leg

still can't believe this probably because he was one of my favorite pitchers in the league :/