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Not directed specifically at you, but I am up in arms for the constant complaining about the team payroll being less than what people think it should be. There are a lot of very good reasons not to sign or trade for a player beyond the impact on the current season's payroll total. The team has proven time and again that they will add quite a bit of payroll in circumstances where they see value. As of right now, the 2015 payroll sits around $116 million, when back in November the consensus was that a payroll of around $100 million was a reasonable expectation. The Sox are $16M above that and people are still b****ing about not spending more money. Unless the Sox are 100% certain that they are not going to keep Samardzija beyond 2015, signing another starting pitcher to a 4+ year deal doesn't make a lot of sense because there's no guarantee he will be any help to a Sale-Samardzija-Quintana-Rodon-Adams rotation in 2016.

Needs a subject change, this thread does.

I actually am almost never on Soxtalk from my phone. Soxtalk is something I do during slow times at work or from my laptop at home if there is something interesting going on and I have some free time to log on.

No, there is no executive that I would trade Sale or Abreu for. Now, if I didn't already have Hahn, I would consider trading something of value for KW, but nowhere near that level of value.

Whether or not to sign a player isn't just about this year's payroll number. Any good player is getting a multiyear deal and the decision whether or not to sign impacts payroll for several years down the road. Plus there is the consideration of how good the player might be towards the end of the deal compared to what he will be making. You have to assess the risk of being stuck with a bad contract, because when a big money player goes bad you can't really afford to release him so aside from the money the guy is eating up a roster spot. Dunn and Danks are recent examples of bad contracts but for the most part the Sox avoid getting stuck in those.

I voted Kottaras for right now, but I think Soto has more upside and would be thrilled to see him do well enough in ST to earn the job.

I know I drank a lot last night, but apparently I blacked out for the entire first half of the season? Are the Sox in first place?

I'm still not convinced Notre Dame is for realz. Guess we find out tomorrow night.

If you're going to constantly b**** and complain about the Sox not spending enough on players, I'd prefer you just become a Yankees fan. I'm tired of hearing about this.

Yes, and not because I don't like KW but Hoffman is a hell of a talent and the Sox will still have Rich Hahn.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ticket...cial_events.jsp This is the page where the discount codes will get posted when they come out. Just about every game has a code.

Started with AAA but should have ended at AA? Sounds a lot like Jared Mitchell to me.

Awesome. I am so stealing this.

Unless an admin deletes it, that would be another way.

Quitting posting in this thread is the only way to get it to die.

I watch each President's first SOTU and none of the rest.

I belong to this message board http://www.aaroads.com/forum/ and if you join and post your question there somebody there will most definitely have it. EDIT: The interstate highway system didn't exist until 1956, so there were no interstates in 1950, though some freeways currently designated as interstates may have been built pre-1950.

Does anybody know of a site that give coaches' career records by month?

By my calculations, that puts 2015 payroll at $115.7225 million.

Must have been awfully warm other places because it was pretty damn cold here.

Noesi has more service time than Guerra and is also a starter. There is no chance Guerra gets more.

Not yet, usually mid-February.

If Peyton is going to go anywhere at his age, he needs to go to a warm weather/indoor team. I'd love to see what he could do in Arizona.

11 minutes ago via Sox Facebook page.

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