The Ultimate Champion

There's no way I have either Danks or Q ever going after Sale. Rotation should be Sale (L) - Peavy ® - Quintana (L) because you can't count on Danks for Opening Day - Floyd ® and have Danks/Santiago penciled in to the 5 slot. Just go in rotation, screw the offday stuff. We have good starting pitching & don't need to work around anyone.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2013 -> 06:54 AM) Why spend $40 million on Edwin Jackson when the team isn't going to be in a position to compete for the first 2 years of the deal? Because he fills a hole in the rotation & you're not broke. He doesn't cost you a prospect either.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) This isn't OOTP. The object isn't to rebuild, it is to win. If you have to rebuild, you did something wrong. You could also be so high on yourself that you feel putting your own stamp on an organization is worth the loss of 2-4 years of any kind of worthwhile product. I think that is what Theo & the buttholes are doing over there. There's no reason why a team that is capable of supporting a $130M+ payroll while playing .500 baseball should tear down everything and run out role players & AAAA guys in starting roles. They probably could "build" just as quickly with a marginal team as with a s***ty one - IF they can rely on scouting to draft the right guys and not just count on draft positioning - but I guess you'd have to be a real genius to do that, not a paper one. I saw that lefty they got from the Reds, Travis Wood I think, and I'm wondering wtf they made that trade for? He's not your future unless you're expecting something especially bleak, so why not try to sign some free agent or something to take that spot and just hold onto your player until the deadline when the relief demand is higher? What's the point there? Why $7M for Concepcion, who from his scouting report seemed like the type who gets 5th round money in the Rule-4 draft? Put that money into the team instead of throwing it away, I mean if that $2M beach house isn't for sale, that doesn't mean you should go spend $1.5M on a townhouse next to a swamp. I think the buttholes over there are just trying to tear s*** down so they can say they built it all themselves. I think it's a legacy thing, and it's why they dumped Tyler Colvin and took on someone else's bust, and why they having been itching to eat almost every penny on Soriano's deal, and why they want Garza gone so bad, etc.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 9, 2013 -> 01:36 PM) Yeah, the Cubs are quite the organization. Look at all those overrated prospects! Our first round pick (also a HS OF) out-produced theirs, yet our guy doesn't make the top 100 but theirs is #18? That's just f***ing stupid. When you tank an entire organization for what looks to be several seasons, and you hand out a gagillion dollars to a couple Cuban prospects (one of which apparently sucks balls), and when you're MO at this point seems to be throwing money at the wall especially within the realm of facilitating trades by eating large salaries.... then I guess having 4 names pop up on a meaningless list compiled by a couple worthless desk monkeys acting on hearsay and dated marginal information means quite a bit. Go Chubbies! No matter what the national guys want to say, I like the fact that Buddy Bell is a fan of Mitchell, and the fact that we've found the likes of Quintana & Santiago who were both apparently so s***ty they couldn't crack a top-10 in a consensus top-3 worst system in baseball. Our guys > dumbf*** desk monkeys.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 02:43 PM) He gave the Sox a $20 million season last year. Even if he does get hurt, if he gives you 2 more of those seasons in the first 5 years, he's already giving you your bang for your buck. Exactly. I'm just shocked you could get such a good player to sign a deal so team-friendly that it basically removes risk from the equation. Sale is going to be making closer money. Wow.

I never would have thought Sale would come this cheap. I was on board for shopping him because I thought it would take a whole lot more than this to get it done.... just wow. Terrific move.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 02:33 PM) Love it too. I interpret this as the White Sox being pro-active, almost expecting T. J. surgery at some point. In that case, have Sale in control for seven years, if you only get 5 good years out of him its still a bargain. Can you imagine what the price of an ace is going to be in 2020? This. Sale's good years, if he's healthy, are $20M pitcher years. 1 of those makes this contract a steal, 2 and it's a mugging, 3 it's... well, you get the idea.

Hahn may not like to make trades but he sure does enjoy stealing money from people in long term contracts. He's basically Wilder without the gay bar. Great move, and now I think I'm warming up to Hahn.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) [quickly clicks the back button] I take it you're not a fan of Zack Stewarrt? Its okay, buddy, this is the last of our concernes, he'll be fine.

We're gonna fly under the radar & win the division this year I can feel it. Baseball is rules & awesome.

Also I have a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays right in front of me and I can't wait to eat all my words about Rick Hahn. Maybe Hahn is an evil genuios. Floyd is going to be good this year, and we're all going to benefit. No one will ever replace AJ but Flowers will be good behind the plate & we'll all be fans of his. Baseball is fun. At least we're not the cubs,

Okay so the offseason was boring, so what? And yeah, Spring Training games don't matter, whatever. The point is, who gives a flying f***, the 2013 season is about to start and it's time all of us Sox fans grab our balls like we should and rally this team into contetnion! We're underdogs, obviously, as one would expect ffroma team like this, but Quintana is the real deal and you f***ers who doubt him are nuts. So lets rally this thing and go for it! Whos with me?!

We're like -16 games into the season and there is already an attendance thread. Yay. Why not just put up an attendance b****ing sub-forum with a big "JR should sell" sticky thread right at the top? Just keep it all in the same place.

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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 13, 2013 -> 10:15 PM) This was the agreement - we vote for you, you model thongs for us. Sorry, you sell your soul to the devil and you live with the consequences. Exactly. Put the SoxTalk logo right there where the target is, and then below it write "We've got balls" Oh, and instead of the normal script on the inside tag, write "Marty34" instead because that's the end where you get all the hot air.

I personally think MHizzle is forever indebted to SoxTalk & as a result needs to wear a t-shirt with a SoxTalk logo on it promoting SoxTalk whenever & wherever cameras & people & stuff are in sight. Do such shirts exist & if not can they be created for reasonable sums of money?

QUOTE (TomSeaverFan @ Feb 13, 2013 -> 04:30 PM) As spring training begins, I am hoping Viciedo becomes a true star. Was there any straight talk at Soxfest about what the White Sox brass considers Viciedo? Is he a star in the making in their eyes, an average prospect or ? Not sure but if he was on the trading block then I'd guess no. OTOH Big Frank thinks so.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 25, 2013 -> 05:57 PM) Why would you do that? Arrogance, holier than thou attitude, pretense of knowledge? I got to admit I listen on occasion for entertainment value of listening to them make idiots of themselves but usually it's a tough listen. Yeah, just about anything is better than your average Chicago sports radio buffoon. Personally I wish they would just televise the B games & the minor league scrimmages/etc. in general. I have literally no interest in watching veteran MLB hitters watch pitches or veteran MLB pitchers through 9 straight change-ups. Let me see the arms on these prospects, their defense, baserunning, etc.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Feb 13, 2013 -> 12:01 PM) Good role models and examples to the others The pitching machine is broken & nothing is coming out, but Paulie is in there toughin' it out taking hacks anyway. The mechanics are there now & all ready to go but they're going to wait until the end of the day before making a move out of respect for the Captain.

The translation of that quote is "Right now Santiago is behind Q on the depth chart, but we realize he's a Major League pitcher, so we're not going to dick him around and pretend he's a Charlotte Knight."

lol how in the f*** did those cocksuckers manage to predict an 80-82 record for the 2006 juggernaut club that returned a WS champ plus Jim Thome & Javy Vazquez... unreal