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QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 12:38 AM) Literally every single player in the Cubs starting lineup is far better or on par with the Sox (Rizzo/Abreu being the only toss up). The cubs have an absurdly young & cheap core + money to spend on a Greinke/Price this off season. They're going to be contenders for the next 5 years easily. The Sox have black holes at 7 positions with almost no help waiting in the minors and no money to spend. Terrible ownership, terrible coaching, terrible scouting and wasting the greatest rotation in a generation. I am incredibly jealous. I'd give us an advantage with Eaton over Fowler, but that hardly changes the truthfulness of your post. What's incredibly sad is we have a great rotation that can actually get even better come '17 depending on the progression of Fulmer and Montas. If we even had a middle of the pack offense, we'd probably be competing for a Wild Card. Which is why our position is infuriating, we're not even anticipating several young stars like the Cubs -- just f***ing replacement level production.

Ventura remaining with us atleast through next season upsets me less and less as I watch the playoffs. We're in no position to compete in 2016, unless a major roster overhaul or team wide resurgence occurs. No one could manage this team to contention. I know for many that's not a justifiable excuse to retain him, but for Hahn/company I believe they're yet again indecisive about the path of this ballclub. A new manager suggests a new direction, some sort of new plan is in place to improve the team. They're not ready to change anything, and Ventura IMO is the shoulder shrugging type who would bregrugingly accept any move (or lack thereof) by his bosses. They're not going to bring in a highly sought after manager only to unload a starter, or worse yet, do nothing at all to improve the ballclub. I'm sure they'd pitch some sort of plan for competing. As odd as it may sound, I believe by maintaining Ventura there is a MUCH better chance they make an unpopular (yet potentially rewarding) blockbuster trade involving Q or Sale, which is almost necessary considering our financial restrictions for '16 and lack of positional prospects. When this club is in a position to compete, he'll be shown the door.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) Greinke is scheduled to go in game 7 tomorrow. That would only be two days rest, and while I agree LA should ride its aces, that might be asking too much. Damn I thought while typing that today was their Game 5. If you switched the scrub pitchers with the projected Greinke starts it could still work. I'd honestly rather have Greinke and Kershaw on limited rest, and taking a chance with ineffectiveness, then having just one extra start with Anderson again.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:18 AM) Past Greinke the Dodgers rotation is very suspect, and their hitting has been non-existent the last few months. All under the assumption LA wins: There should be no other choice than optimizing Kershaw and Greinke. If I'm losing a series it's going to be off of those two. Game 1: Kershaw - Three days rest Game 2: Greinke - Three days rest Game 3: Wood/Anderson Game 4: Kershaw - Three days rest Game 5: Greinke - Three days rest Game 6: Wood/Anderson Game 7: Kershaw - Three days rest I'd personally rather throw out this schedule, relying on three days rest for the entire series, then a schedule such as: Game 1: Wood/Anderson Game 2: Kershaw - Four days rest Game 3: Greinke - Five days rest Game 4: Wood/Anderson Game 5: Kershaw - Three days rest Game 6: Greinke - Three days rest Game 7: Wood/Anderson Three potential starts of a non Kershaw/Greinke combo, including a possible Game 7, is terrible. All the more incentive for LA to give the Cubs their aces, end the series as quick as possible, then rest for the world series. Lose with your best. Worry about their arms falling off later

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:47 PM) Unfortunately, this is probably the first of many Cubs playoff celebrations we'll see in the next five seasons or so. 2020 we'll be more concerned with extending Ventura and celebrating the 15th year anniversary of the WS

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:55 PM) Piscotty really think he was getting a fastball? He looked scared. Cowardly performance from the Cards

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:50 PM) Or we just need to be bad long enough and draft well. Unfortunately we don't do that for position players. I agree with that belief too. How about if both happened? Bad White Sox teams coupled with high valued trades. We'd be back to the postseason quicker than any plan the current group could put together

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:43 PM) Or it was just a trade that didn't work out. I know the "30-30" thing is quoted here often, but did anyone other than Hawk actually say that? We can't afford any more trades that don't work. Every trade has to be in our benefit if we're expecting to compete anytime soon.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:39 PM) Top 100, but never top 50 I believe For our organization, he was a Top 10. They probably thought they knew better than everyone else.

If I'm Hahn I'm on the phone with St Louis as soon as possible, this is an embarrassing series lost for the Cardinals. I feel ashamed watching St Louis, I couldnt imagine how their management feels. How is their minor league system? They could use Q

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 06:07 PM) Rodon was still the right pick. If we had Schwarber we'd just be watching the emergence of future ace Rodon for the Cubs now, so it wouldn't matter. And I'm sure Kyle wouldn't have had near his same numbers for the Sox, away from NL pitching

Lose your starting catcher and veteran you're left with a backup having to make stupid pitching decisions. Although Lackey is at fault too obviously, he got lazy on a breaking ball to HamMel

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 10:15 PM) The excessive inning increase and number of hard sliders screams TJ in the near future. Arrieta has also redeveloped his pitching style to throw entirely across his body. If he was a college pitcher we'd be hearing people scream injury risk.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Oct 11, 2015 -> 07:42 PM) They are not that far away but I agree they need to make a couple of major successful moves. I say not that far away in that they have 3 very good LH starting pitchers. Few teams have 3 starting pitchers as good as the Sox do. I think they can trade Q or Rodon and get back at least 2 very good players in return. That would weaken the starting pitching but improve the offense and hopefully defense. Then by 2017 they can get or bring up ( Fulmer) a #3 type starter to replace the traded pitcher and Johnson can hopefully replace Shark. Anderson should also be a possibility for 2017 as well. This is exactly the point we're at now. Every move Hahn does has to be successful. Every....f***ing....move. Also, we'd need absolutely no hiccups in the development of Fulmer or Anderson, since we'd need replacements at SS and SP come 2017

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 07:47 PM) Better to focus on the mets success than the cubs if you are a sox fan. Kills me that the cubs signed martinez though. I am already prepping myself for disappointment when we only spend the limit on int'l players next year. ("But we'll really clean up in 2017!!!") Or we'll hear pundits say next season, "this is the weakest collection of international prospects we've ever witnessed"

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 07:41 PM) Trevor Cahill is the new Wade Davis For the Cubs, yeah. To me he looks like the new Matt Albers

Rizzo, Bryant, Schwarber, Castro, Soler all contributed. One day someone will say the same of Abreu, Olt, Flowers, Saladino, Thompson............

Yet another young contributing Cubs player for us to be reminded of how pitiful our lineup is

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 07:01 PM) To me, the Garcia error on the Hendricks bunt was the turning point of this entire series. It was definitely the turning point, but that HR was when it was apparent (to me atleast) the Cards were done. Even with that Heyward HR, you just feel the Cubs will hit a few more HRs with this wind

Baez replaces Russell after a triple......and promptly singles himself. We'd never have that type of goid fortune

Cardinals unofficially ended their season with the Bryant HR. It is just terrible watching the Cardinals just embarrass themselves, and every Cub rookie contribute yet here we are.....looking forward to another abysmal White Sox season. I won't even lie, I'm damm jealous of their future

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 06:26 PM) LOL at Matt Holliday. What the f*** was that. He watched the ball sail into the ivy like everyone else Its hard to believe the Cardinals won 100 games watching them this series. Just a whole lot of bad

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) Someone finally crushed one of Arrieta's hanging breaking balls. He has thrown a lot of those in the postseason. Hell, the last month I watched atleast 3 or 4 starts he was hanging WAY too many breaking balls. It was remarkable. Difference is these last two starts he has lost command too, leaving him with nothing but a fastball. Time had to come he was hit

Arrieta looks mediocre yet again. If he escapes with another lucky DP I'm going to lose it. It's like they're psyching themselves out like Pittsburgh did. Terrible

Arrieta's control has been horrendous tonight. I swear watching him escape inning after inning is like watching some White Sox game. Pittsburgh are the White Sox tonight