Jose Abreu

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 08:56 PM) Aww, they didn't give Brantly the silent treatment. It's his 5th career HR

Rob Brantly 3-run HR

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 08:50 PM) They absolutely would do that deal straight up without even thinking about it. They'd save themselves $30 million. Reyes is the worst defensive shortstop in baseball not named Marcus Semien and he's making $22 million each of the next 2 years. Rockies would dump him on anyone willing to take him because his contract is a nightmare. Then what would they do with LaRoche?

You guys are on board with Chris Davis being our third baseman? His defense there would be flat out terrible... not to mention he'd be hitting around .225. Zobrist is another player who would likely regress if he comes here.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 08:24 PM) Still expecting a contract extension announced at some point. He's already under contract for next season. They agreed to an extension in January IIRC edit- jan of 2014, but he is still under contract for next season

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 08:15 PM) LaRoche has a better contract than Reyes Mr. Snarky Boy. It's not all about contract, it's also about performance. Reyes is actually decent, despite his contract. You honestly think the Rockies would trade Reyes for LaRoche? I feel ridiculous to even type it out.

QUOTE (daggins @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 07:45 PM) Ben Paulson? I see a 27 year old bench player with an inflated BABIP. He could be a 43 year old veteran with a BABIP of .100. They still won't trade for LaRoche.

Scheduled start is 810

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 07:19 PM) How weird, they did a first pitch, and then had a rain delay? I can't say I have ever seen that one before. They do that all the time. The rain delay was announced 15-20 minutes before the first pitches.

QUOTE (daggins @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 06:48 PM) Trade - Adam Laroche to Colorodo Rockies for Jose Reyes and 10 million dollars The Rockies have a solid up-and-coming first baseman. What would they do with Adam LaRoche?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) If Sox are spending 100 million dollars on a hitter, I hope they're more of a guaranteed slugger than Heyward is. I think he'll get $150-$175 million.

I was joking about Greinke. He hates us

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) I hate Dallas Keuchel. because?

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) Assuming that Sale starts Opening Day (which he will if he isn't hurt), can we try to map out which games he'll start? I just want to see how many times he'll have to face the Twins lol. I think Greinke may get the start for Opening Day. We'll see. And you can't possibly map out 32 starts right now. Things change.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 03:49 PM) 4 games against the Phillies, 2 home and 2 away 3 against the Braves. 3 against the Marlins. can't get 10 easier games than that. the NL is so bad...

QUOTE (bjm676 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) odd that they don't play Detroit until June. Ugh. I hate that. It means the second half of our schedule will seem like we always play Detroit. Same thing happened in 2014.

I don't get the appeal of Jason Heyward. He's going to be so overpaid, and he's not even that good.

Noesi has been with AAA Charlotte, correct? So are we adding him to the 'pen?

There's "battling back against political correctness" and then there's what Trump is doing. He has been taking it a bit too far IMO.

In the battle of Carlos, Sox LHP Carlos Rodon, who has been very sharp lately, takes on Indians RHP Carlos Carrasco, who has had a very good season. I feel like this point of the year (September, Sox out of the playoff race) is the time we Sox fans take for granted. In mid-December, when the Bears are 3-11, the Hawks are struggling without Kane/Sharp/Saad, and Derrick Rose is out for 6 months with a knee injury, we'll wish we had any White Sox baseball- even an unimportant game like this.

Yeah, Fields at least had one decent MLB hitting season. I don't see Olt ever having one.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 07:49 AM) It's a heckuva lot more compelling than the White Sox season...that's for sure. Especially getting to watch young hitters with some pop in their bats. As a White Sox fan, it's not more compelling than our season.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 01:33 PM) I've watched way too much Impractical Jokers over the last 5 days. It's been on Tru all weekend, and I love it. Can't believe I had never seen a second of it until last week. I had a one month phase where I must have watched 40-50 episodes of it. I'm over it now. It kind of gets old.

Earlier this season, he didn't throw a slider, and he wasn't anywhere near as good as he was in the middle of the season. Chris Sale needs to throw a slider to be effective. It's obvious.

Out of all series the Sox had on the schedule this season, this is the last one I would expect to be a sweep.