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QUOTE (Mike F. @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:53 PM) This. Normal Chris Sale = Effective Pissed/Angry Chris Sale = What we saw today/against Boston. I remember a game either last year or a couple years ago when sale was pitching and viciedo made a stupid play in the outfield for a error. You could tell sale was pissed and started throwing harder and got very wild and start coughing up runs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:52 PM) My "wasted time when I should have been working" stat of the week. Since Cooper became the White Sox pitching coach, the White Sox's team ERA has been worse in the 2nd half than in the 1st half 9 of 12 times. 2 of those remaining years their team ERA got better by less than 0.1 run. Only 1 season out of 12 did the White Sox's team ERA get noticeably better in the 2nd half. I only did a mental average but usually our team ERA goes up by ~0.3-0.4 runs in the 2nd half. The issue is how many other teams have better, equal or worse pitching in the second half of a season. The season is so long and generally the second half is trying to ride you pitching harder because of the chance for playoffs.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:48 PM) It makes you wonder how he'd fare during a playoff race. I think the issue is sale has so much talent but still has some issues between the ears. There's a lot of times when he's pitching and something bad happens in the game against the sox and tries to do to much after that instead of just going at a steady pace.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:41 PM) I would take Dombrowski in a hearbeat over either one. More stellar Sox defense...Sale wasn't backing up or in the right position, should have been backing up Flowers. Problem is if you brought Dombrowski in with kenny still there, how much is Kenny going to have a say in things. Kenny needs to go to blue jays and let hahn or someone else actually take control

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 4, 2015 -> 08:22 PM) I am officially on the KW and Hahn leaving team. Hahn has been disappointing to say the least. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but no more. The issue is we don't know how much of the decision making is squarely on hahn vs how much influence kw has. I would like to see kw go and Hahn by himself to see what he can actually do. I think alot of the scouting department and player development Is still from kw era. Maybe if kw is gone hahn could put better people into those areas.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 08:45 PM) Congrats to those of you who knew our 7-1 road trip was meaningless. I thought it was huge at the time. I wrong AGAIN this season of being wrong. This is the kind of game our lack of home run hitting is a killer. Sox fall behind and don't have the bombers who can connect on a pair of solo homers to tie it like the old days. Now that Saladino has cooled off and Sanchez is cooled off we ain't so special again. Yes I unfortunately knew this was going to happen. This team has been slight teases with alot of consistent bad play.

Thanks front office for thinking we could contend and keeping shark and then not adding anything to help the roster

I think one of the issues is Rodon has been dealing with blisters this year. Hawk mentioned it during one of his games and I could see when he throw a pitch he was looking at his hand afterwards. Having a bit of control issue already then having to deal with blisters it's probably going to make it worse.

QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) It is a little puzzling. I wonder if the Sox just had their minds made up not to trade him, or if the packages offered weren't good enough. I think the sox thought they were buyers.

#Mets gave up Fulmer and Cessa for Cespedes #Tigers https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/627207893151023104 Funny thing is mets were trying to keep fulmer and trade wheeler instead.

Fake @Ken_Rosenthal account got me and @ScottMillerBbl on Cespedes-to-Mets deal. My bad. https://twitter.com/philgrogers/status/627200659515908096

The #Tigers real close to moving Cespedes. The #whitesox involved but not the favorite https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/627199373252792320

Jay Bruce is not in the #Reds’ lineup. https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/627197109423505409

All indications are the #Padres have nothing happening on Justin Upton. It appears he's staying put at deadline. https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/627195732957769728

So are we now on #crywatch instead if #hugwatch

The #WhiteSox would love to add a bat, but unless they move position player off their 25 man roster, they have no room. https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/627189253835862016

The #WhiteSox would love to add a bat, but unless they move position player off their 25 man roster, they have no room. https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/627189253835862016

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:31 PM) Good grief, the leagues best offense just added Tulo and Revere over the last few days. Look out Yankees! Actually the white sox too cause they are ahead of them in wild card standings

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:27 PM) That offense is just lethal. So you aked what team had a single hole in their offense. I think the jays don't have any holes now

mets are making a push for yoenis cespedes. would be big move. https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/627181758149185536

#Mets still discussing Yoenis Cespedes with the #Tigers, sources say. https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/627179025157390336

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) What a huge move they made!!! It's Kevin Jepsen. I'm confident that we'll make a move. Yes they'll make a move by trading shark and not getting a bat just for you to go nuts lol

Now the twins have made a move and sox are sitting with their thumbs up their...

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:28 PM) Lets just say we swapped Shark to one team, Sox got Upton, and Padres get prospects. That is a loss to me. I think any chance of Sox making a deep post-season run are gone (don't think that rotation is good enough to win a post-season series) and we don't even get the comp pick long-term to help us. Chances of making playoffs might go up a bit, but thats a big if because we really have no idea what we will get out of EJ (and Rodon is still developing). We could end up with a gas can of a rotation which offsets any positives from Upton and we don't even get a comp pick for the long term. So again, I am not trading Shark for a rental unless it is Shark and prospects for a rental + better prospects. What about trading shark means for a bat thats not a rental

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:14 PM) I'm kind of advocating for trading Samardzija AND adding a bat. I think the addition of an impact bat benefits our club more than the substitution of EJ for Samardzija hurts us. Even with EJ, that pitching staff is good enough to compete. If they worked a good 3 team deal basically swapping Samardzija for a bat, they would basically be giving up the compensatory pick for a two month rental. I think they would be willing to do that. I wonder if them trading shark and then using the return to get a bat could try for more then a 2 month rental.