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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) How so? 11-4 last year, then 3-2, 4-2, 2-0 Your Sox number is wrong, they're 15-14. I'm sure the Royals part is right because a fan like you wouldn't forget their history.

Not sure viewing every move through the lens of how many season tickets it sells is a productive exercise for this board...

QUOTE (ron883 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 03:07 PM) Lmao I remember that guy. Too funny. Weren't you easily able to make an account if you got banned? I remember a couple guys who would just add a number to their account each time they had to make a new account. One guy was up to the 50's in his name lol. I also remember a troll named gooch. Different from the guy here with that name You could easily do anything you wanted on those forums. Looking back, they sucked and they only got worse as time went on.

Greenwald was maybe my least favorite writer there. Everything he did seemed like it was written by an annoying parody of a TV critic. So pretentious. Everything else I went there to read was great, their baseball and basketball stuff in particular. It seems like the people who were left were not notified beforehand and found out on Twitter like the rest of us. Not like there weren't obvious signs of doom, but that's still pretty s***ty. Most of them, luckily, should have no trouble finding work.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 02:35 PM) So Ken m is one of the best trolls in the history of the internet? Never heard of him until I googled his name. Impressive stuff. Apparently Ken m has been doing it since only 2011. Greg's been trolling for a decade now. He is the most successful troll I have ever personally witnessed on a forum I posted on the whitesox.com boards before coming here, and they had an advanced troll named soxmania. He played the long game and never broke character. He would develop unhealthy obsessions with a variety of players, most notably Jake Peavy, and would post really bad trade ideas for acquiring them. Usually this would take the form of listing out the full White Sox roster after said trade, followed by some proclamation of that Sox team being a favorite to win the AL central or the pennant. He regurgitated these same ridiculous ideas over and over in multiple threads and would never, never ever respond to the people ripping him to shreds. It was as if they didn't exist to him. Imagine someone saying this in every thread in Pale Hose Talk: Here is my vision for 2016. Trade Rodon and A.Garcia to SF for Susac and Peavy. Susac becomes our starting catcher. Peavy would join Sale, Quintana, Danks, and Erik Johnson in the rotation. Samardzija would not get a qualifying offer from the W.Sox. The option on AR would not be picked up. Sanchez would move to shortstop with Micah at 2B and Saladino at 3B. Thompson would be the RF with Eaton in CF and Melky in LF. Abreu would be the 1B with LaRoche the DH. Beck would the LR and spot starter with Montas and Fulmer in the minors being groomed for starting spots in 2017 or 2018. The W.Sox would add at least one veteran reliever to help Robertson and Duke in the bullpen. I feel Susac would hit .240 to .250 with 10-12 HRs and 50-55 RBIs if he gets 400-425 AB as the starting catcher. Beckham would return as the utility INF with Shuck the #4 OF. Soto would be the backup catcher. This would be my vision for 2016. Then literally one week later, in the same thread... Peavy pitches a gem even though the Giants are out of contention....vintage Jake Peavy. He competes to the end of the season. I strongly recommend the W.Sox trade for Peavy this offseason. A good trade would be Rodon and A.Garcia to SF for Peavy and Susac. Peavy would join the rotation and Susac would be our new starting catcher. The W.Sox have Sale, Q, and Danks as LH starters. They can deal Rodon to help get Susac to improve the starting catcher position. Peavy would be a bonus in the deal and would provide leadership to the rotation. Move Sanchez to shortstop and put Micah Johnson at 2B. Susac and Johnson would improve the offense. Peavy would be the #5 SP. Thompson would be the starting RF. The rotation would be Sale, E.Johnson, Q, Danks, and Peavy with Fulmer being groomed in the minors for a future starting spot. Samardzija and AR would not be brought back for 2016. I think Rodon is a Boras client which makes him expendable. These are two actual posts I just went and found now. I'm wise to the act and it's still mind-numbing. I'm sorry, but when you couple this with the almost complete lack of moderation, it's twice as bad as anything at Soxtalk. The only thing mitigating it is that nobody goes to that forum anymore.

Grantland is ovah. http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement...ding-grantland/

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 09:13 AM) I'd be willing to bet Adam LaRoche puts up a better OPS than Trayce next season, if Trayce was playing every day. I would too, but Trayce is a talented defender. He can be useful - and at minimum better than Avi - without doing what LaRoche is supposed to do at the plate.

This was argued to death in a different thread, but Trayce's numbers after August weren't bad at all. .233/.310/.422/.732, 99 wRC+, lost of extra base hits. Anyone here would gladly take that performance over a full season. I'll continue to assert that he's earned a spot ahead of Avisail Garcia on the depth chart.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) Elias Sports Bureau: Home teams that win the first two games of a best-of-7 postseason series go on to win the series 80.8 percent of the time (42-10). QUOTE (High Mileage @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 05:38 AM) Great stat. No it isn't. As usual for those blurbs following the "team winning first x games has won y times" format, this one behaves no differently than a bunch of coin flips. There are 15 possible ways for a best of 7 series to end once a team goes up 2-0. If you give both teams an even chance of winning each game, the odds of the leading team winning the series are 81.25%. They've historically won 80.8%, apparently. Thank you for the groundbreaking research, Elias. I hate these stats.

Morneau is pretty similar to pre-2015 LaRoche. I'd rather just keep ALR and hope for a rebound than try to dump him, pay half his salary, and give a deal to a different old guy like Morneau.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 29, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) Although Weiters hasn't exactly been Carlton Fisk, Fisk was a 33 year old catcher with an injury history. Most careers don't have the tail that Fisk's did. For where this team is, I don't think Wieters is a risk worth taking.

Wieters is a nice player, but I'm saying no thanks to a big contract for the 30-year-old catcher with an injury history.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 29, 2015 -> 11:03 AM) Yeah you definitely keep Putnam especially. If keep him over Avi at this point. Although Yeah you keep all 3. ^ This. All 3 are tenders though.

SMART BASKETBALL PLAYS.

Stop shooting, Brooks. Christ.

E'Twain instead of Kirk. :wub:

You look like a slob K Love. Rose has actually been attacking the rim with regularity tonight.

Volquez' father Daniel died of a heart issue earlier today and there are conflicting reports on whether Edinson has been told.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) Link didn't work for me. But I'm guessing Viagra and Sportslock featuring a guy naked on the toilet and the other one of two people f***ing. Seriously, wtf. When did mlb get so low brow? Why even allow those commercials. That's stuff I'd expect on some late night tv. Can't imagine all the fathers watching the games with their son and those 3 same commercials coming on every half inning. Ugh. Hmm, link works fine for me. Just Google "worst commercials mlb postseason" if you're still curious. You're spot on with Viagra - it's number 1. I'm grateful I don't have a kid every time I see ads for an ED pill. You want the fanbase to get younger, MLB? Maybe tell the networks to keep it under 7 Viagra commercials an hour.

One of my favorite annual traditions just went up - Grant Brisbee's worst ads of the MLB postseason. Omitted but thankfully discussed in the comments: the GMC commercial that tells us a pitcher who can paint the corners is known as a Rembrandt even though NOBODY HAS EVER SAID THAT GAAAARGH

Do we congratulate him or apologize?

QUOTE (beautox @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 04:27 AM) I've been thinking a lot this post season since my last offseason plan and this is what i think is both realistic and likely, looking forward to some spirited conversation with regards to this post. Last year the sox were 1st in the AL in fWAR for starting pitching(4th overall) and 7th for relieving(16th overall) total pitching the sox were 3rd in the AL(9th overall), and dead last for hitting. Seeing how around 40WAR got you into the post season this year and how at the all star break we were still in it, there is hope to be had. I'm about to nitpick, but first I'll echo what others have said. That was a really well-constructed post and you deserve lots of credit for the work you put into it. I think you'd really have to sweeten the pot for Brad Miller. He's a player with upside and a long way to go before free agency; Flowers lacks those traits. Seattle would definitely ask for more, even if C is a position of need for them. I love the emphasis on fielding. You haven't acquired anyone who is really a defensive question mark. There are a couple butchers out there who I would welcome, but really anybody we get should help maximize this pitching staff's potential. Most of your WAR guesses seem attainable to me, but they're also on the optimistic side. Montas, in particular, I don't quite see at that level.

Turned 18 on the off day between games 2 and 3. What a time! I remember my excitement after PK's grand slam - there's nothing else like it in sports. Clinching the title was amazing too, of course, but that had a slow buildup. The slam was like a sucker punch of euphoria. I stayed up for all of game 3 and got about 2 hours of sleep. We won the last two games of the season on the same calendar day! Holy s***!

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 27, 2015 -> 08:00 AM) Because of their young pitchers? I'd guess he means beyond even that - because they're a team with a ho-hum history and a fanbase besieged in their own city by a more popular team. Except the Yankess, unlike the Cubs, have earned their popularity.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 09:26 PM) Torii Hunter retired today. Half of Twitter praising the ballplayer, the other half criticizing the bigot. Good riddance.¯\_(ツ)_/¯