shysocks

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 01:43 AM) How can you say Hillary has received the most negative coverage of any candidate by far. Cmon. C'mon. Come on....

QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) I don't know who I am voting for or if I am voting for all but it wasn't going to be HRC or Bernie. But to see him roast her for as long as he has and then sit up there and talk about how fierce she is, wow. His facebook followers are absolutely roasting him. All those donations to help him fight to the convention and then to bow out and support everything that he had said was evil. That's pretty disappointing. That's the way it goes. You're no more entitled to anything for giving to a political campaign than a Kickstarter.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) And at the end of the day Tim Anderson at SS has put all of that debate to rest. I don't see the Semien/Micah/Sanchez pileup and Timmy as that closely related. Despite the plan clearly being to move Anderson along quickly, we still went and acquired a 2B who ultimately isn't as good as Semien. I think we'd be a better team with Semien instead of Lawrie, especially when you factor in years of control. We'll see if Ynoa and Burdi can bridge the gap.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 10:29 AM) Just out of curiosity, what did Scalia say along similar lines? He went hunting with Dick Cheney in '04.

From a WaPo editorial: So what I gather is that nothing she said is explicitly punishable (can you even punish a SCJ?), but it was still real dumb.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 09:55 AM) i feel like Marcus Semien cant' be a decent middle infielder in the majors. I just think i need to say that NO

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 05:00 PM) I agree. Semien was a butcher at SS, Phegley is a backup catcher. Ravelo I was on the fence about. I see this narrative so much here at SoxTalk and I wish it would die. Since about the halfway point of last year Semien has been a passable shortstop. There have been articles about how he was coached up and his error rate plummeted to prove it. He made an error every 27 innings through June of last year; since then he has made one every 72 innings. However else people wanna feel about that trade, okay. It's a trade that will be debated forever. But let's stop saying that Marcus Semien can't be a decent middle infielder in the majors.

Tim Duncan officially retiring. Happy trails to one of the greatest.

Don't like splitting the numbers by save and non-save situations. He's paid to pitch well, period, and as caulfield brought up, if you did this for last year when he blew all those saves then it's probably a different story. He's been fine again this year, but if some team wanted to take that contract away I would listen to them.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2016 -> 10:14 PM) I move that anyone who thinks the banner should be changed, should actually take the time to design a new banner first. +1

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 11:23 PM) 4 of the 6 worst records in baseball are AL teams. Surprising this late in the season. Just too many good teams in the AL, so the bad ones don't have any soft spots on the schedule. The AL teams who aren't in that overall bottom 6 are .500 or better. After the rocky start, the AL has taken a big advantage (97 to 83) in interleague head-to-head, as usual.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 9, 2016 -> 04:10 PM) Pippen and Rodman co-existed They had Phil. We have Hoiberg now. =\

Apparently my home is within the range of a PokeMart and my friends are extremely jealous. I'm refraining from downloading it because I know I'll have to charge my phone every two hours.

WAR is definitely an attempt to guess how many wins a player is worth in the standings. One goal of the WAR model is to correlate MLB teams' total WAR with their winning % as closely as possible. By and large it does a pretty good job of this. There is always error because the inputs of WAR tend to ignore the order in which things happen on the field, which will swing the results from what they "should" be. So yes, it is essentially saying that if you took away Q and inserted Carroll or whoever, the Sox would be 41-44 right now. 3 WAR doesn't seem like that much, but consider a few things. 1. We're only about halfway into the season. 2. Q has only played in 17 games. He is only active for part of each game he starts. 3. Pitchers cannot win games by themselves (Q is all too familiar with this concept). Q's innings pitched this year amount to about 12 full games. Let's say a pitcher of his talent level "should" have a 7-5 record. Doesn't replacing that with 4-9 make that 3 WAR seem a lot more significant? (As an aside, I wanna drone on about the third point. Think of a player's performance on a probability continuum. A pitcher has a certain range of outcomes in which his outings are likely to turn out. A couple will be much better, a couple will be much worse, but most might cluster around a certain number of innings and runs. In Q's case, it's 6 or 7 innings and 1 or 2 runs. For a replacement player, it might be 5 innings and 3 runs or something, but he also could go out and throw seven shutout innings too. A good chunk of their bell curves are gonna overlap. We can expect less from Carroll on a given day but he would not be guaranteed to pitch worse than Q, and it would not be a guaranteed loss. The offense has the same sliding performance, and so does the bullpen. Maybe the team would have scored 11 runs that day regardless of who was pitching. Maybe the bullpen comes on and gives up 7 anyway. Thinking in these terms helps me appreciate how many players can have an impact on every game and why 6 WAR over a full season is a huge number.)

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) Game 2: Q vs. Teheran It's classic matchup for Q. He'll probably get 0-1 runs of support against Teheran who is very legit. Sox don't win Quintana's games. My guess: Braves 4, Sox 1 I'll be in attendance tomorrow and am prepared to be very frustrated for exactly the reasons you said here.

Yeah I was firmly in the pro-Bonifacio column. Didn't work out, but it might not even rank in the bottom 10 Hahn moves.

QUOTE (Yoda @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:46 AM) I wasn't going to watch the Home Run Derby but now I will. I know a lot of White Sox fans here won't admit the same. I still probably won't watch it. It's so boring, and exposure to Chris Berman makes me think mean thoughts.

ooh this gon' be good

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 6, 2016 -> 06:13 PM) Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin 28m28 minutes ago Bolingbrook, IL What do Chris Sale, Clayton Kershaw, Felix Hernandez and Justin Verlander have in common? They are only other active pitchers to be selected to five consecutive All-Star teams I read this as Clayton Richard for a sec and got real confused.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 08:14 AM) I think this news, coupled with the aggressive push of Burdi thus far, shows how much people are asking for on the relief market. Im betting they have changed their focus to acquiring another bat. This is a good point. Anyway, why start his clock? Blah this gives me a bad taste.

Scattered Bulls thoughts: 1. I don't know why anybody is giving this front office the benefit of the doubt. I see the recruiting angle but I have no faith that they'll land anybody. Until then, this is a badly built team. 2. Looking forward to watching Wade cry to the refs while failing to get back on D 75 times a game. 3. At least they're shaking things up and it'll be interesting and different.

It's almost as though different people can hold different opinions. If you'll follow the thread, the "Hawk often says nothing for long stretches" point was submitted by Jose Abreu in direct reply to the "Hawk talks too much" complaint.

Avila's bat has been basically exactly what we could expect, but so has his ability to stay on the field.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 5, 2016 -> 06:17 PM) Maybe some that do not understand the game needs him to say something, but you watch the games and know what is going on. What do you need him to say? Call the game. It's his job.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 5, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) Ha, I love that subject-verb agreement is the thing that caused you to post about that. He's a nominee for POTUS. I'm past the point of being shocked at the things he says but he could at least say them correctly.