Bob Sacamano

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 3, 2017 -> 09:36 AM) Opening day/home opener is always fun (except for 2015). If you can get off work you should do it. Me and a few guys from the office are thinking about leaving early. Depends on if they are dicks and make me put in PTO for it. I'd rather just leave here at 2:00, take the train to get there like 30 mins before the game and just stay late/come in early rest of the week.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 3, 2017 -> 09:33 AM) Alright, I've passed wanting to see game canceled. Grabbed cheap stadium club passes last week and glad I did. Nice refuge for my wife and kid if its unbearable. Tickets are as low as $6 currently...really tempted to go.

Lineup is out: 1. Tyler Saladino ® 2B 2. Tim Anderson ® SS 3. Melky Cabrera (S) LF 4. Jose Abreu ® 1B 5. Todd Frazier ® 3B 6. Cody Asche (L) DH 7. Avisail Garcia ® RF 8. Omar Narvaez (L) C 9. Jacob May (S) CF

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 3, 2017 -> 08:47 AM) Tigers aren't much better: Mikie Mahtook® RF James McCann® C JaCoby Jones® CF Jose Iglesias® SS Oh yeah forgot Martinez is out.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 3, 2017 -> 08:27 AM) Too bad they're going to have to close the dome... ... Every new mid-west stadium should have a retractable roof honestly.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 2, 2017 -> 01:36 PM) It's my preemptive strike against people that don't know the difference between a postponement and a cancellation. Yeah the people who say a game is cancelled for the most part sound stupid.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 2, 2017 -> 02:25 PM) I'm forgetting the name of that catcher we were all talking about a month or so ago the Sox could have gotten. There were some bats available in free agency. s*** the Royals added Soler for nothing. Not really "for nothing."

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 2, 2017 -> 02:14 PM) If only that had a better ring to it. I know

Tank for best player available*

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 1, 2017 -> 11:39 PM) OK I know nothing about baseball. You tell me that the team I'm about to describe isn't a contender AFTER our trades. 1B-Abreu (star). 2B - Saladino (Moncada in May, star). SS - Anderson (budding star). 3B - Frazier (good defense; great power just like Abreu). When Moncada comes up, Saladino super infield sub. OF - Melky (serviceable); RF - Avi (still has a chance of excelling). CF - May (awful, maybe a free agent aquisition for outfield if our organization would fricking pay pay pay). DH - Coulda acquired one in offseason for $$. Catcher-Coulda signed a free agent to go with Narvaez for $$ Bullpen - Robertson closer (good). Setup guys - Hit or miss, coulda acquired one for $$ to add to the setup crew. Starters: Q, Rodon, Shields, Gonzalez, Holland. (Once one of the guys we got from the Nats is ready to fill in, not half bad). So how dumb am I? I contend our team could have been a contender this season even with the trades. Without the trades, even more a contender with Sale and Eaton. But it would have required spending a little bit of fricking cash for an outfielder, a DH and a catcher. Excuse me for thinking a big city team might wanna spend some cash in free agency. Who should we have spent money on to make this team a no-doubt contender?

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 1, 2017 -> 11:47 AM) My vote goes to melky I think. That's interesting and I kinda like it.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 07:47 PM) Why is this game not on MLB.TV? Is there a television crew even there? MLBtv can't just decide to stream it if it's not even being filmed haha

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 02:30 PM) Half of the roster is worthless. Maybe you find someone slightly less worthless to replace them with. Basically.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 02:25 PM) Sure but who are you sacrificing off the roster? Depends.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) It was at 38. Drop Liriano and Soto (pitcher), moves it to 36. Add Asche, Geo Soto (Catcher) and Swarzak should put it at 39. So room for a possible waiver add.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 02:07 PM) Scott Merkin @scottmerkin now Rymer Liriano and Giovanni Soto cleared waivers and have been outrughted to Triple-A Charlotte How much room did we need to create on the 40? Is there enough room to scoop someone up on waivers?

I voted 68-71 wins.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 10:42 AM) If you are looking for tickets to this, stubhub has tickets as low as $15. Wow... I'd definitely be on board to go if it was on a Friday again. Would be a good start to a 2 and a half day weekend.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 10:29 AM) Counter point: The youngsters start coming up and the huge FA class hits. Quintana leads your staff of Q, Rodon and any three of Giolito/Lopez/Fulmer and possibly even Kopech or Hansen. Suddenly you might even be able to flip some of the young pitching. Q is definitely a leader in the clubhouse and could easily fill this team's Lester role. I think the upcoming draft, Robert and returns for Frazier/Nelly/Robertson will ultimately decide Q's fate if no team blows them away. Your strategy is to hold onto Q for 4 years and bank on guys in the upcoming draft and Robert to be immediate impact players in that time?

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 10:33 AM) I think our best trade chip other than Q is Jones. He could get us a nice package this summer. Frazier and I assume he meant Melky aren't going to bring back big returns. Robertson has a chance to bring something useful back.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 10:22 AM) I think I can honestly say that I have way more of a connection with Q than I ever did with Sale. In this past month I have definitely had moments of seriously wanting to not trade Q at all and figure out this rebuild with Q as the centerpiece of the future. Today is one of them days that I am totally down with that. So we only keep him for 1, maybe 2 years of being good? Pass. Give me a haul sometime in the next 4 months.

I just realized it's almost summer dress season...no better time to work downtown than the spring/summer.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 08:20 AM) For a team like this, LH/RH is almost meaningless. Agreed. But just as I mentioned above, Asche is basically a lock for the team.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ Mar 31, 2017 -> 08:17 AM) I agree that it isn't a big deal but IMO, it is probably a waste of time and money. What bothers me is that they need a LH bat to DH and Davidson takes up that last roster spot. Asche is basically a lock to get DH at bats.

QUOTE (yesterday333 @ Mar 30, 2017 -> 05:58 PM) So with his speed do we now think he can stick in CF? I mean even if he loses a couple steps as he fill out, he is still really fast. At least for the first few years of his big league career.