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Dominoes keep falling.

Seeing as how this is likely Trevor Bauer and he is likely to make some YouTube video about going to various fan forums and making posts like this, here are some reasons: 1) From the fans perspective, the team appears to have a lot of fun playing the game of baseball. 2) I would hope that any offers received from CWS are offers that are fair and reasonable to you. If so, that is a reason. 3) Hungry, "prove it" fanbase. We will come watch you if you don't waste our time. 4) Collaboration vids with TA7 5) Chicago is a cool city, obviously a lot of good food. 6) You already know this, but The Rate is actually a really cool/nice park and massively underrated due to how crappy it looked when it was first built and because it's in the same city as Wrigley. 7) Division is competitive, even if Twins make no upgrades they will STILL be a pain. Us fans are licking our chops to keep them in 2nd/3rd place. You would be a great help to this. ? As annoying as Minnesota and Cleveland might be, the road to divisional victory is not insanely competitive and you can expect to make the playoffs in some fashion because the team around you is pretty good too. 9) Chance to stick it to your old team (if that is something that interests you) 10) If you sign here, we can keep Nick Madrigal and Codi Heuer. I guess if you don't sign here, that doesn't even matter to you. But if you do sign here, it is likely that the bullpen is better and that you have a 2B hitting .360 in your teams lineup. 11) This is a cool one.... a chance to help the White Sox earn a fairer share of Chicago baseball fanship. The Cubs have dominated this town for a long time, but now they are alienating their fanbase. You will never "convert" Cubs fans to Sox fans, but there are always generations of new fans to earn. Win a few generations and all of a sudden it's a Sox city again. Obviously, you won't be around long enough to win a few generations, but you can help get that ball rolling. (If you are not Trevor Bauer, well played)

Quintana signing with the Angel's is the most underrated news in this thread.

This has to be it. By all accounts, Quintana enjoyed being a White Sox and at this point would probably have loved to stay in Chicago. He might have been waiting for a final word from the Sox. And they might have just told him no because of something else about to happen....

I love the potential of Nick Madrigal but I'm in for trading him for potentially one of the best SP in baseball. We'll get to watch him hit .360 against the Cubs. Nick's gonna hit. A lot.

Please sign Nelson Cruz. I'm willing to roll the dice on him continuing to be extremely productive vs. his potential future fall off. Age has only made Nelson better. As long as his body holds up, the dude has a brilliant hitting mind that should not regress.

Boston wouldn't have made sense but since NY is competing it makes sense. Stupid east coast fascination with people. It's not any better over there than it is here.

Goodness I must have had a premonition when I jokingly posted BREAKING NEWS about an hour before this broke to lighten that thread up a bit. Lol good stuff.

BREAKING NEWS

The ultimate troll: Mitch Trubiskey won the NVP trophy. Gotta be disheartening being handed that when everyone's gonna lose their jobs.

Therein lies the problem, the place you speak of has exquisite things to many people. A long time ago we took a field trip to Portillos. I was going to get my regular hot dog. My friend convinced me to try the beef and it changed my life. Burgers are so good too. If you're feeling like a slob the double bacon burger is where its at.

I think she was talking about the Lindor trade in terms of "giving up". poor use of the word "entire".

God, stuff like this makes it seem like we have a really good chance of landing him. Gonna be so annoying when he signs with the Padres. Am glad to hear the Sox are apparently huge with programs like Codify, though. That's dope.

I hope it's over soon. So tired of waiting, waiting waiting.... just to find out he signs elsewhere lmao

Can we please have a decade where the Packers have no QB after Rodgers is gone? It's basically hell being a Bears fan.

If he sucks the 4th year, or even the 3rd, we will have an internal option to replace him. But I don't like this confidence. It seems to never work out this way.

I had a dream that the Trevor Bauer signing was analogous to catching a fish, but in this case there were 2 entities catching at the same time, and only one would win. One of them was the White Sox, the other was unknown at the time. Obviously the other one won. When I finally found out who this "mystery" team was, it turned out to be a team (or entity) that I had never heard of, thus dream-state-me declared that it was a bot! The entity insisted it was not a bot. Fair enough. But, my subconscious immediately interpreted that the White Sox are so bad at landing big FAs, that there's no surprise that they'd lose to bots as well as real teams. That's pretty sad... JR.

Did he play last year in the World Series? Are "championship" players players who only played in the last World Series? I guess that would disqualify Springer. Howie Kendrick. Howie is 37 and Eaton is 32. And Howie is ready to retire now, but could probably keep playing if he wanted. Howie has always been a "championship" player, but like most players isn't on the right team. This is not an apt comparison at all. What exactly is your definition of a "championship" player? For me, it's players who can contribute to winning a championship. Adam Eaton clearly contributed to the Nationals winning a championship (only 2 years ago...), but aside from that a healthy productive Adam Eaton is a very good player capable of helping other teams win championships.

Did you see his World Series highlights?

If Contreras is in that deal, the Cubs are definitely getting Gore ++

Underrated beer by the way. I heard it's an old German recipe that was brought to Mexico and ended up with Modelo? Or something like that.

Dude, what? Kurt Suzuki is an FA? If he's cool being a backup, please sign him!

I just looked at his stats, and I am all aboard the Brantley train. He shouldn't be too expensive, he's not TOO old yet, and he has flat out just been a damn good AL hitter.

Chili's closed.

Meh, if RagahRagah and folks weren't interacting, then there'd be no conversation at all. This thread has basically run its course, why not let it die naturally like most threads? With 2 or 3 people arguing endlessly for pages. The Hot Stove has become mighty cold lately. It's either this or nothing, most likely.