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Seth Russell is out for the season for Baylor. That sucks.

Price is getting lit up. He is lucky to have only given up 2 runs so far.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 04:05 AM) Arrieta's season reminded me a lot of Esteban Loaiza's 2003 season for the Sox. Jake will make a lot more money than Loaiza did after his 21-win year, though. The difference is that Arrieta was also a complete stud in 2014 as well whereas Loaiza had never come anywhere close to his 2003 numbers in his career before that season.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 12:22 AM) July 31, the Mets were 53-50. They added Cespedes and took off. Toronto was 53-51. They added Price & Tulo. Texas was 50-52. They added Hamels. The Sox were 49-52. They did not add, but it's not inconceivable that Sale would remain dominant, Q would run into some luck and get some wins, and Shark would have a strong second half. If LaRoche, Melky and a few others play to their lifetime averages (which means getting hot for a few months), the Sox aren't as far out of it as they ended up. Going forward, you have to hope Rodon continues to improve, and maybe Fulmer shows up and is as good as 2015 Rodon. That would put the Sox staff on par with the Mets. If they can add a few dynamic bats, who knows, maybe the Sox make a run next year. Baseball, like football and hockey, seems to be about getting hot toward the end of the season and making a playoff run. The Blue Jays were one of the best teams in baseball even before those moves the results just hadn't caught up to how they were actually playing on the field which happens sometimes in baseball. I do think those trades helped ignite the team on a hot streak though but Toronto even before those moves was significantly more talented than the White Sox. While people like to bring up the Mets adding Cespedes as the reason for the turnaround they really essentially turned over half their lineup at the deadline or around the deadline as they also got Wright back from injury in August, d'Arnaud finally got healthy at that time and they brought up Conforto.

So do the Cubs take down Schwarber's stupid NLDS home run ball from the scoreboard now that they didn't win the World Series this year?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 10:17 PM) They're going to have 2-3 days off at least, so you might as well. Gotta have your closer on the mound in the series clinching game. World Series doesn't start until Tuesday so they will have 5 days off if they clinch tonight.

Tyler Clippard is trash. I'd pull him right now (of course I never would have brought him in).

This has to be the most unlikely HR streak in MLB history. Daniel f***ing Murphy

Schwarber makes Avi look like Jason Heyward.

Huge to hold them to 1 run there.

Schwarber is not a major league outfielder. Cubs need to hope he can make it as a catcher or that the NL adds the DH.

Hammel isn't long for this game.

Clippard is terrifying out there. Nothing on his pitches.

Schwarber is brutal in the outfield

Travis Wood is totally 2005 Neal Cotts. Garbage pitcher who people can't make contact off of for some reason this year.

Why the f*** is deGrom swinging 2-0 there and he swung at ball 3.

What a joke of a f***ing field. That is f***ing ridiculous.

Soler LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Lol. Such a bad at bat but works out for the Mets.

Conforto has looked bad in the postseason.

Hendricks is meat. I really don't understand how he doesn't consistently get hit hard.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 12:19 PM) The best part about the trailer is we still have no real idea what the plot is, and we haven't even seen the most iconic character from the series shown on screen. That's what a trailer should be. Yep. It does a great job keeping the plot under wraps but showing you the incredible visuals (without hopefully ruining the best set pieces) and introducing most of the main characters. Great trailer.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 11:10 AM) Is it wrong of me that I think Illinois can win 8 games this year? They've been hit with the injury bug big time this year, but they have played pretty solid all year minus one hiccup at UNC. It is going to be really tough with the injuries but every remaining game is winnable except for Ohio State so it is possible.

Kendrick Nunn to miss 8 weeks for surgery on his left thumb. At this point Groce should be fired simply because his luck is so bad. Thankfully it seems like the JCL injury isn't going to keep him out as long as people thought but right now at the start of the season you are looking at a rotation of something like: PG Tate/Lewis SG Jordan SF Hill/Williams PF Finke C Thorne/Morgan Yikes.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) I still think you pick the best player available. Very rarely do teams have more than 2 or 3 players in the same draft wind up with more than a 1.0 career WAR. This saving money for the 7th or 8th round I would bet hasn't been so fruitful. If from what we are told when we mention the Samardzija comp pick, that it is not so valuable, it has to be more valuable than the guys teams lowball their #1 pick to sign later, and lowballing a pick could mean you wind up with Mark Appel and not Kris Bryant, and Brady Aiken instead of Carlos Rodon. While a couple of people here say it was no big deal, if the White Sox did that, it would mean everyone who has ever even thought about working for the White Sox should be fired. They didn't lowball when they drafted Appel. They just flat out missed that pick. And going low worked great for the Astros in 2012 when they got Correa with the first overall pick and then were able to get McCullers with their compensation pick. Last year I would have taken Rodon if I was them but there were a lot of people that loved Aiken. It just sucks for the Astros that he has elbow issues. I agree with you that passing up on a premium talent to save money is in most instances is a mistake but I don't think that is really what happened in the Astros' case.