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It's a total bullshit excuse. Give the most money, get the star 95% of the time.

Yea the bassist (who sang tonight) also is lead singer (he sang songs like Rock Show, Adams Song, some others), but the original guitar player (not there tonight) did leave the band and he too sang (he sang hits like All the Small Things). The new guitar player was/is in a "horror punk" band called Alkaline Trio, who I like. Blink 182 are just OK for me, a bit too poppy and clumsy for me, but they have some decent tunes and are kinda fun. This song tonight sounded like mopey modern pop music being shoved down our throats, but they were playing instruments tonight, usually it's keyboards and/or a computer. Whatever gets BANDS back on the scene is fine with me.

Can I ban moan yet

He’s terrified of losing his outlet to b**** relentlessly. It really is sad.

Just for fun, if you extend their performances for Aug/Sep to an entire season, here's what it would look like for Tim, Eloy, and Yoan: Tim- 138 Rs, 64 2Bs, 25 HRs, 64 RBIs, .368 BA, .384 OBP, .943 OPS Eloy- 102 Rs, 34 2Bs, 7 3Bs, 44 HRs, 129 RBIs, .317 BA, .349 OBP, .932 OPS Yoan- 118 Rs, 68 2Bs (!!!), 12 3Bs, 23 HRs, 101 RBIs, .364 BA, .406 OBP, 1.008 OPS

FTFW

Just because a lot of guys bust doesn't mean you don't want the opportunity. Odds are you'll find betters players higher than lower. That's why.

This old moron said that Sox fans have beer muscles and hinted that they won’t boo him in person at a game because they are afraid of him. I’m not sure how his comments can be defended. They were stupid. Like Jack Parkman, I would also be surprised if some other team’s pitching coach made comments this stupid about his team’s fans.

Not sure if posted, but by fangraphs WAR (fWAR), Moncada is the best baseball positional player in Chicago.

He threw the ball to the other team on the goal line. Pardon me if I object to that. Hope we didn't upset you Mrs Trubisky. I am sure Mitch is a fine young man. You should be proud. Have a great evening.

He was 21-25 or some shit at halftime and you two bozos are upset about some 5 yard incompletions Think about that

wow are people really in here talking about possibly getting Cole? sadists

If they're gassed after one 3 and out the coaches aren't working them hard enough. More likely they're gassed because of the drives they are allowingl

Yes they are. The defense just allowed a TD on a 97 yard drive to the Redskins. they must be the worst defense in the league. A good defensive wouldnt allow that to Case Keenum.

He made 1 bad throw. Jesus christ some of you really are the 11 pm 670 meathead callers

Stagnant? They drove the ball and Bisky threw a pick lol.

He stares down his target. He is inaccurate. Makes bad decisions. This is the Hallmark of bad qb play. Make all the excuses you want.

Trubisky is a soul crusher.

Contain your excitement!

LOL, you know I saw that and just got distracted and didn't change it. Reminds me of a paper I am having published where talking about species, I used the word "bread" instead of "bred". I did 10 proofs and never caught it, decided to give my paper one last go when I was on a train and saw it. Nearly cried it was so dumb.

I mean.. that post is literally nothing with what I said but ok.

The same team that barely lost to the Cowboys and Eagles FYI.

Now that was a hell of a throw.

Compared to week 1 and 2? Not nearly as bad.

Mitch executing well on the good opportunities so far

@Moan4Yoan Just take your L son. This looks like the Bears from last year. TOs and putting the ball in the fvcking endzone.

he gone

I wish the Bears hired John Defilippo as a QBs coach. He is fantastic with working with a QB's mechanics. Mitch desperately needs it.

You must have been the kid who wanted presents on their sibling’s birthday too.

He is giving you 2 TDs or more to get banned. I don't know. Seems like you are being a chicken shit with this.

One TD is a push for both of you though. Neither of you get banned.

Personally I think Lopez is a reliever but we'll see. Hopefully I'm wrong and he's more than that.

Alright boys...let’s win and win big on the road!!! Just do it!!!

Legitimate question: Why is anyone fascinated with Mazara? Baseball reference stats. .7 WAR. He is a slightly below league avg bat with negative defense. He is left-handed which is a positive but his walk rate has roughly gone from .06 to .05 to .04 which is exactly what we don't need. I see a poor glove, not great bat who strikes out a lot and doesn't walk. Also, you have to give up something for him. Calhoun 2.5 WAR, better defense, walks at nearly.09 rate, also lefty. OPS better than league avg 112. negative k's more. One year left on deal at 14 million. Angels up against spending limits so may get for salary relief as they have a high prospect ready. Prior to hot streak there was talk he could be released for $ savings.

Now 15th in fWAR, has passed Devers and Acuna Jr, among others. 14th in wRC+ at 142. Plus a solid glove, good baserunning = superstar.

Putting any blame on catchers is a pretty big cop out IMO. Thor did it with the Mets, then backtracked a bit, but if he doesn't know what he wants to do and thinks it's all up to the catcher how he performs, he should give some money back. The ultimate responsibility for what pitch is thrown and location is either on the pitcher or the bench if the bench is calling the game which several do.

It's no different than any other form of white-collar fraud. Bernie Madoff is in jail, the people that run these things should be too. The bolded is too much to ask. The average person is really stupid. Sometimes, you have to protect people from their own stupidity. People should not be allowed to get super rich running a scam like this. It's criminal. White collar crime is a huge problem and much of it has become legal. They're just stealing a piece of the pie that everyone should be getting. I don't think this is an extreme viewpoint at all. I think it is common sense. It already walks on the borders of legality. Let's just put it on the other side where it belongs. If you want to discuss further, take it to PM.

In 1988, a top aide to George Bush took Bush to a mountain retreat to get away from the media during the Democratic National Convention. The aide thought Bush didn't need to hear all the political attacks during those four days. The Bush campaign, as would any campaign, no doubt monitored the convention as they did all their political opposition. But the candidate didn't need to do that. It is tough enough running for president and staying on message without getting too distracted by foes and critics. I am sure that someone in the White Sox organization monitors the internet and social media for various reasons. But top front office people shouldn't do that nor should the manager, coaches and players. It is tough enough to compete at the major league level without getting distracted by fans lashing out. Praise and criticism will eventually find its way to the team; you don't need to go looking for it. Secondly, it is bad PR for Cooper to argue and fight with fans especially when the team is losing. In addition to rebuilding the team on the field, the franchise needs to rebuild its fan base. They won't do it this way. Any rebuild is hard. It takes a long time, and there is so much losing. There is bound to be hurt feelings on all sides. If I was Cooper, I wouldn't obsess about social media. There are plenty of challenges ahead without worrying about this stuff.

I think instead of making these comments,a guy like Cooper should just ignore the tweets he doesn’t like or twitter in general. What do they expect? If twitter was around in his heyday, you would be able to find thousands of tweets saying Michael Jordan is worthless. Take a franchise that has struggled for over a decade, and that is only going to be multiplied.Maybe even try winning to shut them up. it appears Don Cooper scours twitter either to find stuff praising him to satisfy his ego, or to look for stuff to b**** about. Does he even have a twitter account?

I don't pay attention to Sox stuff on twitter or facebook. So I'm not really sure what he speaks of. Here on soxtalk and another message board I post on...I think Sox fans have been remarkably forgiving considering much of the incompetence over the last 10 years. The last 10 years have been so bad, that they should be grateful that there's still people out there who care.

Ozuna and Castellanos are also not RF. Ozuna has had a bad year, so hard pass, and Castellanos is Eloy in RF. I'm interested in Castellanos, but only as a DH.

Madrigal will help the K%. Full year of Collins (and Vaughn when he gets here) will help the BB%. I expect Eloy to walk more next season and probably Moncada too. I'm probably one of the few that doesn't want Abreu back (mostly because of how Ricky will continue to bat him 3rd, play him way more than he should at 1B. I won't even count his baserunning, baseball I.Q., etc in this) but I know he will be and hopefully he becomes more disciplined as a hitter knowing he has protection around him.

No, I want managers and coaches who aren’t morons. Renteria and Cooper can hit the road.

That is really disturbing.

Read some of the other posts. Not everybody agrees with the tanking philosophy and not everybody likes advanced stats and the reliance on HRs nowadays. Learn some patience, dissenters. Not everybody has to agree with you. Some of us have different viewpoints, such as El Rockin.

Sports leagues can fix it if they want to. Just throw all non playoff teams names in to a hat and randomly pick the draft order. Stop rewarding teams that lose on purpose. But they won't do that for some reason.

So you say tanking works all the time? I think it's needlessly painful for fans and an excuse for organizations to make a lot of cash. I hate tanking ... sorry. I think it's un-sportsmanlike. You are supposed to try to win.

Yep. It probably has something to do with the amount of playoff appearances in the last 50 years.

Well that's not how the Sox operate. We will offer a deal that has quite the bounty of performance based bonuses that we will pitch against guaranteed offers that are longer and more lucrative. We will then chase this guy hoping that he sees the future bucks are actually better than guaranteed money. We will be razor focused in our pursuit. Once he signs elsewhere Kenny will act shocked. We will then go for a retread that had a pedigree and tell the fans to believe in the process.

I'm kinda with @Look at Ray Ray Run I think Fangraphs is evaluating defensive floors wrong and over valuing their contribution. There's no way Yolmer's 650 OPS carries him into average starter territory. That said I have no real evidence of that but it doesn't seem that clubs value all glove guys like Yolmer as average regulars. Super subs sure. But 2 WAR is basically an average regular and he's not that imo. Eh, he's only been +6.7 runs (accounting for defensive spectrum adjustments) and 1 fWAR with his shitty wRC+ of 75 this year. So maybe my concerns are overblown. Yolmer's problem is that he was a 95 wRC+ hitter on the rise with a great glove 2 years ago. His overall play has declined greatly from his age 24 season, which is puzzling in many ways. I do think PEDs might have played a role and he stopped using them once he was an established regular.