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QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 21, 2015 -> 06:25 PM) Feel like if Cubs win tonight this series is going 7. Haven't seen much of Matz this year. Sure because they have shown a propensity to hit the Mets pitchers this series.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 09:35 PM) It sucks his tenure with the team he grew up with was so bad. I really hope he doesn't hate the Sox forever now. He was paid a kings ransom to pitch and he didn't do a good job at it this year. As long as the checks cashed he should be happy.

Ah the cubs and their s***ty weeds on the walls.

#flytheL #themetsarebetter

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 01:27 PM) It looked like Goins called him off. Goins was waving his arms calling him off and then pulled off last minute. Joey Bats slowed down, it was a loud stadium. Joey did the right thing.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 10:05 PM) Sox should sign Murphy. A 30 year old lefty from the NL. What could go wrong.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) I really like the Mets chances based on their pitching and i think Mets hitters match up well against cubs pitching. With Harvey going in game 1 I wouldn't mind seeing Colon for game 2 with Snydergaard for game 3 and DeGrom game 4. With Colon throwing much slower than the other three it could throw the cub hitters off for game two. Go Mets! Harvey G1 Syndergaard G2 DeGrom G3 Matz G4 Harvey G5 Syndergaard G6 Degrom G7

This is insane.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 05:43 PM) If that's the rule, then yeah. Choo had no intention of blocking the throw. © He interferes with the catcher’s fielding or throwing by stepping out of the batter’s box or making any other movement that hinders the catcher’s play at home base. EXCEPTION: Batter is not out if any runner attempting to advance is put out, or if runner trying to score is called out for batter’s interference. Rule 6.06© Comment: If the batter interferes with the catcher, the plate umpire shall call “interference.” The batter is out and the ball dead. No player may advance on such interference (offensive interference) and all runners must return to the last base that was, in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference. If, however, the catcher makes a play and the runner attempting to advance is put out, it is to be assumed there was no actual interference and that runner is out—not the batter. Any other runners on the base at the time may advance as the ruling is that there is no actual interference if a runner is retired. In that case play proceeds just as if no violation had been called. If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing before the catcher has securely held the ball, it shall be called a strike only (not interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner shall advance on the play.

MLB really needs to do something about the quality of umpiring. We have egomaniac jackasses who think that the game is about them. And then we have 3 blind mice making s*** up as it goes.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:56 PM) I'm predicting a busy offseason because they have to have one. I expect a new 3B, SP, C and an impact bat. Preferably RF. Well we had a pretty busy offseason last season. How did that work out. We need to build this the right way. Wasting draft picks and playing the reload game every year is going to hamstring this organization into a perennial 75-83 win organization.

I wonder if this slows up the nonstop world series coverage at Wrigley. LOL

Whomever they trade Q for needs to be a success. This is a valuable trading chit. Look at what the A's gave up last year. Russel would look really good right now on the southside. Thats the type of player that needs to come across. Q has amazing value now and we need to maximize it. No aging players, no one tool guys. Something that can project to be in the lineup and making an impact for years.

We seem to have an issue with scouting not only other organizations but our own. We hold on to players too long. We promote flawed players who either strike out at a large clip or show a single tool "Power" or "Glove". This is either because we are hoping to showcase them to other teams or we believe that these flaws will disappear. We fail to examine the numbers and use small sample sizes to evaluate if we are all in ( See this years trading deadline ). And in the end we worry about short term attendance over the long term health of the organization. During the late 80s we were terrible and used our draft position to select some franchise changing talent. Instead of continuing on this model we injected some recognizable players to help feed the attendance stream ( still horrible attendance ) while milking the rebuilding process along. The problem is the players have not really panned out overall. We need to draft advanced bats in the next couple of drafts. We need to start to evaluate our scouting department because outside of pitching something is horribly wrong. We look at teams like the Dodgers, RedSox and Angels. They historically draft later in the rounds and still load up on talent. We now have draft position. There is no reason we are wasting potential draft picks on FA pick ups. We need to reload our minor leagues and build something sustainable. We need to have talent to either add to the major league roster, or utilize in trades to bring in areas we do not have. Either way the continued method of putting out bad to mediocre teams is a franchise killing operation. We need to break this cycle of circling the toliet and come up with a game plan. Its that or we are stuck in the 70'ish win territory for a while hoping that a miracle happens and we have a weak division.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:58 PM) How's is that inconclusive? Puck was in net and then you blew the whistle. No point in having replay if they cant figure this s*** out. He was waving his arms and blowing his whistle as the puck was in the net.

f***ing Ref.

Keith has been sloppy this game.

Now that they have clinched a spot. We can await the pageantry of the parade of goats dead or alive to Wrigley as morons attempt to break a make believe curse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2015 -> 02:59 PM) I think the idea is that this was some whistleblower who knew about the tampering and wanted to alert the victim. Maybe the girls attorney used google and bought it online and planted it himself to make people like you believe in a conspiracy theory. See how insane that sounds. Just about as bad as some random whistleblower doing it this way. http://www.crimescene.com/store/index.php?...;products_id=93

QUOTE (LDF @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 04:24 PM) a question, was Adam LaRoche signings .... was that a kw or hahn doing??? Do you have to even qualify this. Older, NL based power hitter who is a lefty. Signed to be a DH. Sounds familiar huh.

He will be 34 year old next year. The Sox typically hold on to players a year or two too long. This smells of that. Let him go and bridge to Anderson.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 08:03 PM) The Sox can't develop hitting anyway, even if they had the #1 pick. They seem to do okay with pitching prospects.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 03:40 PM) I'd end the Olt experiment early. So you want to have our players choke up on the bats like its little league and bench a player we just picked up from playing in meaningless games in September. These are gems Greg.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 9, 2015 -> 10:41 AM) How dare anyone not appreciate terrible rape jokes about an ongoing tape investigation How dare anyone convict someone without a fair trial. Have you sent your apologies to the Duke Lacrosse team yet. A nice card, some flowers, maybe a hey I am sorry I got that one wrong.