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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) Man you still don't get it. Digiornos doesn't have restaurants. Jesus Christ, I'm sitting here thinking about Giordano's and typing/reading DiGiorno LMFAO

At this point, I feel pretty certain that Leury Garcia would get more strikeouts against MLB hitters than Chris Beck

I wouldn't be able to argue with calling up Phegley, but I have a feeling his horrid D will offset any of the small gains at the plate. I'd rather see Kevan Smith, honestly, but that probably doesn't put him in a position to succeed.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 07:45 PM) I could see Saladino or Sanchez coming up to play 2B since Semien has been struggling so much Danks not doing to good this inning. Have to limit the damage I'd like to see Sanchez come up less because of Semien but because he's a really nice prospect who's hot.

Danks's high walk, low strikeout style is going to catch up with him at some point

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 07:18 PM) Beckham sucks against RHP, put Gillaspie 2nd.. He has struggled a bit but is still one of our better hitters this year.. He shouldn't be hitting that low when you have 2 guys in front of him that can't hit and have struggled way worse then Gillaspie As others have said, I think Beckham's status as trade bait is why we don't want to move him out of the 2 spot. Likewise, putting Gillaspie in the 2 spot behind Eaton is a recipe for disaster because it guarantees that Gillaspie sees LHP late in games and he is awful against lefties

Gillaspie bats lower because he has struggled lately and you want someone to bat in the middle of all those turds in the bottom of the order. It also doesn't hurt to ensure Abreu bats in the first inning

Eaton has been up and down offensively, which isn't super surprising to me as he had limited MLB experience coming into the year. His "injury issues" are completely overblown to me as he's had one stint of missed time for injury and seems to be playing uninhibited otherwise. I wouldn't mind seeing him swipe a few more bags but he hasn't really been excellent at that at other levels. What has completely surprised me is how great he looks defensively. For a guy playing for the first time in many of these parks, he looks awesome out there. I didn't really expect that.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 10:33 AM) LMAO, just admit it. You burned your pizza Went there for dinner one night. An hour and fifteen minutes after ordering, the server comes over and explains they just gave our order to a carry out customer. Would we like theirs? No. We wouldn't. Another hour later, we finally get our pizza and they give us a coupon for a free dessert. Since we wanted to get home before midnight, we didn't take them up on the free dessert.

If you guys are going to get this down on Eaton this quickly, you're just not going to enjoy being a baseball fan

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 06:20 PM) We get 50 GB thru Box for free. I'm no power user by any means, but no complaints. Yeah, Box is good in my limited experience.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) What online file storage set-up do people recommend? I'm looking for the simple ability to access documents from home, work, coffee shop, etc. These would be mostly Microsoft Office documents with some larger data sets as well. I don't plan on using it for photos, music, or video. I enjoy Drop Box's ease of use, but I do not really want to have to buy extra storage (my current storage needs are about 5-6 GB). I also could use Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive. I am leaning towards One Drive due to the relatively high free storage size, the fact that I am using Windows 7 and 8.1 on my computers, the apparently good file and folder syncing (as several reviews have pointed out), and the fact that my work might be moving to Office 365. I realize I'm probably way behind on this, so any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Thanks! I love OneDrive, but I run 8.1 on one of my machines (awesome integration) and use Office a lot. It's perfect for that. Recent updates have made it a lot better. The 1TB I get w/ Office 365 ain't bad, either. Dropbox is nice, but low starting storage and it's outrageously expensive in the current cloud market. QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 02:35 PM) You know how pro Google I am, and even I use Google Drive. I used Microsoft's for a while, but ... nobody else in this dimension uses it. Yes, I realize they tout like 5000000 million users, but I've never met a single person that uses it, so it's obvious those people live in a separate dimension. As for space requirements, don't worry, the space war will end up with everyone getting more free space from all of these services. I quit using Google Drive because of their horrible desktop sync software. Might not be that way on Mac, I'm not sure. I did a fresh install of Windows and had all ~50GB of my Drive files still on the HDD and found out that when reinstalling Google Drive, I had to either delete everything from the cloud and reupload or delete all the files on my HDD and redownload. This is after it refuses to install until I rename the current Google Drive folder, which I can't do without uninstalling Drive, since I can't change the name of the Google Drive folder when Google Drive is installed on the computer. Stupid. I found complaints on their customer forums dating back several years complaining about that exact thing. There's plenty of merit to Google's cloud and browser focus, but I need a desktop service and theirs sucks. It isn't that hard to get right, but they have to care.

Don't worry, Americans are still very much over-exuberant about the place they live. Far fewer than 78% can choose adequately what to do with their lives, but who would ever want to declare their own, single life one in which they couldn't do what they want? Us humans are good at telling ourselves that we did the right thing. I think if more Americans traveled outside the country we'd be much better off. We don't have to do exactly what the rest of the world does, but it'd be nice if the average person even knew what the rest of the world was up to.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 03:41 PM) LeBron to soon anounce his decision... Warning: The Borowitz Report is satire

Broussard on SC: I have word that Melo wants to make his decision by the latter part of this week *laughs*

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 01:15 PM) I'm upset we aren't courting Bosh. You never know if we aren't. I don't think I'd really want to do a S&T for him though

There's a lot of smoke to the Lebron to CLE stuff, but I don't see any reason to believe there's something done. Both Melo and LBJ seem to have the leaks on lockdown.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 10:54 AM) So a guy on July 8th hitting .200 with 101 strikeouts has conquered AAA. I realize the Sox minor league system has been weak, but this shows just how bad it is. Has he conquered the International League? Perhaps not. The facts are he was 18% more productive than the average hitter in the PCL last year and then he went up and played a month in the bigs in which he appeared plenty prepared as well. Everything about this season screams "external factors" and that now appears to be the case as he is figuring things out. I continue to think as I did before the season that the next logical step in his development is to play in the big leagues. Does that mean that he can't continue development in AAA? No. You can get better at baseball anywhere. Dealing with this adversity has already paid off, if you believe some of the things he's been saying. QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 11:04 AM) yep, and his numbers were inflated playing in a hitter's paradise last year in the PCL. This is why we have league-adjusted statistics.

Yeah, no thanks

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) So in one thread you blast the White Sox for "rushing" Mitchell, mentioning his k-rate. Davidson has a 31% k-rate and a .200 batting average and you want to see him up. This doesn't make any sense. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 10:09 AM) If you accept that the start of this season was an aberration for him and his June performance, which is much more in line with his career numbers, is him, then I would start being willing to see him up in August. Depends on what he does for July of course. Ding ding ding. I don't see his start to the year as a logical part of his development and I think what we've seen lately is more like the real guy. Remember, Jared Mitchell hadn't been productive with a serviceable contact rate in AAA and MLB before he was promoted. Davidson has conquered every minor league level. It isn't a matter of his development at this point, but rather whether he has snapped out of his slump.

FWIW, if I want to spend $10 million on FA and it's down to Lance Stephenson and Chandler Parsons, I'm going Parsons every time

Javier Baez at this point is vastly, vastly overrated. Highly questionable whether he can play MLB infield, very questionable if he can make enough contact to be anything but a late career Alfonso Soriano. Complete s***head on top of that. BA needs to temper their enthusiasm. Being in the presence of Kris Bryant doesn't cover up a player's flaws

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 12:07 AM) Did both you guys just completely ignore what I wrote? Firing them is the FIRST step. You can't fix it if you don't know what is wrong, because they are lying and covering it up.Then you put someone in there who WANTS to fix things, and doesn't give a s*** what group they piss off in doing so, be it unions or white collar management ( who can be made into ex-management). And then you fix it Fire people, reorganize, close certain buildings if needed. Money should not be the problem. Culture and a too large contingent of people not providing medical care most likely are. Money is clearly one of the problems and likely the driving force behind the toxic culture. There's no reason to lie about wait times if you have the resources to accomplish low wait times easily. There's no order of things. You fire people, you find new leadership, you find new mid-level people, you find new low-level people, you finally fund it, and you come up with contingency plans (vouchers?) during the phase-in of reforms. It doesn't matter what order you do them. Just do them.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 12:13 AM) Mike McGraw seems to think the lack of any word from Melo means a S&T is being worked on with the Bulls. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2014070..._medium=twitter Da f***? This guy is stealing my ideas

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 7, 2014 -> 09:45 PM) While I don't necessarily have a problem with these free agents taking their time with significantly important career and potentially life-changing decisions, the excessive media coverage is... ummm I think the Melo saga in particular has taken several turns based on absolutely nothing. Not a mis/overinterpretation of an event, but just speculation building off of itself