Rowand44

It is what it is but Avi's ops is just plummeting right now.

Daryl Van Schouwen‏Verified account @CST_soxvan 2m2 minutes ago Looks like Quintana, who is out of the inning, might have told Sanchez he struck him out two times. If we trust my lip-reading skills.

QUOTE (reiks12 @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 08:21 PM) QUintana was chirping there, what was that about I'm not watching but looking at gameday it appears that Joe West still f***in sucks.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 08:02 PM) Two biggest scouting blunders for me over last decade: - hoping Sox wouldn't draft Trout because he was too much like Rowand - being against a Q to NYY trade for Judge, Severino and more this past offseason My bad You wouldn't have taken an Aaron Rowand career from where the Sox were drafting that year?

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 07:44 PM) Time to sell high on Avi. Every time I think he's about to completely tank he goes on about a week long crazy hot streak. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about selling high on him if you can, I'm just intrigued to see how he reacts to this super cold streak.

QUOTE (Scoots @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 07:56 PM) Perfect thru 3 Minus the walk.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 26, 2017 -> 11:59 AM) I'm sure most of us know, but here is the s30 cast. Guy cast looks good but where are Emily and Ev? They retire? http://www.mtv.com/news/3018210/challenge-xxx-dirty-30-cast/ I'm guessing Emily doesn't want to do it these days but that's a complete guess on my part.

Maybe they made that trade so we can all agree on something?

Blah. Ok then.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jun 22, 2017 -> 10:23 PM) And now the Bulls are trading him to Golden State. YOU'RE AN IDIOT BADGER!!!!!

Zoom I completely agree with you on DSJ and completely disagree with you on Monk, just wanted to throw that out there.

Good call Badger.

Jimmy and Wiggins are kind of an odd fit playing side by side.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jun 22, 2017 -> 09:26 PM) I think what hurts the most is they somehow had to give up No.16 to get the trade done. That's like in the "Rebuild 101" handbook, don't trade 1st round picks when you're rebuilding. Acquire more picks. This I completely agree with.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 22, 2017 -> 09:23 PM) Hmm, seems like it's pretty simple to me, Row. This isn't the NFL. You trade what you have of value now for something that potentially has more value in the future. Otherwise, it's not worth doing. You seem to be arguing that the fact they will now be worse than before is somehow value that can be attributable to this trade? If we're going this simple with this then yes, this trade in my mind has the chance to make the Bulls better in the long term. Obviously I don't know if it will but I'm willing to take that chance when I know they weren't going anywhere pre trade.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jun 22, 2017 -> 09:12 PM) That really isn't the right way to look at it, is it? It can absolutely hurt this franchise if they didn't make the trade count. It needed to be a HR. I'm happy the Bulls picked a lane too, one fans can get behind (the similarities to the Sox is scary) but unlike the Sox who had Sale, Eaton, Q, Robertson, ect. to start the process, but the Bulls had 1 piece of value. Just 1. They couldn't afford to screw it up. It kinda looks like they did. Not in my mind. We did this dance last year and it seemed like the best offer out there was the Minny one, same thing this year so I don't really see why it'd change next year. We could just keep on hanging onto him and staying around .500 for the next few years because we don't think we're getting full value for him which apparently isn't out there. That hurts this franchise a lot more in the long run in my mind than taking a chance on something like this.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 22, 2017 -> 08:55 PM) I mean, as a fan of the White Sox, you don't see the benefit of getting off on the right foot with a rebuild? This was their only opportunity, and they seem to have completely blown it... I really don't get the first line as comparing baseball trades/rebuilds to basketball ones is just a completely different thing. And we have no idea if they f***ed this up. People wanted the world for Butler and most teams just weren't going to give that up. Boston reportedly wasn't going to trade the 3 pick or the Nets pick next year for him and it doesn't appear there were other teams out there willing to throw a kings ransom for him. They got a guy who has a chance to be really good in Lavine, Lauri despite this board not liking him has a chance to be a pretty good offensive NBA player and maybe they're awful enough this year where they get a top 5 pick next year and get a franchise player. Obviously everything I just said could go the complete opposite way and that's the beauty of a rebuild. This franchise wasn't going anywhere with Butler so to me there's nothing to lose even though of course I would have liked to get more in a deal for him.

Here's my thoughts since everyone is going to disagree with me: I hated giving up the 16 pick and if we would have made this same deal last year we probably would have had a top 3 pick in this draft instead of possibly getting one next year. As is, I'm happy they picked a lane even though they didn't get full value for Jimmy. Trading him isn't going to hurt this franchise that was going no where with him anyway.

It's Lauri guys. Woj is like 8 picks faster than the broadcast ha.

It's funny cause if he made this deal last year we would have been s***ty enough to grab a pick higher than 7 ha.

It's Lauri

Lavine was starting to play real well before he got hurt so I'm happy to get him. Would have been real happy with this if we didn't include the 16. Oh well, at least they're trying something.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 07:32 PM) Do you put ketchup on your steak too? I don't but I wouldn't be opposed to it!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 20, 2017 -> 10:15 AM) Ketchup on a hot dog is disgusting, but I tolerate people that do that. People who put ketchup on a brat on the other hand, well, they scare me. I also put ketchup on my brats. And you're disgusting!

Love me some guac and avocado. Also the hotdog on ketchup police are the worst. It's delicious and I don't care that it's not Chicago of me or whatever.