Jack Parkman

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 30, 2017 -> 03:19 PM) May needs AAA time. Now. May is 25. He's not a prospect, IMO. Way too overmatched at the MLB level.

With my previous post, I should have said that that wasn't my opinion, it was Manuel's. I believe that some of those guys are going to start. Biggest hope for starters right now are Lopez and Fulmer, I believe Giolito can start if he can repeat his delivery after making adjustments. The sky is the limit with him if he can figure that out. Honestly, If Giolito can separate performance from progress, I'd like to see him work with Coop for a bit like Fulmer did last year. Then he can go down to Charlotte again and iron out the kinks. It seemed to work really well for Fulmer last year. Both Giolito and the team have to know that he's going to take his lumps in the majors, and he's here to work with Coop. I know it wastes service time, but if it helps him become the best he can be, why not?

John Manuel from BA on H&R today basically said that none of the pitchers the Sox acquired this offseason are starters and none of the top guys are starters other than Spencer Adams, who is a fringe back of rotation guy. He tried to say it in the nicest way possible. Said command/durability/stuff are the reasons. Not what I wanted to hear.

Yes, Avi is hurt. Dude can't seem to catch a break. He goes on a tear and then gets hurt so he can't get anything consistent going.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 29, 2017 -> 08:46 AM) Ha! They are willing to spend money to go and blindly cheer for a team like the Bulls yet boo a guy most have never seen play? Not that is matters but I am taking names and notes of the past couple days. Mitch might not turn out but I want to know who's opinion I will no longer trust if he does LOL. Oh, come on. Nothing the Bears have done in the last 25 years has been accurate. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. I really liked Pace's drafts in 2015 and 2016. People blame him for White. That one I chalk up to s*** happens. Dude was injured in rookie minicamp. Not much you can do about that. I am complaining about Pace because I can't stand this draft. It is completely counter of my opinion on him. He's doing s*** that dumb GMs do. Inexcusable s*** that sets a franchise back half a decade. He talked about taking a QB every year, took one high...That seems completely counter to his opinions. I hope that there is a day where QBs are NEVER taken in the 1st round. The position is too much of a crapshoot. I don't care that a guy took Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning. It is pure dumb luck every time there is one that turns out, 2/3 of the QBs that won 4 Super Bowls are 3rd round or later picks, that tells me all I need to know.

Darling's UFA rights traded to CAR for a 3rd.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 27, 2017 -> 08:51 PM) It honestly sucks not being interested in watching the Bears. It's miserable. I know. It sucks not being interested in anything other than Baseball and Hockey currently. Bulls/Bears are both gawd awful organizations at this point.

The Browns have more of a clue than the Bears sadly. I hope for multiple blackouts so I can watch mediocre to decent football rather than crap on Sunday afternoons. Bears are a joke.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 27, 2017 -> 08:37 PM) You guys complain every year that they don't address the Qb position. They finally make a shrewd move to get one because if they didn't it's likely someone else was entertaining a trade with San Fran to get Trubisky, the guy Pace identifies as "the guy" and you all lose ur s*** over a couple third rounders. No, we're complaining because Trubisky sucks. So does Watson and probably Mahomes, Webb, etc. This is a horrible draft class for QB.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 27, 2017 -> 07:50 PM) Given that this is the NFL, I think it's far more likely that the Bears are just run by incompetents than Pace playing 12-dimensional chess. Yes. If I was George McCaskey I would have said "Ryan, who do you like for the 3OA?" And if he named any QB in this draft I would have said "get lost" and named an interim GM and traded the damn pick for $0.90 on the dollar just to save the embarassment. People are already calling the Trubisky move one of the worst moves in NFL draft history.

Guys, Giolito is tinkering with his mechanics. It is going to take him some time to get those ironed out. We all wanted a rebuild, we have to be patient. The good news is that he's striking out more batters in his last two starts, which, IMO means that his velocity is coming back. Once he gets his mechanics ironed out, then he can come up. He's showing signs of improvement, and Charlotte is a bandbox. I don't think he should come up until Sept. at the earliest, and maybe not until 2018, with the only exception being if they want him to work directly with Cooper and don't care about immediate results, and he doesn't either because both team and player knows it is a process.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 11:56 AM) Not really. If he goes 8 scoreless next outing he is already down to 4.60. Q has to turn in around in a big way in order to have his regular Q season, but he's had a couple stretches like this before. He'll be OK. This is true, but in order for him to normalize somewhat quickly, he'd have to go 15 IP with 1 ER, which he is capable of, but idk if he could pull it off. And that just gets him to 4.00 ERA.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 11:21 AM) I am not a math guy but I dont believe this is accurate. He has very little margin for error. Let's say Q averages 6 IP the rest of the season * 29 starts = 174 innings. He has 23.1 IP now with 16 ER. This is 197.1 IP on the season. Under 4.00 ERA in 197.1 IP= 87ER on the season. Just to get to under 4 ERA he has 71 ER left on the season, which means that he would have to give up an average of 2.44 ER/start.

Guys, It is going to be incredibly hard for Q to get his ERA below 4 this season, even if he's typical Q for most of the rest of the year. When you go through your first 4 starts with an ERA approaching 7 it is not easy to recover this season. We might be holding on to him until trade deadline 2018. Just be prepared at this point for him to start 2018 on the Sox.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 23, 2017 -> 11:42 PM) Jack, what is your field? You sound like a sharp guy. Cmon Soxtalk, let's get Jack a job. Jack, out of curiosity, you've been looking for five years. Where do you live? Are your parents freaked out? You might do what caulfield suggested and head overseas to teach a year or so just to end your slump. p.s. You said you can't even get a retail job. In five years, you couldn't get a retail job at all? No jobs whatsoever? QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 24, 2017 -> 12:09 AM) Nice post. You are doing well. Jack Parkman says he's been looking for a job for five years and can't even get a retail job. This is where I'd like more facts to delve more into the Millenial thing. What does that mean looking for a job for five years? Does that mean just in one city, one suburb? Does it mean bugging your college admins to start helping you? Having your college advisor tell you how to get a f***ing job? Again, five years looking for a job? Does that mean applying every day? Does it mean only applying for jobs you are not gonna get? In five years you could get another degree. I realizes it costs money, but again, I don't know how anybody can look for a job for five years. Will the government give food stamps to a person who is actively seeking work for 5 years? First off, I am high-functioning autistic so my problems start there. I have a BS in Chemical Engineering. I do work at a supportive position for those with autism but they want to help as many as possible rather than give their employees living wages. Understandable though. I have no complaints about where I work other than the pay. I have had to learn a bunch about workplace etiquette and other things about acceptable behavior in the workplace. Now that I have that knowledge, I have been looking but it is frustrating to fill out app after app that takes me 90+ minutes for not knowing whether it is worth my time and they will call me because of the ridiculous amount of industry related knowledge that I don't have that they want. About the Retail jobs, I have an issue getting past their initial screening process because my idea of what they want to hear in the personality tests and their actual ideas of what they want to hear don't match up. I had to have someone tell me what they wanted to hear when I got my only job in that field, and the tests are significantly harder to "beat" now for a non-neurotypical. Therefore, I am living at home and have pretty much zero earning power. I have to drive 100 miles round trip for a 5 hr day and that is all I have had for 4 years. The work is not consistent, and there are times where I spend 2 weeks without work. Honestly I'm just grateful that I have something to do, rather than nothing at all. I feel incredibly lucky that I live in a major metro area, where supportive employment exists. Most of the pressure comes from myself, rather than my folks because they know that it is hard for neurotypicals out there in my age group. Add in the autism and it makes it even worse. I hold myself to a high standard. I have an incredibly hard time learning from interview to interview because I can't read the interviewer based on voice tone and body language and without verbal feedback, I have no idea where my mistakes came from. It is like beating my head against a brick wall. Honestly, I have no idea when I leave one whether I did well or not. I have been using every resource available to me RE: Job coaching, mock interviews, University resources, bugging even the president of my university, complaining that I have been left behind. I network to the best of my ability at two industry societies but still nothing. I was starting with zero knowledge of the job search process when I graduated, so it has been a struggle to learn that over the last 5 years.

Guys, those who think that millenials are whiny entitled b****es have it all wrong. IMO it is the opposite. We're just looking for an opportunity to prove ourselves in any aspect. I have been trying to find a job for 5 years and can't even get a retail job, let alone one to support myself on. Companies will make any excuse not to hire a person 30 or younger, especially one who is down on their luck. I have gotten the following excuses for not hiring me: 1) "You're overqualified based on education" 2) "You don't have enough industry experience for this job" 3) You've been out of school too long" I have heard tons and tons of stories of those who have a college degree, even a tech degree, and can't find work for not months, but YEARS. I literally can't believe job postings where the title says ENTRY LEVEL on it but asks for 5+ years of experience or qualifications you can only get with at least 3 years of industry experience. What the guy said was right, that maybe 20-30% of people under 30 are going to be working. Literally, you have to be the best of the best in order to get hired now. If you have any flaw whatsoever, if there is any excuse that "business people" use to disqualify you from a job, they will use it. You have to be squeaky clean. Nothing going against you, god forbid you have a disability like I do. If it is this hard out there for the common twentysomething, how hard is it going to be for me, who has another hill to climb altogether? I feel a total and utter lack of control of any aspect of my life, because we are reaching a time when just wanting to work and working hard when you get there isn't enough anymore. You have to be incredibly driven, incredibly talented and incredibly disciplined in order to get anywhere. Otherwise you're going to be discarded from society, and viewed as a maggot or leech. I am of the belief that now, there aren't enough jobs period in this country for the population. Arguing over the potential for laziness or not wanting to do anything or entitlements is over. I really don't believe that people don't want to do anything ever, just want to hang out all day and do nothing productive. I've been there, and it is the most depressing thing ever. You have no value to anyone, and you question your very existence. We either need to solve the problem or face the collapse of our country.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 06:06 PM) Good you didn't see Moncada's stint in Boston last year. Besides his hitting, with his bad defense and mental errors you would have wanted him put on waivers. Moncada clearly wasn't ready, and was 21 years old with ~100 AB at the AA level. Anderson is different, He's got 400+ ML AB. I said he has to change his approach. I was criticizing his approach, not him as a player. He's fine as a defensive player and sure he could turn it around. I was going on the combo of stats+eye test. He looks awful at the plate. Sometimes I don't communicate what I want to clearly.

QUOTE (Username @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 05:45 PM) His hard contact rate was significantly higher than most elite shortstops in baseball last year. Over a way bigger sample size. Check out fangraphs if you don't believe me. Hitters go into funks. Did you ever play baseball? Ever have a bad game? Saying a small sample K rate doesn't fluctuate is among the dumbest things I've ever heard on this forum. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 05:46 PM) No they don't. Swings go awry, guys look awful. There isn't one player on the White Sox that won"t look horrible for at least a week this year. Prospects are suspects, but labeling after not even 7 games is ridiculous. Most young guys struggle a lot at some point. RE: Username, I read fangraphs religiously. That was one of the reasons why I was high on Anderson going into this season. I should have said that he sucks right now. He looks lost. As I am typing this, Anderson gets a hit. No, I didn't play baseball past 4th grade because I have some physical coordination issues that make it impossible to play such a game. I love sports, but I can't play because my hand-eye coordination is so bad due to the disability I have. I absolutely would have loved to have been an athlete as a kid, it just wasn't in the cards for me.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Apr 11, 2017 -> 04:08 PM) Ah yes. The only movie in existence where the Sox were portrayed as the defending AL champions. Yes. Good memories of when a rebuild that the Sox did actually worked. 93-94 was the culmination of that, even if I was a young child and they didn't pull off a WS with that group.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 05:33 PM) Yes, but I realize guys go through bad stretches. This is different, because bad stretches involve bad luck. When a hitter strikes out 33% of ABs in with no walks, in a 7 game stretch, it is more than a "bad stretch" it is being bad at hitting a baseball. Sure, he has 4 hits but until Anderson starts hitting it hard with more consistency, and making more contact, I am going to assume that he sucks. Hasn't your argument been that prospects are suspects until proven otherwise? I'm taking that approach. Yes, I wanted the rebuild but I'm not afraid to call a spade a spade. The losing that the Sox have done since 2011 will make it that much sweeter when they are winning again.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 12, 2017 -> 05:27 PM) Well if Anderson can be a bust 1 inning into the 7th game, Avi must be an MVP candidate. It is more the K% and lack of BBs. Also, I've been watching the games. Have you? Lots of swings and misses on stuff in the zone and out of the zone. Dude just seems lucky when he makes contact. Granted, it is very early but if the trends continue how can we argue that Anderson sucks? We have 3 years of evidence that Avi does, in fact, suck.

I really believed in Anderson but man does he suck. I don't see him doing anything ever without changing his approach, and if he doesn't that contract extension will be a huge mistake. It is one thing to be a free swinger, but it is another when you can't hit a fastball. Dude just looks lost at the plate.

Based on the weather, it may be that this is the only game we get in this series. 100% chance of rain tomorrow, 60% Thursday. Friday's series opener vs. the Twins is in jeopardy as well due to cold/wind.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 12:21 PM) I would be pretty certain that Coop has and will try this approach. What would make you think he hasnt or wouldnt? I don't think so because Giolito has done a bunch of interviews and has not mentioned it. Maybe they are waiting for him to have success first? I would hope that the AAA pitching instructor and Coop are coordinating this currently.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 11:57 AM) Why? Because it isn't that easy, or everyone would do it. I know that. But they should at least try. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But that should be the first course of action. If they get half of the velocity he lost back by doing that they won. I said that Giolito's mechanics are complex. I know that getting them exactly where they were will likely be very difficult. He is exhibit A for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"