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QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 03:33 PM) I make no sense? I'm not the one clamoring about how a player COULD have hit had he played. And you refer to me as Nostradamus? Again, you're complaining about an MLB player only hitting .240 while clammouring for a player that hit AAA pitching to the tune of .199 claiming he could have hit better at the MLB level? Going back to ST, Gillaspie is a lefty batting in a lefty deficient lineup as well as having over 450 plate appearances in 2013, Davidson to Charlotte made perfect sense. Davidson was sent down with the intention of likely calling him up at some point given injuries happen ( and did to Gillaspie) and players struggle. Problem is that Davidson went to Charlotte and s*** his pampers. If in fact Davidson was dissapointed over being sent to Charlotte to start the season then that's his fault because nobody from the Sox front office ever said Davidson WOULD make the MLB roster out of ST. Believe it or not I like Davidson and since he's only 23 I've not given up on him but he has plenty to work on yet. Plate discipline and pitch recognition are the first things that come to mind. You either have a problem reading, or comprehending.. I don't know which one it is. I never "clamored" how Davidson could have done. Ive said multiple times we will never know how he would have done because he didn't get the opportunity to. For a team that knew they were going to be throwing away 2014 and rebuilding, what sense does it make to play Gillaspie fresh off his .245 season with no real attractive tools over Davidson when you look at what he did at the end of 2013 plus ST (Where he batted quite well). If he stunk it up in ST, I could understand that. Its not about what I think he would have done, he should have been given the opportunity based of the teams situation and the fact that Gillaspie is nothing more than a situational player and will never be anything more than that. .245 hitter last year, .267 hitter this year outside of 2 months. Guy cant play everyday, sorry, but that's FACT.

Oh, and in before captain hindsight comes in here and says "but they made the right call"

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 02:26 PM) This is again based on YOU and your opinion which, as a fan, is irrelevant. If Davidson struggled to hit AAA pitching then how in the hell do you figure he hits MLB pitching. You're making zero sense. Oh yeah, I'll .267 from Gillaspie at the MLB level as opposed to Davidson whopping .199 at AAA. Again, you make zero sense. Davidson has zero track record of not being able to hit AAA pitching until this year. He also hit when he was called up for Arizona last year. Please nostradamus, explain to me how you know whether or not Davidson would be having the same results at the MLB level as he is right now in AAA. You cant, because we don't know that. Thus, you make no sense. What I do know is, based off of his call up last year and how he played during spring training, Davidson should have been playing 3B for the Sox. The Sox, who were entering a throw away year that they knew was going to be for rebuilding, and instead tossed a .240 hitter out there at 3B instead of a prospect who showed nothing that would make you believe he wasn't ready. Also, im not sending a letter to the White Sox organization requesting Gillaspie not be starting on this team next year. That's my personal opinion I am sharing with the board, what the f*** are you talking about bro?

QUOTE (Señor Ding-Dong @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 01:22 PM) I think he's the same guy who said Davidson should have been the starting 3B all year despite flopping in AAA. I think he's just a huge Davidson fan, therefore he dislikes Gillaspie. Davidson should have started the year in Chicago at 3B. Him flopping in AAA is irrelevant because had he started in Chicago we would never know how it would have turned out. Just because I didn't get a boner when Gillaspie hit .394 for one month doesn't mean I have some hidden agenda against him. BTW, hes only hit .267 since June 1st, so hes been pretty mediocre for a lot longer than just after the all star break.

QUOTE (The Wiz @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) The only thing is that he was actually pretty solid for the first 4 months of the season so even if he doesn't finish strong, he was still good for over half the year which led to those good numbers. I don't have a problem with Gillaspie being a part of the team, I don't want him to be a starting 3B or DH for this team though.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 12:32 PM) I'm sorry it means nothing to you, because it's actually his current batting average and it does a better job of telling the whole story than the 42 games since the break in which you're placing so much stock. If we're gonna rely so much on monthly splits, he also had months at .302 and .264 alongside the .330 and .394, so now we're looking at one month under .250. Evidently that's the only one that counts. This reminds me of people arguing that John Danks isn't so bad if you ignore his five or six worst starts. It's true, but those starts happened, they're part of the record, and now they're data points for trying to predict future performance. Same thing here with Gillaspie. Could he hit .250 for the rest of his life? Absolutely. He could also hit .300. An objective guess is probably right in the middle. I agree he shouldn't face lefties, there's no argument, but I quibble with the statement that he has no power. .138 ISO puts him 91st of 152 qualified hitters. You can do a lot worse. Right, so a guy hits .450 the first month of the year and then .200 the next 5 months and you look at his avg and see .280 and go "that guy can play". That's not how it works. His month of .302 is much more likely to happen then the .330 and .394 months. Just like I wouldn't expect to see many .177 months like you pointed out earlier. Im not going to look at his season avg and make an overall judgment on him, especially when you consider the ridiculous avg he put up WAY early in the season. Baseball is quite possibly the only sport where a superior month can make your end of year stats look pretty solid even if you were pretty bad the rest of the rest of the season.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 11:11 AM) His time in the majors includes 29 games in SF that you can basically write off, one year with the Sox at .245, and 80% of another year at .295. He was consistently in the .280-.290 range in the minors. Looking at that and penciling him in as a .250 hitter for life seems like an unfair assessment to me. Why isn't his .177 last June an outlier? That month pulled his end-of-season average down 12 points. You can always find weird months. Bottom line, he's hit .270 as a White Sox and I don't understand what makes 2013 the real Gillaspie and 2014 the fluke. Him being at .295 right now means nothing to me. He started the season unbelievably hot and has since faded into a .240 hitter since the all star break. I don't care if his avg ends up being .290 because that doesn't tell the whole story. Its inflated from two months of hitting .330 and .394, numbers that he has a good chance of never reproducing. Its more telling that he hit .245 his first year with the sox, and has hit .240 since roughly the first half of the season. I don't think its unfair at all to view him as a .250 hitter. If hes going to help this team its going to be as a situational player against RHP, I don't care to see him as a starting 3B or DH. He doesn't have any power, and outside of a few months hasn't really shown to be an everyday bat. 2014 first half Gillaspie was a fluke, his second half numbers seem to be more indicative to the kind of player he really is. I don't think that's an unfair assessment at all.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 10:40 AM) It's best to say that he's good against RHP and virtually useless against LHP. It's the best simple way of defining his body of work in the majors thus far. Cant argue that.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 09:48 AM) A lot of teams play matchups with their DH now. It might be the better way to build a roster if you're lacking David Ortiz or Victor Martinez to just plant in the lineup and mash. Why are you so convinced Gillaspie is a .250 hitter? Why are you so convinced hes not? Just look at his body of work over his time in the majors. Im not going to look at a month of hitting .394 and say the guys awesome. He hit .245 last year and has hit .242 since the all star break. He had two months where he hit .394 and .333, those are outliers.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) As a starting DH against RHP, he's just fine. His defense doesn't hurt you and he's solid offensively. If he can even be average offensively at 3B, he's probably a 2.0 WAR player, which is valuable enough. I do agree he shouldn't be starting full time, but if he gets all of the starts against righties, I wouldn't be upset. Yes, but my thinking was id hope we wouldn't have to play match ups with our DH

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 11:28 AM) Got excited to play Madden 25 again last night. Spent 20 minutes updating the rosters to this year and getting my franchise set up. Played approximately 1.5 quarters of a game before broke ass Madden came back and I turned it off. Near the start of the game I had an awesome, wide open screen play with Forte. One defender within 25 yards, Forte behind 2 lineman......neither lineman blocked the defender, 4 yard loss. This happened twice. On defense, I had several opportunities to sack the QB, but the player - my human controlled player - inexplicably bumped into the QB but refused to tackle him with his arms, despite my frantic button pushing. QB got away. On several other plays, the computer RB would break 8 tackles in a 5 yard area by the line of scrimmage. When i'm the RB, one guy with a finger can bring me down. I quickly turned that s*** off. Madden f***ing blows. Every game I have gotten in the last 10 years has blown. I don't know why every 2 years I get excited about it when I know i'm ultimately going to get upset and quit playing. Thats because Madden 25 wasnt that great. Madden 15 is awesome though, you should try that.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 09:20 AM) He's perfectly fine against RHP. He's virtually useless against LHP. Hes perfectly fine as bench player and a guy to start against RHP. Not as a DH for a team that's trying to contend. Hes a .250 hitter with no power. Its cringe worthy to think about him as the DH next season. I would absolutely rather have Dunn.

Gillaspie has been hot garbage since the all star break, yet is continually praised as some great player around here. Slow clap for his surge to begin the year, now everyone take a step back and realize hes not that good and what we've got from him recently is more what he is than the .330 hitter to start the year.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 09:58 AM) Ghostbusters has been re released in theatres. Never saw it on big screen. Just as a kid on VHS. Nothing else out looks good. Saw it Monday night at the movies. Pretty nice.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 2, 2014 -> 08:51 PM) A few friends wanted to put together a league for fun (loser has to post some sort of pic to facebook)....Waited far to long on RBs so I just drafted a s*** ton of em. QB- Cutler WR- Bryant WR- Cobb RB- Vereen RB- Tate TE- Graham Flex- Allen Flex- Bell D- Denver K- Novak WR- Tate, Hunter RB- MJD, P. Thomas, F. Jackson, West No backup TE/QB cuz you guys told me not to lol. Nice team, PPR I assume?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 2, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) I am so annoyed. My 2nd league (I have 1 serious league and then 1 league with coworkers) had the draft moved up to yesterday and I never pay attention to emails (especially over holiday weekend) so I woke up this morning to Cam as my starting QB, who I would have never taken had I been in charge. And this is from a guy who likes Cam a lot but I just have a lot of concerns about his fantasy abilities given his bum ankle and the fact that they have zero wideouts. I do have Olsen which is nice cause he should get a ton of targets. Going to be looking to trade for a new QB (preferably Stafford). Team is still solid and the money is usually made on being sly in terms of pick-ups, who you play / sit, etc. I've learned that the more I've focused on the week to week moves, etc, the better my squads have gotten over the years. I'm probably just as lousy of a drafter as before so it might be better when a computer picks for me as it takes my biases out of the situation. Got me some Julio Jones in my 1st league, which I am excited about as I think he's going to have a breakout year. Julio / Dez as my top wideouts is nice but Bush is my top back (betting on a big year out of the Lions offense). I'm tempted to grab and tash Eben as I think he might have a big potential for TD's. I don't think Cam has any less weapons than hes had in the past, bottom line is hes been a top 5 fantasy QB every year hes been in the league. I wouldn't feel too bad about him.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 1, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) So, Rusev and Lana are a real life couple. Son of a. Punk is pussed that pictures from his wedding, that he posed for, are on the net. Get over yourself. It's not like it's a nude or something. I use to really enjoy CM Punk, but man that guy is the definition of a douche bag.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 11:29 PM) They might have the best defensive line in all of football, so it probably wasn't the best landing spot for him. Which only helps support what I said earlier. My conspiracy theory is Goodell asked Fisher to draft him as a favor so the NFL would look good

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 05:49 PM) I've never spent money on DLC or in-game purchases until I started playing Madden Ultimate Team this year. I had $10 lying around in my PSN wallet that I didn't know about, so I spent that on 7 packs. Then I had a $20 credit from Amex and bought a $20 PSN card from Amazon. So technically I haven't spent much of anything, but that's still $30 I just gave to EA. Ive spent about $50 on ultimate team so far. My wife is going to kill me if she notices the charges on our account.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 10:32 PM) The Rams will not sign free agent DE Michael Sam to their practice squad. Sam cleared waivers Sunday. St. Louis will announce its ten-man practice squad on Monday, and Sam won't be on it. The 249th overall pick in May's draft played well enough in preseason games to earn a look elsewhere, but to this point Sam has generated no known interest since being waived by the Rams. Source: Mike Silver on Twitter This to me pretty much says the Rams used one of their 3 7th round picks as a favor to draft Sam with no real intentions of keeping him on their roster in any form.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 03:13 PM) What does "domestic abuse offenses" entail? If I had to guess I would say they are just using domestic violence because of the ray rice thing but this would have to be all kind of assault right? 6 game suspension for shoving your wife at home, what if I punch some woman I just met at a club? Nothing?

The alert I got from ESPN says 2nd offense is a lifetime ban, and what I read on ESPN right now says that after 1 year they can apply for reinstatement with no assurance a petition will be granted. How many people are banned for life by the start of next season? Ill put the over under at 4.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 01:34 PM) New NFL policy on domestic abuse offenses: 1st one: 6 games 2nd one: Possible lifetime ban Goodell admitted he "Didn't get it right" with Rice. Oh boy, players are going to be dropping like flies

QUOTE (Sonik22 @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 01:03 PM) Buddy offered me Tavon Austin and Fred Jackson for Lamar Miller, thoughts? Tavon Austin, from what ive seen, is a guy that's not even getting drafted. Not sure how much value you have there with Shaun Hill at QB in St. Louis now. Fred Jackson and Lamar Miller are pretty much even to me, difference being Fred Jackson will have to fight off CJ Spiller and Bryce Brown while Lamar Miller only has to deal with Knowshon Moreno. Outside of last season, Moreno hasnt been that great of a back so I would prolly stick with Miller.

Definitely Dez