Y2Jimmy0

Some very sensitive folks in this thread. I'm glad nobody watches football with me......

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 01:32 PM) What do you expect him to say? I'd translate that as follow: Yeah, ya' know, Jeff sucked balls with us. But really, what'd we give up? A SS who isn't a SS that can hit a bit, but will never be even an OK defender. A back of the rotation pitcher who isn't that young that will likely be a middle reliever at best? Plus a C that Coop hates and our pitchers hated throwing to. Oh and we threw in this guy down in AA who supposedly can hit minor league pitching pretty well, but has no position or power. Yeah, I traded a bunch of leftovers for Shark, and Shark s*** the bed. Excellent post

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) Good to see this is what passes for journalism at the Sun Times now. The headline and Lede aren't supported by anything in the article. I see one attributed quote about his market -- from Hahn. That's one opinion by a guy that has a very vested outcome in seeing such a "robust" market form for Shark. I mean, FFS, at least get the pro-forma puff piece quote from an "un named scout" that "sees a fixable flaw" and a guy "ready to bounce back at a buy low price". Jeez. Thanks Hahn but I'm pretty sure not having Marcus and Bassit will affect the team going forward and that Jeff's awful season will impact the team in 2016. Hahn is already mastering KW style "cover your ass" quotes. They didn't think that Marcus and Bassitt were huge losses though. They decided that Samardzija (for 1 year)+top 30 2016 pick is better going forward than the 4 players that they gave up.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 12:56 PM) I heard that many, many closers are on the block. Wonder if Robertson is one of them. My guess would be no.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 12:49 PM) Agreed. With their surplus of prospects and position players I think you see the Cubs target someone like Tyson Ross or Carlos Carrasco who are really good pitchers and still have a good amount of team control left rather than spend $25 mil+ on Greinke or Price. I think they'll sign David Price and Denard Span and then trade for young controlled pitching.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 10:49 AM) Quintana would instantly become their #1, plus I'm sure Sox would add some top prospects to go along with it. They aren't exactly going anywhere with that pitching staff. Why would the Sox add top prospects? Arenado is the kind of guy I'd trade Q for. I'm not adding top prospects though.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 10:38 AM) I think Quintana + can get Arenado. Absolutely. Arenado is 24, put 4.5 fWAR and had a wRc of 119. He has 3 arb years left. He's a stud but he will not re-sign with Colorado and Q is also a stud on a great contract.

Bridge of Spies is excellent

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 09:31 AM) How is Nieto a free agent? He's on the 40 and has options left. He's not on the 40.

Could Nobuhiro Matsuda be an option at 3B? He's already 32 but has put up nice numbers in Japan. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/11/nobu...eda-timing.html Here's one of his homers:

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 07:42 AM) You think teams would want to try making trades for young cost controlled pitching before turning to free agent market giving out 9 figure contracts? Why? If I were a team with $$ I'd rather sign free agent pitching instead of giving up the prospects.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) No it wouldn't be plenty. The Sox don't need to trade the cost-controlled Quintana, so if they decide to do it I hope they can do better than guys who bring the serious questions that Baez, Soler, and Castro bring. Soler just had an Avi-like year. Baez will never strike out in fewer than 30% of his plate appearances; he'll have to run a .340 BABIP to be special. We know all about Castro's issues. I know they're young but it's still all a bunch of question marks. I want an exclamation point somewhere in a package for Q. I agree. Quintana package starts with Schwarber. Why would Cubs do that when they can just sign someone?

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 08:51 AM) Mark another team off the list: White Sox are not the winners in the Byung-Ho Park sweepstakes.. https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/663730120750837766 Well that was fun. Brewers make the most sense.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) The Brewers make some sense. Yes they do. Especially with Lind on the trade market supposedly. New, young GM that was in Oakland before. I could see it being them.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Nov 9, 2015 -> 08:24 AM) This is crazy. We should know in a few hours I'm guessing. Last year it was announced just before 10:30 in the morning

Until the Rockies are ruled out, I'm going to assume it's them. It makes the most sense.

With Josh Bell almost ready in Pittsburgh, I'll guess that it's Colorado for Park.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 8, 2015 -> 06:25 PM) Unfortunately, at this point, this is exactly the kind of deal we should be looking to make. No it's not. The names would be Bogaerts and Betts or they'd get hung up on.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 03:35 PM) Yeah I apologize for my stance if it offends. To be clear, I am OK with the legality of a male/male union or female/female union. All the same legal rights you get as if it's man/woman union. And I don't like the fact some bakeries or whatever don't want to make cakes for male/male weddings, etc. That's kind of silly. Just make the f***ing cake. Who cares what it goes for. Although it'd be pretty disgusting to make a Nazi cake or a White Supremists cake. You can see why the bakery owners are balking about this issue. What if the government law made you make a White Supremist cake?? I'd be sickened in the whole process. Some bakery owners want the right to pick and choose who they serve. I also am going against my Catholic religion in saying gays, of course, should be admitted to the church. Although my church quietly is going against Rome as in my church's bylaws it indicates ALL are welcome. Anyhow, I should be ashamed of myself I guess. But it's simple physics to me. A man/man are incapable of biologically having a baby; ditto woman/woman. If a man wants to be with another man for life, fine. But I don't think it should be recognizd as marriage because IMO at least, God didn't design it that way because if he wanted it that way you'd biologically be able to have kids. I don't think I'm a bad person but I just think the one thing gays should give up is the idea of official marriage. It's a partnership not a marriage. Sorry I currently feel this way. If it makes me horrible person, my bad. And now we are comparing people who are gay to White Supremacists and Nazi's? Would you sell cake to black people? How about people with down syndrome or autism? It's the same thing.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) Exactly. The odds are that a dominant young reliever is a lot more than the Sox will get from a comp pick. Sox should get someone at least as good of a prospect as Spencer Adams. Maybe even better. They'll have 2 top 30 selections. One at 10. Another in the late 20's.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 03:26 PM) Where the heck is Palatine? By Evanston? NW Burbs. Right next to Schaumburg.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) Yes. It'll be at Palatine then. St. Laurence is still in it. They are 5A

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 02:57 PM) Thank u. I watched the third quarter on. Nice six point win for Bro Rice. Looks like Palatine the 13 seed is stunning the 4 seed so Br Rice I assume gets to host the next game in the quarterfinals. that would be amazing to reach the Final Four. I can't imagine beating Loyola. They seem to be on another plane. Great job, though. Illinois State playoffs are tough. Lot of games compared to a s***ty little state like Kansas. Proud of the Rice kids though. They did a nice job today again. Who knocked St. Laurence out of the playoffs? They had a decent little team as well. Has Brother Rice played 2 home games already?

QUOTE (MDWhiteSoxFan @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 01:53 PM) It's been a while! But I would look into the likes of Ian Desmond and Asdrubal Cabrera. I feel Cabrera could man 3B potentially, or maybe Desmond can. I'm sure if not one of them could man 2B. I don't believe either are going to cost compensation so I would look at those 2 way before giving up a pick for Kendrick. Also I wouldn't touch Ian Kennedy due to the compensation. Another guy I wouldn't hate giving a short deal to is David Freese but he isn't sitting at the top of my list. Ian Desmond was given a QO. He'd cost a top 30 pick.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 12:51 PM) It's 17-14 in 2nd qtr. Both teams will put up 40. Greg, you can watch the game on The Cube online usually but this game isn't available. Pat Disabato is @disabato on twitter and is covering the game. Brother Rice wins 34-28