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QUOTE (fathom @ May 19, 2017 -> 09:02 PM) Morrison makes it look easy What's it like watching him? His box scores are like he's just feeding the turtles out there

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 18, 2017 -> 09:33 AM) I think a lot of it has to do with the removal of the expectation of winning. The focus for the team is on developing a good culture, playing hard, developing into the best player you can be, learning from your mistakes and having fun doing so. That "vibe" has made its way to the crowd. I noticed a big difference in the atmosphere last Friday too. The last few times I've been to games, the fans (along with the players) have almost been tense--pressing. The focus was on the mistakes the team was making because they were sold as a team who was all in and going for it. Now the environment is more positive and more forgiving as fans encourage the team to play better--we're maybe even a little surprised when they win--it's an added bonus instead of a temporary exhale before getting back to the frustration mindset. We know there is money coming off the books at the end of the year, we know there's a historically large FA class coming up, we know there's big promise in the system, we know we have a few guys performing now who we NEVER thought would be in the mix, we know the weather is getting nice and tickets are cheap--when all that comes together, you get a sense of satisfaction. I thought the rebuild would be brutal, but it's actually a great time to be a Sox fan and consume baseball at the park. And for new fans, it's a great time to get in on the ground level of what could be an exciting time in the franchise's history. Excellent post FT.

Love it!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 17, 2017 -> 08:23 PM) Well, Lopez goes to the top of the heap for now...unless they call up Danish first. Do you think the old guard gets the call first out of respect? We've had Danish a while now.

If Abreu could recognize the spin of the baseball he would be a monster. Dude is just never going to lay off the spinny junk. He's still productive but damn man! Don't you wanna win some MVPs??

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 17, 2017 -> 12:16 AM) Ricky trying to be way too cute. Like Hawk was saying, I like the gamesmanship of Narvaez' fake bunts. But Saladino should have worked a count with the surprise of the bunt gone and the pitcher not having the best control

QUOTE (flavum @ May 14, 2017 -> 05:24 PM) Jeez, just send Morrison to AA. Is there any video of him cutting up hitters this year

QUOTE (reiks12 @ May 13, 2017 -> 09:22 PM) Kahnle/Burdi is the future Hell yea and that probably wins about 10 games every year. Why 10? I dunno. But the Sox will dominate close games.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ May 13, 2017 -> 02:40 PM) Exactly. The old way of doing things wasn't working so it was time to change the approach to building a contender and rebuilding the farm is one of those changes that needed to be made. Well and also the Sox had really really good cores that were worth supplementing the last 17 years. I just feel like the extra 10-20M that was needed each year to finish the job was never there. We'll probably have this same problem again starting in 2021 or so.

I'm still offering money to whoever wants to ship me one.

QUOTE (swissarmyknife @ May 13, 2017 -> 11:56 AM) I hope so because the life span for a TJ surgery is supposedly 7-8 years. He had it in 2012 which means he should have another good 2-3 good years left on his elbow before it should theoretically start to give him issues again. Maybe not. But I really hope he can both regain solid repeatable mechanics on his delivery and also bring his velo up to mid/upper 90's on the heater. Never heard that about the TJ lifespan. Just ruined my saturday, thanks.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 12, 2017 -> 07:50 PM) In his prime I can see 180-200 hit, .380 OBP seasons on the regular. Who was the last White Sox player to get 200 hits? Did young Mags do it?

Well it's weird.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 10, 2017 -> 07:26 PM) Simulated games? Reminds me of the 04-06 Cubs. That didn't end well Long way to go before we start getting excited about breaking some of Kerry Wood's sim records

QUOTE (daggins @ May 9, 2017 -> 07:56 AM) This may have been pointed out already, but reports of Adam Engel's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Up to .213 .304 .427 on the season, strikeout rate ~25%, walk rate at ~11%. He may be Drew Stubbs Jr yet. That's awesome. Rumors of any prospect's demise are usually just a bunch of shots fired into the sky.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2017 -> 07:58 PM) Hahn better hope Dunning and Lopez make it, because it's looking like they couldn't have missed the mark much more on Giolito if they were blindfolded scouts. Hopefully they were psychologists too, because it seems like the process of completely changing his mechanics have led to an abrupt fall in confidence...which presumably began when he got lit up at the major league level last year and hasn't reversed since then. Whether it's physical, mental...they need to try SOMETHING different. Let him skip a start and just let him observe what's going on around him, slow things down. Send him to Chicago and let him work with Don Cooper for a week or two (not on the active roster). They need to brainstorm and figure out a way to reverse this tail-spin. (Note: I realize the "spin" on this will now be that Giolito would never have been available were these flaws not readily apparent...and had the Sox staff not believed they had a fix or solution. I guess we'll see if they can earn their money.) I think most people make the mistake of thinking the Sox targetted Gio as the prize of the trade. I would bet money he was looked at as the third piece.

Demoting Giolito won't help his command and control. I think it would hurt his development having worse hitters flailing away at his garbage control. I'd almost like him to get a callup to work with Coop. I think they called up Fulmer last year to show him that whatever he was doing in the minors wasn't going to work in the majors. Everyone got all pissy that he wasn't ready but I think the brass was proving to him that he needed to change something.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 7, 2017 -> 09:32 PM) I don't mean this as a defense of the people whose negligence allowed him to die, but a major problem that led to his status not being treated correctly is that a person who has been almost mortally wounded from internal head trauma may not act or look all that different from a pledge getting completely blown out drunk for one of the first times in his life. In my day to day life, if I see a person who can barely walk or is splayed on the ground and barely moving...that's a panic moment. But at a college party (I wasn't in a frat but almost all big social events at the school I went to were frat-sponsored), I wouldn't have found that kind of thing particularly alarming and would probably have just checked to make sure the person hadn't choked on vomit and was still breathing/didn't have some kind of obvious injury from falling down. When you're all drunk and you are used to seeing people so drunk they are non-responsive, it starts to become a bit difficult to make the right judgments about who really, really needs help right away. Yea i agree, and neither of us is making light of death. I don't think any policies need to be enacted, changed etc. because of this. As with any dangerous activity there will always be a microscopic percentage that end in fatality. Skydiving, rock climbing, military combat, airplanes, camping in bear country, pledging a frat...the list goes on. All precautions to mitigate stupid are part of self-policing damgerous activity. It pisses me off nobody recognized the situation, but it's also hard for me to count those young men as criminals.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 5, 2017 -> 11:13 AM) PTATC: Not trying to be arrogant. At least I try to "talk" conversationally with other posters and not "down" to them or try to show how clever I am with one-liners that are snarky in nature and demeaning. (Not saying you do by the way). I put my name on posts because the other sites I participate in that's the way it's done. Nothing more, nothing less. I didn't realize that doing so here makes you "arrogant." But that's fine...from now on I won't use my name anymore. Hope that makes you happy. Thanks man. I appreciate you stopping the signature. No disrespect meant. The username tells us who is posting. Thanks, Douglass

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ May 6, 2017 -> 09:51 AM) Adam LaRoche was worse,at least Dunn was known to be a good teammate and didn't come to the Sox to play daycare. Daycare! Classic!

QUOTE (bmags @ May 5, 2017 -> 02:47 PM) I am so anxious to see a US economy without employer provided health insurance. I think it creates massive inefficiencies like your downward pressure on growth due to health costs, downward pressure on wages, and quite frankly because it is tax exempt, likely causes higher taxes in general or at least inefficient raising of revenue. On the other hand, it is so entrenched I have no idea what chaos would ensue. For real. The idea itself is insane nowadays. Guys I know are always latching onto companies because they offer "good bennies". Work should just be work. I feel like people would be able to more freely bounce around the job market to find something that suits them. Employer healthcare definitely keeps people locked into jobs they don't like. It's not prison but it has some effect for sure. Should just be $500/month for any adult, $250 for a kid. All PPO.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 5, 2017 -> 06:16 PM) At least this time when Hawk says he's never seen this in seven decades of baseball, I believe him. Lol. Never in his 40, 50, 60 years in the game.

Dunn wouldn't have been able to knock Miley off the mound since he selfishly pulled the ball no matter the situation.

Lotta good threads on the boards right now.

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ May 3, 2017 -> 04:11 PM) Also relevant.... Ha poor KW going in for the handshake and gettin stiffed on camera.