Bananarchy

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 08:52 PM) Jesus, you really can be an unhappy human sometimes. He's a 10 year veteran that been one of the Top 15 Dman in the league for a large portion of it. I'm willing to give him a little more time before labeling him a liability or a problem. I call it like it is. 7 has been bad defensively. Period. You don't like it? Get over it. http://thecommittedindian.com/follow-me-to...idateeven-good/

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 09:03 PM) @Real_ESPNLeBrun Still unsure if Dan Hamhuis will want to waive, but if he does, I think the teams in play for him are Chicago and Dallas... That would address a much bigger need.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 08:12 PM) That makes a career high in goals for Brent Seabrook. Too bad he's become a liability on defense. The top line has been rough this season, but now at least that is solved. Seabrook is still a problem.

That top line should be more fun

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 06:02 PM) Rizzo and Schwarber sure but you're being a bit liberal with the term "young star" if you include Baez and Soler. Russell needs to develop with the bat first to be considered a star, and as Fangraphs pointed out in the article below his batted ball profile last year was rather poor, with a low line drive rate, high pop-up rate, and well below average exit velocity to go along with the high K-rate. He's got some pop but still needs to prove more at the plate before I consider him a "star". http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2015-positi...trospective-2b/ Addison Russell was among the best defensive shortstops in the game and a defensive difference make we haven't seen on the south side in forever. And you inexplicably exclude Bryant. Rizzo, Bryant, Russell, and Schwarber. All under 26. The Cubs would be good without free agent signings. Their lineup now is terrifying.

RIP

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 12:13 PM) I don't give a f*** what the reason is, Sox fans have the right to be pissed off about this. For sure. Fan crap aside, this s*** is pretty annoying.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 11:52 AM) Really 10 picks because you might as well count White as a rookie. Yup. This draft is everything to the Pace regime. If they can land >5 real players they are on track.

QUOTE (Tony @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 11:57 AM) Without being too over confident, I would image there are very few players that wouldn't waive their NTC to play here for a few months. I don't think that will be a major concern for the Hawks I think Chicago is one of a handful of teams that a player would want to be traded from a Canadian team to.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 09:55 PM) Roll call! Black Sox Jerksticks Alexeihhhhyyyeees (love your name dude if i never said it) Littlehurt05 Dick Allen Sign up. Reading anything that spoiled turd Brett writes on bleachernation makes me want to puke. Yes, I troll that page. It's little battles like reminding them they tanked, that Sam Zell used their fanbase like an old whore, that their players are still prospects and may bust, or that now that they have Schwarber all the traditionalist-purity-of-the-NL-pitchers-need-to-hit-to-call-it-real-baseball whining phonies are going to turn heels and become the biggest hypocrites on earth clammoring for the DH when he posts a -50 dWAR this year. Winning those little battles of reminding them it's BS helps a bit. I'm going to need a therapist if they win Get ready to spend through your deductible sometime in the next 4-6 years. Clearly Fowler wanted to play for the Cubs. What a difference 10 years makes.

Good lord, what an awful offseason.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 09:16 AM) Apparently the Cubs ownership is anti-Trump. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide! The Rickets find Trump insufficiently conservative. That is mind-boggling.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 24, 2016 -> 09:44 AM) http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/02/inte...ed-dodgers.html Seems reasonable. The Yankees and Cubs have spent a boatload on international scouting and are seeing (what I would consider) an unfair advantage.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 02:44 PM) How would you like to owe this guy $80 million the next 4 years? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbxRaiNWEAA6d2k.jpg Yikes. That is a professional athlete? Good for Boston. They've earned it. The Boston Globe ✔‎@BostonGlobe “No, I don’t got nothing to prove,” Pablo Sandoval said when he arrived at spring training http://bos.gl/HdnPD4i Talk about an appropriate use of the double negative.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 02:38 PM) Hahaha I never even think about what my avatar is. Very good point. Need to get Shark out of there. Among the forgettable White Sox tenures, Shark is high on the list, for sure.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 12:51 PM) good and has it worked???? Because of profit sharing, no it has not. The MLB isn't like the Premier League where a fanbase can walk out causing an ownership team to apologize.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 04:27 PM) Now when that happens...its just dumb. I think the whole cross town rivalry is fun and everything but its dumb to question someones fandom if they arent interested in it. I get it to some extent. They're emotional because their Cubs fan friends/rivals have a ton of reasons for excitement. While I'm bullish on the White Sox relative to last year, I'm incredibly envious of the Cubs fan down the hall. I just don't let underlying rage drive my fandom.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 09:15 AM) This thread is already a dumpster fire. I'll never understand why people are so worried about a team not in the White Sox division when they claim to be White Sox fans. Just pointless. It's to the point of delirium here. Get ready to have your fandom questioned.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 11:45 AM) I don't know. I kinda feel like they doubt Sanchez's ability at short. Rollins can mentor Saladino and then possibly Anderson later in the year. I fully expect them to doubt both Saladino and Sanchez because neither is very good. In either case, a minor league deal is the right move. If they think either Saladino or Sanchez are real baseball players, we are in for a world of hurt in the middle infield.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Feb 23, 2016 -> 11:34 AM) I kinda feel like if he doesn't win the starting job they end up sticking with him on the bench. Not giving an MLB deal is just so they don't have to make a 40 man roster move right away (like Soto last year). Or they honestly don't think he's an MLB player anymore but they want him in ST with Anderson.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 04:43 PM) aren't they likely going to resign him? He'll never accept a fair contract for his actual value.

While I concede TJ is a reality for many MLB pitchers, this is just nonsense guesswork. Ugh, can it be April already?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2016 -> 01:07 PM) The government is asking Apple to do it. I haven't read anywhere that the FBI wants to be present or the FBI wants to get the key after it has been completed. They want to make sure that once they start trying to break into the phone the phone isn't going to do an auto-delete and/or that some data isn't encrypted. Yeah, Apple can't reasonably do this on most devices. Because the device in question is an iPhone 5C, a "FBiOS version" of iOS would be able to cancel the Apple policy of limiting the number of PIN attempts. It sets a horrible precedent, as caving to the FBI would allow foreign governments to do the same thing to Apple. Apple is doing the right thing, especially considering the iPhone 5S through 6S+ have full Secure Enclave encryption which would take an immense amount of effort to break.

I'm not convinced he's a major league baseball player. He'll start to open the year but from there, who knows?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 12:55 PM) Arrieta comes back down to Earth. Schwarber has a sophomore slump after his downward trend last year. Heyward's defensive value gets negated by bad and worse flanking him in the OF. Lackey gets old. Zobrist's legs give out. Bryant still Ks a lot. Russell keeps the glove, bat doesn't develop. Lester can't pick anyone off. It all gets blamed on a goat. God if we were this honest about the White Sox, people would stop crying in their beer when the good guys are out of it in July.