Bananarchy

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 07:45 PM) Timmy just shut up Baron right there. It was glorious

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 07:44 PM) Did I ask for your advice? Oh look, the Sox got out of it. Don't worry, there will be plenty more situations for you to get sour about.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 07:42 PM) Yeah because that's what I said. Maybe you should take a couple of seasons off while the team develops.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 06:58 PM) The teams that sustain success in football (without cheating) get an elite QB, pay that elite QB well, acquire good talent to put around him mostly through the draft, then keep the players they draft that are worth keeping. Usually the best teams have a few players that they drafted that are among the best in the league and are paid like it, and the draft is absolutely vital to sustained success. In baseball it's almost exactly the same. Yeah. Or they get an elite QB, build around him on a rookie contract, extend him, and struggle to win with a good quarterback taking up too much of their cap.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 06:58 PM) Stone tries to make a baseball point and Benetti makes a joke about it. Just awful Three years ago we had the worst broadcast team in the business. It was even worse back in '08. Man. Hawk/DJ. Yikes.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 06:13 PM) Ha, then Avi promptly grounds into DP and Abreu strikes out. Lots of great players GIDP. No worries. All-time leaders Albert Pujols 362 1 Cal Ripken, Jr. 350 2 Ivan Rodriguez 338 3 Hank Aaron 328 4 Carl Yastrzemski323 5 Dave Winfield 319 6 Eddie Murray 316 7 Jim Rice 315 8 Julio Franco 312 9

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 05:39 PM) Yeah it's completely different in baseball. Only sport IMO where outlooks can change season to season and anything can happen in the playoffs. Football: If you don't luck into an elite QB OR a decent qb + dominant defense, no point in even playing Basketball: If you don't have (several) top 10 players on the team, no point in even playing I have no idea what they're doing to do to fix that, it's made baseball the only sport worth caring about for me. Football isn't that bad. You can find a game-changer in the NFL in the first, second, third, or even fourth round sometimes. Basketball is downright horrible. The Bulls are too good to be bad enough to be good again. The system is totally broken. The NBA makes for good show, but that's about it.

They should have called this "Why Greg was Wrong" The last couple of paragraphs are a more like fan fiction, but not by any means out of the realm of possibilities. Edit: Also, is someone going to tell Rany Jazayerli that the Soxtalk banner was really the reason this rebuild has been so successful?

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 06:51 AM) What salary cap are you referring to? The "competitive balance" tax has essentially become a very loose salary cap where only 30% of teams have ever broken it. With the 2016 CBA, the MLB luxury tax has become prohibitively expensive. So, while the salary cap (in a simplistic way) does not exist, the competitive balance tax has effectively worked. There are a handful of teams that pay the tax, but only two have blown away the tax ceiling. Basically, the faux salary cap has guaranteed that a team like the White Sox and most of the mid-market teams will be able to spend right up there with most of the teams.

It's pretty sad that the best source for Sox media now is the Athletic.

ESPN's new Get Up! feels like too many cooks. It should probably just be Greenberg and Beadle.

It's in an advertisers best interest to advertise without angering their base. When an ad causes more anger than interest, then I'm all for advertisers bailing.

Attendance used to matter more. Now it's all about TV deals. Unfortunately for the White Sox (and many other MLB franchises), the teams negotiate for local right on their own. The good news is, the "salary cap" is going to help us long term, as the Sox make enough money as an organization to afford the entirety of the cap.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 07:41 AM) Fixed He's a better than AAAA hitter, but his fielding is just...yikes. He'd be good in the AL, for sure. He can rake.

Burn After Reading is on Netflix right now. I liked it quite a bit (It's the Coen Brothers and the ridiculous cast they demand). The ludicrous nature of the plot is all the more relevant considering our current political climate.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Apr 1, 2018 -> 09:45 AM) Avilan and Jones seem like they'll be here when this team is ready to contend which I'm all for As said before, can't win with ALL rookies Same goes for Avi and Abreu This team doesn't have many guys I'd ship and the need for prospects really isn't too major That being said I'm entirely open to shipping Farquhar, Shields, and Soria most realistically for low level prospects Saladino and Smith both seem like guys who's days can be numbered as well You can move Avi and Jones and not suddenly become "all rookies". And, by the way, by the time this team is ready to compete, Moncada will no longer be "a rookie". Heck, he isn't even a rookie now. Anyone who played for the team before Tim Anderson is fair game for the right price.

Now I have to make up some other excuse not to do the laundry

QUOTE (hi8is @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 10:06 PM) Go Sox Go!!! I won’t be on the #TankTrain until they show they completely suck... this year I don’t believe there will be a tank train because even the losses are going to be potentially more meaningful. Love it. I'm kind of in "See what unfolds" mode. At the end of the season, they'll be bad, but the young guys matter a whole lot more now and we'll see some of the younger guys surfacing, too.

could have been worse. He'll be just fine. No worries.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 05:01 PM) I don't get the whole Rosanne is pro Trump so now we have to bring back Tim Allen's show. Am I the only person that doesn't watch or not watch TV shows based on the actors political beliefs? I think we have to get used to the idea that network television is becoming a thing of the past. The demographic that is still watching network television tend to be older and more conservative. Liberals are younger and by and large are gravitating towards streaming services. And as far as Tim Allen goes, call me when they do a Home Improvement revival. Jill Taylor might have been the best part of that show.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 09:38 PM) Avi & Nate Jones are the key guys to move assuming there is value there. Avi should definitely net the White Sox something nice if he remains as productive as he has been.

The book Ready Player One was far more profound than the film, however the movie is a lot of fun considering how bad some of the CGI nightmare films are as of late.

Well, considering the Cubs are struggling to beat the Marlins, I'm good with the last two games in KC.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Mar 31, 2018 -> 09:28 PM) Bunting is stupid period Agree 100%

The only one I would think twice about moving is Abreu, but even then I would move him for the right price.