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I don't care if the Illuminati are in charge, if they go out and sign Bauer.

Can we poach someone from the Cleveland organization? They seem to have a constant supply of pitchers who are major league ready. Whatever they do over there, can we have a little?

I don't disagree with you Poppy, but the staff was what Rick Hahn gave them to work with....and I don't know if the front office will ever also be held responsible for those decisions as well. I just hope Rick Hahn makes smarter acquisitions this offseason.

Maybe they will send them off with a going away gift basket like Derek Jeter

I would rather be posting about an upcoming ALCS....White Sox vs, Rays....but I'll take the news coming out of this press conference as a wonderful change for the better.

Refresh....Refresh....Refresh

I'm still going to start a combination: Will they sign Ozzie/Will they re-sign McCann thread.

Under the radar

Please let this be a precursor to signing Bauer.

How many times would he trip over the mound when he came out to bring in a reliever?

In oddly related news, NOTRickRenteria has posted that he blames Steve Cishek for the firing today....and the Sox are definitely trading for Lance Lynn

Rick Hahn is about to announce that Don Cooper has been named the Grand Poobah of pitching for the Chicago White Sox.

Do it with a big bang bong.....a big bang bong!!!

Haven't we all "agreed to part ways" with at least someone in our lifetime?

I am very surprised. Now shock me some more and go sign Bauer!!

Totally agree with you. I am at the same place this offseason that I was last offseason...starting pitching is the absolute #1 priority.

Shhhh...it's our little secret. But you may owe him a pasta dinner if he finds out.

I was thinking of another set of moves that Ricky made that might have cost us not playing this week against Houston....Adam Engel left a good number of guys on base that last game. If Ricky would have played Adam more in the couple of weeks coming up to the playoffs, might he have been more locked in during those at bats? I admit I could be incorrect since games 2 and 3 I was not able to watch and Engel may have still hit the balls hard and ran into some bad luck.

Timmy might have a case to make with 9 hits in a 3 game series But on the whole, I agree they will take stick with Mazara based what he did at the end of the year...the only disagreement I would have with myself about that is that they did bench him for game 1 of the series and they might not like what he would get in arbitration. We will see.

So much for playing at home being an advantage for the Cubs. Great Chicago power outage.

I would have made them take the red eye....only winners get an overnight stay

I will be here to watch it go off the board and hopefully some of it come our way. "Did he just call himself the talent?"....Had to repeat one of my favorite lines from Groundhog Day

It seems like forever ago that they clinched going to the playoffs. Hell, it seems like a long time ago that Giolito had that perfect game going in game 1. It sure was a hell of a ride. When does hot stove talk begin? I'm looking forward to Bauer rumors.

With the nice extensions inked for the young core, this team should be in good shape financially to add free agent pieces. Can you imagine what TA would be worth in free agency if we had not extended him previously.