mvp 78

Iggy = overrated

Pomeranz is ok I guess

I think you know what to make of those posts.

I'm glad you find value with my posts even if they don't always match your beliefs.

I wouldn't hold it against you. You seem like a fairly reasonable person.

Don't hirt your back with those goalposts!

Never said I was.

I'm saying that it's a no brainer that this Sox regime to pick up the option. If they called me in and said "make the offseason moves for us mvp 78," I wouldn't pick up the option. I'm saying the Sox will pick it up for all the dumb reasons they picked it up last year.

Probably. Xander was 19 in AA the first season.

Salty makes costly mistakes in his only 2 WS games and is promptly benched, but it's because of his bat... Um, ok? That's just the craziest of crazy talk. Every article I've found mentions the reason for his benching as being his horrible defense and costly errors...

No, his s***** defense was a huge part of it.

I hated his defense. The Sox ended up benching him because of his s***** defense. If his offense was so worthwhile, why didn't they bring him back the next year? p.s. Thanks for the compliment! Farrell ended up following my advice later in the series.

That is true. Both Sale and Ortiz have used baseball bats to let our their frustrations in the dugout.

Benintendi just turned 22. Betts turned 22 the offseason after, so he was about 6 months younger than Benintendi.

^ a true gentleman

If he's on the roster on 11/1/16, they'll pick up his option. That's all I've ever said. I have never ever ever stated that he would not be traded or DFA'd this season.

YOTN, can we please add the "fire" emoticon please? #newemoticons

Since you struggle with reading comprehension, I was answering Bellhorn's questioning about which specific moves during the 2013 World Series did I disagree with.

Go back to the WS Gamethreads. In Game 1, I said how great Ross had been defensively. In Game 2, I said "Ross in game 3 please. So sick of Salty."

But we'll never really know. He certainly could have played better in my alternate universe.

https://theringer.com/chris-sale-chicago-white-sox-uniform-meltdown-bda0e9f7106c#.3u1ortijg I found the below comment to be rather on point. I remember DLowe being very particular about wearing the ugly Red unis back when he was here. It’s not uncommon for the starting pitcher to choose what uniform his team is going to wear when he starts, and Fox’s Ken Rosenthal reports that this is generally the case with the White Sox. If this were just a guy throwing a fit because he didn’t get his turn to choose what the team watched on TV, that’d be one thing, but if he’s not comfortable pitching in the uniform, that’s a real issue. Pitchers can be temperamental, and pitchers as good as Sale, with deliveries as complicated as his, have a right to be particular about details and routine. Rosenthal further reported that Sale was frustrated with the team valuing marketing over wins and losses. I don’t know if that’s a fair criticism, since the White Sox spent a ton of money on James Shields in the interest of winning now (it didn’t work, but you can’t fault their motives), but Sale’s also entitled to feel that way after the team’s competitive start turned into a 46–50 record through no fault of his own.

You said it yourself. He signed the extension during the playoff year then started playing out his contract like he was Pablo Sandoval. Now that he was cashing the checks, he didn't have to hit in the postseason. It would be interesting to see what he would have hit in the postseason if he had not signed that contract before it.

Maybe Chapman will beat up Punky Brewster. f*** the Cubs.

I want them to DFA Buchholz. I don't want him here. All I have said was that if he's on the roster at the end of the season, that they'll pick up his option. If Bell wants to refute that with a sig bet, that's fine with me.

I didn't want Salty starting that postseason. That's not second guessing.