Sale out tonight. Done deal?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Mookie Betts scratched.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yeah. At the game right now....Sale gone, season over, pouring rain.

Such is life.

The sun also rises.

If they get going come meet me behind 162. If they call it meet me at Turtle's.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

You holdin'?

#TeamCocaine

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Who did he get in a fight with?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Probably Kenny's bitchass.

Sounds like that clubhouse could use a juggler or maybe a magician.

Looks like LaRoche's kid wasn't the problem.

Crasnick said issue was with front office.

Yeah...wants to be traded.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

No, he's mad because they're trading him.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Then where is your trade report? It would be imminent.

Instead...they'll trade him in a couple of days.

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I just don't get why Sale would be sent home by the team if the incident was non-physical. The team has to know that such a move could only hurt their bargaining position if they are trying to move him, so the decision to scratch him and get him out of the clubhouse probably wasn't made lightly.

Don't know what to make of this. Was he told he's being shopped, and he just went on a tirade? Fake trade notification on his locker?

The most likely scenario is that the trade is all but done, they advised Sale and he flipped his lid.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Still seems pretty dumb of the white sox to publicize it. Just say he had the flu or something. They can fuck up even the simplest of tasks. It's embarrassing.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Probably a healthy political debate gone awry

No chance right now. Hunkered down in my seats at #120. Might just go to the Chi Sox Bar and tie one on. Might visit Kirkwood and murder him.

dude if you can get nomar mazara for sale you do that. the kid's had a power outage lately (stuck on 11HR 36RBI) but he just jacked a 2R HR tonight and he's been consistently right at .280 during the whole "slump" -- you don't need yahoo/rotowire to tell you that this kid might end up being a special one.

that said, the same yahoo/rotowire updates said that the white sox are asking for mazara + profar for sale. that's pretty steep considering that jurickson profar was supposed to be a big ol blue chip prospect for them for the last 3-4 years and only this year did he finally show up and !!!!. if the sox end up trading sale and getting profar and not mazara then they dun goof'd. get mazara if you're gonna do sale.

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There is absolutely no philosophical difference, and you know it. It's the exact same thing.

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Are you serious? There is a very large, noticeable difference between starting a rebuild at a trade deadline and trying to remake/rebuild the team quickly, vs. intentionally not competing for 3+ seasons. It's easy to acknowledge that even if you believe The Plan was the smart way to go.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

TEX 3 @ KC 1 - T5 :: Double :: Nomar Mazara doubles (11) on a line drive to center fielder Paulo Orlando. Delino DeShields scores.

so yeah maz up to 2/3 HR 3RBI tonight. git-r-done hahn!

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Bulls and Sox love killing the value of an asset before a trade.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Still not enough for Sale.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

So, this is basically the hooker joke, right?

"Would you fuck this guy for a million dollars?"

"Yes."

"How about for five?"

"How dare you?!"

"Look, we've already established that you're a whore. Now we're just negotiating price."

A "sell-off", in principle, is the exact same as "The Plan." The Sox could still mathematically win their division or a wild card. You're just debating price.

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The material difference comes from making the decision after a failed attempt at competing, vs not attempting to compete whatsoever over the course of multiple seasons. It's not a difference of degree as you're suggesting.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Could the Sox still mathematically win their division or a wild card?

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Sure, mathematically. But that's a shitty attempt at a "gotcha". It's clear to anyone who's paying attention that they are not going to make the playoffs, or even come close. As I said, they attempted to compete this year and failed.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Is there a fan base in more denial than Sox fans. You think the Sox have been attempting to compete the last 3 years? They fill the roster with mediocre talent by doing busy work in the offseason making trades for mediocre players and signing mediocre free agents. The fans think they are building a major league roster to compete, but they are really just building a roster to keep ticket sales just good enough not hurt and not good enough so they have to pay the state money.

The Sox are not trying to win anything. Why people believe otherwise in the face of evidence to the contrary, I do not know. Ventura? LaRoche? Frazier? Whatever that loser from Oakland's name is? You think they were trying to win?!?!?

You don't try to win and continuously end up with one of the worst records in baseball. They don't care, but Sox fans just keep lying to themselves. Still blinded by 2005. Had Kenny not lucked into that roster, maybe the fans could see them for what they are. Con men.