The Hawk is not a mult of mine, I promise.

Obviously you never read what you write, sparky.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

No, I read most of my posts. Some of them are stupid. This one you've posted takes stupid into the stratosphere.

I didn't think you could get crazier than some of your political posts. I was dead wrong.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Facing easier lineups with the pitcher hitting in the NL, he has fared a little better.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

First of all, Quintana is not quite a free agent. He has a team option that, barring injury, the Cubs are sure to pick up.

That is a decent reason and a good point. His name was listed as a free agent without a team option on the site that I went to look at.

Second, Quintana already pitched for the Sox and while he had some good peripheral numbers, he had a losing record all but one year he was were (and even then he lost 12 games). Some of it was hard luck. Some of it was because he is just not a number 1 or number 2 guy that you can count on in crunch time. Facing easier lineups with the pitcher hitting in the NL, he has fared a little better.

HE lost games because he couldn't get any run support, blinkey. That isn't on him.

Third, do you really think after giving up his #1 hitting and #1 pitching prospect to acquire Quintana that Theo would just give him away to the White Sox of all teams? It would cost them a boatload in a trade, resources the Sox can use wisely elsewhere. If Q is a free agent after the 2020 season, the Sox would still be better served spending that money elsewhere.

I talked about the Sox re-acquiring him as a free agent. I made no comment about acquiring him via a trade whatsoever.If the Cubs exercise their option, then I would not try and trade for him. Simple as that.

Fourth, I didn't say your idea to get Quintana was crazy. I said it was stupid. I said your political posts are crazy. I stand firmly behind those factual statements.

Considering that this is coming from you of all people, that is hilarious.

Your Quintana idea is perhaps one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here, and definitely the stupidest front office move ever suggested. Being here for over 13 years I've read a lot of stupid on this board. A lot. I've partaken in a bit of it as well. The suggestion you made that the Sox make Quintana a target takes the stupidity cake.

Quintana is a good starting pitcher. As a free agent, he could definitely help the starting rotation.

Fifth, spell players' names correctly. If you are unsure of their stats or names, there is this great, big, beautiful website called baseballreference.com which has virtually every player and every stat for every MLB game played post 1900. Utilize this please. Also use "the Google" once a while. You might find brains you didn't even know you had.

People misspell names all of the time, goober. YOu knew who I was talking about. It was simply a typo. Only weak minded people attack people for typos. That is the case with you.

That enough for ya, dickweed?

Fifth, spell players' names correctly. If you are unsure of their stats or names, there is this great, big, beautiful website called baseballreference.com which has virtually every player and every stat for every MLB game played post 1900. Utilize this please. Also use "the Google" once a while. You might find brains you didn't even know you had.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

No, Hawk, the correct thing to do would be to put your back on ignore since you nothing positive to this board and clearly are only here to try and advance your whacked out, right wing agenda.

Parkins, not the biggest believer in the Sox, made an interesting statement today. Said after this offseason there will be real expectations on the team and they will have given out the biggest free agent contract in franchise history. Not his normal tone on the team, hopefully has some insider knowledge of plans.

after Machado and all the falling short in the Bulls front office, I will remain skeptical about their spending.

I also don't agree on expectations. They will have two rookie starting pitchers, one trying to establish himself and another who has flashed greatness this year but will need to prove it is real. They will also be depending on rookie or unproven second year players across the batting order. Next year is a .500 season if everyone develops at a normally expected rate.

after Machado and all the falling short in the Bulls front office, I will remain skeptical about their spending.

I also don't agree on expectations. They will have two rookie starting pitchers, one trying to establish himself and another who has flashed greatness this year but will need to prove it is real. They will also be depending on rookie or unproven second year players across the batting order. Next year is a .500 season if everyone develops at a normally expected rate.

You know it has to be better than that. They have to try to make the playoffs.

Hey, sometimes .500 IS competing for the play-ins.

I'd say that both things are true. Sometimes .500 is competing for the play-offs. And, this is not what Has to be the objective. THis off season is a very critical one for we Sox fans I think. It starts with what they will do with Abreu and McCann. IF they don't re-sign both of them, the message will be pretty clear that they don't want to win a championship. IF they do re-sign them, then Reinny has got to give Hahn the money to spend to acquire two good starting pitchers and maybe a decent right fielder.

IF the okay is given, then it is up to Hahn to do his job. THus far, as far as I am concerned anyway, Hahn has been generally good in the trades and acquisitions that he has done, especially the Hispanic additions and McCann. It is frustrating seeing the still glaring weaknesses but they are fixable and it takes money. This is really all about Reinny ponying up.

You don't pony up for the sake of ponying up. You first have to see what you got internally. That will take all of next year to find out. The only OBVIOUS ponying would be a vet pitcher to go with the extremely inexperienced starting pitching. I think you have to work on the assumption that Robert is in CF, Madrigal is at 2nd, and Vaughn will be your 1st Baseman. You'll know at the end of 2020.

From everything I've read, Vaughn falls out of bed hitting line drives.

You don't pony up for the sake of ponying up.

Parkins, not the biggest believer in the Sox, made an interesting statement today. Said after this offseason there will be real expectations on the team and they will have given out the biggest free agent contract in franchise history. Not his normal tone on the team, hopefully has some insider knowledge of plans.

Without 2 major FAs, .500 will be the expectation and Vegas will agree.