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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 10:59 PM) That's how it is in every league. When you have so many teams, that's just how it's going to have to work. I'm interested how you sorted out your list for the mlb teams though. Trying not to jinx your A's? QUOTE(The Cheat (October 27 @ 2005 -> 3AM)) If I were to pick a team to win it all next year right now, it would be the A's.

Thank goodness the Ravens are gonna finally take it in the ass. I was really getting tired of hearing how great they were from Michael Irvin. What a boring f'n game.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) Roberts is going to cost $2.5-4 mill. The Sox can't, in any way, shape, or form, make enough room on the payroll for that? Add it up. Assuming you use one of the $10M arms to get A-Rod, combined with Fields, you're adding $6M in payroll with A-Rod... Thome -- 8 Dye -- 6.5 Iguchi -- 3.5 Kong -- 12.5 Crede -- 6 Pierz 5.5 A-Rod -- 16 Sweeney +Anderson -- 1 That's almost $59M plus $40M left in the rotation, plus a few Million to the bullpen, plus 2-4.5M for a reserve MIF (Cintron or Uribe), plus 2.5M for Mack, plus a back-up catcher, plus Gload nearing $1M, and you're looking at a $115M payroll. Toss in Roberts on top of that, and you're approaching 120.

Those of you salivating over a roster that has A-Rod, and doesn't have both Anderson and Sweeney in the OF are kidding yourselves. If the Sox were to aquire A-Rod, especially without moving Crede, they wouldn't have the payroll flexibility to add a FA at LF. Gooch Rod Thome Dye Kong Crede Pierz Anderson Sweeney

On the bright side, Buffalo's punter is really good. /Benson fumbles.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:18 PM) Pretty clear after today that the worst coaches in the country are, in order: 1. John L. Smith 2. Dan McCarney 3. Ron Zook (lost the game today by himself) Oh man, I went out after halftime... What'd I miss?

Albert Young just got Wally Pip'd.

That made me LOL

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 08:19 PM) I have a feeling every Central team will have the same amount of Post season wins in 06. I'm quietly waiting to post a fun fact about the Central in the playoffs since 2000.

why do I get the feeling that Jim has a Google alert set for "teleportation" that has been largely quiet until today?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:59 PM) Is he that bad at 3B defensively? See, I thought he was OK over there. If he's that brutal at third, then I agree, he might be pretty awful at shortstop. He's not brutal, but average-to-below-average at 3B. And how many average-to-below-average 3B do you know who successfully made the switch to the most demanding infield position outside of catcher? Just ask Jason, who sees Figgings 100 games a year, where he would rather play Figgins, that's all you need to know. He doesn't have the hands of an infielder. The angels know this, and his infield starts have gone down in each of his three full seasons with the Halos as a result. (105, 85, 39) Meanwhile, he also has gotten much better in the outfield. I would say that he's a plus defensive CFer right now. He could probably be one of the best defensive LFers in the game with Crawford and Crisp if he played an entire season there.

QUOTE(cuddlyboy26 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:41 PM) Exactly I say "probably" since it is my opinion the White Sox are anxious to get rid of Crede as soon as possable. That may not be next year mind you, it may be after next year. That is why he will only sign a 1-year deal if he signs. Crede has no choice. He's Sox property for two more years. There's no "If he signs."

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) Do you have anything other than playing time to back up him being brutal at SS? Because playing time just can't really be used as a good argument when the Angels have had good starting players at those positions. THe 4 errors he's made at SS in 18 games are a better argument, but it's also worth wondering what he'd do if he were locked in to that position and not just playing it sparingly. Have you seen him play 3B? He sucks there. I would rather have Fields at 3B. If you can't play 3B, what makes you think he can play SS?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 03:06 PM) Twins down 2 games to none. Relying on the pitching of Silva to keep their hopes alive. Radke's busted shoulder will be getting the game 3 start.

Figgins is a bad defender at 3B, a brutal defender at SS(17 starts in 3+ years), passable at 2B, good at CF, and figures to be excellent in LF (he hasn't gotten much PT there). He's a more useful player than Pods, but he really should only be used in the OF.

All I know is if SNL doesn't do a spoof with a Foley look-a-like walking into a well-to-do suburban home and being greeted by Chris Hanson holding an IM chat transcript, they've become even more irrelevant than I thought. Dateline films in the same damn building as SNL. They can probably get Hanson to do it himself.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 02:07 AM) Are you saying Oz should have continued to play BA who hit in the .220s and give him 550 at bats? They might not be in the playoffs, but they'd be 2-3 games better, maybe more. Mackowiak was that bad in CF. In retrospect, we were one serious Scott Podsednik injury from the playoffs. -- A lineup with Gload/Ozuna/Mackowiak in LF and Anderson in CF would have been an upgrade offensively, and (most of the time) defensively.

Shout? -- Otis Day and the Knights? I'm assuming that's what you're talking about. Next time reference a good movie that it's featured in, you know, like, I don't know... Animal House.

I'm still searching for quotes, but before any moves were made, I had identified the 4 players who were the most easily replacable assets the Sox had from the 2005 squad who were still under Sox control as Rowand, Marte, El Duque, and Vizcaino. Those were the 4 players any smart GM would have had the foresight to move while attempting to make the '05 White Sox better. That's exactly who KW moved. The moves may not have worked out how you wanted them to, but they were the right trading chips to use. Kenny identified the players But, I also saw the bullpen meltdown coming from last November. Of course, I didn't foresee all of them being worse than league average in '06. I only expected they would be average-to-slightly-above-average, so I didn't really feel that acquiring much bullpen help was necessary. Rowand was a player a year removed from a 900 OPS season, and months removed from gaining a reputation as one of the best defensive CFers in baseball. But he was also an automatic out on sliders low-and-away and was jamming himself on anything on the inner half trying to compensate. He was cheap and overvalued on the open market with a number of clubs looking to improve their CF positions. From the Sox perspective, there was no reason to believe that Brian Anderson couldn't replace Rowand's prodigious 6-4-3 total while generally looking feeble at the plate, which, if you'll remember, is pretty much what you got at the plate from Rowan in '05. If you want to argue that Rowand's departure hurt the Sox because they lost defense, you'd be right, but your anger should not be directed at Williams, rather Ozzie, who continued to play a utility player/corner outfielder in his place. Rowand was also used to fill the Sox most glaring hole in '05. They didn't have a #3 hitter, as those players combined to post a sub .300 OBP, and needed to add OBP and some left-handed pop to their line-up. It was either Thome or Delgado, and Delgado didn't want to come to Chicago. Williams did his job about as well as can be expected. He may not have made all the right moves, but he had sound reasoning behind every single one of them. He's not the reason the Sox are watching the playoffs on TV right now. Crappy starting pitching, which Williams tried to guard against with the acquisition of Vazquez, our two best arms in the bullpen being hurt -- yet refusing to admit the obvious -- and the offense going in the crapper down the stretch are the three biggest reasons that we're not in the playoffs.

I love the ignore feature

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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 3, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) At his current performance level, he would get more than that each of those years just going through arbitration. He'll get between 5.5 and 6.5 this year at Arb, and with another similar season would be worth around 8-9M in his final year of arb. $10M/year is a little over his true (open market) value. That will fall in the area of 8.5-9M/yr. 3/24 is not a bad deal, but it would have to be all guaranteed. 6-8-10 sounds about right to me.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Oct 2, 2006 -> 07:49 PM) I dont think the program works at all, im in college now but i know back in jr high it wouldnt of mattered to me and probably not to really any of the kids really that were the actual problem. Would it have mattered if HSers came to your school to teach you that 'of' is not a verb?

The pitching coach that you hear the most about is the one down in W-S.