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How do the radical NL haters on here who act like any performance in the NL (Richard, Hudson) doesn't mean squat because it's the NL, explain the Giants rouging up Lee tonight? I grow tired of the NL is s*** argument. NL 1, AL 0. And yes I still think Texas wins it in 6.

Have you guys heard the rumor Sandberg is uh ... dumb? Lacking brains? Somebody said he's not just a boring interview but comes across as a not so intelligent person. Just asking.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 27, 2010 -> 12:39 AM) The local media has picked up the fact that Lee pretty much likes how things are here. It'll be interesting if $50+ million over a 5 year contract speaks louder, because you know whatever the Rangers offers the Yankmees will add +1-2 more years and $10 million + per year (aka at least $50 million) to the contract. In fact, I bet you they'd give him $200 million over 5 years. Yea, $40 million per year. It wouldn't surprise me. So tonight he gets hit HARD. He's great; he's awesome, but he's not worth what the Yankees will pay him. He's human like every pitcher. Oh well, it's their money. Juan Uribe WS MVP??

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Oct 27, 2010 -> 03:34 PM) The Sox have plenty of money to spend. Especially if PK is off the books. QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 28, 2010 -> 02:03 AM) I really don't understand how anyone with knowledge of the White Sox payroll committments could believe we would be major players this offseason. Barring some sequence of huge trades, we'll be signing a few guys off the scrap heap and maybe signing PK. The money just isn't there this offseason. Now that doesn't mean KW doesn't pull off a deal for a player such as Kemp, but it would have to be a high-risk/high-reward type deal for someone like Kemp or BJ Upton or someone who is not quite meeting his capabilities and management is impatient with him. If Konerko is off the books we have another major hole to fill. Viciedo seems to me to be a DH more than a 1B. Our 1B defense will be atrocious. I agree with shack's post. I just hope we get rid of this year's scrap heap guys and add a new cast of characters. No Jones please. Find a way to get rid of Juan Pierre. Omar needs to be a coach; Oz will be too tempted to play him every day. He's too old for that. Of all the names you mentioned, I want Fielder.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2010 -> 07:07 PM) That sounds great, but I am guessing every single team in baseball does that over a 162 game stretch. No team has perfectly semetrical seasons. For every hot streak, there is going to be a slow streak. True. I don't follow the other teams as closely as the Sox. But don't you agree our team plays wildly extremist baseball. We were either unstoppable or putrid. I don't really think the last 11 games matter much. We were out of it and for some reason ended 9-2.

Just say no ... to Berkman!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 08:40 PM) It was obvious Thornton would be back, but I wasn't sure on Castro. I'm glad he is back as he's a proven backup catcher and he played great in that role this year. Don't you think the AJ era is over and Castro will be our starter? Hope he is good in that role. I'm thinking Paulie is back and AJP is gone.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) No it isn't. Well, I don't think so. The future looks bleaker (is that a word?) for our crosstown rivals on the north side. Sure, things aren't perfect, and we have a lot of holes and work to do in the off season. But I wouldn't say things are BLEAK. We won 88 games last year with out our ace and without a DH. There's a good chance that things could fall into place next year, and we could have something special again. I mean, who predicted what happened in 2005 before it happened? Sox need to fix the schzophrenic nature of the team. Can't hit .150 the first six weeks. Can't have bullpen-s***tiness the second half of the season. Can't have starters be ultra studly for a stretch, then s***. Cut the shizo, Ozzie. Let's settle down. 88 wins is damn good. Sometimes I wonder how the frick we won that many with that team.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 25, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) That's awesome. Why are they waiting for Wednesday to start this series, though? I mean, there has been plenty of time between the LCS's and now, plus you can have games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday if you start the series on Tuesday. Great post. Ridiculous to wait so long and have the rotations get all set up. I wish they'd just played it after a travel day.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 25, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) If the Yankees trade for a starter...they've been linked occasionally to Greinke as well. Yeah there's the whole psychological thing, but the Yankees have his brother in their org as well. I know Greinke was a minor distraction to the Royals this year in ripping the team a couple times and expressing his frustration, but if NY gets him, I would expect Zack to retire midway through the season. He already is a millionaire and has a severe problem mentally. Pitching in NY would likely throw him over the edge again. He credited the Royals for being patient with him during his recovery. He simply can't emotionally pitch in New York. It would be cruel to send Zack to the NY media market. zack should have shut up this year because for the betterment of himself emotionally he's in a perfect place with very little media/pressure.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 12:02 AM) I thought the Sox sold low on Swisher and that he was unlucky in his one year in Chicago, but I honestly never had any real problem getting rid of him. He did have more of a track record than Quentin does. What I've been trying to suggest is what was said above...that Quentin's value is far greater to the White Sox than anybody else. The Sox will view him as a guy who can hit 35 homers and put up a .900 OPS while playing adequate defense, while other teams will view him as an injury risk who is inconsistent and plays terrible defense. They're the same player, just different scenarios and differing opinions on the value of said player. I don't think the Sox are going to be able to find a better investment on the open market for $5 million, so they may as well stick with him one more year. If he doesn't do much this year, he will be let go because paying a guy $7 million to hit .240 and 25 home runs who does not play very good defense just is not smart. Off topic I thought Swish had an awful at bat in a crucial playoff spot when the ball hit him in the leg and as the color man said he "didn't even try to sell it" at all. He ended up making an easy out. I'm not a Swish fan.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 02:59 AM) Wow, back to lurking I go! Don't stop posting. I've been buried and lambasted before. They were just jokin with you. Post away. Just say no to lurking.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 04:08 AM) I still remember feeling my body temperature raise by 10 degrees when the Sox blew a game to Cleveland coming down the stretch. How did my remote control survive that night? I prefer to forget how I felt daily during that stretch "run." It would have been simply crushing and demoralizing to not even make the playoffs. Fortunately we got some help and the team pulled its head out enough to hold on. Then the great postseason run. I remember Astros fans being pretty confident going into that series. Fortunately we played great, clean baseball with great pitching and defense.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) To say the very least, that is how I felt, too. I'm positive that I took time off of my lifespan with all of the worrying/pressure/excitement. October of 2005 was consumed by the White Sox. I remember feeling very fortunate I had no conflicts and could watch every inning of that postseason. Was magical. The games were close but the sweep of the Astros was perfect. Nothing could have gone better.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 10:15 AM) Just can't please some folks. How many times do we hear every year, "Anybody but the Yankees." Then when we get some new blood we hear how it's going to be a s***ty series and nobody will watch. Honestly, I'm really starting to lose interest in playoff baseball (unless the Sox are there, of course). If anything, the ridiculous length of the games are what's going to keep people from tuning in. These games are just taking wayyyyyyyy too f***ing long. We're not even talking about 10-8 slugfests in which you expect the game to run longer. Even the low scoring games are taking forever. Tonight's game took 3:41 minutes. Are you serious? For a 3-2 score? And this has become a trend. I don't know what the hell can be done about it. But baseball has to come up with something. Buster Onley proposed a 15-20 second pitch clock. Sounds pretty crazy. But I'm not sure I'd be that against it. Excellent post IMO. Man, I agree if it's not the White Sox (or even the Flubs; I'd probably watch their entire game in the WS) I won't be watching every pitch. Games take forever. But we have some Rangers fans at work (many of you are probably running into Texas fans as well since Texas is such a HUGEEEEE state) and I'll watch the majority of the game(s).

QUOTE (kev211 @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 07:46 AM) Anybody else get crazy flashbacks when Rowand and Uribe were both on the field celebrating? That is crazy indeed. I wish them both well. Two great competitors. Uribe has been a fine NL player after his days with the Sox. Rowand is a former favorite of mine, though many on here hate him which is their prerogative of course.

QUOTE (T R U @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 09:23 AM) this world series is garbage, gonna be the lowest rated in a LONG time.. With all due respect and I mean no harm ... fans of both teams will tell you "f*** off." Seriously, it's a darn good WS in my mind. You know why? Cause both teams deserve to be there. Who gives a f*** about the ratings? Who gives a f*** that NY, Boston and the fricking Phillies are sitting home??? Not me. I like this WS. I like it a lot! And good luck to Texas overcoming the homecourt disadvantage since we lost the meaningless all star game. Yes the AL lost to the minor league NL. You listen to some people on here and the NL is like Class A baseball. I'm sure some people thought CWS vs. Houston was an awful WS as well. Uh, fans in Chicago (well some of Chicago) and Houston were darn happy to be there. I am surprised so many people care about ratings. f*** the ratings. Play ball!!!!

Touche. Those were good KW trades.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 03:50 AM) No sane GM would give up anything of value for CQ right now. CQ does need to go away; preferably to an NL team. You guys get mad at me for saying it, but I get tired of ex-Sox beating us all the time. Hide them in the NL, please.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Oct 23, 2010 -> 04:48 AM) I hope the rangers get swept in the World Series. f*** nolan ryan. What you got against Nolan? I'm happy for the Rangers. It's always good to see somebody new in the WS. Wow did Feliz have some stuff in the ninth (not that he needed that stuff to finish that one). Good for the Rangers. They've got the offense and a great ace and the other pitchers are good and/or very hot right now.

I'd hold onto Danks. If you have to trade a starter, try to get somebody to overpay for Buehrle. My one beef about Kenny is we never get ANYBODY to overpay in a trade IMO at least.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 22, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) Yup. I didn't go through it obviously. I still think I would get sick of hearing about them even if I had been old enough to experience it. I don't want it to be 2025 and having to refer back to '05 because the organization has done little to nothing since. That's all I meant. 2005 - awesome. Since then ... a surprise. I thought the Sox would continue excellence if not domination for some time to come. Right after the Sox won it all, I think there was a feeling the team might have a sustained run. Granted we haven't fallen off the map with some playoff appearances, but as it stands TODAY, the team certainly doesn't look like an AL champion contender for some time to come. Our everyday lineup is not championship caliber. Our pitching (on paper) IS championship caliber. Unfortunately our pitching has been far from consistent and our bullpen has been poor the past 2 seasons at least. 05 ... magical. Tear-inducing. Since then ... Tear inducing for the wrong reasons.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 21, 2010 -> 04:30 PM) I sure hope he's back as good as ever. We need him. Yes we do. We need a dominant ace to go with Danks, Jackson, Mark and Floyd.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 07:08 AM) ...and had a cigarette? QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 11:31 AM) I would imagine that at some point during a season, most managers think about quitting, retiring, etc. Especially guys who have been around for a long time, like LaRussa and Leyland. And some years when they say they are pondering it and leave the mdia and fans to guess, maybe they actually mean it. I would probably be very difficult to make that decision to retire. Maybe they actually need those few weeks to think about it, or maybe it is a tactic for more cash. As far as Leyland, though, for as good as a manager he is, he can smoke all he wants. Yes he can smoke all he wants, but he's gonna pay the piper for all that smoking someday. Unless he's very very lucky and one of those freakish guys that can smoke until he's 100 and have it not affect him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 01:44 PM) I think a large part of it was that they thought he just wasn't ready, he's only been a manager in the minors for a couple years and he's never dealt with major league managing in any capacity. I wonder if they won't try to get him on as a bench coach to get him up to the big league level. That bench coach thing makes sense. The strange thing is the guy is a Hall of Fame baseball player who has put in a few seasons in the minors. How "ready" do you have to be in baseball? It's also strange the Cubs are to the point it is a noncontender. Hope that doesn't happen to our Sox. It can happen seemingly in the blink of an eye. The Cubs were a nonfactor all summer.