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Richard is a question mark, but looks like he has a future. Carrasco did OK for the most part but by no means is above average, Linebrink very good when healthy, Dotel is an overpaid bum, Thornton is dandy; Jenks is a god.

Yes players are capable of bouncing back after bad years. But Swisher truly sucked. If he would have played like the guy everybody thought we were getting it would have severely lessened the loss of CQ. But he sucked so bad Ozzie wouldn't even play him down the stretch. Maybe he can bounce back. But he truly sucked. He was as bad as Paulie and Paulie got roasted on here; Swish got manlove.

That 77 team was one of the best in sports history to watch all summer. Once everybody went back to school not so good. For a summer to remember that was glorious though.

he.will.be.fine? Maybe. I look at the stats and see a horrific batting average. Worse than that, my own eyes made me sick seeing him at the plate much of his first year in Chicago. I will root for him if we keep him, and KW hugging him and saying, 'Start over in spring training' makes me believe we will keep him. But to ask somebody to praise Swisher after that horses*** season in which Oz was so sick of watching him bat he benched his ass, is asking a lot.

I wish I could do my job as poorly as Octavio Dotel and have somebody deem my performance a success. Is baseball so out of pitching that Dotel is considered good? My god that guy when he is bad, and he was bad a lot, is horrific. I'd agree with Steve Stone's assessment that Thornton was good to great; Dotel was sickeningly bad at times.

I have a question: If you think Fields would get us Figgins, then you are assuming the Angels think Fields is as good as Figgins. If so why wouldn't we just play Fields over Figgins? Laird sounds like a nice backup catcher choice. I'd pass on Pedro.

Bunting may be a bad idea but we need to start bashing line drives the opposite way to go with the long ball.

Kalapse why would that team be a certain disaster? If all went well, my rotation would be good. Javy might contribute in middle relief. The lineup would be faster. We've still got Quentin, Dye, Lexi, AJ and Swish, who so many love, on the team. Why would my team suck balls? Please explain.

Here's a good one. Would yu guys be willing to risk one mere season to finally find out if we have any players in our organization? We go with Getz at second, Lexi at ss and Fields at third and Swish at first. We go with Carlos in left, Owens/Wise in cf and Dye in right. We go with AJP as catcher and Thome as DH. We only trade Paulie to whomever he wants to be traded to. If we can't trade him, then we trade Jimmy to a team he'll go to. Just one trade with one of the big boppers involved if they agree. The trade is for a backup catcher prospect who actually can spell AJP, get some hits and throw people out. We need to rest AJP more. We keep Mark, Floyd, Danks and Clayton as our starters with Poreda No. 5. We move Javy to bullpen, huge salary be damned in this one season experiment. We keep the same bullpen corps. Our speed allegedly would be better if the guys could get on base. We see where it takes us. Would you do it? Guys ... isn't there a chance this team could win? We'd be faster in theory. If you dismiss my idea, at least tell me how you think the team I put on the field would fare. Remember our s***ty division.

Can you imagine playing the Cubs 18 times like the Yanks must do the Bosox? I don't know about you guys, but I wish baseball had a balanced schedule. That way we'd know really what kind of team we had. This year at least it worked out that KC, Det and Cleveland just weren't very good, though Cleve was good the last seven weeks or so.

I love Granderson. I'd love to have Bartlett at least the Bartlett that hits against us. I realize Grandy is probably the face of the Tigers and they'd never ship him to us. WHen's he become a free agent? What bout Bartlett. When he a free agent?

Good deal big russ. Not getting on you, I'm just tired of Figgins talk for some reason.

Wikipedia is impressed by his one triple in the gaps. I'm logging into the chat room now if anybody wants to talk baseball. Oops I cant find the chat option. Weird.

That really was a crazy quote by KW, sort of daring Ozzie to play Owens, Getz, Fields. He defended himself saying there was speed in the organization, but he understood why Oz wanted to play veterans. He even said Getz reminded him of a Twinkie type player.

Is his stolen base ratio that good? I know it's a different position, but seriously wouldn't Owens put up Figgins like numbers if he played all year? One triple? One home run? He did hve a good series vs. Boston I'll give him that. After his 0-for-5 he was an on-base machine.

Is that story an urban legend or did that guy really do that? If so that guy should throw out the first pitch next year. To wait and wait patiently for them to suck in the first round? What a mastermind.

We need to ship him back to the Royals. They actually might take him back as the righty bridge before the Mexicutioner with their lefty set in that guy whose name I forget. Dotel is one of those guys who sounds good during the Hot Stove League and you get him and he's not worth the cash.

Yes but every year all we hear about is Figgins, Figgins Figgins. Let's see he hit .276 this year in 116 games with a whopping 22 RBIs. He had 34 stolen bases and was caught 13 times. He's 30 years old. He hit one home run and had 14 doubles and one triple. One measly triple. He had 62 walks so his OBP was .367. He struck out 80 times. He scored 72 runs. Am I missing something here?? Oh I forgot, he's not on our team and we don't see him every day, so he's great.

I hope all of you are right about Swish bouncing back. The Swish I saw this season was a wreck at the plate. He sucked.

0-50. Just kidding, but something like that.

Is anybody else getting sick of hearing the name Chone Figgins on our board? Or should I just get over it? f*** Chone Figgins.

Can you imagine how great it is as a big league hitter to see Boone Logan come in? They are licking their chops ready to bash the ball. MacDougal the same if they want to draw a walk and up their on base percentage. Yet they might get beaned so there's some danger there. And if the bad Dotel shows up?? Wham. The problem there is there's a 40 percent chance the good Dotel might be on the mound.

Great sarcasm. Trade everybody. We could go to every roster and say the same about their players. Memo to all teams: Trave everybody, your guys are either too old, or playing well and are at their optimum value. Trade 'em.

Those ladies should shut the bleep up. Did they say it mean or conversationally? If they let you talk to their kids the whole game they must have thought you were a decent enough fan. That's like doing the wave. The people who don't do it got yelled at. Big deal.

I definitely get the point. Good line about the pregnant turtle. Paulie's pop ups certainly are annoying. When he gets his pitch and drives it like that beautiful homer in the final game vs. the Rays, he's a thing of beauty.