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Since there are so few posts early in this offseason. Here are my grades for the Sox as to how they performed this past season. Please add yours. I will not include all the Sox. Paulie - A Iguchi- B plus. Uribe - C Crede - A AJ - A minus. Thome - A Pods - C-minus, D plus Anderson C-minus. Dye - A plus. Buehrle - C minus. Jose Contreras - B Garland - B Freddie - C Vaz - C Brandon - C minus Jenks - A Riske - C minus MacDougal - C Cotts - D Thornton - C Cintron - C Gload - C Ozuna - C Mack - C. I am not high on our bench. Oz - B (we did win 90 games) Cora - D Walker - C Cooper - C minus Needs for next year: Get rid of Pods; upgrade there. Need bullpen overhaul Let Brandon start; trade one of the starters to make room for him

It's amazing how many people overlook the guys on the current team. There are very few better than Dye. DDD. Don't Deal Dye. Seriously some people need to get over this love of the unknown. You ain't going to get better than Dye. And for the money? My gawd he is underpaid!!

He'll be worthless next year. He'll be "tired" since he's playing an extra month or so like our team last year. I'm still sick of that argument our team was worn out.

Is there any serious talk of us getting Ichiro? I love that guy. He's being wasted in Seattle. How bout Brandon and Fields for Ichiro? I mean this is Ichiro??

The Tigers are last year's White Sox revisited. Give em the trophy now. And please Tigers, be tired and underachieve next year as we did this season.

Keep dumping money into the stadium; make it look better and better. This is a non story. Who cares?

Is Brian Anderson the next Jeremy Reed? Just wondering. What makes Brian a better prospect than Reed?

Taken off the AP wire tonight. You still want A-Rod?? He is a loser. Paid too much. Give me a hard worker anyday. The Hackensack Record They talk about pinstripe tradition, but the roster is plagued by petty rivalries and jealousies that act as a cancer in the postseason. Derek Jeter can’t stand Alex Rodriguez and refuses to come to his defense. Mike Mussina doesn’t like A-Rod, either, although, come to think of it, the Stanford grad hasn’t much use for any of his teammates. No one talks to Johnson. Everyone thinks Carl Pavano is a joke. The Yankees’ best pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang, is isolated by his limited knowledge of English. On and on, the list of dysfunctions keeps going. Instead of a dynasty, the Yankees have become a newer version of the Braves — consistently outplayed by younger, hungrier teams such as the Diamondbacks (2001), the Angels (2002 and 2004), the Marlins (2003) and now the Tigers. Steinbrenner has only two choices now: He can fire Torre or trade A-Rod. They’re the ones who must answer to the Yankees’ consistent underachievement. By all accounts, The Boss already has decided it’s Torre who’ll go, ready to replace him with Lou Piniella

Why would so many of you want this guy? He defines losing. He batted eighth the other day. It turned into the sideshow. Why did he bat him eighth? Cause Torre is sick of him, just like Oz was sick of lightbat Brian Anderson. Leave ARod to rot in NY. As long as he is there we won't have to worry about NY winning it. Keep Crede should be our rallying cry. Just say no to AROD and keep Joe.

It probably is too simplistic a story for the Chicago papers to write about, but maybe whitesox.com's writer could do a story on what exactly is the schedule for our "tired" pitchers this offseason. Do they simply do nothing throwing wise from now until January? Do they throw a little bit? Admittedly I have no clue what guys do right after the season til spring training nears. Do they completely shut it down??? Will Mark B even pick up a ball for the next 3 months?? Man ... there will be no tired excuse next year. Our boys have a lot of time to think about how much they underachieved this season.

If they hire Piniella, no way they deal A-Rod. If Torre stays, I bet he's dealt. I don't want A-Rod on the Sox. He will be a major cancer. Why do you think he's booed at Yankee Stadium and the Rangers were horrible with the guy?? He makes too much cash. He belongs in NY with the Yankees with that salary.

How can anyone be wrong who has an opinion about baseball? Do we need go get out our resumes? Yes I played the game. Yes I follow the White Sox closely and have for a long time.

Sometimes you guys astound me. You act like a simple post on the message board is something I'm 100 percent behind. I thought these places were for fun discussion of topics rather than everybody agreeing with each other. Maybe I want your opinion on whether Moyer or Redman would be a good idea. Maybe I've seen the spark Guiel shows in KC and WONDER if we should take him instead of somebody like Mack. And throw out there what if we got Bonds and Griffey? I'm sure I'll tire of this before too long and you'll have one less guy to throw out some unpopular ideas. --and getting my opinion from ESPN, not really. But I follow the media and the papers and I'm sure they do influence opinion and at least help shape it. But like anybody else I hear something and agree or disagree with it. p.s. Don't discount the money issue with the "pansies" as you called them. Nowadays money is very important to how these guys view each other I bet. True since Jeter gets almost as much, maybe that's a bit different.

The one bright spot is if we get Arod he will continue to want to prove he can win a ring. Can Uribe play third? I'd rather have Arod at ss than Uribe.

Maybe you are right. I hope so; cause I think we really could get him. But we'll have to give up Crede and I do love Joe.

Regardless, Uribe is a talent who should take instruction and become the hitter he can be.

15 mill; my gawd. Give me a break. Spend it elsewhere.

Rowand ... he makes so much more money than any of his peers thus he in the clubhouse IS A CANCER What is so hard to understand about that? We don't need him or want him. His contract is a joke; I don't care who pays it. He is an aberration and would ruin the White Sox.

Again, ARod makes way too much money. Don't you guys ever see the intangibles are important? did you read Gonzalez's Q and A in the Trib where he said unnamed sources in the clubhouse told him Rowand WAS missed big time?? You don't want A Rod to ruin the team. He makes WAY TOO MUCH MORE than the other Sox. It is unhealthy in this day and age. Say No to A-Rod. Please. As far as Thome, he doesn't make the jack ARod does. Let NY be stuck with ARod. My gawd sometimes people amaze me.

Yankee fans hate A-Rod. Ranger fans hate A-Rod. Why would we want him to ruin our team as well? Makes no sense. He makes way too much more than any current White Sox and as such will be a major distraction. Let him rot in New York please.

Tigers are looking very good. Congrats to their fans. The Tigers are for real. I hope they win it all so next year they will be the weary underachievers like we were in trying to defend this year.

Why would anybody in their right mind want A-Rod. He defines LOSING. He makes way too much money. There is jealousy in the clubhouse and his teams cannot get it done. Pass on that guy please.

Whatever happened to that guy, Jim, who used to post on here. Did some of the calmer, more reasonable posters leave town?

Wow another person brought up Redman. It just might happen. GO SOX.

Good stuff, The Critic. I agree 100 percent. Everything else is fine. You hit the nail right on the head (my cliche of the day).