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Thanks Freddie, you were awesome. Even in a bad year you toss consecutive one hitters for the first time in franchise history. Amazing stuff. So many wanted you gone even though you won 17. I guess it's time for Brandon. I hope he can do the job. Good luck Freddie.

Aboz that was one of the great posts of all time. Great comments. I agree with all. Awesome.

I'm amazed even our owner thinks the Cardinal hat is an issue. Amazing. Jerry is wrong on that one. The White Sox don't have to wear Sox hats and jerseys everywhere they go. It's a free country. Wasn't that pic of Mark taken by some fan? It's not like he paraded around telling people to take his pic and proclaiming his love for the Cards over the Sox. The guy is a Cardinal fan. Big deal. That said ... we might as well trade him to the Cards now. If I was Mark I'd be pissed and not want to pitch for the Sox anymore after the Reinsdorf slam.

I'd acquire him and demand he lose 50 pounds. Once he loses 50 he is allowed to pitch in AAA. He'll probably never make it big but what would it hurt to acquire him? His issue is laziness and/or weight. He's a big tub of goo.

I'm not as mad about the Freddie deal today. It's almost as if the Sox just released him as the Royals did Runelvys Hernandez. I happened to like Mr. One Hitter Freddie but so many fans hated him and there was so much talk about his non existent fastball maybe that's all we could get for him. That would be funny if Floyd beat out Brandon in spring training for that starting spot. Real funny.

The man broke the law. NOOOOOO. He should be in jail instead of that guy who won't testify.

Is Floyd the next Kip Wells? I say immediately make him a reliever.

That made me smile even though your dad I'm sure was mad. It's funny the way he worded it about the "two nothings." p.s. Is there really speculation we may want Bonds? My god, please say NO.

The thought of Bonds on the team I've followed for so many years makes me sick.

If the Sox sign Bonds I may take a pass on them until he retires. Bonds is everything wrong with sports ... everything! How can anybody deny that? The guy is a complete and utter ass and Mr. Steroids.

Yeah and that's why we're pissed, especially after reading KW's stance in the Trib. The panties in a bunch is offensive crap. We have a right to be moderately concerned at what has happened today. We basically released Freddie cause we got 2 guys that we have no use for right now.

Maybe this guy from the Phillies we got will be put in the pen. That might be a blessing in disguise.

I agree this is terrible press. It makes no sense. We had the city like you said and now we're going to get rid of all our starters in the next couple seasons? Sounds like Reinsdorf has turned into cheapo Reinsdork again. One title must be enough for him. How else can this be explained? We aint going to win World Series with the philosophy the Trib suggested. Hopefully the writer somehow messed up. He did probably have to write it quickly after the deal was announced. We just saved a lot of money on the Freddie deal so maybe before hte meetings end we'll have acquired some real players.

Why is the Trib propaganda? That writer is very fair, he's nothing like Moronotti. He said he asked KW flat out if all those starters would be out and he said yes. I wouldn't shoot the trib messenger.

I'm talking about that Trib article saying we're going to let all our starters go in the next 2 years. That ain't being the Marlins?

And fathom said it all. That article on our future is scary. Suddenly we've become the Marlins again. All about saving money. My god. After drawing all those millions of fans this year. What has happened in the last 24 hours? We've become a small market team again??? Sad, very sad. Oops this got added to my last post; wanted to make sure it was seen.

Man this sounds like one of those deals ALL about saving money. Horrible trade. Hopefully Gio Prism can be the new Marte, only better of course. This starter we got sounds really bad. We don't need the guy, that's what's baffling. We shoulda traded for proven relief or an outfielder. Stupid deal. It reeks of just saving money. Oh well, we basically traded Brandon for Freddie. Brandon gets to start now cause this guy isn't gonna beat out Brandon. And fathom said it all. That article on our future is scary. Suddenly we've become the Marlins again. All about saving money. My god. After drawing all those millions of fans this year. What has happened in the last 24 hours? We've become a small market team again??? Sad, very sad.

Yeah, that Aaron Rowand really sucks. He only was starting cf and team leader on a world championship team in a city that hadn't won one since the days of radio instead of TV. Bring back Aaron!

Too bad we had to give up Aaron in the first place. Anderson wasn't ready and it cost us dearly. I don't know why we had to trade him instead of "prospects" like the Yankees always used to do in deals. Lesson learned: Don't trade a guy unless you can replace him. You may hate Rowand, but his absence left a huge hole to fill.

Good thread. Why can't we sign him? We got it done with Paulie.

like you said, no bullpen for Brandon. Starter or minors. Or trade. He sucked in the pen.

sure he stunk, but maybe he'll be motivated. And now it'll be easier to insert one of our prospects if Scott is failing to get on base and steal in April and May. I'd rather have him and insert a young replacement from our farm system than bring in some average player and feel obligated to let that player rot all year.

I'd overpay for Ichiro. He and Iguchi. Priceless. Ichiro belongs in chicago.

When we trade Joe we need more than a Figgins. We need to steal some great players. Crede and Freddie need to bring a lot. It must be nice when we can bag on a guy who had the record of Freddie this past year.

It will be a sad day when we trade Joe. We're going to miss his picks at third base. Hope KW isn't this dumb.