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I was disappointed by Frank last year. He didn't do anything for a long time. Remember how clueless he was at the plate? It was pathetic at times as pointed out by Hawk on TV. That said, he finished nicely and alledegly is working his ass off for this season. If true, great. I'm glad we kept him. I'd rather have him have a tremendous season with us than somebody else, cause if we let him go you know we wouldn't replace him with squat since Reinsdork is so cheap.

Great post Cerbaho. That does indeed make sense. If Joe B is doing well and Carlos hasn't totally emerged as an All Star type player, you could be right, we trade Carlos at the time you suggest. On the other hand, Carlos still isn't going to bring much in a trade if he remains the Carlos we now know and love. A good, but not great player who can't field.

If scouts continue to love him, I hope we give Joe B every opportunity. Ditto Crede. We need these guys to be studs.

For some reason I like Lee a lot. I guess it's because his numbers are so much better than the stiffs the Sox paraded out there when I was a kid.

Nice post on Rowand but I cringe when I hear "best of all he's cheap." That's us stooping to the level of Reinsdork. It's his team. He could pay money if he wanted to. Instead he won't and we have a mediocre product, which I guess is better than a horses*** product like Mr. Wal-Mart puts on the field for the Royals. I do sort of like Rowand, though. His numbers won't be half bad, will they?

It is a disgrace we don't pound KC into the ground more. KC will be horrific next year ... again.

Glad D'Angelo is hitting well. We need him. I see Jose V is playing and is hitting .222 with over 100 at bats. Hope he isn't over the hill. I still like our infield of Crede, Jose V, Jimenez and Konerko. Hopefully Crede will continue on last year's success, Valentin will have a careeryear, and Jimenez will hit .300 and draw some walks. Don't you all agree our season hinges on Frank. The only way we're gonna do anything of note is if h excels, correct?

In my opinion, our worst enemy is Reinsdork. The second is KW. There's no way we're going to win anything meaningful this year unless Frank hits .340 with 44 home runs and returns to the Frank of old by luck.

Bringing back Lofton would make me puke. p.s. I sure hope Alomar doesn't play much. Alomar cannot hit the baseball. The guy will be lucky to get 20 singles next year.

Alomar is such a stiff. I hope Olivo does well enough he can play 130 games. Are you folks high onOlivo? Is he a star in the making? Sandy can only hit singles and is so slow. I pray he plays 20 games at most.

I liked the article. He's right. We are incapable of getting it right. We aren't going to win the division with our starters, folks. It's that simple. It's Mark B., then mediocrity. And it scares me to think Ritchie may be back.

If we make any of these trades, I'm out. Not that anybody would care, but if we make a batch of bad trades, I will get a new hobby.

wow, baggs and spat are back. Keep Konerko!

I agree with chick. I'd have hung up immediately. No way I trade Maggs for anybody. I can't believe how people sometimes take for granted the stars we've got. Trading Maggs for anybody in baseball is insane!

how could any team be dumb enough to sign royce?

I Would not deal all those guys for Vladdy. The key is to grab big salary guys off teams like the Expos for fricking prospects who suck. It happens all the time like the Royals' miserable trades for dye, damon, et. all. We always give up too much. Aren't you all sick of giving up too much in trades??

i wouldn't mind dealing harris.

Trading Crede for anybody would be asinine. Not playing guys we developed would be asinine. Keep our homegrown players for gosh sakes!

cause we always have to overpay. we have a gm who gives away too much.

i agree. we always give up too much. we get robbed every time.

i hate to be the eternal pessimist, but i think we gave up too much. comments?

I agree they are all overpaid, but I'm glad they gave Konerko big bucks. Let's face it, we're never going to win anything of great significance since we don't pay big bucks. And I agree Mark B. is gone as soon as he can sign with St. Looie. He's out of here. We don't pay money. Period.

Trading Wright would be a huge mistake. The guy had a good season. That trade you suggested in the first thread would be a disaster down the line for the Sox. Again, we have to be like normal teams when making a trade. To send some fricking stiff prospects for the expensive player we want. Other teams rob us and if we do what you want we will be robbed again. Lee and Wright alone are way too much, not to mention those other guys. What we have in many cases isn't half bad.

Belive me folks, we don't want Perez. I am in KC and he is horrible. He is hated hated hated here. He is way worse than Royce. He is pathetic. Stay away from this guy!

I like Valentin cause with him at ss we won the division by a zillion games. After he got moved all over the place we sucked and have sucked ever since. I know ... he's not the only reason we won the division that year, but I sort of liked Valentin ever since that season. For some reason I still like him. Good points in the other post about Mark B and Maggs being our heart and soul. Seems to me we've got 5-7 great players and we need to fill in better around them. With our payroll restrictions it may be impossible to do.