Whitewashed in '05

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 14, 2009 -> 10:21 PM) The Hangover was dissapointing. There are some funny moments, but the idea had so much more potential. Anyone? Saw Hangover on Saturday. I thought it was hilarious. What didn't you like about it?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 10:36 AM) The Sox won't get draft picks for Dye, unfortunately. To get draft picks, we'd have to offer up arbitration and thus pretty much guaranteeing he gets an 11M or so contract from the Sox next season as I highly doubt anyone else offers very substantial money to Dye. I think best case Dye gets a 3yr 24M offer and maybe he takes it, but that is a best case scenario and the reason the Sox wouldn't offer him arbitration (unless of course they don't mind bringing him back and to be honest, if you could get him at 2yrs 15-16M, it isn't a bad idea, but with the plan on using him more in a DH role where he plays less in the OF or at least plays over in FL). I tend to agree you probably don't get a ton for Dye, but you also have to remember that you maybe get $5M in savings that was budgeted this year. So if the Sox than take that 5M and budget into the international market or futher move it to next years budget than I might be okay with it. But they still would have to get some sort of piece in return. To me Dotel (unless we trade Jenks/Thornton) is the most valuable piece in a trade. That's true, didn't think of that. The thing is KW doesn't like sending cash in trades. He'll usually take the fringe prospect over sending cash. If the sox re-sign him I am sure it's with the intention of sticking him back out in RF. I mean the other day I heard DJ talk about how he's given the sox gold glove caliber defense in RF for the past couple years.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 09:05 AM) Anyone else see where CLE beat KC 4-3 in the 10th on a hit off a bird? Seagull saves the day for CLE. Pretty bizarre. Haha thanks for pointing that out. I didn't see that until you mentioned it. Brought back memories of Johnson's KO of that bird. What about Ozuna chasing the squirrel in LF!!!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 10:18 AM) Per Ken Rosenthal: The White Sox may not receive good prospects in return if they deal Jermaine Dye, since "few clubs, if any" can afford to take on his $11.5MM salary and surrender top young players in the same deal. IF there's a firesale, unless the Sox are trading Jenks or Thornton, I really don't see how they are going to get top prospects, and with Dotel a soon to be FA, I don't know if I would want KW to trade away and weaken a strength just to acquire guys you can't be sure will do as well. If teams don't want to give up anything worthwhile for an impact bat like Dye's then I'd rather get the draft picks and see if the sox can make a run in the process of keeping their players.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) I'd say that losing 3 out of 5 and being 28-33 in a bad division says a lot more about the makeup of this team than "only losing the three games by 1 run each." The bottom line is that the Sox aren't that good this year, and won't be competitive in the playoffs if they're lucky enough to make it there. If the Sox are back up at .500 three or four weeks from now, I'd like to see Kenny stand pat. But if they fall back further or if Detroit really surges ahead, Kenny needs to put out feelers for Dye, Dotel, and possibly AJ as well (I'm assuming that their NTCs make Paulie and Thome un-tradeable at this point). PK said earlier in the season he wouldn't handcuff the team if they tried to trade him if they fall out of the race. While Thome hasn't said anything, at least not that I know of, time is running out for him. I would like to think he wouldn't reject.

While I am not advocating a fire sale yet, yes each game we lost were very close vs the Tigers, but the lack of execution by the offense throughout the season is worrisome. CQ is often injured, Thome's DL stint is inevitable, Getz has been up and down this season, then if PK goes down for any extended period of time you have Fields who was garbage offensively and defensively at first to replace him? Not only that, but you have a question marks at the 4th and 5th spots in the rotation. Yes, Richard has been pretty good since inserted, but how long will he hold up? He has no track record to fall back on to say he can make it through a whole season, during a playoff race. Then you have Contreras, while he looked great in his first start back how long before he starts walking 4 or 5 guys a game? How long until he gets injured? Colon doesn't even need explanation as his stuff has left him for good. Not to mention our defense that has cost us some games itself, though most of those errors were Betemit. It's just not an easy call.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 11:08 PM) He was 3rd. Who are the first two?

I've been meaning to ask was Beckham the first prospect from the 08 draft to hit the big leagues?

QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:34 PM) Gordo may only have 2 hits, but unlike Josh he doesn't look completely overmatched and is striking out every AB. He's making solid contact it's just right at people. If Paulie's on the DL I hope he we get some Brandon Allen action. I mean the only other options would be Ward or Kroeger is suppose, but I'd rather see Allen then either. I'd sure as s*** rather see Ward than Wise though as far as a lefty off the bench who can also back-up first... You want to call up Allen??!?!!?? That means Josh will need more explanation!!!!

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:30 PM) This is off topic but Whitewashed,you got the coolest avater ever... Haha thanks... and I was thinking about maybe changing it in the future... one day.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 09:25 PM) Agreed, he's going to win the Cy Young A little early to discount Halladay don't you think? I know Detroit's chances of being a playoff team are greater, but still.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 6, 2009 -> 08:03 PM) He is great in a secondary role, but horrible as the star. Exactly my feeling.

I was at a friends house and we were messing with his dog. Basically making him bark at us and run around the room by scaring him. He proceeded to jump out the window except that the screen was still down so he popped the screen off and kept running around like a chicken with his head cut off. While it was funny it would have been funnier had the window been wide open.

The Pods pickoff was bad on all levels. Not only was this rookie already looking really shaky, but we had the heart of the order coming up. Had we got at least that one run, who knows he could have completely unraveled. Just a real poor effort on the hitters parts tonight. Then they brought in Ziegler and Breslow who have been lit up by everyone and they still get nothing.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 2, 2009 -> 09:44 PM) Man, thinking about baseball cards makes me sad. I went thru so much trouble to score Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas, and Sammy Sosa rookie cards (had the Sosa before he really blew up and before people started talking about steroids). My dad had albums he made that were probably worth a few hundred, between the baseball and basketball cards. Now they're probably all worthless. I had a few decent ones. Can't remember without looking, but I know I got a Ventura rookie card who was my favorite as a kid. I remember getting a bunch of BJ Surhoffs anytime I bought a pack of cards and getting pissed.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 04:19 PM) Yeah, $9 is much better than $23. :-) Having the football stadium there makes tailgating easy as well. We paid $8 last week when I went to see the Angels and Sox in Anaheim. Talk about cheap...

QUOTE (knightni @ May 30, 2009 -> 02:17 PM) The internet can be your friend if you let it. They removed it a while ago from youtube and haven't checked since. Thanks.

Does anyone have the Crede montage when returning as a twin?

I also had my doubts about him, but he's really proving he can be a good starter at the major league level. He's got a lot of confidence in himself right now. He looks damn good.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 17, 2009 -> 01:55 PM) So suddenly Gavin Floyd stinks and we have two good starters. Our third best is Bartolo Colon. Many of you knew Gavin was a fluke. Our scouts and baseball people thought he was good enough to reward monetarily. Lexi is hitting .212, Fields .231, Miller .214 and Lilly .164. Quentin is hurt and may keep getting hurt because opposing pitchers plunk him constantly. Getz is down to .240. We can't come close to beating a real team like Toronto. It's gonna be a long summer. I told myself I was going to give this team until the end of May to declare this season a failure, but that's hard to do with the way they're playing. Trying to stay optimistic by saying its a rough patch, but they're really showing it's a rough season.

Holy crap! Our season is saved!!!! GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!

This has to be the worse organization from year to year with situational hitting.

This is 07 baseball here. They need to get healthy and a lot of people need to step up or else it's gonna be a looong season. The only starting pitcher doing good is Buehrle... That won't work.

A lot of you mentioned how good Hawk was today What did he say exactly?

It's too early to call anyone Cy Young right now. Grienke is on fire right and and he's got real good stuff, but it's just to early.