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Can we sign Frank for the day? He crushed Wakefield and had a three home run game off him way back when. Anyway, with Wakefield pitching and Saltalamacchia catching, we better be running all day long. Wakefield obviously slows throw and takes time to deliver it, and Saltalamacchia has an AJ-esque awful arm. Pierre should run all day long, ditto for Sexy, Lilli, Viz and Bacon.

I think there are two reasons Danks doesn't go to the bullpen. First, the Sox either want to re-sign him or trade for solid minor leaguers. Putting him in the bullpen doesn't help in either endeavor. And second, there isn't anyway, the Sox are going to carry four lefties in the bullpen. Jackson is the guy who goes, I am pretty confident in that. Thank god Humber pitched well again.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 08:45 AM) Agreed. Ideally I'd love to see a major upgrade over Bogans and stick with the rest of what we have. My only worry is that major upgrade over Bogans can only come via a trade when you are going to have to sacrifice some strong assets. My assumption is based on the new CBA which probably won't have the MLE.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 08:41 AM) The problem is that we then become as weak at the 3 as we were at the 2 last year. Honestly I am not sure even in a bubble that I would trade Deng for Ellis because of the defense that Lu brings. He pretty well bottled up the best player in the NBA for a playoff series. That is saying something. Yeah that is the big question. I am big Deng fan. I think Brewer can replace Deng in the defensive starting role, but then you need to replace Brewer as the defensive player off the bench, which Bogans can do. But then you gotta replace Bogans' defensive role. I think it only makes sense if the Bulls know they can find that defensive wing in the draft.

Monte Ellis an an option? http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2011...e-guy-to-do-it/ Kawakami is real tuned into the Warriors, so this isn't like Phil Rogers saying something. I would love Ellis; to me he is a better and a little bigger Ben Gordon. He would obviously have to start playing defense better, but as an offensive option, he is pretty much the ideal 2-guard partner for DRose. I am guessing the Bulls would have to give up Deng + Taj or Asik. I would contemplate giving up the Bobcats' pick instead of Taj or Asik as I think that pick will be a lottery one, but likely not top 5. By trading Deng, you move Ronnie to the small forward spot and then can draft a purely defensive wing in the draft to replace Deng's defense, but finding a defensive wing is much easier than finding a 25-point-per-game scorer in the draft. Thoughts? Is this better than what we currently have when defense is taken into the situation? PG-Rose SG-Ellis SF-Brewer PF-Boozer C-Noah PG-Watson SG-Bogans SF-Korver C-Thomas One of Asik/Gibson. SG/SG - Draft (Malcolm Lee of UCLA?) PF/C - Draft (JaJuan Johnson of Purdue?)

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 31, 2011 -> 11:13 PM) I still feel like Dunn will hit 40 hrs this year. Nothing he's done supports that idea, but I can't see him not eventually hitting hrs. I am hoping he hits just 20. Ain't no way he touches 40.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 31, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) Half marathon actually and I run about 5 miles every other day but I've never really tried to push myself much more than that, I think I'm capable of doing a decent amount more if need be. And it's the Rock n Roll half Chicago Marathon on August 14th. For a half, I would just continue with the mileage you are at, and add one long run every weekend. I would work up to about 14 miles as your longest so you know mentally you can cover the half-marathon distance. Since it's over two months away, and you have a good base as is, you are in a great spot. If I calculated it right, you have 10 weekends before race weekend, so I would just do something like this: Week 1 (June 4 weekend): 7 miles Week 2: 7 miles W3: 9 miles W4: 9 miles W5: 11 miles W6: 11 miles W7: 14 miles W8: 11 miles W9: 8-10 miles W10: 8 miles Race weekend.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 31, 2011 -> 11:11 AM) IIRC, Fernando was famous for his screwball and eventually blew up his arm doing it. Danny Wright used to throw a screw ball, although it was more of a slurve than anything. Oh god, now I just had thoughts of Corwin Malone, Matt Ginter, Brian West, Josh Stewart, Mike Porzio and the like...

last screwballer I can remember was Jim Mecir.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 30, 2011 -> 08:17 PM) Rumor has it Pryor is done at OSU, so probably. Do you mean suspended? Or leave on his own volition? If the latter, where would he go? There likely will not be a supplemental draft for the NFL this year, so that's out. Transferring to another D-1 school makes no sense as he would have to sit out a year. Transferring to a D-2 school also is just asinine.

HOLY MOLY!

Oh yes, AJ against a lefty, how will this end?

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 30, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) This team should fear the wrath of KW. It's in the air. The man is upset. Accountability is coming. 6/2/2011. Fires will burn. I envision this line being used often: "Yea so I signed you to be good, but you aren't, so now I'm trading that ass." Unfortunately there appears to be no accountability of his own. He is the key reason this team is in shambles, not Ozzie. While Ozzie is certainly a major problem, Kenny is the biggest culprit in this entire organization.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 30, 2011 -> 06:01 PM) Baseball by far is the most statistically-centric team sport there is. And Ozzie continuously ignores them. I actually didn't think he was that bad initially. But he feels a sense of ultimate entitlement since '05. And it doesn't hurt that Hawk seems to give Ozzie all the credit for the 4 complete games against the Angels. "No manager in the game would've had the stones to leave their guys in that long." Something to that degree. And I hate how he always references 2005 as if that is that recent. That was six years ago now. Recent in sports is last month, not six years.

My biggest argument about Ozzie that he is a gut-first manager and seemingly doesn't care about statistics. Regardless of your view about sabermetrics vs. naked-eye scouting, statistics can tell you a whole hell a lot on how to manage in certain situations, and it appears that Ozzie doesn't even consult them. Key example was the Corey Patterson base hit where Omar should have been against Thornton on that hit-and-run. I wish I could find a spray chart for Patterson, but he clearly is a dead pull hitter. And Oswaldo goes ahead and allows Omar to cover second instead of Alexei. That is about as egregious as it gets, especially since the Sox have the spray charts which would say he pulls it like 90% of the time.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 30, 2011 -> 05:21 PM) That's not happening. There are three certainties in this uncertain world in which we live: the sun rising in the east, Adam Dunn striking out at least once per start and the Sox not going above slot during the draft.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 30, 2011 -> 11:58 AM) As DFA'ing Peña is a pride thing for KW, benching Pierre in favor of Viciedo is a pride thing for Ozzie. He is firm in his belief that a leadoff hitter must be a speedy, lefty batter with little power. To take PA's away from Pierre in order to get Viciedo more playing time would be against his entire baseball philosophy. So no matter how obvious it may be to anyone else on Earth that Viciedo needs to be in this lineup taking away at-bats from Pierre, it won't be done on Ozzie's watch. KW could bring him up, but Ozzie would just force him to ride the bench 5 days a week. I'm confident that the conversation has actually happened at some point, but Ozzie has the upper hand since he can just say "I won't play him" and KW cannot make him play him because he has no power to fire Ozzie because of Reinsdorf. So the great and powerful Oz has spoken. And the funny thing is that Viciedo had the second best OPS on the team last year. It was over 100-plus at-bats, too, so while the sample size isn't large, it still is a meaningful number of at-bats. And he goes on to rake in AAA this year. And he raked in Spring Training. The kid has done everything under his control. Meanwhile we give the most at-bats on our team to one of the worst players in the Majors at the very position that Viciedo would be playing with us.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 30, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) Flowers has a nice line going right now in AAA, Ide rather he be up here than AJ's sorry ass.. Danks, who knows.. and Dayan is ready to be here too.. plus, cheap Oh I agree with Flowers, it's actually pretty hard to be as bad as AJ. He pretty much the worst starting catcher in the Majors.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 30, 2011 -> 03:29 AM) If we start trading off pieces I really hope Viciedo, Flowers, and Danks are all up and playing a LOT And judging by every other Sox prospect, I am sure Danks will K at an Adam Dunn-rate and Flowers will suck as well. I am confident in Dayan to be a stud since he sported a sexy .840 OPS last year.

I would love OSU to get Bo Pelini. It would be a match made in heaven. A current scumbag to replace a another scumbag.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ May 30, 2011 -> 12:19 PM) I'm glad you guys agree about RIP. To me, he is also a very good 6th man candidate at this point, but nothing more. I think it would be nice to pick him up, but at the same time, I still think we should pick up someone else. Rip is a great starting 2-guard option IMO. Gonna hit the open shots, great passer, can handle the ball, veteran with experience (finals included) and a solid defender with length. Big problem with him is the injury risk. He has played 55, 46 and 67 games the last three years. Injury trends like this are obviously not good. I would love to sign him on the cheap assuming he is bought out. But then at some point we are going to be back to square one when he is injured. I love him as a player though, so I think it makes perfect sense to bring him aboard as one of the solutions next year, though not the solution.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 29, 2011 -> 10:07 AM) Saw Hangover 2 yesterday, pretty freaking hilarious. Just saw it. I think I laughed more in the second one than the first. Probably because there was more anticipation in the second. Very raunchy and disgusting.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 29, 2011 -> 07:15 PM) I think we're going to have to wait awhile before judging this Hudson deal, simply because we don't know what/if anything we'll get back for him in trade and/or compensation picks. Still, it's not comparable to the Ritchie for K.Wells/Fogg/Lowe deal where we gave up 2 1/2 starters (a long man who could occasionally start in Lowe) and then saw the White Sox suffer for another 2-3 years with the back end of the rotation depth largely because of that one move (and injuries), but it's the same idea, since Hudson was cost-controlled for 6 years and Jackson/Manny Ramirez were "roll the dice/go for broke" moves with inadequate thought to the long-term organizational consequences for making those moves. Luckily for KW, he might have found some help with Humber and a healthy Peavy, but Sale's got to work out for this to make sense for the Sox in the next 2 seasons. I find it hard to believe that Hudson (or Richard) would be putting up #2 or #3 starter numbers with the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, etc. One thing is for certain, they felt Jackson was a lot more capable than Hudson of getting on a roll at the major league level last year. That's the only logic for making this particular move. And I'm not sure why anyone is suprised when we're 6-22 going back to whenever in TOR, which is basically a victory less than 1 win in 4 games every trip/series up there. I don't think the Sox can afford to offer Jackson arbitration. Trading him is the only way, IMO, to get anything for him.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 29, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) I'm tempted to buy tickets to the next home game for the sole purpose of booing him. I wanna go, too, and boo Ozzie, Juan, Adam, Alex, etc.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 29, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Five years would be under incompetent direction. Big market team like the Sox should be two years. How? We have no farm system. We can't spend in free agency. We have few economically friendly players.