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I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet! CNN

Blew what? The chance to show that they are stupider than the Giants by giving a 3 year deal worth more than $12.5 million to a 38 year old shortstop? Yeah, ok. :rolly

Ritchie: see my sig Alomar 2003: are you f***ing kidding me? Salvo was released, Almonte was released by two organizations, and Royce Ring was demoted to AA and is now unprotected for the rule 5 draft. Roberto replaced Jimenez's crappy defense, and taught Harris some things about second. Alomar 2004: Desperation move made by KW. The team was on a 7 game losing streak, Uribe hit .123 for July, and Harris was hitting .188 in July. It sucked but we didn't give up much. Everett 2003: Was a much need offensive upgrade in CF. Rowand was still recovering from his dirt bike accident, Harris and Borchard were called up to play CF. Frankie Francisco was good for the Rangers for the first half of the season (came up in May too,) but struggled in the second half and tossed a chair at a fan. Rupe is putting up decent numbers in the Rangers' AA system, and Webster is now left unprotected for the rule 5 draft. Everett 2004: Frank went down, and we needed a bat to fill the void left by him. The trade was made in the middle of July when many teams were still competitive, so there weren't many options to get a replacement bat. Everett was pretty good when he first got here, but Ozzie get misusing him, and Everett got hurt. Why was Everett trying to steal second? We gave up Jon Rauch, who has battled injuries, and was given 3 chances to impress the Sox, and he only did well when the Sox were out of it in September of 2002. Not surprisingly, he pitched pretty well with a pressure-less team, the Expos. Oh, he also when on the DL (again) when he was with the Expos. We also gave up Gary "the cat" Majewski. What does it say when a team loses a guy in the rule 5 draft, gets the guy back, trades the guy to LA for Osuna, and then receives him back for Baldwin? (another trade that you whine about for some reason :rolly ) I think a lot of people are forgetting that we receive cash from the Expos, so we only paid Carl Everett the league minimum for 2004. We also paid the league minimum for Robbie and Everett back in 2003. Koch trade: Horrible trade. Foulke was a whiney b**** who failed in the closer's role in 2002. He wanted it back, but Manuel decided to use Osuna and Marte. Foulke padded his numbers once he was removed from the closer's role. Hindsight 20/20, it was a horrible trade. JR didn't want to pay FOULKE $6 million in 2003, so they decided to pay Koch less in 2003, but guarantee him a second year worth a little more than what they would have paid Foulke. The worst possible scenario happened as Koch blew both years he was here, and Foulke was excellent in 2003. Colon: You're going to b**** about that? He raped the Expos for Colon, and JR and KW offered him the largest contract for a pitcher in White Sox history (rumored to be around $36-39 million,) but he turned it down for a much larger deal in Anaheim. He had 18 wins with the Angels in 2004, but his ERA was over 5. I don't want to hear about this s*** how "KW should've signed Colon as soon as he traded for him" because according to some sources, Colon didn't want to pitch here, and he was coming off a season in which he won 10 games in BOTH the NL and AL. How much do you think he would be asking for after a season like that? KW used that money for Freddy Garcia ($9-12 million less, which is now looking like a STEAL with this market) and he also received two draft picks for losing Colon. Look at the 2003 Sox of the second half. Before that horrible series against the Twins, the Sox had the second best record in the league. Guess who had a better record by one game? It was the Twins, who would go on to win 11 straight in a September where they played many games against the Tigers. You can't possibly blame KW for 2003. He wanted to FIRE Manuel, but JR didn't want to because the Sox were the hosts of the All-Star game. Look at what Houston did this season. They fired their manager a day after the All-Star game, caught fire, and went to the playoffs. Contrary to what you have posted, we have gone through only one manager under KW, and Manuel was given the extension by Reinsdorf after the 2000 season. The same year KW was hired. I'm book marking this post because I'm sick of seeing the same KW sucks bulls***. You didn't even bother to list any of the good moves KW has made (I'll let some else do that, because it has been done 1000 times over.)

I have a feeling we'll just end up trading more cash. I think that's what Boston did with the Mike Myers, and maybe Terry Adams trades. The D'Backs need $.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-sox03.html SSDY :headshake The Brewers?

Kenny Lofton was officially traded today for Felix Rodriguez. Nice move by the Yanks.

OH really? What's your source on that one?

and I say GO STEELMEN!!!!

Could we please forget the idea of getting Podsednik? It was BS from the start. I wouldn't mind the idea of giving Andres a minor league deal, but there's now way in hell we could put him at first if we trade Konerko.

Per rotoworld:

What a f***ING PRICK! :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou Remember that s*** he said about Clemens' contract saying how he wouldn't get a clause that wouldn't require him to go on some road trips because he wasn't white? Some people. :headshake

Yeah, because that 2003 was "nearly out of it" when we traded for Robbie. I'll admit the second trade for Roberto was stupid, but Uribe batted .140 for July, and Harris was in a slump too. KW gave up nothing for Roberto and a TON of cash the first time around.

Please tell me what the winning nimbers for the Big Game jackpot tonight Miss Cleo, :rolly Why are so you f***ing pessimistic?

Who wants a body massage?

Maybe Anthrax is hoping Baltimore will sign him so they'll non-tender Jay Gibbons.

Anything that didn't have pictures or wasn't about baseball. Books can blow me. :fyou Uncle Tom's Cabin!

The more important thing was that AJ would spent his time watching the Twins than prepare for the game with the starting pitcher. He can take his $5 million (expected salary) and 27 GIDP somewhere else.

No, that was Jeckle, and Jeckle only.

Instead of going over the batters with his pitcher the prick would be too busy whacking off to I,Max while Torri Hunter is being interviewed by Max Kellerman. :fyou :fyou :fyou A.J

I'm guessing Seattle.

As long as we're in fantasy land, I'll trade Jason Grilli back to the Marlins for Josh Beckett. The Yankees aren't stupid, and it is now being reported that the Yanks could trade him to the Phills for either Marlon Byrd or Felix Rodriguez and cash. I don't want Lofton back in a Sox uni.

We would still have to give up talent to get Lofton and who would help out our team more? Any team that has Kenny Lofton on their roster will NOT win the World series. RJ can carry a team during the World Series.

I don't think Lofton left on good terms, and why is it that some people want an aging CF for was injured 3 times last year, but don't want an older pitcher who is coming off of one of his best seasons, and is still one of the most dominating pitchers in the league?

They normally do. I think you'll have to click on the "Listen to Carmen Difallco" show that is normally on at 7PM.