Chisoxfn

QUOTE(Spiff @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) haha, yes, antoine gets a ring! and payton too! next to the celtics winning, this is the best possible outcome! LOL, I think you should now hope Pierce gets dealt to the Bulls and than can win a ring with us

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 06:25 PM) How much value is there in being "One of Kansas City's best pitching prospects"? Howell was pretty good at the University of Texas and has a nice breaking ball. Haven't looked at his numbers anytime soon, but I thought he was doing pretty good in the minors and I swore he already has made his debut at the major league level. And I think Gaithright is incredibly over-rated. Still, he's a great athlete and I doubt Howell will ever be anything more than a 3rd starter (at its best).

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 08:33 AM) Hangar says: Guy getting 5 million for being a 1st round pick, and another guy getting 7.25 Million for being a 5th round pick, is biased? Misguided? Idiotic? Its a legitimate question. Ya, he gets 7.25 mill if he pretty much gives up football. However, if he did that he'd have been a top of the line 1st round pick or at least that would have been a possibility. At times this guy flashed plus plus stuff, however, he's very inconsistent and thats likely because he isn't fully focused on baseball. However, from what I've heard he's still very interested in football and would like to test those waters so he could be one of those two sport stars (think Brian Jordan and others).

We got more. Spiffster, the spiffster will be rejoining the ranks as a mod at the Sports Pub. I think all of teh long time posters are familiar with one of our long time admins and one hell of a poster. Also one of the funniest, most outspoken people on the site but 99.9% of the time he says what needs to be said.

QUOTE(Dam8610 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:21 PM) Sounds good. I hope he can throw in the 93-95 range as I've heard. What I've seen of him was in the 89-91 range. His velocity was down for the most part this year and thats why he slid to us. He's a pretty polished kid and I'm surprised we are starting him in short season.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 01:03 PM) http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs...0021/1003/RSS02 Jason will be THRILLED I wanted McDermott, but in general Alford has really changed after the 2nd Pierce fiasco. He even did a pretty damn good job of coaching last year for the most part and like Dick says we've been recruiting a bit better as of late.

FlashTizzle has been added to the ranks. He will be the lone mod of the Diamond Club. Flash may secretly like the Twins (as do I...how can you not like Santana and Liriano) but he's also a damn good poster who while may be a bit brash at times, has a lot of really good ideaas and baseball knowledge. He'll be a welcome addition.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) DrudgeReport has a story saying Gage has been linked to several Hollywood starlets. I'm guessing he wants to keep his bases covered in case he disappears to Monaco or Africa. Exactly...and now Slav has checked his PM where I started it by saying his status as a member has been revoked. Little did he know the next sentence said he would now be a moderator of the Sports Pub if he were interested. SO now to announce Soxfan1 as our new mod of the Sports Pub.

Chisoxy and Rexkickass has been promoted to global mod and Keith has been promoted to a mod of PHT. All are very well deserving. We will also be announcing a 2nd mod of filabuster quite shortly and a couple more mods at SLAP.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:56 AM) According to Sportsline's rumor mill...the Angels could, I repeat, could be offering, Santana, Figgins and a high prospect. There is NO WAY I give up Figgins for Crawford. I know he's younger, but Figgins can play 6 positions. I'd deal Figgins for Crawford every day of the week. Crawford is absolutely superior.

My email is contact@futuresox.com and I think you all know how to PM me. Note, for the next few days I'm actually responding to my PM's since a lot of the time I zone out and than 2 weeks later realize I have a boatload of them that I've yet to respond to.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) I already thought Rowand was a mod. Oh well, Kudos to all the promotions guys! That just goes to show just how obvious the decision was.

BALTA has been added as a mod at SLAP.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:34 AM) The Angels aren't going to both pay his entire contract and trade him away without getting anything in terms of prospects in return. Not when he's only on a 1 year deal and they can just hold on, maybe win a few more games, and possibly get a draft pick in return for him next year. Well the Angels won't offer him arbitration because that would mean he could accept and get like 7 million (since your contract can only go down a small amount each year via arbitration). So I think you could get the Sox to pick up about 2 million (over the final few months) which means the Angels probably pick up 2 mill as well and in return the Sox don't have to give up much anything.

If you look at his collective numbers at his age, the guy is doing things better than a lot of great players in a number of categories (including Bonds).

Weaver could turn himself into a pretty darn good reliever. If the Angels are willing to pay pretty much everything and we don't have to give up anything much in terms of prospects, I'd be bite on this and work on using him out of the pen. Him and Riske could make this pen a lot better.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) The reign of terror begins. Ya, we need all these new mods to ban all of you so the site will have no posts, but also no problems It should be sweet though cause its always great to have more help and all of these new mods have been oustanding posters of this stie for a long time. I kind of think of this place as something where everyone is almost an owner in a sense since everyone adds something with there unique analysis, ideas, and personality. All of us together make this one of the best fan run sports sites on the web.

With Goldy being promoted to the position of Global Mod, we'd like to welcome Balta as a new moderator at SLAP. Balta has been an oustanding poster in numerous forums of this site since he joined. He offers lots of intelligent new ideas, while refraining from personal attacks. He's also been a positive poster on both the Bears and Bulls site and will be a tremendous addition to the mod ranks. So please give him a warm welcome and we should have a few new names over here in the next day or so

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:09 AM) I gave him little jabs all weekend for liking Dunn, so I made it up for you. Excellent, I was hoping you would, since I know we pretty much think the same way on most players (I'm sure its cause we hate doing math, lol).

Ya, it'll be back pretty quick. I can turn it on in a few. I'm just working on an upgrade.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 07:11 AM) Oh, and I was surprised how much some reds fans hate Adam Dunn I hate Adam Dunn. The guy is so freaking bad and over-rated. I forgot to tell CWS that cause i didn't see him SUnday. The guy was pretty much hitless the entire series with like 6 strikeouts and about 0 hard hit balls. Oh and he's a total fatty that can't play any defense. Little did I know our left fielder is better out in the field. Dunn is the absolute worse defensive left fielder in the game.

We have another new mod of PHT to congratulate as Kalapse will be here. Kalapse is another guy thats been a very long time poster on this site. He's also helped us over on the Bears and Bulls sites along with doing an awesome job running the YNot contest over here. We'd also like to thank Witesoxfan for being a damn good mod and a damn good poster (he will still be a damn good poster). However, he no longer has the time to be around much as a mod so he will be stepping down from his post at PHT. So to wite...thanks for all the work you put in and we look forward to all those great posts that got you the position in the first place (definately one of the best posters on the site) We got some more for ya: Goldy has been promoted to global mod. He's done a ton of awesome work here, from modding over at SLAP, to creating tons and tons of buttons, banners, wallpapers, calendar wallpapers. The guy's been a total horse and the site will be better with him having a bit more control.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) I know he's been on the DL with that oblique strain. Anyone know if he's gonna be around for the Sox series? I read in the USA that at the earliest he'd be ready later this week and most likely at the start of next week. He won't be playing against the Sox.

Wow thats a lot of dough.

Happy Bday Stevo. I haven't shaved since Thursday and its my gift to you. At least thats what I'm telling ya, little do you know of my sheer laziness to shave during the summer. Hope you had a good one.