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OMFG, you gotta be kidding me. I'd of so traded Joe Borchard and a prospect cause thats about what Juan Rivera is. Juan Rivera is nothing super special. Amazingly good pickup by the Generals or whatever they are gonna be called. Ignore this original rant. Should of continued reading the thread and seen who the prospect was as well as look up Rivera's stats.

Well If you remember before the Sox dealt Mark Johnson they avoided arbitration with him, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I think the benefit is if you do trade him the team acquiring him knows his exact salary. And if you don't trade him, you avoid and ugly process/situation (like Cheat said). It seems like the Sox are very good at staying away from letting the arbitrators decide because all the Sox do is try to say how s***ty he is and how he isn't worht this much and Garlands case is the opposite. This is a perfectly good deal, he'd of gotten somewhere around this via arbitration and in this case the Sox are making the process easier on both sides. Avoid arbitration can also help set up a long term deal in the future. Everyone is so hard on Jon cause they expect him to be a star and I think he has that type of ability (not quite star, but a very good 2/3). Since he isn't at that level we just assume he's crap, but he can keep you in games and goes deep into most games. Only 24 too.

Rocks are also looking at Rob Nenn. I think if its a reliever the Rocks name is being mentioned with the club. But your right, the Sox should look at him. He'd be a similar acquisition to Flash Gordon.

I think the deal could be done without Anderson, just Garland/Konerko, however in the end I expect the Dbacks to ask for Anderson and since Kenny wants RJ so bad he's going to give him in. But comparing all the other offers, no one else even comes close to what the Sox have offered. I expect RJ to finish his career on the SouthSide. He's gonna probably resign on a year to year basis (although he'll likely extend one year with whoever accepts him immediately). JR and RJ will get along since RJ is more then happy to accept some deferred money. I'm hoping Kenny can counter and give them Diaz or someone along those lines (NOT BMAC, he's untouchable). I'd like to think Sweeney/Anderson/Bmac don't get dealt in the deal. I bet the Dbacks would accept Tracey although I think he's got a shot to catapult himself into the top 50 (in all of baseball) by the end of this next season.

You guys are nuts, he's gonna be a White Sox.

No, Wilcox is already performing at a good level and he has the athletic ability to perform at a great level. Putting up 16 bounds a game or so with the Clips as their starting center. He's going to be one of the better PF's in the game. Of course the Clips also have Kaman so I don't know how exactly a deal with the Bulls would work out, but having Kaman and Curry would be a nice option for the Clippers.

Why, Koskie is a very good defensive 3rd baseman.

Ortiz - 4 Appier - 12.5 Sele - 8 Percival - 6 Glaus - 8 The salaries may even be a little higher. Thats 38.5 million that won't be on next years payroll, which explains why Gammons says the Angels have about 35-45 million to spend, depending on whether Moreno wants to up payroll a bit more or not.

His health status is very questionable, but I brought him up in one of my first blog entries. His arm will never be 100% again, but he wants to pitch again this year. I think signing him to a minor league deal would be fine, but I figure he'd be more comfortable accepting that sort of contract with the Giants.

Maybe thats the upside to having Grilli

Chad Ford said the Bulls are talking with the Clippers about Wilcox. I'd love Wilcox. Get Wilcox and call me a happy camper.

Rat Terriers are awesome dogs steff. My uncle has had a few of them over the years and they are friendly as heck and intelligent dogs. They love the outdoors so hopefully they can go out a lot and run around. One thing I've noticed with my uncles at least is that its insanely hyper, but loyal and smart. Very cool dog, follows him everywhere, goes to work at his shop with him, runs all over the farm, etc. Its one of the dogs I'd consider getting. Of course my favorite breed of dog is the poodle. Thats the only dog I ever had and it was awesome. But you guys/gals have opened my eyes to boxers now. They sound pretty badass.

If I recall Toronto was planning on making an offer in the 5 mill a season range. I'm a Koskie fan and think he'd be nice, but first the Sox got to take care of other areas. JR isn't going to have money tied up while still trying to find a pitcher. They are going to first target a pitcher, imo, and then let the other pieces fall afterwards cause the Sox most important need is pitching at this point. Close 2nd is a leadoff hitter. Koskie is none of those and the Sox can't risk spending 5 million of their limited budget when you have no idea who is going to be moved, who they will sign, etc. If Koskie is out their two weeks from now, then consider it a possibility...but only if Crede's name starts coming up in trade talks.

Try and get a 1st rounder that hte Bulls could use as leverage if they end out losing this years first rounder to Phoenix.

I'd rather have Sandy back and your right, I think he did have a rough playoff series.

Yanks won't give up Matsui, but if the Sox get Posada and Vazquez I'd be perfectly content. I think the Sox would get cash and then be able to pick up a reliever and potentially a leadoff hitter.

I still think Grilli could work out fine in the bullpen, but thats about as far as it goes. He has to improve his control, but I'm with you Jim in the fact that I like his competitiveness.

I could see Dye or even Urbina happening, although I think their are other options that the Sox will pursue before looking at Ugeth. However, no way do I see the Sox picking up Edgar Renteria, especially since he's looking for 8-10 million a year. Thats drastically overpaying for him. I don't get it, this offense, especially the middle of the order is fine. Minus that one stretch when Maggs/Frank went down and the Sox panicked this offense was fantastic. The only upgrades the Sox should be looking for (if their is one) is a left handed bat or a top of the order guy. Thats it and it isn't a worse case if the Sox miss out. However, if the Sox move one of Lee/Konerko then they will need to find a bat to replace them. Luckily JR and KW seem to be talking about pitching, both a starter and a reliever and to me thats exactly what this team needs.

Very smart business decision by them. We have a DVR but through our cable provider, but I'm sure eventually they'll start doing this too to bump up revenue. I don't know if anyone is considering using TIVO or another DVR, but since we got it our entire family uses it (and the rest of my family isn't too tech savy) and we all like it. Your local cable provider may offer it as well, for us its 4.95 a month and you don't have to buy any extra equipment.

I've long said look at the guys the Sox have dealt and in most instances you can see they never lived up to the so called potential. BA overhyped the Sox and gave all of us much higher expectations then should of been from that minor league class. Some of the dissapointment resulted from injuries to guys like Barcelo and Rauch as well as the major bust named Joe Borchard. Kip Wells would pan out and he was one of the few but he's not great yet. BA does that a lot though.

By the way, I think the Sox will sign a vet backup that can play both ss and 2nd.

Still plenty of options out there. I still say the Sox are holding off for RJ and I think they get him.

Another cool feature is we'll probably end up having seperate graphics for different forums. Better PM features, better attachment capabilities, etc.

Yep. Its also going to be fully registered once we make the switch which means if the board blows up and I don't know whats up, we get free tech support and all that They have made it mandatory to have a registered board.

Its going to be an upgrade to Invision 2.0 It will add some new features, and we'll get back and fully customize and add some of the hacks that the older version of this board had. Another thing it will offer is a threaded version as well for people that prefer that option. Should be quicker, etc. Also the bug on Mozilla will be fixed